We have rewritten our entire codebase from scratch and have once again put CapacityPools back online. Miners are now paid per-share instead of per-block and are guaranteed full compensation (minus pool fee) for their work. This means that pool participants won’t be affected by technical issues or bad luck.
Miners who have mined with us previously will find a bonus balance linked to their address - an apology for our previous, faulty setup. These bonuses are released 10 SMART at a time every time a regular payout is processed.

Please visit http://smart.capacitypools.com

... or start mining
Diff 200: smart.capacitypools.com:4444
Diff var: smart.capacitypools.com:5555
Diff 1000: smart.capacitypools.com:6666

The first server setup got its blocks rejected because "One of the SmartHive rewards is missing" (this is the actual error given by the SmartCash (SC) Core. I did not even consider the possibility of the SC Core not paying SmartHives automatically. The reason I thought it was automatic is that a pool traditionally (and in this case as well) asks the Core application in question for block-creation parameters using a method called getblocktemplate. The SmartCash Core does not give any data about the required transactions that must be made to SmartHive addresses (these change every 8-45 blocks by the way) in response to this method call. This vital information is not available anywhere on any SC website, nor is there any information about it on any SC social media.
I had to read through the SC source code to find which addresses (and the correct amount, with an error margin of 0.00000002) must be paid in every block for them to be accepted by the network. To make matters worse, regtest (test version of SC Core that is made by the SC team) does not require these transaction which means my pool server worked without problems on the test net but not on the real one!

I have since updated my pools software to include SmartHive payments that change every 8-45 blocks and SmartNode payments that change every block according to the rules dictated in SC's main.cpp. The testblocks I've built with the software matches the ones I can see in the SmartCash explorer but since there is no way to test if it actually works, I can't say for sure that it will. All we can do is wait for a block and see which of "Rejected blocks" and "Pending blocks" increases.

In my opinion, this is terrible practice by the SmartCash team - hiding, or at least neglecting to tell the community about the details behind their application. It is sad to see with a currency I have so high hopes for.


By the way: this is also the reason they removed solo mining.

We have had two invalid blocks so far
There is a 50% chance though that block will be found within  24 hours.

Alright, thank you for your input. I will try to implement these features before Friday.

Well, the website has just been updated with a new design and a couple of new features. Please take a look.

You want to see your worker's rejected shares? ... or the pools total number of rejected?

It is pay-per-share!
These problems have now been fixed; you can now see shares found and blocks mined if you enter your address.
Thank you.

REDACTED.
Pool down for maintenance.

Keccak-C next perhaps?