I've made some minor changes to the pool backend to attempt to fix some performance problems - I'm hoping this improves some of the stability issues that have been occuring recently.
You may have noticed that i0coin and namecoin withdrawals are currently disabled. The i0coin wallet has become fragmented meaning largish withdrawals don't work. I'm in the process of defragmenting the wallet and will re-enable when done.
Namecoin withdrawals are also currently disabled due to a rounding issue involving transaction fees I'm having with the recent namecoin client. My current plan is to do a workaround to allow withdrawal of partial amounts of the balance. If you need your namecoin (or i0coin) funds urgently then PM or email
admin@mmpool.org with your account name and I'll process it manually.
Work is ongoing in alternative payment methods.
Work is also ongoing on removing 'single points of failure' to enable the pool to continue when parts of it are DDOS'd or crash. This hasn't been particularly successfull but I'm making progress.
I've been removing some of the custom modifications to bitcoind that the pool uses and factor these out into the pool software to make upgrading to newer bitcoind versions easier. With the number of "must upgrade" softforks that happen, combined with bitcoind code refactorings, the days of being able to run a stable bitcoind with backports of security patches seem long gone. This has taken most of my time lately.
