Topic: Vanity Pool - vanity address generator pool - page 18. (Read 147800 times)

My miners won't work on vanity pool if BTC or LTC mining is more profitable, I'm not sure about others but I don't see why they would act in any other way. The minimum fees don't work at all: there are below BTC/LTC profitability and probably below some other rewards on the pool.

It's not a surprise that there's a lot of work sitting on vanity pool for ages: there's no incentive to work on it. If you want the pool to be more successful, you should advise a price where mining with oclvanityminer is clearly more profitable than both BTC or LTC mining and make it clear to customers than below this price there's not much incentive for anyone to work for the reward. A way to check how much more reward an existing work need to become profitable would help clear up the queue too.

I'm not sure if your pool is in sync with what oclvanityminer can do (is it able to choose the theoretically most profitable method given the current work yet?). At least your minimum fees are largely undervalued and last time I checked the recommended fees could be lower on some of the longer patterns. LTC mining profitability is simple to compute: the mining hashrate is ~0.001 of BTC's and the current difficulty and BTC/LTC exchange rate are easy to query (at least I use these informations to switch between BTC/LTC mining automatically)..

If the pool says the minimal fee is 0.01, then you need to send 0.01 to get the address into the public pool to be solved. Anything after that is a guideline - the more you pay the faster the miners will get to your work. Honest fee is an amount that would be fair to the miners in comparison to them mining blocks.

As I see from your link, your work is public, meaning that the miners can work on it and claim the reward.

Wait so I need to pay 0.02 BTC more to get to the minimum 0.08 BTC requirement for an address with 8 specified characters? I wish I was notified first. Please clarify before I deposit such an amount.

Okay, sorry about that - pool's memory cache didn't flush properly. A proper bounty is appearing now (0.064 - 80% of 0.08 as per norm). I will add memory clearing functionality for that use case to my TODO list.

I sent through 3 transactions of 0.01, 0.01, and 0.06 to the address 1PDWfc29f8uSX6nJ7VdqHUJ7goLtAiG3pX
Verify at https://blockchain.info/address/1PDWfc29f8uSX6nJ7VdqHUJ7goLtAiG3pX
However, here: https://vanitypool.appspot.com/check?key=17Strykes:04387C0A9AD5739A92D12E3C4C05ABDE45EB8712A7DE27A5A0D590DB520169E62A8CD330D2AAB93 9EFAA723C5D97E00A2DFE457BCA138CAF6077024EAAE346730F it only shows that I have paid in 0.008 BTC, when in fact I've paid in 0.08 BTC. Could you please fix this display error? A floating point variable or some data polling code may be messed up.

I'm glad you had a good time at our service!


The payment address is tied to your request - you can pay into it in as many transactions as you like. Only after the work is finished and the payment is sent to the miner, will your extra transactions be ignored. You can try sending in two 0.01BTC transactions to start and see if the reward increases once the transactions are confirmed. If you come across any problems, just let me know.

So I have my payment address ready with the minimum fee of 0.01. However, I wish to pay more than that, but with a requirement. I wish to make multiple payments into the wallet, but I'm not sure if that is possible. Would I be able to do this?

I just requested a 7 char after the initial 1 vanity address & from the time of sending the fee to receiving the (multiplication) solution was just 12 minutes, amazing! Many thanks.

requested 10.39 am
fee sent 10.42 am
solution received 10.54 am

Thank you, ThePiachu!  I am satisfied with the resolution.  [ThePiachu paid 2.5 x the value of one solution.]
I expect to try some work on other (harder) vanity addresses.

I'm sorry about that. Send me your address and I will pay you for that solution.

I see your transaction has 3 confirmations.  So, I resubmit my solution.  Now, I get "Database error - can't find the requested work. Please try again later".  And I don't get paid.

I've sent you five PM's over the last for 4 days.  And I've gotten five very prompt responses, which I appreciate.     But I guess you didn't actually investigate the problem until I posted on the Forum, today.   

The solution that appears on your "solved work" page resolves to a vanity address of:  1FreedomXf1bkjBHtpWVBqvyTkXXXXXXXX

But *my* solution, which I attempted to submit 4 days ago has a vanity address of:  1FreedomWhKGsz6GBJxSQHdFpCXXXXXXXX
Meanwhile, my computer wastes its time computing another:  1FreedomdZ9WCyf7sEvkagr6MHXXXXXXXX

So, I guess your server has been wonked for at least 4 days.  Which caused me and my server to waste our time.  Are other "available work" addresses also wonked?  You seem to have a good reputation on this Forum, but my first experience with your vanity server and your "little glitch" has been a lot of trouble for no pay.

If I choose to work on any other solutions, how can I have any confidence I will be paid for my solutions?

Hmm, it appears that it was a small glitch in my pool that thought the payment was already sent. I sent some extra money to that address so it should be claimable once everything confirms (the bounty should update when that happens).

I am still getting the message "Problem sending payment. Please try again later" when I attempt to upload a solution.
Has anyone had any success in the last 4 days?

The server has been updated to the newest version of BitcoinQT and has finished updating / reindexing / synching. If anyone has experienced any problems with the pool, everything should be fine now.

k thankyou

You should ask samr7 about it, as he is the person behind vanity miner. I am just running the pool, so I don't know that program.

good thankyou now my other question im mining with the 5970 and is there a way I can specify to use both gpus to solve because

I have 2 .bats running 1 for each gpu on the 5970  each one is like 24mkeys/s

id like to have both gpus mining together and get like 48 mkeys/s

The pool does not count shares, only the person that produces the solution receives the reward.

got a question in the pool does only the one that solves it get paid the reward
or is it a pool where a bunch of people solve it together like with bitcoin



reason I also was wondering I have a rig with my 5970s and I had to create a . bat for each gpu on it I was wondering can you mine with all gpus with 1 .bat

Yep, mystery to me too, I thought it may have been something I did wrong when I tried a week or two ago but retrying now it still fails & other van gens of mine just solved work fine doing exactly the same normal calc & import process, anyway maybe best to warn ppl not to send much to newly generated van addies until they are sure that the private keys are wallet importable.