Heya.
Some of you may have noticed that cryptopia has had wallet issues recently with ETN. But, they're not the only ones. Tradeogre and qryptos recently started trading ETN as well, and their wallets have had sporadic issues as well.
As some background, I'm self-pooling electroneum, as well as trying to buy hash on nicehash when it's cheap. When buying hashpower, I keep a close eye on the health of my pool and daemon(s). I can tell you, electroneum is pretty terrible for this. I'll have 30 peers one minute, and 5 the next. When I have 30 peers, you'll see half of them 1 - 2 blocks behind for 15+ seconds after a new block comes out, sometimes more than 1 minute behind. The target block time is only 1 minute! So any nodes that are behind by 30 seconds are mining the wrong block half the time, and behind by 1 minute they're mining the wrong block most of the time.
I'm running a cluster of daemons, and I'll see my primary daemon pick up a new block because 1 out of 30 peers has it. Half the time this is an external peer -- none of my other daemons have propogated the block to my primary daemon yet. It can take quite a while for all of my daemons (let alone external ones) to catch up to the new block.
The cluster I'm running helps here, but clearly this is not sufficient. The electroneum daemon is simply terrible. Sumokoin on the other hand, a "weak" daemon may drop down to 30 connections -- the same number I expect from an electroneum daemon that's working perfectly. A "strong" sumokoin daemon will be able to easily sustain 200 connections.
As all of these are based on open source cryptonote, I have to believe there's some improvements in other daemons, that could be backported to electroneum. Has anyone ever looked at their codebase? Any ideas where to start on this? I would be happy to run an electroneum pool for STH users, but until the daemon issues can be improved, I would be hard pressed to recommend my own pool (or electroneum in general) to STH users. On the other hand, if we can get an electroneum daemon working properly, and run a pool using it, it could provide us a good earnings boost versus other electroneum miners.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Some of you may have noticed that cryptopia has had wallet issues recently with ETN. But, they're not the only ones. Tradeogre and qryptos recently started trading ETN as well, and their wallets have had sporadic issues as well.
As some background, I'm self-pooling electroneum, as well as trying to buy hash on nicehash when it's cheap. When buying hashpower, I keep a close eye on the health of my pool and daemon(s). I can tell you, electroneum is pretty terrible for this. I'll have 30 peers one minute, and 5 the next. When I have 30 peers, you'll see half of them 1 - 2 blocks behind for 15+ seconds after a new block comes out, sometimes more than 1 minute behind. The target block time is only 1 minute! So any nodes that are behind by 30 seconds are mining the wrong block half the time, and behind by 1 minute they're mining the wrong block most of the time.
I'm running a cluster of daemons, and I'll see my primary daemon pick up a new block because 1 out of 30 peers has it. Half the time this is an external peer -- none of my other daemons have propogated the block to my primary daemon yet. It can take quite a while for all of my daemons (let alone external ones) to catch up to the new block.
The cluster I'm running helps here, but clearly this is not sufficient. The electroneum daemon is simply terrible. Sumokoin on the other hand, a "weak" daemon may drop down to 30 connections -- the same number I expect from an electroneum daemon that's working perfectly. A "strong" sumokoin daemon will be able to easily sustain 200 connections.
As all of these are based on open source cryptonote, I have to believe there's some improvements in other daemons, that could be backported to electroneum. Has anyone ever looked at their codebase? Any ideas where to start on this? I would be happy to run an electroneum pool for STH users, but until the daemon issues can be improved, I would be hard pressed to recommend my own pool (or electroneum in general) to STH users. On the other hand, if we can get an electroneum daemon working properly, and run a pool using it, it could provide us a good earnings boost versus other electroneum miners.
Any thoughts or ideas?