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Re: [ANN][POOL] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com
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phrozenspite
on 09/03/2014, 17:35:52 UTC
Hey guys,

I'd like to re-enabled Auroracoin, as its decently profitable at times.  However, since it is _such_ a long maturation time (from mined block to exchanged of about 17-18 hours), we expose ourselves to a decent bit of risk when mining it.

The easy solution is to allow it to be mined, but to limit exposure by only allowing a percent of our outstanding coins to be auroracoin.  Looking for input on what that percent should be? 5%? 10%?

The way it would be handled is mining AUR would be enabled if AUR unexchanged balance was less than X% of our total unexchanged.  If we picked 10%, and had 30btc (estimated) unexchanged, we would allow mining up to 3btc of AUR before disabling it.  As those blocks matured/exchanged, it would open up mining again automatically.

Thoughts?

Yes sounds good, 10% at least maybe 15%

What about 10% while price is less than X? I haven't been following this thread or the stats closely (aside from btc/mh) but it seems like we've been doing better on average since we stopped mining AUR? The reason I say < price X is to limit our exposure to mining during the bubble peak and watch our immature coins wither in value again. Not sure what we would agree on price X to be though. Ideas?

Edit: Maybe X could be 70% of last bubble?

Hey guys,

I'd like to re-enabled Auroracoin, as its decently profitable at times.  However, since it is _such_ a long maturation time (from mined block to exchanged of about 17-18 hours), we expose ourselves to a decent bit of risk when mining it.

The easy solution is to allow it to be mined, but to limit exposure by only allowing a percent of our outstanding coins to be auroracoin.  Looking for input on what that percent should be? 5%? 10%?

The way it would be handled is mining AUR would be enabled if AUR unexchanged balance was less than X% of our total unexchanged.  If we picked 10%, and had 30btc (estimated) unexchanged, we would allow mining up to 3btc of AUR before disabling it.  As those blocks matured/exchanged, it would open up mining again automatically.

Thoughts?

Yes sounds good, 10% at least maybe 15%

What about 10% while price is less than X? I haven't been following this thread or the stats closely (aside from btc/mh) but it seems like we've been doing better on average since we stopped mining AUR? The reason I say < price X is to limit our exposure to mining during the bubble peak and watch our immature coins wither in value again. Not sure what we would agree on price X to be though. Ideas?

Edit: Maybe X could be 70% of last bubble?

I second to that we seem to do better without AUR.
What about those 50% premined coins that will be distributed march 25th?
Is that long maturation time built in or is it just temporary stuff?

i agree, it's kind of a risky coin since the price fluctuates a lot and it has a low block retarget.  I don't know if we should be mining it since it isn't significantly more profitable than anything else.