If it was a while ago, I may have deleted it without answering as I avoid giving personal support questions since my time is limited and I'd rather give as many answers in public as possible where others can benefit from them and avoid needing to repeat myself. Apologies.

No I haven't. The pool is behaving very nicely as is. Did you notice something?

You mangled the address in your URL. The Aagh component of your address is what you should be saying right about now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=274023.0

However since I wrote that guide, and wrote the diff management code ckpool and therefore this pool uses, that means you need to do nothing here (and it makes no difference with solo mining anyway).

Those messages only show up if you have it in verbose or debug mode... so don't do that.

Congrats and thanks. Here's the block diff:

No I do think his point is valid. The campaigns are annoying in their own right, but as DH said, they're also a marker that the poster has an extremely high chance of being a useless poster and only after post count rewards. People who post vague responses that look like answers but in fact have zero information like "check your hardware and software"... well duh. Sure they may make the advice more verbose than this, but that's really all they say without any actual useful advice whatsoever.

Furthermore this discussion has long since moved away from the original opening topic which itself has been asked many many times before so I'll be splitting off this discussion and sending it to meta/ and locking this thread shortly.

Not amazing, there are heaps of threads about this already. It's a poor optimisation used by crappy written pool software on block change to send out work without transactions till it can get its act together to create work that includes transactions. The fact that it's KnC's custom mine that does such a shortcut does not surprise me in the slightest.

Welcome aboard. All pools strive to have stability and performance and while this pool has also had its fair share of problems during development, it's reasonable to assume that since the pool owner here wrote the software that runs on it, he can also fix any issues as they arise.

Good luck!

For the love of god, make this thread stop. At the very least, stop calling them nounces. I penned numerous responses to this thread and deleted them every time when I reminded myself of how this thread progresses...

Try cgminer 4.9.0. Apparently I screwed something up and the U3s don't work for some people in the latest version.

Do you have anything to support that conjecture? Sure the random coins with 1m blocks you're talking about dont have high orphan rates but that's almost certainly because the number of actual effective mining nodes is small rather than "1 minute is okay". One only produces orphans when there are other nodes finding blocks within a short time frame. The less nodes there are mining, the lower the probability of orphans. Not to mention the blocks will always be tiny with virtually no transactions on these altchains. They can't be compared.

There's no such thing as a superstitious miner, or pool operator, is there...?

The pool stats are there for me, but it's zero effort to make them available to everyone. Gamblers like to look for patterns and from what I've seen on how people choose when to solo mine, they might see something in those stats that they use too.

The best share figure is raw data straight from the pool code and it is directly parseable as valid json. Formatting it takes a rewrite and restart and adds a (teensy bit of) overhead and makes it no longer parseable as a value but as a string display. That said none of things are huge but the most important ones are that I don't want to do any code at the moment while everything's stable (I'm taking a code break), nor do I want to interrupt the stable running of the pool.

Thinking about it but it will take a tiny bit more effort since the pages are all extremely simple static html or even just text at the moment and each user/worker's stats are created on the fly as plain text.

D: Why did I bother fixing bugs? I had regular unplanned restarts built into the code by virtue of bugs previously...

Pool stats page has been changed slightly to autorefresh every 60 seconds and contains an object now instead of plain text. If you cannot access it, you can use the direct text output with this link:

http://solo.ckpool.org/pool/pool.status

If you guys need an escrow when you do this for someone to distribute the reward should you find a block, just holler and I'll give you an address to point your hashes at instead.