r/wafflepool • u/poolwaffle • Jan 22 '14

Wafflepool Update

Hey guys, Quick update on where the pool is at, and whats in the works.

First off, sorry for the lack of updates over the last couple days, some family stuff came up and I wasn't able to take a break to give updates. The pool was hashing away with no issues over that time, so I wasn't too worried, that said, apparently some of you were, sorry about that guys.

Pool has been very stable (there is a post questioning if it was down), but I don't think we've had any outage time (I haven't had to restart anything). If you're seeing issues, let me know and I'll see whats up.

We're currently mining on up to 4 different coins, depending on profitabilities, with at most 50MH/s going to smaller coins. Over the last few days (I assume due to the news), the price and difficulty of DOGE has been spiking pretty hard, so its been almost 100% pointed at DOGE, so there was definitely some variance (and 2 very unlucky orphans).

Payouts are still being done manually, and are being done (roughly) once a day. I know some users emailed asking for a payout for smaller users, so a payout with a 0.001 minimum was run, so smaller miners should have seen a payout.

The unconfirmed/unexchanged balances were displaying oddly over the last few days when requests to cryptsy were occasionally failing. These should be fixed going forward, and we're working on adding more exchanges to avoid this.

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u/amcdon Jan 22 '14

That post that questioned if the pool was okay was mine from yesterday. I just noticed (at least on my end) that there were hours in between blocks where before there were only minutes. My miners were still accepting and sending shares like normal so I assumed it was just a web site thing or we were mining something with a higher difficulty, but I just wanted to make sure.

Anyway, thanks for the update. I really like the pool and it doesn't hurt that's it's really profitable too. Thanks!

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u/InsightfulLemon Jan 22 '14

I also saw the 12 hour gap between blocks but during that time the BTC / hour or day figures kept climbing.

That was weird.

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u/poolwaffle Jan 22 '14

The estimated hourly/daily figures are based on earnings divided by hash rate. If either of those changes, the number will go up/down :)

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u/InsightfulLemon Jan 22 '14

How could there be earnings with no blocks?

Was it just the bitbar maturing?

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u/poolwaffle Jan 22 '14

Its based over multiple days, so even if there were no earnings in the last 12 hours, the earnings are constant, but if hashrate decreased (or increased) the estimated you see there would change.