Come to IRC for live help...I am usually in the following channels:

#bitcoin, #litecoin, #digitalcoin, #worldcoin, #p2pool, #litecoin-dev, #xpool

It allows you to obtain a consistent and appropriate share difficulty for your hash rate. When higher hash rate miners come on the pool the share difficulty is dynamically updated to accommodate. The resulting higher share difficulty may be to large for your specific hash rate leading to dead shares.

On my miner with 1.44 Mh/s I was getting a share difficulty of around 80 without manually adding the share difficulty. When a miner with 36 Mh/s came on the pool it caused my miners share difficulty to jump all the way to 700. I added +0.0016704 to keep me at a solid 109.

This pool features a nice block finder bonus:

dgc.xpool.net:8810

Username: YourWalletAddress
Password: anything you like

more info

I like using LTC p2pools for various reasons.

ltc.xpool.net:9327

I'm on there now Ahmed...will let you know how it goes.

wdc.xpool.net:8820

worldcoind updated to 0.6.3.1
Maintenance release to get rid of litecoin update message.

worldcoind updated to 0.6.3.1

Maintenance release to get rid of litecoin update message.

worldcoind updated to 0.6.3.1

Maintenance release to get rid of litecoin update message.

Sorry to hear about your injury.  A co-worker of mine just came out of a two month coma from a mountain bike accident so take care of yourself.

For live help I try to be on IRC as much as possible on these channels: #bitcoin, #digitalcoin, #litecoin, #litecoin-dev, #p2pool, #worldcoin, #xpool

Also, new block announcements are made in the #xpool channel except for WDC. WDC block announcements are made in the #worldcoin channel.

Edit:
Thanks! The graphs show you were on for around 15 hours? I've seen people reach full payout levels in around 12 hours but still state to allow 24 since it is dependent on the number of shares others have submitted.

Further evidence of this being a block explorer issue can be seen by doing a search of the block ID on both explorers:

http://dgc.p2pool.nl/search?q=176877
http://dgc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/search?q=176877


If you click on the block ID you get the correct payout addresses. Clicking on the hash will give you the incorrect "1" addresses.

Thank you for such a detailed post AbiTxGroup.

This had me scratching my head for a bit but think I tracked it down to a block explorer issue.

If you take the example blocks:

http://dgc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/block/d1c557e8c942f8e5f68e05003d0ed1e0047d664f2db3906188df0b122e2c0843
http://dgc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/block/12489436d5f7ef0483789907cb0b5fd6e96c3c3b340fc2dcc9da00dce2f83fda
http://dgc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/block/d833de70550f8c72e6d4c664a5a475624e3b363b5b9c109f994d7672eabcba98
http://dgc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/block/fa57427f0ee1f4a26ed4ab142b7259f3e9cea78a917e3da2f7676f24026b78a1

...and use an alternate block explorer you get Block Not Found except for the last one:

http://dgc.p2pool.nl/block/d1c557e8c942f8e5f68e05003d0ed1e0047d664f2db3906188df0b122e2c0843
http://dgc.p2pool.nl/block/12489436d5f7ef0483789907cb0b5fd6e96c3c3b340fc2dcc9da00dce2f83fda
http://dgc.p2pool.nl/block/d833de70550f8c72e6d4c664a5a475624e3b363b5b9c109f994d7672eabcba98
http://dgc.p2pool.nl/block/fa57427f0ee1f4a26ed4ab142b7259f3e9cea78a917e3da2f7676f24026b78a1

I originally used dgc.p2pool.nl but they went offline for a bit. Will switch back since they seem to be doing a better job. The "1" addresses look like BTC to me and can only guess that the block explorer is somehow pulling the wrong info.

Please let me know if you get different results or find any additional information.

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Hi Shallowgas,

The pool uses a PPLNS reward system. Simply put it pays based on the number of shares you submit over a period of time.

To illustrate this take the example of D99erPFYxti2gcT7xTQNgTRrdUtguh7Qka. They started mining on the pool a couple days before you joined. His portion of submitted shares is much greater because of this. Over time your portion of submitted shares will outnumber his (due to your higher hash rate) and your payout will increase accordingly.

Here is a charts showing your payout increasing as your portion of submitted shares increase:



Another miner with 1.5 Mh/s started shortly after you did so they are also increasing their number of submitted shares along with you but at a slightly higher rate due to his higher level of submitted shares:



The effect of both of you starting to submit shares is decreasing the % of shares D99erPFYxti2gcT7xTQNgTRrdUtguh7Qka is providing. The reason his payout is still higher than yours is because of the two days of work he has submitted before you came on board:



You will notice that if you completely stop mining the pool you will continue to get payouts for a couple of days because of the submitted shares you are currently contributing.

Look at DTWPTRSi9HoLh69NPd2fbDWUGHrx1nLdmk for an example of this. He has not been mining for a little while but will continue to get (decreasing) payouts because of the work submitted while he was on the pool.

I hope this illustrates how the payout system works. If you like I can provide links to much more in-depth explanations.

bitcoind updated to 0.8.3
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Maintenance release to fix a denial-of-service memory exhaustion attack.

bitcoind updated to 0.8.3
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Maintenance release to fix a denial-of-service memory exhaustion attack.

Updated Litecoin wallet to 0.6.9.1.

0.6.9.1 is final, pending Gitian build verification by the full Litecoin Dev Team.

The official public release of 0.6.9.1 will commence on Litecoin.org soon.

Updated Litecoin wallet to 0.6.9.1.

BTC pool brought back.

Added the result of using +0.00116414 for worker diff.

It's pouring down in the chat!

Bitcoin pool back online!