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Quote from: m3ta on October 14, 2011, 04:08:17 AM

@Nodemaster:

Considering that most of your top10 contributors are hoppers, does that mean Masterpool condones it?

No, it's not condoned (as this would imply that a customary right might be derived in future). At the moment however it's a fact that it's technically possible to hop pools with MasterPool. Furthermore I have no bullet proof possibility to know for sure if someone is pool hopping or if it is coincidence (however there is a strong evidence that some miners are doing it). But as long as I have no possibility to proof someone is pool hopping it wouldn't make sense to prohibit it. For that reason it is tolerated at the moment, as long as it happens in an acceptable manner (acceptable in terms of not disturbing the pools performance).

My current focus is on having a bunch of merge mined BTC being verified, awarded and sent out to the miners. If I'm confident there is nothing else to tweak I'll have the registered (and active) members decide whether or not we change the distribution scheme. I tend to not go with proportional payouts and I have quite some requests from miners to change it. As soon as we have a decision on this all pool members will be notified via email with at least one week time to change pools if they don't like the new scheme.

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@Nodemaster:

Considering that most of your top10 contributors are hoppers, does that mean Masterpool condones it?

nodemaster

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Quote from: Seraphim401 on October 10, 2011, 03:15:14 PM

Thanks for changing the userbar code Nodemaster!

MasterPool at your service, Sir! Grin

Seraphim401

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Live Long and Prosper

Thanks for changing the userbar code Nodemaster!

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Quote from: ahitman on October 10, 2011, 08:03:41 AM

Can you please put the BTC share count into your api? Thanks.
Other than that everything including merged mining is working great.

Maybe you missed the announcement on dot-bit.org some time ago? JSON Stats moved to: https://www.masterpool.eu/jsonstats and includes BTC stats. /api is obsolete and will be removed in future. Have a look here for description: https://www.masterpool.eu/faq

ahitman

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Can you please put the BTC share count into your api? Thanks.
Other than that everything including merged mining is working great.

Thanks, found it.

slush

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Quote from: nodemaster on October 10, 2011, 12:59:25 AM

I know of some pools who are trying to implement merged mining. However ATM there are some perfomance issues that even MasterPool suffers from at about 50GHash/s for which I have workarounds in place but it needs to be fixed permanently. Not to mention that MasterPool architecture was designed to deal with this splitted blockchains stuff from the beginning. Everybody is working right now lowering the foot print of merged mining. You have to understand that big pools optimized their complete architecture for mining one blockchain. Now they have an additional blockchain, merged mine proxy and additional calculations in their backend. It feels like hitting a concrete wall with a jet Grin

The problem is you CAN'T simulate large load easily on testnet. Thus I guess some pools are turning it on occasionally in order to make sure merged mining optimizations are working properly turning it off if they gathered enough data to do the next optimization iteration. So please don't panic and wait a few days.

Nodemaster pointed that out very precisely. I want to dispel fears of any of you who's thinking that some big player is "stealing" coins for himself.

Yes, I'm testing merged mining on my pool with some backends. And no, I'm not going to "steal" those blocks for myself. But implementing MM on pretty big pool is really pain and I didn't want to announce it before I'll be sure it will work *somehow*. But after spending ages on weird bitcoind crashes using MM together with my custom performance patches, I'm starting to be pretty optimistic.

I need to finish GUI for NMC support, then I'll also start giving away all those mined blocks (already over 100 NMC block mined during my tests) back to pool users to spread Namecoins between people.

Btw first merged mined block ever was #148744 (BTC) == #19274 (NMC)

DutchBrat

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It might be Eligius,

Maybe Luke got it up and running sooner than he thought

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Quote from: bulanula on October 09, 2011, 10:09:45 PM

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Quote from: Seraphim401 on October 09, 2011, 09:12:01 PM

Hey Nodemaster,
Do you think some large pool is secretly merged mining?
According to http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php,the network is over 500 gH/s strong.

I would say something like that is happening I see too many solved blocks going by that don't show up on the stats page of the three pools I know doing the merged.

Deepbit is probably doing some merged mining. I just sense it. Or BTCguild etc.

Damn scammers !!! Who knows how long they have been doing it for as well etc.

