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Re: [POOL][Scrypt][Scrypt-N][X11][X13] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com
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suchmoon
on 06/08/2014, 21:09:47 UTC
Yep, X13 is back to <50% LTC, pool has been disabled again for now...

Hi. New miner here. I'm loving the pool so far. I was just going to keep mine on X11. Does it ever get disabled, and if so how will we know, on our stat pages or in sgminer?

Like the post above me mentions, X11 hasn't been disabled (and doesn't look to be needed).  X13 doesn't really bring much to the table past what X11 does, so very few coins are using it as a POW.  Most of the coins that are still X13 have very little buy support and are kinda dying out.  Most likely, if the current X13 ecosystem keeps up, it will be removed from the pool at some point completely (instead of up/down repeatedly).

As for how you'll know, either your miner will failover to a different pool (shown in sgminer), or I'll post something to the header of WP (and here).  Although again, X11 going away is very unlikely.

With that in mind, what are your plans for the future - I'm guessing adding more algos isn't quite a priority right now? Is multi-algo switching still being considered? Based on what I'm seeing at rental sites there doesn't seem much going on beyond X11 and Scrypt at the moment: http://cryp.today/current (although there is still some demand for X13/X15, which is kind of suprising).

I guess it could be argued both ways:
1) multi-algo switching doesn't make sense because X11 is de facto standard for GPUs (and Scrypt for ASICs of course) and as you mentioned X13 is likely to die out
or
2) multi-algo switching is even more important because it would allow miners quickly take advantage of X13 if it spikes up briefly (or X15 or anything else that WP might implement)

Edit: duplicate duplicate words.