Topic: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - shutdown mining 2020-07-01 website 2021-06-01 - page 52. (Read 324945 times)

Website issues right now. Working on it. Mining functioning as normal.

I see, that makes sense then. Thanks!

The quick updates on the livestats are extrapolations based on your hashrate. There is an adjustment from the server once per minute.

If you send in one proof of work at difficulty 256 then your proof of work counter on the server will go up by 256. And that happened in a single work submit.

Since the server updates your data approx. once per minute you could look at the workers page where there is no extrapolation, wait one minute, click the little refresh button there, and see how much the accepted count goes up. It will be some multiple of the worker difficulty you are on currently. But you wouldn't be able to tell two work submits at diff 256 apart from a single one at diff 512.

Try having a look at cgminer when you are able - much easier.

Basically i use the counter on the website to measure how often i am submitting work. I just watch the counter as it updates every half second or so. So to submit around 10000 units. the counter updates about fifty times. So that means on average each work submitted is worth 200. Correct?

Well why dont i just look at what difficulty shares cgminer is submitting? I plan to but i dont have direct control to the miner at the moment.

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Do you mean it is stuck at exactly 256 all the time?

Bitminter worker difficulties are powers of 2, with a current minimum of 64. So 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, and so on. If you don't set a minimum then you will be started on 512 currently.

The mining server will adjust up your difficulty if it makes sense for your hashrate. The aim is to see roughly 20 work results per minute from your worker. You can change this number in the worker settings. You can also set a difficulty minimum which is mostly useful to make the initial difficulty ramp-up faster when you connect to the mining server to start mining.

Note that from you change difficulty settings on the website until you see it active on your workers can take up to 20 minutes (worst case).

Mostly you shouldn't need to set minimum difficulty or the work results per minute target. The mining server will start you at 512 and adjust your difficulty as necessary when it sees how fast you are mining.

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Do you mean it is stuck at exactly 256 all the time?

Bitminter worker difficulties are powers of 2, with a current minimum of 64. So 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, and so on. If you don't set a minimum then you will be started on 512 currently.

The mining server will adjust up your difficulty if it makes sense for your hashrate. The aim is to see roughly 20 work results per minute from your worker. You can change this number in the worker settings. You can also set a difficulty minimum which is mostly useful to make the initial difficulty ramp-up faster when you connect to the mining server to start mining.

Note that from you change difficulty settings on the website until you see it active on your workers can take up to 20 minutes (worst case).

Mostly you shouldn't need to set minimum difficulty or the work results per minute target. The mining server will start you at 512 and adjust your difficulty as necessary when it sees how fast you are mining.

My worker difficulty seems to be stuck at around 200, even though I set the minimum difficulty much higher on the worker settings page.

Same here.

Glad I resisted the urge to bail over the weekend.  I strongly suspected that bad luck streak had to end soon but that was a loooooooooooooong block.  

Let's all thanks lady Luck !

Agreed, we really need to complete that block, what 8 days on one block meh...no big deal.

That's odd. But at least it works now.

Oh and.. a big thanks to magus777 for being our savior today!

ok so using the port number 443 instead of 3333 is working much better for me, it ran for about 30 hrs straight without any issues.  The next time it does what it's been doing i'll put in one of those other servers and see if that helps also.

Is it otherwise working and getting work accepted?

Could you try us2.bitminter.com:3333 and/or eu1.bitminter.com:3333 and see if those are more stable for you?

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Yea when it's not interrupted it works just as it should. 180 gh's.  But Atm I rebooted the system and made a few changes to my IP address and it's been working non-stop for around 8 hours now.  If it does however fail again I will surely try this other U.S. Server, Thanks a lot for the advice, I had no idea there were more than one servers. 

It's on my list!


Thanks for letting me know.


Is it otherwise working and getting work accepted?

Could you try us2.bitminter.com:3333 and/or eu1.bitminter.com:3333 and see if those are more stable for you?

Hey everyone I am a newbie here but I'm catching on real quick, when I say newbie I mean to mining not just Bitminter.  So I have an AntMiner S1 which I've spent the last few days troubleshooting.  It's working for the most part now but only on the other pool I've tried (Slush's).  For some odd reason when it mines in this pool it keeps telling me that the connection to the pool gets interrupted every 15 to 30 min.  Does anyone know why this would be happening.  I have some other miners (much slower) which work fine with this pool, the S1 is the only one that has the issue.  Thanks for any help in advance. 

I like my namecoin and btc in separate payouts, dont change.

I expect this block to be broken soon!!

Can you put some time labels for the luck graph and cumulative earnings?

.. And slush pool already auto converts nmc to btc


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This service looks well suited:

https://shapeshift.io/#

If there is a way to automate that service poolside the pool would be supporting namecoin without inconveniencing those with no interest in holding nmc.

Just a thought.

Awesome I have been answering the same questions for years, so I'm getting good at it


This is highly unlikely. PPS is extremely dangerous for a pool. It only takes a little bad luck and the pool is bankrupt. Most PPS pools already either went bankrupt or stopped offering PPS.


Peercoin does not support merged mining, so this is not possible.


This would be a possibility. My impression is that most people are just annoyed by the namecoins and want them removed. Autoselling might be one option.