Topic: Multipool - the pool mining pool (with source code) - page 11. (Read 48269 times)
First ever mining pool ponzi scheme?
Over 24 hours down without a word from OP. . . . . . Not looking good. Could have had a third of a bitcoin at deepbit using PPS with those 10k shares.
Edit: 28 hours down.
Edit2: 30 hours down.
Edit: 28 hours down.
Edit2: 30 hours down.
OP if you're reading this, please get multipool back up! I've got 3 GH/s to point your way but I can't if you're down!
Up til yesterday I'd been paid 1.1 to 1.5 * what I'd expect, with about a day's delay over a two week period Not a scam, and I've gotten more from this pool than anyother (compared to difficulty) even taking downtimes into account.
No doubt Multipool will get things back up asap.
No doubt Multipool will get things back up asap.
I got paid when it was up fwiw
edit: oh, and I was paid correctly (daily) back when it was still up. It makes no sense for the operator to run with our money, as it's max. 1 day worth of our mining work. He could get a constant fee if this keeps working, which is probably more.
Well thats at least good to hear.
OK, I gotta ask since my first experience with this pool was yesterday and its been down for over 15 and a half hours now. Is this is a scam? Will I see anything from my over 10,000 shares submitted?
I got paid when it was up fwiwI did get paid a small amount from this pool. Nothing compared to what was submitted as everything was 'pending'. So maybe ill get some when its back.
It sucks for me too, as I have no backup pool now. Let's hope my primary won't go offline. However I have a lot of confidence in the pool operator. He's probably unable to restart the server now for whatever reasons. Let's hope he gets back soon. 
edit: oh, and I was paid correctly (daily) back when it was still up. It makes no sense for the operator to run with our money, as it's max. 1 day worth of our mining work. He could get a constant fee if this keeps working, which is probably more.
edit: oh, and I was paid correctly (daily) back when it was still up. It makes no sense for the operator to run with our money, as it's max. 1 day worth of our mining work. He could get a constant fee if this keeps working, which is probably more.
OK, I gotta ask since my first experience with this pool was yesterday and its been down for over 15 and a half hours now. Is this is a scam? Will I see anything from my over 10,000 shares submitted?
I got paid when it was up fwiw
OK, I gotta ask since my first experience with this pool was yesterday and its been down for over 15 and a half hours now. Is this is a scam? Will I see anything from my over 10,000 shares submitted?
completely dead here for ages.
gutted. Had submitted 15,000 shares to that.
gutted. Had submitted 15,000 shares to that.
I agree, I was so excited about finding this pool and less than 1/2 day later it's MIA.
is this even going to get up again or not? been almost 12 hours now....
I run two pools, multipool at f 30 and a backup pool at f 60 so it doesn't matter if it goes down
Just setup something similar.
Edit: Now 10 hours of downtime. At this point I just want to see if my 18 hours of mining was a complete waste or not. Last I saw I had .01BTC from that 18 hours.
Not a good introduction to the pool. Ridiculously long delay between submitting shares and receiving a reward and now the pool is down and apparently has been for over an hour. I wanted to believe but idk, gotta switch back to something more concrete.
The delay is due to the way this pool works. It can't pay you before it receives payments from the other pools. Sure, the "earned" display could update sooner, but that's just cosmetic.
The pool has had quite a few downtimes. Either you accept it or you move to another pool that doesn't exploit other pools. (Or you do it better.
)Thanks for the info. I can accept the delay in payments, but you say there are quite a few downtimes? Making 10% more than I should is awesome, unless my miners sit idle 10% of the time. . .
Been down now for eight and a half hours.
There are not only proportional pools involved. Slush has a scoring method, bitcoinpool has a fine if you leave too early, etc. So it's more complicated to calculate. I guess if all pools would be proportional and have the same fee structure that approach would work.
Right, so you probably need to eliminate them from the rotation.
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I agree. Most pools publish their cumulative hash rate. So there could be a limitation like "don't put in more than an additional 50% of their usual hashrate". That doesn't solve the problem though if you choose a pool which has no reputation and runs away with the BCN...
True, obviously you can't just do any old pool, but there seem to be a number of 10-100Gh/s, low fee, proportional pools right now that are solving blocks and paying out...
Why not always go to the pool with the lowest number of shares? It would seem (at first blush) that this would result the highest returns overall. Intuitively this would seem to be the best way to capture disproportionately large shares.
There are not only proportional pools involved. Slush has a scoring method, bitcoinpool has a fine if you leave too early, etc. So it's more complicated to calculate. I guess if all pools would be proportional and have the same fee structure that approach would work.
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Also, adding smaller pools could work if your server could pull equally from the X lowest pools where X could be configured based on the overall hashrate of the metapool. I understand the concern about these pools dying, but the flip side is that contributions from the metapool may sustain more of them, since the pool owners really only care to make their fee.
I agree. Most pools publish their cumulative hash rate. So there could be a limitation like "don't put in more than an additional 50% of their usual hashrate". That doesn't solve the problem though if you choose a pool which has no reputation and runs away with the BCN...
Questions on pool hopping strategy:
Why not always go to the pool with the lowest number of shares? It would seem (at first blush) that this would result the highest returns overall. Intuitively this would seem to be the best way to capture disproportionately large shares.
Also, adding smaller pools could work if your server could pull equally from the X lowest pools where X could be configured based on the overall hashrate of the metapool. I understand the concern about these pools dying, but the flip side is that contributions from the metapool may sustain more of them, since the pool owners really only care to make their fee.
Just some thoughts.
Why not always go to the pool with the lowest number of shares? It would seem (at first blush) that this would result the highest returns overall. Intuitively this would seem to be the best way to capture disproportionately large shares.
Also, adding smaller pools could work if your server could pull equally from the X lowest pools where X could be configured based on the overall hashrate of the metapool. I understand the concern about these pools dying, but the flip side is that contributions from the metapool may sustain more of them, since the pool owners really only care to make their fee.
Just some thoughts.
From what I have seen today, I wouldn't even feel safe with it as a backup pool. 5.5 hours downtime and counting.
My guess is he's been asleep -- 6:56am in Taiwan...
Opensource it? I dont see why it should remain on a single host when people could run it locally, or on their own host?
That is if you want to opensource it of course.
That is if you want to opensource it of course.
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