Successful release
Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 7:53 am
Yesterday, we were able to execute a successful release of the new code. We've tried to do this release several times but it failed for one reason or another each time.
There were two main goals during this release: to increase performance, and to take better advantage of our orphan mining code to increase profitability.
The biggest changes you'll probably notice, however, are that the system's orphan rates are now lower, and that there are some new website features. Perhaps the most significant website feature is one that was requested by many customers for over a year - the ability to "forfeit" balances. With this new feature, you can get rid of coins that are worth less than a cent by donating them to the pool if you want to delete payout addresses and clean up your settings page. More information is available in the documentation.
We also modified the page's top bar to stay above the fold when the user scrolls down, so that bar takes up less page space.
Today, I'm going to improve orphan mining on the last ten or so coins, implement a new feature that reduces work restarts, and see if there are any performance improvements that can be made to the website, given that some customers have complained that their cellphones are performing too slowly with the website.
Expect profitability statistics to be all over the place for a day or two until the system adjusts to the removal of the hacks that Chris had been using to make sure profitability was accurate.
Feel free to offer comments or report bugs.
There were two main goals during this release: to increase performance, and to take better advantage of our orphan mining code to increase profitability.
The biggest changes you'll probably notice, however, are that the system's orphan rates are now lower, and that there are some new website features. Perhaps the most significant website feature is one that was requested by many customers for over a year - the ability to "forfeit" balances. With this new feature, you can get rid of coins that are worth less than a cent by donating them to the pool if you want to delete payout addresses and clean up your settings page. More information is available in the documentation.
We also modified the page's top bar to stay above the fold when the user scrolls down, so that bar takes up less page space.
Today, I'm going to improve orphan mining on the last ten or so coins, implement a new feature that reduces work restarts, and see if there are any performance improvements that can be made to the website, given that some customers have complained that their cellphones are performing too slowly with the website.
Expect profitability statistics to be all over the place for a day or two until the system adjusts to the removal of the hacks that Chris had been using to make sure profitability was accurate.
Feel free to offer comments or report bugs.