Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 1120. (Read 4382648 times)

The stats and payment processing code were too ugly to be released.  Any competent programmer should be able to do so, from looking at the SQL statements inside poold.py.

A commercially-supported pool is coming in the next week or two with these features, but it will not be open source.

I saw your thread before, problem is that I would like a more polished version, stats, payment processing, etc.
Are you planning on doing so ? Maybe we can start a bounty for that, or someone with skills may be interested in finishing it.

I would just like to say that I am extremely thankful for Slush's efforts without which I would be unable to mine any coin.  In my opinion, he has been responsive, open, and more than fair.  Despite my extremely low balance and rate of income, I have always chosen to contribute to Slush in thanks.

While I'm at it the efforts of jgarzik, m0mchil, puddinpop, and others who develop, package, provide, improve, write howtos or answer questions about mining software are greatly appreciated.

The unamed (sorry) persons who man these forums answering questions, moderating, and otherwise supporting users are also greatly appreciated.

This is my thank you to everyone who contributes positively to Bitcoin.

Then do so and quit complaining.  The rest of us find the usefulness of the pool worthy enough to pay a small fee to use. 

GPL'd pool servers are available, for anyone who wishes to run their own:  http://yyz.us/bitcoin/poold.py

See this thread for details of a pool test using this software.

I don't mind paying a fee to be in the pool. It's just not a donation any more.

If he pulled the plug then he would not make $$ off u and I.

It's ppl like you who assume. I did state I may as well use my own client and start my own server. Learn to read.

I think Slush is doing a good job, BPM is running smoothly, and I'm happily donating my 2%.
Anyway, I would like to see many, professional, profit based competing pool operators.
Slush, would you like to license your platform to bring up a new pool server ?

First off, he said it's a temporary solution so that he doesn't have to pay out of his pocket for you to be able to mine.  If you don't like it, mine on your own, or set up your own server.  I was a leecher too, and wasn't thrilled when all my clients went dead this morning, but he has expenses, and they weren't being covered.  Just be happy he didn't pull the plug.  It's people like you that expect others to provide them everything for free that are the real idiots.  It's not free for him.

I appreciate you running the pool, and your availability to answer annoying questions that keep coming up. I also know that you are on holiday right now and can't do too much, so thanks for what you have done! Saying all of that, I only say the following with respect and as constructive, not as a critique: maybe next time, more advance warning would have been good!

enjoy your holiday!

CPU miners are traffic inefficient because every client asks for work at the same interval (5 seconds by default for the one I use) but CPU miners do less work per work request. Thus they produce more traffic per khash.

Slush happens to be a well-respected member of the Bitcoin community.  He always responds quickly when people have issues.  I don't know of anyone who is actually able to make a living off of Bitcoins yet, so we all need to exercise a little patience and understanding.  By all means start your own server so you can listen to complaints from deadbeats.

What a great idea. Please start your own server, and don't ask for donations.

I'm not exactly sure where the statement that CPU miners are traffic ineffective comes from, nor where/why the community's popular view is such.  The 4way SSE algorithm puts one of my (VMWare ESX hosted so the GPU in it isn't usable) 6 core AMD Phenom's at 18khash/sec, and at a far lower $ cost than the spare cycles I run my GPU miners on with a pair of 5870's.  That single CPU (which is a 2.7ghz X6, 1045T) does 18k/sec at a similar cost to a 5870.  GPUs are definitely more efficient, but a well written algo making use of CPU SIMD instructions will come well within shooting distance of all but the latest highest end cards.  My dual quad core opteron running at 2.0Ghz does another 14k/sec, granted that older box isn't anywhere near as efficient either, but the CPU miners could be faster, the SSE algo may not be the fasted algorithm in all cases (it IS way faster than the c algo or crypto++).

Now if you mean because each of the threads from each of the miners has to request work individually instead of as a team, I can understand that, but you're still only doing around 400hits/sec (if the getworks/sec is to be any indication of the hitrate) so I definitely agree that the amt of traffic exchanged for each getwork is probably quite a bit.  One thing I noticed is the diablo GPU miner does not back off immediately when it gets an error.  It retries immediately quite a few times before finally backing off and the site does 500 errors right at the time the network adds a new block, which is definitely causing more traffic for you.  Probably doubling your actual traffic just sending out 500 errors instead of forcing clients to wait a moment.

Heck with blocking a bunch of people with auth errors you might make things worse because they'll all start hammering.

I know it's going to take quite some work to make BPM fly though, and it won't be easy.

I think its a fucking joke for you to ask for donations. You should not force ppl to donate. How about not be a dick and dont force ppl to donate?

Because you're a huge douch, I may have to start my own server, with a better client.

It already feels like your taking small donations anyways... I've had multiple instances where I have not recived anything... and I think you're taking small snippets off te topmuch like the US banking systems does.

Forcing donations is not a good idea. How about you get out of moms garage and buy a better server instead of forcing the ppl that run the client to pay for it. Ugh, ppl that start projects and don't have the hardware to support it...... i.d.i.o.t!!

Thanks a lot Cryptoman, I am now mining bitcoins! Albeit very slowly!!!

Thanks again!

From my limited experience with Windows CPU mining, puddinpop's miner seems to work the best. 

1. Set up an account and worker on slush's pool: http://mining.bitcoin.cz

2. Download the miner: http://www.mediafire.com/file/qtxuv5kko1x116d/bitcoin-rpcminer-20110128-win32bin.zip

3. Unzip the files into a directory like C:\puddinpop.

4. Open a command window and navigate to the install directory

5. Start the miner using a command like this:


The user field will be your pool worker's full name, something like "bigbear.laptop" or whatever you set up on slush's site.  You need to keep the command window open (minimized is OK) in order to continue mining.  You do not need to have the bitcoin client running, but it is a good idea so you can receive the payments immediately.  Definitely keep "generate" turned off in the bitcoin client.  Good luck.

Thanks yrral86 but what exactly do you mean by "run them in the terminal with the right parameters"? My experience with programing is limited.

Are you saying I need to replace a file in the Bitcoin folder? Beyond downloading the program, what step do I have to do get this thing going?

I don't have to worry about electricity here, I live out of a hotel for a living.

I appreciate the help!!

As far as I know, there are no miners where you can just download and double click.  You have to run them in the terminal with the right parameters.  Start with --help.  From what I've seen, (I've got 9 processing units going across 5 computers) you might be able to pull about 0.15 btc per day with your processor.  Not much, but probably more than the cost of the electricity.  Just be sure you aren't overheating the laptop because that will shorten it's lifetime

I've confirmed that I'm using the correct credentials.  I have 3 workers, each us using its own account.  In the stats page, I am showing up as sharing 974-978 as well as 967, but none of the blocks between 967-974 nor after 978, even though all three workers have been running the entire time (without any error messages).  

On the my account page, the found blocks are all 0 (even though I saw some "Hash Found" messages on my terminals and the server responds with "true" and null error field).  Also on the My account page, the "Last Share" column is only filled in for two of the workers, not the third.  And the dates for those two workers aren't the same, even though they have been active over the same time period.

The only thing I noticed is that my workers all have different logins but they have the same passwords.  Is that a problem?  Do the passwords have to be different for each worker, too? 

Also, I do have on donations, too, so my account should be active!

Let me know what else I should try and I'll follow-up asap and let you know what I find. 

thanks,