+1 will set your difficulty to 1 on the BTC port, however, that is way too low for fast ASICs and probably the reason that our efficiency has dropped by 20-30% on the p2pool port.  (I'm not talking about worker efficiency, I'm talking about p2pool share efficiency.  This has an impact on our rewards as a pool)

It will also not work if you're using the multiport as that username won't be recognized on the other coins.

One of the proxies was malfunctioning on the SHA-256 port..  it's fixed now.

A 4th US pool server has been added to handle the increased load.  Although there are only about 900 workers mining on the Scrypt Multiport there are about 6000 active US connections.  The new server, along with the firewall and load balancing changes made last night, should help with stability and connectivity for the US pools.

I can only pay the blocks the pool finds.  If you find some blocks we didn't pay out or have a problem with a specific block's payout, I'm all ears.

Are you trying to make more than 25 connections from a single IP?

connectivity should be better going forward on US pools.  Also, I have added a hard limit of 25 connections per IP address.  If you need to exceed this, please contact me so I can whiltelist you.

We've found and paid out blocks within the last 2 hours...  Are you seeing accepted shares?

BTC rewards have surpassed a total of 22.5 BTC, shares from before 2013-11-07 05:49:15 UTC have been removed from the database.

We're still under DOS attack on the mining ports.  I will be implementing a more permanent fix for this tonight.

A couple weeks after he claimed scrypt wouldn't be removed for "at least a year"?

Should be fixed now.

US pools should be responding better now.  Working on EU now.

You can use anything for the password, it isn't checked.  You need to have something there though or stratum will barf.

Monitoring shows everything up.  What exact host and port are you connecting to?

I upgraded last night..

Edit: The explorer appears to agree with me.

The pool appears to be under attack intermittently on the stratum ports.  That's likely why some of you cannot connect.  Please keep trying with a backup pool set until these attacks subside.  I am attempting to mitigate as well.

PXC has temporarily been removed from the Multiport because the daemon keeps crashing.  It will most likely be re-added after the hardfork or at least once the new developer releases the new version.

Thanks for the report, submitted an Incapsula ticket regarding this.

Total BTC paid = 15.53, shares submitted before 2013-10-28 05:49:15 have been removed from the DB.

Thanks for the donation warren and Litecoin devs!

I like the sub-pool idea.  I've already contributed a patch (mostly taken from generalfault's stratum-mining fork) to log shares to a MySQL database.  It would be great if this could be standardized and also offer clients the option of connecting using getblocktemplate as well as stratum or getwork.  I've also written a custom difficulty patch that I can share.  I like the idea of encouraging miners to use higher difficulty, but I'm not sure how well that would work with a sub-pool.  There would need to be a way to pass that cost on to miners, especially if allowing them to set their own difficulty.

The DB share logging patch I submitted could easily be extended using the same stratum-mining code (the two licenses are compatible) to support PGSQL and SQLite.

You might also want to take a look at how stratum-mining distributes new work to miners as it seems much more lightweight than the way P2Pool does it.