Quote from: phzi on March 26, 2014, 09:23:02 PM

Quote from: gaalx on March 26, 2014, 09:17:47 PM

Quote from: The Fat Miner on March 26, 2014, 08:09:00 PM

Can scrypt n coins be mined on a pool like this ?

during DDOS, I tried script-n. can not be parallel to mine and then it requires individual settings. perhaps in time we need to convince, pw, another pool on a script-n.

The real work that needs to be done is extending the stratum implementation to also pass the value of N to the sgminer (and have sgminer understand). Then a pool could switch between different scrypt-n coins.

I did some vertcoin mining while WafflePool was being DDoS'd, and I am planning to stay long on vertcoin for now - I think it's likely to do quite well as scrypt ASIC power ramps up. Already, vertcoin is consistently more profitable to mine then LTC by my calculations (and we are still at the very beginning of the scrypt ASIC era).

This is exactly what I am working on for YACMiner (which does scrypt, n-scrypt, and scrypt-chacha) - the server specifies the algorithm and the parameters, and the miner switches to that. It's a lot more complicated on the miner side as the way cgminer/yacminer et.al. are written is to initialize for an algorithm one time when the program starts. It's taking a lot more re-engineering than I anticipated to get to a point where the algorithm can be specified at the pool level even initially, let alone after the program is already running. I've got hte details in the plan on the wiki for YACMiner, and if there are any coders who can contribute, there is a fork that has the work started, otherwise, it might still take another month with the limited time I have. The other part that needs to be addressed is the different parameters each card needs for each algorithm and the N factor as well are all going to be different.