Topic: [ANN][POOL] Alpereum - Professional Ether Pool [0% FEE] [VARDIFF] - page 4. (Read 11943 times)

Does any1 know how long does it last till a worker appears in stats? Definately not in 30 min as described in the faq of the pool. Any experience?

Hows things working out on this pool did you get though the hash rate problems?  Been looking though seeing problems but now resolved. Also do you guys consider to be having Ethereum Classic pool too ?

We apologize for any issues you may of had with the pool, and all of our hashrate is back. There was a pool restart due to some updates prior to our second feedback round.

We have launched a second round of our Feedback Rewards and you are more than welcome to join - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-alpereumch-ether-pool-miner-feedback-rewards-round-2-1541453

If you have any other issues, questions, comments, or concerns please submit a support ticket for more immediate support.  

Noticed the hash rate dropped again.

Also on one of my miners I got an unauthorized worker error and then it crapped out (missed out on 4 blocks).

Thank you for your concern, we have fixed the issues.

Blocks were still being mined during those periods, they were just not being accounted for in the payout system. Specifically due to some last minute updates with geth due to the recent DAO attack. We fixed our systems and all blocks were accounted for properly and paid out to all miners. We apologize for the any inconvenience this may have caused you, this past week has been rocky with pool restarts and issues mainly related to the unrest in the Ethereum community as a whole. The pool is currently back online and in perfect working order.

Our larger miners are mostly back, part of this was because we had an issue in our own mining facility.

If you have any other issues, questions, comments or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us.

Definitely something strange going on with Alpereum the past 2 days. Huge intervals between blocks. There was a period where there was a 9 hour span without a block, even with a 10GH rate, and a period of 14 hours where it was not correctly reporting blocks mined. Currently it has been 5 hours since the last block at a 5.5GH rate. I'm guessing a lot of the big miners jumped ship when they saw this.

any reason why you just lost half your hashes?

ill try your pool hopefully will pay the same as ethermine

@crazyearner

Thank you for your feedback! We will answer it in detail later, but right now, we do not want to take away attention from the Feedback Reward Program, which we just launched: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15198142
Your trial ends in 24h - and rest assured, we are watching your data carefully and we consider your feedback very valuable. You will receive exact feedback on your payouts in comparison with statistics.

Can we ask you to submit your feedback as well as a ticket (https://alpereum.zendesk.com/hc/en-us / [email protected])? This helps us collect, categorize, distribute and properly handle all the feedback.

We will be the first to admit that our pool had much room from improvement from our first, initial launch - but we do now truly believe we have one which can compete with the best.

>>also see you now added in Stratum V2 support do you have separate ports for this or upgraded to v2 on all port?

This point we can answer right away. It will be offered on different ports. The same is true for low difficulty (for slow miners) and different payout schedules (yes - some miners find our 30 min fast payout default schedule annoying and prefer fewer daily payouts), all which will be available on different ports.

>>Well if you are free over the coming weekend could have a catch up on Skype if you like throw you some ideas for improvements and do some testing for you too if like. Will shoot you a pm with my Skype addy in and am currently on now if you free to chat.

We would very much appreciate that. We will contact you to schedule such a meeting. Your help has been so very appreciated, and has helped us greatly in improving our pool. We are very committed to creating the best possible pool solution, and while Rome was not built in one day, this is exactly what we will do.

/Niklas Nikolajsen
Alpereum.ch
Mail: [email protected]
T:  +41 41 544 12 51

Lättichstrasse 1
CH-6340 Baar
Switzerland

Well if you are free over the coming weekend could have a catch up on Skype if you like throw you some ideas for improvements and do some testing for you too if like. Will shoot you a pm with my Skype addy in and am currently on now if you free to chat.

Thank you again for the feedback!

We have not yet added Stratum V2 support, but it is on the table for the near future.

We have a possible solution for different difficulties for different types of hashrates. It is currently in the testing phase, we will update this thread if we decide it is something we want to implement or not after testing and tweaking.

So after doing another 5 days almost on here after testing and helping admin seems to of improved some waht but still not happy with the overall pay. This pool has little over 11GH Payments are always like clockwork on the 0.2TH min pay and paid like clockwork. I did have 2 spikes in my mining hash but worked the extra hours to keep monitoring.



Apart from the 2 spikes down that was my doing I still feel as tho this pool has a lot more to offer in the future no doubt for mas improvements and tweaks to be made to improve this pool. I am being honest with my review as many others will lie and beat around the bush.

At the end of the day if things can be improved adjusted to maximize stability, hash rate share submitting. Am confident enough that this pool will eventually grow into a monster as it has all singes for it to be improved and worked on to get where it needs to be. You guys already got a fair amount of hash rate already but I fell as tho more can be done. What that is to be done is beyond me am not a pool operator or coder. But am guessing it is share submitting or connection to pool or other areas as my hash rate is all over the place.

That I can understand for the first few hours and settles down to difficulty adjustment and mines smooth. But over mining phase its all over the place like a yoyo. I did see a few times where my hash rate was almost bang on point for what I have mining but not continues just spikes here and their. I currently mine with about 65 to 70MH And average pool rate reports 50MH so am 15 to 20MH down somewhere. I will continue to test and report back for admin to monitor. I can come back on for a 24 hours basics etc when things been tweaked etc. at no extra for you just mining on it will do fine as wasn't even expecting bonus or extra ETH for review and mining so thank you for that

# Main pool
POOL_HOST = "pool.alpereum.ch"
POOL_PORT = 3001

This what I am going to be mining on next 24/72 hours is going to be on usa.alpereum.ch - North America to see if any improvements over Europ

Worker https://www.alpereum.ch/worker/?address=0x80eeb8aa66510F588FF6522d4515566C24CeF830 40+ MH to begin in few hors should have other rig running too to bring to total 65MH to 70MH

also see you now added in Stratum V2 support do you have separate ports for this or upgraded to v2 on all port? Also maybe to have as an option to select what diff a miner can work at too as I use to put between 5 and 15MH to find a good average.

