Updates on a few issues

[Steve Sokolowski]

Here's a brief update on a few issues being faced right now.

FIrst, Cardano payouts are being executed only two at a time. There is an error in the daemon that states that we don't have enough money to pay out customers, even though our wallet clearly has enough money in many change addresses. Vance spent three days working on the issue and was unable to determine the cause. He requested help from the developers, and is awaiting a response. At this point, we have exhausted all ideas about how to resolve the problem, are awaiting help from the developers, and do not have an estimate as to when Cardano payouts will be able to be processed.

Second, while equihash 144,5 mining works well, we determined that customers were earning 65,536 times less than they should have earned. Unfortunately, we have not been able to get the math right yet, even though I've been trying for two days. There is a lack of documentation on how the pool difficulty referred to at places like NiceHash is related to the "target" used by equihash coins, and why equihash 144,5 is different than the 200,9 variant. I'll post an update when we are able to get the math right, but we don't have an estimate on this issue right now.

Some of the CryptoNightV1 coins have an issue with retrieving their block templates. This issue has not yet been investigated, as the equihash issue was determined to be a higher priority. We don't expect work to start on this for several days, and a solution is unlikely to be identified before March 10.