I read this thread for Wafflepool related news. I'm not interested in DMD, or your pool for that matter. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm tired of these posts.

Finger poised above the Ignore button...

Thanks for responding to the community. We all look forward to the posted code.

But next time you release a product, can you make sure that posting the source is part of your release plan? Do it early and not as an afterthought. You could save all of us a great deal of wasted time and anxiety.

Regarding Bitmain's lack of compliance with the GPL, my guess is that has more to do with lack of resources, messed up priorities, or just plain incompetence. I doubt there's any sinister intent on their part.

That having been said, they must make the time to comply with the licensing and make the source code available. No question.

Maybe they would make it a priority if everyone reading this thread wrote to Bitmain support asking for when they plan to be compliant and provide the source?

I'm going to write to them right now...

Wow! At 90 GH/s that one address accounts for more than half the entire pool size. That's an operation, not just some guy.

According to searches, I think this is the Chinese whale. I guess he grew up, because last I paid attention to him his farm was a lot smaller.

<joke>
Maybe too many people are using the service and the ponzi scheme is unraveling. He's having a "Madoff moment" ;-)
</joke>

Totally kidding here! Note the "joke" mode...

But LeaseRig S consistently towers over the other Scrypt multi pools. Why on earth would they want to be removed from your site? It's effectively free advertising for a proven, well performing service.

The upgrade is almost 80% the cost of a new S3+. Doesn't seem like a good deal to me...

Nice ventilation in case you have a particularly difficult, er, you know. No need for a match

It's more than morally right; it's legally required.

Although it isn't clear what recourse this community (or anyone) would have against a Chinese company that doesn't comply with the GPL. Hopefully it won't come to that...

Good point. I guess I just panicked because the hardware error increase was so dramatic so quickly.

I might try bumping it back up to 237.5 and leaving it for a day, then recompute the stats. I might also try bumping up the stock unit. It's worth seeing what it can do.

You're welcome.

Sorry, I don't know eMule   I used eDonkey years ago for online gaming, and it just stuck.

If anyone is interested, I'm posting the stats on my two B3 units where one is slightly over clocked and the other is stock. I picked which unit to over clock based on the fact that it had the lowest hardware errors after running for several days.

Note that both units are running at a colo facility with 208 volt power and temperature control. The stock unit runs about 38 degrees and the over clocked one between 38 and 39.

I'm using 2 CX750M PSUs, one per S3. I know it's overkill, but I bought them before we all found out that the S3s are not over clock friendly. I used all 4 power connectors because I wanted to experiment with over clocking from a distance without having to go to colo and move plugs around. FYI, none of the plugs or cables have ever felt warm to the touch.

Here are the stats after running for almost 6 days with the above configuration:

Frequency	GH/s	HW	DiffA	DiffR	Error Rate %
218.75	441.44	1,732	50,942,208	63,488	0.00339558387456823
225	453.36	8,056	52,252,928	71,680	0.0153938274573601

The delta is that the over clocked unit is providing about 2.7% more accepts with about 3.5 times more hardware errors. Prior to over clocking the hardware errors were quite a bit less than the current stock unit. But the nearly 3% increase in accepts seems worth it to me.

Note that I also tried a frequency of 237.5 on the over clocked unit, but I got 824 HW errors after 20 minutes. This seemed like an insane error rate, so I backed it off to 225.

We'll this should be interesting. I don't have high hopes for either of these pools, but it's not like there are a lot of choices.

Ghash doesn't publish their profitability. A couple of months ago I used a support incident to ask them about this, and they were classically non-committal. They suggested that I mine there to see how profitable they were

Multipool.us has that disconnect we talked about earlier where they pick the most profitable coins but make you exchange them. Should be interesting to see if you can automate this and be profitable.

It looks like the Dogecoin community has taken Charlie Lee's advice and will support merge mining with Litecoin.

PW, it's probably too early, but have you thought about supporting merge mining? Maybe you would allow people to associate a Doge address with a BTC mining address and leave it up to the individual miners to keep or exchange.

PW, is there a problem with the display of scrypt miner stats? I've been seeing a 50/50 split between earned and unconverted for a couple of hours. Seems like a high ratio of unconverted.

Thanks for getting back to me. That's helpful.

I'm interested in trying your p2pool. I'm seeing ping times of about 75 ms, which your site says is "Looking good". But it feels a bit on the high side to me.

I'm in California. Do you have plans to provide a US west coast node?

Are people happy with their S3 units on p2pool?

If you're on p2pool, are you using the stock queue option (4096) or did you change it?

Pardon the crosspost, but this might help (from the author of the underlying mining software):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671189.msg8056057#msg8056057

If you want to reduce the processor load, you can consider changing the queue option to 1:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671189.msg8124268#msg8124268

My recommendation, gleaned from the 180 pages of that thread, is to *only* change the queue option, not --scan-time or --expiry.

It irritates me that my B3 units arrived on Monday (end of the day), and B4 users are getting their units 3 days later. I'm pretty sure that I was one of the first B3 users because I was nervously refreshing the browser waiting for B3 units to be on sale on the Bitmain site.

So I paid more and didn't get much of a head start advantage over B4 users.

Anyway, I guess I should be glad that both units work nominally without changes like under clocking. Bitch mode off...

Wow. So much for getting the discrepancy between CoinKing's posted and actual profits "figured out and corrected".

Note to self: Never mine on CoinKing.