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ethpool.org (http://ethpool.org) - Predictable Ethereum Solo Mining Pool

New: US-West based server added
New: Asia based server added
New: EU & US based servers
New: Added eth-proxy support
New: Integrated Stratum miner & VarDiff support!

For detailed instructions on how to start mining on the pool check out our homepage (http://ethpool.org).

Features

• Anonymous mining
• Optimal mining performance due too integrated stratum miner & VarDiff support
• DDOS Protected
• Predictable solo mining
• 1% fee
• Automatic payments
• Professional helpdesk
• High pool hashrate (~100GH/s) guarantees stable payments and a low variance
• US, EU & Asia Servers

We tried to combine the best of solo and pool mining into a new payment concept. The new concept awards the full block reward to the miner who did contribute the most unrewarded work to the pool.

The system works like this, every miner starts with 0 credits at the pool. Each submitted valid share increases the credits of a miner by the difficulty of the share. When a block is found the miner holding the most credits will be credited the full block reward and his credits will be reset. This way each miner will receive a predictable payment as soon as his credits at the pool equal the current block difficulty (+/- a few credits caused by the global variance of the pool). You can see the current ranking table at ethpool.org/credits (http://ethpool.org/credits).

As a side benefit, the pool never holds on to any funds. Block rewards are paid in full (meaning uncles & transaction) immediately after 10 confirmations.

All currently existing ethereum stratum pool rely on a local proxy for the stratum connection, which introduces an additional delay. That's why we built the stratum module directly into the ethereum mining software.

Getting started
For full instructions check out our FAQ: http://ethpool.org/faq

We have deployed a new version of our backend which should provide better stability and a lower uncle rate.

As a Christmas bonus we have reduced our fees to 0%.

Happy mining!

Currently around 500 workers are connected to the pool using qt miner. If you have any doubts in regards to the pre-compiled version feel free to compile it from the provided source.

I have been using this pool for months with no issues.
Payments are on par with most accurate calculator I found -- http://karldiab.com/EthereumMiningCalculator/

In order to celebrate the 6 month anniversary of ethpool.org (http://ethpool.org) we have reduced the pool fee to 0%.

We would like to thank all miners for your trust in the pool and your valuable feedback which helped us tremendously to improve the functionality and performance of the system.

Our 0% fee promotion has ended. Furthermore we have added support for the new stratum enabled CUDAminer from @Genoil. Please note that the stratum enabled version is still in beta and may contain some issue.

You can get the new version from https://github.com/Genoil/cpp-ethereum/tree/stratum/releases (https://github.com/Genoil/cpp-ethereum/tree/stratum/releases) (beta 3). To mine on the pool simply start it using the following arguments:

ethminer.exe -G -S ethpool.org:3333 -O "address"."worker"

I'm started mining with opencl miner with -C option (cpu) but I can't get hashrate it shows 0 h/s every time. What could be the main reason of that?

The share difficulty of the pool is optimized for GPU mining. This means it will take a very long time to find a valid share using only CPU mining. Generally I would advice not to CPU mine Ethereum as it simply will not yield a lot of income given the current difficulty.

I have more than 1000+ vps'es with 5 m/h each. I think I will earn much more than GPU users.

Well CPU mining is still supported on the pool. It will just take time (some hours) till the stats are visible but if you use our stratum connection the vardiff module will adjust the difficulty over time so that it matches your miners speed.

Due to popular demand we have added an EU based server (eu1.ethpool.org). Check out our FAQ (http://ethpool.org/faq) for connection instructions.

That is good news. I am based in Europe. So my connection should be faster. Does it affect the stratum mining a lot?

Time will tell how much improvement you will gain by joining a server that is closer to your location. In theory it should decrease the uncle rate of the pool as well as the number of stale shares.

For the QTminer, is it possible to put two -s, one with Eu, the other with us so that when one server is down, we can use the other server?

Currently qtMiner does not support failover pools. Such a feature should be added in an upcoming version of Genoils CUDAminer (which works as good as qtMiner for AMD based cards). So we will recommend switching to this miner as soon as it is released.

When do you think the new CUDA miner with the new failover pool feature will be available? I think Genoil is on holiday at the moment.

I don't know, I guess it depends on Genoils schedule.

What is happening to the Ethpool? There is no response from the EU and American server now. Pool maintenance?

EU-Server seems to be down.
US-Server works for me...

Since i'm located in Europe and ping-times are much lower for me on EU-Server than the US-Server, i'd prefer the EU-Server.
So ethpool-admins: please fix asap!

