Great pool, great app.
their miner pushes my hashing speed by 3Mhashes
before = 7mhashes, now 10mhashes
And their UI is very user friendly and
gives us the needed information.
Topic: [1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff] - page 255. (Read 837101 times)
January 02, 2013, 12:09:57 AM
January 01, 2013, 05:34:55 AM
Sorry for the slow server response this morning. Some buggy miners were hammering the server. It was pushing out up to 50 Mb/s of work data at times. After a restart the amount of work requests looks to be back to normal. I'll be working on ways to better deal with this.
Stratum didn't go away. But some miners seem to think that if there is 1 failure on Stratum then they should go back to getwork or getblocktemplate forever, where multiple failures are allowed (by the miner client). At least that's the impression I have. Perhaps it helps to specify explicitly in the config that you want Stratum by using a stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 URL, instead of relying on the miner to see the X-Stratum HTTP header and switch over automatically.
In addition to low traffic, Stratum has another advantage. It will never hammer the server with work requests because of a bug. With Stratum there are no work requests.
Stratum didn't go away. But some miners seem to think that if there is 1 failure on Stratum then they should go back to getwork or getblocktemplate forever, where multiple failures are allowed (by the miner client). At least that's the impression I have. Perhaps it helps to specify explicitly in the config that you want Stratum by using a stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 URL, instead of relying on the miner to see the X-Stratum HTTP header and switch over automatically.
In addition to low traffic, Stratum has another advantage. It will never hammer the server with work requests because of a bug. With Stratum there are no work requests.
January 01, 2013, 04:22:11 AM
we have just lost stratum.
conected miners stopped getting work and swiched to backup,
after restart , GBT with longpoll is negotiated instead of stratum
/edit:
stratum back online,
not restarted miners started working and are back from bacup to bitminter,
those restarted need another restart to leave GBT
conected miners stopped getting work and swiched to backup,
after restart , GBT with longpoll is negotiated instead of stratum
/edit:
stratum back online,
not restarted miners started working and are back from bacup to bitminter,
those restarted need another restart to leave GBT
December 31, 2012, 04:38:20 AM
Happy new year 
Yeah, we are back online. There may be a little downtime now and then today as I make some changes, though.
Yeah, we are back online. There may be a little downtime now and then today as I make some changes, though.
December 31, 2012, 04:14:51 AM
Back for the new year. Thanks Doc
December 31, 2012, 03:04:29 AM
And we're back!
December 31, 2012, 01:38:13 AM
it depends on location, my rooms are getting very cold without mining and its winter. Luckily it isnt so cold right now (only -10°C), but a week ago it was -20°C till -25°C, and without mining it would be VERY cold.
sounds like you need a backup heater.
M
I haven't experimented with PPS very much to be honest. Bitminter has generally satisfied me for the most part, but there has been a nagging itch making me wonder if I could generate more elsewhere.
The math says you can't, unless you go for some 105% PPS pool or something that in fact "invests" your earnings and end up bankrupt when their "super secret, profitable and reliable investment" doesn't work anymore. Been there, done that, didn't lose as much as some others though.Yes, when is the DDoS attack scheduled to be finished? Their lack of customer service in keeping us apprised may be cause for us to look elsewhere for our DDoS needs.
I agree I want a refund 
December 31, 2012, 12:24:58 AM
Yes, when is the DDoS attack scheduled to be finished? Their lack of customer service in keeping us apprised may be cause for us to look elsewhere for our DDoS needs.
December 30, 2012, 11:25:27 PM
I'm not too concerned about merged mining as namecoin is useless.
Last I checked namecoins give about 3% extra income.
Namecoins and transaction fees are much more important now after the reward halving.
Thanks for the updates. Namecoin is not useless. Ironically I was going to withdraw my Namecoins when the site went down. Any idea of when you will be able to get the site back up?
December 30, 2012, 10:40:00 PM
I'm not too concerned about merged mining as namecoin is useless.
Last I checked namecoins give about 3% extra income.
Namecoins and transaction fees are much more important now after the reward halving.
I agree.
+1
M
December 30, 2012, 07:11:53 PM
I'm not too concerned about merged mining as namecoin is useless.
Last I checked namecoins give about 3% extra income.
Namecoins and transaction fees are much more important now after the reward halving.
I agree.
+1
M
December 30, 2012, 06:56:52 PM
I'm not too concerned about merged mining as namecoin is useless.
Last I checked namecoins give about 3% extra income.
Namecoins and transaction fees are much more important now after the reward halving.
December 30, 2012, 06:44:50 PM
Thanks for the info.
This is what Eclipse says regarding fees and invalid block payout offsets...does ozcoin pay for invalids?
Yes, it's pure PPS so you get paid a fixed amount per share regardless of when/if a block is found and even if the block is orphaned or stale. This is what Eclipse says regarding fees and invalid block payout offsets...does ozcoin pay for invalids?
