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So we all know what happened with Nexious, and a bunch of people got burned.  We also know that it seems to be the latest fashion for newbie accounts to announce their own pools.  Whether or not they are sincere, or are just trying to play the same scam Nexious did, I don't know.

In light of this, I decided to open up my own pool.  I figured I'd do the community a favor and offer my own. No frills, no BS. The pool is here for a simple reason: to give you a choice.  The pool mines BTC.  No merge mining.  No alt coins.  Straight up BTC mining.

You can see my announcement here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg13126185#msg13126185

I've actually updated the maximum difficulty since I wrote that to better manage large hash miners.  Here are the current specs:

Pool:                        Jonny Bravo's Mining Emporium
Website:                   http://www.bravo-mining.com
Proxy:                      No
Generation address:  14KxdJ7DfAPsxCYkpcDTcKotjeProcfRPo
Coinbase signature:   /bravo-mining/
Payout method:         PPLNS
Fee:                         0.5%
Pay Tx Reward:         Yes
Vardiff:                    starts at 1042.  Range from 8 to 1048576.
Local Work:              stratum
Pay Orphans:           No
Min Withdrawal:       0.001
Merge Mining:          No
Location:                 US

I've actually held off making this announcement and soft launched the pool at the end of November.  Well, now I'm making it public.

The pool has already found its first block: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/000000000000000003c3a6ee87941ea88ab99490e7774ae25dc48deb9aa2bf72

Oh... and here's the important bit... the miners were paid for their contributions :).

How to connect:

• You MUST register and use a valid email address because the pool requires you to validate
• PPLNS payouts with 5N share life
• MPOS front end running on NOMP stratum
• NO SPV MINING - we mine only on fully validated blocks

Currently we're averaging about 25TH; however, I regularly throw 500TH - 1PH rentals at the site (that's how we found our first block) so the hash rate varies considerably and is why I didn't put any value in the thread title.

So, if you're looking for somewhere to point your hash, give us a try.  You aren't going to get scammed, bamboozled, swindled or defrauded here.  Proof is in the pudding: we've found our first block and miners were paid.

For any support issues, you can reach me here on this thread, by PM, by email admin at bravo-mining dot com, or if you like to chat, I setup an IRC channel on freenode: #bravo-mining.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing some of you there.

I can confirm that this pool has paid out on its first block on time and without any problems.

May the force be with us.  ;)

I second this too, it has paid

GL with it JB  :)

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That's pretty cool you found a block.

What you get with the unit and how long you are there

Awesome.  Keep up the good work.  Here's hoping ya'll find your next block soon!

Let's wait and hope ;D ;D ;D

Thanks everyone :).  I'm very grateful for the miners on my pool.  It makes me happy that you have chosen to try out a small pool and that your hashing power is not pointed at the big guys instead.

Yes, we were lucky to have already found our first block.  It was found at about 27.4% of expected shares, so a nice surprise.

Since my announcement here, I've noticed quite a few users have registered, and I want to thank you for doing so!  I'm hoping some more of you will point some of your hashing power to the pool as well.

Looking forward to our next block!

yeah, that was extremely good luck for a first block on a new pool.

There are only 13 people with shares in this current block so rewards will be good. All we need is some of that good luck.

Forget about all these newbie accounts appearing and offering up new pools and other scams, go with a pool OP that is trusted and has a good reputation. You need look no further.

 ;D

Well... the new difficulty is here, and it was a pretty nasty change of over 18%.

As soon as the current orders on NH start to taper off and the prices for this difficulty kick in, I'll be renting about a petahash for a while.  Let's hope for a Christmas Miracle :P

I'll post here when I do the rental.

Edit: 1.1PH running for the next 8 hours or so.  Let's nail that next block!

Unfortunately the block gods were not with me during my rental.  That is sad.  However, we've also gotten a few more miners on the pool and are currently averaging about 40TH.

Thanks to everyone who has joined and I look forward to our next block together :)

Great job... I had a little difficulty connecting when you first set it up... But I'm heading back to give it another go...

Good riddance Nexious... Hello Bravo Mining!

Nithmund... :)

Glad to have you onboard with us Nithmund!  Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any difficulties and I'll be happy to provide you with any support I can.

Good Job Bravo!

I'm happy to see you guys got a quick block :)
To hell with that nexious event.... I wish you best of luck!

This is a legit pool, I was paid .5 btc in that last block

How and how much power you have??? ;) 5 btc???

can more accurately 0.56702425

It's because of how many shares he had when the block was found.  When the pool found its first block, there were very few active miners who had contributed any shares.  Therefore, the block reward was divided up into fewer pieces, with each participant getting a larger portion of the pie.

Yes, icezer0z saw 0.5BTC payout that block.  If my pool were to find a block right now, he'd expect to make an even larger payout.

Yes I got lucky and it was Jonny and like 2 others including me hashing away.  I left and went to Kano because I felt that we were getting nowhere so if I would have stayed it probably wouldve be 0.65 or 0.75 btc.  Plus I rent hash once in awhile.

Where do you guys rent hash from?

Just curious...

I got screwed over by, what turned out to be a  fraudulent company a couple years ago --which is what prompted me to purchase my own mining equipment -- and have been skeptical of the concept ever since...

Thanks...

nicehash.com usually.  MRR also is a good choice but I usually find their prices to be higher.

I can also vouch for nicehash.

I got lucky the two times I used it at a few different pools and they both went on good luck streaks so the PPLNS worked out in my favor (meaning I earned back what I spent and then some).

I love the pool Jonny.  If I could make one suggestion though: minify your "jquery.dataTables.js" file.  It's 1/10th of the initial page load, and is crammed full of documentation and other stuff you don't really need to send over the wire to clients.  (yeah, I was snooping your source... yes I have weird hobbies)  Keep up the good work!  ;D ;D

Hi Solipsis,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've looked at the code you mentioned and see that it is indeed full of documentation and comments.  You state that it's 1/10th of my initial page load.  Do you mean just in terms of sheer bytes being sent over the wire?  Is the implication you're making that I'll have better performance if I strip out the majority of the comments/documentation from that file?

LOL... no worries about snooping the source - it's available on github.  I used standard MPOS/NOMP.  I added a few tweaks and fixes on my end to address some of the known issues in them, but otherwise it's pretty much stock.

Yes, I did mean in terms of sheer bytes being sent.  The initial page load is about 1019 KB and 100 KB of that is "jquery.dataTables.js".  Sometimes I forget how much I use slang terms.  "Minifying" JavaScript is using a program similar to a compiler which automatically removes documentation and changes up things to make it more efficient in terms of raw size.  (C.F., "jquery.dataTables.js" and "jquery-2.13.min.js").  I did some looking and the developers of DataTables already publish a minified version here: https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.10/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js (https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.10/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js)  Using a minified version, would help with bandwidth and also somewhat performance.  It should be a simple drop-in replacement.

Much obliged for the explanation.  I'm spoiled with bandwidth, so I sometimes forget that not everyone's got hundreds of megabit connections to the world :)

I'll take a look at those minify versions.  Thanks again for the suggestions and the input.  You keep this up and I might be pinging you for a job in real life... we could always use some detail-oriented performance engineers :)

Hello everybody I thought I would introduce myself, I'm Rozo, I live in North Carolina. I'm very new to mining but I have researched it extensively over the last month or so. I just got my miner's maybe 2 weeks ago. Jonny I read through some old post of yours and you impressed me so I decided to take a chance on you and direct one of my S 7 over to your pool with my fingers crossed thanks for taking the time and setting one up.

Hi Rozo,

Welcome to the world of cryptocurrency and mining :).  I'm glad you chose to point one of your S7s to my pool, and I'm honored that some of my posts were able to provide you with inspiration and/or knowledge.

Do keep your fingers crossed... I know I am hoping for a Christmas miracle or two :P

With it being Christmas and all I said what the hell and rented 100 TH for the next day.

Come join me and let's get a block Before Christmas!!  :)

May the force be with you. :)

Hope you guys get lucky again!

I'm going to register and see if we can become lucky...
I'm not really a rich person and the only bitcoins I have are from the signature campaigns I have been doing for a while now, it just leaves me with dust in my wallet...
I hope we get lucky again asap so I can earn a few more bitcoins so that I can rent more etc......

Thanks for the pool Jonny :P <3

Hi Jay, and welcome onboard!

Jonny's Holiday Promotion!

Hey everyone!  In the spirit of the holidays, I'm going to run a promotion.  I am going to give the block finder 1BTC from my own pocket.  No, I'm not kidding.  Yes, I really do have the coin.  In fact, you can see for yourself: https://blockchain.info/address/1Q9FLjh1Sd7Vw8oo54SvaMb1w3ZuEkSBAe

Obviously, I'm excluding myself from this promotion... if I happen to find a block, then it will be the next block finder who gets the coin.

