Chris investigating payouts

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Chris investigating payouts

by Steve Sokolowski · · Post #3145

A minor change made yesterday to make coin assignment more accurate may have caused miners to be underpaid, as the daily profitability chart indicates.

Chris is going to perform an investigation in about 12 hours to determine whether the chart is incorrect, or whether miners were actually underpaid. He'll then either fix the chart, or pay miners more tomorrow.

We apologize for the problem.
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Re: Chris investigating payouts

by Chris Sokolowski · · Post #3146

After investigating, I have determined that these earnings are correct for what was mined. A bug in the mining server is causing suboptimal coin assignments when we are mining coins with high difficulties and long block times, most commonly Litecoin, resulting in low profitability for part of the day.

We have a fix ready, and it is is bundled with many other bug fixes that we plan to release later today.

As a compensation to our miners for these low earnings, I will be providing bonus earnings for miners later this week. I want to wait to provide the bonus until after we have deployed the fixes and have evaluated that they are not causing any additional losses. I will make sure to post a tweet and messages to the forums when the bonus earnings are active.

Thank you for continuing to mine with us.