Quote from: flatronw on November 19, 2012, 12:37:29 PM

earn the same as a result
but use much less network traffic to do it
we are also finding miners on stratum (using VarDiff or not) are getting substantially lower stale rates
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That is most certainly what I have seen.

I have almost exclusively used Ozco but about 2 weeks ago I moved over to BTC Guild to try Stratum , there was such a drop in Stales and it was so stable that I stayed there until Graet got Stratum working on Ozco then I shifted back. Stratum also seems to work better on hi latency or dodgy internet connections.
What is a piss off to me is that after many months both my machines are now working better than ever, they are stable, reliable and quite slick, but after the reward halving I will no longer be profitable mining BTC and I like many others will be forced to move over to LTC mining fulltime.
My question is, can Stratum be adapted to LTC Mining and if so, would Stratum help with reducing the higher rate of stales and rejects you get with LTC mining?

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not until a litecoind equivalent to bitcoind 0.7.x is released in my understanding