Topic: [ANN] Infinitecoin (IFC) pool-Treasurequarry.com. 1.5% fee. P2pool Europe server - page 4. (Read 54811 times)

Was mining here and earned 8000 in a few short hours, then the payments just stopped... What gives? I was finding plenty of shares too..

Im mining with 650kh/s about 30 minutes and any payout. Someone know what's happening?

I have a question pertaining to IFC pool mining but have a feeling it pertains to other mining as well. When I try to begin my pool mining I get the error " ....make sure you have the minerd executable and libraries in the same directory as infinitecoin-qt". What does this mean, and how do I fix it?

I am a noob to cryptocurrancy mining and I am not a programer, the only coding a still remember is html.

Thank you for any help.

I am testing this pool and it is accepting some shares however I am not getting paid. Neither it shows my address in the list.

Any idea?

IDK... I should be getting better payouts... I was getting the exact same just doing CPU mining.... If this don't pick up I'm going to stop mining. At only 30 coins a pop it's not worth running it.
See if I change the + setting it changes the Mhash as well.... Like I am running it at the 50 setting....
I just reset my .bat to have it us the threads you suggested.

bfgminer version 3.8.0 - Started: [2013-12-16 19:24:18] - [  0 days 00:02:54]
[M]anage devices [P]ool management [Settings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
Connected to treasurequarry.com diff 0 with stratum as user iFcXs5h2XyDWfAeaTnK
Block: ...bcde803d #497269  Diff:1 ( 9.84Mh/s)  Started: [19:27:00]
ST:2  F:0  NB:8  AS:0  BW:[355/ 28 B/s]  E:0.00  I:  110mBTC/hr  BS:0
0      71.0C |  0.02/ 0.01/248.3Mh/s | A:10 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OCL 0: 71.0C |  0.02/ 0.02/285.1Mh/s | A:10 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none

deathmedic, apart from that +0.00116414 number seeming to be bit high, I can't see anything glaringly incorrect in your settings.  I guess bfgminer must be betting confused somehow with kh/s and mh/s in that "0.02/ 0.02/17.10Mh/s" bit of the output you posted a couple of days ago.

There are probably a few things you can try tweaking to increase your hashrate with your 5870 if you like.  For example, from what I've read, for your 5870 a thread-concurrency of something between 4096 to 4992 and possibly up to 8192 should be suitable (the number has to be a multiple of 64).  

orion94, yes, you're right it's 15 hours, not 3 hours (doh!).  That would explain why your Infinitecoins received looked amazingly high in comparison to my calculations for the expected figure in my post of December 15, 2013, 09:00:41 PM.    The expected figure should be 5 times what I wrote, so rather than 3604.86 it should be 18024.3 .  You've still done very well it seems though, having actually earned 24537.92097002 over the period.

I believe scryptminer uses pooler's cpu miner (minerd) for its mining.  minerd is the usual choice for scrypt cpu mining these days.  You can check out more info about it at https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=55038.0   .  If you're using Linux you may want to try compiling the latest version on your own machine to see if it gets a higher hashrate.  You could compile on Windows too if you're feeling brave but it's a bit of a headache.     You can also compile bfgminer for scrypt cpu mining (see http://kevin.deldycke.com/2013/07/bfgminer-scrypt-cpu-mining/ )  but I don't know how well this works (I've read that cgminer's cpu mining is slower than minerd, so I presume that bfgminer will probably be similarly slower).

Apologies for the downtime earlier today by the way.  Following this, I've made a few adjustments on the server to reduce the risk of this reoccurring.  

I think your getting a little muddled up. 9am to 12am is not 3 hours. 9am to 12PM is 3 hours.



Do you know any better mining software other than scryptminer?


Thanks

Miner.bat command
bfgminer --scrypt -o http://treasurequarry.com:9844 -u iFcXs5h2XyDWfAeaTnKjkcz1ZWvWAVwyoj+0.00116414 -p x


BFG Config


"intensity" : "9",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "0",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85",
"gpu-memclock" : "850",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "30",
"expiry-lp" : "3600",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"no-show-processors" : true,
"no-show-procs" : true,
"no-unicode" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "90",
"scrypt" : true,
"skip-security-checks" : "0",
"submit-stale" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "C:\\Program Files\\BFGMiner\\/share/bfgminer"
}

Settings in BFGminer

[L]ongpoll: On
[Q]ueue: 1
[Scantime: 60
[E]xpiry: 120
[R]etries: -1
[W]rite config file
[BFGMiner restart
Select an option or any other key to return

Temp: 56.5 C
Fan Speed: 75% (4442 RPM)
Engine Clock: 950 MHz
Memory Clock: 850 MHz
Vddc: 1.163 V
Activity: 93%
Powertune: 0%
Fan autotune is disabled (0-85)
GPU engine clock autotune is disabled (850-850)
Change [A]utomatic [E]ngine [F]an [M]emory [V]oltage [P]owertune
Or press any other key to continue

That looks much better than before.  The 17.10Mh/s looks strange but I think that may be bfgminer getting confused between kh/s and mh/s.  It does look slow for the card you mentioned earlier though.  Can you post the settings or command line that you're using now?

