i was thinking that people who bring large amounts of hashrate in a day/period are rewarded with lower fees for that period. but that would annoy the 'small guy' having to pay larger fees. so perhaps do it back-assed, those who bring a large average hashrate over a period get a "fee credit" (refund,...

ah, so not fully automatic

it seems rather, um, bold, to allow automatic updates on a production system.

bitmain/antminer does occassionally issue firmware updates for its boxes, perhaps you could inform bitmain/antminer of the issue and cross fingers?
it may at least make them aware for future boxes if nothing else.

The problem is still that this will notify you AFTER then change has occurred. You are still playing defense to recover. Warning is what you really want. Notification a week (or two) before the change happens. Probably doing both makes sense. before a major fork, new clients tend to appear on the n...

That's a great idea. But doesn't it provide those as a string, and since every daemon has a different string, there's no way to easily compare them? well, yes, there can be quite a bit of variation on how different coin clients identify themselves, but for the most part just extracting and looking ...

for wallets/daemons couldn't you have a script check each one with "getpeerinfo" and if it notices any peers with version numbers larger than the one you are running to bring to your attention?

put a scope on the power supply outputs. sometimes supplies go weird rather than simply die. there may be intermittent spikes on the DC outputs. or just change the supply anyway. does a janitor plug in a floor cleaning machine on a circuit on the same phase leg of the building power just before it f...

i once suggested you set up a lawyer or accountant in canada to act as a 'canadian branch ofice address' for prohashing.com so you could take advantage of our quadrigacx.ca exchange fiat capabilities. it seems now a doubly good idea so you can use Novaexchange. Nova has such a nice big variety of al...