Topic: [~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More - page 79. (Read 379078 times)

The round time didn't reset after the last block it's currently up to 3hr 55min (should be around 50 minutes).

Everything else looks good though. =)

hi eleuthria,
could you please get the load percentage shown in the pool status API, or give out how the load percentage can be calculated from the hash-rate of each server, in the convenience of auto pool swith. Now I can only use the hash-rate of each pool to determine a lower-hash-rate pool, it is appreatly not the "load".

Thanks eleuthria, things are looking good since then.

All the BTC Guild pool servers simply quit handing out work for intervals at a time.  I jumped from central to uk, to nl2 and then to deepbit after seeing my GPU graphs looking like a mountain range on the horizon.

Same here .. I don't like cookies, trojans and all the other crap that comes along with them if you do a search and hit the wrong site.  I allow ads when I browse using other browsers [specifically locked down for security].  Some sites rely on ad revenue to supplement other income, often to keep prices low for some service or other.  If that is the case, a site should note this so that people can choose to let them through [most likely a site that you frequent like a pool website, is not going to have off ads for generic Viagra or find your perfect mate .... more likely related, at least loosely, to what the site is about .. for a pool, hardware manufacturers, stores, technical service, etc would make sense .. if it is just click based banners based on all of your browsing, then forget it, nobody wants to see it for any reason on a pool website].

As far as users that do not donate to the pool ... shame on you! Get a sense of ethics, morale values and be a good patron.  Come on.  Honestly, I don't know why any pool allows free other than for a trial period.  It seems the worst offenders are those mining 5+GH/s from what I have read on various pool threads, although I am sure that there are some users at all hash rate levels opting for 0% [as a rule, not an exception] out of greed and feel no shame and have no honor.  I urged Eleuthria not to allow such abuse [frankly, I believe, the minimum should be the estimated amount required to break even on costs of allowing the user to participate in the pool ... I am guessing 1%, depending upon fees and of course the price of BTC and if they are sold to fund operations].  The beauty of a percentage donation is that small rewards mean small donations and large rewards means larger donations, but "feels" the same to all users.

Eleuthria, I think you should move or remove the cumulative donations paid from the main account page since I am guessing that a some people see that number get larger, they begin to feel they have "paid enough" and start lowering their donation.  It is all psychological, but seeing a large donation sitting there when after several difficulty increases a miner makes nowhere near that amount in a day, week or longer, then I think that it will affect perception of individuals as opposed to "I earned 2.23 BTC today and received 2.17 BTC in payout today".  The latter seems pretty insignificant as opposed to seeing total donations of 31.22 BTC.    Am I picking on the large greedy 0% power miners again? 

I was giving you advice to keep you out of trouble if you are doing any of these things.  If you live with somebody who pays utilities, then it is between you and them about whether you need to discuss it.  Free utilities in almost any situation is pretty much unheard of these days [meaning, rent an apartment, own a condo, home, whatever].  I am not saying it can't be part of a "rental" or "lease" agreement, but it is very very rare.  Far more likely, somebody is paying the bill.  Since you run the computers in your home, then presumably, somebody in your home is paying the electrical bill, just not you.  You can be sure that mining is noticeable on the electric bill, but heading into summer, many people may not notice the difference [due to use of A/C] until later or maybe never.

I was not suggesting that you are doing anything wrong.  I assumed the scenario as it is the most likely cases where electricity is free and made suggestions about how to avoid trouble.  I would rather have mentioned it to you and be scolded by you than not have mentioned it and you get fired for mining on your employer's dime. 

I am not sure what your income has to do with this discussion at all [is it supposed to suggest that you are not a kid?  If so, I believed you when you wrote that you are not].

The UK server isn't showing shares or rewards for blocks again.
Hope its just a front end issue because we just got lucky with a nice few rounds.

I have been mining with the useast server for the past 24 hours (200-300 mhps), yet nothing has been showing up on my stats page. Shares are being accepted and I don't see any errors.

If it was my pool I'd announce a minimum .5 or 1% fee... You are big enough now that you may lose a few people but slush is 2%, deep 3%, and no one else comes close to the size. Losing a few of the people who never contribute when you keep taking on additional costs is better than sooner or later going to make you quitting the site if you don't make a few bucks bitcoins off it. Everyone who doesn't contribute can hate me and call me a troll all you want, but for all the economics posts on this forum people sure hate to hear they have to pay a measly 1% fee for all the work you do. Just my humble opinion.



EDIT:
I really didn't proofread this as well as I normally would. Strikeouts throughout.

I'm getting disconnects and work queue empty's on uscentral server.  Just started happening. It's been running fine for days.

API/Website were having connection problems, which would be why your charts freaked out.  UK cluster had an error in their sync code when they hit US East.  It ended up flooding the server with MySQL connections which made it so the other servers could not get a response, making API/My Account not work for about 20 minutes.

As soon as I posted this, there was a brief glitch.

Funny, this was an easy way of finding out which forum members dont donate to the cause
All ad-complainers are not donating (or at least less than 0.5%).. sheesh...

Looks fine to me.

everything looks ok with my miners. and the website seems right.

Rounds have been running fine all morning without any need for intervention.  What are you referring to?

btcguild having issues with proper updates on rounds again?

The ads only appear for < 0.5% donators.  Adblock or not, they will not appear unless your donation is at the lowest levels.  The site is not "plastered with ads".  It has one wide but short google adsense banner ad.

Other ways to make money?  I'd be all for it!  This was just a way to get something out of the continued growth.  The pool's donations per block have been slipping consistently, and these ads on 0.0-0.4% donators are a very good way to normalize the revenue coming from people who don't give back to a pool that is currently demanding many dedicated servers. 

I'm donating 2.5% and there are no ads. Could you tell me of some of the "many many" other ways a site can make money?

I don't know if this was talked about before, but recently (the past few days) my systems have been bouncing from 99% GPU load to 95% and even lower sometimes. This happened on 4 different systems and I couldn't get it to stay steady at 99% as usual. I switched over to slush's pool for now and they are all staying steady at 99%. This is with the same settings and same systems. Any info on what might have happened?