Status as of Saturday, March 17, 2018
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:32 am
Good morning!
- Chris apologizes for the brief outages last night. He made some changes to improve the performance of the mining servers. Then, he changed the load balancing algorithm so that miners are assigned to servers at random, rather than by IP address. The system is no longer at 100% CPU on some servers and this change should result in fewer rejected shares for everyone.
- SHA-256 mining is enabled, a little earlier than we thought. Try it out. During this first weekend, we may find that we need to disable it if a bug is found, but the odds of that are much lower than with equihash, which was a much greater change and involved more risk.
- It's possible that we may be able to enable the new connection as early as next week. Doing so will involve taking all services offline. Unlike some times where we could keep the forums online, we mean everything, because Chris needs to reconfigure the networking to remove the VPNs and make things simpler. We'll post the exact date when it is available.
- We've hired a temporary contractor to implement support to payout in Ripple, so that we don't have to wait until April 9 for the permanent employee to start. You may see Ripple support within a week!