I noticed our hashrate dropping a bit - pool IS operational, just shit luck.
Are you sure? Its been another hour with a high hashrate and still no blocks.
Woohoo a block!
That was nerve wracking. I was staring at the logs the whole time xD
Topic: [ANN][Pool][XMR] Pool.CryptoEscrow.eu | Monero Development Supporting Pool - page 7. (Read 26137 times)
June 16, 2014, 12:07:03 PM
Are you sure? Its been another hour with a high hashrate and still no blocks.
Woohoo a block!
That was nerve wracking. I was staring at the logs the whole time xD
June 18, 2014, 06:36:16 PM
Ever try to pool-hop PPLNS? I'm pretty sure that's what node-cryptonote-pool uses, but I'm not certain.
i never checked... but it seems weird thats not on the faq page
just checked git: its proportional
June 18, 2014, 06:16:36 PM
^See https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7282674 and https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7301154
i'd say pool-hopping:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/why-is-pool-hopping-a-problem-if-you-use-a-proportional-pool-read-this-24966
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/analysis-of-bitcoin-pooled-mining-reward-systems-32814
once i find a way to get the last block from api i'll do it too
June 16, 2014, 11:03:38 AM
I noticed our hashrate dropping a bit - pool IS operational, just shit luck.
June 18, 2014, 05:56:53 PM
^If someone have an optimized miner and then use some of it's power to withhold blocks and some of the power to solo mine - he's getting payed by the pool less then if he didn't withhold, but he's sharing the bad luck with all the other miners, so he's getting payed without actually contributing. He could also solo mine on lower difficulty with his other hash rate. I'm just curious if there are miners on the pool, who are not sending any high difficulty shares, not finding any blocks and are too unlucky (out of the statistically justified intervals) in spite of their hash power.
June 16, 2014, 08:59:53 AM
I am looking at switching to your pool because you seem like a very competent developer, but now that it is growing in size, do you have any DDOS protection in place?
It's been two days - I just spoke to mindless about it, though. We plan on getting it and seperating HTTP and mining servers ASAP.
June 17, 2014, 07:17:29 PM
I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.
So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?
We seperated the backend from the frontend for two reasons - performance and security. Having a web server on a machine that stores money is unnecessary and is an attack vector. Also, having a dedicated server for mining means it can have all the resources it needs.
I understand all of this as I run and have ran multiple pools. I am curious to to why you need to completely drop pool.cryptoescrow.eu so suddenly? Why not just change the dns for pool.cryptoescrow.eu to point to the new stratum server IP? I had quite a bit of Kh/s pointed at it and there was no warning/time announced ahead of time for the switch. I do however appreciate the new faster DDoS protected servers.
I'm gonna be completely honest - that was kind of due to a miscommunication. It was supposed to point to pool2.cryptoescrow.eu for a while, then we would phase out pool.cryptoescrow.eu's mining ports entirely.
lol This is way I hold you in high regard sir. Most shit heads would of just glazed over this lapse.
Everyone makes mistakes... what makes you a man is how you deal with them.
June 17, 2014, 06:24:54 PM
Now we just have to find a block 
June 16, 2014, 08:18:10 AM
I woke up and gave bitmonerod a kick as soon as I saw. Kind of stupid you have to restart it sometimes or it won't find blocks, but it's a known issue.
so the mined xmr are lost or...?There were no mined XMR, because of the stupid bitmonerod. It happens on other pools as well - I've seen surfer43 and dayas constantly complaining about it.
.Log is open in my other monitor right now. Thanks.
June 17, 2014, 03:58:13 PM
I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.
So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?
We seperated the backend from the frontend for two reasons - performance and security. Having a web server on a machine that stores money is unnecessary and is an attack vector. Also, having a dedicated server for mining means it can have all the resources it needs.