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...we charge a 5% fee, although you are paid regardless of whether or not a block is found or even if a block becomes invalid, so the fee is ultimately 0% over the long term.
December 30, 2012, 06:09:25 PM
Thanks for the info.
This is what Eclipse says regarding fees and invalid block payout offsets...does ozcoin pay for invalids?
This is what Eclipse says regarding fees and invalid block payout offsets...does ozcoin pay for invalids?
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...we charge a 5% fee, although you are paid regardless of whether or not a block is found or even if a block becomes invalid, so the fee is ultimately 0% over the long term.
December 30, 2012, 05:26:28 PM
What is the PPS rate over there? I'm not too concerned about merged mining as namecoin is useless.
Eclipse isn't using Stratum...why is that desired? Other than ASIC needs it of course...
PPS on Ozcoin currently has a 3% fee. As for Stratum, I love it because I'm currently at ~3,000 accepted shares and still have yet to get a rejected share. The only GetWork pool I've accomplished that with is MaxBTC. Eclipse isn't using Stratum...why is that desired? Other than ASIC needs it of course...
December 30, 2012, 05:21:46 PM
What pool would you guys recommend I use while bitminter is down? Currently running Eclipse which offers a PPS Rate of 0.000007971
I haven't experimented with PPS very much to be honest. Bitminter has generally satisfied me for the most part, but there has been a nagging itch making me wonder if I could generate more elsewhere.
I'm currently experimenting with POT on Ozcoin. If only there were other pools that support merged mining over Stratum. I haven't experimented with PPS very much to be honest. Bitminter has generally satisfied me for the most part, but there has been a nagging itch making me wonder if I could generate more elsewhere.
What is the PPS rate over there? I'm not too concerned about merged mining as namecoin is useless.
Eclipse isn't using Stratum...why is that desired? Other than ASIC needs it of course...
December 30, 2012, 04:53:28 PM
What pool would you guys recommend I use while bitminter is down? Currently running Eclipse which offers a PPS Rate of 0.000007971
I haven't experimented with PPS very much to be honest. Bitminter has generally satisfied me for the most part, but there has been a nagging itch making me wonder if I could generate more elsewhere.
I'm currently experimenting with POT on Ozcoin. If only there were other pools that support merged mining over Stratum. I haven't experimented with PPS very much to be honest. Bitminter has generally satisfied me for the most part, but there has been a nagging itch making me wonder if I could generate more elsewhere.
December 30, 2012, 04:48:06 PM
What pool would you guys recommend I use while bitminter is down? Currently running Eclipse which offers a PPS Rate of 0.000007971
I haven't experimented with PPS very much to be honest. Bitminter has generally satisfied me for the most part, but there has been a nagging itch making me wonder if I could generate more elsewhere.
I haven't experimented with PPS very much to be honest. Bitminter has generally satisfied me for the most part, but there has been a nagging itch making me wonder if I could generate more elsewhere.
December 30, 2012, 04:32:59 PM
I appreciate the update and the info Doc. Yeah even having Bitminter roll over to solo mining when it goes down would be awesome imo. I woke up yesterday morning freezing cause my miners were all down lol. It was about 50F in my room cause I didn't have a backup plan setup.
The problem with rolling over to solo mining is that it would require each user to have their own bitcoind deamon running to supply local work. While for some they may already have bitcoin running, or would not have too much issue with setting it up, others who already show their inability to get cgminer or guiminer working on other pools themselves will likely find setting up the deamon to be too troublesome.
If/when Doc adds backup pool support to the java client it would likely be most used in conjunction with other pools. Although for those who are interested and up for the challanege I think a solo mining option would be great too.
December 30, 2012, 03:33:21 PM
Could someone post a copy of beta.jnlp here for me, hosted on a different site? Every time PC crashes (finally fixed. Had a hard drive failing, transferred the contents to another drive, was just too lazy to disconnect the old drive and switch drive letters.), seems something corrupts and Bitminter crashes every time I try to open until re-downloading. Can't redownload now because I can't access site, but would like to have BitMinter actively looking for a connection when there's uptime.
ETA: Nevermind. Deleted Java's temp files, and now the only problem is, of course, connecting with BitMinter server. Could never get cgminer to work with both FPGAs at once (would insist there was only one FPGA connected after I spent hours trying to figure it out), which is what brought me over to BitMinter in the first place, so I guess I'll wait it out. Best of luck, Doc. Extra donations from me henceforth!
ETA: Nevermind. Deleted Java's temp files, and now the only problem is, of course, connecting with BitMinter server. Could never get cgminer to work with both FPGAs at once (would insist there was only one FPGA connected after I spent hours trying to figure it out), which is what brought me over to BitMinter in the first place, so I guess I'll wait it out. Best of luck, Doc. Extra donations from me henceforth!
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