It is not only the XDN pool that needs updating, but also the node util package that needs to be updated to run on Ubuntu 17.x
So you have two different groups of developers that have to work on it.

nodejs and node-gyp (V8) have had major updates that prevent the org code from compiling.

the org XDN project on Git does compile and run if you make one change in the package.json.
(at least for me) changed :
  "https://github.com/xdn-project/node-cryptonote-util"
to
  "git+https://github.com/xdn-project/node-cryptonote-util"

You also must follow the directions in there to the letter.

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Just checked my server, digitalnoted just completed a full update of blocks.
Did have to download starting blocks from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4t0S1ES9L-RUUUzX2ZjUW5Xems to get the program to start updating blocks itself.

The Pool runs, was just lacking the daemon for it.
Need to double check port assignments and then should be good to go here (local).

I'd stay away from pump n dumps.

you'll get in easy enough, but trying to get out you will wind up trying to catch a 'falling knife'.

More than that one project is used (imported from github during compile) and all needs to be rewritten, not an easy update. Would be very time consuming.

The code for XDN does work. I have it running in a Virtualbox right now.
You just need make sure you use the OS and node.js version they state.

It will take a lot of rewrite on js script in there to bring it current to node.js 8.x.x or even 9.x.x

Lot of the org nodejs v0.10 functions have been changed. An example is Buffer() that is used numerous times. "new Buffer()" no longer exist and has been replace with a Buffer Class.
Actually all of nodejs is Classes now.
For Buffer in there now you use "Class::Buffer.from()", other variations in there for Buffer() also.

I was wanting to bring it to Ubuntu 17.x, but right now don't have time.

All that js in there is going to have to be gone through.

On one pool open source the developer flat out stated they were not going to support/change/update it.

There is one open source in there i found that runs on Ubuntu 16.x, using node.js 4 or 6, dont remember now.

What it all comes down to is no backward compatibility starting at nodejs 4 ( I tried nodejs 4 )


I stated earlier that maybe the developers got tired of coding and not getting something back from pool.

One of the live pools i looked at had a statement they were using a heavily modified version. Which to means they updated the code in some part.

the xdn-project/cryptonote-universal-pool runs. I say it runs, it does what its suppose to considering i dont have coin a daemon running in it.
It didn't stop running, it just continuously looped stating there was no daemon data available. Which is what i expected it to do.

now the problem comes in that a Digitalnote at this time is only valued at just over 0.02 USD.

Does anyone have a guess-ta-ment as to what hash rate miners are using on Digitalnote pools or solo?

Digitalnote was suppose to be handled at the cpu level, but i dont think that's happening, meaning a lot of GPUs in there at majority.

Reading comments on the developers' git site for this, nothing has been done in the past 4 years in relating to getting the pool code up and running.

Been working with it on home server here to see what all is wrong.
Needs a major rewrite to keep up with the current Ubuntu version.

If no one was contributing to their work, i don't blame them.
Would be a lot more pools if that code was straightened out.

Been some major change to nodejs. since v.10 to the current one.

Went back to Ubuntu 14 and the legacy libraries.
Reading the comment to dev, like posted up, still problems and developers seem to have abandoned it.

I got down to one major error and can't figure that one out, makes no sense really.

I'll run a pool, but the server i want an't cheap.
So i'll put it like is or has to be, I'll take a cut and the developers get their cut.

I don't see that leaving much if any profit for the miner.
More miners there is the less the two cuts would be.
Meaning percentage cuts of both being lowered as more miners joined the pool.

That's good, but can you sell them?

My wallet from 2010 is like Gone with the Wind.

having run Digitalnote Wallet for almost 24 hours and received nothing.
Went and check on how much i would mine running the H/s that it shows the computer is running..... It an't worth it.

This was suppose to be miner/pool that catered to cpu based mining.
Not hardly.

running 8 threads, it is 170 H/s.
running 4 threads, it is 100 H/s.

Yes, it is synced and the green check mark shows.
pool was minergate.


Mining calc shows a year profit of :    -$281.97 (minus)

Was wanting to run a pool, but from what i find the coding for open source pools that i found are no longer updated, abandoned.

its a trade off.

Do you want faster code or more compact executable?

In this app i would not have cared about size, but about speed.