Status as of Sunday, September 3, 2017
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:50 am
Good morning! Here's a brief status update for today.
- We'd like anyone who still has connectivity errors to please reply to this message. That means that you had issues connecting to the system yesterday or today (not on Friday or before then.) We are not referring to having stale shares, which can have a variety of other causes, or website display errors. We want to see if the issue has been resolved, or if not, then how much progress has been made towards a resolution. Please post your password arguments.
- We are pleased to announce that we came to a decision on which way to proceed during yesterday's 3-hour conference call. However, we aren't able to provide any more information on the decision at this time. We'll post more in about two weeks. I just wanted to make a statement here to let people know that their concerns over pool capacity have not been forgotten.
- My next task, which I'll be working on Thursday through Sunday, is to begin the parallelization of coin assignment. Since we already publish miner information to WAMP, the data necessary to create a parallel assignment program is already available to be subscribed to. Solving this problem will make the greatest difference possible in performance, debugging this will also be the hardest thing we've ever accomplished. We will need to make a call as to whether we should use the existing test environment on this because despite whatever happens during release, it will eventually have been worth getting it out sooner so that we can increase capacity to the expected 10TH/s this will yield. Right now, I suspect the capacity limit is around 2.5-3TH/s, so that's another enormous improvement.
- We increased the auto-assignment and manual assignment maximum difficulties to 2^20 for script and 16 for x11, up from 2^19 and 8 previously. Remember that difficulty has no effect on profitability, and using higher difficulties contributes to making the pool better for everyone by reducing server load and (in some cases, it is reported) reducing wear on miners.