TON-Pool News

All balances have been paid out, and the chat is muted to prevent spam.
For any other questions, please contact https://t.me/next_ton_pool_supportbot within 14 days (before July 15). We will not answer any questions beyond that date.

TON mining is over. Thanks for your support!

Refer to the last message for details. Make sure to switch your miner to ETH-only mode to avoid reconnections.

Please note that the estimated time for giver depletion has been adjusted to June 26th June 27th, and will continually be adjusted according to the circumstances. Until all giver depletes, the pool will remain online.

The pool is working. Please restart your miner if connectivity is not restored.

Due to Cloudflare outage, users may experience issues connecting to our servers in certain regions. The status can be viewed at https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/. We are monitoring the situation closely, and mining will continue as soon as the problem is fixed.

Giver depletion is expected to happen after June 22nd (latest estimate: June 26th June 27th). Here is the plan for pool shutdown:
1. Once givers are depleted, we will shut down all mining servers, including next.ton-pool.com and all stratum servers. Depending on your mining software and whatever watchdog you are using, you may experience mining software restarts affecting other coins you're mining, so make sure to switch to ETH-only mode or another coin before that.
2. All users that are registered with the bot and have a balance above 0.01TON will be automatically paid, and the pool will pay for the transaction fees. Users are free to withdraw manually, but at the usual withdrawal fee. Please make sure that you're registered with the bot to receive the payment.
3. The bot will shut down shortly after the last automatic payout, after which no withdrawals will be possible.

Here are some places you can check out after mining ends:
1. https://alph-pool.com. An Alephium mining pool operated by our chat admin @maximus_rem, where you can continue dual mining ETH+ALPH (see tutorial).
2. https://vast.ai. A GPU rental service where you offer machines with GPUs for a profit. Recommended for miners with reliable machines and network connectivity. Make a profit even after Ethereum mining ends.
Please note that these projects are not operated by the same team as TON-Pool, nor are they affiliated with us. Use them at your own risk.

Thanks for your support!

hk1.stratum.ton-pool.com experienced a partial outage in the last hours. It is back to normal now. Some miners may see reduced hashrate from the bot, but rest assured that the profit was not affected and would be accrued like normal even if the bot displayed a hashrate of 0 at the time.

We unfortunately have some sad news to share: TON coins in givers are getting close to depletion. Giver 1 has the lowest balance and will deplete very soon, and other 9 givers will deplete one by one in the following days. Once the giver balances run out, no more TON can be mined and the pool will shut down. You can check the balances of all givers at https://ton.org/mining/ to get an idea of how many days there are left for mining. We expect giver depletion to happen in roughly a month. Details regarding what we'll do after mining ends will be published a few days before giver depletion.

It was a long journey with you, but the clock is ticking and the story has to come to an end. We appreciate your support for the last months, and wish you good profits in the coming days!

Note: We do not have plans yet to launch any further services, such as staking pools. If we do launch one, we will announce on both our channel and our official website (ton-pool.com).

In case you haven't noticed yet, recently a 100% LHR unlock was published for ETH mining. Many of our miners using LHR cards fled to mine ETH.
But there's more! lolMiner and GMiner supports not only full LHR unlock but also ETH-TON dual mining. Both Linux and Windows are supported. Check them out if you haven't yet.

We have applied a fix and hashrate stats should go back to normal now. Note that since hashrate during the downtime was not counted, the 24hr and 1hr hashrate may remain lower than actual for some time. Thanks for your understanding!

The pool currently has some technical problems and the hashrate reported by the bot may be inaccurate. Mining is unaffected and the profit will accrue as normal. Please bear with us while we're investigating the issue. Thanks!

There was a delay in withdrawals in the last hour. Our pool operators are working on the issue, and withdrawals should be resumed now.
You can check our homepage at https://ton-pool.com/#status. Under the "Status" section there are three numbers indicating the status of withdrawal queue, such as:
Withdrawals: 103 pending, 24 processing, 712192 done
When the number of pending and processing withdrawals are high, it means there is an issue with withdrawals. Our pool operators will monitor it and resume withdrawals once the network conditions become stable.

The issue with withdrawals was caused by TON network congestion. It happened between block #19972034 (at 04:14:21), and block #19972037 (at 04:39:37), lasting 25 minutes.
A transaction has to be included in a block for it to be considered executed. Normally, blocks are produced every few seconds, but in this case there was a problem with the network, causing as many as 18 minutes of delay between #19972034 and #19972035. This caused withdrawal transactions to time out, and as a preventative measure, our system automatically suspended all withdrawals.

Don't worry, your funds are safe and will eventually arrive in your wallet. You can check our wallets on the homepage to be sure that all funds are sitting on our wallet and waiting to be paid out.

Some miners mining on next.ton-pool.com may have noticed that the balance reported by the bot did not update for the last few hours. The problem is fixed and the balance should be updated now. Thanks for your patience.
Note that at the moment, we have not applied any extra fees for next.ton-pool.com and it has not had any downtime that resulted in the loss of miner funds. We nevertheless encourage miners to use stratum-based endpoints whenever possible for better reliability and connectivity. Thanks!

