One pool server had troubles with disk I/O during blockchain processing, it is fixed already. I also added new pool server and upgrade older one to better HW. Today I'll upgrade the rest of server infrastructure.

You can even configure SierraChart to make a sound when price crash under 1$ :-)

No, your miner was just lucky enough to find block with difficulty > target. Everytime pool find a block, somebody see +1 on his profile, so that is pretty common . I'm showing this just for curiosity, that has no effect to mining or calculating rewards.

Finally found 23 blocks, not as bad as it originally looked .

Yes, today is not so lucky as previous days. With current hashrate and difficulty we should have ~24 blocks per day and we 18 blocks found so far.

Or you can type something like "60<Enter>" (without quotes) to fast dial of 60min timeframe .

It's because of big market spread: When somebody do big sell order and push price down and then somebody decide to buy a coin, there will be such step in price as you posted on image - current price after sell is low, but nearer ask price is on the top of the spread.

Reward is calculated to 8 decimal places.

I'm asking because hashrate and steady payout are tightly coupled. With 72mhash over 2 hours you're far away from 1000 shares, which are considered to be minimum to have average payout as described here.

Score is recalculated every hour, not resetted.

Btw, how many Mhash/s do you have?

Yes, difficulty is rising, hashrate is the same. Actually this block was 4.5x<difficulty>, so nothing impossible. Yesterday was pretty good, so it must average sometimes .

I'm just trying to find why pool generates such unusual number of invalid blocks today.

Edit: I'm going to upgrade infrastructure, you may obtain some rpc errors in following minutes.

Sierrachart is proprietary software and I didn't find any documentation how to write real data feeds (or enable internal DOM + trading features). Current mtgox plugin is 'hack' mis-using sierrachart's realtime file update, but I have no idea how to push market depth into application.

If you know another charting software with open API (or even opensource!), I can modify plugin to work with it. But I'm SierraChart customer for long time, so I wrote plugin primary for it.

Daily earnings are already implemented, see Graphs page.

Hourly and minute earnings are not implemented, but - who cares? Mining is probabilistic process, minute or hour mean nothing. Personally I even don't care about my daily earnings, only 7day average (blue line on graphs), which has some weight.

I'm sometimes surprised when people are saying 'pool that and that is paying less than pool this, I tested it for two hours!'. Looks they have no idea how it works and displaying them 'you earned 0.0001 btc in last hour' will make it even worse.

Which miner? Did restart helped? I found that phoenix is sometimes freezing when it has connection troubles (like service restart tonight).

Yes, just a database restart. Everything is working now.

Majority of those invalid blocks were caused by outage, so we're still talking about this one issue before two weeks.

Well, you cannot spend those coins before at least 100 confirmations, so it is basically the same as many other pools. Deepbit isn't "instant" too, it takes one hour to show block on the account...

No, I had only one serious downtime on mining interface, others were service restarts, which is normal on all pools. Oh, I was also DoSed twice, but it is long time ago and it wasn't total outage, pool was just slower for few hours.

Yes, I had troubles with website, but it didn't affect mining.

Well, the wait is not so stupid, it is forced by bitcoin network. I need to invest around 1000-2000 BTC to enable payouts sonner than pool receive bitcoins from the network. If you lend me those 2000 BTC for 0% interest , I can enable almost-instant payouts .

I really don't understand the buzz about instant payout button, but many people are asking for that, so I'll implement it, too.

Please post here your command line options (except password, of course).