Here we go again. LOL
Orphans are built into GLD coin when multi-pools switch and send a ton of hash. You can't strip-mine GLD and get away with it.
It is a self-defense mechanism built into the difficulty algo.
Smarterhash ranted about the wallet being broken and stuff under this GLD coin topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=317568.msg12059237#msg12059237I guess he didn't like the response he got there...
I've mined GLD on hash-to-coins with very few orphan issues -- but I also mine it when most people do not.
May I ask how much power your rig has? I have four Blizzards clocking 1.4 mh each, an X6 Thunder 20 Mh and an X6 Lightning 40 Mh. Back in Feb and March I mined Gold(NO)coin at coinmine.pw , a very nice pool that you could use auto or manual to , as you say, not follow the herd.......and a small P2pool that seemed to produce a little more rewards. At the time I only had the Blizzards and the Thunder. I never used coinmine in auto and shunned those style pools. Coinmine gives quite alot of info to choose what coin to mine there and they are quite often changing what pools they offer when one starts to fade.
About the time I bought the 40 Mh X6 Lightning and the additional hash it gave me I decided , after thorough research, to join Smarterhash (they were offering a 30 day guarantee at the time) and gaining the additional insight of the info it offers. It is NOT an auto pool.....please read that again because you seem to have a huge misunderstanding of just what Smarterhash is and how it works.
It opened my eyes to the wild differences in how a coin generates blocks, how net work hash varies and how difficulty is so fluid. I have full MANUAL control over what ....and might I add WHERE I mine. Yes there are pools at SH , but they also provide the same info on selected coins that they have no pool for .I can also mine a coin they do have a pool for....say, goldcoin anywhere I want to.Whether it is on another pool of any type, dedicated, P2Pool, auto...or even solo. it's my info to use how I see fit.
They offer no pool for Einsteinium (one of my old favs.....but they provide info on it and if I see it starting to throw blocks, its a simple matter to send some of my hash to an old pool I used to use for it since I use CGWatcher and CGRemote as well.
It's MY CHOICE is the point and only mine what I do. Oh, and yes if I want to put together "triggers" based on various criteria to make a change in where I'm mining on the SH pool group I can. These are one time, throw away rules and actions that still require my staying on top of my miners and coins much as you are when you're manually switching to GLD when you notice the others not mining it. That's about as close to an "autoswitching" pool as SH and their pools gets.
I see no difference AT ALL in what I'm doing and what you're doing. I simply have much, much more information that's very up to the minute.
Before this last wallet update GLD had literally died from very slow block releases and confirms...it took DAYS for coins to confirm and transfer.
After they finally got the wallet sort of working, block times and confirms improved but, the orphan issue raised its head.
I explored mining the Smarterhash pool, the coinime.pw pool and my little friendly P2pool with every combination of miner i have looking for a solution. Just the Blizzards, just the Thunder X6 or all three. Results were anywhere from 25% to 80% orphans.
So there you go, dispute it if you like. But not only has coinmine.pw pulled their GLD pool (not that I miss a full blown auto-switchi pool getting off the network) , but my friendly GLD P2Pool has dropped in its payout a ton, and Smarterhash GLD pool is being shunned by the miners that are members there becasue of the orphans. Just last night I ran my 65 Mh there with no one else mining and made a whopping 17 cents in 12 hours since I had only one block and a shitload of orphans.
I see you fav pool is actually exceeding the network hash rate and its a true auto switcher that you can set manual much like coinmine.pw.
It appears to me goldcoin is heading for extinction with not enough miners to keep it going.
I was moderated out of the GLD thread since they don't like hearing anything is wrong with how they run their coin.
So no big deal, we all mine our favorites. When I started back in 2013 there was a tenth of the coins today....many have come and gone or grown.
Your coming here, I welcome because I can answer directly, without fear of moderation, your comments and misunderstanding of the group I mine with. In fact, if you're a REAL miner, with a little bit of hash (we have several with only 10 Mh) or alot (some have hundreds) I have no doubt you'd be mining there with us if you understood what it can do for you.
I was stunned when I realized how much I was mining thin air while I overlooked what you call "opportunties" elsewhere.
Please don't knock it unless you've tried it.
