🚨Ocean Pool Maintenance 🚨
I checked my wallet and hadn’t received any lightning payments
Since May 31. Went to Discord to check for problems and found this. Figured I’m not the only one so though I’d share. GN
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Start of window: 2025-05-26 12:00 UTC (2025-05-26 8AM ET)
End of window: 2025-06-06 20:00 UTC (2025-06-06 4PM ET)
Window duration: Approximately 11 days
Scope: Core Infrastructure Upgrades
Expected Impact: Minimal: Delayed web/API stats; Network reconvergence; Lightning Payment Delays
Potential Impact: Short client connection losses; fallback block reward handling.
Details: OCEAN and partners will be performing major planned upgrades to core infrastructure at one of our hosting facilities as part of our ongoing efforts to improve reliability and redundancy of our services. During the maintenance window, client traffic may be routed through redundant systems, moved from one system to another, and otherwise routed as required to maintain maximum service availability during this upgrade. While there is no expected impact, there may be brief temporary disruptions to Stratum and/or DATUM miner connections during the maintenance window. These connection drops will be kept to an absolute minimum, and should go completely unnoticed by most miners. If you experience any extended service disruption, please reach out to us through our normal contact channels.
During this maintenance window, the nodes backing the OCEAN Recommended, Core, and Data-Free templates will be upgraded to Bitcoin Core v29.0, and Bitcoin Knots v28.1 (20250305), respectively. The node configurations will remain unchanged; however, note that default options may have changed in the newer versions, as well as some forced policies in the case of Core. The Block Template pages will be updated during the maintenance. Before that time, please refer to the documentation for Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core for details on expected changes. Additionally, these are expected to be the final upgrades to the Core and Data-Free templates. Please migrate to using your own node with DATUM Gateway so you have a full range of control over how you make your blocks.
Additionally, for a short period during the maintenance window (not expected to exceed one hour), the TIDES reward system backend will be paused/offline for upgrades and related upgrade checks. Miner work submitted during this period will still be counted normally. However, as a result of real-time reward splits being unavailable while TIDES is offline, if an OCEAN block happens to be found during this short period, pool rewards will be handled the same as any other "empty block" reward that must be done in a secondary follow-up transaction. Finally, during this period the website and API statistics may not be updated and may take some time to catch up once TIDES upgrades are fully complete. Do not be alarmed. Again, all work accepted is being counted properly, and TIDES will catch up upon completion of the upgrades. These are completely separate systems.
We expect the TIDES upgrades to happen during this window on 2025-06-03 (***UPDATED***), planned for between 16:00 and 17:00 UTC (12-1PM ET), however this is subject to change and we will update this notice to reflect any change in plans.
Lightning payouts may be delayed longer than normal for any blocks found during the full maintenance window. These payouts may be consolidated for multiple blocks once upgrades are completed. Expected impact is no noticeable delay. Maximum potential impact is that lightning payouts are delayed until the end of the maintenance window. Again, however, no work is lost and payouts will still occur appropriately for work submitted.
New Lightning configurations/changes may not be accepted during the maintenance window.
Thank you for your patience as we make these ongoing improvements to provide you with the most reliable services possible.
