Stratum Solo Mining

SecurePayment CC allows you to "solo mine" a coin for the block reward + transaction fees, minus a small percentage.

Everyone in the pool has an equal chance of finding a block. The odds of finding a block improve as more people mine in the pool. A person with higher hash rate will still find a higher amount of blocks than a person with a low hash rate. However, the person with lower hash might have better luck while mining along side others instead of mining completely alone.

You may or may not. It depends on your definition of 'luck' and whether or not you believe in it. Consider the following analogy, 1 BE100 chip in a USB miner vs. 32 BE100 chips in a ASICMiner Blade. So that's 333 MH/s vs 10 GH/s. Lets say your solomining for ZetaCoin and it's current difficulty requires 5 GH/s to find a block. You would agree that 32 BE100 chips are almost guaranteed to find a block, while 1 BE100 chip has almost no guarantee. Makes sense? Right?. The same concept applies here. If your solo mining on your own you have no guarantee that you'll find a block. However, if your mining on this pool along side 32 other people. It's almost certain that this pool will find the block, and it's 100% guaranteed that one of those 32 individuals on this pool is the block finder.

Shares are validated upon submition and each is checked for a potential block canidate. Unless the share is a valid block solution, it is used only for collecting stats and has no effect on your earnings.

By default the difficulty is set to VARDIFF. Initial difficulty may vary between pools.

Yes. To setup a custom difficulty and disable VARDIFF use the provided control panel for each pool.

No. Merged mining is currently under active development. An ETA is not possible at the moment.

Yes. Connect your worker using the generally accepted format: address.worker.

This is a planned feature for our new payments platform due out sometime in mid-2016.

There is no 'account' concept here so you can not sign up. You simply connect you miner to this pool using a wallet address as your username and any random password.

Just use another wallet address. Otherwise please send us a PM using the BitcoinTalk forum. You will be asked to provide a signed messge.

Unfortuantly we can not remove wallet addresses from our database due to technical design reasons. This limitation may however change in the future.

Sign into your personal control panel using your wallet address. Each coin has a dedicated area where you can manage settings related to the address being used to mine. A signed message will be required to save any changes

Just use another wallet address. Otherwise please send us a PM using the BitcoinTalk forum. You will be asked to provide a signed messge.

In most cases just use another wallet address. If you feel that your wallet has been compromised and need to change it for future pending payments please send us a PM using the BitcoinTalk forum. You will be asked to provide a signed messge.

This is not recomended and can't be undone once completed. Please send us a PM using the BitcoinTalk forum. You will be asked to provide a signed messge. An administrative fee may also be required.

The process of generating a signed message differs greatly across platforms. There are some instructions available for many of the common clients.

Payments are made automatically to your wallet address. There is no action required on your part.

An address is required in order to build a proper coinbase transaction. Obviously there is no way to know 'who' will mine the next block. So the pool's wallet is temporarily used as the coinbase transaction's output address. The coinbase reward is later sent as a payment to your wallet after the block has passed verification.

The 'pending' state can mean one of two things, either the block has not yet been verified against the network, or it has not reached the required amount of confirmations for payout. At the moment the web interface does not differentiate between the two states. This is a planned feature for a future release of our platform in early 2016.

It depends on the specific coin you are mining. For example, Terracoin blocks need a minimum of 125 confirmation before it will be paid out. Checks run every hour and blocks that meet the minimum confirmations are paid out during that time.

No. When a block is found by your miner, it's block hash is permanently linked to your wallet address and stored in our database. You will get credited for this block whether or not you continue mining.

Payments are sent every hour for blocks that meet the minimum required confirmations.

This value is based on the COINBASE_MATURITY (or MATURITY) variable in the coin's source code. Usually found in 'src/main.h'. New minted coins have an additional number of confirmations (usually 20). The pool further increases this number by a variable amount depending on the coin's transaction fees, age, block time, stability, and security of the blockchain network.

Some coins simply have a very high COINBASE_MATURITY, Peercoin for example. Other coins are very unstable and require a larger amount of confirmations to ensure you get paid correctly. For example an un-secure blockchain (low amount of hash) could be susceptible to a 51% attack. Sometimes however, we set this value high to minimize (or avoid) transaction fees.

At the moment, no. However this is a planned feature for our new payments platform release in mid-2016. You will be able to set lower confirmations at the expense of a higher transaction fee.

This is a planned feature and there is no ETA at the moment. For now, you may request a personalized report. An administrative fee may be required.

Depends on your definition of 'anonymous'. Overall, yes. This is a anonymous mining pool. There is no need for creating an account or to specify an email address. You only need to specify a wallet address to use this pool. The only way we have of identifying a user is by linking an IP address and a wallet address.

