Happy New Year Slush and community!
Thanks!
Personally, I would love to see work done on security and perhaps making visible the average current hash-rate & statistics for particular workers if possible.
I think that security is at comparable level with all other pools. To be honest, I see some "security solutions" more like "security thru obscurity". For example, locking payout addresses is nightmare to resolve for me as sysadmin when somebody lose his wallet and have significant amount of coins on the account. Should I leave it "as is" and potentially send his bitcoins to black hole or should I do "an exception" and change his payout address manually? Where's the point of such security option?
Actually all significant changes must be confirmed from registered email, so locking address have no sense. If anybody use same password for the pool account and for his email, it's his problem, this is not a kindergarten. If he has computer compromited (so the attacker have an access to pool account and to mailbox), then the attacker can do the payout to 'locked address' and steal coins from compromited computer. I still don't see the benefit of address locking.
It would allow me to keep slightly higher amounts of bitcoins on the pool site
Honestly, I'm trying to push people to don't keep their balance on the pool. It's a pool, not a bank and I don't want to be responsible for already mined coins. You know, my pool has no security issues so far, but a) there's no reason to keep high balances on pool b) higher balances motivate attackers...
I wouldn't have to bother checking every few hours if my latest transaction made it to my client
Do you have any issue with payouts? Afaik it's 'set it up and forget', so I don't think it's necessary to check every transaction... Simply use some amount which will lead to one payout per one or two days and everything will work for you automatically...
About the hashrate - it's more technical issue, I can display 10-round average or current block average. First one has significant latency and second one is inexact. Unfortunately current pool solution don't let me provide worker hashrate in some standard way, like '30 min average'.
I very much like the idea of locking in the bitcoin and namecoin addresses for one day after updating them, as well as a notification email when a change of payout address / or even email address / account password has been made, sent to the formerly registered email address.
