Topic: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - shutdown mining 2020-07-01 website 2021-06-01 - page 39. (Read 324945 times)
May 17, 2016, 01:59:28 PM
Its working again now. I use eu1. Must have been my end for some reason.
May 17, 2016, 01:56:47 PM
Has there been anymore problems as ive just got home and checked cgminer as it says that bitminter was not responding?
No, that must be something else.
If you are using mint.bitminter.com:3333 could you try us2.bitminter.com:3333 or eu1.bitminter.com:3333 ? And if those work, please send me your IP address to [email protected] so I can check into it further.
May 17, 2016, 11:26:53 AM
Has there been anymore problems as ive just got home and checked cgminer as it says that bitminter was not responding?
May 16, 2016, 01:05:22 AM
In case anyone else running public services is interested:
We saw TCP SYN Flood, ICMP Flood, UDP Flood. Of note is that for the first time the mail server was also attacked. I think many forget that their mail server IP shows in their DNS. I always thought this would happen, but it took almost 5 years before it did.
It was probably some script kiddies screwing around. Who knows... We saw TCP SYN Flood, ICMP Flood, UDP Flood. Of note is that for the first time the mail server was also attacked. I think many forget that their mail server IP shows in their DNS. I always thought this would happen, but it took almost 5 years before it did.
May 15, 2016, 09:12:18 AM
In case anyone else running public services is interested:
We saw TCP SYN Flood, ICMP Flood, UDP Flood. Of note is that for the first time the mail server was also attacked. I think many forget that their mail server IP shows in their DNS. I always thought this would happen, but it took almost 5 years before it did.
We saw TCP SYN Flood, ICMP Flood, UDP Flood. Of note is that for the first time the mail server was also attacked. I think many forget that their mail server IP shows in their DNS. I always thought this would happen, but it took almost 5 years before it did.
May 15, 2016, 05:20:09 AM
We're seeing a ddos attack across all our mining servers simultaneously today. Let me know if you have any connection issues.
I am not seeing any issues at the moment. I will keep my fingers crossed. May 15, 2016, 05:00:48 AM
We're seeing a ddos attack across all our mining servers simultaneously today. Let me know if you have any connection issues.
April 27, 2016, 12:31:29 PM
Hi Bitminter Community,sorry to bother.
why does the ghps is not represented on the site when bitminter is running, but it does appear properly when i use my cgminer with antminer u3 how come?
why does the ghps is not represented on the site when bitminter is running, but it does appear properly when i use my cgminer with antminer u3 how come?
The hash rate reported by the site is based on shares submitted to the pool. The pool has a minimum difficulty share it will accept. When you mine with "slow" miners (like usb sticks or the U3, for example) then the number of shares submitted to the pool per unit of time are not very constant, so the pool reports your hashrate fluctuating from 0 to whatever.
I asked a similar question before and Dr H replied:
Regarding mining with old USB sticks: the minimum difficulty is currently 64. You can't get below that. But mining will work fine. It will not make your USB sticks fail and need to reset. It will not cause lower actual hashrates. If those things happen then it's for other reasons. What it WILL do is make the website's estimated hashrates very inaccurate. The website will often show you at zero hashrate. Mining still works and your hashrate in the shifts should be closer to reality: https://bitminter.com/shifts (make sure you are logged in to be able to see your hashrate in shifts)
April 27, 2016, 11:17:44 AM
So chi, 5th & 6th have gone too 
Kfchicken to the rescue
Kfchicken to the rescue
April 26, 2016, 03:46:00 PM
The hashrate on the site fluctuates. I cant remember the reason why but its basically an average. Since ive been with bitminter the shift hashrate has always matched the hashrate of whatever miners I have been using.
While a shift is happening you may see considerably more Ghps than you have, then other times less. But it is always correct when the shift completes
While a shift is happening you may see considerably more Ghps than you have, then other times less. But it is always correct when the shift completes
April 26, 2016, 03:36:29 PM
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Hi Bitminter Community,sorry to bother.
why does the ghps is not represented on the site when bitminter is running, but it does appear properly when i use my cgminer with antminer u3 how come?
April 25, 2016, 12:12:27 PM
No problems here, my workers have been mining away 24/7. Glad to see that little run of green blocks, certainly helped make that red one feel better.
April 25, 2016, 11:51:45 AM
Anyone else getting the occasional disconnection? Its been happening for the past couple of days and again today. Never had a problem before 
April 23, 2016, 03:39:14 PM
Hello all,
Sadly after 6 months of mining, my apartments are coming down on me hard about my mining setup, threatening an eviction if I did not shut them down, they were quoting some fire code bs. Been on BitMinter since buying my first Antminer U2, this is a very fair and awesome pool (Thanks Bitminter Team!) that has just been experiencing its law of averages lately. What I mean is for months it was hitting below the expected CDF of 50%, so it was bound to happen. That has nothing to do with leaving though, when I get out of apartment Auschwitz here and into a house I plan the buy new units and get back in.
