Ethash mining issues
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:55 am
We're currently aware of several ethash mining issues.
- The Ethereum daemon appears to be repeatedly disconnecting from the mining servers, causing the coin to go into and out of error.
- The Ethereum DAG size has increased so that E3 miners can no longer mine it, so it can't be considered for Proswitching anymore.
- Many miners are unable to use software configured to mine etchash, the new POW algorithm for Ethereum Classic.
- Ethereum Classic will be moved to a new "etchash" algorithm, and it will be the only coin on that algorithm.
- A new "l=" password argument will be added. When provided, ethash miners will never be assigned to a network where the current epoch's DAG size is larger than the provided value of "l=." When "i=" is provided but "l=" is not, then the DAG limit will be automatically inferred from the amount of memory present in the miner. When neither is present, the current behavior will continue, and the Proswitching algorithm will assume that all ethash coins are mineable by the miner.
- Chris will move the Ethereum daemon to a new (for us) Generation 4 Intel CPU server, which will replace the obsolete Generation 2 Intel CPU server that had a failing motherboard, and which was causing corruption to the Ethereum blockchain over the past month.