L3+ - Very SMALL returns being made ? something changed?

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Re: L3+ - Very SMALL returns being made ? something changed?

by Jalapan · · Post #7658

Steve Sokolowski wrote:The numbers, as far as we can tell, are correct. While there are bugs that result in rejected shares, Bitconnectcoin crashed and took out scrypt profitability with it. It lost about 20% of value, but has since recovered.

There are also a lot of L3 miners coming online, driving up the difficulty. This chart at https://bitcoinwisdom.com/litecoin/difficulty shows that Litecoin difficulty has increased by a factor of 10 since earlier in the year. Expect profits to decline as more L3s arrive.
Would you suggest automatic diff with L3+ or a static diff with 131k as suggested by alot forum members. ?
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Re: L3+ - Very SMALL returns being made ? something changed?

by Jalapan · · Post #7763

Steve Sokolowski wrote:I'm wondering if whatever is causing the WAMP server to disconnect is also causing this issue with profitability. The problem is that every 30s or so, the connection to the live data is timing out.

Chris is working on that right now, so perhaps we'll find out more later in the day.
You mean you think the stale/rejected with static difficulty is part of the same problem as WAMP?

If you it would be nice to smash two bugs with one rock ;)
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Re: L3+ - Very SMALL returns being made ? something changed?

by Steve Sokolowski · · Post #7766

Jalapan wrote:
Steve Sokolowski wrote:I'm wondering if whatever is causing the WAMP server to disconnect is also causing this issue with profitability. The problem is that every 30s or so, the connection to the live data is timing out.

Chris is working on that right now, so perhaps we'll find out more later in the day.
You mean you think the stale/rejected with static difficulty is part of the same problem as WAMP?

If you it would be nice to smash two bugs with one rock ;)
No, they are separate issues.

The stale shares are caused by a change we made to reduce CPU load on the mining server. It isn't able to fully evaluate coin assignments at present due to performance problems, so it issues stale shares as a result.

The new code that we are trying to release fixes the problem, but we haven't been able to get it out because of the WAMP problems. Chris is working on the issue now, and if he can't get it done today, we'll try again on Aug 27.
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Re: L3+ - Very SMALL returns being made ? something changed?

by Jalapan · · Post #7767

Steve Sokolowski wrote:
Jalapan wrote:
Steve Sokolowski wrote:I'm wondering if whatever is causing the WAMP server to disconnect is also causing this issue with profitability. The problem is that every 30s or so, the connection to the live data is timing out.

Chris is working on that right now, so perhaps we'll find out more later in the day.
You mean you think the stale/rejected with static difficulty is part of the same problem as WAMP?

If you it would be nice to smash two bugs with one rock ;)
No, they are separate issues.

The stale shares are caused by a change we made to reduce CPU load on the mining server. It isn't able to fully evaluate coin assignments at present due to performance problems, so it issues stale shares as a result.

The new code that we are trying to release fixes the problem, but we haven't been able to get it out because of the WAMP problems. Chris is working on the issue now, and if he can't get it done today, we'll try again on Aug 27.
27th of August?? :shock: