Sorry about the delay in getting this done. I've had unreliable internet for some time and haven't been able to get onto bitcointalk. As you've noticed high difficulty miners are supported now and I'll work through the backlog of other issues.

It's not possible to merge mine with bcash due - their coin does not have the necessary functionality to be mined as an aux coin. UNO probably is getting blocks not accepted because they hard forked recently - if pools haven't updated their software then they'll be invalid.

I'd like to reduce the minimum payout threshold but fees are high and the pool currently absorbs the fee. I need to think about what affect lowering it will do.

The plan is to enable merge mining again but it's a medium term plan, not a short term one.

Pool will be down for a short time while some maintenance on the servers goes ahead. I'll edit this post when it's back up. I expect about an hour.

Edit: Pool is back up now.

Did you post in the wrong thread?

I bumped the minimum difficulty up for nicehash but it sounds like there are still issues. I'll look at running a higher difficulty port specifically for nicehash.

Block 484629 was found by a5d78fff earning them an additional 1.75135770 BTC from the transactions fees for the block. Coins are now available for withdrawal.

I've restarted the pool with difficulty set to a min of 65536.

So min difficulty requires is 65535? I can set it to that if that's the solution.

In other news, block found! It is being processed and payout will occur soon.

The DGM shown in the user stats is an estimate. It probably underestimated in your case and at the time of the block solve you were entitled to more of a share.

You're thinking of this coin as if it is like other coins, but my understanding is its history is different. It was created to reward people working on open source software or writing articles on devtome. It wasn't created to "make quick bucks" or to pump and dump. The way it works is open source developers get their devcoins and they sell it as a way to make an income off their software efforts People who want to support the open source devs buy devcoins. By buying devcoins they are creating price support for the devs selling it. Buying devcoins is like donating to open source software. That few people are propping up the price is probably more a reflection of not understanding the reasoning behind the coin.

New developers should define what they want the new coin to be. Is it the above, or something different? If it's different, they should create a new coin. Markm being an original designer of the coin doesn't need to start a new coin to continue it - they already have it. What's the point of calling a new coin 'devcoin' if it's completely different from current devcoin and is just like every other coin?

An understanding of why devcoin hasn't gotten more popular would be a good discussion. I see lack of keeping the client updated, the distribution of coins to developers isn't very transparent, devtome authors got large amounts compared to others, devtome didn't pull in the advertising income that was expected and the lack of understanding that buying devcoins off developers is a way of donating to them.

I've changed the pools initial difficulty to be 2^14. That should hopefully resolve the issue with nicehash.

Definitely don't change your username - unless that is the exact username you registered. Otherwise the hashes get accepted by the pool but assigned to no one. The stratum protocol has a way for the miner to set a suggested difficulty but I guess with nicehash that isn't possible. I can bump up the initial difficulty if it's useful.

The difference in the transaction fee reward is definitely noticeable from last year vs this year!

Transaction fees are large enough now that the system will probably have to change. At some point transaction fees will be the majority of the reward and then the existing system becomes more like solo mining and less like pooled mining.

The likely solution will be to have the transaction fee included with the mining subsidy when the score is calculated for the share submission. This unfortunately removes the 'bonus' aspect of being a block finder though. Perhaps some mix of the two.

Block 474762 was found by user a5d78fff earning them an additional 1.70101753 BTC in transaction fees. Coins are now available for withdrawal.

I'm processing the block now. Expect the announcement of who got the fees and release of the coins shortly.

This should now be fixed. Please let me know if there are any other withdrawal issues.

The software updated was the ckpool pool software that the server runs for the stratum proxy. Next is the front end software which will fix the NMC withdrawal issue. Now that we're on the latest BTC and hopefully there won't be any major refactorings for a while I can finish the merge mining work.

There was a few minutes of downtime as some pool maintenance was done. The pool is now running bitcoind 0.14.2 and an updated version of the pool software.

Thanks for noticing (1). This was a caching issue on the webserver and has been fixed. (2) is a bug when namecoin balances hit a certain amount. I can process a withdrawal manually if you want until it gets fixed.