Fixed duplicate shares on vardiff difficulty update. Added more comments.

lib/jobManager.js

@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ var blockTemplate = require('./blockTemplate.js');
 var ExtraNonceCounter = function(){
     var instanceId = 31;
     var counter = instanceId << 27;
-    var size = util.packUInt32BE(counter).length; //binpack.packUInt32(counter, 'big').length;
+    var size = util.packUInt32BE(counter).length;
 
     this.next = function(){
-        var extraNonce = util.packUInt32BE(counter++);//binpack.packUInt32(counter++, 'big');
+        var extraNonce = util.packUInt32BE(counter++);
         return extraNonce.toString('hex');
     };
     this.size = function(){
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ var JobManager = module.exports = function JobManager(options){
 
     var _this = this;
     var jobCounter = new JobCounter();
+    //var jobs = {};
 
     /**
      * It only checks if the blockTemplate is already in our jobs list.
@@ -68,8 +69,19 @@ var JobManager = module.exports = function JobManager(options){
         } else {
             return false;
         }
+
+        /*var newBlock = true;
+        for(var job in jobs){
+            if (jobs[job].rpcData.previousblockhash === prevBlockHash) {
+                newBlock = false;
+            }
+        }
+        return newBlock;*/
+
     }
 
+
+    //Which number to use as dividend when converting difficulty to target
     var diffDividend = (function(){
         switch(options.algorithm){
             case 'sha256':
@@ -82,6 +94,8 @@ var JobManager = module.exports = function JobManager(options){
         }
     })();
 
+
+    //On initialization lets figure out which hashing algorithm to use
     var hashDigest = (function(){
         switch(options.algorithm){
             case 'sha256':
@@ -103,7 +117,6 @@ var JobManager = module.exports = function JobManager(options){
         }
     })();
 
-
     
     //public members
 
@@ -125,6 +138,8 @@ var JobManager = module.exports = function JobManager(options){
                 options.txMessages
             );
 
+            //jobs[tmpBlockTemplate.jobId] = tmpBlockTemplate;
+
             this.currentJob = tmpBlockTemplate;
             _this.emit('newBlock', tmpBlockTemplate);
         }
@@ -132,7 +147,6 @@ var JobManager = module.exports = function JobManager(options){
 
     this.processShare = function(jobId, difficulty, extraNonce1, extraNonce2, nTime, nonce, ipAddress, workerName){
 
-
         var shareError = function(error){
             _this.emit('share', {
                 job: jobId,
@@ -150,7 +164,9 @@ var JobManager = module.exports = function JobManager(options){
             return shareError([20, 'incorrect size of extranonce2']);
 
         var job = this.currentJob;
-        if ( job.jobId != jobId ) {
+        //var job = jobs[jobId];
+
+        if (typeof job === 'undefined' || job.jobId != jobId ) {
             return shareError([21, 'job not found']);
         }
 

lib/pool.js

@@ -52,7 +52,25 @@ var pool = module.exports = function pool(options, authorizeFn){
                 RequestDifficulty(function(){});
         }).on('newDifficulty', function(client, newDiff){
             client.sendDifficulty(newDiff);
-            client.sendMiningJob(_this.jobManager.currentJob.getJobParams());
+
+            /*
+            Disabled this line of code as it will because it will force the miner
+            to restart and submit duplicate shares. The stratum-python sends out a
+            mining.notify but rolls the jobID and sets "clean jobs" to false.
+            Meaning that the worker will only start on the new work once it
+            exhausts its current nonce range. But if the miner were to start the
+            new job, the shares would be invalidated since stratum-python doesn't
+            insert the new jobID that the share-limiter generated into the jobs
+            array. Also, since the new work is only sent with a new jobID but with
+            the same extranonce as the last job, the shares will be duplicate
+            anyway. Perhaps this bug has gone unnoticed because of how likely it
+            is for a miner to exhaust the nonce range before new work is sent.
+
+            So lets only send a new difficulty, and the worker will use it when
+            it receives a new job when the block template updates.
+            */
+            //client.sendMiningJob(_this.jobManager.currentJob.getJobParams());
+
         });
         emitLog("system", "VarDiff enabled and setup");
     }

lib/transactions.js

@@ -118,10 +118,7 @@ var Generation = exports.Generation = function Generation(rpcData, publicKey, ex
 
 /*
 This function creates the generation transaction that accepts the reward for
-successfully mining a new block. Creating this function required tons of trial
+successfully mining a new block.
-and error and reversing existing pool server code. I went to write a good comment
-describing how it works in detail but at this point I don't even know..
-
 For some (probably outdated and incorrect) documentation about whats kinda going on here,
 see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#tx
  */
@@ -139,6 +136,11 @@ exports.CreateGeneration = function(rpcData, publicKey, extraNoncePlaceholder, r
     var txInPrevOutIndex = Math.pow(2, 32) - 1;
     var txInSequence = 0;
 
+    //Only required for POS coins
+    var txTimestamp = reward === 'POS' ?
+        util.packUInt32LE(rpcData.curtime) : new Buffer([]);
+
+    //For coins that support/require transaction comments
     var txComment = txMessages === true ?
         util.serializeString('https://github.com/zone117x/node-stratum') :
         new Buffer([]);
@@ -153,10 +155,9 @@ exports.CreateGeneration = function(rpcData, publicKey, extraNoncePlaceholder, r
 
     var scriptSigPart2 = util.serializeString('/nodeStratum/');
 
-
     var p1 = Buffer.concat([
         util.packUInt32LE(txVersion),
-        reward === 'POS' ? util.packUInt32LE(rpcData.curtime) : new Buffer([]),
+        txTimestamp,
         util.varIntBuffer(txInputsCount),
 
         //transaction input
@@ -166,6 +167,13 @@ exports.CreateGeneration = function(rpcData, publicKey, extraNoncePlaceholder, r
         scriptSigPart1
     ]);
 
+
+    /*
+    The generation transaction must be split at the extranonce (which located in the transaction input
+    scriptSig). Miners send us unique extranonces that we use to join the two parts in attempt to create
+    a valid share and/or block.
+     */
+
     var p2 = Buffer.concat([
         scriptSigPart2,
         util.packUInt32LE(txInSequence),