So, how do you enter?  Simple - point some hash to my pool.  It doesn't matter if you use your own hardware or rent it.  Everyone is welcome.

This contest will run from now until 23:59:59 EST 12/31/2015.

Good luck to everyone!

Well I tried, the rented hashing power is over now. :(

Thank's for the Holiday Bonus! :)

and happy holidays to everyone.

I was rooting for you!  Too bad your rental didn't hit.  Your shares are, however, safe and will be paid when the pool hits :)

Even though I'm not ready to move miners here full time I'm all about helping out a new respected pool.

I'll be renting a little hash tonite and tossing it your way for a few hours!

Welcome onboard and best of luck with your rental tonight!

Great Job Jonny already 40th on the pool. Wish you best luck with the pool.
We need more pool like that.  :)

I'm in with some hash - YuenglingDude  ;D Let's get some blocks!

And a couple of tasty beers while we wait ;).  Love the chosen name.

Where is server located?

You bet  ;D

I drank a bunch of Yuengling this summer.  It was a special all summer long at AmVets near our camp!

Pushing around 15th for the night!  :) Lets find a block  ;D

It's my favorite beer & America's oldest brewery.  If you're ever in Pottsville, PA go take the tour of the brewery, it's well worth it  ;)

Near New York City.

I, too, enjoy it quite a bit.  Haven't been to the brewery but might take a road trip :)

84th guys not so bad!  ;D

Don't want to pull my rigs from Kano, but I'll rent a bit of hash to join the party. :) Good luck, all!

I have had 5 TH going for 35+ hours and still got 20 hours left.
I shut off miners at home during peak hours.

You better do it  :P

I have about 35-40TH for the next day or so at the pool :)  (just ramping up now).

We will hit 150-200th nice job all!  ;D

Good job Jonny

I will I am on other side of state in Northwest, PA.  Don't get down that way very often.

Adding 20TH to pool also for next couple days.  :)

Nice, I grew up outside of Philly but now I'm down in FL. We have a Yuengling brewery in Tampa too but the one in Pottsville is still the best. I've got some rentals pointed here too for a few days so we'll see what happens  ;)

Outside Philadelphia on the PA side or NJ?  I've worked in King of Prussia.

Also, the pool is up to around 150TH!  Good luck to everyone!  Let's pop that block :)

On the PA side. I grew up in Havertown and then we moved out to Devon in my Middle/High School years. I spent many days being a mall rat at the KoP mall  8)

Woohooo We are up too 373.335 TH/s

Oh I will be in tampa in March.  Brandon to be exact.  Where is tampa brewery located at?

483TH...nice!

Good time of the year to come down (Spring Training & Spring Break). The brewery is on 30th street, near Bush Gardens which is north of Brandon, probably about a 30 minute drive.

The KoP mall... been there a few times :).  I stayed in Conshohocken.  There's a great pub called Baggataway I frequented quite a bit.

Now I'm spending my work weeks in Jacksonville.  I might end up moving down to FL, too.  Getting a bit tired of the winters up north... of course, so far this year has been unreal... it's going to be 75 degrees tomorrow.

Oh... and I joined the pool party with a couple hundred TH for the next couple days.  We're up to about 450TH!

That's cool, my first real IT job was in Conshohocken right before Y2K. I got sick of the Winters too & decided I wanted to live near the beach, now it's like I'm on vacation all the time  ;) The pool is rocking, I hope we get lucky soon!

And...


Thanks guys!!!

It took some additional help from Jonny -- but I was able to get it to work here...

In the meantime -- I played around with another pool and had the same luck Btcmke had!!!

I'm considering moving my machines over -- but I have a question...

It appears that mining-bravo keeps your work record -- like forever (until a block is found/built)...

In the current pool I'm mining at -- we only get credit for the last 10 shifts...

So, my question is:  If I mined here for a week (example purposes) and then went somewhere else -- and then 2 weeks bravo found a block -- would I still get paid for the week that I was here???

I'm not advocating short term participation -- I'm just trying to clarify...

Thanks again for your help...

 :) :) :)

Just rented 100TH for the next day... Let's hope we hit the second block :)

This is also a PPLNS pool so yes.  Any work you put in towards the next block will count towards any rewards received.

Let's see if I can help clarify things.  The pool pays out using PPLNS.  That means shares have a shelf life.  Currently, it's set to 5N, where N is calculated dynamically based upon the shares of the previous 5 rounds.  All things being equal, that translates into about 5 blocks worth of payments per share.  In other words, if the pool finds blocks at exactly 100% luck, then your share would be paid 5 times.

As with all PPLNS pools, there's the concept of "ramping", where you build up to your theoretical expected payout per share.  For the sake of this explanation, let's assume the pool finds one block per day.  Also, let's assume you mine for 10 days.  Here's how it would break down:

Day 1 - 1/5 expected
Day 2 - 2/5 expected
Day 3 - 3/5 expected
Day 4 - 4/5 expected
Day 5 - 5/5 expected
Day 6 - 5/5 expected
Day 7 - 5/5 expected
Day 8 - 5/5 expected
Day 9 - 5/5 expected
Day 10 - 5/5 expected
Day 11 - 4/5 expected
Day 12 - 3/5 expected
Day 13 - 2/5 expected
Day 14 - 1/5 expected
Day 15 - 0

As you can see, it all adds up.  You mine for 10 days, and you get 10 days of expected payouts... they're just spread out over 15 days :)

Good luck with your rental!!!  I really want to give that BTC to somebody for Christmas!

You *could* just give it to me :)    I'm hoping a block shows up!

LOL... find the block and I absolutely will give that coin to you :)

Okay I moved this to you


https://i.imgur.com/PI71i9b.png

Excellent!  Good luck, Phil :).

Wow!  It certainly appears the promo is drawing some decent sized players to the pool!  We're just shy of 1 PH now.

Best of luck to everyone!

Lets hope someone gets a block sooner or later ;D

Does the pool have a live tracker of some sorts?
I want to see it live 0.0

You can go to the pool's website and see the current hash rate... I don't have any special monitoring apps or anything written (like ZACHM did for kano's pool).

LOL... somebody just put up an infinite hash rate overpriced order on NH... looks like they'll be consuming all the available hash rate for a while :)

EDIT: and it's gone... that was quick :P

The pool is pushing 900th 1/3 due to my 300th rental which has about 30 minutes left.

It was probably a mistake.   Or just a real quick hit somewhere so that they could try to pop a block.

What is a good price?

It seems like if I try at .0050 - I get no takers...

.0053 for consistent -- and .0051 for inconsistent...

The couple I've seen go up were for infinite hash at 0.0053.  They lasted seconds to a couple minutes max.  0.0051 has been pretty consistent... only getting bumped off when those crazy infinite hash orders come online.

Thanks!!!

Btw -- I think your promotion is BRILLIANT!!!

I've always thought that pools should reward the "finder" 1 of the 25 coins -- then equally distribute the remaining...

I guess this is even better -- it definitely brings the excitement back to mining!!!

Thanks to your help, both of my machines are pointed this way...

I'm still unclear on the work performed -- I'm guessing that your explanation says that if the pool suffers "bad luck" there will be a diminishing return...

Yep thats reasonable.  In many cases you just have to accept that the hash rate might fluctuate as bigger orders come in.

If I want to be sure my hash rate stays - i'll put a fixed order in.  The most recent one was for 40TH for 24 hours or so and it was only .0055.  So not a ton more expensive.

In the end you'll need to play and find the sweet spot for what you want.

Yes that certainly could be the case.

It's all about the luck.  Good luck and things work in your favor.  Bad luck and they won't

Somebody's got some coin to burn... infinite hash orders on both NH and WH for 0.0059 and 0.0058 respectively.  Wonder how long those will last...

EDIT: make that 0.0065.  Some new sha256 alt coin just launch? ;).... Andddd...gone.

Come on lets have a nice xmas and lets get a block  ;D

Edit: Curious, Jonny are you mining with almost 1ph on Kano ?

No that isn't him :)

As Kano mentioned, that miner is not me.  My account on Kano's pool is the same as my username here: jonnybravo0311.  All of my gear, save 2 s3s is pointed to my pool.  Those last two will be directed here on Friday after they wrap up my year-long test on OgNasty's hybrid p2pool solution.

Come on Christmas block. I'm going to rent 100Th for a day too and hopefully we get it.

I thought I had a good idea how this works but I you just confuse me even more.

Sorry about the confusion Rozo.  Let's see if I can explain this without even using Bitcoin. 

