Prohashing Trusted Mining Program update

Post by **Steve Sokolowski** » Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:29 pm

Yesterday, Chris discovered a bug with the Prohashing Trusted Mining Program's calculations. It turns out that, because of a misplaced minus sign in a query, the luck for the normal miners had been assumed to be higher than the luck for the trusted miners. He corrected the query this morning and the trusted mining bonus has risen on SHA-256 and scrypt, and will continue to be higher from now on. Currently, the bonuses look like they will be between 3 and 4%.

At the same time, Chris also investigated another issue reported by a forums poster that caused incorrect pricing for some coins. That error will increase profitability somewhat for all customers, but it mainly affected smaller coin networks.

Finally, Chris was able to detect an error condition with a trusted equihash miner's equipment, and contacted the customer to start troubleshooting it. The low luck caused by that equipment had pulled down Zcash luck by almost 8%. This is the first example of Trusted Mining leading to detection and resolution of an issue that will benefit the entire pool.