GUYS THEY ARE DDOSing ALL THE DARKCOIN MINING POOLS TO CRASH THE DIFFICULTY SO THEY CAN GET BLOCKS!
Any pools working?? Or is it just me and my crap internet connection.
Their cunning plan is failing miserably then, diff currently 800ish...
The answer to the problem is to use P2Pool with a few failovers. If you're mining 24/7 and not using P2Pool you're actually hurting your income...
If you're in the UK I've got a P2Pool node at 0.5% node with excellent throughput.
Benefits of P2Pool:
- Transaction fees go to miners so higher profits
- Earnings go directly into your wallets, so pool operators can't run away with your coins
- DDoS resistant - all nodes are connected so if one goes down and you go to a fallback you don't lose any PPLNS shares
- No registration needed - just use your Darkcoin address as your username
- Usually lower fees (0.5% on my node)
Disadvantages:
- If you have a bad Internet connection you will lose out, as shares are generated faster
- If you're not mining 24/7 you will likely earn less as there's a long share chain (24h)
Things to know:
- You'll seem to get a higher reject rate, but as long as it's less than the P2Pool average reject rate this does NOT hurt your payments
- Latency is incredibly important - always test for the nodes you have the lowest ping times to
