- Steve Sokolowski

- Archived posts: 4559
- Joined: Aug 27, 2014
Updates on algorithms
Equihash<144,5> will be coming online later today. It was temporarily disabled on Monday after a customer identified that the algorithm was incorrectly implemented. The mining servers will be restarted to implement the changes.
We've decided to disable and delay CryptonightV1. We've found that all of the coins for this algorithm are either very difficult to implement, or that there are showstopper bugs in their official clients. For example, it is well known that the Electroneum client has a bug where the API refuses to send money after a specific sequence of actions happens, making it impossible for us to automate payouts in the coin. As is becoming more and more the case, programming is easy but finding documentation on how things are supposed to work is limiting us.
We're going to redirect resources that would have otherwise been spent on CryptonightV1 to try to identify why SHA-256 hashrate has declined dramatically in the past two weeks despite its profitability rising, and to take action on what is found. We might return to CryptonightV1 in April.
We've decided to disable and delay CryptonightV1. We've found that all of the coins for this algorithm are either very difficult to implement, or that there are showstopper bugs in their official clients. For example, it is well known that the Electroneum client has a bug where the API refuses to send money after a specific sequence of actions happens, making it impossible for us to automate payouts in the coin. As is becoming more and more the case, programming is easy but finding documentation on how things are supposed to work is limiting us.
We're going to redirect resources that would have otherwise been spent on CryptonightV1 to try to identify why SHA-256 hashrate has declined dramatically in the past two weeks despite its profitability rising, and to take action on what is found. We might return to CryptonightV1 in April.