FAQ

A quick FAQ of things we have encountered so far. If you have a question that you'd like answered and that is not listed here, please create an issue and we will see if it is a generic question valid for anyone. Then it shall be added to this document.

Q) WHat does MPOS even stand for?

A) Mining Portal Open Source

Q) How do I add some custom JavaScript code?

A) You can edit the templates/mmcFE/global/header.tpl file to add your own custom JavaScript code. Either by using the smarty {literal} flag so JS code is not parsed by smarty or including your own HTML template. See Smarty Literal and Smarty Include. Question taken from Issue 493.

Q) Blocks are showing with unknown finder

A) Please ensure you are running the latest version of MPOS. It has a 5-way system of assigning blocks to a winning share, hence this is not an issue with the current cron implementation.

Q) What coins are supported?

A) Please check the README and POOLS file in this project. You will get a general idea which coins have been tested with MPOS.

Q) Can I run multiple payout systems at the same time or per worker?

A) No, this is not supported by MPOS. You define one payout process which is applied to everyone in the pool. You may change the code as you see fit to make it work for yourself.

Q) The website sometimes takes a long time to load, why is that?

A) You are probably not running the statistics cron. It fetches data and pre-caches it for the website. If the website is not able to fetch cached data, it will run queries by itself. On long rounds this will be very noticeable on the frontend. Enable the cron to fix that.

Q) Why does stratum seem to be off when using MPOS?

A) This is a rather complex answer so please read along.

@pooler was nice enough to explain it to me in detail:

pushpoold uses a target bits terminology and stratum a difficulty setting. These are different. When running pushpoold at a target bit of 20 you will match the default setting of 16 in startum-mining. This will ensure that hashrates on MPOS match up! If you'd think you could set pushpoold to 16 and match it with stratum you will be off.

He devised a formula that can be used to change startum difficulty and match pushpoold and MPOS to it:

(stratum diff) ~= 2^((target bits in pushpool) - 16)

Example, you are running MPOS and pushpoold with a setting of 20:

16 ~= 2^(20 - 16)

Stratum	Target Bits
16	20
32	21
64	22
128	23
256	24
512	25
1024	26
2048	27
4096	28
8192	29
16384	30
32768	31
65536	32
131072	33
262144	34
524288	35
1048576	36
2097152	37
4194304	38
8388608	39
16777216	40