Maybe you noticed the pool website now redirects to
https://slushpool.com. The URL is legit, we've been lucky enough to obtain this nice domain and we just moved there from more complicated "mining.bitcoin.cz". Back in 2010 I did not realize how big the mining industry will became, so I choose just a subdomain of my Czech bitcoin blog :-).
This is just about the website, no change in miner settings is needed as we keep all mining URLs to work normally.
Hello Slush,
Thank you for that but maybe you have most important things to do,... like auto-detecting block withholding for exemple!
If I'm not mistaken it was you who designed the stratum protocol?
I'm not very knowledgeable of how it works, but I asked myself the following question:
Is it possible to send a job that has already won a block to all the miner (the same work) for example once a day to check that every miners solve the solution. it only cost a few seconds but would help to find block withholding problems?
This isn't possible. In Stratum, each miner has a unique ExtraNonce1 value which means giving every miner the exact same job (which is what Stratum does already) will result in different hashes from every miner. There is no way around this, since if you added a feature to Stratum that forced an ExtraNonce1 change for work verification, the withholder would KNOW they're being tested.