Continuum Mining Pool: No fees; Client uptime monitoring via twitter and email - page 3.

Meni Rosenfeld

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Quote from: PoulGrym on June 26, 2011, 01:47:01 PM

* Frustrated miner that want to get this block done and be done with it. *

There's nothing special about "getting this block done". If mining for this pool is good for you do, if not don't. Mining is random, there's no accumulation of work.

Do keep in mind that in most other pools your average payout will be less because of pool-hopping.

DareC

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Continuum is using a special score-based method designed to eliminate pool hopping. Basically, share value depreciates over time.

The full method is described in this thread.

PoulGrym

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I just got a strange question, how does this Prop/Score based pool calc your share of the block found? As I'm using http://continuumpoolrpc.appspot.com/ It says Current round balance (proportional): XXXX Numbers.. These numbers seem very directly connected to the current hashing speed then the actual total sent in shares. If I'd stop to mine for a min and under that minute or two it wont register me sending any shares. Then Current round balance (proportional): = Zer0? How does that work?

This seem a little strange if you ask me.. so that's why I'm asking you guys.. RIP to the dude that reboot's his computer while a block is found.. >_<

* Frustrated miner that want to get this block done and be done with it. *

PoulGrym

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~~RPC server is down... been like this for a few hours now..~~ how are we looking with the new difficulty? After next payout I'm out I think.. I guess those with big rigs are staying tho...
has any one else gotten a lower hashing average? mine says it's at ~200 while I'm mining at 350MH

cengique

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Quote from: PoulGrym on June 23, 2011, 02:54:15 PM

Sounds nice, what are you hiding under the hood, for that rig?

Two machines each running 2x 5850s. They are oc'd to 900 and 920 MHz (I haven't edited their bioses). I also have a 5970 that is waiting for a computer that can handle it Sad

And trying to acquire a used 5870 now. I still have an AM2 motherboard that doesn't work also. If I can get all of those working, I can contribute another 1 GH/s in the coming week or so.

How many people are contributing to continuum so far? It's been nice at 10 GH/s, as somebody said above it's almost like mining solo, but a bit better Wink

PoulGrym

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Quote from: cengique on June 23, 2011, 09:16:25 AM

Quote from: martok on June 23, 2011, 12:28:35 AM

Anyways, we did find another block later today, hopefully you were around for that one.

I have been contributing about 1.5 GH/s for the past two weeks, and a few days ago I switched from pps to prop as you were shutting that down. Now I got a bunch of BTC in my unpaid balance thanks to those two blocks you found! Go continuum! Cheesy

When do we get a payout, though? Did you also change those rules?

Sounds nice, what are you hiding under the hood, for that rig?

cengique

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Quote from: martok on June 23, 2011, 12:28:35 AM

Anyways, we did find another block later today, hopefully you were around for that one.

I have been contributing about 1.5 GH/s for the past two weeks, and a few days ago I switched from pps to prop as you were shutting that down. Now I got a bunch of BTC in my unpaid balance thanks to those two blocks you found! Go continuum! Cheesy

When do we get a payout, though? Did you also change those rules?

PoulGrym

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Has anyone got any payout's yet? I've mined with no breaks since the PPS Switched. Still I did leave my miner mining with the appendix of 0PPS to my miners name. I've still not received any payout tho. ~~Stats severs seems down, for me at least.~~ If I've got it clear. We've solved the long long long very long block.. plus another one.. Is this correct?

Cheers..

[edit] Sweet! Stats are back up, I see 3 BTC heading my way soon I hope ^_^ *It's nice we're lucky at times* Well be staying here to next difficulty jump I guess.

P.S Please do rar or zip the history txt files.. >_< file 5 ~~is 1.2Gb~~ 0005.txt.xz [Mirror] 129mb

13PZZ.. 11 BTC Sweet! @1.7Gh What setup is that?

Meni Rosenfeld

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Quote from: mmortal03 on June 23, 2011, 12:01:08 AM

Yep, that sounds right. What's the cutoff? That particular worker ran for many days in the last round, it just wasn't run in the time frame immediately surrounding the solved block due to some air conditioning issues that came up.