Until then, I need to sell my over 20Th/s of equipment. If anyone is interested, please take a look at my Craigslist ad. (I will have pictures up shortly.)
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/ele/5576654359.html
If you're far from California but interested, I will ship to you. (Never shipped anything but, I'll figure it out.)
Thanks for reading.
Updated: 5/08/2016
Sadly after 6 months of mining, my apartments are coming down on me hard about my mining setup, threatening an eviction if I did not shut them down, they were quoting some fire code bs. Been on BitMinter since buying my first Antminer U2, this is a very fair and awesome pool (Thanks Bitminter Team!) that has just been experiencing its law of averages lately. What I mean is for months it was hitting below the expected CDF of 50%, so it was bound to happen. That has nothing to do with leaving though, when I get out of apartment Auschwitz here and into a house I plan the buy new units and get back in.
Until then, I need to sell my over 20Th/s of equipment. If anyone is interested, please take a look at my Craigslist ad. (I will have pictures up shortly.)
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/ele/5576654359.html
If you're far from California but interested, I will ship to you. (Never shipped anything but, I'll figure it out.)
Thanks for reading.
Updated: 5/08/2016
April 20, 2016, 12:33:46 PM
I went back through the blocks, I didn't make note of the time taken to get the block but back at the beginning of January there was a 99% block 
The 99.1% block I think you were talking about took 8 days 8 hours. There was also a lot more hash in the pool then. There have been plenty of 90% blocks since then, but some of those only took 4-5 days because of the higher hash on the pool.
The number of users has gone from over a 1,000 most of the time then to the low 900's now.
I don't know what it will take to get the users /hash back. But if something doesn't cause a turn-around soon, it will be time to look for another pool myself, unfortunately.
I would rather get more smaller payouts than a single payout once a week or more (8 days 19 hours now.)
I think this all goes back to the debate that was had in this thread a page or so back. More frequent smaller payouts vs. larger payouts over a longer amount of time.
Just about all of my high % shifts have fallen off the board now, so when this block is finally hit, I will have probably spent 4x more on electricity than the payout will be worth.
I was browsing other pools as an alternative last night. Some have hit over 300 blocks in the last week. I'm not talking about moving to a Chi pool, either.
I want to be loyal and stick around here, but when it costs more to stay here than to move on, I will probably have to explore other avenues.
99% block are expected, getting a stale or orphan on that particular block is also and probably just bad luck (Maybe code optimization COULD save one of those stale block but it's pure speculation). Knowing that you'll be getting high diff block in any pool and IF you decide to mine at Bitminter then, someday, you'll have to face a long period of time without getting a payment.
People have a very small memory when it come to luck. They look at feet instead of the horizon, meaning the AVG payout of this pool is far from been bad even if you hit some back luck on road which is normal.
Lower pool hashrate only means you'll have to wait longer to get a bigger payment because, yes the pool will find a block even if it takes a week.
The only issue I got with the 1 block a week/bad luck is that 1 week is about half a difficulty period and during a period of diff increment it hurts, especially when the block is stale like the last big block. But it's part of the game ... it's like getting 4 block in the same day with a super lucky day.
Running after luck is a non-winner strategy from my humble opinion.
I mined here for like a year and half, people quit on bad luck and come back when the luck is over the AVG. It's also part of the game...
I moved on, but luck as nothing to do with my decision.
There is a lot of users on the Top 50 that I have been pushed down the list but when the bigger guy quits on bad luck, they are always making their way to the top. They look on the long term.
This is just my humble opinion
April 20, 2016, 11:56:45 AM
Hit the block again!!! , keep going guys!!
April 18, 2016, 01:45:04 PM
Out all weekend and came home to see the round duration had reset on my monitor, so I was like "yay" but then I saw it was a stale solve. It's sad to see that one bad block has caused the pool to lose like 35% of its hash.
April 17, 2016, 08:26:56 PM
Coming up to my last days of mining in this pool.
April 16, 2016, 04:30:38 PM
I cannot believe it. "gafter" finally broke the bad streak, only to be thanked with a stale block 
Fingers crossed for a good old double in quick succession.
Fingers crossed for a good old double in quick succession.
April 16, 2016, 04:28:26 PM
So finally a block - a stale one. Just when I had 2 high % shifts left on the pay board. Oh well. 
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