I'm more than a little frustrated with trying to mine CSC....

On CoinWarz.com it shows as being variably from 50 % to 100% more profitable than mining WDC over the past 2 and a half days.... Whilst that may be true, I've had to switch back to mining WDC for now due to the complete instability of CSC pools/P2Pools.

Unfortunately, at the moment, all the pools and P2Pool nodes I use either keep going down constantly, or just stop paying out - even if shares are bing accepted, WU is good, stales are low, etc. The trouble is that every night I've gone to bed, or during the day I've gone out - everything looks sweet... And then I just stop getting payouts.

At first I thought it was me... But I'm able to mine WDC, SBC and LTC without issue... Even using Cartman's other P2Pool nodes.

Almost every time I've seen issues there have been posts on here, or news banners on sites saying that there are issues with the various pools and P2Pool nodes. There are generally reassurances that all payouts will be okay, miners will rejoin automatically, etc... But unfortunately this hasn't been my experience. Sometimes my one, lonely, miner has automatically reconnected, and sometimes payouts have resumed - others they haven't though.

I've also noticed that switching between nodes - unfortunately - hasn't seemed to keep my payout level. When I do so, I've had to wait an hour or so and then payouts start coming in at a low level, and build... Until the payouts stop generally a few hours later.

Apart from the occasional reboot and to switch my miner manually, I've been attempting to mine CSC pretty constantly for the past 2 and a half days. With my hash rate and difficulty CoinWarz predicted I should generate 747 coins when I looked 2 and a half days ago. 24 hours later it said I should generate around 500 coins, 24 hours later around 340 coins and now 242 coins. So even if I take 500 coins for the first 24 hour period, 340 for the second and then 121 for the last 12 hours - that's a total of 961 CSC. In reality because of Pool issues I've actually received just 286.55 CSC.

As I've put further up this post I've switched back to mining WDC for the moment - this seems to be stable (on several pools or on Cartman's P2Pool node). It is currently around 50% less profitable to mine that CSC according to CoinWarz.com - but the coins generated do match those predicted, and the payouts keep coming so for me I'm finding that WDC is actually 100% more profitable than mining CSC (right at this moment).

Please don't take this the wrong way - I'm not having a go at nor am I criticising any pool operator or P2Pool node operator. I haven't tried every P2Pool node either. I am grateful for the hard work that the pool operators and P2Pool node operators put in to provide us with a service. I'm not accusing anyone of foul play or anything like that... More just sharing my frustration. I understand fully that pool operators and P2Pool node operators are probably just as frustrated as me as this will affect them also - likely more so! Their miners are likely to be affected, and if we're not mining on their pools successfully then they're not getting fees.

I'm really hoping that you guys can get everything nice and stable though - I really do want to mine CSC again! I don't know if there's much I can do to help any of you, but if there is then please let me know! Thanks again for all of your hard work! :-)