Topic: [ANN] Infinitecoin (IFC) pool-Treasurequarry.com. 1.5% fee. P2pool Europe server - page 11. (Read 54809 times)

Thanks! I am now all set up. I also upgraded a bit more now. ;-) Now the coins are rolling off.

I really need to find out what to do with them except from exchaning them for other coins...

TreasureQuarry has now been upgraded to the latest Infinitecoind version 1.4 which fisheater released earlier today.  The upgrade was quick and painless and the new version is working perfectly - yay!

You need to add

--scrypt

so that bfgminer does the correct type of hashing.

Using your example command line it should therefore be 

bfgminer --scrypt -o http://treasurequarry.com:9844 -u iNYf2CfdzeMcpinuC3jxWAhXD79PXC3QF1+0.00001000 -p x

Right now I plan to do just an little upgrade by using another laptop with an nvidia quattro fx 770m graphics card in it. I think this should be at least a little bit more hashing rate.

But as I´m not an expert in configuring mining programs, I have no clue how I can tell to the bfgminer that there is an opengl card now. Maybe tomorrow I will do some hours of google research for that. For tonight I have to continue with CPU-miner as I did not get bfgminer running. Maybe I have to enable opengl somewhere in the cards driver, or installing some additional driver or something...

Edit after one Day: I managed to get BFGminer work with my card. I tried to mine, but it did not appear on the stat. My miner line is:

bfgminer -o http://treasurequarry.com:9844 -u iNYf2CfdzeMcpinuC3jxWAhXD79PXC3QF1+0.00001000 -p x

anything I need to change? Thanks?

Well, even trying to run the upgrade completely fresh from the git-cloned download with a brand new empty sharechain failed with lots of errors, so I've gone back to the old faithful version of p2pool that we were using prior to 18th August.  

The "Share difficulty" on the Stats page and the "Expected time to share" are now displaying correctly again. The good news with this is that we've been able to keep all of the graphs live.  

We'll stay with this old faithful version for now.

You won't need to do anything, but if you have any shares immediately before the upgrade you'll lose them when the upgrade is done.  Everyone will then begin to earn shares from a fresh start.  There will be temporary winners and losers from this immediately after the upgrade...and some people will hardly be affected  - your luck in how fast you find a share in the new sharechain immediately after the upgrade will determine whether you're a temporary winner, loser or relatively unaffected.

I'll do html downloads of the graphs pages to my computer before the upgrade. There's a possibility the "live" graphs may be able to be imported into the upgrade, but if not, I'll re-upload the downloaded graphs as archived html pages.

Really glad you like the quarry, Cockeyed. What do you have planned for your computer upgrade?

Is there anything which it means us to do?
I think for history purpose the old stats should remain somehow accessible.
PS: I had no chance fto take the task for my planned upgrade session. I will try to speed up my mining on monday. Beside of all the quarrel here in the quarry, it´s a really cool pool I must say.

The git-cloned copy isn't accepting the existing sharechain.  It looks like I'm going to need to scrub the existiing sharechain and start a new one.  Effectively this will restart the pool completely from scratch.  I'll do this on Monday.  That'll give anyone who is currently mining enough warning. 

Great news, killdemon.  

I've been thinking that somehow the incorrect displaying of the share difficulty on the stats page may be related to the way I downloaded the new upgraded software from github to my pc then uploaded it to my server.  I think I may have needed to git-clone directly on the server.

I'll be trying to move the existing sharechain to a newly git-cloned version of the pool in the next hour or so.  There will probable a few bits of downtime whilst I'm giving this a go.  Apologies in advance.

False alarm.  I did not have conf file. It worked before, anyway i have added nodes and now it is ok. My wallet is synchronised.

If the block explorer shows amounts going to you, they should be showing in your wallet.  Is your wallet synchronised up-to-date with all current blocks? 

Blocks are found and block explorer is showing amounts which i should receive in my wallet but i am not getting anything!?!

For the entire Infinitecoin network as a whole you can view the current difficulty on the uppermost (ie the most recent) block on the block explorer at http://exploretheblocks.com:2750/chain/Infinitecoin  . The "Block" number on that page will show you how many blocks have been found so far in total by the entire Infinitecoin network.

