We have ran into some more issues with groestl and the mining pool. We are close to getting things figured out. We apologize for the delay but we want to make sure everything is good to go!

@Kayahoga

Do you have a link to the specific sgminer they used?

This sounds very familiar as we are able to solo mine but stratum is not submitting valid blocks to the daemon. Thanks for posting! We will check it out!

We would love to find out more info about this as well!

A single pool will be able to handle all algorithms. A separate miner will be required for every algorithm. We will release a detailed guide on how to mine and what is needed when we release the update.

We have 4/5 algos working properly but we are in the process of switching out Groestl. Groestl was working on the network but after a few days we have been un-able to get it to work correctly on a mining pool. We are swamping for Keccack to see if things will improve so we can get the update rolled out.

Stay tuned!

Nautilus is switching to POS. They will not be implementing multi-algo.

We are not merge mining with any coin. We are updating to multi-algorithm mining.

To give everyone an update:

We have set the mining pool up to organize a large scale final test. We had planned on doing this last night but we are still experiencing an issue with 1 of the algos we are trying to work out. We hope to wrap this up today / tonight. Then we will do a 24 hour test which we will invite everyone to participate in. Then hopefully release the updated wallet by Saturday/ Sunday.

Then we we will have to give everyone a couple weeks to update before the specific block of the switch kicks in.

Doge is not seing the same problem for two reasons. A) They implemented an additional filter. B) Their net hash is much hire. There was a change in 0.9.1 we were unaware of that calculates difficulty differently. This has caused Bitcoin block times to go down to 8 minutes, and our block times to be significantly longer.  We are still looking to see if any other code is effecting things.

+1 Thank you for sharing!

For those who have been concerned about some of the issues with DigiShield we wanted to re-post what we just posted in the Nautilus forum:

DigiShield by itself is fine, especially with the amplitude DigiFilter applied. DigiShield + 0.9.1 Bitcoin core update + Scrypt ASICs is the problem. We are updating this in the next DigiByte update when we switch to multi-algo mining.

Bitcoin is actually having some issues as well since the 0.9.1 protocol update that no one is talking about and the Bitcoin core dev team is ignoring when you ask them.

Look at this chart to see the average Bitcoin block time is now around 8 Min instead of 10 Min since the 0.9.1 core update on April 8th: https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

We are experiencing the same issue as NAUT. We are the only coins with 0.9.1 + DigiShield. We live and we learn, & we should of tested it better and it goes to show we cant rely on the Bitcoin core dev team to be perfect. The 0.9.1 core update was not around when we initially developed DigiShield.

Good news is much fewer coins are in circulation for the short term. DigiShield still prevents multi-pool attacks & too many coins being produced to quickly, but a bit sluggishly at the moment. We are very much looking toward the future success of both coins and we cant wait to see POS implemented for NAUT. Cheers!

DigiShield by itself is fine, especially with the amplitude DigiFilter applied. DigiShield + 0.9.1 Bitcoin core update + Scrypt ASICs is the problem. We are updating this in the next DigiByte update when we switch to multi-algo mining.

Bitcoin is actually having some issues as well since the 0.9.1 protocol update that no one is talking about and the Bitcoin core dev team is ignoring when you ask them.

Look at this chart to see the average Bitcoin block time is now around 8 Min instead of 10 Min since the 0.9.1 core update on April 8th: https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

We are experiencing the same issue as NAUT. We are the only coins with 0.9.1 + DigiShield. We live and we learn, & we should of tested it better and it goes to show we cant rely on the Bitcoin core dev team to be perfect. The 0.9.1 core update was not around when we initially developed DigiShield.

Good news is much fewer coins are in circulation for the short term. DigiShield still prevents multi-pool attacks & too many coins being produced to quickly, but a bit sluggishly at the moment. We are very much looking toward the future success of both coins and we cant wait to see POS implemented for NAUT. Cheers!

For those who have asked us why we wont implement "dark" completely anonymous transactions into DigiByte, please look here:

http://www.coindesk.com/isis-bitcoin-donations-fund-jihadist-movements/

This will be why governments put the hammer down on coins like Darkcoin etc.

Vote for DigiByte to get listed on a new exchange! Vote for DGB @ HitBTC
https://hitbtc.com/vote

Please keep spreading the word about DigiByte, bump this thread when you can with an insightful topic and please feel free to contribute any marketing materials, images, write ups or blog posts to help people learn about DigiByte.

The more of a community base we can build the better. Also here shortly we would like to organize a large scale test of the multi-algo update. So a hash donation for a couple hours would be great!

Has anyone discovered any new interesting mining algorithms or coin disbursement methods? We just discovered POD (Proof of Dividend) and the RAMHOG algo.

New P2P DigiByte mining pool! Check it out!

http://p2pool.e-pool.net:8922/static/

Thanks for your support illodin ! 

Greetings Everyone,

We wanted to give everyone an update as we can see people are getting restless and the trolls are now coming out from under the bridge. We have a lot of stuff happening in the background right now & we are working very hard to get some major things rolling to take DigiByte to the next level.

We have been working on the multi-algo mining pool as well as putting finishing touches on the multi-algo update. We also have started work on the trading platform. Over the course of the last two weeks we have had several high level meetings and have been completely swamped while traveling as well as trying to do development work.

Our trip to Hong Kong for Inside Bitcoins and our journey into mainland China went very well for DigiByte. We have made friendships & partnerships to help give DigiByte a strategic global advantage over most other coins that will be leveraged in the near future.

At this point there has only been two of us that have been able to work full time on DigiByte. Others on the team have helped when they can.
Meeting with investors, merchants and others all the while trying to roll out a big update as well as maintaining a solid social media presences is a lot for two people to take on. Especially while traveling in a foreign country like China. We have since been actively going outside of the crypto world to recruit other developers, marketing professionals etc to help us out and we invite other developers and people to come on board if you believe in what we are trying to accomplish.

We have also been instructed by our main DigiPay investors to not divulge to much information until we are absolutely ready to roll. We don't want to let our competitors know exactly what we are up to right now. Plus we have signed an NDA. Things in the professional business world don't happen over night.

We agree we need to get things done as fast as possible right now and things are moving very fast in the crypto world. But we feel as long as we keep working hard toward our original goal of becoming a worldwide payment system for micro transactions we will achieve long term success.

As stated many times before we are in this for the long haul. We are now back home and getting back in the routine swing of things so our number one priority is to get the multi-algo update out and to make sure it works. We have tested it quite a few times but we wanted to organize a large scale test though a multi-algo mining pool. We want to make sure we have mining infrastructure in places when we roll out the update.

Thanks for your patience and support! Stay tuned for more updates over the next few days and lets take DigiByte to the moon!

Thanks for posting this! We were unaware of this. We will check it out.