I've now been looking out our stats for the last 10 days or so. By my rough calculations, over that period of time as a whole we've been about 97% as profitable as straight LTC mining.

https://i.imgur.com/lw0FU20.png

Would you let a legal botnet connect to your pool?

Read more here:

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/301468.new#new

All miners would be connecting from a single block/range of IP addresses.

I assumes the most "average" luck possible for LTC mining so that would be roughly the equivalent of mining in a very big pool. I'm not including fees on the LTC side so if you want to assume similar fees, they should be roughly equal over that time period. The big contributors to the LTC profit rate on that plot are the difficulty for the day and exchange rate. I'd hesitate to say one was more profitable than the other without longer term data and/or a much bigger difference than a few percent.

I will say, however, that when I started with Middlecoin in early Aug I think we were doing better than we are now. We may have gotten large enough to help eliminate the inequality we are trying to exploit. We'll see though, maybe things will pick back up. LTC profit seems to be fairly stable so all it would take are a couple big days for us to drastically alter the way this plot looks.

I made a balance stats page like a week ago, forgot to post it this thread. It's different from coinGeek's in that the data is stacked, so the numbers on the axis are cumulative. I think it's pretty cool.

http://middlecoin.andrew12.net/

Cumulative balance = total paid out + current balance
Cumulative unexchanged = cumulative balance + current unexchanged
Cumulative immature = cumulative unexchanged + current unexchanged

Flot automatically stacks them up, using the stack plugin, so I just have to give it the current balances.

This is my script to check for updates: https://gist.github.com/andrew12/35ab2c6eaa7ce8f8de60
It runs every minute.

Any plans to run a separate pool for sha-256 coins ?

CoinGeek has created separate graphs for each user. You can see yours by going to your payout report (the link under the Paid Out column). I.e. http://middlecoin.com/reports/16ZMMv99GqprG7vZmmZLA4KJbWHi9ziLXw.html

I'm setting the pool up so that we can distribute our hash rate onto multiple coins. Then, we can mine a wider variety of coins. This also has the side effect of eliminating the gap when we switch coins.

Also, I'm setting up load balancing onto multiple servers, to improve performance and increase reliability.

Next will be setting up an EU server. This will be easy now, since I've done most of the work setting up multiple servers in the same datacenter.

I don't know what will be after that. I'll see what's a priority then.

anything going on in the pool? I'm sending 2 gigs but a few hours ago it's reporting around 1.3G, 35% less. The ping is at 106