Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 573. (Read 4382714 times)

This is getting fishy...in a matter of weeks almost 24 hours of invalid hashing...

if you click the blocks it doesnt say orphaned

I wonder if slush losing IP's if we invalidated our own blocks or something

IP shaving and changes been happening... but of course I shouldnt post IP's cuz.. oh never mind that doesnt even make any sense, as your see the resolution lots of changes... but then again if you are clueless to how the internet works you wont notice anything....

Name:    stratum.bitcoin.cz
Addresses:  192.198.107.178
          95.211.52.40

I see we got stratum2 and stratum3 resolving for some different ip's which is good for when issues happen at least you arent totally at round robins and caches fate

Name:    stratum2.bitcoin.cz
Addresses:  192.198.107.178
          95.211.52.40
          54.215.3.101

Name:    stratum3.bitcoin.cz
Addresses:  54.225.116.174
          95.211.52.40
          192.198.107.178

Why tese happens, again two in a row ?

19682    2013-08-19 22:47:11    2:19:51    71506708    208054    0.06592060    253091    25.37953223    invalid
19681    2013-08-19 20:27:20    2:21:40    71930298    210595    0.07538372    253075    25.28987285    invalid

19689    2013-08-20 04:00:42    0:01:30
19688    2013-08-20 03:59:12    0:06:15
19687    2013-08-20 03:52:57    0:31:19

4 blocks in an hour, looks like our luck is finally turning up !

Why are you using the long string?

with bfg miner 3.1.4 you can use the following in your .bat file:-

for startup with Erupters and GPU:-
bfgminer.exe -o http://api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 -u Miner.worker -p password -S all

This finds the GPU and all erupters

for startup with Erupters and NO GPU:-
bfgminer.exe -o http://api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 -u Miner.worker -p password -G -S all

This will find all the devices but excludes the GPU

I dont have multiple GPU
But will the following work?
bfgminer.exe -o http://api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 -u Miner.worker -p password -G all

this is more or less exactly what i did when trying to compare different payout methods. you can run multiple instances of cgminer and mining_proxy.exe from the same directory and just have a couple of batch files on your desktop, or in the directory itself with shortcuts on the desktop with the different settings you require.
for example:

proxy1.bat
mining_proxy --host pool-host --port pool-port --stratum-host 192.168.0.1 --stratum-port 6161 --getwork-host 192.168.0.1 --getwork-port 6162 --no-midstate

proxy2.bat
mining_proxy --host pool-host --port pool-port --stratum-host 192.168.0.1 --stratum-port 6163 --getwork-host 192.168.0.1 --getwork-port 6164 --no-midstate

cgminer1.bat
cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COM13 -S //./COM16 --url 192.168.0.1:6161 --userpass user.worker:password

cgminer2.bat
cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COM17 -S //./COM22 --url 192.168.0.1:6163 --userpass user.worker:password

of course, substitute your own ports/ip's/comms/usernames/passwords where required.
these are copied from my own batch files which use cgminer 3.1.1 and i DID read somewhere that later versions require you to drop the "//./" from the comm port settings or you will run into problems and start pulling more hair out.

from my experience using getwork even on the local network yields about 5% less return (interested to know other peoples results regarding this) so unless you have a reason tto use getwork or problems using stratum, i recommend using stratum from the pool all the way through to the client.


if you use the latter method, you can still edit the batch files directly from the desktop shortcuts with a right-click -> edit. to edit the shortcut itself you need to right-click -> properties.

cheers ladies.

Why http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332 and http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 are dead in my bfgminer?
The pool down or URL changed?

do you intentionally not tell it not to use the GPU also?

bfgminer does not use comports in their string like cgminer

My startup goes up to bfgminer.exe -o http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u username -p password --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S with no com ports defined, it then uses everything. I guess that answers the question though.

When more than one solo miner and/or pool find a block at almost the same time each can get added to different instances of the blockchain. When another block is added to one of the instances that one is longer and becomes "The" Chain and the other block is disgarded, orphanned.

How does and Orphaned block happen?

252730 is posted as "Orphaned" so we get nothing

252730 is reported as valid on Blockchain and attributed to Slush.  Hopefully Slush will fix this one.  The 252722 is defo a weird late one, and not found on Blockchain.

2 invalid blocks in a row 


19659 2013-08-18 00:43:31 0:24:25 12918777 3385 0.00626088 252722  25.00000000 invalid 
19658 2013-08-18 00:19:06 0:41:44 21756147 5705 0.00652499 252730  25.44870012 invalid 

Since all of the mining hardware is identical and an even number I would just wait for the pay out and then send 1/2 of the amount to another wallet.  ie...If it takes you six weeks to mine 1 BTC just send .5 BTC to the other wallet after the pool pays out.

Chad

When you run bfgminer dont you pass it information about the devices to use? like:

bfgminer.exe -o http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u username -p password --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COM4

You can then save this as a desktop shortcut or some kind of .bat to autorun on boot. Then create a duplicate of this specifying different com ports for each of your devices and different worker details.

There is probably a better way to specify this in a config file but I have forgotten how. I'm sure someone else with clearer instructions will come along.

Got stuck at the fact I don't know how to tell each instance to use which devices in the config file or file parameters.