Merge mining enabled

[lare]

I purchased two L1 Bitmain 120MH miners, and I'm about to order a Zeus Volcano (300MH).

I'm using a set of GAWminer Fury's, for testing pools and trying to get a feel for what to expect and the difference between expectations and reality. I'm mining now on three pools. I've had low error rates on all three pools including yours until after the addition of merge mining.

I'd be happy to help test your fix and see if it works okay for my setup here. My current equipment is nothing to write home about, but it works reliably though the hash rate is low.

Thank-you for you interest and input.

I just checked the error rate and it's 0 right this minute, so I'll check again in the morning to see if things have settled down again. I hope it holds!

[Steve Sokolowski]

I wonder what could have changed overnight. I wonder if Cryptsy was going on and offline yesterday - I'll look into that. Cryptsy is the bane of our existence and their downtime started around the same time as the merge mining fix, so this issue might not even be related to merge mining.

The reason Cryptsy downtime affects us is that we can't pay out in any coin unless we have real time pricing. Other pools that do pay per last N shares can just keep mining and sell for bitcoins at the end of the day. We buy coins as soon as they are earned; otherwise, the price of the payout coins could rise in the meantime and bankrupt us.

[lare]

Well things are looking great this morning, so maybe that's what it is.

Thanks!

[Steve Sokolowski]

If this happens again, please let me know. I'd like to ask Chris to call you and see if he can reproduce the problem, should it happen again.

In the meantime, I'm working on Poloniex trading so that we won't have to disconnect should Cryptsy have problems again.