Topic: [1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff] - page 245. (Read 837122 times)
March 07, 2013, 06:36:31 PM
yeah really bad luck it has become annoying.
March 07, 2013, 04:54:43 PM
Sorry if this has been asked and answered before, its a long thread; Doc, whats your policy regarding block size limit and satoshidice transactions?
March 07, 2013, 04:09:25 PM
Are we having bad luck from a couple of days or is just time that I repurpose my vgas to mine terracoins?
BTW: the site seems down
BTW: the site seems down
Yeah, several days of bad luck. Hope it turns around soon.
The website is up. I'm accessing it through CloudFlare right now. But it seems CloudFlare at the same time tells some users that the site is down. I'm not liking it.
March 07, 2013, 03:33:54 PM
Are we having bad luck from a couple of days or is just time that I repurpose my vgas to mine terracoins?
BTW: the site seems down
BTW: the site seems down
March 07, 2013, 01:30:15 PM
When my ASIC arrives will this just work? I have it set to use new connected devices and start them.
There will be a new version to support BFL ASICs. You'll need to restart the miner to upgrade it after the new version is out.
March 07, 2013, 11:58:16 AM
When my ASIC arrives will this just work? I have it set to use new connected devices and start them.
March 06, 2013, 05:27:02 PM
The only way to use stratum across a proxy is with a socks proxy, which cgminer supports but I'm not aware of anyone using it yet.
It may also be possible through a web proxy using the CONNECT method. But the pool may have to accept Stratum connections on port 443. Without really knowing what I'm talking about I bet most web proxies only allow tunneling raw TCP connections to destination port 443, for SSL. But I don't think any miners support this, nor do I know of any pools with Stratum on port 443.
March 06, 2013, 04:59:24 PM
The only way to use stratum across a proxy is with a socks proxy, which cgminer supports but I'm not aware of anyone using it yet.
It may also be possible through a web proxy using the CONNECT method. But the pool may have to accept Stratum connections on port 443. Without really knowing what I'm talking about I bet most web proxies only allow tunneling raw TCP connections to destination port 443, for SSL. But I don't think any miners support this, nor do I know of any pools with Stratum on port 443.
March 06, 2013, 04:45:55 PM
The only way to use stratum across a proxy is with a socks proxy, which cgminer supports but I'm not aware of anyone using it yet.
March 06, 2013, 04:31:34 PM
Though you missed the fact that using getwork+roll-n-time with a greater then 1TH/s device increases the risk that normal, valid blocks will be rejected by the network.
With a naive implementation of rollntime this could be a problem, yes. I don't know if it is worth the effort to improve any existing rollntime miners that don't deal with this properly. Energy is probably better spent elsewhere.
The important part is Stratum vs. GBT.
When it comes to getwork its only advantage over Stratum is that it is easier to run through an HTTP proxy, if that's your only internet access. I don't think getwork is going to last, long term. Even if you are behind a web proxy that doesn't allow the CONNECT method (or only allows it to port 443 destinations) so you can't tunnel Stratum, you could use GBT.
March 06, 2013, 03:59:03 PM
Thank you Doc!
It makes sense.By the way as far as i think cgminer developers prefer stratum instead of GBT and probably cgminer GBT support is not so well developed as stratum is. What are you suggesting to be better with bitminter GBT or Stratum? GBT is using more ram in general which can hurt embedded platforms. Anyway i am all ears:)
...It makes sense.By the way as far as i think cgminer developers prefer stratum instead of GBT and probably cgminer GBT support is not so well developed as stratum is. What are you suggesting to be better with bitminter GBT or Stratum? GBT is using more ram in general which can hurt embedded platforms. Anyway i am all ears:)
getwork with rollntime should be good enough for ASICs and compatible with all existing mining software. It uses more bandwidth than Stratum, though.
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March 06, 2013, 03:43:06 PM
Thank you Doc!
It makes sense.By the way as far as i think cgminer developers prefer stratum instead of GBT and probably cgminer GBT support is not so well developed as stratum is. What are you suggesting to be better with bitminter GBT or Stratum? GBT is using more ram in general which can hurt embedded platforms. Anyway i am all ears:)
It makes sense.By the way as far as i think cgminer developers prefer stratum instead of GBT and probably cgminer GBT support is not so well developed as stratum is. What are you suggesting to be better with bitminter GBT or Stratum? GBT is using more ram in general which can hurt embedded platforms. Anyway i am all ears:)
That depends on your definition of "better". GBT and Stratum have very different goals.
