Topic: BTCguild issues? (Read 8549 times)

Long blocks happen to all pools.  Deepbit is such a massive pool, that the time it takes for them to hash a "long block" is still considerably shorter than most other pools.  They just have more horesepower and can speed through the long blocks faster.  THe better comparison is the numbers of shares to complete a block.  This equates pools together and removes the time factor since it is a product of the hashing capability.

Check this page:
http://www.btcguild.com/blocks.php

and this page:

https://deepbit.net/stats

Now, you want to compare the number of shares, not the time. 

Also, its been said many times, all pools are affected by variability, and the probability of getting short blocks is going to be the same for you regardless of which pool you mine in. 

In a nutshell,  deepbit can has blocks faster due to their huge capacity (3.1 THash/sec) but you will see proporationally smaller rewards at deepbit on those blocks since you are a smaller portion of the work done.  So, you will get smaller rewards at a faster rate.

Now, at BTCGuild, you will see longer hash times since the hashing power is less (1.3 THash/sec).  BTCGuild has less than half the power of deepbit, so naturally it take the pool longer to hash a block.....but heres the kicker.... your rewards for that block will be higher than what you would get at deepbit...since you have a higher proportion of the work.  So, in a nutshell, you will take longer to hash a block but you get more rewards once a block is solved.

In the long run, its all a wash.  IF you want fast, small daily payouts, mine at deepbit as compared to BTCGuild. 

Honestly, 24 or 48 hours is NOT A GOOD WINDOW to measure 2 pools against. If you absolutely must compare pool rewards and success of block hash, you need to do a comparison of at least 7 or more days.   

So, choose the pool that meets how quick you wwant your payouts to be (as mentioned above) and any other features you like.  Such as web front end, fees, and security.  You are going to see the same amount of BTC returns from any of them (not counting any fee differential of course).

I also tried this pool a couple of days ago and left for deepbit because of too long blocks/low rewards...

the problem is that mining clients apparently don't do any kind of checks whether the the smaller jobs they are working on end up in any new blocks found... is this even possible?

hence the pool software might be so much broken that it would not distribute found blocks... so all those long blocks we see could be actually several found blocks

right now it looks as if this block is taking almost 4 hours to solve.  You wont get any rewards until the block is solved.  Also, if you are donating less than 2.5% you wont get any rewards from previously solved blocks (the rewards wont go into the "confirmed" column) until the block has been confirmed across the bitcoin network.

I'm still looking at 0 rewards for 4-6 hours, maybe more. Is this issue display only or do I need to switch back to deepbit? I'm contributing around 6Mhash/second

could just be a difficult block. Some of them took 3 hours

I'm pointing my 410 MHash/s to eu.btcguild.com since 4 hours now and earned 0.01366009 BTC. Something is still wrong there, at least for my account...

I'm new to btcguild (a tentative move from another mining team) and trying to understand why the number of shares that I show solved on my desktop, the pool block history and the my account page don't add up.

Right now, the "my account" page shows 43 total shares solved, of which 2 are from "this round". This suggests that I should have 41 shares from previous rounds. When I go to "block statistics" and add up "my shares", I get a total of 23 (including from unconfirmed blocks). Am I misunderstanding something here?

+100

This is why I point my 4.8 Ghash at the Guild and give 2.5%. Awesome customer service and Eleuthria is on top of any issues as soon as he finds out about them. I'll be adding another 1.4 Ghash in the next 24 hours. 

all fixed now, thanks!

you sure my account is fixed? I switched over and see my miners are earning shares but nothing is changing in "my account"

awesome, thanks for fixing it so quickly man, I will switch my miners back over now!

Block share counts, times, and rewards are now back in order.  There was a bug in the way I handled the list of the block generations for the 3 servers, and the EU server was overriding the US East server's list, rather than adding onto the main list.  As usual, this only caused a temporary problem in displaying accurate stats.  The backend is very strong and is never overwritten by the frontend when performing reward calculations, so your historical data remained safe for recalculating the rounds.

Are the displayed shares per block in the blockexplorer also fixed? Is it right, that there are more shares submitted fot the 45minutes Block than for the 5hrs block?

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   129532    2011-06-09 14:36:34    5:28:05    76722    52 until confirmed    136   0.08863168   0.00000000    
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   Processing    2011-06-09 14:13:09    0:45:51    560641    113 until confirmed    868   0.07741139   0.00000000    
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Glad to see you're working on this. I've been watching my stats and wondering why it hasn't looked right.

Thanks for the quick fix. How was that good night sleep..

Rewards are being fixed right now on the blocks.

okay. thats good. i got a real shock right now seeing that i should only get 0,01 per block. where i should get ten times the amount.

Thank you for addressing it, hope you will get it sorted soon.
I've enabled .5% donation

I agree this is starting to worry me more then anything it seems like the rounds are going for hours and I'm not sure if that is just a reportin bug on the site or what.  I'll give it till I get home today to see if things change (as I can't change the computer till then) and if they do I'll stick with it if not I'll change to another pool for a bit.

FYI the current round says it has been 5 hours which I don't think is accurate but is making me worried.