I will only try to answer those questions I'm relatively confident I can answer, as I don't have much hands-on experience with Antminers.

I believe that HW errors and rejected shares are not factored into the hash rate reported by the miner. So if for example you have a lot of HW errors, the hash rate estimated by the pool will be much lower than the raw one reported by the miner.

Utility is shares submitted (either accepted or rejected, I believe) per minute. WU or Work Utility is the same thing but counting each share by its difficulty.

I think you essentially get it. I suspect the problem here is that this "best share" field is expressed as a share difficulty rather than a network difficulty. Due to historical reasons, in the case of coins using the scrypt algorithm, while network difficulty is expressed in the same way as Bitcoin's, share difficulty is expressed on a different scale. For instance, network difficulty 1 corresponds to a share difficulty of about 2¹⁶.

The pool pays out in LTC and DOGE exclusively, but at a higher PPS rate than you would get otherwise, by leveraging the output from all other merged chains, such as PEP. At any given point in time, the PPS ratio reflects what rate the pool offers to miners. Sorry if I'm stating something that you already know, but I think this piece of background information is crucial to understanding. (By the way, the latest news item on the website covers the subject more in depth if you haven't read it already.)

Up until very recently, PEP (as well as a number of other coins) was worth very little. We were still mining it, though, and it was contributing a tiny amount towards an increased PPS ratio. We were not selling the mined PEP because 1) we didn't have a way to sell via the exchange platforms we worked with at the time, and 2) we didn't need to. In early December, the market price of PEP (and other merge-mined coins) rose dramatically, which in turn was reflected in a PPS ratio of up to 108%. By then we had accumulated a considerable amount of PEP, but the stellar valuation you mention is purely theoretical. I'm guessing it was obtained by multiplying the total amount by the current bid price. In practice, if we tried to sell any serious amount, the price of PEP would be driven back into the ground before we could dispose of even a fraction of it.

Over the past few weeks, the market prices of PEP, as well as BEL, LKY, JKC, etc., have been going down rather sharply (whereas LTC and DOGE are holding relatively steady), and as a consequence the PPS ratio is now down to 99%.

The current PPS ratio is more than fair given the current profitability of merge-mined chains; in fact, it is very competitive even in comparison with pools that lack our track record.
If you are referring to the fact that you mined PEP back when it was near-worthless and were rewarded based on the price at the time you mined it rather than some higher price from the future, I don't think the criticism is sound. The pool's reward system has always been transparent and well documented. We've always made it clear that the pool doesn't pay out any minor merge-mined coins, and that in exchange for this miners get higher LTC and DOGE rewards than they would otherwise. If a miner wanted to get PEP back when it was cheap, because for some reason they had an inkling that its price would rise some day (I for one certainly didn't), they should have either bought it, or mined at a pool that paid it out directly.

No, there are currently no such plans.

My bad, I didn't account for the fact that JKC's difficulty is still low because it only adjusts every 1440 blocks. With all scrypt miners on it, it would have a factor of about 7x to catch up to, and get there in about a week's time. (We're currently looking into this among other things.)

Still, the figures you quote must be for the luckier side of proportional-type results. The ideal-world (100% PPS) output from DOGE is currently about $58 a day at 16 GH/s.

We are looking into it, but don't expect it to make a huge difference. At its current profitability level, it would affect the PPS ratio by less than 1%.

We don't maintain a public list, but right now we are merge-mining: Bells, Canada eCoin, Dingocoin, Dogecoin, Luckycoin, Myriad, Pepecoin, Viacoin, Worldcoin.

The recent jump in PPS rate was mostly due to the rise in price of LKY.

We are not currently mining LKY. Naturally if/when we start mining it, it will be reflected in the PPS ratio, but you shouldn't expect it to make a huge difference.

The block subsidy for Bellscoin went down by an order of magnitude about a week ago. Also, technically this is the first time the PPS ratio is at 99%; before Bellscoin was introduced, it was 98%.

For a definitive answer about a specific account you should always get in touch with support over email. To protect users' security and privacy, this forum should only be used for public discussion.

That said, if your account was inactive for over a year, it has probably been deleted from the system, as per the Terms of Service. To avoid confusion, a username cannot be re-registered after its account has been deleted, so if you want to create a new account you will have to pick a different username.

Not sure what you mean by "test". The increase in PPS rate has applied to all users, without need to take any action, since early September.


As per my message above, the pool never paid out BEL separately in the way it does for DOGE. Instead, the added profitability from BEL contributes to a higher PPS ratio for LTC and DOGE.

No, you can use any ASIC that can mine Litecoin.

Make sure that you entered your worker's name and password exactly as on the website. In particular, keep in mind that they are case-sensitive. Feel free to send a screenshot of your miner's configuration page to support via email to make sure all parameters were entered correctly.

Just to clarify, as there seems to be some confusion about this. The pool has been mining BEL for over a month now, with a consequent increase in PPS ratio that applies to both LTC and DOGE (check your rewards history for details). There are no plans to start paying out BEL separately in the way that we do for DOGE, especially considering that BEL's block subsidy is scheduled to decrease considerably in a few weeks.

Does the following help?


If not, please send an email to support (see link in the website's footer), providing a screenshot of your miner's configuration page.

Not sure I understand what you're trying to say, but 3333 is the port for regular Stratum. Stratum over TLS is available on on port 3443, if your setup supports it.

It's not about issues, it's just plain incompatible. Despite the name similarity, 64-bit ARM (AArch64) is an entirely different architecture than 32-bit ARM, and the hand-written assembly code in cpuminer only targets the latter. I never got around to writing optimized code for AArch64, so all you can do at the moment is compile a C-only version of the miner.

The coinbasevalue field already includes all available transaction fees.

Right now we are mining Canada eCoin, Dogecoin, Earthcoin, Myriad, Pesetacoin, Viacoin.

Network difficulty is part of the formula to compute the PPS rate, which you can find in the FAQ on the website.

It's pretty simple. The expected number of hashes over a period of time is average hashrate multiplied by time. You divide that by 65536 and you have the expected number of baseline shares. You then multiply by the price of a share (i.e., the PPS rate) and you get expected rewards in LTC. The formula for the PPS rate is in the FAQ on the website.

As for energy costs, it's even simpler, as energy is power (in kW) multiplied by time (in hours).

The pool is already merge-mining multiple chains, not just Dogecoin. The number of chains one can merge is practically unlimited, so Dogecoin dropping AuxPoW wouldn't really open up a spot for another chain.

That cannot be done, since neither coin supports being mined as an auxiliary chain.