Topic: Bitcoin.com Pool, PPS - page 6. (Read 18333 times)

The fields in your photo are yellow.  Your safari browser thinks it's a username and password field and it is entering your username and password into the field.  Maybe you should give up on the pool.  So far you have pretty much made yourself look silly with your complaining.  i'm a noob and I can figure the stuff out...  Or if you really need the help, stop adding the four letter words and the derogatory comments about the software engineers.

Under user pages, click account, and see what your current pay out address is.  It may be correct and your browser with it's auto fill are just confusing you.

Moron pool software.

I wanted to mine to this address:

 https://blockchain.info/address/16yLHLoeyuCLPMXkVpC3gyrRYvwRGwjKJr

I put it in.  this morning the btc address reads phil...  not 16y...

So I put 16y...  I lock it

It auto switches back to philipma1...  and locks the motherfucker

and I now have to wait a day to unlock the address.

see photo

to pool owner   get a good programmer  as the philipma1...  is not a valid btc address and should never be allowed to be entered no less locked

so Far not impressed with the pool.

As there was no reason for my entered address to switch from 16y... to philipma1...

I am about 10 seconds away from just saying %^&$^%#$%%

I swear I don't need to have the last word.

Yes - at some point if you use it long enough it will fail.  But of course you do have recovery methods, like any other wallet.  I like the security without having to go through the paper wallet thing.

Mixers - most mixers are easily traceable and not worth the time.  The only ones I have seen that could be legit are ones that give you newly minted coins.  But even then you need to break up transactions, send to multiple addresses, never use the same address twice, etc.  You can do it, but it's involved and costs you 2-3% at a minimum.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Oh good.  Glad you found it.

which i mentioned that i did  a few post later.

On the front page of pool.bitcoin.com there is a box on the right of the screen that says "Start Mining" and it has all of user data, and server data.  I suppose its' easy to miss.  Obviously you need to "sign up" to get to the home screen.

This pool uses FPPS mining mode not PPS whats the difference?

do they  keep part of the fees?

More than a bit OT now... but the PayPal no-fee-for person-to-person brings to mind the only other alternative for that eg. Western Union. Again - fee.

No matter what, by design BTC Tx fees MUST go up to finance operations be it Mega Farms, us smaller farms/miners and along with us - Pools.. Bigger problem with that is, the Powers That Be must get off their duffs and soon decide on how to make bigger blocks to handle the increased volume of transactions! Even with folks paying more the chain is still pretty backed up...

I've looked at them in the past. Just am not comfortable with having to rely on a physical device that will (someday) fail.

edit: Oh, re: coin mixers.
Whyy does the Media and so many folks think BTC Tx's are 'secure'? It's an open Public Ledger fer chrissake.

In early 2015 at the end of the AMT/Bitmine.ch A1 miner mess (at least my involvement with it), Opium2 and I brought up the matter of tracking BTC movements to/from AMT/ it's owner Joshua Zipkin, with a Dr. of CompSci friend of ours. Being intrigued with blockchain uses, he bit. I gave him VPN access to my RenderBeast (I dabble in 3D art) - which for then was 2nd from the top 6-core i7 ($1,800 for the CPU!) loaded with 128GB of insanely fast memory and a 1TB SSD array. Damn fine AMD GPU as well which today is  prolly around $100 or less. At the time I got it - ouch...

He set up a local Full Bitcoin Node on it and within 2 weeks had written a tracer that takes any wallet address(s) as inputs, searches the entire chain at a rate of >50k Tx/Sec and reports all instances of and paths the coins took. In the process, since he was using Haskell he found some of their blockchain-specific search functions to be - lacking. Wrote streamlined versions that were Pushed and are now there for all. to use. One interesting find was early on several large BTC transfers from Josh (AMT) to a known KnC wallet later followed a very steady 2x per-week 10BTC income to Josh's wallet from a KnC farm that was probably running A1 rigs that were kept from the screaming Public customers of Bitmine.ch (and AMT). Strangest part about that is that KnC and Bitmine.ch were supposed competitors so wtf? ...

Yes - if it's a business transaction they do take 2-3%.  If it's me sending money to you, out of the goodness of my heart, there is no fee.

I recommend the Ledger wallets.  Not sure what voodoo they do, but if you set the fee to "highest" level, which is their default, you will not pay a crazy amount and transaction will go through on the next block.

Add to that the fact that BTC is pretty damn secure if you use it right (mixers, etc for security if you wish) and it offsets the cost of the transaction fees in my opinion.  You can always choose another cryptocurrency for quicker txs if you like but BTC is the capstone for all of them. Of course people will always complain about tx fees and segwit and lightning network never getting through but it's still cheaper than other methods like credit cards for now.

