Chris investigating weird earnings

Hi,

Chris is currently investigating the weird earnings numbers, and hopes to resolve the issue within a few hours. The problems stem from an incorrect price from earlier this morning.

No money is being lost and mining can continue as normal in the meantime. Those few bad blocks should be corrected soon.

It looks like that for a 5-minute period around 5:30 AM, Verge was priced unreasonably high. I am working on correcting the issue right now.

As in , it was trading at an insane price and we made a ton?!?!?! or.... there was a pool error?

Last night we had to restart all our servers to patch the Linux dirty COW exploit. We run a script every 10 minutes that obtains deep exchange pricing (the price we would expect after we sell a block of coins), but at startup, the server uses the ticker price until it calculates a deep price so that the server starts up faster. Normally, the difference between the deep price and the ticker price is not that large, but in the case of Verge yesterday, there was a 20,000x difference between the ticker price and the deep price causing the insane earnings. In this case, it was an extremely shallow order where we could only sell about $0.05 worth of Verge before the price dropped by a factor of 20,000.

The Verge issues occurred in the 20 minutes between 05:15 AM and 05:35 AM. I have corrected user balances by summing earnings outside of those times, and then I added another 40 minutes of average earnings on top of that. So, essentially, everyone who mined with us yesterday is being paid for 24 hours and 20 minutes of mining time.

Please feel free to ask if you have any questions. I apologize for the inconvenience.