Topic: [1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff] - page 16. (Read 837167 times)
August 08, 2014, 11:21:00 PM
Obviously no one has been wearing red underwear recently.
August 08, 2014, 10:22:04 PM
what a long block!
August 08, 2014, 06:20:00 PM
Just power cycled my miners and put my left and right shoes on the opposite feet.
trying to change our luck.
trying to change our luck.
August 08, 2014, 02:11:17 PM
Every time that I check the Live Stats and this block is still going I cry a little inside. Fingers crossed that we crack it soon and see some green numbers in the latest blocks column immediately after!!!!!!
August 08, 2014, 09:55:26 AM
almost 2 days lol really 
Yeah, Rough with the smooth
If it goes longer than 2 days 4 hours and 55 min, It will be the longest block in over two months.
I keep trying to add power, I cant keep up with diff tho
but who can? August 08, 2014, 08:19:41 AM
almost 2 days lol really
August 07, 2014, 10:40:08 AM
so what do you all do with your old usb miners, (the obsolete ones)?
or dont they become obsolete>?
or dont they become obsolete>?
Believe it or not, I still have mine mining away on BitMinter! They add around 9-10 gh/s to my total (~400 Gh/s) which is made up of a mishmash of equipment, including two S1's. They were my first ASIC miners and got me started.
Perhaps, one day, there will be some useful alt-coin using sha265 that I could point these to.
August 07, 2014, 10:02:37 AM
Separate topic.... can anyone provide some advice for setting up a mining business in the US? Since I'm paying all of this money in electricity and equipment it would make sense to form a business and claim the power costs and hardware purchases as business expenses. My setup isn't huge - only 1.5 TH/s once my new S3's arrive - so we're not talking a ton of money. Any advice of thoughts would be much appreciated.
August 07, 2014, 09:56:10 AM
We really need to grow. What is your plan to spur pool growth?
Do we really need to grow outside of keeping up with the percentage increase in difficulty? I don't mind fewer blocks with larger payouts. As long as we see a block every day or two, the smaller pool is fine with me. I'm sure Doc would like to see if grow though since the bigger the pool, the more fees he collects.
2% of network would be fine. But 1% is kind of tight. Generally, it is where you stop solo mining.
very difficult to encourage growth in this pool.
Doc is pretty honest pool op but the game has change a lot.
in house 4 or 5th is a home miner top end. maybe 10th. for some of us.
In the winter I could run 20 s-3's but that means A little more then I want in house.
So I have gear hosted. I can't handle variance too much stress. So I use bigger pools
It is easy to use a 5% pool say 10 blocks a day. but a 1 percent pool 2 blocks a day . is a bit harder to do. 3 bad days in a row can mean a lot for some of us.
Are paying hosting fees, etc... daily? Taken over a month or even a couple weeks your payout works our to about the same as any other pool. The whole process is a little less fun when we have to wait a day or more for good news. I miss the days of seeing multiple blocks per day but such is life. If you need the money out of your mining Daily I guess a smaller pool could pose some problems. Otherwise, I don't see the drawback. Is there some other drawback that I'm not seeing?
so what do you all do with your old usb miners, (the obsolete ones)?
or dont they become obsolete>?
or dont they become obsolete>?
Most people sell them on Ebay or elsewhere just before they become completely obsolete. I have also hear of a couple guys using them to solo mine. In general, your odds of every hitting a block solo mining with old or older hardware is really really slim but maybe, just maybe, you might find a block that doesn't take a huge amount of work. For guys that do this, its kind of like playing the lottery and hoping to hit it big, but knowing that they likely never will.
August 06, 2014, 10:38:28 PM
We really need to grow. What is your plan to spur pool growth?
Do we really need to grow outside of keeping up with the percentage increase in difficulty? I don't mind fewer blocks with larger payouts. As long as we see a block every day or two, the smaller pool is fine with me. I'm sure Doc would like to see if grow though since the bigger the pool, the more fees he collects.
2% of network would be fine. But 1% is kind of tight. Generally, it is where you stop solo mining.
very difficult to encourage growth in this pool.
Doc is pretty honest pool op but the game has change a lot.
in house 4 or 5th is a home miner top end. maybe 10th. for some of us.
