I am having some fun with this coin, and I see from the daemon on my mining server...so are many others..
"blocks" : 6204,
"connections" : 52,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 64.00000000,
Watching pushpool with the level 2 debugging and three rigs logged on looks like a free running counter that hiccups every several seconds when a block is found.
JSON protocol request:
{"method": "getwork", "params": [], "id":75824}
* Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host (nil)
* Connected to (nil) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) port xxxx (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'miner'
> POST / HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Content-type: application/json
Content-Length: 49
* additional stuff not fine transfer.c:1037: 0 0
* additional stuff not fine transfer.c:1037: 0 0
* HTTP 1.1 or later with persistent connection, pipelining supported
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:15:16 +0000
< Connection: keep-alive
< Content-Length: 596
< Content-Type: application/json
< Server: bitcoin-json-rpc/v0.8.1-2-g7659d51-beta
<
* Connection #0 to host (nil) left intact
JSON protocol response:
{
"error": null,
"result": {
"target": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fcff0300000000",
"midstate": "99de493dfb01ac41a314730cbf098f3cecb7abb60968e62587aae8a5a20618a7",
"data": "00000002423ead270e7a4ea606a8b89210ddc8693f0da7c6d195975b0257245800000000e1a6cd6c0c073a9de7d9edfaa0017b715a9613702eb028298510ca8c858fc21f515af6041c03fffc00000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000",
"hash1": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010000"
},
"id": 75824
Up to id tag 75,824 with 3 rigs in only a couple of hours...
That is with no difficultly reduction, the pool is passing the difficulty straight through .
Maybe if I finish the new login and payout code, I could offer the pool publicly. It would be a great opportunity to test the new code in the wild with little risk (in terms of $$).