[ANN] The First Litecoin PPS Pool (litecoinpool.org) - page 72.

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Quote from: localhost on December 16, 2011, 08:36:39 AM

Quote from: pooler on December 15, 2011, 09:00:49 PM

By the way, for those of you who are doing both CPU and GPU mining with an ATI card on the same rig, consider updating ATI drivers to version 11.12. This new version should solve the CPU usage problem, even on multiple-card setups.

Yup, I noticed that too, only problem is I still can't use all my cores to mine LTC because then the GPU miner almost stops. And also when I don't leave 2 idle cores the GPU miner mines a bit slower.

Uhm, bizarre. On my main Bitcoin rig I see no slowdown at all using both CPU cores of a Sempron for Litecoin (5.8 kH/s) and two 5870's for Bitcoin (850 MH/s). This is using ATI drivers 11.12 and AMD Stream SDK 2.5, under Linux. And CPU temperature went down from 64°C to 60°C. Works like a charm now!

Bitcoin... and Litecoin... live together in perfect harmony...

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Quote from: pooler on December 15, 2011, 09:00:49 PM

By the way, for those of you who are doing both CPU and GPU mining with an ATI card on the same rig, consider updating ATI drivers to version 11.12. This new version should solve the CPU usage problem, even on multiple-card setups.

Yup, I noticed that too, only problem is I still can't use all my cores to mine LTC because then the GPU miner almost stops. And also when I don't leave 2 idle cores the GPU miner mines a bit slower.

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Quote from: Red Emerald on December 15, 2011, 08:44:24 PM

Just signed up! Looking forward to making my server room even hotter now that the CPUs are in use lol

Welcome aboard, Red Emerald!

By the way, for those of you who are doing both CPU and GPU mining with an ATI card on the same rig, consider updating ATI drivers to version 11.12. This new version should solve the CPU usage problem, even on multiple-card setups. I have just carried out the update on my main box, and I now have one more core for mining Litecoin. Plus, temperatures dropped considerably!

(Thanks to grue for the heads up!)

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Just signed up! Looking forward to making my server room even hotter now that the CPUs are in use lol

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EDIT:

ahh nvm i'm soooooo stupid....

forgot the $ sign.... and my friend and I didn't noticed that...

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Quote from: mrx on December 03, 2011, 01:10:32 AM

A question about the API:

Currently the API is like this (in php print_r() format):

{code}

All the workers' names include a dot, and it's 500 if I use the data like this:

Code:

echo $lp["workers"]["user.worker"]["hash_rate"];

How to use it correctly?

The dots should not be an issue if you use associative arrays. The following code works for me:

Code:

$api = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://www.litecoinpool.org/api?api_key=my-api-key-here"), TRUE);
echo $api["workers"]["pooler.1"]["hash_rate"];

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A question about the API:

Currently the API is like this (in php print_r() format):

Code:

Array
(
    [user] => Array
        (
            [total_rewards] => 0.0
            [paid_rewards] => 0.0
            [unpaid_rewards] => 0.0
            [past_24h_rewards] => 0.0
        )

    [workers] => Array
        (
            [user.worker] => Array
                (
                    [hash_rate] => 0.0
                    [valid_shares] => 0
                    [stale_shares] => 0
                )

        )

    [pool] => Array
        (
            [hash_rate] => 697
            [pps_rate] => 0.00096512
        )

    [network] => Array
        (
            [hash_rate] => 22763
            [difficulty] => 0.76679615
        )

)

All the workers' names include a dot, and it's 500 if I use the data like this:

Code:

echo $lp["workers"]["user.worker"]["hash_rate"];

How to use it correctly?

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Difficulty is increasing... +15%!

I have just noticed a curious fact: at difficulty 1, the expected daily earnings in coins/day equal the hash rate in khash/s, with an error of less than 0.6%!

Suppose your hashing speed is 1 kH/s: you will compute 86,400,000 hashes a day. At difficulty 1 the probability of finding a block is 2^-32 per hash. Since a block is worth 50 coins, your expected daily earnings will amount to
86,400,000 / 4,294,967,296 * 50 = 1.00582838058

This means that you can estimate your daily income by simply dividing the hash rate by the difficulty. Now isn't that remarkable?

