Topic: Hashrack.com - Hashpacks/RealtimeStats/Decntrlzd/PPLNS/ASIC Ready/API (Read 10369 times)

I joined the queue @ october, till then been trying to cancel my contract without any success, no replies from them...
After all this 4 months, seems that we got scammed.

Hey all

I was foolish enough to buy hashpacks at hashrack.com before checking bitcointalk...
Setting that aside has anyone EVER gotten any response from them or is it a pure scam operation.

Albi

BFL delay is such a common excuse...seems they bought some DrillBit boards (~22GH/s)

First contacted pkarc on 4th July 2013 requesting a refund via private message.  He has been online since then, yet no response and no refund.  Tweeted @hashrackpool requesting the email address as the contact form on the site is gone, got a response within 24 hours.  Emailed the address 2 weeks ago with full details, no response.  Have tweeted and emailed several times since with no response (and he's definitely been online since).

I hate to use the word, but it looks like pkarc is a scammer.

If his site is telling the truth on how many packets have been sold assuming nobody bought anything more than the 500mhz pack then he would have made over 66 btc thats alot considering how little work he put into it...

They tweeted me [email protected] when I asked.

However, I've had no response from that address or the twitter account since I emailed them asking for a refund.

Someone should start a thread under 'Scam Accusations'.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

HT xD

Guys dont try this site it is a scam they took my btc... does anyone have the email they had up?

I thought I'd give these guys a try some time ago, I ordered a 500 mh/s pack but sent a few extra coins by accident (sloppy number keying). This ~0.03 extra btc showed in my investment account for a while, but one day disappeared.

So I filled out a contact form describing the problem, and got this response back (response received Jun 16):

No biggie, so I waited 3 weeks, but still nothing. At this point, I'm rather irritated, so I go to fill out another contact form, and lo and behold, the page now gives an error. So I replied to the original email i received from hashrack, simply requesting a refund. This was over a week ago and to be honest I'd be surprised if I ever get a response.

tl;dr: Money went missing, communication went dry, don't trust this company.

S C A M :/

Have posted any picture about your datacenter yet? Have received any of the BFL boxes?

why would I mine on this pool? I dont get it ... lol

This should be enough to give pkarc the scammer tag.

I wouldn't be surprised if the pool found some blocks and we were not informed..

BUMP

wow seems OP is afk 

Possible SCAM 

After giving hashrack my 1.02 BTC and buying my "hashpack" my user has been blocked.. when i try to request a password reset it tells me it already sent me a password reset.. When I try to log in with my previous password it just says "User has been blocked"

Thief gimme back my 1 BTC.. usernam z3r0

SCAM WARNING

I would not be surprised if you did, it would make you quite alot more than the pool itself would. If you manage your finances correctly, there wouldn't be any issues.

Make sure to contact BFL (Or Avalon) and see if they are willing to offer you any discounts for consistently large purchase orders. I believe Avalon will, I do not know if BFL will.

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You need to work on the issue of redeemable hardware. If you can assure this, (the customer pays for any shipping costs) then you are set. People will eventually copy your pool when they realize your system may work.

The reason behind the idea of "redeemable" hardware is that you can assure customers it is there whenever they "need it". As you grow in reputation and confidence your customers will eventually (likely) decide it is far better to keep their hardware hosted with you than in their own homes. Eventually, they will not be able to host it in their own homes. I know I can't host more than 3..maybe 4 at most.

If someone wants to pull their hardware from the Hashrack® they could contact you in email, pay off the discounted difference or any fees pending on the hardware for the month...and then pay for the shipping charges to get it delivered. It is important that you get some kind of (non-permanent) labeling system. Like magnetic labels, #001 or whatever, so you know which one is the customers.

After people have confidence you are here to stay for the long haul; they will probably just keep it perpetually at the colocation facility you are doing business with...through you. You should also limit how many "redeemable shipments" you are willing (or can do) per week without straining you or your staff. If it is 50 slots per week, it is 50, no more no less.

Anyway, you have a very good idea going for you. I hope it takes off and it keeps you profitable. I frankly do not see how it couldn't.

Seriously considering this. do not be surprised if you're the first to know if it is implemented.

I have a suggestion, you might want to make the jackpot optional IE charge like a base 2.5-3% and then have the option to enable being enrolled in the jackpot for another 1% that way if people want to just use your great stats and hashpack services without paying extra for the potential jackpot they can and that should encourage faster miners to join who don't necessarily gain from paying extra just for a chance at 2btc where they could earn that themselves faster if the fee was lower.
Just a thought.

So I just joined and was interested in the hashpacks and am wondering how quick I will be given them if I were to purchase one? I am ready to buy some however until I get some info I am just gonna mine with my computer.
Edit: One other thing to consider, you might have nobody mining in your pool as you have one of the highest pplns fees I have seen. Might wanna try more like %3 or %3.5 or preferably %2.5.

