Quote from: dp-unique on December 15, 2017, 10:06:47 PM

Thanks for trying out our Vert pool! We are fairly new with vert so we do have very few miners. The low miner count was also partially due to the halving, as we lost a lot of miners in that process for one reason or another. We were closer to 8-10 gigahash previously.

Thanks for replying here; the comment section on YouTube should be reserved for posting insults, inflammatory rhetoric and proclaiming one is "1st!"... Tongue

You run a new pool; I'm a new miner - probably a recipe for disaster - but I am an electronics engineer for my day job so I should be less prone to stupid f-ups than the average Nicehash miner... Or, at least, my f-ups will be more spectacular... and with big arcs!

As for the block reward halving on Dec-12, I suspected that the difficulty would halve along with it so I didn't stop mining, and that seems to have been the case, more or less (difficulty ranged from 70-90k prior to the halving and it is now in the range of 40-60k; okay, so a bit more than half the difficulty for half the reward...).

Quote from: dp-unique on December 15, 2017, 10:06:47 PM

I will say, in the defense of ALL Vert pools, this coin has definitely been one of the most difficult to manage pool-wise as it requires a lot of attention/babysitting. Please feel free to reach out to us on our discord with anything you might have questions on! https://discord.gg/pcQJ75C

If there's anything we can do, we'd be glad to try.

Granted, I've only been mining for about 2 weeks now - and I only just bought my first GPU specifically for mining* (so the mighty 1050 Ti has some competition) - but even in this brief time I've noticed that VTC is one messed up coin to mine. The p2p pools seem to be a total disaster, and your comment that running a VTC pool requires more work than average might explain why.

I have just one request for your pool at this point, and it is something which I feel will make your life easier if it can be implemented: report immature earnings assuming a block has been found. What your pool (and many others) currently do is report 0 earnings until a block is found. You can probably guess what that makes most miners think is happening on your pool - they are doing a whole lot of work for someone else's wallet.

* - an RX 570 that was on sale at Best Buy for $230 (so only ~$40 more than MSRP... Roll Eyes

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