Topic: [350 GH/s] "Eligius" (experimental) pool: almost feeless PPS, hoppers welcome - page 34. (Read 116949 times)

This is no effect on mining. Basically, it means the pool won't participate/confirm transactions without a (tiny) fee, so it is immune to transaction spam.[/list]

Luke-jr,
Can you please explain this to a newbie ? What does it mean and why do you need it ...
Do I need to change some setting on my rpcminer-cpu client ?

Here's some more useless data: http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/pool/blocks/?C=M;O=A

Just an advance notice: the current block is overbilled; a total of 52.8665594 BTC is due to be paid out, but most likely the reward won't be that much.
As a result, the address 15syQPo3NadEtD4UVv34ixjkZvztCHCcX1 has been chosen (more or less randomly) to be paid only ~1.56 BTC out of his due ~4.43 BTC. The remainder will be paid at the next block. Since this is random, it's quite possible some factor may end up in another address being the one delayed. So if you happen to receive unexpectedly less and your balance has over 1 BTC remaining, this is why.

I consider my own pool output to be just as private as anyone else mining on it. I only posted my earnings above to promote the pool, and confirm that it isn't just me receiving above-expected earnings.

As far as fees, the address receiving the 0.00000001 BTC per second is 1LGiiiQF6EW8Eoop5KyGmkSDGnYZRd94EE. With the new 1 BTC minimum, it will probably not show up very often.

The first address in a transaction is the "leftovers", generally due to the non-payouts of earnings under 1 BTC. It will obviously be filled by the payouts later on when those members reach their 1 BTC minimum. These funds remain in Eligius's client. If there ever becomes a problem with it consistently delaying payouts, I can manually do a sendmany with them to "catch up" (although I don't have anything written to offset such a send in the payout code yet).

If I omit the authentication in a request manually, I get a 401 just fine...

Your problem with Ufasoft is that it does not send an authentication header on the first request.

You have to respond to it with a 401 WWW-Authenticate string, and then once it replies with the auth, return a getwork.

Took me ~3 min for my address to show up. Not sure why yours isn't.

I think, its a small not bug but feature used wrongly.
The following pics below shows all addresses with an 9 digit number. I think that 9 digit represents the amount of bitcoin they mined.
1+8 decimal points. Luke some where mentioned (not sure) that a miner gets his coins only if its more than 1btc.
I think the same goes here. Until a miner mines more than 1 bitcoin, his address is not shown in the current block.
I am now running my miner for more than an hour, still my address not shown.
I believe when my miner reaches 1 bitcoin in current share , my address will be shown with a 9 digit number.(100000000- its the minimum 9 digit number & all the numbers in the screen shot is more than this number)

I don't think it needs any stats other than perhaps how much you've paid yourself. Though, is it always the top address in the To column of the block? Beyond that, I hope you gave some consideration to my suggestion.

You saying MINT coins, instead of coins from other pools which at least get one transaction.

The pool overpaid. Usually due to shares not factored into the final generation reward (meaning the pool underpaid someone else). I just put a 1 BTC buffer into the script, so 1 BTC (spread equally across all miners) will be delayed until the next block. Hopefully that will mitigate the vulnerability.

Hey Luke, what do the "negative" balances indicate on http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/pool/balances.json?

BTW, whoever is username "135dgT3qkdzac3DWMQfwwSeq2cH" needs to fix their miner to send the full address or it can't pay you...

I want to make one thing clear, in hopes of explaining where I am coming from personally: I have no interest in running a pool for-profit. Until this difficulty, I was perfectly happy mining on my own. The only reason I have a pool, is because I can no longer get a block within a single standard difficulty period of 2 weeks by myself. Therefore, my operating this pool will be under that assumption, particularly with regard to the lack of a fancy webpage or stats. Please note that actually useful stats, like the ones I have thrown together so far, are not included in that.

That being said, if the pool members wish to pay me for making fancy stats, I could perhaps setup some kind of optional "pool development fund" donation thing. But writing the code for that would also be non-trivial and incur a cost to me. So it would only work off-the-bat as a pool-wide fee, or a simple Bitcoin address those who desire such features can manually send to. As not everyone necessarily cares about such things, I have decided the better is a superior method. Therefore, if you want to contribute funds toward fancy statistical stuff, please send your contribution to 16yREn3ixJuPLP1RaLgTjVERsQDhUJgZg

In the meantime, I would appreciate all comparisons between "expected' earnings (eg, the ";;bc,gen" command on IRC) and actual earnings from my pool.
I personally have received 15.73 BTC, while my "expected" is only 8.51 BTC. I hope you all have similar results.

Thanks Luke. I'm getting good response from the pool so far. Lets see how it develops!

Definitely user stats area would be nice, but that is less important than mechanics and reliability of the pool itself.

Yo Luke, your pool is cool but IMO you need more complex control panel for user and for pool monitoring,

This is < 1 BTC

You don't seem to understand how my pool pays out. There are no payout sends, you get original coins direct from the coinbase.

If the pool hash rate goes up significantly and you use the latest bitcoind (which allows sending payments to multiple recipients at once among other things), then it will probably will be useful.  Just my thought on the matter.  I haven't looked into what it would take to build a pool.  I would have to dabble in solo mining with multiple machines [and one master] to get closer to deciding to do so.  However, I think there will be enough pools by then that a new pool won't be useful.  I think a pool with a great website and lots of features while sticking to the 2% rate would be a winner!  Maybe I and a couple of buddies should whip something up [nah ... won't happen ].

I'm still not listed on the current block either. More work to be done I suppose.