You may want to try using a lower psuedo-share difficulty as the +0.00116414 is aimed at machines hashing away at around 1000kh/s.  

Scantime and expiry shouldn't affect the size of individual payouts.  As far as I understand they're not vital for p2pool, as p2pool supports stratum and long polling, but setting scantime to something around 30 in theory, and expiry to 60 shouldn't do any harm and may help.  I've read that the best settings may vary from worker to worker so you may want to experiment a bit.

Ok so does this look good using +0.00116414?
Also what should I set scan and expiry times to, to be the most efficient?
Current is Scan is 60 and expiry is 120.
Is used the  one for 10... I got an ass ton of shares but payments were small (about 40 each)... Running with this it seems like 100+

bfgminer version 3.8.0 - Started: [2013-12-15 09:50:40] - [  0 days 06:37:48]
[M]anage devices [P]ool management [Settings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
Connected to treasurequarry.com diff 0 with stratum as user iFcXs5h2XyDWfAeaTnK
Block: ...14493a00 #494091  Diff:1 ( 8.02Mh/s)  Started: [16:28:14]
ST:2  F:1  NB:769  AS:0  BW:[310/  9 B/s]  E:0.00  I:  186mBTC/hr  BS:0
0      53.0C |  0.02/ 0.02/17.10Mh/s | A:95 R:3+0(none) HW:0/none
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OCL 0: 53.0C |  0.02/ 0.02/17.10Mh/s | A:95 R:3+0(none) HW:0/none

orion94, Share difficulty at the pool is 0.235 as I write (see the "share difficulty" on http://treasurequarry.com:9844/static/ ) . With the way p2pool works, you need to find a share before you start to get a run of payments for that share.   Payments for that share will then start when p2pool finds the next block and will continue until the share has run out, at which point payments for that share will stop .  You need to find another share before each run of payments starts.

At an average of 12.5kh/s and current pool share difficulty of 0.235, it will take on average 0.93 days-worth of continuous hashing to find a 0.235 difficulty share accrording to the summary at http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/infinitecoin-mining-calculator/?h=12.50&p=500.00&pc=0.10&pf=0.00&d=0.23500000&r=16384.00000000&er=0.00000001&hc=0.00

If you've been mining from 9am to 12am ( 3hours per day) that's one eighth of a day that you're hashing, so you instead of taking 0.93 days, you'd need to  multipy that by 8, so it would likely take you 7.44 days of hashing 3 hours a days at 12.5kh/s to find each share.  

I see from the block explorer that you 've receive 2 more runs of payments since yesterday http://exploretheblocks.com:2750/address/i3gMKjQ4AxTWsbtWd3VXSJQHt6rwVvxbBB

Also from the block explorer I see  that you've received 24537.92097002 Infinitecoins since 8 December 2013 (ie since 7 days ago).  If you've been mining 3 hours a day for 7 days that's 21 hours.  I would estimate that the global infinitecoin network difficulty during the last week may have been hovering around 1 . Using difficulty 1 and your hashrate of 12.5 kh/s in the Infinitecoin calculator we see from the bottom part of the results page how many coins you may have expected on average.... http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/infinitecoin-mining-calculator/?h=12.50&p=500.00&pc=0.10&pf=0.00&d=1&r=16384.00000000&er=0.00000001&hc=0.00    shows 171.66 coins per hour.  Multiply this by 21 hours of hashing gives an estimate of 3604.86 coins expected.    Seeing you've received 24537.92097002 coins from the pool , if looks like you're doing very well indeed.



limburatorul, please see the first paragraph of my reply above to orion94.   With the way that p2pool works, payments do not necessarily keep being made continuously as you need to find a share of adequate difficulty (current pool difficulty = 0.235) to start getting each run of payments.  If you're not already doing so, it's worth adding an appropriate +number for your pseudoshare difficulty for each computer (as detailed on the first post in this thread) .  This may help your graphs show better.  

Could you please have a look at i7dy7soYSrqtuU2pu2dHm1qtBhs5JUX49S and tell me what is going on? I don't see anything on the graph and stopped receiving coins 3-4 hours ago.
I got a total of 100 Kh/s pointed your way from 3 different computers.

I've been mining on an average of around 12kh/s, but mostly its at 13k/s. WHen the hashrate drops to 12 it only stays there for around 5 to 10 minutes at the most. I usually mine from 9am to 12am. When I was receiving coins my miner was in sync with the graph, all the shares my miner showed were shown on the graph.
By percentage of efficiency do you mean the percentage next to each share? They're at 100%.


