I highly doubt that.  If we don't mine them, someone else will.  Also, considering we mainly mine Doge and LTC right now, we definitely are not moving the markets very much.

Edit: allow me to answer myself - based on our current block discovery rate (low), it definitely is just dumb luck - sfire's ("the whale") mining presence just seems to smooth out our profitability's variance.

It's a Chinese group - they have posted on these forums as 'sfire' - that is moving the ~20GH/s back and forth.  PoolWaffle disabled proxying to GHash as soon as they implemented the tiered bonus scheme.

@PoolWaffle: WafflePool's profitability does seem to consistently climb a bit whenever sfire leaves.  Is this really just due to luck?  Seems weird to me.

I recall the catcoin being around for several days, but I could be remembering incorrectly.

Ahh, didn't keep up with the coinmarket happenings well enough.  I thought the coins were just sitting on the exchange, not stuck pending withdrawal.  Considering how much value the mintcoin has lost, I'd suggest the pool  take it as a bonus and sit on it for a while (and earn some PoS rewards) to see if the price climbs again with the  coin pure PoS.

I have the full history of rounds and blocks since round 1 from GHash.IO (they have cleared stats twice), and sorry, but I am still correct.  The fact remains, sfire has yet to join GHash.IO when the pool is at a 2x bonus and therefore cause the bump to 1.25x.  The pool had consistently sat above 25GH for over 2 hours, and was showing no signs of decreasing anytime soon, when sfire last moved his power there.

Anyway, who cares... sfire would be equally as justified being pissed that he can't make 2x bonus and have everyone else leave the pool.  Guess their team just isn't as childish as some of the posters here.

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Back on topic: WafflePool having a decent day today.

PoolWaffle: is there some stuck catcoin?  I seem to have some unconfirmed catcoin that has been sitting around for a while.  Is it just a long maturation time?

And what's up with the mintcoin we had stuck on coinmarket?  Is that just a lost cause that we can clear from the books?

You aren't watching the GHash offer as closely as I was then... sfire switched back to wafflepool after there was almost 1hr without a block found, ghash then spent a few rounds below 25GH before creeping above 25GH for over 2 hours before sfire put his hashing power back there.  

Everyone rushes to blame the whale... but really, it's ridiculous.

So wrong... this newb can't even read the stats on the GHash.IO page FFS... At 10:02:01 the pool went over 25GH/s... it stayed there until 12:01:17 (at 1.25x bonus) when sfire moved his hashing power back there and the pool shot up to 45GH.  Small miners pushed it over the 2x bonus mark, and it has nothing to do with sfire.  Yeeesh...

What?  Waffle isn't mining on GHash.

No... actually, "the whale" is a proportionately small load for the stratum server.  It's small miners that overload the server at lower difficulties.  If you want to bitch at someone about the 512 fixed diff, you should really be complaining about the people mining at <1MH and causing the majority of server load...

GHash has been sitting above 25GH fairly consistently, with or without sfire mining there.

Please don't quote huge images...  It makes reading forums really annoying.

Just guessing, but that looks like a quick custom PHP web interface to the cgminer API.  See api-example.php : https://github.com/troky/sgminer/blob/master/api-example.php

What other coins?  sfire's hashing power isn't stopping WafflePool from mining anything right now.

@PoolWaffle: I think automatic shift length adjustment is much needed on WafflePool right now.  Maybe make a lookup table based on current hashrate?  Shifts are flying by way too fast right now (just over 1/minute).

The 3 is probably correct.  12 likely includes the "unrejected stratum shares" that are caused by a long-standing bug in CleverMining's stratum implementation, but are not actually additional invalid shares.

GHash.IO is back under 25GH/s now, and back to a 2x multiplier.

After watching the reward multiplier for a bit, this is definite:
- GHash.IO uses PPLNS where N covers the last 10 shifts.
- Reward multiplier is determined by the pool's average speed during the PREVIOUS round.

So, possibly a good strategy right now (until they change the rules again):
- Throw all of our WafflePool's hashing power at GHash for brief periods; rack up the share percentage in one round, and then cut everything when they switch rounds again.
- If we did this for one shift every 5 or 10 shifts, we could possibly  get paid out at 2x for the majority of rounds (as long as nobody else starts doing this).

<edited for clarity, with new information regarding rounds>

015.042.000.000.000000 supports:
  4096 MB, GDDR5, Hynix H5GQ2H24AFR
  4096 MB, GDDR5, Elpida EDW2032BBBG_DEBUG2

015.043.000.001.000000 supports:
  4096 MB, GDDR5, Hynix H5GQ2H24AFR
  4096 MB, GDDR5, Hynix H5GC2H24BFR

The rest of the BIOS appears to be majority the same thing.

Only some cards with the newer BIOS cannot be downgraded.  Some still can.  Try and find out, or use a meminfo utility to find out if your RAM nodules are compatible with the old BIOS.

See my post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=442852.msg5352740#msg5352740

Lol, looks like you might be right.

That 200% LTC block reward is bloody crazy.  At this rate, it will cost them a quarter million USD to run the promotion for a week.  But, GHash.IO is already the second largest litecoin pool, 30 hours after their first block was found.

The newer BIOS supports a new RAM type.  Some cards that came with the new BIOS will not work with the old BIOS; vice-versa also seems likely, although I have not observed this myself.

Stop using trixx. It really sucks.  cgminer/sgminer can control your gpu clocks just fine.

Oh psh. It is a perfectly relevant conversation, and should be of interest to most profit seakers that are mining here.  Get off your high horse and try contributing to the conversation, how about?

Altcoins are anything but independant of BTC. The recent slump is to be expected when BTC falls upon hard times in the public eye - less speculators with faith in BTC means even less speculators buying up cheap altcoins.  Scrypt ASICs from gridseed are also playing part, very likely.

If your power is expensive, scrypt mining with GPUs may soon be (or already be) unprofitable for you.  Such is reality.

Drop memclock to 1250, retest for stability. If that fails, drop engine clock by 10. Repeat until stable. (Change setting, run until crash, repeat). Some of the tri-x cards only run stable at lower clocks.

Also, Linux drivers tend to have better stability then Windows for the Hawaii chipsets, from my experience.

No point using i 19 with wafflepool, because they only count 2-blocks-late shares as stale.  Better off at I 20 or above, or using xintensity at up to 1100 (best value I have found for WafflePool for WU productivity).

Yeesh... screw off with the referal links, douche.

Talking about ghash.io's promo and how it affects CM is one thing, but that post was just stupid.