I saw this from another thread (think in the main Mining forum) and tried it out.  Kept having issues with the stratum server not keeping me connected (multiple machines, different locations, different OSs, and different miners), so I went back to 50btc.com.

been mining here for a few days, still waiting for that first block to get mined, i'll keep going during the day though

Great site, I've logged time. (user Baazee)
However, in 1Ghs it takes about 1 year 3 months to calculate a block.
Would not it make sense until the pool has reached approximately 25Ghs to mines with a larger pool? (Your forwards the Hashpower to a different pool instead of 1Ghs to operate solo mining)
How long does it take approximately up my ordered Hashpack available? order-id: 0-1-11

Better yet,

Allow customers to buy hashpacks at lower rates but charge us more fees per month.

Right now a 50Gh/s hashpack is about 20btc.

I'd be willing to pay 8% or 10% in fees a month if the hashpack is re-rated at 10 or 14BTC. It might be an idea worth considering.

Looks not so good. A good concept...but there is no way to get your hardware.

The hashpacks are a good scheme to create a hashing cluster. The only problem is that he doesn't give you an option to get your hardware. Worse comes to worst, the pool goes broke and he will keep all the hardware. I was tempted but then realized his rates are set for BFL hardware. Right there, that is a major unknown.

The policy needs to change:

--You can redeem your hardware *at any time*, you the customer will pay for shipping to get it to your home.
--You need some kind of verification that if the hardware dies and the RMA process fails, you are sent your hardware. Each BFL box should be engraved with a number if he is going to sell his packs. Otherwise there is clearly alot of room for someone to walk away with all that hardware any time things go south.
--If you are going to buy a hashpack then he should set a fee rate that remains constant and is deducted instantly from each reward. This is to cover operating costs at his co-location and prevent doubled fees for the same.
--There needs to be some rocksolid way to verify that the fees and profits being being paid are accurate to the eighth decimal place.

so if for example i buy the 1000gh one, you give me that power immediately?

Hi everyone! checkout the last updates.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1488783

Thx pkarc. Checking that thread now.

I'll be using CGminer until things get figured out. Too bad CG doesn't have a gpu tweak free version. lol

pEACe

Might stay on this pool until I stop mining (long time)

it will, if you leave it more than 10mins 

I just joined with 404 mhash, it's all of mine. Hope it helps!

I recommend BFGMiner: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/old-bfgminer-modular-fpgagpu-gbt-stratum-rpc-avalonlnxopnwrtppaw64-78192


Here you can find more info about this bugs: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1375981

I prefer not to use CGminer b/c it seems my gpus more accepts per hour with Guiminer. I also do not like its mulit pool/load options.

I have that same exact problem with my 7870.

However when I use cgminer (by itself, not through GUIMiner) it works just fine without issue on the stratum server. But yes, I also get the "worker is idle" message and it sucks because basically resets your card between every single share submission.

Hio

If you can help with these connection issues, I'm in with some of my 1ghash.. for now lol..

I recieved an 'authentication failed' error, when I tried the stratum server. It showed some accepted shares but none registered with my acct.

The LP GBT server works but gives many 'worker is idle' msgs.

I'm using Guiminer 2012-12-03.

Yeah, it's a hard decision for me because I consider BTCGuild to be my main pool. I think this is going to start being my weekend pool and BTCGuild will be my weekday pool.

Thanks!  I know I don't really do this to make money, it's only a fun hobby... seeing what I can get out of my hardware, and killing time in the forums... but with more people, maybe we'll get a block sooner... well, that's if BTCGuild allows anyone else to get some.    User 67117   is at 3,047.37 GH/s now!!

WOW

Awesome, you guys have hit about 3.5 million shares!

I'm going to jump on the bus to hopefully help you guys finish your first round.

If anyone else wants to hop pools for the next couple of days to help us finish our first round, that would be awesome!

Thanks to the advice of cosmicone, which also has been very involved with the pool and its performance. I can say that the pool is stable, these test days have been quite rewarding, and I hope to see again the miners who have been participating!

Happy mining!

I hope you don't mind too much, going to take my measly 450 MHash/s somewhere else for now. I hope I was able to at least help you work out some of the kinks, good luck to the pool = )

Higher is better, and normal... is up to you, I really want this value to be above 99 - 98. I personally think that this value is of concern when it is below 95%

Okay... so the number that we have, is that normal?

I just disabled some features, we are benchmarking and tuning the server, i let you know once we finish this task.


Stales
Stale shares are the shares that were sent after a block was already solved(by the bitcoin mining network). Occurs when you find a share and submit it to the mining pool after the pool has already moved on to the next block. Stale share = Invalid share.

Would it be possible to change the payout threshold to 0.1 or 0.01?

I know it doesn't really matter that much currently, but it's easier for people like me that don't generate nearly as much BTC as others. Who doesn't like consistent payouts?

Thank you for being so quick about providing assistance!

After deciding to do the research and setting it up, I was able to configure cgminer for the stratum and it was being reported on the site just fine. I will at least stick around until the first block solve, even if it might be a while.

Great work pkarc!  Can you explain what stales are and how they come about?

