Is something going on with the pool? I am connected on the GUI using 1.3.0 mining with 1 7970 and 1 Single on this worker. I noticed my shares per shift and GH/S were a bit low(in stats) so looked at the bitminter client.
My single was running about hlf speed so I power cycled it and started again. When it came up it showed 1265 MH/s (over 150% normal) for the single for about 5 seconds, then dropped to 350mh/s and kept dropping. Stopped it at 250MH/s and ran a diagnostic with EasyMiner which showed all normal. Just reflashed the firmware and restarted bitminter client, seems like it is working ok now but kinda strange.
Ever hear of something like this?
Topic: [1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff] - page 260. (Read 837101 times)
December 12, 2012, 02:17:30 AM
December 11, 2012, 06:20:06 PM
Sorry for the short downtime. There was an issue with bitcoind which had to be restarted.
December 11, 2012, 05:21:10 PM
came back up for me
December 11, 2012, 05:12:33 PM
something wrong with the site?
December 11, 2012, 05:12:11 PM
It is for me.
So, what's new?
So, what's new?
December 11, 2012, 05:11:11 PM
Bitminter.com seems to be down. Anyone confirm?
December 10, 2012, 11:56:27 PM
So assuming ASICS ship first half of January, do I need to get cgminer setup or will the GUI support it by then? Or do you think Getwork with rollntime will be sufficient for a few Single SC's?
My goal is for BitMinter client to work with BFL SCs from the day you receive them. If I don't have time for everything then that will be with getwork with rollntime. That's good enough for running ASICs. It doesn't allow you to inspect blocks like GBT or give you the low bandwidth usage of Stratum, but it certainly works.
When it comes to bASIC it looks like I won't have remote access to any units until miners have them. It also looks like it will be more complex to add support for them than the BFL units. That means if you ordered bASIC you will want to find a miner that will support them from day 1 so your bASIC doesn't sit idle.
Avalon, from what I understand, comes with a (tiny) computer with preinstalled software. You just plug it in and it runs.
If I will need to use a miner other than the Bitminter app, what do you recommend for BFL equipment? Before bitminter I was using GUIMiner but was getting some strange bugs.
I don't think I want to go there. The GBT versus Stratum discussions are bad enough. If you ordered bASIC then you will probably want to check the bASIC forums to see which miner authors they are working with to get support from day 1.
Thanks Doc! I have only purchased bfl gear in part due to the issues you mentioned so good to get validation I likely made the right choice.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to read up on gbt vs stratum/etc?
Thanks again all.
December 10, 2012, 01:17:23 PM
EDIT: changed my miner version back to prior to stratum so I'm back to LP and it seems to work now so something is up with me and stratum at the moment... Can you clarify the port I'm supposed to use with bfgminer 2.9.4 or a specific cgminer version that might work better?
It's 3333 or 5050. So you can use --url stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333
It looks like you have a gap where you were not mining from last night till this morning (euro time). Looks like you fell out around the time I did a pool server restart. I have heard of miners crashing when the pool disconnects them, although I think it's rare. It could also be that it stayed on a failover pool and didn't switch back?
What exact problems or errors are you seeing when you use stratum? And was the miner crashed in this instance, or did you see anything else to explain why it wasn't mining?
I'm just using commandline:
-o http://mint.bitminter.com:8332
without any stratum specified - but it says at the top that I'm using 'stratum' so I must be.
I noticed this morning and tried restarting, the blocks were successfully submitting and I was getting 'Accepted' and my miner was reporting normal hash rate, but nothing was showing on bitminter - which is odd - so as I had to go to work I just flipped to the old version (same commandline, but it uses LP instead)
I'm now back from work, and I switched the version back again - and it's back to using stratum and now the blocks are being accepted. I seem to remember getting something about there being nothing in the block header when I restarted this morning, but do not have the logs for that.
Anyway - all fixed now... I think I missed mining around 1.3 btc so I just bet (and won) on satoshidice... so no loss
Will
December 10, 2012, 08:14:59 AM
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Avalon, from what I understand, comes with a (tiny) computer with preinstalled software. You just plug it in and it runs.
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software=cgminer Avalon, from what I understand, comes with a (tiny) computer with preinstalled software. You just plug it in and it runs.
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December 10, 2012, 07:00:47 AM
So assuming ASICS ship first half of January, do I need to get cgminer setup or will the GUI support it by then? Or do you think Getwork with rollntime will be sufficient for a few Single SC's?
My goal is for BitMinter client to work with BFL SCs from the day you receive them. If I don't have time for everything then that will be with getwork with rollntime. That's good enough for running ASICs. It doesn't allow you to inspect blocks like GBT or give you the low bandwidth usage of Stratum, but it certainly works.
When it comes to bASIC it looks like I won't have remote access to any units until miners have them. It also looks like it will be more complex to add support for them than the BFL units. That means if you ordered bASIC you will want to find a miner that will support them from day 1 so your bASIC doesn't sit idle.
