Aaaaand now the block count is at 4031721
Yes, GeistGeld is still chugging along.
However, its extremely short block-times combined with its very rapid adjustment of difficulty cause a nasty problem with p2pool when merged-mining it.
Basically if you let the difficulty fall too low compared to the hashing power of your p2pool instance, it eats up all the operating system's connection handles, so p2pool cannot connect to anything.
I used to solve this by removing GeistGeld from my merge and solo mining it slowly back up to a high enough difficuly to not choke my p2pool.
Once difficulty is high enough, it can be added back into the merge.
I had this problem several times when nearly everyone else stopped mining it and my miners or p2pool screwed up.
The difficulty would plummet rapidly then p2pool would choke up.
The best way to solve this would be for more people to include it in their merge.
But we need to get the dificulty high enough first or they ned to start their p2pool's hashing power low and slowly ramp it up as it brings GeistGeld's difficulty up.
Then once we get the difficulty back up there, never have to many of the pools not working! We need to keep the difficulty up all the time, it drops very rapidly in response to lowering of hash rate.
Hopefully mmpool will be able to include it in their merge once we get it back up to a reasonable difficulty.
-MarkM-