Thanks,
djoser.

The EU server is working now. It would be better if we know the maintenance or other technical care before the server outage.

I am in Europe. I use the EU server now. After yesterday's outage, I notice there are lot of waiting for work for the rigs. So some times the GPU are not working 100%. When I connect to the US server, there is no such problem.

Hello ethpool-admins,

I can confirm the issue Mastsetad described.
Please investigate.

djoser.

I also have such problem. It reduced my earning by about 10% so far. Is there any reason for that phenomenon?

Is a pool like this only good for 50MH/s+ or can you still do good with 2 R9 280X cards in this type of pool?

I am not sure what you mean by "waiting for work"? Can you please create a support request for such issues. The pool was not that lucky during the last days, this might explain your reduced profits as well.

Regarding the outage yesterday, we are very sorry. The underlying root cause has been identified and eliminated.

ethpool.org works with every card, you will just need to wait some days till you receive your block reward.

I have the similar problem. When I connect to the EU1 server, the qtminer have more chance in displaying the "wait for work". When I connect to the US server, I have fewer "wait for work". When it is waiting for work, the miner does not mine.

My ping to EU server is 50 ms, to the US server is 100ms.

Can you please post the output of qtminer. Both servers use the same backend, so there should be no difference in work distribution.

I just finally got my miner on and joined your pool. I can see my worker and Mh/s, so everything is OK.

But now an extremely embarrassing newbie question: how can I get my money?

I know I haven't got anything yet, but when I finally get some eth, how can I move it?

I know my coinbase, what next?

This pool is definitely not for small miners.

Status

    Current Hashrate: 46.9 MH/s
        Note: The current hashrate is calculated using a 60 minute window. If you start mining on the pool it will take up to 2 hours till the displayed hashrate is accurate.
    Average Hashrate (last 24h): 32.3 MH/s
    Credits: 375.000b
    Approximate time to next block: 6 days


I make about 1.2 coins/day on Suprnova so for those that have low hash rate miners your better off on another pool.  If you have 70+ this will probably work for you. So I recommend any small miners to look elsewhere for most profit.   If I can later pick up a couple more GPU for a total of 4 than I will move to this pool.

Unfortunately our hosting provider experienced electrical issues in one of his data centers which affected both our main and backup pool server. As our provider failed to comply with the agreed SLA we expect a compensation payment which will be distributed to all miners. As a compensation from our side the pool fee will be reduced to 0% for today.

We are sorry for the inconvenience!

Thank you for the update. Is the problem fixed? Because the pool hashrate is still too low.

It would be better to have main and back up pool in different cities. So that they will not be hit by electrical issue at the same time.

I started mining here couple of days ago. When I click my account link

https://etherchain.org/account/0xc168a39a8068c42a650e944ebfab87bfa4b1434b

I get error message "Error: Account '0xc168a39a8068c42a650e944ebfab87bfa4b1434b' not found!"

Is it because I don't yet have any ether or is there some other problem?

it is possible to mine with gpu NVS 4200M with 1GB memory?


Best Regrads
Willi

No, you will need at least 2GB of GPU RAM to mine ethereum.

Today we have added the following new features:

• We have added another server located in Asia (Singapore), it is accessible via asia.ethpool.org.
• Instead of the number of invalid shares we now show an invalid share ratio and highlight all workers with an invalid share ratio above 5% (orange) and 10% (red).
• Email notifications for inactive workers are now working again. You will receive a mail if your worker did not send a valid share for 30 minutes.
• In the blocks overview of your account page we now show if you retrieved your reward for a block or an uncle

Start QtMiner using the following command: qtminer.exe -u <Your_Ethereum_Address>.<RigName> -G

So you already have the address. The Ethereum will be sent to you directly.

does qtminer support multiple gpu:s on the same pc?

Yes. If you not use -t or -opncl-device, it will use all the GPUs by default.

 --opencl-device <n>  When mining using -G/--opencl use OpenCL device n (default: 0).
    -t, --mining-threads <n> Limit number of CPU/GPU miners to n (default: use everything available on selected platform)

Thank you!

Was mining solo for a while, lately the hash rate has grown so much, same with diff that i decided to go back to pool mining.

I didn't want to join a pool that has a to high hash rate so i chose this one.

I have to say that after 2 full days of mining, i'm a very happy person.

So i can only encourage people to join as well!