$300 and $5 fee is only 1.6% additional cost.

I understand stuck: last week I xfr'd 2.9BTC to Coinbase to cashout a bit at good exchange rate. Even added 0.01BTC  - about $12 - above the suggested fee. Still took nearly 3 days for the block to be confirmed even once and around 1/2 day more for the 3 confs Coinbase requires before releasing the coins to sell. Thankfully BTC price was fairly stable during those 3 days.

Well, the the only thing the BTC Tx fee can be compared to is what credit card companies charge merchants to use their services. As I recall even the likes of Walmart pay around 2-3% of every purchase. Using your $300 even a 2% fee is still $6 Walmart et al have to tack onto our cost for the goods. I can happily also say that several local small stores near me give a 5% discount for cash purchases vs using credit or debit cards so...

I've never had a PayPal account but don't they skim some off the top of each transaction that goes through them as well?

I now have an account with them.  I will review them over the next month.


Semantics as to what stuck is.    Paying 5 usd to move 300 usd is not so good.

this type of transaction is what I mean by stuck

https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/d8d6dc5efeccfa97cb5c8c53d129cbf2b6d4bc44d7bd935ed98f5cb420b8b48f

I wouldn't quite call it being stuck -- more of a forced learning of BTC's growth pains.

Satoshi stated the whole point of Halvings is to force the use of higher and higher Tx fees with the (hopefully far future) end goal of no block rewards at all meaning all income is only from Tx fees.

yeah  same old same old.

but it has helped alt coins a lot.

many people follow my signature  and use alt coins to get around btc being stuck unless you pay a big fee.

Pools back up.

I started mining here yesterday.  This was a private pool that just opened to the public.  It had 80 PH as a private pool.  It appeared to grow by 2 PH yesterday after the announcement that it is open to all.

The only way to get on the pool is to send in a request for an invite.  Then I was given a website link to register.
My guess is that opening to the public was somewhat of a last minute decision.  While their website is nice, they don't have an official thread here or a telegram chat or anything where pool users can get answers to questions.

I had one issue yesterday, that Roger Ver actually got back to me on directly.  Then I pointed out a sorting option that was not working well and received a response and a fix in about 2 minutes.  So it' clearly not a "new" pool.

Got paid 110%, if not more, for yesterday's hashing.

But now today the front end site has been down all day due to a DDoS attack I assume.  My miners are still running and I'm still getting alerts for miners being down.  But no access to stats all day.  And given the number of people that dislike Roger and what he stands for, I imagine he will have to figure out a way to deal with robust disruptions if he wants the pool to grow.  Because there are plenty of petty bitcoin people with a torch for Core, just as there are probably equal numbers for BU

Personally, it's not that I am big BU supporter, but I do believe Core has been hijacked by Blockstream and lost it's independence.  While I despise the FUD that surrounds this issue and find both sides guilty of grade school tactics, we need a solution that is workable - NOW.  Bitcoins growth is stunted everyday there are tens of thousands of transactions left unprocessed.  I'm for BU, or a compromise with SegWit, or just about anything that lets Bitcoin, the primary chain, grow unfettered.

I spent enough time  trying to get mining should not be that hard.  Let some one else use them.

Maybe them not giving us a pool address to point miners at is their very effective way of blocking pool-hoppers

Or so the site shows. Of course with no other stat than that graph to show, oh I don't know, say, blocks found, luck%, etc. potential users have no way of verifying it.

I would have sent hash here at 110%

but after spending a long time on the site frankly don't like the way it is run.

It has so much info for new people and not the right info for a seasoned miner.

I clicked a ½ dozen invites and got worthless loops and redirects to info that I simply do not care about.

I did some simple math  and 110%  ppn is getting closer to being possible as a working plan.

old  calculations say you need about 95%  to be safe as a ppn

with blocks now doing 13.5

here is my math

12.5 x 1.1 = 13.75

13.75 / .95 =  14.47    

so if you get 14.47 per block and pay out 13.75 per block    you would most likely make a real profit as a pool operator.

We just need more fees I think blocks are still a bit short for this 110% to last.

but from fucking with the site it looks like there is 82 ph mining there.

that should be 3.5 blocks per day.

Please tell me this is a joke. More than 100% PPS with no fees and a pool with no stats nor pool address to mine to? Pool will either die of not paying out or they'll die of no hashrate from this. At least release a proper website and pool, I'm sure everybody would much rather prefer a fully usable site release than this.