Topic: [ANN][POOL] ipoMiner - Profitable multipool targeting new coins + merged mining! - page 58. (Read 366235 times)

My stats show an unconfirmed balance for NautilusCoin as a result of the multiport switching to it during the night for a period of time, when is it going to become a confirmed amount?

We have now re-enabled payouts on VRC, and can confirm that we are still mining on the correct blockchain.

Blocks 17168-17460 were previously not included in balances after the fork, and have now been confirmed and added to confirmed balances. You will have seen an increase in confirmed balance from that. Blocks from 17460 until we resync'd onto the correct blockchain and resumed mining at 17888 were orphaned and were removed from unconfirmed balances.

Unfortunately, there isn't currently a reliable way of detecting this type of fork via automated monitoring, and no, 3% pool fees do not cover paying any amount of staff anything even remotely comparable to industry wages. Here's some basic math: 2500MH average pool hashrate at 3% fee at 0.004 btc/mh/day and btc at $440 is $3960 per month, gross revenue. After that, you still have to take out operating costs... so please enlighten us on how we could find two reliable employees to entrust with the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars in btc and pay them less than $15-20k/year in salary to work 24/7.

We've been in discussions with a few exchanges and pools about an API service to provide better info on blockchain status and possible forks, but that hasn't even reached active development yet. There was over 10Gh/s on the fork we were on, and even after investigating it with VeriCoin developers, it wasn't immediately clear that ours was not the correct blockchain -- we had higher hashrate and difficulty than the "correct" blockchain, but it was a bit further along and the offical supernodes were on it.

As someone who has rented hundreds and hundreds of times, I'll always point my rigs at IPOminer if I can. You can whine all you want about losing three hours but when you've been doing this for as long as I have, you realize that IPOminer has by far the fewest problems with forks/lost coins/etc. of any pool. They all have issues, IPOminer has the fewest.

it was well more then 2 hours. when renting rigs -5 hours there goes any chance at profit. still dont understand how come i have zero. but i think im retiring from pools and go solo i can make sure im on the right fork thanks was a good run

I have to say IPO you do a good job but he is right. Do you have 24/7 Support and Monitoring? I think 3 % fee is enough to pay 2 guys to monitor 24/7.

2 Hours is mining is a lot of money considering that we reported before.

is this not why we pay you your %. The first balance is your confirmed balance, which is available for you to withdraw. i had a positive balance now i dont?

We forked on VRC at block 17460, so our blocks from 17460 through 17698 were orphaned. We have now resync'd the wallet and are back mining on the correct blockchain.

We also just added NautilusCoin for the scrypt multiport as another option for the multiport to mine in the event of more trouble with VRC.

Looking at the blocks found, it seems like we might have forked sometime after 9 pm EST, likely in the 9:15 - 9:25 pm timeframe, meanining that we lost 1-2 hours worth of mining actually, which is not so bad.

I will wait for @ipominer to give a final verdict, this is just my estimate...

Sheesh.. no wonder my withdrawal is still confirming after 3 hours

Check this out from one of the VRC developers, only a single pool (and unfortunately not us) is on the right fork:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6774339

If you click on the link for the pool, you will see that at this moment there are 5 scrypt miners w/ about 9Mh/s total. Those deposits/withdrawals will take awfully long to get anywhere...

Well, there you go... It is possible that our withdrawals were still good if we were on the right fork when we earned those coins...

ipo you are no longer on the longest chain, unfortunately you are on an out of date fork.  Come to our irc if you want some help resyncing your block

block crawler:http://188.226.165.184/vericoin/block_crawler.php

irc: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23vericoin&uio=d4

You gave me a good idea to check... I withdrew two times, at 8:30 and 10:35 pm EST and I can find both transactions in the block crawler. So hopefully it indeed is an issue with the block numbering or it is just us finding blocks on the right fork. Fingers crossed.. 

VRC seems to be forked again on Bittrex

I think the block numbers may be all that's messed up. I withdrew from ipo and i can find the tx id on the block crawler.


edit: however, the deposit is not showing in polo yet......but they are very slow sometimes to post deposits.

edit 2.0 : If we are forked, Poloniex is on the same fork as well as the block explorer. My withdraw made it to polo, and I can see it on crawler.

edit 2.0001a Deposits are being investigated on polo.

edit 2.0001b My withdrawal credited to my polo account. So the coins must have been mined before the fork?

Not to cause panic, but is it possible that we might have forked VRC? We have found all consecutive blocks from 17574 through 17598 (which we also show as the current block), which is really odd. The official block crawler is now at 17639.

http://188.226.165.184/vericoin/block_crawler.php

Hopefully, I am wrong...

I agree IPO has done a great job thus far, I am just speaking to the few that wouldn't mind taking some higher risk, adding some of these coins to a direct port is no worse off then adding coins like GOX, KAR, and dare I say AC.  I am not taking the developers word as the be all and end all, but simply suggesting there is nothing wrong with adding a few higher risk coins to some direct ports to mine on speculation.  I suggested CAD again because I feel the risk is relatively low given the current diff and a pools ability to mine a Shit ton before others jump on.

good luck guys

I'de be much more inclined to trust ipominer's assessment of the coin then the developer, who obviously has every incentive to lie.

I Think in paper the math could be a bit scarry but I have been talking to the dev I feel it's on the up and up and the math could be a reason for the low traction, but as miner now on that coin the low block reward could be a moot point because the diff is so low. But again it's made it on a small exchange seems to have a following building and it seems to be the only coin in the last 10 days that had a smooth launch, I would encourage you ipominer to possibly reach out to the Canada coin dev again just a suggestion because I noticed some posts in here of miners willing to take a bit more risk.

Interesting.. when I looked at the math for CanadaCoin it didn't seem to work out well for miners -- too much premine/giveaway of coins, compared to the block rewards and total available coins for miners.