Stratum's goal is to make mining more efficient. You will see much lower bandwidth usage and somewhat lower ratio of rejected work, compared to GBT or getwork.
GBT's goal is giving back control to the miner with transparency and things like the ability to filter out transactions you don't like or even add your own. It can also better detect an evil pool op trying to abuse your hash power to do a double spend and take the coins with him to some southern island. With palm trees. And drinks with little umbrellas in them. Right now I think no mining clients or pools support the advanced features of GBT, just the basics. Without those features GBT has no advantage over Stratum yet. But you may want to lobby miner authors and pools to implement more advanced GBT if you care about those issues.
getwork with rollntime should be good enough for ASICs and compatible with all existing mining software. It uses more bandwidth than Stratum, though.
At BitMinter I decided to support all three protocols. The choice, my friend, is up to you.
March 06, 2013, 01:55:03 PM
Thank you Doc!
It makes sense.By the way as far as i think cgminer developers prefer stratum instead of GBT and probably cgminer GBT support is not so well developed as stratum is. What are you suggesting to be better with bitminter GBT or Stratum? GBT is using more ram in general which can hurt embedded platforms. Anyway i am all ears:)
It makes sense.By the way as far as i think cgminer developers prefer stratum instead of GBT and probably cgminer GBT support is not so well developed as stratum is. What are you suggesting to be better with bitminter GBT or Stratum? GBT is using more ram in general which can hurt embedded platforms. Anyway i am all ears:)
March 06, 2013, 11:38:57 AM
Are there any recent changes to the pool - mining part?
Cgminer 2.11.0 refuses to connect too pool with stratum unless url is explicitly configured as:
stratum+tcp://eu1.bitminter.com:3333
Otherwise it uses GBT
Cgminer 2.11.0 refuses to connect too pool with stratum unless url is explicitly configured as:
stratum+tcp://eu1.bitminter.com:3333
Otherwise it uses GBT
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it will switch from GBT to Stratum and try that, but if it has the slightest problem it will switch back to GBT until next restart of cgminer?
It may be a better idea to use a stratum+tcp URL if Stratum is what you want to use.
Looked like a botnet was bombarding the pool with getwork requests, the load was insanely high. So the server was responding a bit slowly for a while. Maybe that has something to do with the problem you were having.
March 06, 2013, 10:34:48 AM
Doc,
Are there any recent changes to the pool - mining part?
Cgminer 2.11.0 refuses to connect too pool with stratum unless url is explicitly configured as:
stratum+tcp://eu1.bitminter.com:3333
Otherwise it uses GBT
It happened about an hour ago or so
10X
PS: now all is fine strange http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 works again
Are there any recent changes to the pool - mining part?
Cgminer 2.11.0 refuses to connect too pool with stratum unless url is explicitly configured as:
stratum+tcp://eu1.bitminter.com:3333
Otherwise it uses GBT
It happened about an hour ago or so
10X
PS: now all is fine strange http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 works again
March 04, 2013, 07:34:58 AM
okay i am like you in that i sell my coins as they come it. mentally the idea of holding on to them is something I was not able to do.
you mention an offline usb stick for storage how would i do this? tia phil
Just buy some cheap USB flash drive, stick it in a USB slot, set data directory to that drive via datadir=F:\bitcoin (or whatever) in bitcoin.conf, download blockchain, then take it out... you mention an offline usb stick for storage how would i do this? tia phil
or, better yet, just make a wallet.dat on this flash drive with some address, and then send all your bitcoins to one of those addresses when you get some. then you never even have to put the USB stick (and thus the wallet w/ all the coins) in your computer until needed (though in such a case I'd put it on at least 3 sticks if it had a decent chunk of coins on it)
you can usually find some decent ones on slickdeals for $5 or less.
like:
http://slickdeals.net/f/5874998-Kingston-Technology-DataTraveler-Special-Edition-USB-Flashdrive-16GB-7-99-8GB-4-99-Best-Buy
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/90442/meritline-usb-2.0-sd-sdhc-mmc-mini-sdmsm2-all-in-one-memory-readerwriter
http://slickdeals.net/f/5882760-TDK-16-GB-USB-2-0-Mobile-USB-Flash-Drive-7-99-or-5-99-with-orders-totaling-10-or-more-Limit-1-per-customer
(all dead now, but i'm sure there'll be another good one within a couple days)
or if you still have a 1.44 floppy drive or something.
