Topic: [ANN] Infinitecoin (IFC) pool-Treasurequarry.com. 1.5% fee. P2pool Europe server - page 16. (Read 54730 times)

Mine was not paid either:

iEfKnvswFxSfSQbDozFJyLjuyVPGPFob5r

Very strange.

Why am I not being paid for some/many of the blocks ?

iC6Yr743UWVzt3vtYWBXGxPsZNBmUzjgNB

196495
http://exploretheblocks.com:2750/block/a7430f2fbbecc12f1a0fcbbe6dfb80c84d6786c87aed70b6b637a3e42c4d824a

196471
http://exploretheblocks.com:2750/block/066f236f4cfac98f7729c80cd74b187ef096aaa3ae0929c401ca407eb8868ada

There are others aswell.

Yes, +0.003 would be a good setting based on 2.6Mh/s.  

You could set all your machines to +0.1, but you would end up with extremely spiky looking statistics on the graphs page.  The suggested pseudo share difficulties based on your hashrate give a good balance between being small enough to allow p2pool to identify and graph your ongoing hashrate, whilst being not too short which would cause excessive traffic (reporting of lots of small pseudo-shares found) between your miner and the pool, which seems to increase your reported DOA/efficiency rate.

Apart from that, the actual size of the pseudo-shares isn't vital, as pseudo-shares themselves aren't used by p2pool in calculation of your earnings.  It's only when the real shares are found that you'll get credit toward the block shareouts.  You can see the difficulty of the real shares on the front statistics page at http://treasurequarry.com:9844/static/  .  This real-share difficulty will vary depending on the pool's total hashrate.

I've been playing with the site for some time, and lending all my my hashpower at times (10Mh/s).  How far can I push your + notation?

for example, for a 2.6Mh/s rig... can/should I use +0.003 ?

Why not just set all my boxes to +.1 ?

Congratulations, Cockeyed, those Infinitecoins are adding up nicely!

I've not seen any true merged mining with Scrypt coins.  I've read different things about it - some people seem to think that it's possible to be done at the pool end somehow, whereas others say it would need a complete change to coins' blockchain and code.  I'd hazard a guess that the latter is probably correct. 

Wishing us all luck with the mining!

Hello Treasureseeker,

I got alltogether now 41600 IFC, looks cool!

One Question: Do you think it´t possible to mine LiteCoin or other Scrypt-based coins together with IFC? Is there something I can do by myself to do this? Or it´s dependant on the pool?

I hope it´s going all well with all the coins ;-)

Those Jalapenos sound tasty!

We seem to have had a bit of a drop in mining at the Quarry so blocks are coming a bit slow tonight.  A low pool hashrate relative to the global Infinitecoin hashrate may actually be more likely to be the reason why BitCoinPokerBro had noticed a few gaps of an hour or two in getting payouts every now and then.  Oh...we've just found a block as I'm writing this, that's good - I was about to say we're approaching an hour and a half since our last block and one is solved...yay!

TreasureSeeker, thanks a lot for your reply! Because I am just a beginning miner I need to collect some experiences. Last week I actually started with mining BTCs by using two "BFL Jalapeno". That are two black boxes, and they require my PC to be turned on all the time. So I use the CPU - which is working anyways - for creating some InfiniteCoins. Thats about me.

If the low hashing power the reason for my problem, then I am cool with it. I just will continue and see how it comes out for me.

Have a good mining time everybody!

Edit: I´m getting transactions again. So fine.

Cockeyed, you're in the same boat as me with a very low hashrate (I run at about 4kh/s).  You're right in thinking that this is the reason for the breaks in payments that you're experiencing, as I experience a similar thing.  At the current share difficulty of the pool of 0.0588, you're only likely to hit roughly one share a day at 3kh/s...in fact looking at your daily speed graph at http://treasurequarry.com:9844/static/graphs.html?Day, your average today is about 2.39kh/s , with a current rate as I'm writing this of about 1kh/s so it could be even longer than that between shares.  You're probably doing the right thing by giving it a week or two of mining to see how things turn out, because with a low hashrate you will end up with some variance, so you'll need this type of longer term period of mining to give you a better overall averagey picture of everything.

Spoetnik, good to know that those transactions arrived after updating your wallet - I bet that was nice to see all those lovely Infinitecoins  flooding in.

BitCoinPokerBro,  Great to hear you're enjoying mining at TreasureQuarry What you've mentioned about ease of mining is one of things I love about P2Pool - you can just start immediately with no need for signing up or anything, and the transactions will go straight to your wallet once you've started to find shares....no risk of leaving your earnings in an online pool wallet.  Your experiences with breaks in payouts for an hour or 2 every now and then may be a less severe version of Cockeyed's situation - even with a your hashrate of 240 to 290 kh/s that you mentioned previously it's possible that there may be unlucky times when you don't find a share for a good while (maybe when there is a high overall hashrate on the pool and therefore a high difficulty), and the payouts that you've been getting use up all of the share credit that you've built up.  If you want me to look into anything in a bit more detail now or at any time, please feel free to give me your Infinitecoin address that you're using to mine at the Quarry and I'll be happy to delve a bit more.

