Topic: Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB - page 231. (Read 1061843 times)

Average time for last 10 blocks...30 mins....nice 

Why does the payout queue seem all dorked up?

How can it be 700+ Bitcoin behind?

That doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling that the pool has sufficient funds to handle all payouts and is being managed properly.

yup, this is possible with any private key

It's my understanding (I don't use blockchain.info so take it for a research point) that you can export your private keys from your blockchain.info wallet and import them into a client such as QT or Electrum. If so, this should fix the problem for you. Well, if you're using QT that will also involve waiting an interminable amount of time for the blockchain to download

It is a new feature of of the wallet.

From the release notes:
+- Consider generated coins mature at 101 instead of 120 blocks

not sure but I have installed new Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 wallet and newly generated (mined) coins now showing will mature after 101 confirmations instead of 120 as in previous versions

is this new feature of new wallet or something else?

It's been stated multiple times recently in this thread.  Eligius Namecoin payouts have been supended until WizKid makes sure the BTC Statistics are accurate, considering the number of times the site has gone into fail-safe mode recently.  I can't speak for him, but I'd say it should happen any day now.  History has shown he will sacrifice time for accuracy.  I can respect that as I do that as well.  Eligius always makes it right in the end.

has anyone been paid namecoins yet. My last payment was on the 8th

As soon as I can figure out how to use GitHub.

M

There's always some risk, but storing your BTC with a company which could access it, but claims that they can't, is probably more risky than other things.

Didn't Dropbox do that?


The focus would be on blockchain.info, not on you specifically.


You believe that?  


So where do you think your private key is stored?

With the standard settings, blockchain.info has an encrypted version of your private key.


That's great, but I don't see what blockchain.info is adding. There are other android clients which don't require you to give anyone your private key (encrypted or not).


You're only using one address for all your transactions?


And the security of your private key is only as secure as the least secure backup copy.

I leave off the http:// bit as well.
I find stratum.mining.eligius.st:12234 works best for me. YMMV.

Just an update to say Blockchain.info contacted me back within 8 hours and fixed the block that was unconfirmed.

and got my wallet updated

thanks for all the input

Yes, we could all drive ourselves to insanity worrying about the security of our Bitcoins.  The thing is, if some party is clever enough to do script injection on the fly, they are probably going to do some damage and there is little we can do as individuals to avert it.  I believe the facts are that in, what, five years of Bitcoin history, little of that type of security hacking has occurred.  When it HAS happened, it was a VERY high profile heist.  Your 20BTC wallet just isn't worth the effort to focus on you.  Crooks know there is cash in 95% of the houses out there.  Do they break into all 95%?  No, just the most profitable ones.

Mt. Gox got burned by their own stupidity by incorrectly implementing the Bitcoin protocol.  So, nefarious opportunists could use that crack in their code to get paid more than they were entitled to, and Mt. Gox ended up in a piddling mess when their audit came back short of coin.

I use a Blockchain.info online wallet because I like their Android client.  They are not an exchange so they never need to have the access to manipulate my wallet balance.  I NEVER give them my private key to log in, just an account ID (which is NOT my wallet address) and my password (which is NOT my private key).  When they were down for a while, I was able to take my blockchain.info encrypted wallet backup, which I create via dropbox daily, my private key, Multibit wallet software and have my wallet back and running on my PC in 10 minutes.

In actuality a wallet is just an extrapolation of your balance from the blockchain for just your wallet address.  The private key just proves that you have the right to originate transactions using that address via cryptographic means.  Anyone that knows your wallet address can discern how much BTC it contains by digesting the entire blockchain looking for transactions that add and subtract from the balance for that address, it's public information.  That's the process that takes like three hours when you install new wallet software on your PC, longer if it has to go back to the Genesis block.

Blockchain.info got burned and shut down for the majority of the past four days due to a technical issue with MySQL clustering.  Plain and simple.  In my experience with being a datacenter engineer for 20+ years, you have far more exposure to risk on a day-to-day basis from Murphy's Law than criminals.  I've had to recover clustered SQL servers from crashes.  It's not pretty and it's not easy or quick.

Electronics fail, paper gets destroyed, passwords get lost/forgotten.  Keep your wallet data and especially your private keys as safe as, or safer than, you would fiat cash.  Practice safe computing practices.  Back yer shtuff up!  That's the best you can do.  Cryptocurrencies at least have the added advantage in that you can keep multiple copies of credentials safeguarded in multiple ways.

Schweet lookin piece o' coding you got there mdude77!  You gonna open-source that tool?  I'd love to take that and throw in some code to monitor my miners' health too.

12 days ago no NMC payment?

I just published v3.3 of my Windows only MPoolMonitor.  Only reason I'm posting this here is it now shows the luck stats from Eligius.  As far as I know it's accurate.



See https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mpoolmonitor-42-monitors-most-pools-idle-worker-notification-blockchaininfo-86502.

M

Hey - look at that. When I do it correctly - it actually works!

Thanks for the help.

This is not cgminer on your PC, so the command line is all wrong.

Try putting in http://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 in the first line, your mining address in the second line, and something (like 1234) in the third line.  You don't need or want the -p -I parms.

M

"Stop digging"

I'm trying to get one of my Antminer S1's to mine against the Eligius pool - but I can't seem to get the thing to connect.

In the Antminer GUI - I go to

Status -> Miner Configuration

Then on the Pool 1 line I enter :  stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u <my wallet address>_worker2S1a -p x -I 9

and I left everything else blank.

but I can't seem to get the S1 to connect and mine.

I've read thru the directions on the Eligius pages and checked a bunch of stuff - and I'm not getting a connection.

I am sitting behind a firewall.  So I just wanted to make sure I had the S1 configuration correct before I started chasing config problems there.

Thanks