* FEEDBACK REWARD PROGRAM - 1ST ROUND *

After a number of upgrades to both core, features and user experience. As well as a growth to > 10 Gh/s, we would like to announce a program for feedback rewards.

Miners who join our pool with at least 40 Mh/s combined for a minimum of 72 hours, and take the time to write a ticket (https://alpereum.zendesk.com/hc/en-us / [email protected]) with their feedback after the 72 hours have expired, will receive a 5 ETH bonus, in addition to payouts received by the pool in the period.

Miners with rigs of a combined > 100 Mh/s will receive a 10 ETH reward, in addition to payouts received by the pool in the period.

Top 3 valuable feedback will be awarded an additional +10 ETH.

Please notify us with a ticket, if you wish to participate in the program, and list your mining address. At the end of the 72 hours, upon having submitted your feedback, we will send you your reward directly to your mining address. You are free to redirect your miner(s) if you so desire after this period.

The Feedback Reward Program is available for the first 25 miners who sign up to participate. Miners who are already with us or have been, are also welcome to participate. Also miners who participated in previous rounds of the Feedback Reward Program *. First come, first serve. We will write here once the program is full and enough miners have been enlisted for this particular round.

* Returning / current miners should clear their browser cache before reporting feedback on the UI

Please provide both your positive and (especially) negative feedback. Logged data and/or screenshots of relevance are greatly appreciated. Feel free to include feature suggestions, but exclude the following, which are already planned into our DEV road-map in the near future:

- Different ports for different payout schedules (12h / 24h, in addition to default)
- Low difficulty ports for slow miners
- Optional notification on idle/malfunctioning miners
- Stratum V2 support
- Global pool mining rewards payout transparency

Once the feedback program ends, we will improve our pool based on the collected feedback. We will then launch a 2nd round of the Feedback Reward Program.

Join info: https://www.alpereum.ch/join-pool/

Happy mining everyone!

/The Alpereum Team

Thanks... 0.5 Received

Thank you for the nice feedback.
We did however see much room for improvement from our first release 10 days ago, both in the user experience, the performance - and in features. We thus recommend you clear your browser cache, and revisit https://www.alpereum.ch/

>> If you are planning on adding more crypto in the future

We will. Also Bitcoin. But first we need perfection on our first pool - the ETH pool.

>>Evening admin. Your pool and details and review now added into my thread

Thank you! Where do we find the link? Can we perhaps ask you back and review our v. 2? If you choose to do so and stay 24 or 48h to collect data, for a thorough review, we would be happy to pay you 10 ETH.
We feel that nothing is more important than accurate user feedback.

>> I have had a 5 day long stretch and pay is almost half of what I normally generate. Dont get me wrong pool is fine to mine on just not seeing higher or better results then when I mine elsewhere.

This is crucial feedback - and contrary to our own tests vs. the other major pools.
Would it be possible to ask you back as outlined above, and that you send us an email with your address, and that we run tests over 24 or 48h to see if your performance deviates from what it should be statistically?
Perhaps there could be a problem with your specific setup, and if so, we much need to detect it!
As mentioned above, we would be happy to pay you a fee for your trouble. Without user feedback, we cannot improve!

As most major pools, we publish our performance (the so-called "luck" page) for all to see, how the pool performs against the raw, cold reality of statistics: https://www.alpereum.ch/performance/


>>It's due to the low hashrate on this pool. Too bad it's gonna die too soon.

We do not plan on dying. Alpereum is run by Bitcoin Suisse AG, one of Europes largest crypto-financial brokers, and the expenses tied to development and server infrastructure, is one happily carried for the good of the ETH eco-system.
Our hash-rate is now in excess of 10 Gh/s, which is approximately 1 block/h at current difficulty. Our low uncle rate suggest very good connectivity. Our tests now show comparable results to the larger pools, and in some cases, better results.

It is for the market (the miners) to decide if they will let Alpereum grow to a notable size. But the Alpereum pool will remain all the way to proof-of-stake, and it will be both maintained and improved till such time that pools are no longer needed for efficient ETH-mining.

/Niklas Nikolajsen
Alpereum.ch
Mail: [email protected]
T:  +41 41 544 12 51

Lättichstrasse 1
CH-6340 Baar
Switzerland

It's due to the low hashrate on this pool. Too bad it's gonna die too soon.

Well small update I do not think I will be containing mining over here at alpereum. I have had a 5 day long stretch and pay is almost half of what I normally generate. Dont get me wrong pool is fine to mine on just not seeing higher or better results then when I mine elsewhere. I am on average making 5 ETH a week over the last week here I have made 2.07ETH for my hash SO not sure what to say here other than I might be back in the future if it improves.

Evening admin. Your pool and details and review now added into my thread will see how things go but so far so good and will more than likely get added into my fav list of pools to mine ETH on. One thing I would likely ou too do tho even tho you are doing Ethereum, is maybe to add some of the lesser known Dagger cryptos to the pool. If you are planning on adding more crypto in the future then please look into adding the following as most are now on exchanges.

   
Expanse (EXP) https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-expanse-exp-1st-stable-fork-of-ethereum-new-algo-pirlguard-1173722

Krypton KR https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-krypton-kr-baas-corp-open-source-public-blockchain-for-businessiot-1368118

SoiL https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-soil-environmental-agriculture-smart-contracts-sustainable-1176709

[DCR] Decred https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anndcr-decred-community-governance-bitcoin-devs-lightning-network-1290358