March 03, 2013, 08:56:24 PM
whoa, I wouldn't trust a floppy drive!!!
Yeah, the last few batches of name brand floppy disks I bought had the majority defective out of the box. Many that were good at purchase ended up unreadable a year later. 
March 03, 2013, 05:43:14 PM
okay i am like you in that i sell my coins as they come it. mentally the idea of holding on to them is something I was not able to do.
you mention an offline usb stick for storage how would i do this? tia phil
Just buy some cheap USB flash drive, stick it in a USB slot, set data directory to that drive via datadir=F:\bitcoin (or whatever) in bitcoin.conf, download blockchain, then take it out... you mention an offline usb stick for storage how would i do this? tia phil
or, better yet, just make a wallet.dat on this flash drive with some address, and then send all your bitcoins to one of those addresses when you get some. then you never even have to put the USB stick (and thus the wallet w/ all the coins) in your computer until needed (though in such a case I'd put it on at least 3 sticks if it had a decent chunk of coins on it)
you can usually find some decent ones on slickdeals for $5 or less.
like:
http://slickdeals.net/f/5874998-Kingston-Technology-DataTraveler-Special-Edition-USB-Flashdrive-16GB-7-99-8GB-4-99-Best-Buy
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/90442/meritline-usb-2.0-sd-sdhc-mmc-mini-sdmsm2-all-in-one-memory-readerwriter
http://slickdeals.net/f/5882760-TDK-16-GB-USB-2-0-Mobile-USB-Flash-Drive-7-99-or-5-99-with-orders-totaling-10-or-more-Limit-1-per-customer
(all dead now, but i'm sure there'll be another good one within a couple days)
or if you still have a 1.44 floppy drive or something.
whoa, I wouldn't trust a floppy drive!!!
USB keys, multiple copies. If really paranoid, encrypt your wallet and encrypt the key with truecrypt first.
M
March 03, 2013, 11:18:04 AM
okay i am like you in that i sell my coins as they come it. mentally the idea of holding on to them is something I was not able to do.
you mention an offline usb stick for storage how would i do this? tia phil
Just buy some cheap USB flash drive, stick it in a USB slot, set data directory to that drive via datadir=F:\bitcoin (or whatever) in bitcoin.conf, download blockchain, then take it out... you mention an offline usb stick for storage how would i do this? tia phil
or, better yet, just make a wallet.dat on this flash drive with some address, and then send all your bitcoins to one of those addresses when you get some. then you never even have to put the USB stick (and thus the wallet w/ all the coins) in your computer until needed (though in such a case I'd put it on at least 3 sticks if it had a decent chunk of coins on it)
you can usually find some decent ones on slickdeals for $5 or less.
like:
http://slickdeals.net/f/5874998-Kingston-Technology-DataTraveler-Special-Edition-USB-Flashdrive-16GB-7-99-8GB-4-99-Best-Buy
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/90442/meritline-usb-2.0-sd-sdhc-mmc-mini-sdmsm2-all-in-one-memory-readerwriter
http://slickdeals.net/f/5882760-TDK-16-GB-USB-2-0-Mobile-USB-Flash-Drive-7-99-or-5-99-with-orders-totaling-10-or-more-Limit-1-per-customer
(all dead now, but i'm sure there'll be another good one within a couple days)
or if you still have a 1.44 floppy drive or something.
March 03, 2013, 11:00:40 AM
Sorry for the spam today. Just wanted to let you know a small website update just went out.
The luck and rewards pages are now much more responsive.
I also added Bitcoin Stats for iOS (iphone, ipad) to the third party apps list. Thanks for supporting BitMinter! It's becoming a nice list of available apps now.
The luck and rewards pages are now much more responsive.
I also added Bitcoin Stats for iOS (iphone, ipad) to the third party apps list. Thanks for supporting BitMinter! It's becoming a nice list of available apps now.
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