Status as of Saturday, June 11

[Steve Sokolowski]

Good morning! I think that we made significant progress in identifying the many causes of issues that had been occurring recently.

• A few nights ago, we made the "low luck miners" query more strict, and it has been identifying more miners who have absurdly low luck. As before, none of these miners has complained that their balances are disappearing and we still can't figure out why they disappear so quickly or why they even mine in the first place. Correcting this issue alone is expected to cause a total profitability increase of 17% by the time we pass all the funds on to customers beginning Monday. We are passing on 2% more than we did yesterday, tomorrow we will pass on an additional 2%, and then on Monday we will pass on another 1% and hold at that level. Our numbers indicate that there is another 2.5% to be gained by fine-tuning this query even more.
• Chris discovered that profitability had been reduced because many coins were in error. I was surprised how the elimination of just a few coins from being able to be selected had such a significant impact on profitability. While some of the coins had been fixed yesterday, the full impact of the fixes won't be noticed until today.
• As stated elsewhere, the system no longer changes a miner's variable difficulty to mine easier coins. Instead, it assigns other miners to those coins and takes a work restart penalty if necessary. Miners have found that less money is lost due to the penalty than due to decreased hashrate caused by changing the difficulty. Miners with a static difficulty were never affected because their difficulties were never changed even before this update.
• We made another change this morning to better calculate block times when assigning hashrate, and would like assistance in determining if the change has positively impacted miners. The change is more aggressive in preventing miners with high work restart delays from being assigned to coins with fast block times. It is important to note that miners will still be assigned to fast coins occasionally - for example, PLNcoins this morning were earning 15 cents, and it was worth mining them even though some miners lost half their hashrate doing so. In marginal cases where a fast coin is only slightly more profitable than a slow coin, miners will now be more likely to be assigned to the slow coin. It would be great if some miners who were encountering hashrate drop issues, like Critterdog, could comment on whether they see that problem very often anymore.
• Finally, Chris said that some customers had suggested to him that they would mine more if they could ensure regular payout times. These customers are requesting payouts in bitcoins. Unfortunately, we can't guarantee payout times in bitcoins, because we need to receive withdrawals from all exchanges first, and the exchanges face an overloaded network just like we do. If you need to be paid every day at the same time, we suggest creating an exchange wallet in litecoin or Ethereum, and then you can use the exchange to trade to dollars or bitcoins if you would like without needing to do on-chain bitcoin transactions.

[CritterDog]

I ran it last night and it seemed good then when I looked at it this morning my hashrate on all my miners was dropped. From a total of around 170 to 150.. My A2 110 always sits at 103Mhs on litecoin pool. Sometimes it will go up to 106Mhs...On Prohash it will start normal around 103 but what happens is during coin switches I loose 13Mhs sometimes more. Now usually it will snap right back after it gets off that coin but also mostly after so much switching it just stays down around 90Mhs for long periods and then if I do a reboot I get the lost hashrate back. And we start the process again.. I dont know how to explain it any better.. It seems to me when I watch my miner software it is not submitting shares very fast...This seems to make the hashrate go down.. This is all speculation as I dont really know how this works.

[CritterDog]

Casinocoin always drops my hashrate I notice it the most. But I have the d=set at 8192.. I had it on 4096 before. Which do you think would be best to set it at?
A2 110 Machine

Also on my cgminer page hashrate does not seem to drop.

[CritterDog]

Now 5 mins later back up to 104 Mhs after recovering from casinocoin

[CritterDog]

Just now it hit Casinocoin and dropped it to 91Mhs just now.. Then went back to Dotcoin and recovered to 104

[CritterDog]

Just now it hit Casinocoin and dropped it to 91Mhs just now.. Then went back to Dotcoin and recovered to 104

Vergecoin just dropped it down to 86Mhs.. It seems to me I am not submitting enough shares.. I watched it change coins 3 times so fast I only submit a few shares its so fast.. Could it not be staying on the coins long enough?

[CritterDog]

Sat on megacoin for a while and did not submit any shares

[CritterDog]

Sat on megacoin for a while and did not submit any shares

Mega, Verta, Mega and only submitted 1 share

[CritterDog]

The shares submitted on my cgminer page match the shares submitted on the pool yet the Mhs rate is all over the place on the pool but the cgminer page stays around 103-105-108Mhs pretty steady. So it seems the pool is not seeing all the shares being submitted? Sitting at 90Mhs right now on pool

[CritterDog]

Cgminer SUMMARY 47m MHS AVG 108.19

5 SEC AVG MHS 104.41
BLOCKS FOUND 7
GETWORKS 428
ACCEPTED 515
REJECTED 3