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Some time ago I started a survey asking if MasterPool should change its reward type. Now the survey has been evaluated. Here are the most important points in a nutshell: MasterPool will be changed into a PPLNS pool within the next weeks. Furthermore I won’t implement a PPS option. The most used ingr...

Finally after the huge amount of new users the pool is again stable and has the low stale ratio you are used to from pre merged mining times. Have a look at the blog post for further details: http://blog.masterpool.eu/2011/10/the-quest-for-performance/ Again thank you for your patience while sorting...

Welcome back. Pool is back online and operational. Downtime was about 18 minutes. Thank you for your patience. Happy mining!

With the recent amount of new users the pool faced a massive problem with high stales and was responding very slowly. I analyzed the problem and found out, that the database is the bottleneck. I prepared a solution but it means a major downtime for the pool . In order to circumvent the bottleneck I ...

element51 wrote:Miner keeps recconecting over and over.

Could you please send me your user ID / nickname via PM? I'll have a look then.

The multiple Long Polls are due to the fact that at the moment we see a really large influx of hashing power on namecoin blockchain. Thus we are far away from one block per 10 mins. Furthermore a merged mining pool sends LPs each time a block is found on either of its blockchains. This is definitely...

Could you please do me a favor and test with EU01.masterpool.eu?

That are way too much stales. Are you using EU01 or US01?

ATM it doesn't make any sense to mine on the pool. We have 80k+ incoming connections from a Botnet. Unfortunately I have no possibility at hand to filter the connections (as they are coming from several IP addresses). For that reason I'll shut down the mining ingress servers. Unfortunately this mean...

You are an idiot. We told you not to start merged mining. I have always been bothered by the fact that you are the driving force behind this shitload of crap. I know what you are planning. Together with slush and cosurgi you are pulling the strings in too many projects. Now watch us beat the shit o...