Was a long day with a lot of movement, after long hours watching the logs and statistics, I saw that the server was failing, going down every half / 1 hour, fortunately we found the problem, a matter of fine-tuning of mysql, apparently everything is working like a charm, so thank you very much to the miners who continued mining, while we did the tests and the necessary changes!

Keep mining!

Neat, so I'm not crazy! Glad to hear you found the issue and that you're looking into it = )

seems to be a bug when GUIMiner and stratum works together. working on that.

Hey PK, what have you found so far?

Also, could anyone else using the pool right now confirm for me whether or not your accepted shares are being recorded statswise when you use the hashrack.com:8347 stratum pool?

It could be an improvement. i'll do some test and see if the chart does not look so tiny with that amount of data.

Aah, okay, thanks for the clarification, I had assumed you would display stats per round instead of stats per 24 hours.

Nav is now working on iPad!

Thanks for fixing that!

Hmm, this is odd. My mining stats on the site don't seem to be updating correctly.

Btw, I'm using Stratum on ports 8347: hashrack.com:8347.



When I was using GBT and getwork on port 8337: hashrack.com:8337 it was updating just fine, but my card was going idle every single time my miner submitted a share.

Well, I just signed up with my measly 440 Mhash/s. I figure I'm a new miner and this is a new pool, let's see what happens = )

Hmm doesn't seem to be working.   I guess that was not the fix.   Ps can you make the login cookie forever an option?

Now you can change the statistics interval from 1 hour to 24 hours at the top right corner of the pool / user Stats.

https://hashrack.com/stats

It's PPLNS Where LNS = Last shares in the las 24 hours. you really need more than 24 hours of stats?

I just implemented the bugfix, check if it works on ipad

One small bug is that the nav menu does not work on the iPad.   Maybe this will help?

http://forwebonly.com/fix-for-twitter-bootstrap-dropdown-on-ipad-and-iphone/

It's the last 24 hours in that screenshot and you have not hashed anything in that time frame.   

Hey,
any reason why all my shares got reset to 0 ?

Username : SpeedBus

Proof :

The pool is mining! the giveaway probabilities work as expected, c'mon guys join us and take a piece of the cake!

See you there!

I moved my 1GH/s over to this new pool.  Why?  I think it's awesome to help out new guys... and who knows, maybe we'll find a block before ASIC rams up the difficulty.

Give me PPS, I'll move over.    I really am just a hobbyist though with 1000Mh/s setup.  You need a 100GH to make it really pay anything unfortunately.  The first few to sign up have no incentive, as it would take forever to find a block.

This is really REALLY true. actually i'm the only miner, this is for testing purposes to show at least some stats data. The PPS method will come, probably, we just have to wait and see how the pool grow.

Nice site... need some people to join now.. it's hard to leave the consistency of PPS though...  if you're hashing at around 200Mh/s, it will take a year to maybe get a block, no?

Really nice 

Solved. check again!

Familiar with this line :
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT

Only one problem, I can't access your site..... 

Hashrack.com
https://hashrack.com/

Pool Features:

• Interactive and intuitive charts, easy to read and interpret.

       Pool, per user and per worker charts and stats.

• Realtime mining stats and indicators about your invest and its growth.

       Make charts and stats live, with the instant refresh feature.

• Improves the security of the Bitcoin network by making use of next generation decentralized mining protocols.

       GBT, Stratum protocol, ASICs supported.

• Get extra rewards not only by your mining speed, but by your mining dedication.

        Its a way to distribute a part(fees) of the block reward that is more equitable, since it depends only by the time you spend submitting shares during the period of time required to fill the giveaway.
        Detailed info: https://hashrack.com/giveaway

• Full 8 decimal place payouts, automatic payouts upon block confirmation
• Email notification on failed miner, payouts, account changes and solved blocks
• Complete JSON API
• Long Polling Support
• HTTPS SSL
• Database passwords are hashed + salted
• PIN Code on critical account changes
• Hopper-safe: income is split fairly between users (weighted and shift-based PPLNS)
• Automatic Profitability Calculator for each miner

Protocol Ports

GBT and getwork on port 8337: hashrack.com:8337
Stratum on ports 8347: hashrack.com:8347

Pool Fee: 1btc(4%).
Pool Reward Methods: PPLNS(LNS in the last 24h)

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Update April 26 2013:

We did some improvements to the server/website:

• Round/Stats/giveaway Reset.
• Session remember option at login.
• Trully realtime stats, no more 5 - 10 sec wait per update
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• Hashpacks
• Virtual Workers

Hashpacks: the easy way to mine crypto currency

What is a Hashpack?
A hashpack is a pack for mining speed (Hashrate/MegaHashes), a part of hardware piece.

What can I do with a Hashpack?
You can upgrade or create virtual workers.

What is a virtual worker?
A virtual worker is actually a mining hardware, its made from hashpacks that you previously purchase.

What can I do with a virtual worker?
Mine bitcoins is the principal task of a virtual worker, it's speed depends on how much you are willing to invest in hashpacks.

Learn more: https://hashrack.com/hashpacks
Get Gigahashes: https://hashrack.com/hashpacks/buy