Topic: [ANN][POOL] MineZ.zone- ZenCash+[ZCL][ZEC] - page 3. (Read 4597 times)

minez.zone Temporary wallet update - We've now done two rounds of test payments from claimed wallet addresses.  We took our time checking and double checking everything manually before running them to ensure all the balances and addresses have been calculated accurately.  The process looks pretty safe and solid now so we'll begin processing them more frequently.  If you haven't already made your claim you can do it here: https://minez.zone/temp_zen_address

Minez.zone now has a page up where you can register to claim your coins from the temporary wallet addresses.  Please note we will process these manually so the transaction won't be instant.  This an extra precaution to make some scripting bug doesn't put your coins at risk.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the instructions on the page CAREFULLY!!!

Since our last post yesterday about the fixes we'd put in place the pool has been rock solid stable.  Please consider joining us for hash party.

Thanks Red argon.. Things actually worked perfectly overnight. We just didn't get many blocks because our hashrate is so low. But that just means each miner gets a larger share of the block.

All the orphans you see are from prior to the fixes we implemented.

We're working on getting the claim page up for the temp wallet addresses today.

Thanks for the detailed update.

Looks like things collapse every time you guys get some shuteye. There hasn't been a block found since:  Block: 111013 Fri Jun 02 2017 04:55:34 GMT+0000 (UTC)

Also, a helluva lot of orphaned blocks. Looks like the downtime scared away a lot of the bigger miners, the hashrate has plummeted from around 200+ ksol/s to about 15 ksol/s. It's a pity because I thought you guys were doing pretty well, with lots of feedback and all the hard work. Also, the temporary wallet idea was really smart, I am currently using one while I wait for eleos to be updated. Hopefully things come right and more miners return. Looking forward to seeing zen on the exchanges soon.

Hi Everyone,

Just an update on Minez.zone - Apologies if we've been a bit slow to update.  We've been flat out around the clock trying to sort out some issues issues.  We're finally in the place we wanted to be two days ago.

Firstly, we've had delays to payments.  This was caused by a number of invalid addresses getting into our database.  Z-nomp checks an address against the zend node to make sure it's valid when you connect, for some reason some invalid addresses were accepted by the zen-cli z_validateaddress check.  When the payments were supposed to be sent the zend node refused because of the invalid addresses.  We've finally tracked down the cause and imlemented some filters to prevent this happenening again.  We've also scoured the database and cleaned all the invalids out.  Many thanks to @hellcatz for his assistance with navigating the guts of Z-nomp.

Payments have started going out again and we are almost caught up.

Secondly, you may all be aware of the orphan issues that have been affecting both several pool as well as some end users.  We got particularly hard hit and a number of our found blocks have been orphaned.  Our node was getting valid blocks and then suddenly stopped.  It took us a few hours to realise and then a few more to work out the cause.  We thought it was resolved last night as the pool started finding valid blocks again but while we slept it went off the rails one more time.  Lucky I had a bad feeling and woke up at about 4am to check on it... We had 2 backup nodes ready to go and switched them over, along with building a fourth brand new one.  After cycling through each of the nodes and waiting long enough to know if it had helped we eventually identified a potential fix.  As a result of what we figured out we've contacted all the pool operators and shared our node ip addresses so all the pool operators can connect to each other and form a solid p2p backbone.  This seems to have improved things dramatically.  Many thanks to @movrcx and @smrtz for their massive help in sorting this out.

Thirdly, we've had a lot of people asking about their balances which weren't updating on the site.  This should be resolved now that payments are going through.  z-nomp doesn't update your balance until it actually pays.  We will work on adding a feature to show the balance of unpayed blocks (this doesn't exist in standard z-nomp yet), but those unpayed blocks will be far fewer now that payouts aren't blocked anymore so we'll do it after we've resolved the last major issue (see below).  Please be aware that due to the orphan issue we haven't got as many blocks as we should have.  You can see the unconfirmed blocks on our stats page.

Lastly... Some of you have balances in our offline wallet.  We made these addresses available as a service because at launch windows users didn't have a wallet.  We really only intended these to be used for mining our pool but there's more coins in the offline wallet than the pool has paid out so I guess some people have been using them as a general wallet... lol...  We have the code almost ready to put together a safe payment system so you can all claim your coins.  We don't want to hold them any longer than we have to.  However it is getting late here and we've been at the screen troubleshooting for 14+ hours.  This code is hard to test properly and I don't want to risk screwing it up because we are tired and potentially putting your coins at risk.  So we will get the claim portal up in the morning.  We will process the claims manually.  A script will generate the payment commands and we will review them manually before we run them to make sure everything is correct.

Thanks for bearing with us... We're sorry about the instability but we've think we're in a much more stable position now.  And we'll get those coins to you as soon as we possibly can.

Sent you a pm

pm me the payout address you used and I'll check it's status

Ive been mining with 5k + sols since the first block, all the blocks show for this morning show 150+/ 100 confirmations

Sorry I just woke up... First payments were successfully made overnight.  You need to wait for 100 block confirmation + another 30 for the shielding transactions.  So the earliest ones have already happened.  We'll get a page up today so that people who've used borrowed addresses can enter their own address and claim their coins...

Payouts will start processing shortly.

When can we expect payments to go through, as it's back up yet no payments?

To quote myself.

Sorry for the down time

Server down.

Seems down, just before first payment :/

Thanks for the answers! It's clear now

Hi Borsosq... Did you use your own wallet address or one of the ones we provided?  In any case the answer should be the same.... We use the same underlying payment system as every z-nomp based pool (for now). 

If you used one of our temporary payment addresses those payments will be transferred exactly the same way as if you had your own wallet address... Into a separate wallet address that is yours and yours alone.  The only difference is we will have to do a transfer to you.  We only did it this way because people couldn't get their own wallet addresses and wanted to start mining before that was possible.  So as soon as you have your own address we'll provide an interface where you can enter the password you were given when you generated your payment address and if it matches you can specify your own address to which we'll send any earned mining rewards.  After that you should set your miners to use your own address... Although if you forget we'll have a record that that address belongs to you so we will be able to send manual payments to you if needed.

We expect to have this interface working tomorrow.

p.s. Yes your share counts will reset whenever we find a block... I understand it is a bit confusing what happens to shares in between this reset and when you get paid and we are working on a better interface so you can see all of shares and their status/payout times easily...

I have some questions about MineZ.zone's ZENCASH mining. I saw that my shares reseted about an hour ago. Is it normal? How can I know how much is my earning? I see zero balance and paid. What will be the method of withdrawal when Bittrex avaible Zen wallet?  Thanks the answers in advance.

*touchwood

Things should remain fairly stable now.
Any time it goes down, all of your miners should resume as normal when it comes back up.

It's unstable , may be because i from Asia.
you should open Asia pools for Asia miner~

i get the same problem~