Avalon, from what I understand, comes with a (tiny) computer with preinstalled software. You just plug it in and it runs.
If I will need to use a miner other than the Bitminter app, what do you recommend for BFL equipment? Before bitminter I was using GUIMiner but was getting some strange bugs.
I don't think I want to go there. The GBT versus Stratum discussions are bad enough. If you ordered bASIC then you will probably want to check the bASIC forums to see which miner authors they are working with to get support from day 1.
December 10, 2012, 06:38:01 AM
The only way to use stratum/gbt is to connect through cgminer or similar correct? Can't use the bitminter GUI?
Yeah, BitMinter client uses getwork with rollntime. I will be adding Stratum and GBT later.
So assuming ASICS ship first half of January, do I need to get cgminer setup or will the GUI support it by then? Or do you think Getwork with rollntime will be sufficient for a few Single SC's?
If I will need to use a miner other than the Bitminter app, what do you recommend for BFL equipment? Before bitminter I was using GUIMiner but was getting some strange bugs.
Thanks
December 10, 2012, 06:27:17 AM
The only way to use stratum/gbt is to connect through cgminer or similar correct? Can't use the bitminter GUI?
Yeah, BitMinter client uses getwork with rollntime. I will be adding Stratum and GBT later.
December 10, 2012, 05:55:18 AM
The only way to use stratum/gbt is to connect through cgminer or similar correct? Can't use the bitminter GUI?
December 10, 2012, 04:34:01 AM
EDIT: changed my miner version back to prior to stratum so I'm back to LP and it seems to work now so something is up with me and stratum at the moment... Can you clarify the port I'm supposed to use with bfgminer 2.9.4 or a specific cgminer version that might work better?
It's 3333 or 5050. So you can use --url stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333
It looks like you have a gap where you were not mining from last night till this morning (euro time). Looks like you fell out around the time I did a pool server restart. I have heard of miners crashing when the pool disconnects them, although I think it's rare. It could also be that it stayed on a failover pool and didn't switch back?
What exact problems or errors are you seeing when you use stratum? And was the miner crashed in this instance, or did you see anything else to explain why it wasn't mining?
December 10, 2012, 03:55:30 AM
Since around midnight UTC my stats on bitminter show 0 contribution to shifts but my miner is still showing accepted for my work and my hash rate submitted is fine on my miner... Do you know what is happening? I have not changed any configuration at my end.
I'm on 8332 with bfgminer 2.9.4. Going to play around with other ports in the meantime...
EDIT: changed my miner version back to prior to stratum so I'm back to LP and it seems to work now so something is up with me and stratum at the moment... Can you clarify the port I'm supposed to use with bfgminer 2.9.4 or a specific cgminer version that might work better?
Cheers
Will
I'm on 8332 with bfgminer 2.9.4. Going to play around with other ports in the meantime...
EDIT: changed my miner version back to prior to stratum so I'm back to LP and it seems to work now so something is up with me and stratum at the moment... Can you clarify the port I'm supposed to use with bfgminer 2.9.4 or a specific cgminer version that might work better?
Cheers
Will
December 09, 2012, 05:04:46 PM
You welcome 
So are you going to include var diff to GetWork protocol? It would be great to see, if it's available and useful, of course.
So are you going to include var diff to GetWork protocol? It would be great to see, if it's available and useful, of course.
December 09, 2012, 04:46:28 PM
This information should be included on first post in topic, as you declare full support to Stratum and GBT - but nowhere we can find info how to connect to it, except single posts inside this huge topic.
You mean there are people who don't read every post in this thread? This is a bit of a shock.
Sorry, I forgot to add that - thanks
December 09, 2012, 03:53:42 PM
Can you guys told all ports which are used currently for testing? What's the port for Stratum, var diff or GBT?
Stratum is on 3333 and 5050, GBT is on 8332 (I think). Both of them are out of testing and have variable difficulty enabled.To DrHaribo:
This information should be included on first post in topic, as you declare full support to Stratum and GBT - but nowhere we can find info how to connect to it, except single posts inside this huge topic.
Thank you. I am using miner BTCMiner from Ztex, which only supports var diff (I think). Can I use it's advantages on standard protocol GetWork (used by BTCMiner)?
Not yet. Variable difficulty hasn't been enabled on GW yet.Thanks for info. I will be waiting
December 09, 2012, 03:21:26 PM
Thank you. I am using miner BTCMiner from Ztex, which only supports var diff (I think). Can I use it's advantages on standard protocol GetWork (used by BTCMiner)?
Not yet. Variable difficulty hasn't been enabled on GW yet. December 09, 2012, 03:11:51 PM
Thank you. I am using miner BTCMiner from Ztex, which only supports var diff (I think). Can I use it's advantages on standard protocol GetWork (used by BTCMiner)?
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