Assume you have an empty glass in front of you.  Now, you start pouring water into the glass.  Every now and then I'm going to come by and take a look at that glass and measure how much water you've got in it.  The first time I come by, you've got the glass only 1/5th of the way full.  I mark that down and pay you for 1/5th of a glass of water.  I come by a while later and you've got the glass 2/5 full.  OK, I mark it down and pay you for 2/5 of a glass of water.  This continues until the glass is full of water.  Once your glass is full I pay you for a full glass of water, but I also now open a valve at the bottom of the glass so that water drains out as fast as you're pouring it in.  In this fashion, your glass will always be full of water and every time I stop by, I see you've got a full glass and pay you for it.

Eventually, you stop pouring water into the glass.  However, that valve is still open, so the water is draining at the same rate you were pouring.  When I stop by the next time, I see you've only got 4/5 of a glass, so I pay you for that much.  The time after that, the glass is only 3/5 full, so I pay you for that.  This continues until the glass is empty.

In my story above, every time I stopped by is equivalent to the finding of a block.  I see how much water you have in the glass and pay you for however much is there.  My story assumed I stopped by at even intervals of time, so you'd always know when to expect me.

So, how does luck play into it?  Well, every time I stopped by, I made sure to calibrate that valve on the bottom of the glass.  If I stopped by more often than expected, I'd mark you down and pay you.  If I stopped by less than expected, the valve would clog up and the water you were pouring in would slosh over the edge of the glass and be wasted.  When I finally did stop by, I would notice you had a full glass, and pay you for it, then fix the valve so that the pour rate equaled the drain rate.

OK... maybe I shouldn't try explaining things after I've been drinking :P

That was perfect!  :P Really understand well how it work now.

Hello !!! Make like Kano as a miner would receive from its speed miners and then still fit people

That's not bad and an interesting way to explain it!  I like it :)

Knocked my rental back a bit so it sticks around through xmas :)

LOL... I was holding a glass of bourbon while I was writing it and that was the inspiration for the analogy I used :)

In other news, we're still holding strong at over 500TH.  Let's crack that block today so I can give somebody a nice little Christmas bonus!

ive pulled out 1 S7 from Kano as i feel lucky today :)
lets crack this block

Good luck!

I've only got 10 fingers dipped into the pool today -- but I'm hoping to grab ahold of that slippery and illusive block!!!

Hope that everyone is having an AWESOME holiday!!!

 :) :) :)

Merry Christmas!! I logged on to check the pool and I have my fingers crossed as well hoping we get lucky!

Well my rental ran out during the night with no luck.  I'll probably do another one next week.  I'm really hoping somebody gets lucky and wins the prize!

Hope everyone is having a great Christmas!

Always a good time seeing family :)  It's too bad we didn't hit in the timeframe that your rental was up.

It'll come though :)

I've moved a S3 over so that I can have some constant hash rate for now and my rental is still around until sometime tomorrow.

I will also do another rental next week hoping we hit the block for new year. Happy holidays to all :)

Well, nobody hit the Christmas bonus... so we move on to hoping somebody brings the new year in with a bang!

I hope everyone's Christmas was filled with cheer and that Santa brought you everything on your lists.  I'm sorry Santa Satoshi didn't stop by as well :P

Such is the nature of luck :)

Bring on the new year and more blocks!!

That it is.  Statistically we are still well in the good luck territory at 53%.  Also remember the holiday promotion is still going, so if anyone hits a block before the new year you get 1BTC bonus from me.

I'm quite hopeful we hit a block this week and somebody gets the prize!

Great promo!

This one needs to get done so we can see who the winner will be  ;D

I gave a boost 200th for an hour or so.. Lets see  :P

I tossed in 50th for an hour

Since you are helping i'll throw 200 more!!!!! Lets find that mf block  ;)

Pool is about 1,2 ph and rising now....

https://i.imgur.com/22cLMva.png

Souvenir hahahaha  ;D ;D

I deleted other names, they might not want to publish..

Poor little lonely prize BTC.  Sitting all alone in a wallet.  No friends.  No one to play with.

Help this poor coin (https://blockchain.info/address/1Q9FLjh1Sd7Vw8oo54SvaMb1w3ZuEkSBAe) find a home.  Find a block and take him home with you.

Working on it  :P Trying a small 30th for few hours.

It will be my S3 that will find it.
I never found a block before. lol

That would be great if it was indeed your s3 that found it!

I'm going to direct about 100TH to the pool for about a day or so. Anymore miners interested in adding some hash power? Shall we do it all at the same time to try to bring the pool's hash rate up to over 1PH so maybe we have more chance to get this block :) Let me know who is interested...

Started a NH rental now. I'm leaving it @5TH for now. Will increase speed if someone else wants to joins in. Come on let's get that second block :)

Ok then, lets try it.. I'll throw 20th for ~2 hours

100TH directed to the pool just now... Fingers crossed  ::)

Good luck!  I hope to be able to award the prize :)

50th for 1 hr! fingers crossed

I just add 110 Th for the next 24H too.

Come on guys let's get this block!

if we haven't hit it by tomorrow I'll toss in a pile of hash for the 30th and 31st

I will also do the same  ;)

Just over 2 days left of the promotion... I'd love to be able to send somebody home with a shiny new coin :)

For those of you planning to throw a ton of hash at the pool, best of luck!  Since I don't qualify for the promotion, I won't be renting any hash for the next few days so we aren't competing with each other.  Let's bring the new year in with some blocks!

31st i will rent some power to.. Let's race ;-) the more the better for all of us I guess so no competition.. I have little chance to find a block in the pool is hashing at 30th.. But if we manage to reach at least 1ph them we will have much more chances ;-)

I meant competition on the rental sites.  Unless you're getting a fixed order on NH, you can be outbid by somebody else and lose your hash.

By the way, has anyone rented with MRR on this pool?  Seems people were reporting some issues with using that service on kano/ck pools.  Pretty sure that was resolved on those pools, but I'm curious to see if there are any ill effects from it here.

I stick with NH - seems to be the most reasonably priced and I've never had hash rate issues (even on the standard orders). 

Well...

My last effort to win that shiny coin -- lol...

2 PH for as long as the small rental lasts...

I have to travel to the west coast for then next few weeks for work...

Happy New Year to EVERYONE!!!

 :) :) :)

No issues here with rentals from MRR. I pointed a couple more here for while. Let's solve a block  ;)

Thanks for the tip on NH
I used both and like MRR only because I know how long it is hashing for and I can switch urls if needed. both worked and as far as issues with CK its because of ddos.

are we still adding more hash now cause I'm ready too

I had no luck yesterday but will add some more hashing power with the others on the 31st hoping for some luck this time. Let's hope someone gets the block. Good luck to all :)

Great bonus you've got here :D

In about 10 minutes I'll be adding about 100TH through tomorrow.

Also adding some power. Lets try to get that block  ;D

Good luck!

Took me longer than I would've liked (wireless router fell over and died).

Woohooo more hashing power!!

My 70Th is not cutting it I need more help. =)

I'm in for 100 TH for a couple of hours...

Come on Jonny -- you are one of the smartest guys on here...

Grease the inner workings of the wheel and lets make it happen!!!

 :) :) :)

She's all greased up and firing on all cylinders :).  The proper sacrifices have been made.  It's time to hit!

My small rent didnt work  :-\ Come on guys! Lets get that block  ;D

If block is not found this morning, I will rent 200TH for about 6 hours later on today. Looking forward to get that second block :)

Very sad that i can't run for this competition, hope you find the block!

Joining the party in a minute... let's crack that blockie in 2015

Well... here's a little added incentive to all miners on my pool.  I'm doubling the bonus.  That's right.  If you find a block before the clock ticks into 2016 here on the east coast of the US, you will get 2BTC.

I was going to throw that BTC into a 1PH rental for a while, but instead I'm offering it up to you.

So... let's get this party rocking in the new year!

The reward is awesome :) However, getting up to over 1PH would have gave the pool more chance to get a block. I am waiting for a pending transaction on NH and will throw 200TH for about 6hrs. Hope more miners will join in so we'll have more chance.

Last but not least, great job Jonny. You have a miner on your pool for life :)

Good luck eghigo!  Your additional 200TH will bring the pool up to about 450TH.  Hopefully a few more folks will be able to join in the fun as well :)

Excellent promotion!! More hash from me on the way! Happy New Year Jonny!

Happy New Year to you, and good luck!

Hi all, just got an email about doubling the bonus!!! I am throwing some hass power to this  ;)

Happy New Year Guys!


Wooohooo Nice Bonus Jonny TY!

Let's get that block!!!

Wow Jonny this is a super pool!  ;D

Let get a block guys!

Just added 300TH for 2 hours!!! Goooooooooooooooo  ;D ;D ;D

Good luck!

Just under 9 hours left... who's gonna take home the prize?