"The fee part hurts a bit because applying a fee of 1% sounds low but if you take 1% from a serious amount of miners, that's a pure win win situation"
"And yes i know, bills have to be payed, server costs etc.. "


Anyhow, to the admin(s). Keep it up!

This pool is quite good, it pays out transaction fee as well. We have get 5.xxx minus the 1%. For other pool, they just pay out 5 per block.

I want to switch from Dwarf to this pool, so all I need to do is change in my eth-proxy.conf the hostname and port and everything else stays the same?

Seems like a good pool but the email monitoring doesn't seem to be working.

That is right. But you need to choose a server close to your place. According to the pool, qtminer is better than the proxy.

I have experimented with qtminer. in my case the regular ethminer is doing slightly better. Using less system resources.

I'm still mining at this pool and still very happy with it! As well as the fact that hash rate has to be spread.

This is a good pool but I can confirm 100% that the email alerts don't work, so I can't use this pool unfortunately.

Well i can confirm that the email alerts are working perfectly! Received a mail this night that one of my rigs went out. So no issues there!

The email monitoring job was stuck for a brief period of time. It was fixed and everything should be back to normal again!

is there a way to choose a payout amount on this pool? 

No, you get payed out in full block amounts when it's your turn. 5 ether each time.

sounds good.. 5 ETH payouts...small payouts with decimals like 1.xx are a bit messy, thanks

Ethpool is good, it pays the transaction fee as well.

looking at the faq page

there are two mining options..

Stratum mode using Stratum Proxy v0.0.4 by dwarfpool

and

Stratum mode using QtMiner and vardiff support

any opinion which is better?

Announcement: We have added an US-West based server!

Check out our FAQ for connection instructions: http://ethpool.org/faq

hello

say please, for qtminer no need  --farm-recheck 200 ? Qtminer not support failover ?

I've tried pretty much every mine and every configuration possible, but nothing ever shows up on the website. I've tried different miners and everything, but I am truly at a loss why it doesn't work. Using a 390 and Win10 are my only guesses. Quite frustrating...

You're probably doing something else wrong.

Windows 10 isn't the issue because i have rigs with win 10 and are working perfectly.

your 390 isn't the issue either.

Probably a configuration issue.

Post your configs here and there will be someone who will point you to the mistake.


Greetings

can someone confirm if the email alert feature is working on ethpool? looks like dwarfpools is down at the moment.

Working perfectly :-)

Thanks

Is pool working normally? My miner freezes after "solution found; submitting..."

I've rebooted it twice. Problem started few hours ago.

I have one 2G an an other 4G GPU.
I use QtMiner on Ubuntu and I'm connected to europe server.

Apparantly i'm not alone

http://ethpool.org/stats

See the following thread in case you have any issues with your 2GB cards: https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/comment/25474/#Comment_25474

Even for the 3GB cards, the hash rate drops fast. Maybe it is only safe to buy the 8 GB cards at present?

I think it is better to buy the 4GB or 8 GB cards now. In the future, new coins will require more memory.

The main purpose of large memory is to discourage the use of ASIC. So more memory will increase the cost of ASIC.

We have added detailed statistics on the pools luck: http://ethpool.org/stats/luck

It compares the rate the pool is finding blocks to the rate in which it should be finding blocks given its hashrate. The last day was quite lucky and the pool found blocks up to 5% faster compared to the expected time.

I have some miners connected to the eu1.ethpool.org. The reported hash rate is shown some times, not shown some times, is that intended?

I noticed you have a new mining interface (beta).  It displays current hashrate and average hashrate. Can you also display the reported hash rate so that we can monitor the miners in real time?

Yes, we plan to add the reported hashrate to the new interface as well. It is just a bit more difficult to integrate. Also not each miner does support this feature.

That is great.

I have some miners connect to the asia1.ethpool.org. A few days ago, the reported hash rate is displayed, but it is not displayed any more. Any reason why? They are the same miners as before.

If you want, try our free android app for Ethpool. More info and download: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1569727.0

Hello I am considering joining this pool, got a couple of questions:

-What would be the minimum recommended hashrate to get a decent (at least 1 payout every 2 days) ?

-can I use a ETH address from btc-e exchange site or must be from a ETH REAL wallet?

-if I use the ETH wallet, should i use the main address or the secondary address (which i don't understand what is the difference)

thanks!!
indkt

You need 400MH/s to get one payout every two days. That is the same as you solo mine with your miners.

I used the https://ethpool.org. It is quick reliable. It pays the full block reward plus the transactions fees.

I have 300MH, do you think that it will worth it to attempt to mine here? or below 400MHz is a bad idea?
thanks!

