This repo is just a sketchbook for notes on collaboration efforts that can be done to enhance mining pools.

To do

Open Ethereum Pools

• Create SA or Mena nodes for current coins' pools
  work in progress
• Add estimated earnings 24h
  done, per worker and per miner
• Add Earnings last 1 Hour
• Add Earnings last 24 hour
  done, copied [Open-ubiq-pool changes](https://github.com/mapleshadow/open-ubiq-pool/)
• Add selectable payout schema (PPS/PPLNS)
• Add stratum 2.0.0 support - done
• fix worker names to longer than 8 chars. (now 20)
• add nicehash support to stratum - done
• add graphing on backend for network hashrate, connected miners, connected workers, difficulty - done
• fix the toHex build error - done
• bring pool back to sourced from sammy repo, so all changes can be tracked backwards if needed for fresh builds - done
• another payout schema
  • in which pool op defines period length, all shares and division amount of reward totals during round happen at end
• Add ping check with special stratum port, then direct to lowest ping
• Add helper for estimated earnings in USD, with BTC price from coinmarketcap and a config var to enable or disable the feature (for coins that are not listed yet, or show 0 if api doesn't work)
• Add worker connected through which node
  done, added value to redis
• Add worker connected through which diff
  done, added value to redis
• Add Dynamic Difficulty port
• Add Solo Port feature
• Add SSL Stratum completed. can use STunnel for that purpose, maybe?
• Add Pool Luck Feature similar to
• Add and Enhance Code documentation
• Add Multiple stratum region support for low latency
• Add which worker found blocks ? and maybe on pool blocks page, add which miner found which block
• Add Email Monitoring, for rigs down to miner (maybe an outside service reading redis)
• Add Telegram notifications for downed rigs
• Make website description a variable from config, add few words per page
  • Unit: 'ATH',
  • CoinName: 'Atheios',
• Create PowerPoint slides (images) showing different components of running a pool and their interactions, services, dependencies, applications, configs, nodes, stratums … etc.
  work in progress
• Change references to explorer in hbs files, move to environment.js
  • block explorerlink.tx = ''
  • blockexplorerlink.blockhash = ''
  • blockexplorerlink.txhash = ''
  • blockexplorerlink.blocknumber = ''
  • blockexplorerlink.Uncle = ''

    Done, moved these links to localization (languege) files
    

• eye candy data inserted into db
  • shares per worker / period (defined in json)
  • accepted, rejected, stale
  • blocks last 24 hours per miner
  • block finder, on which diff and server
• Pool Announcements: add announcements to the top of pools, get from json to be there on all pools with exclusion
• Complete Translation and add Korean
• On Miners list page, add most used server and diff per miner

Other Ideas

• Enhance Pools Homepages
• Pool signup for Listing on coin pages automation
• Create an installation script/security script
• Create better methods to ease the install process, its very confusing for new pool ops.
  • Inputs to Consider
    • link to the geth file
    • name of coin
    • abbreviation
    • average block time
    • block reward
    • pool fee
    • RPC port
• Create better log file analysis features, possibly stored into redis for an admin page.

Server Security Notes

• Disable Redis listen 0.0.0.0
• Disable SSH Port 22
• Disable Login with root
• Disable Login with password
• Close All ports except necessary
• Close incoming SSH connections from 0.0.0.0 except from main servers

Notes

• To change to PPS, consider commit
• For NiceHash implementation commit
• For telegram Bot commit
• Mailer commit
• Mobile menu auto-close commit
• Nicehsh proxy file
• Interesting dockerfile
• Block Finders Page commit
• score based reward system instead of share based commit
• Add something to the block recording in redis commit a workerName maybe?
• like those icons commit

Current Pools' Features, Designs and Concepts (Benchmark)

• Top Mining
  • Pool Homepage arrangement
  • menu design
  • Server Status
  • Help information and useful links on the side
  • Ticker Info
  • Tables design (Blocks, Miners, Workers...etc.)
  • About page
    • Glossary
    • Questions
    • TOS
  • Help page
    • Wallet Tutorial
• 2Miners
  • Main Pools interface
    • Aggregated Hash power and pool statistics
    • Focus on Ping (clarification)
  • Coin Pool Homepage
    • Dashboard style
    • How many blocks found
    • How much paid to miners so far
  • Real Coin Pool Homepage
  • Standardized FAQ Page
  • A Blog with information related to mining
• Minerpool.net
  • Homepage
    • Coin prices and fast comparison
  • Coin Pool Homepage
    • Geolocation
    • Variable Difficulty
  • Miners page
    • Last paid 1 hour
    • Last paid 24 hours
    • Estimated Earnings USD in 24 hours
    • Solo mining and Pool Mining
    • Blocks found and which worker ?
    • Unconfirmed payouts ???
• Fairpool
• Altpool
• MoacPool.xyz
• PPLNS.io

Go Lang Redis notes

Credits

If, any work was used, as part of our implementation, credits will be given here:

• PPS/Luck/Shifts/Today CryptoManiacs
• i18n/earnings hackmod pull request on Sammy007 repo commit

Contributors

• Brian Bowen - System Administration / Security - phatblinkie
• Mohannad Otaibi - Front-End Development / Coding - mo9a7i