Hi all,
Regarding pool performance that went down lately. It looks there must be another pool somewhere.
It also looks that many users adapted strategy in pool mining and went from single machines with many powerfull threads to many machines (most certain virtual) and use single vcpu on them. This gave them many more shares per hour. This works ok for that particular miner alone, but i wonder if the pool has negative effect because of this - it looks like that : the poll "Blocks Mined (24 hour period):46 (23%)" is still low.
Is there a way to find if there is another pool?
Best regards,
Simon
Yes, too, is it interesting whether there is another pool?
I have no idea, and have no way of finding out. It could either be a private pool or a botnet of actual biblepay wallets.
I know we had a botnet in China, as I received a lot of complaint emails when we forcefully upgraded from 1.0.6.7 to 1.0.7.1, they were blocked by the Chinese government, and at that time, we had 20% of our blocks being solved by 1.0.4.0 (IE what I believe was the botnet), so it could be that the botnet finally upgraded to 1.0.7.1 (see exec versionreport in the rpc).