The variance in the pool is small if you mine there. t depends on if you want to have 5 ETH in 2.5 days, or 2 ETH each day.

Thanks!
Both are OK, variance was my concern, but 5 ETH every 2.5 days sounds as good as 2 ETH a day  ;D

I rediracted my 500Mhs to ethpool some days ago.
I have had some miners start mining at my failover pools from time to time.

Any problems going on lately ?
I am using the Europe server.

Effective hashrate going all over the place
http://i67.tinypic.com/8zjvcm.jpg
My hash is solid here.
I dont have this problem at Ethermine, so something must be going on at ethpool.

Hello,

is this topic to the ethpool.org still right or is a other topic better?

One question: can i mine a eth block by luck as solo mining and additionally the i hit the credits in high from the actual diff or only if the credits in the same high as the eth block diff?

in the second, it is not realy a solo pool, or?

Regards
Willi

Is it any good to mine with 18.5MH/s in that pool or is the change of getting something at all too small? Solo mining always confused me.

oh finally i was watching my miners and I notice some of my miners will get the message "share rejected by pool"

or cannot connect to "US1.ethpool.org:3333"

then disconect and the re-connect, and then some of the rigs cards only hash at 8.345 and some rigs even just die.

Its a persistant promlem, I will give it a few more days then I', m moving my 8GS to nanopool , its really fking anoying man

Well I'm using ethermine not ethpool but it's run by the same guy. For ethermine starting about 4-5 hours ago my rig stats are all over the place. I wonder if their US servers are having problems or being DOS attacked?

pool has been down all day

Is anyone here that can help me understand how ethpool.org function?
I have a rig that works with 189 MH/s  and I don't understand when it will be my first payout. How long should I wait and how can I track the evolution till my first reward.

Asia down ?

pool is such trash , all the money u guys make and miners are constantly going down , today had to reboot my rigs several times due to you awesome error

its really bad on this pool since we get zero rewards if we are down for an extended time , since we have to get all the credits for a block

comone guys this has been a problem for months now

yep, asia and eu is down  now :(

better to make some adjustment to correct this problem, we seen bloodbath inside exchange and aside from that if we also got some serious problem
with our miners its really a stressful week to all of us, hopefully the pool will be fixed and find the longer solution for this issue, mining is good for long
term now but to break even we also needs some cash to pay for our bills.

I have just found ethpool.org and I like the idea. The good thing is; if miner hits uncle he would get uncle and next block. So I'm praying to hit uncle :D

I got my full block reward without an issue. Very good service.

You Are wrong, the uncle found by the pool are be awarded to a random active miner. But there's a problem... and probably you will never get one uncle, see why:
https://imgur.com/a/avHJSJf

There are about 7500 miners (probably all from the same guy) on ETHPOOL with hashrate between 2 mh/s and 6 mh/s picking up all uncles, take a look on these accounts:

https://ethpool.org/miners/F637b6c14aC70987380ca7f395b3735780B5CfB9/dashboard
https://ethpool.org/miners/E01C6a25dA471FB5Ea9E0de3B9Ed8f8B5a26cA14/dashboard
https://ethpool.org/miners/d43928F6F9ffc3Dd32A46BB99851562594466A55/dashboard
https://ethpool.org/miners/972Cd5e1484Bb06e36b617A6EA0b68C1Ec7B59F7/dashboard
https://ethpool.org/miners/dF11E0130d90efC9B6d7EB8d8d148bFAFB1461b4/dashboard
https://ethpool.org/miners/03636299b64df2b9b3db08faeb17c683dd3175d4/dashboard
https://ethpool.org/miners/0E041d9bFaB70125411E3f05dAd1Aa1ceD33e800/dashboard
https://ethpool.org/miners/23F861cE35420827e2e93bB351Dc460AC02adf82/dashboard

I had about 15 GH/s (only 1 account address) on this pool and never got 1 uncle, now i see why...

Ethpool should only reward uncles to accounts with more than 100 mh/s to be fairer, i'm out from this pool anyway.

