I wonder if this is technically possible? Make a coin with one billion APR staking returns. I'm thinking of a Peercoin fork for example where the staking returns were just set to an absurdly high level. I understand that something would have to be done to not hit integer limits, maybe there could be multiple tokens internally where each level of tokens is one billion times the value of the previous level.

In a country where staking income is taxed as capital gains before even selling, this would be instant financial suicide probably, if it held any value? Of course it would be problematic for exchanges as there can be only so many zeroes in their prices.

Heh, the 100 VHH tx fee is also just talk, in reality there is no such thing. But at least they managed to implement 3 decimals right! Bravo!!

The yespower algorithm seems to be interesting though, please see https://www.reddit.com/r/cpumining/comments/nbfv0u/ryzen_5950x_lower_hashrates_than_expected/ and comment here or there if you understand how that works exactly.

Please explain is the "AI" here something else than buzzwords?

Are there other coins with any traction that have attempted a similar distribution? This could be interesting, because it really seems like all successful coins so far have abstained from "bold" schedules.

I already disassembled this one, but the third card was so elegantly fastened I had to keep the picture.



That card slot cover kept the top card firmly in place! I could take the rig in my hands and shake it in any orientation, and it wouldn't budge.

The ziptie on the middle card actually kept it as one piece. The fan shroud and some plastic shrapnel fell off when I took the card from another rig, but fixing that was easy!

Elitehash naturally supports the algorithm change for Raven, on October 01

Miners still have to change their config files, so the port number should probably change. Everyone just has to edit those configs, there's no way around it. Changing the port number is a good way to filter out those miners who didn't react and stil try to mine x16r. They'd be shown as rejected hashrate otherwise.

Raven is now the only pool on Elitehash, as I'm reworking the code for better scalability. Worst bugs have been fixed during the summer, and I'm sorry against any hashrate loss due to them. I sent a covering payout for most, and will do a final check of the history after I've done this final rework. There could still be a hiccup or two, but I think I've learned from a lot of mistakes here

In the meantine, Raven payout rate is steadily increasing again, and it might even go over 100% soon!

Windows Defender keeps removing the exe because of Conteban.B!ml, whatever that's supposed to be. You should report that to Microsoft as the developer so they can remove this false positive. Surely it's that, right?

Updated for the SIN rebrand. Tested that everything works on Helsinki, now I'll copy the config to other servers.

All the stats were preserved from SUQA, but the pool address & port was changed. Everyone has to update their configs anyway due to changed mining algorithm.

The new stratum server is now working great, still a bit of extra latency but it's not really causing noticeable rejects. Should be relatively easy to fix now. Connections to Helsinki & Paris were a bit unstable this past week, but now they are stable. Got the CPU usage down to 1% and fixed this pesky problem with stale connections.

I'm about to make a switch to this stratum server I made from scratch. It's replacing 17k lines of code I didn't write with a neat, 400 line package that isn't hard to understand, at least for me.

The dip in the hashrate graph is from my 1st test with actual miners (in the Helsinki server), which to not much surprise uncovered a bug or two Everyone was sent the *full* amount of what they should have earned during that 4 hours of bugged share counting, calculated from the previous 4 hours: https://ravencoin.network/tx/3143984c32d0ec6148fc8f171e795f262b150e676cd188c38fc571f0756cbaba. In addition to the ~50% or so of shares that weren't lost due to these bugs.

The switch should be transparent to miners, but the end result should be definitely noticeable: share difficulties won't be absurdly high anymore. During the last test, I had a constant 32 for 4 hours.

(For anyone interested, the bug was related to duplicated stratum message IDs. Easy to fix by adding an ID translator.)

This should still the best Bitcore pool. Miners occasionally appear, but mostly hashrate is zero now. It wasn't like that always. I'm not going to remove the pool in the foreseeable future, this is what Elitehash started with!

This pool has seen the least action, I'm considering removing it.

I'm developing a custom stratum server that seems to be working fine now (miners submit valid work), but t-rex is outputting these messages constantly:

WARN: New iteration find shares for device [ID=0, GPU #0]: job_id=2e61

What could be the cause? I don't get that connecting to normal stratum servers.

EDIT: Sorry, I realized there were extra warnings too with protocol debugging enabled. That's happening on other servers, too. Seems like it warns about receiving the same notify twice, is that somehow bad?

http://btx.elitehash.net/ still is the best paying pool, perhaps miners just don't know about it? This is what Elitehash started with, but the pool was relaunched after the address format change. Being the only miner there is no problem as it's PPS!

Another bump for the thread. Apparently miners don't know about the pool, or 104% sounds too good to be true? SUQA is high up there in WhatToMine, and with 104% should be a pretty good choice to mine! Don't really understand the reason for rebranding to SIN though, when is that even going to happen?

Thanks for the thread bump. Perhaps someone prefers 99.5% payouts with variance instead of 104% without variance...

Worker lists have been available for some time here. Next up is more server locations & payout lists with txids. With a PPS payout rate of 104% and the coin near the top at WhatToMine, I wonder where the miners are. Do they prefer flashier websites instead of highest possible payouts?

Worker lists and Paris server were added this month. Not sure where the miners are going, as Raven is still at the top in WhatToMine. I'm a bit hesitant to add every new coin, at least until they've been proven somehow.

Payout rate is going up now, to help gather more miners & also because higher rates really are easier to sustain with a smaller pool. Suggestions for improvements are welcome, as always. A payout list with txids is coming, but I don't have any other big improvements planned now.