Topic: [~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More - page 90. (Read 379078 times)

NL1 restarted.  bitcoind was acting up and not responding in a timely manner.

Nl1 (nl.btcguild.com) is not working propperly. It leaves the miners idle most of the time.

There seems to be a problem with the nl1 server.

I get disconnects all the time. Switched to nl2 (like more people have done by the looks of hashing rate)

The string of tests has been removed.  It was a late night debug for US Central stat sync'ing, making sure the worker values were getting returned properly.

A shorter queue should help, yes.

Yes, but then it should be 1-2 stales, not sometimes 5-6 (during a few seconds) on a 350MHash-worker? Looks like long-polling isn't working right. could changing the queue-length help (phoenix 1.5)?

Yes, that is what stale means.

Your miner is still working on a block that no longer matters.  The rest of the pool has moved on.

I often get many stale shares after the beginning of a new round. For the first ~100 shares, stale rate is sometimes about 10%. This then decreases to about 3%. I watched this several times now, it doesn't happen all the time. But most stales seem to occur when a block was found and a new round starts.

I have some problems with the values from the API.
They seems only be up to date when i have refreshed them with a webseite login.

Any ideas or does somebody have the same issue ?

Whats up with this under the "my account" section ?

Just above where workers start I see the following: "TestTestTestTestTestTestTestTestTestTestTestTestTestTest"


Where BTCguild also hacked?

True, but unimportant.  And rainbow tables are of absolutely no help for an iterated salted password system.

There are a lot of things that MD5 is no longer secure enough for.  This is not one of them.  The security is in the details, the iteration and salting scheme, not the hashing algorithm.

Don't want to start a fight about password encryption types... but MD5 was not created to encrypt passwords... it was created to check data integrity. Don't forget the beautiful bruteforce rainbowtables you can download.

Personally I always use SHA256, which is barely decent.

I don't really care how BTCGuild encrypts my password... I can easily recover my account via eleuthria, as I log in with only 2 IP's
And the password is some random string generated by LastPass.

Because older bitcoin clients don't support it and I believe behave badly if such a transaction were to come in.   So, they pay to the bit cent.  It is not as if you have lost the remainder, it just is not accessible without additional mining or waiting for the day when it is decided that everybody should have upgraded to a client that supports this and all pools use a daemon that is capable of the same.  If you note, the bitcoin client is BETA, although a working beta and it is version 0.3.23.  If the version were 1.0.0; then I expect all features expected to be "common" will have been out for long enough and enough notice given that such a switch over can be made.  Until then, wait it out.  Consider how much that "change" is worth at the moment and it probably wasn't worth the time to post.  In any event, it is still your bitcoin fractions [unless the pool closes .. not sure what happens in that case, but that is not an imminent possibility even in the slightest] and you will either eventually get them or it is a little support for your next mining venture with the pool.  Find a pool that sends out beyond the bit cent and use it if you can find one.

Thanks. I have another system I am trying to set up as a miner too... been playing wiht ways to load linux for now.. I'm new to linux as well as bitcoin. I'm pretty exccited about learning what I can about linux however... seems to be a good skill to have either way you look at it. That's one reason I haven't just started using linuxcoin just yet..want to learn to load it myself. Howeve,r I may use the scripts I saw one guy make that does it all in two bash files. in the forum.

It is not as intuitive as using windows... For all the mess people say about Microsoft, I do think they do a good job making things easy & intuitive (mostly) for the user with Windows. As for linux (using ubuntu), maybe I just need more face-time with linux.

I see it... Thanks.. came in after the block update...my first transaction.. yay...   0.75 BTC 

Thanks for the block explorer link.

You can also refer to http://www.bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/ to see a list of transactions not yet included in a block.

Your payments will show up, but they can be slow to get their first confirmation since we do not pay transaction fees (we would've paid more than the pool generated by now).

There are a bunch of sites that show the current block count.  Right now it is 131,977.

Play with the block explorer a bit.  Search for your address and you'll be able to tell if there was a payment sent to it or not.

I guess it hasn't. When I started it up earlier, it didn't show the block chain increasing...so, I figured it might have updated. To try to "stimulate" something, I clicked "generate coins" in the menu, and it started to increase the block chain count... I turned it off, and the count was still increasing..so, I guess it didn't have it all yet.

Where can I find the latest block chain count? or how to explore it?

Thanks.

Does your node (the client software on your computer) have the entire block chain downloaded and processed?  It won't show your balance correctly if it isn't done.

You can also go to bitcoin block explorer (google it) and search for your payment address.

And yeah, the payments are only down to the hundredth of a bitcoin, which is a bit silly.  I don't know why he hasn't changed that yet.

Still new with bitcoin.

How long does it take for bitcoins to be received? I asked to be paid out about a day ago... And the wallet account on my PC still reads 0.00... that is, the amount was not received from BTCGuild - though the acocunt says it DID pay it out. I clicked to be payed from BTCGuild for "0.75" bitcoins. Also, I did not like the fact that BTCGuild left in the smaller fractions of what was mined..only it would send .75...not the entire .75XXXXXX .. Seems the only way it can all be sent out is if it was an exactly zero after the third decimal place.

I was just tyring to observe the process occur for now...but this isn't promising...Can bitocoins really be lost that easily?

A summary of what happened:

1. spent a couple days mining... on and off.. amount went up to 0.75xxxxxxx bitcoins... I clicked payout and it(BTCGuild) only sent .75....so, it reads.
2. when I had it sent, I deliberately left bitcoin.exe program on my PC off to see if the bitcoin would be received sometime after it was sent to my wallet account.

So, either I have to leave my wallet the moment funds are sent or something....not sure if that is true....but if I did not receive the .75 coins by now and should have, then bitcoins can apparently be easily lost...so, this would be a major flaw...but I'm probably missing something....or am I?

Yes, I did verify my bitcoin address on BTCGuild was the sme as the one on the bitcoin.exe on my computer.