In the winter I could run 20 s-3's but that means A little more then I want in house.
So I have gear hosted. I can't handle variance too much stress. So I use bigger pools
It is easy to use a 5% pool say 10 blocks a day. but a 1 percent pool 2 blocks a day . is a bit harder to do. 3 bad days in a row can mean a lot for some of us.
August 06, 2014, 09:57:13 PM
We really need to grow. What is your plan to spur pool growth?
Do we really need to grow outside of keeping up with the percentage increase in difficulty? I don't mind fewer blocks with larger payouts. As long as we see a block every day or two, the smaller pool is fine with me. I'm sure Doc would like to see if grow though since the bigger the pool, the more fees he collects.
2% of network would be fine. But 1% is kind of tight. Generally, it is where you stop solo mining.
August 06, 2014, 06:41:24 PM
We really need to grow. What is your plan to spur pool growth?
Do we really need to grow outside of keeping up with the percentage increase in difficulty? I don't mind fewer blocks with larger payouts. As long as we see a block every day or two, the smaller pool is fine with me. I'm sure Doc would like to see if grow though since the bigger the pool, the more fees he collects.
August 06, 2014, 12:52:30 PM
interested stuff curious about a legit review . and seems like really good
August 06, 2014, 12:27:47 PM
We really need to grow. What is your plan to spur pool growth?
Its hard to compete with a pool with no fees and mindless miners who dont know any better.
August 06, 2014, 11:55:57 AM
We really need to grow. What is your plan to spur pool growth?
Just read one of dogies hardware guides and he posts settings for BTCG, Eligius and ghash. Maybe have a chat?
August 06, 2014, 11:35:19 AM
We really need to grow. What is your plan to spur pool growth?
August 06, 2014, 06:51:35 AM
so what do you all do with your old usb miners, (the obsolete ones)?
or dont they become obsolete>?
or dont they become obsolete>?
August 06, 2014, 03:23:40 AM
Quote:
"Server network looked like it was unstable for some seconds. Just long enough that some miners lost their connection.
If your miner(s) didn't reconnect quickly you may be running an old version of cgminer or bfgminer and need to upgrade. Old versions could get stuck on the backup pool forever or simply crash when the primary pool went down. Recent versions have much more stable backup pool support. Taking a minute or two to get back on the primary pool should be considered normal though."
I am using a brand new S2, woth updated software, and it did the same, switched to Pool 1 from Pool 0, and today it is mining on both.
Would it be an idea to switch it of and on to reset it? Seems to have been mining on two pools far a day now.
Have no experience of this yet.
"Server network looked like it was unstable for some seconds. Just long enough that some miners lost their connection.
If your miner(s) didn't reconnect quickly you may be running an old version of cgminer or bfgminer and need to upgrade. Old versions could get stuck on the backup pool forever or simply crash when the primary pool went down. Recent versions have much more stable backup pool support. Taking a minute or two to get back on the primary pool should be considered normal though."
I am using a brand new S2, woth updated software, and it did the same, switched to Pool 1 from Pool 0, and today it is mining on both.
Would it be an idea to switch it of and on to reset it? Seems to have been mining on two pools far a day now.
Have no experience of this yet.
August 05, 2014, 11:55:34 PM
Might BitMinter support uBTC (Umbrella-BTC) merged mining when it becomes available (15 Aug?)? Seems like it may be a good idea on the surface.
The LiteCoin pool that I use started this for LTC (uLTC) on the 28th of July.
Or is it some elaborate scam?
Doc, what are your thoughts?
The LiteCoin pool that I use started this for LTC (uLTC) on the 28th of July.
Or is it some elaborate scam?
Doc, what are your thoughts?
August 05, 2014, 05:45:03 PM
Very interesting thread and forum.
I have been using Bitminter for some weeks now, and I discovered that it was around 6000 workers when i started, now it is only~4700.
Does it means that people move to other pools? Or just miners who are down for short or long time?
I have been using Bitminter for some weeks now, and I discovered that it was around 6000 workers when i started, now it is only~4700.
Does it means that people move to other pools? Or just miners who are down for short or long time?
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