Quote from: vals on March 12, 2014, 12:36:39 PM

Hi poolwaffle,

I've noticed you've just implemented the per worker stats, just to confirm for anyone reading, it's still fine to point multiple rigs at a single BTC address?

I have a question about what you mentioned a few pages back, where you said with the new coin switching algorithm you can direct a smaller fraction (or one of the smaller stratum servers, I wasn't really clear on that) of the overall pool hash rate to a certain smaller coin. Just say for instance your algorithm decides catcoin (or some other smaller coin) is profitable to mine, but your market depth check sees that only a few blocks can be successfully sold at a higher profit. It then sets one of the stratum pools (say EU stratum) to mine catcoin for a few blocks.

The EU clients then get their catcoin shares on their account, it gets confirmed, converted and then sent to them. While the other stratums never actually had a chance to mine the coin due to the shallow market. Is their profitability technically slightly higher than the others? Then in the overall stats page it averages out the profitability from all the different stratums?

Or is there some sort of sharing between the stratums/fractions of the pool hashrate so that even if my actual client isn't set to mine a smaller coin, the slightly increased profit from that coin is spread over the entire pool?

Thanks.

Absolutely fine to point all rigs to the same address

So, the first thing is just a minor implementation detail, but we check block sales price before considering profitability, so by definition, if we said "Catcoin is profitable", we already know we can sell at least the next block at a certain price (or very heavily believe it at least).

As for the share accounting. All shares are put into a common pool. It doesn't matter if you mined doge, or cat, etc. If you submitted a valid share, that share goes into the pool. When a block is found (regardless of block type, and regardless of what you mined), we pull the last X shares, and pay them accordingly. You might never mine a single catcoin share, but you'll still receive payouts from when some part of the pool did (and found a block obviously).