Topic: [1200 TH] EMC: 0 Fee DGM. Anonymous PPS. US & EU servers. No Registration! - page 226. (Read 499476 times)

So we seem to be taking intermittent DDoS hits on the US servers /sigh.  There appears to be two separate attacks going on, actually.  Trying to work around those.

Organofcorti: ICMP is turned off on the boxes, so you won't get a ping response from them.  We have SNMP monitoring for those.

Boin7898: Paypal payment works on the MtGox rate, either last sale or daily average, whichever is lower minus a 10% fee to cover our costs. We will probably adjust this method over time, but it's a good starting point.  

xonar: We are working towards a PPS method that is less cheat-prone than current methods.  If the pool is large enough then PPS cheating won't be such a big issue, but right now the pool is too small to support a wide open PPS.  

I am also implementing the cheat-proof scoring system by Meni after the next block to prevent pool hoppers.

Quick question - are you distributing the block transaction fees earned to the pool participants or are keeping them for yourself?

Regardless, I will definitely add some miners to the pool as soon as you have some anti-hopping measures put in place.

I like your pool because it has all the features of deepbit (except PPS) with no fees.
Added a few miners today. If the server stays stable I'll move more from other pools to this.

Can't see any problems now besides relatively high variance, due to low hashrate.

How the PayPal cashout method works? You take a little fee or it uses the same price as MTGox?
This pool seems really awesome!

...and now up on the pacrim server.

Joy!

OK got rego and got workers going on us server (I got RPC failure on pacrim). Site looks v noooice. Can't wait for graphs 

Trying to register - getting:

after which I get a "passwords do not match" when I reload the page.

I seem to have good network now and the pings to eclipsemc.com are 200 - 300 ms.

I also pinged to pacrim.eclipse.com (46.51.255.204) for 138000ms, got 100% packet loss.

Let me know if you can sort this - keen to give it a go.

Fixing that bug now.

Bug should be fixed... are you still getting the error?

Cant manage work names get an unauthorized message.

I'm evaluating the Cheat-Proof method as well as a couple other similar methods to handle that. 

It looks like I'm rewriting the share aggregation functions anyway, so I'll probably add that into the mix within the next couple days.

I'm east coast AU so 'tonight' is in about 5 hours. I'll let you know if I have any problems, also what the pings are.

BTW, now that the variation between smaller pools and large pools is so great, smaller pools with larger variance at are the larger pool's mercy when it comes to pool hopping. Eligius recently made some interesting changes to cope. What are you planning to do?

Money will come from donations.  At some point, some of the features may be donation only if there's not enough voluntary donations going. I'm not really looking to make a living off of this, and a lot of the features are features I wanted for myself anyway.

The public test is definitely having some growing pains, though.  Let me know if you have any issues connecting - are you connecting to EU or AU servers?

Sweet! A local pool finally. Maybe now I can get pings of less than 450ms average. Would only be better if there was no rego. But for this sort of pool, you sound like you've got all bases covered. Looking forward to some graphical stats. So far the best I've seen are done by artefact2 on Eligius.


I'll change over tonight after work and let my measly 700Mhps give it a spin.

Cheers mate.

Edit: 0 fee with all these options? How you going to make money?

Well dang, that was fast!  Already had someone try an XSS attack. 

It demonstrate a couple bugs in the user registration code and as a precaution I've reset 4 user accounts.  If you are unable to login, please contact me and I can get you fixed up right away. 

I actually appreciate the attack, since flaws in the system are what I'm looking for.

I am mining on this pool and it has been working great! I moved from BTCGuild to EclipseMC due to the high/intense load there. Currently mining @ 11.96GH/s.

PPS is coming later in the week.  I wasn't sure how much demand there was for PPS currently, but it's on the plate.

no pps?

Hello Folks,

Website: https://eclipsemc.com

Stratum
Mining Server: stratum+tcp://us1.eclipsemc.com:3333 or 443
Mining Server: stratum+tcp://us2.eclipsemc.com:3333 or 443
Mining Server: stratum+tcp://us3.eclipsemc.com:3333 or 443
Mining Server: stratum+tcp://eu.eclipsemc.com:3333 or 443

We are the first & only pool to offer you both Hop Proof DGM & PPS on the same pool.

EMC is also a GetBlockTemplate (GBT) pool, which means we are ready for ASIC.  We use both GBT and variable difficulty shares to allow for a virtually unlimited hashrate on each server.

We also offer support for the Stratum protocol on port 3333 and port 443 on all servers.

As an added bonus, if you don't wish to create and account, we also offer Anonymous PPS - you don't even have to create an account.  Just point your miners at the pool, set your username to your BTC or Dwolla ID (depending on what kind of payout you want) and start mining.  That's it!

This is a zero fee pool on our DGM scoring system..  We do not charge you fees for mining with our pool with DGM and we pay out to all 8 decimal places.

We are built from the ground up with security in mind and completely original, custom code.  All traffic is encrypted (with the exception of block traffic, since it's meaningless in terms of security), database passwords are hashed & salted, worker passwords are divorced from the account passwords, etc...  

You are free to sign up with any email address, we don't verify.  However, you won't be able to use our password recovery or Email notification features if your email address isn't accurate.

We are a double geometric scored pool, but we also offer PPS mininig. We use Meni Rosenfeld's scoring algorithm which awards each user fairly based on their contribution to the block.  This prevents pool hoppers from taking a substantial portion of your profit.  For more information, see this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/double-geometric-method-hopping-proof-low-variance-reward-system-39497

All of our features are active for everyone during the testing phase and depending on how donations go, they may remain free indefinitely, those features include, but are not limited to:

• Anonymous PPS - You can mine on EMC anonymously via PPS.  No account required! Just use your BTC address or Dwolla ID as your user name, depending on which method of payout you want.
• Authenticated PPS - PPS with all the features of Eclipse as your dispoal.
• Yubikey Support - For your security, we support One Time Password (OTP) Yubikey two-factor authentication
• Google Authenticator - For your security, we also support Google Authenticator as a two-factor authentication mechanism as well
• Instant Payout for all work completed (Including unconfirmed blocks and even the current block!)
• SMS Notifications on failed miner, payouts, account changes and solved blocks
• Email notification on failed miner, payouts, account changes and solved blocks
• Privacy Mode
• Automatic Profitability Calculator for each miner
• 8 decimal place payout
• Payouts in BTC or directly with Dwolla in USD
• Payout lock on critical account changes
• Geographically distributed and redundant infrastructure
• Scalable architecture for future growth
• Detailed Graphs and statistics
• Mobile pages for viewing on your mobile devices
• Complete JSON API
• Long Polling Support
• On Demand payouts
• Automatic payouts

All this is wrapped up in an easy to use interface!

We have work servers on port 3333 located at:

us1.eclipsemc.com
us2.eclipsemc.com
us3.eclipsemc.com

To connect with CGMiner/BFGMiner:

./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://us2.eclipsemc.com:3333 -O :
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://us2.eclipsemc.com:3333 -O :