I did add the psuedo difficulty again, I used "+0.00011641"


Does anyone know another CPU miner I could try? I'm currently using scrypt gui miner.

orion99, have you been mining at the 13kh/s constantly around the clock without any breaks at all or have there been breaks in your mining or times when the hashrate is lower?  If there have been breaks or drops in the hashrate could you estimate how long the breaks (or drops in hashrate) have been and, in the case of hashrate drops, what hashrate you may have dropped to? Also what percentage of efficiency is your miner reporting (or alternatively, percentage of stales)?  

You may need to put back that pseudo-share difficulty at the end of your address for your miner to show the efficiency....the red lines on graphs of people with lowish hashrates is something I'll be looking into.  I'm pretty sure it's just a graphing display issue and shouldn't affect your earnings.  I'm seeing it in my own mining graph at the moment but my miner is showing psuedo-shares being accepted by the pool every few seconds.....even though you don't get paid for the low difficultypseudo-shares their acceptance is the main indicator that the pool is accepting your work.  

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

Strange.... The site is only reporting 20 Khash for me....
I am getting shares... but not may (255 in 2 hours)
But this is what bfg miner is reporting

bfgminer version 3.8.0 - Started: [2013-12-13 11:11:33] - [  0 days 01:49:22]
[M]anage devices [P]ool management [Settings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
Connected to treasurequarry.com diff 0 with stratum as user iFcXs5h2XyDWfAeaTnK
Block: ...d0502216 #488033  Diff:1 (10.98Mh/s)  Started: [13:00:46]
ST:2  F:0  NB:222  AS:0  BW:[321/ 15 B/s]  E:0.00  I:  133mBTC/hr  BS:0
0      73.0C |  0.02/ 0.02/166.9Mh/s | A:255 R:4+0(none) HW:0/none
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OCL 0: 73.5C |  0.02/ 0.02/167.1Mh/s | A:255 R:4+0(none) HW:0/none

ALSO... if someone can give me a decent command to edit my bat or best settings to set in bfgminer for an ATI 5870 card... I know it should be able to pull 300 MH/s.

This is correct. When working ok it will display your real hash, that's is 300+Khas. The value you had before was not the correct one because it was not properly configured...
Scrypt is in Khash and SHA256 is in MHash, I think...

I'm using scryptminer GUI for cpu mining at 13kh/s. Im using my wallet address i3gMKjQ4AxTWsbtWd3VXSJQHt6rwVvxbBB  i've removed the psuedo share difficulty at the end of it as it gave me nothing but a red graph and no coins.

Settings i have are:

Threads: 4
Scantime: 15
Port: 9844


My wallet is updated and synced.

Thanks!!! That seems to be working better... But I had to take out the intensity line it was failing saying that was no good.
Also my Mhash dropped way down.... To 50 Mhash from 300+ any way to get that back? also I see you have it set to Khash... If I'm running 50 Mhash should I just use the 1,000 difficulty?

djdive, I think you're getting confused between real shares (the ones you get paid for) and your miner reporting successses in finding psuedo-shares of your chosen psuedo-share difficulty.

Real share difficulty (the ones you get paid for) has risen from 0.184 when I posted yesterday to is 0.274 currently.  Let's say an average of 0.229 over he last 24 hours or thereabouts.

In 5 hours of mining it would be very highly unlikely for you to to have have found 100 real shares of  0.229 difficulty at your hashrate of 15h/s.  Indeed, according to the Infinitecoin calculator at http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/infinitecoin-mining-calculator/?h=15&p=500.00&pc=0.10&pf=0.00&d=0.229&r=65536.00000000&er=0.00000001&hc=0.00 it would have likely taken around 0.76 days (or just over 18 hours) of constant mining for you to find one single share on average (this can vary depending on your luck).  

What you are seeing as "accepted" on your miner are pseudo-shares of your chosen psuedo-share difficulty.  You don't get paid for these low difficulty psuedo-shares.  You only start to receive a run of payments after you've solved a real share (currently 0.274 difficulty).  There's more information about Psuedo-shares on the biitcoin p2pool wiki at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool


orion94, can you give me the exact command or settings that you're using for mining, and the hashrate that your miner is reporting, as your graph only shows short spikes, which isn't giving much information to help me answer your query.  


deathmedic, looking at the BS (best share you've ever found) on your bfgminer output, 326 looks incorrect.  bondi probably has the right idea...you need to use --scrypt in your command when starting bfgminer.  This will get it scrypt-hashing  (the correct type of hashing for Infinitecoin) otherwise it'll just be sha-256 hashing (not correct for Infinitecoin but good for Bitcoin).  This is probably why I can't see anything on the graphs page for your Infinitcoin address and why you're not getting payouts - p2pool isn't detecting correct hashing from you.

You need a command that goes something like:
Replace the "5" intensity with whatever intensity you wish.
Replace SELECTEDPSUEDOSHAREDIFFICULTY with an appropriate number from the first post in this thread, depending on your hashrate.

On Windows you can put the command in a text file, name it TreasureQuarryIFCMining.bat (or a name of your choosing), then any time you want to mine you can just double click on the file and you'll be mining away happily!