400TH on the way... Fingers crossed  ;D

Propably noone  :P :P :P hahahahahaha
We have low propabilities  ;)

Passed 1.2PH... Let's keep mining ;D

I took a swing at it.  how much time we got left?

8 hours and 10 minutes or

7 hours and 10 minutes.

Awesome promo.  Thanks Jonny

7 hours 10... It is currently 16:50 here.

Pool is up over 1.2PH.... Good luck everyone!!!

okay we are both on east coast time. thanks

Same state, too :)

6 hours left... Good luck everyone!!!

I'll be in for 100Ths until midnight -- as soon as NH confirms my transfer...

I left a warm home in Atlanta on Tuesday -- and woke up to -11F this morning in Laramie, WY...

YIGHTZ!!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS to EVERYONE!!!

 :) :) :)

Wow nice temp drop .

I thought going from 72f to 39f here in NJ was bad.
I am running 30 th until 1 am

Im in CA going to be 30f for the night. Hope i dont get called into work dont want to me out in that.

Happy new year to all.

Happy New Year!!!!!

Happy New Year everyone!  It's too bad no one hit the block and earned Jonny's promotion.

Keep your hash here though - the next block will pay out well to everyone who's been putting the time in here!

True i made a killing on the first one.
Looks like it also this next one also.

I have started mining just now!

Let's see if I can help everyone finding a block. :P

I will also buy some nicehash rents to increase my overall hash power. ;)

BTW if I cannot find a block and anyone else finds it then will I get my deserved btc for my shares?

The answer is basically yes.  Read this post from Jonny.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1293193.msg13337241#msg13337241

And then do some more research on PPLNS payouts

1st January is already going to end and till now no block has been found in this pool. For this, I have got an idea. Although I do not know if Jonny Bravo will accept it or not.

One of our escrows scammed around 23 BTCs from his escrowed funds. Since the contest period is nearly going to end tonight, I request Jonny to wait until a block is found and then send a percentage of his shares along with the 2 BTC to be given as a bonus to all the victims of this biggest scam that happened at the dead end of 2015!

I don't know if he will accept my proposal or not but this will at least give them a compensation for their lost BTC. :)

If OP wants to read more about the scam then here are the links below:

1. Main scam accusation thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.0

2. Amount of BTC scammed - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1307926.0

3. Profile of escrower - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=89329

boohoo I was hoping somebody was going to find that block last night, I was so sure it was going to happen =(

Well at least we tried.


Happy New Year everyone!


Rozo

This is what DISGUSTS me about bitcoin...

SO MANY PEOPLE using it for scams/theft/et. al.

The fact that they ALSO do that in GREATER numbers with USD keeps my faith...

I hope no one here got hurt...

Thanks for the post...

:(:(:(

That is a different person over there.

Thanks for clearing that up...

Kind of confusing -- lol...

Also, it just didn't seem to make sense...

 ;) ;) ;)

You think it's confusing... imagine my surprise when I have a PM from kano asking me questions.  At first I thought it was related to my pool and I'm digging through logs trying to find what he's asking... after a few messages back and forth I realized he thought I was the miner on his pool.

My account on kano's pool is the same as my username here: jonnybravo0311.

Also, sorry about the Contact Us page on my site.  I meant to address that previously, but got busy with other stuff and it slipped my mind.  For now, I'm simply going to disable it until I can look into it and get it fixed properly.

As mentioned in the first post of this thread, you can reach me via email directly at admin at bravo-mining dot com.  Of course, you can also reach me here on this thread or via PM, too.

Hey Jonny will you start a new promo ?  ;D

yeah my birthday is this month  why not run a promo for  that. ;D

Good one phil  :P

Phil's birthday promo?  Hmm... what should we do for it?

Edit: how about something like, "block finder before Phil's birthday gets 1.5BTC and Phil gets a 0.5BTC gift?"

well its my birthday ;D       Jan 27th  to be exact.  That gives us a lot of time to find one.

Come on! Lets hit a block already lol

Nice  ;D That the kind of pool I want to join. Full of funny promo!

OK... why not.  I'll add a little twist to what I put up before.

The promo will run from now until 23:59:59 on Jan 27.

The first person to find a block between now and then will receive 1.5BTC.  Phil will receive a 0.5BTC birthday gift.  Here's the twist: if we find a block on Phil's birthday as well, I'll send Phil another 0.5BTC.

Awesome! Im all in  ;D Thanks Jonny for the Promo! Bringing back fun into mining  ;)

Well I got to toss something at it now!

All,

Please be advised that starting around 10:00 EST today I will be performing a little bit of maintenance on the pool's servers.  As a result, the pool will be offline for a few minutes.  Your miners will failover.

I will update here when I start the maintenance and when it is completed.

Thanks!

Maintenance beginning now.

Maintenance completed.

User rmonroe on my pool, your worker is attempting to connect with invalid credentials and is not submitting shares.  I have sent you an email explaining what you need to do to correct it.  Please feel free to reach out to me if you've got any questions and I'll gladly help you.

Thanks for the heads up on both the maintenance work and the new promotion :)

Such a fun place.

LOL! Why do you hope for Jonny to help you in this matter? Jonny is just a miner and he cannot keep up with his daily expenses because each block gets mined after so many months. And the cost of electricity bill per month is fearful for him to pay all at once. :-[

Please do not beg for money. This pool is not a charity service. :-\

Just plodding along.  Let's find us a block folks!

Hopefully the 1PH rental I'm just about to fire up will bring us in a block or two :).

I'll throw some power too  ;)

I moved from 5th to 15th  just a minute ago.

Cool... as soon as the balance confirms in my NH wallet, I'll start up the rental... 1PH for about 12 hours.

i am waiting the exact same thing  :P
You will win the bonus  :P
Hahahahahahhaa

I will do the 15th for a day

LOL... nope... I don't qualify for my own bonus :P.  That's for you guys.

Does this take longer than usual or is it just me???
By the way, i just became Junior Member!!!!!!!!  ;D

You have to get 2 blockchain confirmations.  I just now got the first (block took 20 minutes on the network).

Congrats on your new forum status ;)

And we're off... come on baby... daddy needs a new pair of shoes! :P

110TH is on!!!

You guys are awesome!   Come on blocks!!!

Woohooo, come on guys let's get those blocks!!

Lets get 1 blocks or maybe 2  ;D

Come on!

How much is a 12 hour ph rental about 5 bitcoin?

About 2.25

boohoo the block gods were not so nice to us last night. :-\

Yes, it is unfortunate that the block gods were not with us yesterday.  I was hoping we would have cracked a block or two, but such was not the case.

Don't forget that Phil's birthday promo is still going on and the first person to find a block between now and the 27th will get a 1.5BTC bonus!

So on another note I've been working with an HVAC engineer friend of mine and we have successfully integrated 4 antminer S7 into my heating and air system of my house.

We are using the house blower to cool the antminer S7 ( 4 will produce 18000 BTUs ) and at the same time heat the house.

It's a 1700 square foot house maintaining 67 degrees F in Raleigh North Carolina and it was roughly 20 to 30 degrees outside during the past 24 hours.

The heat pump is off and there is no added heat Source other than the antminer S7.

The antminer S7 themselves are maintaining about 50 to 53 Celsius


I am very excited to think that I can heat my house this winter just using my antminer S7!!

That's a great way to put that exhaust heat to use! 

All registered. I should see my PSU tomorrow.

Awesome.  Welcome aboard underachieved!

Such an unlucky pool I have ever seen in my life! I had been mining on F2Pool and they pays me through PPS mode whether they receives a block or not. In fact they finds around 149 blocks everyday and is contributing 25% of the whole network. Similarly AntPool. Also look at CK's solo pool. They also gets a block or two in a day. They take maximum 16 to 20 hours to find a block. 

I have seen Jonny's pool going upto 1.2Ph to 2Ph during Christmas and New Year still not a single block has been found till today and I have accumulated my 500k shares there just being greedy. -_-

No thanks. Moving my miners to F2Pool again.

Such a lack of understanding of how a pool works.  Take a look at the pool statistics.  You can see as of right now we are only 78.79% of expected shares.  Our first block was found at about 28%.  Of course those other pools find multiple blocks a day... they have multiple PH mining on them constantly.

I'm sorry you don't feel that this pool is a good fit for you.  Since you are in fact leaving, I would much rather you chose a pool other than the one you seem to be favoring.  Give kano's pool a try.  He's grown rather nicely over the past week and is closing in on 10 PH.

I agree with Jonny.  You should really understand how pool payouts work (and the main differences between PPS and PPLNS).

Kano is a FAR better option than F2/Ant/etc.  Jonny is far better too.  We WILL hit blocks and when we do you'll get paid appropriately (it'll just be a larger chunk than the small ones you get from bigger pools).