You can also view the current difficulty and number of blocks using your Infinitecoin wallet program on your pc.  Start the Infinitecoin program, and wait for it to synchronise and download any blocks it needs to get itself up to date.  Then from the top menu go to "Help", select "Debug Window" from the drop-down menu and the click the "Console" Tab.  Then where you see the ">" sign at the bottom, type

getinfo

Press enter and you 'll see  "difficulty" of the entire Infinitecoin network and "blocks" which is the total number of Infinitecoin blocks that have been found by the entire infinitecoin network until now.  You'll also see some other information too.

If, at the ">" sign you enter

getmininginfo

You'll get some more interesting stuff including "networkhashps" which is the total hashes per second if the whole Infinitecoin network (divide by 1,000 to get Kh/s or by 1,000,000 to get Mh/s).

For the pool, the "Local rate" figure on the stats page at http://treasurequarry.com:9844/static/ will give you the total pool hashrate.

The "Share difficulty" figure is still displaying incorrectly (I'm still waiting for a reply from the other thread about this).  Currently it's showing a 0.56 according to the p2pool log (this seems to be wobbling much more than I'd expect but whatever it's doing it's the difficulty for all miners so everyone should be on an equally fair footing when it comes to finding shares).  If there's not a fix to this difficulty oddness posted by tomorrow I'll roll back to the previous stable version of p2pool that we were using before this weekend until another upgrade comes along.

OK, thanks.

Is there any webpage where we can see the ovarall hashrate, difficulty, blockchainsize, etc.?

Yes, at 1.5 Kh/s and the current share difficulty of about 1.3, it's likely to take about 43 days to find a share, interpreting the results from  burnside's calculator. Good luck with the upgrade, Cockeyed

Edited...just noticed that the log is now showing share difficulty of around 2.8 (which would mean even longer for you, Cockeyed).  Seems  it's not as simple as just multiplying what's shown on the stats page by 10. I'm still waiting for a reply in the other thread about the underreporting of share difficulty on the stats page.  

Whatever. I did not get anything since days. I guess it´s because the overall hashrate is exploded and my 1.5 kH is kinda homeopathic. By tomorrow or friday I will upgrade a bit.

