Topic: [ANN] profit switching auto-exchanging pool - www.middlecoin.com - page 147. (Read 829908 times)

Anyone else getting about twice the rejects per the norm? I average about 7% raw rejects here as of the past few days.

Also, when is the difficulty going to return to normal? I'm willing to bet it never will go back to 512.

Here is the command-line syntax, just add it at the end of the command :

--failover-only -o stratum+tcp://middlecoin.com:3333 -u YOUR_BTC_ADDRESS -p YOUR_PASSWORD

replace YOUR_BTC_ADDRESS and YOUR_PASSWORD with your values and you are good to go.

Thank you for the response!  Is that what I type into my bat file?  I guess I just have not seen commands like that when looking into setting up my bat file.  In that case would it be wise to add a 3rd server there like west?  Thanks again for your help - eventually will have quite a few rigs running with a friend and want to make sure they will require as little maintenance as possible to save labor time. 

Now, what do these settings actually do?

Use middlecoin.com:3333 as a failover.

"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://useast.middlecoin.com:3333",
                "user" : "xxx",
                "pass" : "xxx"
        },
        {
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://middlecoin.com:3333",
                "user" : "xxx",
                "pass" : "xxx"
        }
]
.....
"failover-only" : true,
.....

If your cgminer completely freezes and is unable to fail over I would suggest looking into CGWatcher (if you are on Windows). I had it installed and set it up to restart cgminer after 30 minutes of no submitted shares.

Good luck.

The port should be 3333, not 333

Question - I have had 4 different computers connected to this pool for a couple weeks now.  The first week-week and a half there were not issues whatsoever.  100% connection, everything running fine.
The past few days have been a different story.  Multiple times a day now one of the computers (completely random on which one will do it when) cgminer gives me one of 2 errors:

either "Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted"  or "Pool 0 stratum+tcp://useast.middlecoin.com:333 not responding!"

Then the last line says

"Waiting for work to be available from pools"

After that it just hangs and does not do anything.  A few times it took me a few hours to find out it was not running, one time it froze right after I headed to bed so it was down all night.   Typically my other computers chug along just fine to the exact same server without issue, or at least hang at a different period of time.

I know when I used cudaminer for my old nvidia cards before my 280x cards showed up, if it was disconnected from a server it would reconnect again after 15 seconds, or at least try and keep trying after 15 seconds.  .  I am not sure what is going on here in cgminer, and if it has a similar auto restart feature that would allow it to reconnect again after losing connection.  Maybe it does and it is not working?  Anyhow I seem to have a LOT of down time the past few days.  If I notice it and then I close it down and restart to the same server, it seems to start right up again no problem. 

I have tried useast and uswest as different bat files.

Also, is there a way to add multiple servers in the bat file to have it switch to another server in a case such as this?  I am just trying to figure out what I need to do to get my best uptime.

Thanks in advance!

Currently our rejection is about 4-5%. Do you think we can lower it to 1-2%?

I stumbled across that, nearly wet myself, and then bought 4.  They had a 2-per-person limit, so I created a second account real quick. ;-)

For sure

so did anyone with this problem get their coins? was it solve with other addresses? 

i am realizing that my red balance line has flatlined for 2-3 now and trying to change address

No not Amsterdam but just have a great connection. Currently our rejection is about 4-5%. Do you think we can lower it to 1-2%?

3ms is awesome. Do you live in Amsterdam? lol I would be all over dat. I am no genius but that would fix a lot of problems.

The ping for me to EU server is about 32 ms. Currently we mine there. But the ping to Amsterdam is about 3ms.

Do you guys think if we switch, the rejects will be lower?

TigerDirect has the MSI R9 280X GAMING for $399 this morning and you could pay with Bitcoin.

With regards to people asking about wired vs wireless vs Ethernet over Power... While hardwired Ethernet will obviously provide the lowest latency, I'm currently running 5 of my rigs through "Ethernet over Power" and they work well (as long as the adapters are on the same power pole). Rejects are slightly higher around 5% usually, however, it's certainly doable, and better than nothing :] I also have a rig on wireless and other than the occasional wifi disconnect, it too runs well. One of these days I'll get around to wiring everything with Fibre or Cat 6 :]

OT: Did anyone else watch those 280x's come back into stock on Amazon for $305 earlier? Gone in like 5-10 minutes tops haha. Someone got in an order of either 12 or 16...jealous much haha

Thanks for the advice, I've been experimenting with those settings, I'm not too sure about cutting the expiry down to 1 sec though, You would lose a lot of shares doing that I think.

@ Fat miner.
Try using "expiry" : "1",
And queue : 5
Scan-time : 1.
This vastly improved my wu rate to around 0.95 and dropped my reject rates to around 1% on Amsterdam and eu servers.
Also double check your network as though ping times are excessively high.
Use a direct Ethernet connection to your router from the rigs

Yup.


Yes.  The coins of course are not stored on your computer, they're in the chain, so if you have the private keys for them, you have them.  Depending on the client, if you create enough new addresses, you may be generating new private keys, so if you do a lot of transactions, it's worth backing up on occasion.  If you're just receiving to a single address over and over you only need to back up once.  Hell, you could just create a paper wallet and use that address as the middlecoin mining address.

yeh we are off-topic so one more question and i am off  

So All I do is Export Private Key. Then With that > Exported private Key << I do not need to keep updating the wallet.dat? In a scenario where my HDD is DEAD I grab that key from my USB with the Private key on it and use the Import private Key function and reset the blockchain + transactions.

And what happens is that the same BTC address which was there when I exported the key and all the transactions that have ever been made to that address will appear again on the new hard drive with my new wallet?

Is this correct?

Sorry if I am being very detailed, I just dont want to keep speaking about it since its offtopic