After lowering the requested difficulty from 128 to 64 my stale rate went up from ~0.5% to ~1%. Does this make any sense?
The stales are always "prevhash-stale". Are those stales payed? I'm wondering because paying stales would almost eat up my fee (1.5%).
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November 21, 2012, 06:16:20 AM
November 03, 2012, 06:34:03 AM
And another yesterday...
8 blocks found thus far
- only 200 BTC to show for it 
Hoping the pool luck gets better at FD can stay closer to even...
8 blocks found thus far
- only 200 BTC to show for it Hoping the pool luck gets better at FD can stay closer to even...
October 31, 2012, 06:07:02 AM
And another found this morning...
I swear - never have this luck when solo-mining
I swear - never have this luck when solo-mining
October 30, 2012, 04:49:07 PM
I found another one - still way in the hole though...
October 29, 2012, 10:04:10 PM
Well, since you're committed to keeping this pool open, I'll point some of my personal hashrate your way too - just a few gigahash but hopefully it'll bump things up a bit 
October 29, 2012, 08:51:30 AM
Thanks fireduck - I moved off the pool as we were getting low as I feared payouts would be curtailed until a block was found. Hopefully we get lucky again and find a few shares in the coming day(s)!
October 29, 2012, 08:48:35 AM
So the pool has been pretty low and I put some more in yesterday or the day before. I begin to lose track, I've been traveling.
October 25, 2012, 04:32:17 PM
I am back on full time for now - keeping fingers crossed...
October 25, 2012, 11:30:21 AM
I can't remember how to do risk of ruin calculations on BTC pools, but I tried inputting the pool's current balance into a sim I made.
200 runs, 88 of them resulted in pool bankruptcy within 100 blocks. 61 of them (30.5%) resulted in pool bankruptcy within 10 blocks. The real case is likely to be worse than this as not all miners are mining at the 2% fee I assumed.
This is why you need a big buffer to pay PPS. The pool should look at alternative financing methods.
200 runs, 88 of them resulted in pool bankruptcy within 100 blocks. 61 of them (30.5%) resulted in pool bankruptcy within 10 blocks. The real case is likely to be worse than this as not all miners are mining at the 2% fee I assumed.
This is why you need a big buffer to pay PPS. The pool should look at alternative financing methods.
October 25, 2012, 07:40:41 AM
That's your job, isn't it? ;p
October 25, 2012, 07:05:18 AM
We need to find a block!!
October 22, 2012, 02:44:10 PM
It's supposed to be more of a benefit for the pool operator, keeping the network traffic to a minimum.
I have to wonder whether traffic's really an issue when you're working on high-difficulty shares... October 22, 2012, 02:40:39 PM
It's supposed to be more of a benefit for the pool operator, keeping the network traffic to a minimum.
October 22, 2012, 01:41:10 PM
Are there any plans to support the Stratum protocol?
I have only just now heard of it so I have no plans. Does it provide any significant advantages to miners?
October 22, 2012, 12:51:29 PM
Are there any plans to support the Stratum protocol?
October 16, 2012, 02:25:28 PM
I'm in the process of upgrading one of the supporting bitcoind instances to 0.7. It has decided it needs to inspect the world for a while so share processing is down until it completes.
Mining, block creation and share recording are going fine (they use a different bitcoind). Payments and share recording btc amounts for shares will be back whenever it is done.
Mining, block creation and share recording are going fine (they use a different bitcoind). Payments and share recording btc amounts for shares will be back whenever it is done.
October 12, 2012, 06:16:44 PM
Hey FD - how about a bonus 
i have found 5 blocks for the pool (4 in the last 5 days) and have been paid 89 BTC
I guess this means I just have to stay on the pool for a long time as this "luck" will revert and I will probably not find a block for 3 weeks but keep earning
EDIT - seems we found another block today - now almost 62 BTC positive!
i have found 5 blocks for the pool (4 in the last 5 days) and have been paid 89 BTC
I guess this means I just have to stay on the pool for a long time as this "luck" will revert and I will probably not find a block for 3 weeks but keep earning
EDIT - seems we found another block today - now almost 62 BTC positive!
http://blockchain.info/tx-index/29497887/4b5959577d3e385e8a700ebacba761880317be5b5a33cc3b7cebde55d10db475
I won't be making a habit of it (unless I am very stupid (which has never been disproven))
That is very kind of you - I appreciate the Pi!
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pie/
October 12, 2012, 06:14:23 PM
Hey FD - how about a bonus
i have found 5 blocks for the pool (4 in the last 5 days) and have been paid 89 BTC
I guess this means I just have to stay on the pool for a long time as this "luck" will revert and I will probably not find a block for 3 weeks but keep earning
EDIT - seems we found another block today - now almost 62 BTC positive!
i have found 5 blocks for the pool (4 in the last 5 days) and have been paid 89 BTC
I guess this means I just have to stay on the pool for a long time as this "luck" will revert and I will probably not find a block for 3 weeks but keep earning
EDIT - seems we found another block today - now almost 62 BTC positive!
http://blockchain.info/tx-index/29497887/4b5959577d3e385e8a700ebacba761880317be5b5a33cc3b7cebde55d10db475
I won't be making a habit of it (unless I am very stupid (which has never been disproven))
October 12, 2012, 10:27:10 AM
I am still on the top donors list there:
https://mtred.com/site/page/view/top.html
For a long time I mined on Mt.Red with a 5% donation.
October 12, 2012, 09:58:51 AM
You could make the colour depend on the available pool funds 
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