Yeah when I add BTC it will definitely be with merged mining.

New account details page is now live.

Features:

• You can now unlock your own payment addresses!  Not that I don't enjoy receiving your emails! 
• PIN only required for changing password and unlocking payment addresses.
• You can lock and unlock each coin's payment address individually
• No more PIN required for cashing out!  If you have a payment address saved, cash out with one click!

I'm working on some final changes to the db and share tables that should enable us to scale quite a bit.

As far as how long a coin is on top, it shouldn't matter too much whether it's minutes or hours..  The important thing is that we hop on when difficulty is low and hop back off quickly when difficulty goes up..  That way we maximize our profitability.

Right now I am considering adding:  ARG, NBL, and PXC once the db changes are complete.

I am also planning to add PPC and FRC and create a SHA-256 multiport soon.

Oops, they're working again now..  Forgot to re-enable that cronjob.

It's back up now, have fun

So, I made a fairly big change tonight to the way donations are done.

Previously, donations (as well as site fees, of which we have none, and transaction fees, of which we also have none) were calculated at the time of withdrawal.  You can obviously see that this presents an issue because someone can leave their donate% at a high number at all times, in order to appear to be donating, and change it to 0 right before they withdraw, then change it back.  This was not really an issue currently, because the site didn't lose anything except that a person got a pretty icon they shouldn't have.  But in the future, if I am to give away planned pay services for free to donators, I need to make sure the people are really donating.  Also, without knowing how much of the current reserves are waiting to be donated, it's impossible for me to do any kind of accurate financial planning.

So tonight, I have decreased everyone's available balance by your donation percent and added a new line in the account balance table to reflect this (donation).  People with donation % set to 0 were not affected. You should be able to see your total donation for each coin by going to the "My Stats" page.  It's right under "Lifetime Total Earned".  Donations will now be calculated at the time a block is scored, and added to your total donated once a block is confirmed (using the pool's required number of donations, not the network's).

Because I'm lazy, this didn't affect current unconfirmed block payouts.  So those are on the house, so to speak.

(Oh, and if you want to know why donations were calculated this way in the first place, it's the way Simplecoin does it and I never got around to changing it.  This is also why some people would see automated withdrawals for less than their threshold, because the site was subtracting your donation before sending the withdrawal.)  So if you're using any other pools based on Simplecoin, you now know about this exploit, have fun.

If you have any questions, let me know.

The frontend is going down for a couple hours tonight while I update some payment code.  Pools will remain up.

You should be good to go now.

Yeah, the problem is that I moved dgc, wdc and nvc off to another server..  It is an m1.small instance, which is supposed to have half of the CPU power of an m1.medium instance (which all of the other coin daemons, plus mysql, plus the frontend, plus the pools were running on).  But for some reason the m1.small instance is not able to handle the load of only those 3 coins.  I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, but I moved digitalcoin back to the main box last night.  But even now with just WDC and NVC on the box, it's still overloaded.  I'm going to be changing around the architecture a bit in the next few days to make it more scalable.  Growing pains are good, right?  

OK, I must have messed something up, I'm just getting my miners back on now, so I should be able to fix it soon.

NVC confirmations reduced to 260.

Check it out now.

Good idea, I'll do that as soon as I get a chance.

I just added a block detail page that shows the detailed payouts for each block.  (Linked from the block number on the pool stats page)

It's wrong..  NVC was putting 0's into the DB due to some bad code so it was factoring those into the average.

So, the NVC pool has been having issues, as people have pointed it out.  I've taken it off the multiport again until I can get those worked out.  It's only a couple of points above LTC right now anyway, and FTC is due to retarget again in 8 hours or so and will probably be close to 2.00.

520 confirmations on NVC.

Oh, that..  LTC (and most/(all?) other scrypt coins') difficulty shown by the coin daemons and on most websites is divided by 65536, 53M is what it would be if it were calculated the same as BTC difficulty (52989132.8 currently)

I don't know the rationale behind this decision.

Good show!

The multiport went down several times today and I'm not sure why.  I suspect a possible ddos, but I was at a family event all day without a computer which is why I wasn't able to fix the issue..  I'm going to build more functionality into the Admin console so that I can stop and restart things as necessary.

That said, things appear normal now and I'll be monitoring the site closely for the rest of the night.