So, I finally switched over my DCR mining from decredpool.org to coinmine.pl. I was just getting so frustrated with the inconsistency of decredpool, as well as the lack of response to any of the 4-5 e-mails I send to their support. Maybe the former is something more common with the Blake14 algo, but my results were literally all over the place... even day to day, week to week. sometimes the unconfirmed balance went all the way to zero and other days I got like .2 confirmed (when should have been getting around .8-.9). Anyway, I have been mining Dash with coinmine.pl for almost a month and had no issues whatsoever, so just pointed all 12 of my DCR GPUs there and will see what happens.
I feel your pain gabs. In addition to the long confirmation cycle, most pools will struggle when high interest on the coin occurs. I have come to a conclusion to bring back some sanity - at least for my case.
1. Buy instead of mining..... shortcut to having DCR immediately without the mining time, confirmation etc. I bought DCR during the BTC breakout past the USD$1000 mark. When DCR broke $5, I sold and made about x2 of my investment.
2. Capitalise on rental market when the crazies pay premium. Time and time again, and this applies to the big 3 coins -- ETH, ZEC, XMR, there is a frenzy of renters who pay so much premium to get into the game; pushing NH market higher than mining direct. This is still a mystery to me, anyways if you want BTC and not holding coins, then get your rigs pointed to NH.
3. Now, I have a rental script to NH for all big 3 coins stand-by, ready to cut-paste into smOS. I have experimented with sgminer-gm, and this miner actually a decent all in one miner easy for fast deployment with failover, and no fees. Although I am accumulating ETH now, I can swing to NH rentals anytime for any coin depending on market conditions and whattomine.com.