I think the current half-life is about 550 shares. So if 5000 shares were submitted after yours your payout will be close to 0.

Think of this as a gentler version of solo mining. You don't have a good chance of being rewarded for blocks found while you were out, but your variance is much lower than solo when you're in (and on average it's the same whatever you do, and all that).

martok

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Quote from: mmortal03 on June 23, 2011, 12:01:08 AM

Yep, that sounds right. What's the cutoff? That particular worker ran for many days in the last round, it just wasn't run in the time frame immediately surrounding the solved block due to some air conditioning issues that came up.

Afaik, there isn't a constant cutoff but rather the shares degrade as new shares come in. So the actual amount of time you can be away before a block is found varies based on the hashrate of the pool. The higher the hashrate, the quicker a share will devalue but then at the same time, the more frequent blocks are found so your expected value remains constaint. Ok hopefully I have that right.

Anyways, we did find another block later today, hopefully you were around for that one.

mmortal03

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Quote from: martok on June 22, 2011, 09:43:52 PM

Quote from: mmortal03 on June 22, 2011, 09:26:41 PM

Quote from: martok on June 22, 2011, 08:43:47 PM

Well fortunately I'm we found a block very soon after you posted this so we're standing on the other side of a very long round. It's worth noting though that the pool's hashrate was not constant throughout that time. The round is being dumped and the entire history will be up soon at http://www.continuumpool.com/history/

Excellent news! How soon should the round's distributions appear on each worker's balance page, for example: http://www.continuumpool.com/balance.php?worker=1D6v2gzXV4Tj7RtHPfpWmy5fRD68ZmN6Mm

Balances should be updated though that particular worker doesn't seem to have current shares. The last share submitted by the above worker was at 12:10 server time (GMT-7). The block solution was found at 17:00 so there were nearly 5 hours between last share and solved block. Does this match your records?

Yep, that sounds right. What's the cutoff? That particular worker ran for many days in the last round, it just wasn't run in the time frame immediately surrounding the solved block due to some air conditioning issues that came up.

martok

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Hello all,

Too many posts from me today, last one.

The files at www.continuumpool.com/history/ have been updated to reflect today's rounds. I have changed the format of dumps though to be more easily parced by scripts. Rather than the XML output, shares are in a simple tab delimited format. Note that "\n" appearing in a field isn't a newline but rather a NULL cfield. I have dropped the payout dumps as they are redundant and can be calculated by doing the math.

martok

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Quote from: mmortal03 on June 22, 2011, 09:26:41 PM

Quote from: martok on June 22, 2011, 08:43:47 PM

Well fortunately I'm we found a block very soon after you posted this so we're standing on the other side of a very long round. It's worth noting though that the pool's hashrate was not constant throughout that time. The round is being dumped and the entire history will be up soon at http://www.continuumpool.com/history/

Excellent news! How soon should the round's distributions appear on each worker's balance page, for example: http://www.continuumpool.com/balance.php?worker=1D6v2gzXV4Tj7RtHPfpWmy5fRD68ZmN6Mm

Balances should be updated though that particular worker doesn't seem to have current shares. The last share submitted by the above worker was at 12:10 server time (GMT-7). The block solution was found at 17:00 so there were nearly 5 hours between last share and solved block. Does this match your records?

tschaboo

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Quote from: martok on June 22, 2011, 08:43:47 PM

Welcome to the pool.

Thank you! I joined your pool right now ...

Quote from: martok on June 22, 2011, 08:43:47 PM

Well fortunately I'm we found a block very soon after you posted

... and now I'm very unhappy that I didn't do that a few hours earlier. Cry

I could have been rich by now. Wink

Quote from: martok on June 22, 2011, 08:43:47 PM

It's worth noting though that the pool's hashrate was not constant throughout that time.