I know of some pools who are trying to implement merged mining. However ATM there are some perfomance issues that even MasterPool suffers from at about 50GHash/s for which I have workarounds in place but it needs to be fixed permanently. Not to mention that MasterPool architecture was designed to deal with this splitted blockchains stuff from the beginning. Everybody is working right now lowering the foot print of merged mining. You have to understand that big pools optimized their complete architecture for mining one blockchain. Now they have an additional blockchain, merged mine proxy and additional calculations in their backend. It feels like hitting a concrete wall with a jet Grin

The problem is you CAN'T simulate large load easily on testnet. Thus I guess some pools are turning it on occasionally in order to make sure merged mining optimizations are working properly turning it off if they gathered enough data to do the next optimization iteration. So please don't panic and wait a few days.

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Quote from: Seraphim401 on October 09, 2011, 09:12:01 PM

Hey Nodemaster,
Do you think some large pool is secretly merged mining?
According to http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php,the network is over 500 gH/s strong.

I would say something like that is happening I see too many solved blocks going by that don't show up on the stats page of the three pools I know doing the merged.

Deepbit is probably doing some merged mining. I just sense it. Or BTCguild etc.

Damn scammers !!! Who knows how long they have been doing it for as well etc.

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Hey Nodemaster,
Do you think some large pool is secretly merged mining?
According to http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php,the network is over 500 gH/s strong.

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Quote from: nodemaster on October 09, 2011, 10:51:34 AM

From my point of view the pool is working without a problem. Please send me your user ID or username via PM. I'll have a look into it.

Edit: This is the last scheduled payout (last night): http://explorer.dot-bit.org/tx/67041. Of course you can always choose to do an instant payout (However payout fee will be 2 instead of 1%)

Alright sent you a PM.

It looks like the transactions for NMC are now there.

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Quote from: Beta-coiner1 on October 08, 2011, 10:25:21 PM

^Thanks for that,my transactions have not updated at Masterpool for the past 6 hours or so and was trying to find out what the issue was as it seemed to be working alright earlier in the day.

From my point of view the pool is working without a problem. Please send me your user ID or username via PM. I'll have a look into it.

Edit: This is the last scheduled payout (last night): http://explorer.dot-bit.org/tx/67041. Of course you can always choose to do an instant payout (However payout fee will be 2 instead of 1%)

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^Thanks for that,my transactions have not updated at Masterpool for the past 6 hours or so and was trying to find out what the issue was as it seemed to be working alright earlier in the day.

Beta-coiner1

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New to the pool and was wondering under Merged mining how many shares equal an NMC and BTC ?

slush

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Quote from: nodemaster on October 07, 2011, 08:50:02 PM

Yeah, I guess I'll come up with something like slush implemented on his pool. It's really neat. Only allow connections from known users. But I'll do it later Grin

Unfortunately it works only for small-midsize attack. Largest DDoS which I had come with 2+ milion connections per second, which overloeded routers in server room, so there was nothing to filter on pool servers Wink

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Quote from: nodemaster on October 08, 2011, 01:09:55 PM

Quote from: iopq on October 08, 2011, 12:37:21 PM

getting a javascript error on the dashboard:
Security error: attempted to read protected variable: open

using latest Opera on Windows 7

Thank you for that hint. Unfortunately I have no testing environment at hand. But I'll have a look into it. Would you mind testing if it is possible to (de)activate worker notifications in your dashboard? This is the ony JS which is only used on that page. This would help me figuring out the error.

it works from time to time, so I can't replicate it right now

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Quote from: iopq on October 08, 2011, 12:37:21 PM

getting a javascript error on the dashboard:
Security error: attempted to read protected variable: open

using latest Opera on Windows 7

Thank you for that hint. Unfortunately I have no testing environment at hand. But I'll have a look into it. Would you mind testing if it is possible to (de)activate worker notifications in your dashboard? This is the ony JS which is only used on that page. This would help me figuring out the error.

iopq

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getting a javascript error on the dashboard:
Security error: attempted to read protected variable: open

using latest Opera on Windows 7

iopq

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Quote from: nodemaster on October 08, 2011, 11:26:29 AM

Quote from: iopq on October 08, 2011, 10:42:35 AM

trying to connect to http://US01.masterpool.eu:8888/ and it's not working with my username/password

Have you tried EU01 instead? M8R still sieges the US server with his botnet. Getwork requests are very slow from time to time.

yeah mining on eu01 right now

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