Looking for a stratum / python developer

[bluemist]

I'm the developer of a multipool named Coin Catcher (www.coincatcher.net) and have been running a small scale beta for the last month.

The system itself has been really stable but there's a fundamental issue that is holding us back. With a pool hashrate of around 100-200 MH the variance and risk is far too great to take on coins such as DOGE / LTC. We risk not finding any blocks in a whole day which would mean no payouts to the users (it would be game over!). The only viable option is to mine smaller coins which give us consistent payouts, but often lower than some competitors.

We're currently running ahmedbodi's fork of stratum completely unmodified, using separate instances for each coin and port switching between them. I'd like to add a couple of new features and think it'd be best to work with someone more specialised in this area (my skills are more geared towards PHP web applications).

The 2 features I'd like added are:

1. For certain high difficulty coins we'd like the ability to proxy work to external pools. This will prevent our hashrate being the limiting factor and so will give us much more regular earnings. It's important that we still keep track of shares in our db so users can be paid out correctly.

2. Functionality to switch coins without disconnects. I.e. running just a single instance of stratum and switching coin deamons internally, using data queried from MySQL.

If anyone is able to help with this please let me know, and PM me with costs etc. Happy to pay in BTC / fiat / any other altcoin!

Cheers

[Uniphase21]

hey whats the purpose of doing this if you want to mine dge and ltc? You will end up being exactly like all of the other large multipools. If you want to be different you should stay small and take advantage of the coins the larger multipools cant touch. These multipools are like a business, what is your differentiating factor?

[bluemist]

Our main goal from the start was to be more transparent than other pools, and we'd planned to stick to the smaller coins and grow organically. Unfortunately, daily profits are the most important thing for most people (which is completely understandable) and so user retention has been tricky. At the moment DOGE is performing so well that being unable to mine it puts us at a real disadvantage. Hence why I'd like to have the option, to give users more reason to join and stay with us.

I think our user interface and transparency will give us an edge as we continue to build on it. But without comparable profits to other pools I can't see us surviving long term.