🎉 Public-Pool Announcements: 🎉
1⃣ With the release of Stratum V2 support on Bitaxe/ESP-Miner (v2.14.0),
https://t.co/dsQi9DoqXh now supports Stratum V2!
Simply configure your miner for SV2 in advanced pool options and provide the public key 9c4zpyJ2ndm4e8sP2uNc1VNCGxYjqaxWS6wUCjk8zFj6njFquH6
Special thanks to warioishere + https://t.co/t606fgM6gj for the implementation details and respecting the open source license 💪
2⃣ The last several months of improvements have been merged into the main sqlite branch and pushed to @umbrel and @start9labs app stores. Pending their approval, upgrading is recommended for those running public-pool at home!
Hash on.
New https://t.co/iWCyQx7ngr optimised for solo miners in Asia & The Middle East! Stats will appear in the updated combined https://t.co/k9E44gIzeZ which covers all solo ckpools.
This now gives the solo ckpools good low latency coverage from most parts of the world. Instead of having many nodes scattered throughout the world, each node is a very high performance machine on a high speed network in select locations for the best coverage overall, and interconnected via a custom low latency block propagation network.
The pools are:
https://t.co/FrW30Os9sI for The Americas
https://t.co/gdmwIQ8Rwm for Europe & Africa
https://t.co/iWCyQx7ngr for Asia & The Middle East
https://t.co/dXVsNYkJrM for Oceania.
Choose the one closest to you, and feel free to use the next nearest as a backup pool!
Mine on!
WARREN BUFFETT: "I can end the U.S. deficit problem in 5 minutes."
"Just pass a law that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."
There's a lot of confusion regarding the official git for ckpool since I've been using bitbucket, leading people to find forks on github thinking it's the correct repository. To clear up the confusion I've created an official github mirror.
https://t.co/ffzA9hdlHM
Public-Pool Announcement:
It's been awhile since i've worked on the pool code, over the last few days I've done some work and testing which is now complete.
1) Extranonce2 size has been increased to 8 bytes, this was required by some rental services such as Braiins.
2) Optimizations - I tried out several ideas and have reduced server utilization by nearly 40% increasing capacity and responsiveness.
3) Several miscellaneous improvements
Enjoy!
So far only minor cosmetic issues have come up on the logs, and I've done a few seamless restarts to address them, meaning things are still looking good. On the upside, the average CPU load is levelling out to about 2/3 of what it normally is overall, which is a huge performance increase at any time, let alone for otherwise mature software. It equates to 50% more capacity for the pool. This confirms it was well worth the effort. I'll continue to closely monitor its behaviour. The other two pools will be upgraded only once no more issues - cosmetic or otherwise - show up. A block right now would be the icing on the cake.
Mine on!