# grep iBub log
2013-08-20 05:16:07.495854 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV c84087c7 prev a7d635b3 age 4.89s
2013-08-20 06:41:23.795408 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV b886c8fa prev 0657ed82 age 6.15s DEAD ON ARRIVAL
2013-08-20 12:20:01.970409 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV a89f14a2 prev 8253530e age 16.24s DEAD ON ARRIVAL
2013-08-20 12:25:31.580541 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV efb4c9cf prev 93142eae age 52.08s
2013-08-20 13:08:59.453283 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 71caacf9 prev 202e88fe age 6.11s
2013-08-20 14:13:02.597145 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV d126ced3 prev bd656547 age 47.52s DEAD ON ARRIVAL
2013-08-20 15:23:18.621038 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 2b734c0d prev 2b12a041 age 3.42s
2013-08-20 17:12:51.843618 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 461e05e2 prev 576f7b7f age 5.33s
2013-08-20 19:17:15.054809 > Worker iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV submitted share more than once!
2013-08-20 19:27:41.871266 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 20349911 prev 7508dde0 age 3.43s
2013-08-20 19:31:55.252850 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 925159da prev b8dd32d3 age 10.78s
2013-08-20 19:56:43.928146 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 3e903d26 prev 64249405 age 3.67s
2013-08-20 20:19:23.721426 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV ca9ab383 prev dc0f8cb5 age 2.24s
2013-08-20 21:33:53.029647 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 3afaedd8 prev 61e6fabf age 22.25s
2013-08-20 22:31:08.293278 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV ec6b1d4e prev 758c5050 age 4.30s
2013-08-20 22:49:37.715850 > Worker iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV submitted share more than once!
2013-08-21 00:07:38.549587 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 9caf9252 prev 5401aa7f age 9.38s
2013-08-21 00:17:14.858363 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 161be422 prev b04dea64 age 9.44s
2013-08-21 01:45:37.632737 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV a39daf35 prev 1d331779 age 10.40s
2013-08-21 01:45:47.729197 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 82f254ac prev a39daf35 age 9.84s
2013-08-21 01:46:10.365619 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV d70f0c81 prev 82f254ac age 22.37s
2013-08-21 02:38:37.997384 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV e8a0ad35 prev 422a7a84 age 2.03s
2013-08-21 02:42:57.411146 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV df666a9d prev b39ce221 age 18.03s
2013-08-21 04:45:44.814539 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 29945ec2 prev 2f488278 age 20.92s
2013-08-21 04:57:33.594080 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 14ffc0c0 prev 5f578950 age 25.99s
2013-08-21 05:09:41.341555 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV eb722afa prev 725196f4 age 8.52s
2013-08-21 06:47:38.267201 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV efdd6f81 prev 20091296 age 3.32s
2013-08-21 07:53:01.037272 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV ce586c63 prev 9d83e953 age 23.84s
2013-08-21 09:06:22.909099 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV b32cea58 prev 44b633cb age 15.04s
2013-08-21 11:25:30.903626 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV a48b9595 prev 0d9a482a age 22.63s
2013-08-21 13:24:36.583842 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV d0d49288 prev afc4d138 age 34.55s
2013-08-21 13:38:35.562768 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 4270c16b prev b129f441 age 3.06s
2013-08-21 13:39:49.454854 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 6e6a9713 prev fea9a986 age 37.09s
2013-08-21 13:52:05.684458 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV e1ba54cc prev bca34871 age 10.44s
2013-08-21 14:02:59.349550 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 9401dee0 prev f56abe1f age 2.43s
2013-08-21 14:23:43.746906 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV e91e448c prev 88eb515d age 5.14s DEAD ON ARRIVAL
2013-08-21 14:27:05.035738 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV cf478d6b prev d5b55f48 age 7.85s
2013-08-21 15:46:18.715602 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV 9683ba12 prev cf6255c4 age 23.40s
2013-08-21 16:43:19.979706 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV f5aca897 prev 08b68dda age 6.48s
2013-08-21 18:39:08.509063 GOT SHARE! iBubSS8GgNf1ci6BjQV7xe5qtLwkkuK1gV ae369767 prev 0f8663f1 age 9.14s DEAD ON ARRIVAL


See how shares become more spread out after 5.09 on 21 august (Times are UTC) until 13.24.

Does everyone see the graphs in their own local timezones by the way?

The truth is .. there is NO EXPLANATION because these are not just slight variations.

+/- 5-10% swings in hashrate or pay on any type of pool is normal.

In case you didn't know.. when the miner isn't plagued by "worker restart" messeges,

600 - 1600 khash DOES NOT HAVE A PROBLEM FINDING SHARES !!

STOP PLAYING STUPID !! PAY THE MINER'S WHAT YOU OWE THEM !!

This is all "as far as I understand it"....

Directly from the Bitcoin wiki entry on p2pool at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool
Where it says 24 hours of shares, read this as 72 hours in the case of TreasureQuarry as TreasureQuarry's share target is 30 seconds (rather than 10 seconds which used to be the case for Bitcoin p2pools when that wiki entry was written.  Bitcoin now also uses 30 second share targets in the latest p2pool release).  It's worth reading the entire wiki entry by the way to see the complexity of p2pool's share chain etc.

A very important part of the entry is the "whichever is smaller".  When you find a share, payments start in the next block found by the pool. Payments don't necessarily continue for 72 hours based on that one share though because of the "whichever is smaller" part of the wiki entry. Over the 2 or 3 days I've had a look at a relatively low hashrate miner and this has basically meant that payments for one share have continued for between 25 to 38 blocks roughly (it varies).  At that point you've been paid the correct amount for that share.  If you've not found a share again, payments will stop (the gaps you see) until another share is found.  

Rises and dips, or higher or lower than expected averages over a relatively small period of time would be due to the miner's success or failure ("luck" if you like) in actually finding shares.