It's too bad he feels the way he does.  Of course, the only other post of his on this thread is asking if I'd consider donating 2BTC and a portion of the block reward to him because he was caught up in some escrow scam.  By the way, if he really only does have 500k shares as he states, if we found a block right now, that'd translate into an expected payout of 0.00015335BTC.  We're not exactly talking about breaking the bank.  It's not even the minimum payout threshold.

I am not a victim of that scam. I was just asking if you can extend your hand out but stopped nagging since you neglected replying to my comment.


My shares are low because I joined your pool only for about 42 minutes and left it after finding that your last block was found on 16th Dec. No offense to your pool if you think I hurt you so badly but I need to join a popular pool where chances of finding a block is much faster. Cheers.

I am extending my hand out - to those folks who wish to mine on my pool.

You most certainly didn't hurt me.  What you did do, however, is claim that my pool is the unluckiest pool you've ever seen:
I refuted that claim by stating that in fact this pool is quite lucky having found its first block at only about 28% of expected shares.  Also, that we are in fact only 79% of expected shares for this round.  All you looked at was:
You are basing your understanding on "OMG!  f2pool is the best because they are the biggest!  Look how many blocks they solve!"

If the variance of a small pool is too much for you, which it certainly appears to be the case, then please do move somewhere you feel more comfortable.  As before, I highly recommend kano's pool.

Yeah bro. If you want to earn quick money then join a "legit" PPS pool instead. They will give you money for your shares. This pool is not for impatient like you.

Please join Antpool and whatever pool you feel like and leave here because we will get some more BTC after one miner leaves. ;D

Jonny  as T.S. would say



 "Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off "

;D

You should read a little bit more on how bitcoin mining work. So far, Jonny Pool is a lot more lucky than F2Pool.  ;)

Go back on a pool that use SPV and that dont care about the community loll

One thing folks, I think we should refrain from being super negative towards users who might not agree or like jonny's pool.

It's up to each individual to decide how they want to earn their money - because in the end we are talking money here.

We just have to do our best to explain why bravo-mining or kano or ck solo or wherever is a better option.

If the person decides to go elsewhere that's on them.

My opinion this is a great pool.
I wish i had more hash power to support more.
Tax time looking to get at least 2 S7s and one will be here and the other will be at CKpool.
I like them both so i will support them both.

If you have something bad to say about a pool try talking to who runs it first. Try being a adult.

Hi Jonny, I pointed a S3 miner your way  to show some support for your pool.

Hey aurel57.  Thanks for the support and welcome onboard :).

+1.  I welcome everyone to make their own decisions on where to point gear.  After all, it is in fact your gear :).  As I wrote in the very first post of this thread, my pool is here to offer you another option of where to hash.  If you happen to post factually incorrect nonsense here, however, I will certainly correct those misstated items.  That way hopefully people can learn from those mistakes.

Yep there is far too much misinformation out there!

Well I decided to make a YouTube channel today and a bunch of videos about bitcoin mining.

Check out my channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWUKMMkJfgroUPfiOs3bQHg

Great work man... I really like your setup :)

Great gods those S7s are freaking loud!  I really like the exhaust venting right into your HVAC.  Nice setup.  Oh, and those EVGA PSUs are great choices, too.

Thanks guys and those S7 are loud compared to the S5. Initially I tried to put one of those s7's in a spare bedroom and then in the living room these things are just so loud I had to try to think outside of the box. I hope that others might get inspired to find ways of running s7 at their house as well, so that we can help build the blockchain.

FYI: I have also spent days researching fans trying to quiet them down but there's nothing available.

I run my S7 at 35% fan and downclock at 4.4 gh. Sound is not soo bad.

That's a good idea, I never thought of down clock them. What frequency are you running them at and what temperature are they running at? What is the temperature of the room they're in?

I was able to quiet them a bit with this


http://www.lowes.com/pd_481273-85334-MEA-1025-6___?productId=50401804&pl=1&Ntt=flex+duct

Its a batch 4. I run it at 550mhz. give me 4.4th steady

The room is aound 24-25 and the temp of the miner is 60.

Fan speed 35%

Let me know if it work well.

I actually run my S5 at 20% fan in my home office.  Runs smoothly at 1155GH/s temps about 51.

Man everytime I see a new post in the forum I hope to see "BLOCK FOUND"!

Darn.

My single S3 is cranking away.  I should see what its best share is.

Donor   User Name   KH/s   BTC/Day   USD/Day
1      rozo   9,375,967,658   4,756,303,996.736   2,134,519,838,743.1919
2      philipma1957   5,199,713,062   2,637,745,448.986   1,183,759,489,359.5901
3      jonnybravo   4,640,330,112   2,353,977,899.823   1,056,411,139,948.8665
4      njmnokc   2,958,955,373   1,501,038,802.703   673,631,690,760.6443
5      solipsis   2,452,658,929   1,244,201,333.930   558,368,942,037.1036
6      eghigo   2,407,514,242   1,221,300,033.020   548,091,364,918.6165
7      chexchip   1,383,420,864   701,791,049.764   314,947,681,939.9387
8      Valkir   1,099,716,890   557,871,787.768   250,360,027,299.1597
9      OneInchWonder   894,651,625   453,844,899.635   203,675,152,523.4964
10      GoJonnyGo   619,513,469   314,270,963.158   141,037,580,033.1577
11      bctmke   463,125,091   234,937,214.361   105,434,418,249.2865
12      YuenglingDude   428,343,870   217,293,162.229   97,516,173,465.6439
13      BAKSIK   421,105,031   213,620,995.047   95,868,189,294.2075
14      abmonstein   416,593,226   211,332,216.147   94,841,037,965.8022
15      aurel57   380,547,601   193,046,748.993   86,634,940,872.8316


      OK How do I cash out!!  :D

You and me both!  LOL... where did you get that?  I'm looking at the pool stats and see what you'd expect:

All set up and I think I am mining.

You are indeed.

Just checked the S3 that I've had here for a few weeks now.

Best share : 97,158,966

DO BETTER LITTLE GUY!   I should probably give him some spinach or something :)

Maybe some chicken soup for the little guy will cheer him up ;)

Best Regards
d57heinz

Is anyone interested in joining a GROUP EFFORT tonight???

Both Kano and Bitminter have had an AWESOME day today -- and I was thinking about renting some hashing power and throwing it this way...

Anyone else interested in joining in to BREAK this block???

 :) :) :)

At this point I could throw in probably 10TH for a while.

Kano's pool has been KILLING it today.  Someone should sneak over there and just steal one of their blocks.  They'd never notice at this rate!  :D

LOL wrong pool.  I think the chicken only works over at Kano's :)

If you do throw some hash at the pool, remember, find a block and get 1.5BTC :).

Don't suppose my sticks will come handy mandy :P

LOL... hash is hash and it all has a chance to find a block :)

Come on 7's!!  :D

promo for this pool starts 9 am eastern standard time sunday the 10 until 9 pm eastern standard time sunday night.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1320821.msg13497477#msg13497477


a  ?mystery?   prize to the block winner worth at least .1 btc

Hey everyone!  Just announced by Phil: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1320821.0.

In addition to the prize you'll get from me for finding a block, if you find the block between 9am and 9pm EST tomorrow (Sunday), Phil will provide a prize as well!

So, get your hashes pointed here tomorrow and let's crack a block!!

Yes but the magical beer may work here too! Or can't hurt that is for sure!

It showed but only for a short time...went back a min later and it was normal. Thought I would just have some fun when I saw it.

EDIT: If it had been true...I could have thrown out my winning Powerball ticket tonight!

LOL... let kano have his chicken.  This pool is all about the whisky and beer :P

I have some nice vanilla vodka .  I use              


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%27s_Vodka

http://www.titosvodka.com/

with

http://www.myspicesage.com/madagascar-vanilla-beans-p-169.html


slice the bean length wise   use 8-12 a bottle leave them in the bottle for 1 month.

Unreal to drink on ice.

Best vanilla extract in the world for baking.

I put it in my coffee I am drinking some right now!

Hey I could make one for the prize. 

I just invited some of friends too and some co_pool in other miningpool...

Was going to throw some in last night - never got around to it.  I'll get some 24hr + rentals going (probably a couple 10th type ones)

Threw another rental on the fire, let's get one for Phil  ;)

Is Nicehash the only hash rental available?

No, try MiningRigRentals.com, they are my go to place for rentals  ;)

Renting 100th for 8h  ;D Hope to get the block

Yeah valkir! Let's get this  ;D

Needed to up my renting to 0.0051 because people are renting a lot on nicehash  :P

Yeah nicehash should give me a kick back on all the interest for the promos!

Looks like the first promo for mmpool.org ends in five minutes still no block.

