Topic: Introducing CherryPicking - new Windows & Linux Pool Hopper - page 19. (Read 43136 times)

Any eta on v0.6.5? Those tests of the new time method look promising. I see a btc donation in your future bloodred

Yes, I'm using STATIC_FAST.  Should I switch to NORMAL until the new algorithm in 0.6.5?

I'm guessing you're using STATIC_FAST, which chooses the fastest pool under 1.0, if you switch to NORMAL it'll always go to the lowest pool.

Anyway, I've got something to show, from a testing version of v0.6.5:

 

rfcpool has been shut down because the owner is a fucking idiot - that
should sum it up in brief.


If you were a miner, your money is all accounted for, and you will be paid as
soon as the most recent block matures. If you did not have a wallet address
in your account then email [email protected] and after slinging your abuse
at me, tell me the username/email on account/wallet combination and you will
get paid.

So what happened? Well in short, running a pool and dealing with
people's money is a metric fucktonne harder than I ever imagined it would
be, and a series of fuckups relating to handling all said money has left me
about 150BTC out of pocket, so I'm pulling the plug before the situation
gets any worse.

- an early invalid cost us 30BTC
- the decision to go PPS was crazy and cost us 20BTC
- accidentally paying out double for a block reset in an attempt to turn PPS
  off again cost 100BTC

Good luck to all other pool ops.



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And a note from Rennex: we've been sustaining losses from PPS and the
invalid block along the way, but this latest mess happened at almost
the worst possible moment - Chris was just about to leave on a trip, so
there was no time to start cleaning it up.

But things aren't all FUBAR, we'll take some time to examine the damage
and correct the errors. Some people may have been paid too much because
of auto payouts, and others' accounts got credited too much. We can fix
the latter and deal with the former - and if miners feel that they want
to return excess payouts once we determine the real balances, there will
be a way to do that too.

But for now, we'll cool off and examine the situation, and see if we
want to continue in the near future. Check back in a while

You can also contact us on IRC: #rfcpool on FreeNode.

Oh and if you don't know which pool to choose for now, I hear that
Ozcoin isn't half bad

are you running completely 24/7 or are you turning your rig off for a few hours? i leave mine running completely 24/7 unless i have to do video rendering projects or am playing a video game, for some reason i can still mine while i play SC2 though. the short fast rounds that last under an hour or last 2 hours are the make or breaks for whether or not your payouts are above normal or not.

@Folax

-f70 will actually give you less performance, try using -f10 or something like that. "Agression" is kinda backwards on poclbm


@Ampirebus

I got roughly the same hashrate as you ( 670ish) and I wish I could be getting as much are you are, guess I'm just unlucky

I've just donated .1 BTc to your sig address blood red

thats weird because I got .839 BTC from bitcoinpool.com in the past 3 days and from yesterday i have another .19 unconfirmed waiting

Yea, Polmine and bitcoinpool are both huge losses.  They both implemented anti-hopper measures, but both should be able to be circumvented.

Polmine doesn't advertise stats any longer, but they do advertise the current round duration, which can be used to know when to hop to the pool, and they do still advertise their hashrate, which can be used to calculate the estimated number of shares to know when to hop off of a pool.

Bitcoinpool advertises all of its users shares for the current round on a single page, and all we would need to do is add them up to know the current share count of the round.   That page is here: http://bitcoinpool.com/index.php?page=1&ipp=All&do=currentround .

Thank for you fast help and congratulations to your Program.