We have identified an issue that causes the bot to occasionally report zero hashrate for some miners. This affects miners connecting to hk1 directly and also some miners connecting from Asia. The issue does NOT affect mining income, and only affects the hashrate reported by the bot. We have applied a fix, and sorry for the confusion.

Per-worker hashrate stats
Now you can query per-worker hashrate stats from our bot by typing the command /workers. This helps diagnosing problems with hashrate.
To use the feature, you will need to use one of the stratum endpoints, and specify the name of your worker via --worker option to your miner software. Endpoints that begin with next will not work. The worker name is capped to 16 characters and only characters from [0-9A-Za-z_] are allowed. You may use the same name for multiple workers, and the hashrates will be merged.
This feature is experimental and the details are subject to change. Please report any bugs if you encounter them. Thanks!

We have confirmed an issue with lolMiner ETH-TON dual mining mode.
As of lolMiner 1.46a, the TON hashrate drops by 10%~20% after every Ethereum epoch. The last Ethereum epoch happened at 2022-03-07 13:36:17 UTC, which happened about an hour ago. We're working with the miner developers to investigate the issue.
We recommend checking your hashrate with our bot @next_ton_pool_bot right now. If the hashrate is reduced, please restart your miner to avoid losses in profit.
Upcoming Ethereum epoch dates can be viewed at https://minerstat.com/dag-size-calculator. The estimated dates are below:
* Epoch 479: 2022-03-11 12:14 UTC
* Epoch 480: 2022-03-15 11:43 UTC
* Epoch 481: 2022-03-19 10:23 UTC
Note that the exact time could vary up to an hour. Make sure to check your hashrate around these dates. Thanks for your support!

We have upgraded our stratum endpoints! Now all our Cloudflare-acclerated endpoints (eu1.stratum.ton-pool.com, asia1.stratum.ton-pool.com and us1.stratum.ton-pool.com) will automatically connect to the fastest endpoint, so you don't need to choose yourself. In case of doubt, just use eu1.stratum.ton-pool.com.

We're also announcing some new endpoints for direct connection. We do not encourage using these endpoints unless they provide a significant improvement in terms of stability, and we may add or remove endpoints at any time. They are:
hk1.stratum.ton-pool.com: Located in Hong Kong
ru1.stratum.ton-pool.com: Located in Russia, experimental. Use only if latency is lower and connection is more stable.

Important notice: starting from now, the old endpoints next.ton-pool.com and next.ton-pool.club are deprecated. These endpoints have caused many more problems than the new stratum-based endpoints, including reduced hashrate and server downtime. New users will not be able to mine on these endpoints, and we will not compensate for any downtime for miners using these old endpoints. In the future, we may charge extra fees or cease support for these endpoints.

To use the new stratum endpoints:
1. If you are using lolMiner, make sure to upgrade to version >=1.45 and use wss://eu1.stratum.ton-pool.com/stratum as the pool address
2. If you are using Team Red Miner, make sure to upgrade to version >=0.9.3 and use stratum+tcp://eu1.stratum.ton-pool.com:443/stratum as the pool address

Thanks for your support!

Many of our miners reported a decline in displayed hashrate by the bot. We recommend checking the hashrate in the bot and restarting your rigs if the reported hashrate doesn't match your actual hashrate. We also recommend upgrading to the latest version of the miner and use the stratum endpoints if you haven't yet.

The upgrade to stratum protocol has caused some confusion and uncovered some bugs that were not reported previously. We'll list some of the frequently asked questions here:

1. My balance is not updating. Did I lose my profit?
Unlike the original endpoint next.ton-pool.com which updates your balance continuously, the new stratum endpoints update your balance periodically. Your balance should be updated within 10 minutes after mining.
As long as your share is shown as "Accepted" in the miner, your rewards are accrued and will eventually be paid out to your balance, even if the main website or the bot is down.
While the above content remains true, we found the bug that caused a small portion of our miners to stop updating balance. The bug is fixed, and miners should see the updated balance now.

2. My displayed hashrate dropped by 20%~30% while switching.
There was a bug in the pool that may display lower hashrates than expected for miners mining at multiple endpoints, especially when mining at both next.ton-pool.com and one of the stratum endpoints. We have applied a fix, but please tell us if the problem persists.

After a week of testing, we are happy to announce that the stratum endpoints turned out to be stable and works better than the existing one. It provides lower latency, fewer crashes, saves traffic and is more resilent to failures.
Now, we encourage all miners to upgrade to the latest version of your software, and try out the new stratum protocol!
Refer to https://t.me/next_ton_pool_chat/64898, https://t.me/next_ton_pool_chat/64926 and https://t.me/next_ton_pool_chat/64963 for instructions on how to setup your mining software with our stratum endpoints.
We are also adding new endpoints as promised. The current list of stratum endpoints are:
wss://eu1.stratum.ton-pool.com/stratum
wss://us1.stratum.ton-pool.com/stratum
wss://asia1.stratum.ton-pool.com/stratum
For Team Red Miner:
stratum+tcp://eu1.stratum.ton-pool.com:443/stratum
stratum+tcp://us1.stratum.ton-pool.com:443/stratum
stratum+tcp://asia1.stratum.ton-pool.com:443/stratum
Make sure to choose the endpoint with the lowest latency for most profit!