Then the compac stick  one starts.

In the morning the Jonny bravo one kicks. In.

Remember Jonny is running his promo right now.

I've got about 35TH running here (a bit at MRR and a bit at NH) through tomorrow and into Monday.  Here's to a block!

Hope your th will get a share. My 100th didnt  :-\

Lets get a block  ;D

I have added my 1th/s hash power to your pool.

Can you tell me what is the % of chances for finding a block with such hash power? ;D

It is a bit past 930am  I added 25th to the pool and the ?mystery?

 0.10 or more prize for the next block finder promo is running  it will run until  9pm  about 11 hours and 20 minutes

jonny it looks like you found a block just was not on this pool  :P

No that's not him.

ok sry I just assumed it was

That's happened a few times now... and just for the record again, I am not the jbravo user on kano's pool.  My user account there is the same as it is here on the forum: jonnybravo0311.

Don't forget everyone... today Phil is running a promo on top of the one I've already got going!  If you find a block before 9pm EST today, in addition to the 1.5BTC bonus from me, Phil will also be giving a prize worth at least 0.1BTC to the block finder.

Let's crack that block!!!

For how many days will my shares stack before getting destroyed?

I just bough a 1th/s from nicehash for 10 minutes. Lets see if it can find a block. ;)

They are always gonna be good. But the more share we make to get a block the smaller your reward will be.  ;)

What are the chances of finding a block with 1th/s hash?

I want a full set of 25BTC :'(  :P

The chances are extremely low!!! But even if you hit it, you only het 1.5+0.1BTC + your shares..
You aint gonna take 25BTC  :P
Also, who doesn't want a set of 25 BTC????

Can you /anyone please help me with a mathematical estimation of the exact probability of finding a block all by myself?

I might add some rentals to increase that number. ;)

okay I don't understand your question.  this is a shared pool not a solo pool.  

 if you mine  solo or mine on a solo pool.  As soon as you stop mining you are done and if you did not hit a block it is over.

If you mine here as soon as you stop mining your shares still have value for a few days at least.


back to your solo question

if you mine 1  day you are about

 5160.000   to 1   with    1th
  516.800    to 1 with    10th
    51.680    to 1 with  100th
      5.168    to 1 with 1000th

What does the numbers in bold represent?

Number of miners?

Or number of miners with corresponding similar hash powers?

Found this      http://beta.ivc.no/bitcoin/calc/

the value is not right since they still said 50 btc per blocks. Careful  ;)

if you mine for 1 day with 1 th your chance is 1 / 5168  or 5168 to 1

if you mine for 1 day with 10 th your chance is 10 / 5168 or 516.8 to 1

if you mine for 1 day with 100 th your chance is 100 /5168 or 51.68 to 1

if you mine for 1 day with 1000 th your chance is  1000 / 5168 or 5.168 to 1

If you want to find a block by yourself, don't do it here (blocks that are found are shared among everyone).  At 1TH it would literally take YEARS to find a block (if you ever found one at all, however it is luck based and you *COULD* find one tomorrow too).  But you'd have to mine solo - which isn't done here.

FINALLY... the long awaited block is here. Congrats kilo17, good job ;D

Wooohoo, Congrats kilo17!

Congrats kilo17!  I am about to get on a plane but will send you the bonus prize later today.

Youhou Congratz to Kilo17  ;D

Curious, how much power did you rent and for how many time ?

Kilo17 rocks!!   ;D ;D

Probably he rented about 800TH - 1PH (the pool was around 900TH when the block was found). The pool was on that hashing power for an hour or so...

Early birthday for me yeah!

Thanks guys, I rented 750 Th for about 2 hours.   ;D

BTW- My birthday was 2 weeks ago

Dec 26th Was my Grandmom's birthday.  So you are the 27th of dec?

I am Dec 24th and my wife is Jan 26

Congrats to kilo and everyone that participated.

Congrats to kilo and the pool for finding their second block.

Excellent work Kilo, this will be a nice payout for us!  ;D Was the rental thru NH?

I am really sorry for what I had stupidly remarked earlier. I was in bad temper due to some personal problems and I just bombarded it here too! :-[ So I take back my rude remark.

Btw congrats to kilo17 for this achievement. At least I got some share for his ultimate effort. I am also thinking of coming back here and sharing some of my powers to repent for my remark.

Also I have one question before I start: Suppose I have a valid share of 100K today. Will those shares become zero after 15 days if I do not mine from tomorrow and a block is not found within 15 days? And will I get paid for all the shares if I mine everyday until a block is found?  

I have read his post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1293193.msg13337241#msg13337241) but if Jonny can help me make that explanation more simpler for me. (I know he is angry with me but I'm really sorry for what happened earlier :( )

Congrats again.  Post a BTC address and I will send you the 1.5BTC bonus this afternoon.  I'm currently waiting on my connection in Atlanta.

Also Phil give me an address to send your 0.5BTC birthday gift :)

1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=64507

same as my profile addy

Kilo17, you star.  :)

Well done.  You have a nice bonus on the way too.

Congrats guys !

Woooo

Thats funny.  I took a quick look at the site just to see how we were doing and a quick glance the shares looked wrong .. it took me about 30 seconds to realize we had hit a block LOL.

Congrats Kilo!!

Your shares dont ever go away.  They'll get paid out next block that is found

Happy Birthday (albeit a couple weeks early) Phil!  0.5BTC sent (https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/d22dbe25cfd6b7955b0ab51c961dbb19adbab52330416228fffab2151eb20032).

Thank you  I am waiting on confirms.

There's the first one... :)

Congrats guys!!!
Not bad at all.. I have lent some hash until 31/12 but no block found.. You lucky piece of *****  ;D ;D

Hi Indianacoin,

First, I'd like to clear something up: I am not angry with you.  I was simply correcting things you stated that were untrue.  This pool has found 2 blocks since I started it; both blocks were under 100% of expected shares.  The first block was found at 27.41% and the second block found this morning was at 88.27%.  The pool's total luck so far is 161.38% (113,383,403,265 actual shares of 182,982,721,716 expected shares).

Also, I tried explaining how PPLNS works in another post here on this thread.  You can find that explanation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1293193.msg13342849#msg13342849.  Hopefully that'll help you out.

At least you'll earn a payout for those shares :)

A good payout!!!! 0.5 BTC  ;) ;)

Yup... not a bad little bit of coin :)

Well... it appears I've gotten notice.  I saw I had a new PM, so I read it.  In an effort to be fully transparent with the miners on my pool, here is the message I received:

https://i.imgur.com/773LiiV.png

I find it incredibly absurd that somebody would target this pool for any kind of attack.  We've found 2 blocks and the pool's liquid assets aren't even worth the ransom this guy is demanding.

Please make sure you've got a backup configured just in case this attack does occur.

Unfortunately i can't understand many of that, but sounds bad..
Cant we barricade the pool somehow??

It must be a slow day at the extortion office......

Seriously... those guys must be bored out of their minds or exceptionally desperate to make a couple bucks.  As for protection, I've got minimal access to the pool's servers.  The database is not exposed to any outside ports, only allowing connections from internal private IPs.  I've modified the stratum code to address known exploits.  I know the user accounts, and who's actually hashed on my pool.  I take regular snapshots of the database and will ensure I grab one prior to the time mentioned in the threat.

I'm hopeful this is nothing more than an empty threat.  I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Friggin' keyboard tough-guys; I hate cowardly, sniveling little brats who talk big when hiding behind their computer screens but wouldn't dare to even look you in the eye if you ever met in 3D.

Stupid punks - Steve Martin said it best years ago, "People like that should be taken out and maimed."

Bravo to you, Jonny, for doing the bitcoin community right in how you're running your pool.  You are to be commended for that.

Thanks for the compliments, and I agree wholeheartedly regarding the keyboard-tough.  Makes me wish that Hollywood tech was real and I could backtrace the guys who post these things and have the Hulk show up on his doorstep :P

Haha to see someones face when that happened :)

Oh and re: a possible DDoS, good luck to them.

It's not going to get them anything.

If they do hit - after its over we should have a hash party and get the pool up in hash rate and kick over another block as a big old FU!  :)

I like your idea, I'm in! F those ddos kiddies  ::)

Is anybody on here user "uphellper" on my pool?  They just registered and I'm seeing some odd stuff in the logs from them...

First time hear him... Every registration fron now until tommorow is a little suspicious...

All,

I'm going to restart the stratum server.  Your miners will fail over.  It'll be about 2 minutes.

Done.

Thanks for the full disclosure jonny.

