Prohashing Mining Pool Forums

Here's the current status as of today. We continue to be significantly hindered by hardware issues.

• The only issues preventing launch are in the mining server, and we had to revert to a previous version on Monday night. In order to fix these, we need to obtain a scrypt ASIC. Unfortunately, we were not able to obtain one in time for this weekend, which means that we will take at least a 7-day delay. It's questionable whether the ASIC will arrive on time for next weekend, in which case we will need to take a 14-day delay.
• The RAID card that was to replace the broken one in the development server finally arrived from Thailand after being backordered. We were able to fix the RAID card in the development server and get the repositories back online, which will speed up development.
• The server that is hosting this forum seems to fail occasionally for an unknown reason. We are using a different server on purpose (that's also why there are separate usernames), so that if the main server goes down, we can still post here. We don't know what the cause of the failures are and the only solution is to reboot the server at the hosting company's control panel. Fixing this is a low priority because failures of the forums don't cost anyone any money.
• We are still awaiting the arrival of the cheaper consumer-grade but stable router that will replace the expensive but buggy "business class" Cisco router that crashes and disallows connections. Once this router is online, we will be able to obtain 6-10 times more connections per daemon, which will significantly reduce lost and orphaned blocks. We hope that the router arrives on Friday, and if it does, then we will need a few minutes of downtime to swap out the old one, which will be sold.

The software is pretty much ready. Right now, the biggest issues all involve waiting for things to arrive in the mail. Once we can finally get all the hardware to the right places, then we can put on the finishing touches and ramp up with more testers.

In the meantime, I'll be doing non-essential tasks like adding more charts and graphs. I completed the ability to see the entire earnings history, not just the last seven days, but have not deployed it to production. None of these issues are required for launch, but they will be helpful to people and we can't move forward with anything else until we get an ASIC.