Ah, ok, I didn't consider that. So I hope that the pool stays above 10GH/s and we find another block soon.

mmortal03

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Quote from: martok on June 22, 2011, 08:43:47 PM

Well fortunately I'm we found a block very soon after you posted this so we're standing on the other side of a very long round. It's worth noting though that the pool's hashrate was not constant throughout that time. The round is being dumped and the entire history will be up soon at http://www.continuumpool.com/history/

Excellent news! How soon should the round's distributions appear on each worker's balance page, for example: http://www.continuumpool.com/balance.php?worker=1D6v2gzXV4Tj7RtHPfpWmy5fRD68ZmN6Mm

martok

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Quote from: tschaboo on June 22, 2011, 06:23:32 PM

Hello all,

I'm a very new miner. Depending on which computers are currently running, I'm having 110 - 630 MH/s. I decided to use this pool as my primary pool because this seems to be the only one that uses Meni's scoring system. I don't get it, but I'm very confident he got the math right. Martok also seems to be trustworthy.

Welcome to the pool.

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One thing bothers me though ... I made the following calculation:
The expected number of hashes to find a block is EH=3766548342687541 (http://blockexplorer.com/q/hashestowin), the hashrate of the pool right now is HR=11825476621 (http://www.continuumpool.com/hashrate.php).

If I calculate EH/HR/3600/24 I get 3.7 days to finish a block in average.

But http://www.continuumpool.com/roundstart.php says that the last block was found 2011-05-30 14:20:23.526037-07. That's about 24 days!!! So, what's wrong here?

Well fortunately I'm we found a block very soon after you posted this so we're standing on the other side of a very long round. It's worth noting though that the pool's hashrate was not constant throughout that time. The round is being dumped and the entire history will be up soon at http://www.continuumpool.com/history/

tschaboo

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Hello all,

I'm a very new miner. Depending on which computers are currently running, I'm having 110 - 630 MH/s. I decided to use this pool as my primary pool because this seems to be the only one that uses Meni's scoring system. I don't get it, but I'm very confident he got the math right. Martok also seems to be trustworthy.

One thing bothers me though ... I made the following calculation:
The expected number of hashes to find a block is EH=3766548342687541 (http://blockexplorer.com/q/hashestowin), the hashrate of the pool right now is HR=11825476621 (http://www.continuumpool.com/hashrate.php).

If I calculate EH/HR/3600/24 I get 3.7 days to finish a block in average.

But http://www.continuumpool.com/roundstart.php says that the last block was found 2011-05-30 14:20:23.526037-07. That's about 24 days!!! So, what's wrong here?

Meni Rosenfeld

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Quote from: PoulGrym on June 21, 2011, 05:37:26 AM

Just would like to have the option to change to another pool with out the losses.

There are no losses. You can freely change to another pool any time you wish. This will have no affect on your payout for already submitted shares (if no block is found they will quickly depreciate whether you're in or out).

PoulGrym

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Just would wanted to say thanks for your PPS services and will try and support you to find one Block on the Prop as I've already been hashing for 11 hours, that's if the switch started when you posted. Could it be possible to have your own user/miner banned from the pool once the block is found, so we can have an indication of when blocks and payment is payed. Just would like to have the option to change to another pool with out the losses.

mmortal03

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Quote from: martok on June 20, 2011, 08:19:10 PM

Hello all,

I am writing to inform everyone that I am discontinuing PPS mode in the pool. I had a set limit of losses for PPS and that has been exceeded. Beyond that, I want to focus exclusively on developing the best (in a technical sense) pool I am able. Going back to an entirely score based method will allow me to do that with a minimum of fuss. I realize that this will cause some to leave the pool, though I would encourage you to move your hashing power over to the score-based pool. It will continue to be immune to hopping attacks and will have its history published to ensure transparency.

Note: Once PPS is switched off, PPS miners will be completely paid out so long as balance is above 0.01 BTC..

Thanks.

I obviously support your decision, martok. As a reminder, don't forget to change the thread subject and your signature once you turn off PPS. As usual, I'm going to continue to point my megahashes at your score-based side until it find one.

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