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Good evening! A few updates on what's happened over the last week:

• We believe that we were able to resolve the last issue with the performance upgrades. The mining server hasn't had any periods of lost shares in over two days, and there are no exceptions in any of our logs or tests. Thanks for sticking with us as we resolved the issues!
• While we were working on the performance issues, we discovered a problem that resulted in suboptimal coin selection and reduced profitability, and which had been present since the pool's inception. A large number of miners connect to the system but are often not submitting any shares - and why miners would waste bandwidth like that is a situation we still have not been able to explain. Sometimes, the proportion of miners who are connected but haven't submitted shares approaches 25%. These miners used to take up slots on profitable coins even though they weren't submitting shares. Beginning last week, such miners are no longer counted in hashrate assignments. Now, only miners that have submitted shares are considered, which better distributes hashrate to the most profitable coins.
• Many of the feature requests that we receive have centered around real-time data requests. Some miners have complained that the profitability metrics are averaged over the past 15 minutes, and others have been disappointed that the status of their miners is not updated in real time on the "earnings" page. Beginning with the next release, which will likely be tomorrow, we have added a new "real-time" server that sends live data to website viewers.
• While we've implemented the backend for many types of data, the initial rollout will involve miner status information. On the "Earnings" page, "current miner status" will change to "live miner status," and the information will be passed from the mining server to the website viewer in about 10ms (plus network latency). This new view will allow all customers to see their current hashrate, difficulty, assigned coin, share count, and many other statistics.
• Depending on the feedback from this rollout, we already have the ability to display balance information in real-time. If customers are happy, we'll replace the static charts with real-time data one-by-one over time.
• Once we have rolled out the most important live charts, then we'll take a break and add Factom payouts.

As always, please let us know if something isn't working right, especially since we no longer are aware of any major issues. Also, please offer comments once the live miner information is released.

The live worker status has been added and enabled and is now visible in the settings page. Right now it is missing the coin logos for most of the coins, but I will be adding these logos throughout the day.

We plan to add live status for more data in a future release. Let us know what you think of the new feature!

Glad to see stability back =) , question tho why payouts less than 100% PPS litecoin =( .... system issues or is the altcoin market literally that bad right now?

oh and just noticed the live worker status.... any way to make its font size normal? LOL! Its freaking huge =P

The live worker status is a fantastic addition. Thanks!

Also, just wanted to throw out some observations comparing pre and post upgrade:
My Titan pre-upgrade .5-.65% rejected shares, post upgrade its now 1.1-1.2% reject rate.

Rejects have doubled, so thats kinda a bummer.
Anyone else notice this?

The payouts aren't actually below LTC. There has always been a bug that underreported earnings for years, and we just discovered it yesterday.

The cause of the problem is that people mining a static coin were being lumped in with everyone else in these calculations. Mining a single coin is always less profitable than changing coins, but we allow people to do it to support specific networks. Nobody has actually been being paid less due to this issue, but the queries that compute profitability should not include single coin shares.

When we do a release to eliminate those shares from the calculations, within two days we should have a more accurate reading on that.