Another busy week for me so I haven't had time to check the forum at all, let alone this thread. Plus the attack on the forum last week meant that I wasn't able to answer some posts, so here goes:

Quote from: juhakall on November 27, 2013, 02:05:23 PM

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Also, I was pleased to notice Ghash.IO is already included in organofcorti's weekly pool statistics. Is there an API you are using to pull the stats, or do you have to scrape from their webpage?

I politely requested an API from them, and they made one for me, for which I'm very grateful. Scraping webpages can be an issue, especially if js is being used. This is why btcmp.com has never been included in the weekly stats.

Quote from: os2sam on December 01, 2013, 01:36:59 PM

Quote from: organofcorti on December 01, 2013, 01:20:37 PM

Quote from: os2sam on November 26, 2013, 02:33:48 AM

OoC,
It seems there is a need to post the minimum withdrawal amount that pools will allow a miner to cash out with. Would it be possible to add that? Or would it be too much to add another column to the list? And would Pool Ops want that information published?
Thanks,
Sam

I think it's a great idea - especially with the increase in the BTC price. I'd have to remove one of the other columns though, and I'm not sure there's one I want to remove at this point. Any ideas about columns can be removed?

My vote would be, of course, to get rid of the merged mining column. But I'm sure I would be the minority vote in that.

So I would suggest getting rid of the ASIC ready column since it's virtually a moot point now and change the heading of the local work to protocol and explicitly state which pools that are getwork only. Nobody knows what local work means anyway.

I agree - that column is overdue for removal. Now I just need volunteers to collect that data ...

Quote from: os2sam on December 01, 2013, 01:36:59 PM

Edit: And the Variable Difficulty could have User Defined abbreviated? Which would narrow that column.

Maybe. I'll keep it in mind if I need to slim the tables down further.

Quote from: gourmet on December 04, 2013, 03:52:02 AM

Slush's pool no more has user defined difficulty. For some time already, it sets the diff automatically. (But I can't say for what share frequency.)

[edit] Although, Slush hasn't updated the pool thread subject in this forum yet... :-)

Thanks gourmet. I've updated the details.

Quote from: yoloswaglol on December 04, 2013, 05:12:16 AM

Question: What tool or API is used to obtain the data reflected in the image in the first post?

Multiple APIs and web scraping, and I use R to generate the chart and table. I update the data weekly here: http://organofcorti.blogspot.com.au/search/label/weeklypoolstatistics

To all the p2Pool related pools/nodes

Since there have been so many requests, I'm going to create a new section: p2Pool nodes. I know there's a list already, but as ndabas mentioned they appear to be dead.

What I need to know is whether or not your pool will be usable for anyone or just those using a p2Pool client? The latter will go in the nodes list, and the former will go either under proxy pools or under the appropriate reward method section - I'm not sure yet.

To everyone who has posted something I haven't actioned
With the forum being down and my lack of free time over the last few weeks, there are a bunch of updated reports I know I've missed or not actioned. If I haven't addressed a direct update request that you posted, please post a quote of the request.

I have some free time this week, so I'll get on with the updates promptly.