Topic: [BTE][Closed][Faucet]Bytecoin Faucet (Read 4231 times)
***UPDATE 25/5/2013: POOL NOW CLOSED DUE TO LACK OF MINERS***
now pointing my cgminer at it... nice to be adding to the faucet 
Thanks!
It might take a while to generate a block, as we lost a considerable amount of hashing power when the server crashed, so every contribution helps!
EDIT: Generated a block! We're getting back on track!
now pointing my cgminer at it... nice to be adding to the faucet
pool down?
Yeah, Really really sorry, the pool crashed while I was asleep
Everything should be working as normal now
Add CAPTCHA to faucet, else BOTs will drain all coins in a day. Seriously.
Yeah, I'm going to, I just don't think it is the main priority to prevent BOTs specifically for the faucet at this stage
(Also there is only one payout per IP address and bytecoin address per day, they could use proxies but that seems like quite a lot of work for 0.1/0.05 BTE a pop)Don't get the wrong idea, I'm going to try to add it, it's just slightly more difficult to do as the website uses ajax instead of posting data to the server
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pool down?
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Don't dwell in the past, don't dream of the future
I really like your frontend for the faucet and the pool. I'm going to throw a miner to the pool. Good work.
over 300 BTE in the faucet, but only 0.05 released at a time, maybe increase it to 0.5 for a while ?
I might increase it to 0.1 for now, I'm just trying to find a balance between how much is donated/mined and how much is withdrawn (As there are over 300 payouts a day on average).
300 payouts * 0.5 = 150 BTE, which seems a bit much to give away in one day, and much more than what is mined for the faucet.
Understood, if 300 a day, agree 0.1 is better.
I tried mining the pool that feeds the faucet recently but got some JSON errors, will have another try later, would like to contribute to the faucet
If you run into any problems just post the logs here
**Update: New 'Watch' Mode for the pool! You can now watch your bytecoin address and see it's current payout amount on every page of the site!**
over 300 BTE in the faucet, but only 0.05 released at a time, maybe increase it to 0.5 for a while ?
I might increase it to 0.1 for now, I'm just trying to find a balance between how much is donated/mined and how much is withdrawn (As there are over 300 payouts a day on average).
300 payouts * 0.5 = 150 BTE, which seems a bit much to give away in one day, and much more than what is mined for the faucet.
Understood, if 300 a day, agree 0.1 is better.
I tried mining the pool that feeds the faucet recently but got some JSON errors, will have another try later, would like to contribute to the faucet
Thanks, Works I'll be starting a BTE Faucet soon as well
I'll be starting a BTE Faucet soon as well over 300 BTE in the faucet, but only 0.05 released at a time, maybe increase it to 0.5 for a while ?
I might increase it to 0.1 for now, I'm just trying to find a balance between how much is donated/mined and how much is withdrawn (As there are over 300 payouts a day on average).
300 payouts * 0.5 = 150 BTE, which seems a bit much to give away in one day, and much more than what is mined for the faucet.
over 300 BTE in the faucet, but only 0.05 released at a time, maybe increase it to 0.5 for a while ?
Percentage of rejected shares is very high, over 20% on my side. Mining with either CGMiner or BFGMiner makes no difference. Blocks are no longer
solved every few seconds so there should be less rejected shares. Any fix for the issue?
solved every few seconds so there should be less rejected shares. Any fix for the issue?
Could you check your latency to the faucet page (hosted on the same IP as the pool)?
P2Pool relies heavily on low latencies, so if your connection is slower than others to the pool, it could mean that you get a higher number of rejected shares.
EDIT: I'm going to restart the server's internet connection, just tested it and it's *very* slow. Should be better in a minute, and the number of shares that are rejected should decrease
Restarted it. It's rather annoying how my internet connection decays over time, It's now 163.8x faster after a restart. 163.8 times faster.
If the faucet or pool are extremely slow for anyone later, just post here or PM me and I'll reset the connection.
Percentage of rejected shares is very high, over 20% on my side. Mining with either CGMiner or BFGMiner makes no difference. Blocks are no longer
solved every few seconds so there should be less rejected shares. Any fix for the issue?
solved every few seconds so there should be less rejected shares. Any fix for the issue?
Could you check your latency to the faucet page (hosted on the same IP as the pool)?
P2Pool relies heavily on low latencies, so if your connection is slower than others to the pool, it could mean that you get a higher number of rejected shares.
EDIT: I'm going to restart the server's internet connection, just tested it and it's *very* slow. Should be better in a minute, and the number of shares that are rejected should decrease
It takes a lot of time for pool to realise miner joined, is that normal?
A lot of time as in how long? It takes a while to generate each block on the pool as it only has about 5GH/s hash power, if that's what you mean. Also, P2Pool uses a PPLNS payment system, and it is handles mining quite differently to other pools, so that could have caused a slight delay, but payments should generally be instant when each a block is found
I stopped mining like 20 minutes ago but I'm still receiving payouts. That means there is some sort of fade-in and fade-out with pool.
Yeah, as I said, it's pretty different to most pools
It uses the Pay-Per-Last-N-Shares System:
Whenever a block is found, payment is given to shares in a window, starting with the last share submitted and going backwards up to some number N of shares. Shares older than the window are not paid. This is essentially a 0-1 cutoff decay function. There is no concept of rounds - shares can be paid even if they were found before the previous block. This means that a given share can be paid more than once - however, the payouts are chosen so that the expected reward is equal to solo expected reward. Because the payment for a share depends only on blocks found in the future and not on shares and blocks found in the past, there is no way to hop based on the current status of the pool. However, if implemented incorrectly, it is possible to hop based on imminent difficulty changes
Great idea setting this up! I have been mining this pool in balance with the other BTE pool and it's great to see the faucet nice and full.
LucasJones, you sir are very welcome!
I remember getting my first BTC from the bitcoin faucet a long while ago, and I realize this is a great way to help get others on board with this new coin. Just doing my part to help spread the love! Enjoy everyone
- Digigami
I remember getting my first BTC from the bitcoin faucet a long while ago, and I realize this is a great way to help get others on board with this new coin. Just doing my part to help spread the love! Enjoy everyone
- Digigami
Great work on the faucet and pool LucasJones!
I have been using cgminer with very good success for those having issues.
I just made a donation to the faucet to help keep her topped up for ya
I have been using cgminer with very good success for those having issues.
I just made a donation to the faucet to help keep her topped up for ya
Thank you for your donation! It is much appreciated, already over 50 people have claimed bytecoins since you donated
I thought it would be nicer to personally thank you, as it is quite a big (even though BTE isn't really worth much right now) donation, more than the pool or anyone else has mined/donated
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