HI TechElucidation, Thanks for your reply! It's been great reading all of your suggestions, and they are so good that I want to implement as many of them as possible. However, I hope you can understand my disappointment when, after I had spent a significant amount of time reading through all your pr...

We're discussing some additions to our services that will focus around PPLNS mining. While the current offerings will not change, new features would be offered and there would be some "rebranding" or "renaming." Please offer your comments. First, we would spent June making improv...

Hi TechElucidation, I would be glad if you would like to test ethash profitability. Please post your results if you do; I'm pretty confident that the difference is not 20% anymore. In regards to stability, we are indeed aware that there seems to be some hardware that does not respond quickly to work...

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There will be some brief downtime today around 1:00pm EDT on the mining servers, for about one minute. There may be additional downtime if the update fails and a revert is required. The purpose of this update is to add code to support the mandatory zcash-nu5 fork, which will occur on Tuesday. If we ...

Hi TechElucidation, Ethash profitability In the first part of the previous message, I was referring to my concerns that ethash profitability in particular was attracting many of your and others' complaints, despite that that one algorithm was having a specific issue that has already been corrected. ...

Yesterday, Chris detected a problem when portfolio targeting is combined with dollar payouts using electricity costs. It turns out that while customers will still earn the right amount of money, portfolio targeting will override dollar payouts that are designed to pay electricity costs. We are worki...

Hi TechElucidation, This is a great post! Thanks for the comments. Let's go into an in-depth conversation about them. Getting stuck on ethash profitability First, I think that a few people here are getting stuck on ethash profitability, and you did mention that number of 20% again, which is not only...

We're evaluating a potential change to the PPLNS rewards system, to address customer feedback. Some customers are concerned that later shares on blocks where the pool has had poor luck can result in a lower expected profitability compared to mining in FPPS mode. The current formula Currently, when a...

I'm also sad to see you leave. :( There are a few people who mentioned that they were looking for profitability comparable to 2miners. That can be achieved right here with PPLNS mining, which has a similar fee. The fees are lower than FPPS mining, and you still get be part of this great community an...