As little as technicaly possible. Your IP address and wallet address are stored in our database and your wallet address is kept in the payment logs.

You may request the removal of your IP address from our database. However, it will be re-logged the next time you connect. An administrative fee may be required. Removal of a wallet address is not possible at this time.

Fees range from 1% to 50% depending on the coins popularity, age, and block reward. All proceeds go towards the development of crypto currency services including the funding of the crypto faucets.

Fees may include transaction costs. Additionally very new coins will have a large fee in order to prevent the pool from becoming backrupt due to unstable or insecure networks. Other times we set fees based on a coin's trade value or block reward.

Our new payment platform will allow you to set a lower fee at the expensive of having a higher block confirmation value. The new payments platform is due out sometime in mid-2016.

There can be up to a 3 minute delay before you are registered as an active miner.

Absolutly NOT! As long as your miner is connected and is hashing, you are working towards finding a block.

Each of our mining pools is automaticly monitored for uptime. The check runs every 6 minutes and may sometimes 'timeout' on busy pools. This may lead to some false negatives, but rest assured that so long as your mining client is submitting shares, you'll be okay.

Our platform is still very much in it's infancy so there are glitches every now and then. It's highly recomended that you setup backup pools in your mining client to asure the best possible returns for your hardware in the case of an extended outage.

Our web front end uses a replicated slave database to read data and display information about the pool. Sometimes replication will fall behind or temporarily break. We are currently looking into this issue and are determining the best course of action to resolve or prevent the situation. Please feel free to continue mining since the payments are processed using the master database.

First ensure you are mining on the correct service (port number). It's possible you may have mistakenly used a port number that's incorrect for the service you are wanting to mine for.

Secondly if you have backup pools configured, double check that the block was indeed found on this service.

Finally, there may be a slight delay from the time your client reports a found block until it is reflected on this statistics page.

There is a known design flaw carried over from the original Python stratum-server software. Since all shares found by the users on a given service are placed in a single database import queue, a powerful miner may cause the queue to grow very large. This creates a backlog that must be imported before shares meeting the minimum target can be converted into a block. In a very rare case these shares might be purged before they can be converted.

There is work under way to resolve the race condition and design flaw. The first of which is part of the new payments platform that is under active development, to be released in Q2-Q3 2016. Secondly there is an ongoing discussion with our development team on how to best handle the queuing issue.

it's also possible that the stratum service crashes before shares are saved to persistent storage.

In either case, if you believe that you have run into this issue, please notify us using the "Report a missing block" tool so we may manually correct the missing information.

The block chain of the coin you may be mining is not moving or moving very slowly due to little interest or a very high difficulty and low network hash.

Something went wrong during verification or payment. Use the "Report a missing block" tool so that we may reset the block.

Specific details about our platform are being kept as a trade secret at the moment. However, we can share that our platform is 99.999% powered by the FreeBSD operating system with over 20 servers making up our current infrastructure. Our web proxy is the only component powered by Ubuntu, and that is scheduled to be migrated to FreeBSD very soon. Everything is hosted in-house and we outsource nothing.

Of course! 90% of our platform is using open source software. Much of which can be found in our publicly avialable GitHub repository. One of the items we are utilizing is a heavily modified version of the Python based stratum mining pool server.

Our platform was designed from the ground up with security as the primary focus. Every server and every service running on each server is carefully configured to allow access to only what is nessesary. This means that we don't mix services on servers. For example, the web and stratum server's are not hosting a wallet daemon, the stratum server is not hosting a web server, and the database server is not hosting a wallet daemon, etc...

The blockchains are hosted on dedicated high performance network storage. Wallet files are copied to local disk on the wallet servers every 30 minutes. The wallet servers copy the local backups to dedicated network backup hardware every hour, keeping up to 7 days worth of archives. A master database dump is run every hour to dedicated backup storage.

We build our own packages from ports and host our own repositories using Poudriere. Updates are usually be applied at regular intervals without any interruption to mining services. If an interruption is expected it will be announced on the Twitter feed.

We curerntly looking for software developers who are well experienced in Python, Java and PHP, and have deep understanding and knowledge of the Bitcoin protocol and blockhain design. To inquire about avialable opportunities, please send us a PM.

There are several projects in the pipline, many of which are highly confidential in order to avoid potential panic buying in certain altcoins that we highly support. We can share that we are working on a new next generation mining pool server using the highly scalable and fast Java programming language to replace the old, slow, and tired Python based system.

Absolutley!