Topic: Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB - page 64. (Read 1061417 times)

Currently donations and volunteer work fully support the pool.  No need to have a fee.

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Greetings Eligius Miners,

So, today BIP66, the enforcement of v3-only blocks, took effect and it turns out a couple of large pools were using a broken mining setup that landed them on the wrong side of a chain fork.  It looks like it cost those pools about 150 BTC in lost blocks due to them mining on top of invalid blocks.  F2Pool and Antpool specifically.... (all of the gory details available in the #bitcoin-dev logs from the past couple of hours.)

Eligius was mining on the correct chain the entire time and Eligius nodes and miners never saw the invalid chain, so no wasted work was done here.

I went through the invalid chain and grabbed transactions from those blocks and made sure they were added to Eligius's memory pool for prioritized mining on the correct chain in an effort to help out.  That way no one on an older or broken client would see a fully confirmed transaction drop to zero confirmations.  It looks like Eligius was able to mine a block just as I was pushing those transactions to our mining servers and most of them were included.  The rest appear to have already been mined by other pools and the few stragglers are prioritized in Eligius's memory pool for our next block.

So, carry on!  Business as usual here.

Thanks for mining with us!

-wk

How does the pool run without taking a % fee or transaction fees from blocks? Solely from donations?

Using some kind of redirect won't affect the pool's luck because the shares wouldn't be counted against the pool.  Now, withholding a block solution... that would certainly impact the luck.

What a run today!

If I'm understanding you correctly, shares that were "redirected" wouldn't count toward the pool luck, and so wouldn't affect the pool's luck, just the pool's hashrate.

Thanks for the quick response. Regarding the bad luck, a - maybe silly - question: Could it theoretically be that shares are being redirected directly at the machine, i.e. has anybody ever made a tcpdump for a longer period of time from different machines to see where the shares are going to? Or is this nonsense, i.e. would this be an attack which could be discovered too easy?

It was about the recent bad luck at both pools. I didn't find anything impossible about the luck at either pool (or both combined). If you're wondering what I consider "impossible", you can use as an example GHash.io's luck from August last year to end of May this year.

Well, given the timing, I wouldn't call it a "theory" anymore.

Btw: Eleuthria mentioned that there were some weird things going on against BTCGuild and that he wanted to forward his findings to Organofcorti. Are the three of you in contact regarding these issues? Just asking so I don't have to mumble the non-working magic words :-)

And finally got that manual payout out of the way.

300.06462737 BTC in manual payments applied to balances from tx 641c5170dedefaa1772396202fb1e241d80bf87e25dfef58fe9e75ec8a6c05e4

Looking at logs, moments after BTC Guild shutdown someone started a DDoS against the web server.  *sigh*

The timing has the small conspiracy theorist part of me thinking that another pool did it to prevent refugees from BTC Guild from considering Eligius...

Oh well, fixed.

Going to do some brief maintenance on the web server while I'm at it.

-wk

Wanne join in the Minin Pool.
Does it work so far good?

Site is actuall down?

reagrds

its over, wow its showing a hash rate

woohoo.  people jumping from BTCGuild I'd guess.

M

13,000TH and climbing.  Very nice bump in the past 48 hours.

If anybody wants to read up on the spam transactions, have a look here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/next-level-bitcoin-stress-test-june-29-30-1300-gmt-2015-1098263.

Greetings Eligius Miners,

Sorry about the web server this morning.  It looks like it was DoS'd earlier and my fail-over decided to fail so it never came back up until I kicked it.   I'll work on that.

As always, the web server/stats have no impact on mining/rewards/etc.  So even if the site is down, everything is fine really.

On another note, there is this stupid spam/DoS attack happening against bitcoin right now where some entity is trying to fill up the blocks of miners with trash.  I'll point out that Eligius is effectively filtering about 99% of this garbage, so by mining here you're helping to thwart such nonsense.  I've gotten a few questions about why Eligius seems to be mining such small blocks compared to other pools, and this is why.  We're not mining the spam.  As of this moment it looks like Eligius is filtering something like 15-20 spam transactions per second.     I would hope more pools would be on board with keeping the block chain clean, but judging by the spam content of everyone else's blocks this doesn't seem to be the case.  In reality, legitimate transaction volume is pretty normal looking.

As for a manual catch up of the payout queue, I've admittedly been slacking... a whole lot else going on with Eligius and otherwise and I just haven't had a chance to sit down and do one with all of the requisite verification, which takes a bit of time.  I'm going to make it a point to try and do this sometime today/tonight as I don't want anyone having their payout delayed any more than normal.

Thanks!

-wk

Page is working again

They haven't.  I have been mining here for something like a year and a half and this happens all the time.  People don't understand how it works and they post about it here.  It might be helpful though if wizkid stayed more on top of the queue length.  So that maybe if it gets beyond 10 he can do a manual payout and get it caught up again.  But for a zero fees pool I can understand why he wouldn't make it such a huge priority.

same to me ...

I am still hashing as well.  Just can't get to website.