The main account 0x7dE44b1F1527486a16FF586eF301B6b62dA6aC11(is not mining) has several deposits from "miners"  (approx 38 addresses)

90 ETH for 177t of credits, that a good deal

0x241df8b90B050CaB32e265ca24075f42065802aA <--main miner 21GHS
0x8BA351d33B0Ea215d656893958A08E4642d66098
0x87C105AB1E9BFa88282C1f220a88D0A920aa1d78
0x27845077Eab0e47608eE60D461Ac3f7Cd0d09627<--45mhs and won 4 uncles between 5/21 & 5/22
0x4E8eC5BB14dcfc751e48C0475bedD6FBb6CfE023
0x4A85Cf9CE5d39b116E715512D5A291e7B51C1CB2
0x582cc247a8F3cb72ea972936A585696bcA82B3a3<--2 uncles 5/21/18 @ 2mhs
0x4a609177F7B9065c0aEdBFa2762a27EC9Fd7061E<--4 uncles 5/21/18 one block 5/22/18
0x638912700D9D4fA5E2f3A10f80933242Eb2c054C<--3 uncles 5/21/18
0xF637b6c14aC70987380ca7f395b3735780B5CfB9
0x5f46505Cb2019334408056de55348Ee705F9a557
0x59691FB3733f3e71D437bbD25d039F39ACecCC78
0x54347c5eB4284fc5Ac758ed497301c3b559750e3
0x42022c0ca05d41BF4256eD48fE635B424144209A
0x4070473dFe33886929F5Be62Ba3e75Dff89adA71
0x37eb05E8e53dF7A6295bE5195dA9fd9506c6b12f
0x28d153210Cdc90E21EDaaCcE5D090Fc8BCa3B4E6
0x285fA1EA6d43cee0743C29F7b8abec195970f149
0x265BA14e71be4eF72Fc67A49ae2E27437BAc6a95
0x24363545939FD0c0dAc4a181F8F057F9c31937e5
0x23F861cE35420827e2e93bB351Dc460AC02adf82
0x1D1707221c0fdE1c2c72466AdB307b15ACddc701
0x0E041d9bFaB70125411E3f05dAd1Aa1ceD33e800
0x0532b604E1d7B373f48e2adAd9DF1aCd556a23C8
0x03636299B64dF2b9b3DB08FaeB17c683DD3175D4
0xE4a3c88D1dC87cE6894526e38D9ddDe39dE6897c
0xc5ee7b8D8b93683258ffacdE025D2892123945Ce
0xb350E2356C58243913c5E8b05918f21D0155921f
0x9Ffd79287EE0144F5d35F7462c7E919533c38653
0x8ef23A0d52952f77384b8bd9896e0B3FD2055097
0x7810fE457f4C930ca713a7aFC7376F05526138a2
0x61E453B0F65527D4d948FAC987743BF8F8856E59
0x5Bd885cFCBd122B9B933c25185743ad3845CA1BD
0x52Bec9E0B9C5d9a6237934F625B3C4dF39ff6571
0x4c2e44D094AD551Ce7b63702E516b797d475c612
0x3775f8eaDB08a6658999E45Cf92e607655F90B41
0x356888E63CF9cE451c7e43ddeBAaa01a9da92a3F
0x03fb148a22790B547c3fE01C5fc68B755235F585

https://preview.ibb.co/nmaWRT/UNFAIR.png (https://ibb.co/h8prRT)

Also found like 6 more address that were rewarded with 3 uncles in 2 months or less

Yes you are right. I sent a ticket to them and they never responded. Basically they should give those orphans to miners one of the following conditions:

a) Miner must be active on the pool for a specific time
b) Miner must have a mined blocks

I hope they have an explanation for this. I will try to contact them over Twitter. Because in this situation they are far away from profitable, other pools give orphans fairly. If they won't fix I will stop to using them as soon as I got block reward.

It's looking like they're getting several rewards for themselves (uncles + fees). Another detail that I had noticed: some addresses earn too fast "T" credits even with little hashrate.

It's sad that a pool of this size is acting that way.

This pool is not looking right!  >:( >:( >:(



1 Uncle and 1 block as soon as joined to the pool at the same day
https://ethpool.org/miners/0b431945259276b6d0b2a16ee703a949b5208168/dashboard
https://www.etherchain.org/account/0b431945259276b6d0b2a16ee703a949b5208168


Nobody can explain the following with a "luck", it is pretty suspicious

3 Uncles and a block in 24 hours

https://ethpool.org/miners/241df8b90b050cab32e265ca24075f42065802aa/blocks
https://ethpool.org/miners/241df8b90b050cab32e265ca24075f42065802aa/worker/default

https://www.etherchain.org/account/0x241df8b90b050cab32e265ca24075f42065802aa

People should stop to using them. They have never responded this thread, tickets and tweets.

ethpool.org, ethermine.org and zcash.flypool.org are SCAM.