Topic: BITMAIN announces Antpool - page 28. (Read 382888 times)

I cant access english page on Antpool by android tablet. With PC I can.

They might have turned off S3 miners from HASHNEST. Just a guess...

Has rate has suddenly dropped from 220 to 180.

More precisely:

thank you

I don't think so. The P2Pool implementation of AntPool is so obscure that any use of it should be treated experimental at best. If earnings matter to you, then you should probably stay on the safe side with the regular servers.

As ususal, it would also be nice if AntPool/BITMAIN cared to communicate about it, updates, roadmap etc.

I'm currently using Stratum protocol and PPLNS. I noticed that with P2P protocol Antpool would also pay Tx Fee to miners.

So would I earn more in P2P?

Thanks Matt, works great. Used it for this post: http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2016/01/january-10th-2016-mining-pool-statistics.html

Trust me when i tell you that if there were better options the market would show you what we thought of Bitmaintech!

The responsible Bitcoin community has about had it up to here with bitmain pricing schemes(by this i mean wait to turn on your mega farm til after you got top dollar for miners), piss poor support, mining empty blocks, spv mining, lagging block propagation, hell they don't even answer questions on their own forum Bitmaintalk!  No matter how much good you have done for bitcoin in the past, it can all easily be forgotten with what they are currently up to..   I for one think there is plenty of hash on the network for its own security.. Bitmain selling miners as a front to cover the fact that its themselves growing far bigger in market share than any one entity should have in bitcoin.. 25 % id say thats getting a bit greedy(who knows what they hide at other pools such as f2pool) not to mention the fact that 71 % of all hash is in china and growing!  im sure there is a threshold on what the community is comfortable with i for one know there is for me.. antpool/Bitmain/China/f2pool is pushing this limit on a daily basis..

Here's a little quote from their rma page.  "Special note when you fill the waybill:

Make sure to describe it as "Warranty part" .

The declared value is according to the quantity of defective parts you shipped back ,we suggest you declare $5-20 for one board.

if the declare value above the $45 on one parcel ,we’ll have custom issues ,and you need to cover the Chinese import tax and the storage charges due to the custom issues ."

Gives ya a good idea just what the parts are worth and how bad they f&^% us when they send that garbage to us.  I love how they want us to lie to customs on the value of the board/s when its getting shipped to them   Let me ask you this.. if it gets lost in transit. then what will you get for a refund.. Exactly what you declared on value of the item.. last i checked you cant buy those parts used let alone new at 5 - 20 per board anywhere.  And on top of it being a supposed warranty they get to put the screws to you on import tax and storage if you decide to declare it with the correct value.  Doesn't sound like they have much confidence in the products they send out to me.  IF they did then it would be free to rma a miner under warranty.  Im sure there are many other complaints this is just all that ive witnessed in the short period of time ive been in bitcoin.

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d57heinz

Seems to be a frequent thing to DDOS Antpool (and other pools) in the past few weeks. I don't hear people complaining (often) about bitmain as a hardware company but as pool operators it seems peoples frustration is the lack of communication. People also seem to be complaining about mining empty blocks and the orphan rates.

They probably think they're heroes

Just the socioeconomic majority at work right?

Antpool has given support to Bitcoin Classic. That might have something to do with it.


Remind me to ask Kano where he thinks the miners on his pool comes from next time he's here to talk shit about antpool. Maybe he can go troll KnC, Bitfury and 21inc into start selling some decent gear to home miners.

Pool wars once again. Why don't pools just let each other operate and if your pool is that good people will join your pool. The kicker is everyone will bad mouth Antpool and bitch, bitch, bitch, but drop $10k on Antminers on the other hand. Confuses me.

Yep.  Can't acces their website.

Antpool.com has been down for a number of hours on Jan 12th (after cloudfare splash)  .. block explorer shows antpool still finding blocks though..

No, it wasn't


Check out my new public AntPool block data API, hopefully you will be able to extract some nice pools stats from here and integrate them with your global pool surveys. With about 25% of the global hashrate, I guess it can improve stats quality.

Now everyone can scrape block data easily and without the hassle of authentication.

OK, so it wasn't just my coding ineptitude that prevented me from getting the block data? Ha!

I'm looking forward to seeing what you can get done.

I'm updating my code to add a public block API that was always missing from the original API.

It will be derived from the publicly accessible data on their website, for some reason this data cannot be queried from their API at all, so I will be adding this in a few hours. Additionally it's currently script-inaccessible because of the same CF issue.

Stay tuned...

hey, thanks for responding Matt. I'll check it out when I get home, hopefully I can write a new script to access it. How many of the past blocks does it record?

EDIT: just read https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13407296

It seems that I'd still need to write some script to generate the signature required - any way around that?