For those with problems with disconnects. It generally only disconnects breifly on coin change, part of the stratum implementation here for multiple coins to be mined. If  you use cgminer version 3.5.0 or earlier the switch back to mining happens much quicker. I have been mining here for quite a while and this issue keeps coming up, both in the forums and the IRC channel, but almost always comes back to version of cgminer.

Any update on this?  I'm kinda peeved that it's still not fixed 2 weeks after the problem was pointed out to you.

I haven't been mining on Middlecoin (except when my other pool goes down) for about 2 weeks and there is about 0.0035Btc that seems to have been stuck since then, some of that is new, but the majority is over 2 weeks old. As I write this there is 0.00197542 immature, and 0.00161261 unexchanged.

Look back through the days posts in the thread ...

I've been thinking it through a bit after seeing the pool stratum connection disconnect at every start of a new round.  Seeing my miner go down for 15-30 seconds, and about 45 seconds till they are back up to speed.

I am wondering are you restarting a new stratum server each time it switches coins?

If so I wonder if it would be more efficient to have a stratum proxy (or 2, one in NA) running with a really fast reconnect rate to the pool stratum server ... and have all clients maintain connections to that proxy, seems to me that doing this may might get a faster work restart after the coin switch.

Its been bugging me in my head that I see stuff like this quite often in my miner output on the coin switch. This one happened right on the finding of a block ... did it even get found, or was that one of the 24 shares lost due to disconnect?

 [2013-09-28 14:25:23] Accepted 7009652c Diff 1.12K/20 GPU 0
 [2013-09-28 14:25:34] Found block for pool 0!
 [2013-09-28 14:26:57] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
 [2013-09-28 14:26:57] Lost 24 shares due to stratum disconnect on pool 0
 [2013-09-28 14:27:19] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://stratum01.hashco.ws:8888 not respond
ing!

Hmm ... as I type this it seems it is a much longer than normal disconnect .

I tried CPU mining both XPM and QRK, found that while doing so, even with one or 2 cores left free (6 core processor), I was still way more likely to have my rig completly lock up and have to be rebooted,  had 3 or 4 hard lockups in a day or 2 of trying to mine either cpu coin, had to hit the reset button each time ... doesn't seem to happen when I use the cpu to mine scrypt based coins (can do roughly 40KH/s on scrypt with 5 out of 6 core). Been debating overclocking the cpu for a bit better returns, but would want to upgrade my cooling before I try.

Definitely happy ... profits seem to be steadily going up. Even with the hickups testing FTC and the short day, I pulled in my highest daily total yet .

Hmm, after looking at the numbers on FTC I think our pool needs a few hundred more MH/s before we consider mining FTC ... maybe put some kinda logic in that if our total pool MH/s is higher than say 600, then give FTC a try, but at 311 MH/s I don't think we make enough reliably for it to be worth it.

Hmm ... anyone else have the pool connection drop for them, been down for about a minute now for me .

Was out for about 3-5 minutes for me, just came back acording to my miners.

440 KH/s, payout yesterday was BTC0.0080

Hope that answers your question.

GDC still keeps coming up a fair bit, again with very minimal returns ... any chance you could handicap it further or remove it for now? It seriously earns less than half the second lowest earning coins from what I've seen. 

These rounds are all roughly 10 mins long,


As you can see both times GDC came up it earned next to nothing ... this is at approx 440KH/s.

Other than that pretty happy with the pool ... keep up the good work.

You have a similar level hashrate to me,  I run between 400 and 450 depending on if Im using my cpu to mine too.  I tried middlecoin ... and found it frustrating for a few reasons at my hashrate. The main one being that with middlecoin's difficulty setting I couldn't get a share in edgewise, and according to their stats I never got over the .2 MH/s recognised traffic ... where here on hashcows I am pretty damn sure I am getting my lower hashrate properly tracked, yes sometimes it is under, but just as often it is over, most of the time its pretty damn close to what my miners say they are doing.

I also did not like that for middlcoin you had to get to BTC0.01 before getting an kind of cashout, no cashout now option or otherwise,  I've still got mined income sitting on middlecoin ... doubt I will mine enough on it to ever get my first payout. On hashcows you can set your payout threshold as low as BTC0.001,  means pretty much a guarunteed daily payout at lower hashrates, had payouts 3 days running, each higher than the last.

Plus I like that it is a new pool, the admins are happy to take ideas to improve the pool for everyone,  yah it does have its growing pains, but overall I am far more confident in this pool than I was with middlecoin ... far more option of control, and tracking of your own stats than what middlecoin allows.

I can't give you any hard numbers as to time mined on middlecoin but I did mine for over 24 hrs there, and have a balance of BTC0.0041. I've made almost double that on my best day mining here, and even the first day I started mining here without a full 24 hrs of mining I had a payout of BTC0.0044.

I don't mind helping another miner out .... my settings are:

-I 13 --worksize 256 --thread-concurrency 8000 --gpu-engine 1175 --gpu-memclock 1365 -g 2

With fan speed set to 80% I am running at 76 degrees, wish I could afford a better second GPU to throw in my box, geforce 9600gt doesn't cut it for mining,  on a plus note though, I can still play diablo 3 on my mining rig using the second card .  Hope this info helps,

Sparhawk

I like this idea ... but instead of per day I would do it per hour. Also I would suggest changing the stats page to show 100 rounds instead of the current 30, or have an option to go back further in the stats. As it is, it seems there are some rounds that don't mature by the time they go off the stats page.

On another note ...  eeked another 55 KH/s out of my 7850 ... now running at about 405 KH/s, 445 KH/s with my cpu mining thrown in (stock clocked fx6300, debating overclocking it to get a bit more hashes out of it. Excited to see what my day's payout will be.

Just watched my payout come in ... matched pretty close to what I was expecting from the new estimated payout, good work nearmiss

Seen DMD come up a few times since you posted this, is the handicap working?  GDC just came up too. Both with very low earnings again .

636   GDC   00:07:51   0   0   5   5000   0   0   0.000003 BTC
635   DMD   00:08:03   0   0   5   5   0   0   0.000005 BTC
629   DMD   00:07:51   10   10   9   9   1.31   8.69   0.000017 BTC

Compared to:

630   ANC   00:12:10   0   0   8   40   0   0   0.00011 BTC
628   CGB   00:08:04   0   0   8   20   0   0   0.000083 BTC

Glad to know its being worked on

I got my payout for my fist day mining on this pool last night, happy so far. With my single 7850 running 355KH/s, and my AMD fx6300 cpu mining at another 40 KH/s half the time when I wasnt using my cpu power for other stuff, eeked out .0044 BTC in earnings.

One thing has been concerning me since the payouts went out last night, when I check my balance under Est. Pending Exchange all it says is "coming-back-soon". Can't check how I'm doing so far for the day without it.

Other than that loving the pool so far, few small things I would suggest but I can tell you are keeping on top of things and just starting out so I'm not in a rush to see them.

One thing I would love to see is to be able to go back further than the last 30 rounds in the round stats, at a mininmum being able to go back 24hrs, would provide more transparency into my daily earnings.

Another I'd love to see is some hashrate over time and earnings est over time graphs, so at a glance I can see how my stuff is doing visually, instead of poring through the numbers.

Thanks for the great pool, keep up the good work

Sparhawk