Thanks and here is my addy:
18xyC2jqe5SndbsRbMyy26PKSTdnpFm5dR

And Kilo if you have any pan drippings here is my addy :) 1HNhyggmekNTUHe44PQJfDFKNTSQwQH76

Bonus prize sent: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/fd33db33e8c92dcb3f24a4f92834aca199375870b1ea21dae3b822b87ad8d3a7

1.5 BTC received --Thank you very much, nice to have another standup guy running a pool

Clean and quick. Great job Jonny!  ;D

WOW!!!

CONGRATULATIONS Kilo!!!

And Phil!!!

And WHOA!!!

Did I read MY unconfirmed payout CORRECTLY???

How is that POSSIBLE???

If I don't mine on Bitminter for a couple of days -- I get NOTHING...

Anyways -- hopefully it IS correct...

CONGRATS to the winners and THANKS!!!

 :) :) :)

Only 1 more confirmation to go!!!

 :) :) :)

I'll have to say this pool is the most complicated way to change your settings.

It says the block is confirmed...

Does that mean we get paid???

Or do we still have to wait...

The extra work brings me comfort.

congrats and thank you for finding one. What bait where you using to catch the fish

It brings me comfort also.  But the informational alerts that keep scrolling and then disappear every time I hit 'edit account' is weird.

I got my payout - Thanks Jonny!!  ;D

Let's get another one  ;)

For everyone who has not opted for auto payouts please do a manual withdrawal.  With the potential of an attack against the pool I want you all to withdraw your balances.  That way if an attack is successful the attacker won't gain anything.

Hey Jonny...

I noticed that I must have not set up a payout threshold -- so I DID opt for the manual...

Just not sure if I did it correctly, because the page didn't seem to work right...

Thanks again -- what an INCREDIBLE start to an AWESOME pool!!!

Do I need to withdraw my 0.0002BTC? :P But if I do I will lose 0.0001 in fees. :-[

Anyways, what is variance and how does it effect my payout?

http://i65.tinypic.com/2irji0.jpg

YAY!!!

Sorry Jonny if I screwed you up due to my lack of understanding how it all worked...

But I did receive the PAYOUT!!!

I'm still not sure how it all works -- but I'm SUPER PSYCHED!!!

Thanks for such a great pool...

And congrats again to the winners!!!

 :) :) :)




p.s.  I'm curious -- is that glass that you watch and drain from while its being filled empty now???

Also -- another "just curious" question...

When the payout DID come in on my trezor account -- it came in before 4 recent transactions (still in the unconfirmed stage) that had already shown up...

Isn't Trezor time-stamped?

I've just never seen that before...

I must have my dunce cap on.

I am locked out of my  account.

I can't set a manual or an auto payment.

and the reset token said fuck you phil I am unable to activate your account.

well not really but feels like that.

I imagine that Jonny is scrambling right now in the midst of the "perfect storm"...

Oh -- and I figured out my trezor's timestamp issue...

apparently -- it didn't recognize bravo's payout until it was "confirmed" -- while still showing the other 4 mining pool payouts while still "unconfirmed"...

No biggie -- just delayed gratification -- lol...

 :) :) :)

Phil I did have to use PIN 2 to 3 time before receiving my confirmation email to modify my account. Try to reload the page.

okay I managed to set auto with draw at 0.1  and the account has  more then that.

I could not get manual to work

but I hope the auto withdrawal will take the fund out in time.

I got it to work.  did a full manual withdrawal

I actually realized prior to payouts that I was set to manual.  Instead I changed it to auto and got paid.

Thanks a ton Jonny!

After we get through the current threat of DDoS I plan on tossing more hash this way.

I got my payment - Thank You Jonny!!!  ;D


Now come on boys let's get another one!!!

Yes I guess when an account is created, the auto withdrawal option is always off. So everyone had to change that. But once changed the withdrawal happens within seconds (at least in my case).

Thanks a lot Jonny. This pool is by far the best around. Let keep it going. We can get another block for sure soon if everyone contributes with just a little more hashing power :)

Thank god ! Nothing happened actually. It was just an empty threat afterall. Btw Johnny you forgot to answer this question.

Same here .... had to change my payout to auto. everything went smooth and payment was sent. Thanks jonny!

So we were working on block 393001 but blockchain shows :

https://blockchain.info/block/0000000000000000048107c426c826407a5416878515be0f94cbf592484e8eab


Is this correct or maybe I don't fully understand.

I see we are currently working on block 393008, which matches up with what shows on the block explorers.  It does sometimes take a couple of seconds for the front end to get updated; however, the stratum servers are updated and start new work immediately on notification of the block change.

So now we have to find a new reason for promo  :P :P
Just kidding  :)
I recieved my payment as well with auto-payout..
It would be great if we could somehow get more people into this pool, so we could find a block every week..
I cant point my miners here, because i have to pay for hosting.. I just send some hash from nicehash :p

maybe all contribute to a nicehash fund?

Ok, so after a bit of hassle (going between pool and email account), I managed to change the auto payout and do a manual payout and can confirm it is being confirmed in my wallet as I type.

I do have a big question for you Jonny.
What is the variance that is reported in the round transactions? How has it effected my payout?

At this point, it hasn't.  The pool is setup to be PPLNS where N is 5 times difficulty.  Since the pool has only found 2 blocks and it is below the 5N threshold, the numbers being reported don't make a whole lot of sense.  I'm sorry for the confusion here - it's the way the MPOS front end works and reports data.  If the pool had 20PH/s where we were finding multiple blocks a day, then things would be good and those numbers would make far more sense than they do now.  I might even just turn off those pages on the site until we've found enough blocks for the numbers to make sense ;).

Thanks for the reply.

I was just a little confused as it also says that my round shares and my PPLNS shares are massively different. I noticed that I got a lower payout than others with less round shares than mine. That was all.

Please don't take this the wrong way as I'm not complaining but just wanted to understand how its worked out.

Yeah with the slowness of the pool (ie the lower hashrate) a lot of the data doesn't come into play.

Its the same reason why a number of us had identical share counts and everyone's variance matched.

Jonny - probably a good idea to hide some of that data just to keep it from being confusing.

Right now NH rentals are kind of costly.  Once the price drops a little I'll be renting more :)

I'm not taking it the wrong way... so don't worry :).  I'll dig into the database for you to see if I can give you some more details.

tomorrow they should drop.  in the meantime if you have a miner that you own pointing at them (nicehash) will earn you .0053 or .0054 a th  which is very good.

then in a day or so you can point them back here. and buy some hash with the extra coin earned to point here.

I switched my avalon6's off jonny's pool and I am pointing at  nicehash.

I still have some compac sticks pointed here

I am considering renting for the first time. What is a good rental price? What should be factored?

patience is the key to renting from nicehash

right now  rents are high like .0051  that is really high

a good price for rental is .0046 or .0047

to tell a good price look at screen shot  of this page  I highlighted price for 1 th it is .004841  with nice hash fee of 3%

  0.00469577 is the breakeven price    so if you rent at .0046 or .0047 you are fine .  if you rent at .0052  you are over paying.

that number changes in about 1 day when the difficulty changes.



https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

https://i.imgur.com/b1vqkDe.png

Wait until tomorrow because with the change in the network's difficulty, the renting cost will go down. At the moment a good price is 0.0051 Price BTC/TH/Day but tomorrow will be lower for sure. So wait until tomorrow to rent some hash ;)

Really that low price ??? Never managed to rent lower than 0.0049 :( Currently I'm renting at 0.005 (started at 0.0049 but had to increase a little) which seems to be good at the moment...

Thanks a lot for the renting price tip because I didn't know one could get a good price range from bitcoinwisdom.com :)

actually that's a solid plan (let your miners get rented at NH when prices are high).  I've never actually done that - but I certainly should.

I'll keep things as is for now but I'll watch the prices and be prepared next time.

Yes it is definitely is a very good plan for when renting cost is high. That's why you get a Legendary status on here :)

The benefit of being the old guy is that you learn to thread water and jump in hard when you can.

Is the pool down now?

Well... it appears that the pool is under a DDoS attack after all.  Miners have likely failed over.  I have shut down the servers and hopefully whoever is attacking will get bored and move on.

I will update here once the attack has ended.

Bastards  >:(

LOL... things seem to have returned to normal... I've brought the servers back up and your miners should be connected (or connecting) again.

Sweet...more hash coming your way  ;)

Web front end down for me ... oh, and one of my miners has just failed over. Its not over yet folks. :(

Edit: ...and back up again. Mr J Bravo is busy in the engine room .

Yeah... it's not over yet.  I just got another fun little PM:

https://i.imgur.com/QbH0PNy.png

As itsnogood wrote... I'm busy in the engine room...

Awesome.

I love how they think people won't return once they give up.

fk'em I can wait.

I am telling your mother!

Ha, this is soooooo funny. Do they really think you are going to pay up?

Why even bother hitting a small pool anyway?

