Topic: [1423GH] ABCPool PPS - Proxy Pool For High & Steady Mining Rewards - page 22. (Read 151902 times)

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I just tried to initiate a payout from your site and it says my bitcoin address is not valid. This worked in the morning so it looks like you guys just changed something. I have probably received 100 payments to this address.

Please fix this.

Thanks,
gigavps

Hang in there for a little while, I suspect the worst of the storm is over as pools are getting around to properly updating their bitcoind's.

Today I am noticing a strangely high rate of rejected (4-6.4%) among my 5 cards. I am using Phoenix 1.72.
Anything I can do?

NEWS: Your miner may have been idling/blocked past weekend due to a bitcoin network transition.

This past weekend was a pretty bumpy one for pool miners, and the bumps may not have completely disappeared yet. On april 1, BIP16 support should have been activated for most pools. In reality there's quite a few that still have not implemented it, causing lots of lengthy forks in the blockchain and missed income for miners at those pools.

ABCPool has connections with several of those pools, and therefore ABCPool was also affected by these events, but in a different way. The work being dealt out was switching between the various forks, causing Phoenix (but possibly also other clients) to start hammering the server for new work multiple times per second (while being idle). You may have experienced your miner being blocked because of that. We've taken some measures to ensure that we're always on the right side of the fork now.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
MC

I'll take a look at it for you. Can you PM me your ABC username and the logging output of your mining client?

I still cannot mine with my CPU miners.

Help plz.

Thanks. Strange thing is that on our end it was only us.ozco.in, all others were running at normal levels . Should the issue return we'll take a closer look at it.
Quite right

heh nice
you just pushed us over 1Thash and total pool stales currently 0.11

Hey MintCondition,
I only mentioned it as it was only your miners* that were affected, everyone else was running at normal levels We didn't think it was related to our server issues, wasn't quite the timing
And as you pay for stales i guess its impacting your bottom line
Best
Graeme

ABCPool's workers not people submitting to ABC

Hi Graet, welcome in our thread!

The abovementioned issue is not related. It had to do with an upstream pool, but not Ozcoin Let me elaborate on the Ozcoin incident:
Ozcoin has two servers (au and us). The stales you were noticing were occurring only on one of Ozcoins servers. We took that ozcoin server out of rotation for a day. Now it seems to be functioning OK again, so it's back in. You mentioned some backend problems around that time? We attributed it to that and did not pay further attention to it. Overall our experience with Ozcoin has been excellent.

Now for all the ABC miners that might have become worried by a mention of 30% stales:
ABC miners were in no way impacted by those ozcoin stales. share accounting for ABC miners is completely seperated from what upstream pools like Ozcoin are reporting. If ABCPool determines a share to be valid the user gets credited, even if an upstream pool reports it as invalid.

Why is that? Well, the promise we make to our miners has nothing to do with the performance of third parties. Therefore we think it wouldn't be fair to ABC miners if we shifted problems with third parties to them. Our miners have a 'contract' with us, and we have further 'contracts' with third parties. Seperate.

That's also where ABCPool improves on services like Project #2 or GPUMAX. Their users are experiencing a fluctuating amount of stales, because they apply the upstream result to the user instead of doing their own verification. IMHO, such an approach can never provide miners with a predictable experience.

no i think nearly 1/3 of submitted shares being stale is unusually high
most miners on Ozcoin run below 1%

30% is a small percentage?

Would this have anything to do with the 30% stales you were submitting to Ozcoin the other day?

A 5970 should definitely be getting more than 280Mh/s even on its own. If you PM me your ABC username I'll investigate your case.

Has your miner been idling? I'm asking because we noticed (and fixed) an issue that caused some of the work packets to be potentially incompatible with some mining clients for the last ~3 days. It can only have impacted a very small amount of users because overall hashrate did not change.

We create our own blocks sometimes, and you'll be working on work that other pools provide. From the ops' point of view, a PPS pool is just an enormous solo mining operation because the ops take over all risks from its miners. And what does a solo miner usually do? Join a pool to reduce variance We actually join multiple pools.

I wish all your replies in this thread were this direct. 

ABCPool is not the so-called Mystery Miner. If there are transactions, ABCPool blocks are likely to contain them. I'd been following the Mystery Miner story in it's early days (now not so much), and the most likely explanation seemed that it's a large botnet that minimizes calculations, load and/or traffic by not including transaction data.

I hope that this does not mean that this pool is the "Mistery miner". Does ABCpool include transactions?

ah oki thanks for the response. I glossed over the thread title but I wasn't really sure what a 'Proxy' pool meant as oppose to other non-proxy pools. Does it mean rather than creating your own blocks for the miners to solve you serve work from blocks that other pools are working on instead?