I understand all of this as I run and have ran multiple pools. I am curious to to why you need to completely drop pool.cryptoescrow.eu so suddenly? Why not just change the dns for pool.cryptoescrow.eu to point to the new stratum server IP? I had quite a bit of Kh/s pointed at it and there was no warning/time announced ahead of time for the switch. I do however appreciate the new faster DDoS protected servers.
I'm gonna be completely honest - that was kind of due to a miscommunication. It was supposed to point to pool2.cryptoescrow.eu for a while, then we would phase out pool.cryptoescrow.eu's mining ports entirely.
Ahhh.. Well thanks for being honest
I have pointed my miners to the new IP for now, hopefully everyone else will follow! June 17, 2014, 03:45:27 PM
I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.
So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?
We seperated the backend from the frontend for two reasons - performance and security. Having a web server on a machine that stores money is unnecessary and is an attack vector. Also, having a dedicated server for mining means it can have all the resources it needs.
I understand all of this as I run and have ran multiple pools. I am curious to to why you need to completely drop pool.cryptoescrow.eu so suddenly? Why not just change the dns for pool.cryptoescrow.eu to point to the new stratum server IP? I had quite a bit of Kh/s pointed at it and there was no warning/time announced ahead of time for the switch. I do however appreciate the new faster DDoS protected servers.
June 17, 2014, 03:34:54 PM
I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.
So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?
Fellow, Miners,
We have some important information:
http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu
2014.06.17 20:30GMT: Moving to a new DDOS protected server
Pool stats can get very crazy - Dont Worry
Point your miners to:
stratum+tcp://5.254.116.138:3333 or
stratum+tcp://mine.cryptoescrow.eu:3333
Good luck, mining!
June 16, 2014, 02:46:05 AM
Just got two blocks in quick succession!
June 17, 2014, 03:29:42 PM
I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.
So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?
June 16, 2014, 02:29:11 AM
I woke up and gave bitmonerod a kick as soon as I saw. Kind of stupid you have to restart it sometimes or it won't find blocks, but it's a known issue.
so the mined xmr are lost or...?There were no mined XMR, because of the stupid bitmonerod. It happens on other pools as well - I've seen surfer43 and dayas constantly complaining about it.
June 17, 2014, 03:12:30 PM
With normal luck and current pool hash rate and difficulty it should find a block each 15 minutes. There is something wrong with all the pools. Did you added the other big pools with the --add-priority-node when starting the daemon?
EDIT: Is it possible someone or the GPU miner to withhold blocks.
EDIT: Is it possible someone or the GPU miner to withhold blocks.
June 17, 2014, 01:42:20 PM
http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu was updated:
If you would like to receive news related to mining Monero(software news, hardware comparison, community news, etc.), subscribe to our mailing list: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/sign-up.html
- We have raised ulimits and added auto restart for Monero daemon, which results in a more stable and profitable pool.
- Added email sign up feature for urgent news.
- We plan to have DDOS protection starting Thursday.
If you would like to receive news related to mining Monero(software news, hardware comparison, community news, etc.), subscribe to our mailing list: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/sign-up.html
Awesome, glad to see DDoS Protection is coming Thursday
Seems to be a while since we found a block though... With the pool sitting at around a 12th of the network hashrate... We seem to be very unlucky :[
Last block found time as of now: 6/17/2014 10:01:35 AM
June 16, 2014, 01:21:18 AM
I woke up and gave bitmonerod a kick as soon as I saw. Kind of stupid you have to restart it sometimes or it won't find blocks, but it's a known issue.
June 17, 2014, 12:13:30 PM
http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu was updated:
If you would like to receive news related to mining Monero(software news, hardware comparison, community news, etc.), subscribe to our mailing list: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/sign-up.html
- We have raised ulimits and added auto restart for Monero daemon, which results in a more stable and profitable pool.
- Added email sign up feature for urgent news.
- We plan to have DDOS protection starting Thursday.
If you would like to receive news related to mining Monero(software news, hardware comparison, community news, etc.), subscribe to our mailing list: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/sign-up.html
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