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on November 29, 2011, 11:20:12 AM

A 27 block orphaned chain? Any idea why the network wouldn't re-org in 26 or less blocks?

It'd be interesting to analyse the two chains and see if any transactions were changed.

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A 27 block orphaned chain? Any idea why the network wouldn't re-org in 26 or less blocks?

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Another reason to choose PPS: you get paid even when blocks get out of the main chain.

There was one rather long (27 blocks) chain that became orphaned 7 hours ago, and two of those blocks were found by our pool.
Did this affect your earnings? Not at all! (It only affected the pool's wallet, d'oh! Cheesy

)

Here is the root of the orphaned chain:
http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/block/51eb5d3c807107c6e9dc5ba0074883b718d1a5fe48f245f8cef53eff74ee09dc

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Quote from: terrytibbs on November 28, 2011, 05:55:04 AM

Do you mind if I poll your API every five-or-so minutes?

No problem.

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Do you mind if I poll your API every five-or-so minutes?

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After upgrading to the latest version of litecoind, pool performance seems to be back to normal.

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The site was down for about 30 minutes because of an attack attempt.
I have added some additional protection, and the issue should be resolved now... Sorry everybody for the downtime.

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Quote from: pooler on November 13, 2011, 11:50:37 AM

I see that the liteco.in block explorer has been redesigned, nice job! I miss some of the info displayed by the other block explorer, though, such us the link to the next block(s)... do you plan to add them?

Thanks. I added a link to the next block(s). Let me know if there's anything else you're missing. I've trimmed down a lot, especially the UI-heavy stuff like table columns.

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Quote from: terrytibbs on November 13, 2011, 08:59:43 AM

Instead of linking to the generation transaction, you can poll my Block Explorer's API (http://explorer.liteco.in/q/txidtohash) with the txid of the generation transaction, it will spit out the block hash of the block in which that transaction originated, and you can link to it on your page like so: http://explorer.liteco.in/block/HASHASHASHASHASH

For example:
Generation transaction 86d34bfaf48f90a2638330f73c2bebebeea77fa6dc02fa14d669fe2a1999e5b9 ->
http://explorer.liteco.in/chain/Litecoin/q/txidtohash/86d34bfaf48f90a2638330f73c2bebebeea77fa6dc02fa14d669fe2a1999e5b9 =
37b505af72432111d8dc9ca637d28cf18b99bae9f00aee6ab7cc91d0a0428f45 ->
http://explorer.liteco.in/block/37b505af72432111d8dc9ca637d28cf18b99bae9f00aee6ab7cc91d0a0428f45

It results in a better experience when clicking the block links.

Done!
I see that the liteco.in block explorer has been redesigned, nice job! I miss some of the info displayed by the other block explorer, though, such us the link to the next block(s)... do you plan to add them?

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Instead of linking to the generation transaction, you can poll my Block Explorer's API (http://explorer.liteco.in/q/txidtohash) with the txid of the generation transaction, it will spit out the block hash of the block in which that transaction originated, and you can link to it on your page like so: http://explorer.liteco.in/block/HASHASHASHASHASH

For example:
Generation transaction 86d34bfaf48f90a2638330f73c2bebebeea77fa6dc02fa14d669fe2a1999e5b9 ->
http://explorer.liteco.in/chain/Litecoin/q/txidtohash/86d34bfaf48f90a2638330f73c2bebebeea77fa6dc02fa14d669fe2a1999e5b9 =
37b505af72432111d8dc9ca637d28cf18b99bae9f00aee6ab7cc91d0a0428f45 ->
http://explorer.liteco.in/block/37b505af72432111d8dc9ca637d28cf18b99bae9f00aee6ab7cc91d0a0428f45

It results in a better experience when clicking the block links.

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Great news, folks!

The pool will now be paying for genuine stale shares, too!

I've been working on this for a while, and I'm happy to announce that it's now official. Enjoy!

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Graet, I'm happy to read that you believe in Litecoin so much!

Unfortunately, despite your effort, "Unknown" miners have risen to 75%... let's hope those are not botnets!
I will contact molecular and ask him to add us to the graph, thank you for the suggestion!

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