any plans to add etn to mph ?
I'm gonna add it.
I'm curious that why many people saying etn these days?
As far as I can tell using the default profit switcher from MPH works without problem with the PPLNS scheme. Using multipoolminer may be a different story as you might disconnect before you get a share in the lucky block.
I used to use a software to switch between profitable coins but after I moved to MPH I just restricted my miners to whatever MPH offers or mine in another pool.
However if I am to provide a suggestion regarding patent scheme and autoswitching. I do miss the zpool autoswitching implementation where you can adjust each algo weight to compensate for your own hash rate on different algo. It is a bit more tedious to use but very efficient. Sadly pool did not pay well. I do not know if he was hiding fees or just bad implementation of coin switching. I was a noob then. But I did realize I was being paid too low despite a huge list of autoswitching algo and coins. Hence I looked for a more reliable pool.
So far MPH has paid mostly a little above expected specially on monero. If it's below it's below just a little which comes down to just luck. So I'm satisfied for now on if it's straight 1 algo profit switching for ethash and equihash coins.
In theory, multipoolminer should be okay because it does not switch to other algo frequently. (profit info table api updates in 30min interval)
multipoolminer uses 17xxx auto switching port and it uses internal miningpoolhub's block finding strategy also.
(pool doesn't switch 17xxx mining coin until block is found)
There's some pros and cons between miningpoolhub method and zpool method.
The problem is that zpool's method can't group hashing power to mine until block is found.
Every miner can have customized options and they jump here and there continually for the most profitable coin.
As they tend to jump coin frequently, they would have to change extranonce1 value for changing coins and reset gpu works while changing algo.
To change Extranonce1 may degrade their performance and would charge more money when using nicehash.
(FYI, Miningpoolhub uses different technology for switching same algo coin, and doesn't need extranonce1 changes at all)
Instead of zpool's approach, miningpoolhub separate miners in much bigger, rough group like AMD, NVIDIA.
So miners can't set algo factors to fit exactly to their gpu performance. It's miningpoolhub's weakness
But I've found that even rough gpu performance factors works as intended and useful in reality.
I think hybrid approach like multipoolminer seems good too.
Hmm... I see. Well it works for now. But being able to individually set based on miners own speed will also save the trouble of you needing to add new setting for each new miner specially ASICS today. But I understand it's a different approach. But I do miss being able to set my miners speed using password and coins which I wish to include in the list of what I want to add to profit switching. I'd imagine I'd be able to account for the 2nd coin on dual mining or any other factor. I don't think you need extra announce if you set the speed on the password in zpool. It uses whatever speed you indicated. But gets too complicated if you never dabble in do command line. The batch file gets so huge. Your setup is actually easier for the less advance miners.
Doesn't really matter for me much. This days I either mine straight cryptonight or dual mine. And I'm pretty happy with ethos in MPH these days. Etc and eth is usually most profitable for ethos this days.