Douche canoe  ::)

Sadly that'll be the only post from them so it's not worth replying

I request op for opting a Cloudflare CDN contract just in case he comes back again. They will prevent and filter all suspicious traffics instantly leading him to go elsewhere. ;)

If possible note down the IP address and contact all Botnet providers to prosecute the details of that IP.

You want half a bitcoin?  Get a job and earn it.  Or better yet, buy a miner and point it to my pool and help support the ecosystem you're so willing to attack.

Fuck off. If you want to do a real attack come to my house.

We do not negotiate with terrorist....
Go fuck yourself

Congrats on the block!  I didn't even notice until I saw my e-mail.  :)

Here is to another one! :cheers:

Thought you all might like to see this ;D https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/40oevj/dd4bc_busted/ +1 for the good guys..

Im sure that more popped up in their place.. But this is ultimately the end of the story for extortionists  ;D

EDIT>>> These sad specimens of the human race prolly need more money to get their buddies out of the slammer.. huehuehuehuehuehue

Best Regards
d57heinz

very nice  I hope it is a nice time in jail for them.

it seems like the server may be under attack but its at least down. FYI it was up maybe five minutes ago.

Yes. My miner also failed over for sometime. I had no option but to point to Kano for a while.

Is there something which can prevent him to start DDoS attack again? >:(

my worker is also on reserve

Yeah, miners showing pool is down. I'm also back at kano while we wait for the kiddies to stop playing.

Oh fun... Under attack again.  I'll let you know when things are back.

Is the attack not large enough for the data center to care Jonny?

Nice drop. Thanks for the advice.

Oh... they care... I'm working with them now.

Awesome!

OK... an update.  I've been working with my provider and things should be back up and running by 1:45pm EST.  I'm sorry for the inconvenience this has caused people.  Once the servers are back up I'll let everyone know.

Thank you Jonny  updates are helpful.

Actually the attack is very helpful to us miners and your pool.

Nice-west hash has very high rates at the moment so instead of renting at .0049  by waiting  longer we may be able to rent at .0045

this afternoon.

Everyone,  We're back up and running.  Again, I'd like to apologize for the inconvenience the DDoS attacks on my pool have caused.

don't need apologies Jonny it's not your fault
 ;)

Yay thanks for the heads up!

I've also upped my donation for the next block we hit (well I will when my email is done being annoying)

And we are back!  8)   Thanks for the hard work!

and I am back and renting at 0.0047  so thank you ddos!

wondering if my rent at nicehash did still work.  ???

Hope so!

Are we down?

No... although I'm working with my provider to see if we're under attack again.  For now, I'm still connected... I'll keep you updated.

From my side, all seems okay on Jonny's pool (miner's status is still alive). However, NH seems to be down :(

Edit : NH is back up again...

Now we are down again :( Miners failover to secondary pool...

Are these f**ckers gonna give up...  >:(

Dont give up mate!
I don't blame you for those shameless f%#kers.

Dont give in!! bleep those scripkkiddies.
Maybe an idea to up the fee and get cloudflaire or something.
I wont mind paying a little extra for better security.

Love your pool! Keep up tha good work.
Hope to se pool bac online soon, as i have rented hash wich will expire sometime

Anyway, just wanna let you know i support you and understand the trouble you're going thru.

Cheers Dennihh

So again there was a DDoS attack on the servers.  I'm working with my provider once again to see how we can proceed.  As soon as I have more information I will update everyone.

Unfortunately I am traveling today so the updates might be a bit sporadic.  I apologize for that.

Cloudflare is an idea - but its pricey and it can also slow down the bitcoin process (adds extra time into the transactions).  Unfortunately upping the fee doesn't work so well with the few blocks we're finding.  

Just finished getting things worked out.  Pool is back up.  Thanks for your patience everyone.

Thanks for all the hard work Jonny we really appreciate you doing this for us =)

Down again... But not from attack.  Server issue that my provider is working to resolve.  I'm getting on a plane now but will update when I land.

Looks like they got it fixed.... I'll check back in later.

Pool front end looks to be unavailable but miners showing pool is alive.

Keep up the good work behind the scenes Mr Bravo.  Like Rozo said, we do appreciate it.

yeah keep up the good work.maybe we should go stealth

As you've probably all noticed, the pool is down again due to DDoS attacks.  I just landed and am still at the airport replying on my phone.  I will work on it when I get home, but please understand the pool may not be back up until tomorrow.  I will keep everyone advised.

Sadface! >:(

Please note... This is not my account.  It is yet another newbie created to demand I pay a ransom.

Hey asshat - the pool has a total liquidity of about 0.05BTC from the fees and donations I've received... I truly don't understand your motivation here.  I mean if I had like 15PH and was making some coin then I get why you'd be interested in extorting me.  But seriously?  We've solved 2 whole blocks.

Edit: I'm also kind of upset with myself for not registering that username here...

How about a private pool.

Lol... So now it's 4 people on my pool.  Congrats!  You just screwed them out of mining income!  Maybe if your supposed miners had actually kept on mining and solved a block you would have made the coin you're trying to extort. 

when his week ends on the ddos he still wont have the BTC.

Of course I've checked my PMs, and I'm sure I could indeed figure out who your supposed miners are on my pool if I chose.  Speaking of information, you'll certainly know that my pool has typically averaged about 25TH/s except for the few miners, including myself, who decide to throw some rental hash at the pool in hopes of hitting a block.  The pool is a tiny blip on the mining radar.  I have no idea why you are even bothering to attack it and thinking that you're going to get me to pay you coins.

It truly boggles my mind that you're this determined to attack this pool at its nascent stage.  As I've written, the pool's liquid assets are minimal - even if I were so inclined as to pay you, the pool's assets just don't support the ransom you're demanding from me.

There are 3 things that are certain in this situation.
1 - You are a dumbass
2 - If he runs the pool private and sends out the info by PM, it would not take long to figure out which ones are on your team.
3 - You guys are sorry hackers otherwise you would be hitting big places with big money instead of asking for $200-$900 in BTC. I call that a joke in it self (just like you- a big fuckin joke)

Wow. The professionalism! I'll always pay people who use the word "cunt" when asking for money, it just makes me feel better about being raped by a 14 year old script kiddy who has English as a second language.

Obviously you are an intelligent well spoken individual - LMFAO

hey, in case you did not see this before I will post it again:

We do not negotiate with terrorist....
Go fuck yourself

So there are 5 people trying to strong arm 2 BTC? What kind of sense does that make? That's less than 200 bucks per person. You guys need a career. JohnnyBravo, why not start a donation address to cover cloudfire expenses for your pool. You may be surprised. Reading this last page made me wish I was well off enough to cover it for you. It wouldn't be much but I would gladly donate some coinage to help your pool. Just saying.

It's really incredible how many dickheads exist in this world. And you really have to be a dickhead to attack a startup pool and pretend to get paid. If you need money go find an honest job and not try to extort honest people. Stupid fuckers  >:(

This is what he wants the attention.
Don't respond to him and he will stop and go somewhere else and get his dick hard to jack off to.

This sounds so much like a bunch of kid taking themselves so seriously. This is hilarious !

What a fucking prize kids ! DDoS a 25TH mining pool !!

/Cheer

I don't think that statement means what you think it means.

I think it's better if you go and learn some English before posting here idiot ???

BRILLIANT COMMENT-- jerkoff

Hahahahahaha you fucking idiot!!!!! Go to school!!! Get a job or get molested, i dont care... Your skills are good enough just to attack an unprotected tiny pool.. And you think you are doing something???? Are you proud of yourself???  :D :D :D

Go ahead and destroy the pool... Jonny will have our full support and funds to create a new one!!!
Couldn't agree more..  ;)

Hey everybody.  I'm still working with my service provider to restore services.  Thanks for all of your encouraging words here on the thread and also in the many supporting PMs I've received.  I will keep everybody updated as things progress today.

Good luck man.  I'm sorry. 

http://s22.postimg.org/70fzjj5wt/image.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/70fzjj5wt/)

Well ladies and gents it looks like websites backup for now  :D

Site is - pool isn't.

Unsure when that'll be.  But at least there's network visibility again :)

Everyone,

I've been working all day to get things back up and running.  The stratum servers are not up, and the front end is there so you can verify things.  As you can imagine, I've made considerable changes behind the scenes.  Rest assured that all of your shares, expected earnings, and any balances you had are all safe and secure.

I'll be continuing to work tomorrow to ensure everything is good to go and will be performing some more tests.  I will be providing updates as I progress.

Thanks for all of your patience.

Thanks for the updates.
Keep up the good work. My miner will go back to the pool when its back up.

Thank You Jonny!

Thanks Jonny.

Please see the new pool thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1330452.0