I've really enjoyed this pool these last few weeks have been awesome! No hassle no fuss just simple and easy especially with gui miner. Some pools are difficult to get started with for a newbie.

My only complaint is sometimes an hour or two will go by with no payment at all. It doesn't happen often but when it does it sucks. Other than that no complains.

No block found only for me? When i look at the other miner´s stats in this pool I clearly see that they got transactions. If you look at my stat you can see that there are no transactions for all the time. Maybe it´s because of my low hashing power? Strange thing.

But anyways, I will continue for a week or two, and if there is still no transaction I will engage in solo mining. Only bad thing is: With solo mining I have only 1,9 KH, while with Pool mining I get out about 3KH...

Hello TreasureSeeker,

I use minerd -o http://treasurequarry.com:9844 -u iNYf2CfdzeMcpinuC3jxWAhXD79PXC3QF1+0.00000090 -p x to mine in your pool.

In the beginning it was really cool: Large payments each few minutes (275 Coins, 3KH). Is really some kind of fun. It gave me some feeling of beeing successful ;-)

But since about 28 hours I did not get any transaction anymore. Maybe I unknowingly changed something? Maybe you can have a look at my stat and tell me what to do?

Thanks a lot!

I've been looking a bit more into those "stratum from pool 0 requested work restart" messages. I haven't had much luck running cgminer on my home computer so have used bfgminer to check things instead.  bfgminer actually gives a bit more of a friendly looking message of "stratum from pool 0 requested work update".  On checking the P2Pool logs these messages do coincide much of the time with the times when someone in the pool finds a share.  It's doesn't coincide all of the time with a share being found but it's basically a message telling you that your computer has received new work from the pool to work on.

It seems to be just part of the normal pool functioning according to everything I can find.  I guess the most authoritative word on this comes from Luke-Jr, the creator of bfgminer who, in a reply at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1628565 described these messages as "Perfectly normal on sratum pools.

I can see what you mean from your screenshot.  I did mean that apparently the messages should happen each time someone on the pool itself solves a share, but they do appear to be happening faster than the average expected time between shares, although the time between shares can vary a bit temporarily before retargeting itself back (to 30 seconds for the Infinitecoin pool at TreasureQuarry) if there has been a recent change in total hashpower being directed at the pool.

I'll do a few checks in the next day or so - will try mining with Stratum whilst checking the logs to see if the messages coincide with shares being found or anything else.

That's good to have confirmed.  I took a quick look in the P2Pool logs last night and couldn't see it recording who had found blocks. A block finders list may need to involve hacking around in the main p2pool python source (eek).  I'll do some more investigating regarding that.

Hee hee - so close and yet so infinitely far.

Thanks for the input but it still seems odd that it happens so frequently and randomly.

Did you mean the network ? The pool is definitely not finding that many shares/blocks. lol

Other than that all seems fine with the graphs and payouts. A top 10-20 block finders list would be nice.

And of course I'm having fun... missing blocks by 1-3K. Stay tuned for more high risk var-diff maddess !!



HT xD

  

Hio Hippie Tech, hope you're having a profitably fun time mining at the TreasureQuarry

From what I've been able to gather, the "stratum from pool 0 requested work restart" messages are normal and occur when someone in the pool finds a share.  P2Pool uses a sharechain in a similar way that Bitcoin and Infinitecoin have a blockchain (more info about the sharechain is in the Bitcoin wiki entry on P2Pool).  

According to NutNut in a thead at http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1762.0http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1762.0
"The work restarts are just when someone finds a share. It's a notification to tell cgminer to start a new piece of work."

I've set the share target time to 30 seconds for the Infinitecoin pool, so you should probably find these messages occur around every 30 secs on average (shorter if there has just been a big increase in hashrate at the pool whilst the share difficulty adjusts, or longer if there has just been a big decrease in hashrate) .  


c1010010, I'm hoping for exactly that!  The thing is, I really do think it's possible in the medium to long term, especially when you think that in 2 years time there will only be 0.015625 coins produced per block, and continuing to half each month.

Thanks for the welcome.

I'm set when these hit $1/coin.

Hio

I switched to cgminer 3.3.0 from reaper and seeing alot of these "stratum from pool 0 requested work restart" messeges.

Help meee ..

HT xD

Hello c1010010, Welcome to the Treasure Quarry.   That's a whole big bunch of Megahertzes you've got there...nice!

You never know, some day you may be able to buy Independant Films with IFC ... actually that could be a very good idea!

Been dabbling in Alt-Coins for the past few weeks...  gave VLC a full 14 days,  going to give IFC a run.  I mean, I watch Independent Film Channel a LOT!

Swung 10Mh over your way for a while.