Re: [ANN] [ASIC-RESISTANT] UltraCoin (UTC)

OMG orphaned galore Angry

What causing this?

UTC does NOT have a DE-centralized network anymore.Congrats to miners insisting on just one (Nitro) pool.

Nothing wrong with the Stuhlman here,but this needs to change.Otherwise miners are going to see more orphans,who try to keep mining in other pools.That's what I suspect.

Why not somebody create P2P pool(s) for UTC? I'm not technically talented but I keep asking that question...

I've moved to leetpools since last week because of continuous dc of nitro.

I thought leetpools have this issues.

Its none of the pool owners fault, the network is unbalanced, and Nitro has more than 50% of the network (No fault of theirs). If the hashes spread out there would be less orphans on the network as I understand it. Nitro's hashrate is so large, they define the network. The hashes need to spread out.

Whats funny is that when Nitro goes down for maintenance, 35% of the miners instantly Failover to our pool (LeetPool), and the orphan rates go down immediately.

We need the miners to spread the hashes to all the pools on the network, and it will keep the coin healthy.

http://bitgo.pw/utc/ <--- Look at the bottom at the pool hashrate chart.

Since the hashrate is so enourmous as one pool compared to another this happens:

We will solve a block:

Nitro will solve the same block:

See what happens here? Nitro will beat everyone to the punch if they happen to solve the same block as another pool even if we might have solved it first, or if Nitro might have solved the block first, we will be late because the network is defined by the hashrate.

I was talking with TheSerapher in IRC, and he suggested that other pools add Nitro as a node for UTC -- But he did not elaborate on how to do this. If anyone can think of a solution, please chime in.

To add Nitro as a node you add this to the conf file addnode=ultra.nitro.org:44100 you can also addnode=utc.greekpool.eu:44100 or any operating pool with that port. However, once conf file is updated with nodes, you need to shut down stratum then shutdown coind and restart coind let it connect to the nodes, and once blocks are up to date, restart stratum. Make sure you put the pool in maintenance mode before shutting down stratum and remove maintenance mode after coind is updated, then restart stratum.

We have also closed signups many times, to allow other pools to grow naturally with the influx of new miners. However, this can only be done on our part with a ddos free environment. We have a policy of opening signups immediately after or during a ddos attack. That way the attacker can not benefit from his attack. We have put the fee up already and any other increase in fee would be nothing short of robbing the miners. We will close signups as of now, but this can only last as long as the next ddos attack.

Thanks Stuhlman! We successfully were able to add Greekpool and Nitro as nodes. Everything seems to be running smooth. Now to find some blocks and see what happens! Thanks again for your input.