A few thoughts for today. I'll start with a brief comment on /r/bitcoinmarkets. What happened to /r/bitcoinmarkets? First, I'll start by stating that I told my brother to stop posting links to these posts, so today's link will be the last one, for no other reason than that they were being downvoted ...

Here's today's status: I think that a brief note is worthwhile to point out that there are two known problems that we have fixed. One of them deals with connecting miners with a static difficulty to the pool. While we're confident they are fixed, the problem we are having is that there is some other...

A few status points for today: The problem with rejected shares for variable difficulty miners at first connection was resolved in an update on Saturday. The cause of the problem was that these miners were not being sent a difficulty until the next block was received, so they would mine at difficult...

I wanted to focus on technology today and how that relates to bitcoins: Change is in the air I've been paying close attention over the past few years to self-driving cars, both because I think they will be the most significant transformation in society in a long time, and also because I want to be o...

This issue has been resolved.

There was a regression introduced as a result of the new coin selection algorithm that didn't appear during testing. When a miner connects, sometimes that miner will begin mining with a difficulty of 1, which is below what the pool believes the miner should be mining; therefore, all the shares are r...

Here's today's status: We have a fix for the "duplicate shares" issue which we plan to release tonight. Thanks for your patience. Our biggest problem seems to be dealing with the immense amount of data that the system generates. To get an idea of the data we need to purge beginning tonight...

A few thoughts for today: Security is a complicated topic With the collapse of exchange Bter, it seems like security has come to the foreground once again in the bitcoin world. This event, combined with Benjamin Lawsky's impending regulations and some unfounded accusations that bitcoin developer Gre...

Unfortunately, there was a slight uptick in "duplicate shares." The duplicate shares are the result of an old bug which now needs to be dealt with differently because of the changes in how miners are assigned. We're already testing fixes for this issue, but the first fix failed and I'll tr...

Regular miners may have noticed that the "average earnings" at the top of the site and at /exchange/instantProfitability have remained the same, even though new coins have incrased profitability. The difference comes from how these figures are calculated with the latest release. Previously...