Topic: BITMAIN announces Antpool - page 23. (Read 382888 times)

why are you on antpool?

what country are you in? any country except China really should not use antpool .

  this is not a racial statement it is based on connectivity to pools and the fact that antpool is far too big to need more hash.

what gear do you use?  looks like you have 5th or less how much hash do you have.



you do not have a ton of gear so you get lost in the sauce on pools like antminer.
as long as you are not in China you can connect with ease to many other pools.

I wrote a long thread on kano.is  and why people should mine there vs antpool or f2pool

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/lifetime-pool-luck-for-antpool-vs-kanois-or-why-arent-you-mining-with-kanois-1338693

kano.is thread

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/kanopool-kanois-lowest-09-fee-since-2014-worldwide-2432-blocks-789369

Can't login to any of bitmain sites ... error 404

me too, i am not receiving payment at all. i am new mining on antpool. and btw, with 3 days i am start mining on antpool, i've got 0.00777 and now its reduce 0.00605547, how it could be?

i sending email to support and they told me that if balance reach 0.001, then the payment will be send automatickly but until now i am not receive any payment and my balance got reduce. its become scam?

can't seem to login to bmt account. i'm seeing unknown error !!!

Im having same issue, no yesterday's payout.

so today i noticed i havent received a payout from antpool....usually i get mine super early in the am like around 12-2am est but it is now 11am est and no payout. i have .105 btc sitting in my acct now that should have been paid out but i havent seen anyone else mention no payouts for today so i figured i would post about it now to get the ball rollin. im sure its no biggie but i have learned not to leave btc sitting in ANY pool no matter how big or how small so i am uncomfy with this amount just sitting especially since i cant cashout manually on this pool like i can with eclipsemc.....i might just switch back to them because i rarely have issues with them paying out. i think they were delayed once in the years i have mined there and even that was just a few hours if im remembering correctly.

I just posted a similar link in the Empty Block thread, but F2Pool has really cleaned up it's act, leaving Antpool and BW as the largest empty block offenders. At this point, Antpool is pulling an average of 4.71 empty blocks per day.

I made the switch to Kano. It needs more hash power. Come on...you can do it!

They are indeed, if you check their empty or non full blocks in the past 24 hours you could see that if they were full blocks the mempool would be about 1/3 less then it is currently just based off Antpool's blocks. This is based on blocks of 980+ being considered full, antpool does find some 900 blocks but they are intentionally not filling them to the 1MB limit.

That is huge bug in the bitcoin code. They are destroying the whole point of bitcoin. I really don't get it, if they continue to do so they will hurt the acceptance of this currency globally and than the price will fall, fucking tards!

I wish that bitcoin itself would correct this with core network code that requires valid block solves to contain transactions when the mempool is not empty (i.e. always); the network itself would reject blocks that do not contain transactions.

Got it; thanks!  I shall unwatch the topic so it doesn't irritate me.

Yes we know for sure. It has been years since bitcoin has been quiet enough for any mempool anywhere on earth to have zero transactions after a block change. The reason antpool do it - as explained numerous times before - is dual: As a workaround to make up for poorly scalable pool software in addition to relying on block header only SPV hashing. Since their infrastructure is entirely dependent on whatever they deployed as their pool software now they have zero interest in changing their approach now since it "works". It mines, it finds blocks, miners sheep their way here, so why would they change? The next block halving is going to start really hurting antpool sheep (or are they ants?) as the proportion of rewards from transaction fees will be up to 5% of the reward even at current transaction rates and they'll be missing out on those rewards on every empty block they solve.

Do we in fact know they are mining empty blocks on purpose?  Is it possible they aren't seeing the same set of transactions we are?

Is there a log somewhere of transactions making into the Antpool mempool which they subsequently ignore?

You can stop mining on the pool.  You can tell your friends to stop mining on the pool.  Post about it.  Tweet about it.  Whatever you can do to get people to stop pointing their hash here.

Since last Monday, AntPool has mined 44 empty blocks.  You know that giant backlog of transactions?  Yeah... that wouldn't exist had AntPool actually included transactions in its blocks.

Is there something to do and block this greedy people? Can the comunity change the core code?

Good job Bitmain!  Your last 3 blocks were empty and there are well over 25k unconfirmed transactions.

Please, people.  Stop mining here.  There are so many other good pool choices, where operators actually care about the future of Bitcoin.

No one that gives half a shi.t about Bitcoin should mine here.  Of course Bitmain will mine all their machines here, but no one else should!  They are by and far the worst empty block offenders and they'll never do anything to change until the network forces them to, just like they keep running their crappy cgminer fork.

look at where we are

https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

28 k unconfirmed

with antpool and their 1 tx block

bitcoin network begin to suuck hard

avoid this f.cking pool now

I agree completely.. Im not meaning to leave anyone out i think they all could use a helping hand.(yours too.. I found it rather disheartening the lengths people went to to keep you from operating.. ie ddos)  Was just wanting to bring some light to another small pool that has been running since 2011 and not getting the recognition i feel he deserves. It really seems he has a rock solid setup and knows a great deal about whats needed to run a pool. I would like to be supporting these pools myself but the crazy rising diff brought on by the worst offender in the bitcoin world pushed me out and it really grinds my gears!.  Add insult to injury they don't seem to know how to mine correctly!  I really REALLY hope bitfury comes thru for the public..  we have to take back some of bitmain share of the network if they aren't going to play by the rules.  

Please Antpool stop spv mining, fill your blocks and help put an end to all this bs debate about needing larger blocks!!  When i see everyone on the 3 month chart mining at 1 MB and we still have a backlog then id say its time.. but until then.  Atm if antpool would have mined full blocks for the last three months it would equate to over 500k transactions.  way more than the back log..

Price   437.64 USD/฿
Hashrate   1115.88 PH/s
Activity   198 TX/min
Unconfirmed Txs   30,660
Fee Rate   0.00010358 BTC
Fee paid by unconfirmed transactions for every 1,000 bytes of size.
https://chain.so/BTC

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d57heinz