Yes, much more. Until now only weakest backends were merged mining. All backends were doing merged mining only for short period on the beginning, before I realized that it's crashing under high load. But now is 100% of pool power on NMC. Momchil is my hero.

wow, it feels like my NMC rewards have quadrupled!

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude like I joined your pool!

Looks like it's alot more stable now!  I want me some NMC dude!  So all I had to do was put in my NMC wallet address right?

I'm liking your pool so far, enjoy my modest ~600 MH/s!!!!  :-D

Nothing you need to do.  It is handled for you.  Ntime rolling allows the miner to re-use a getwork request by incrementing the timestamp locally for a rolling period of time.  This reduces the amount of communication necessary between the pool and miner.

NTime is great improvement of network layer, however current (latest) phoenix still doesn't support it. AFAIk only poclbm and maybe cgminer is using NTime rolling; jedi95 promised NTime rolling for next phoenix release.

What's your stale ratio?

And yes, there were two 6+ hours in last 24 hours, so you're right. It's just a "luck". Btw what's "uncounted amount"?


No, MM is definitely not an issue :-)

Since merged mining began on site I've found my system has become unstable when mining btc. Is seems fine on my backup site for mining. I also have found that I keep getting connection problems. I am only mining btc and haven't set up a wallet for namecoins and with the instablility issues when mining recently at your site I'm not sure I want to. Recently you said the whole network is used though for merged mining could this be causing issues for those of us that aren't interested in namecoins? If it is why not offer an opt out from merged mining for those of us that don't wish to mine namecoins?

Of course there was big problems with connectivity due to DDoS attacks. Not sure if you counted it. There was also few issues with backends two weeks back when pool started with merged mining, but then I disconnected problematic pools and thanks to recent update of backends, merged mining does not affect mining at all; now it's definitely not an issue. Thanks to my pool monitoring I can tell that now is pool in excellent condition.


Merged mining, when done properly, cannot affect "non-namecoin" users. And I'm absolutely sure that merged mining is working great. Technically merged mining is only small patch for bitcoin backend, nothing what you can 'opt out'. If you're not interested in namecoin, it won't affect you at all and you even don't need to know that your hashrate is 'used for merged mining'. However if you claim your namecoin address, you'll get bunch of coins on top of your bitcoin income.

Ummm either we've had extreme luck on NMC while the BTC luck has been down or accounting is busted I only got back on fully about 7 rounds ago and well... Let's just say it looks like those extra backends being switched to merged has given a rather dramatic increase 

I'd like to mention once again, that 'merged mining' isn't stealing of someone's hashrate for mining some alternative weird-currency; merged mining is something like testing submitted shares twice - first time against bitcoin target, then against namecoin target. And people which aren't interested in NMC will earn still the same amount of bitcoins.