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UPDATE: 28 May 2013
The pool will be completely closing in one week (4 June 2013). Please withdraw all your coins before then, thank you.

UPDATE: 30 Apr 2013b
Pool has been migrated, and stratum has been added. While DNS is propagating, the website may be inaccessable.
The new IP is: 72.20.53.5
Adjust your miners to the following:
LP: http://72.20.53.5:9999
Stratum: stratum+tcp://72.20.53.5:9998
During DNS propagation, all shares mined will be counted as normal, and payouts will continue as normal.

UPDATE: 30 Apr 2013a
I am in the process of moving the pool to a new server, and adding stratum. The DNS may take a while to propagate, but I will be posting the new IP address here shortly. Please stay posted. You will not lose any shares during the migration.

Hello, I've set up a new pool for mining FeatherCoins. It's a PPLNS pool, pretty standard stuff.

I'm doing 0% fee through the end of April to see how it goes, after that fee may increase to 1% or stay at 0%, I'm not sure yet. This is my first time setting up a pool, so I'm sure there are plenty of wrinkles to iron out yet.

http://featherpool.com

Post any problems/requests/questions here and I'll answer them as best I can.

Do you require all 120 confirmations for payout?

Right now yes, all 120 confirms are required.

Is the payout falling behind?
been mining for two hours on the pool, see alot of found blocks since i joined (and also have been confirmed (120)), even found two myself. But only gotten 122 shares payd for (35 invalid...) which have given me 0,05FC woho!=P

Payout isn't falling behind, check your balance, you've been paid. It's a PPLNS pool, so it takes a while for your payrate to ramp up.

got duo 6870s  running and so far less than 1% stale rate and going pretty smooth so far...I haven't tried to payout yet as it's too earlier, but I put donation at 1%...

Is it just me or is the current round shares saying Pool Valid: -355506....what gives?

Nice pool. I like FeatherCoins tweaks a lot, so I hope it stays around a bit.  :D

How come some of the blocks stopped with 1 confirm left?  They couldn't possibly still get orphaned, could they?

Looks like you have a lot of blocks that you will have to manually process -- common problem with the server soft you're using.

Is it messed up right now ? Whats happenin ?

It looks messed up.  If Cryptocoinexplorer was back up then we could at least see if the pool got paid for all those blocks that are hanging at 1 and 2 confirms pending..

Nice pool ... Fix that delay blocks payment and you get my 1% donation !

Tried mining at the pool awhile but no shares credited in the system.

Current round shares: -4,666,826

I'm assuming that's the cause of the problem?

You need to wait for 120 confirmations, unless I misunderstood what you meant?

Yeah, it looked like my pay rate was lower than expected, now I see why with all the pending confirms...

We have lost a great deal of payouts with this unconfirmed blocks, is the admin gonna fix that?

Its really bad ...

I would assume so, or else this pool won't last much longer...

Some of the pending confirms have been paid buy many have not.   ???

Is there a frontend that is more stable than mmcfe?  I was thinking about setting up a private pool so I can learn more about it, but I don't want to waste my time on mmcfe if it is unstable and there is a better option.

I am switching to a stratum pool until this gets fixed.  I will check back later.  Gonna try out fc.altpool.com

Where is the admin ? .... please fix the problem with unpaid blocks ...

I joined last night around 2AM with about 13,000KH power and have only been paid out on about 24FC so far. Is anyone else experiencing this? Not sure about the lag time for new miners on this pool.

Hi guys, I'm not sure why those current round share numbers are so borked, or why so many of those blocks aren't getting confirmed. I'll be looking in to it today, if anyone knows why this is going on, feel fee to let me know. Thanks!


I'm not sure why this is happening, I'll be looking in to it today and will keep you guys posted.

Gah...can you shine some more light on this for me?

I'm here, I'll be looking in to this today.

You're shares will only be counted after the block has been confirmed (120 confirms). That can take up to 6 hours.

How frequently are your cron jobs scheduled to run?  The /cronjobs/README for mmcfe says:

If the script is running less frequently than every 60 seconds, then it might explain what we are seeing.  I also wonder if the script might need to run even more frequently because some of the blocks are being found in very quick succession.

I am not sure how to fix the blocks that have not been confirmed, but you might just need to increase the value passed into the $bitcoinController->query in cronjobs/cronjob.php


I have not been able to find where that listtransactions query is defined so I don't know what the value of 240 represents.

I had it running every 60 seconds, now I've set it to run every 30.


As far as the FC client goes, that returns the most recent 240 transactions. I've increased this as well, but it doesn't seem to have had any effect.

It seems that the most recent blocks found are getting their confirms fine, but for some reason there's a good amount of blocks that it doesn't seem to pick up on.

featherpool has soon over 51% of power
People should go elsewhere!

How much did you increase it?  There is now a very large sequence of blocks that have all been confirmed.  That is a change from earlier.  I also noticed from my transaction history that 4 blocks were credited to my account between 12:23:30 and 12:23:31.  I think that having these 4 transactions confirmed during a period of 1 second is probably because you increased the value, but maybe it just wasn't increased enough to verify all of the earlier blocks.

The initial increase was not enough. I did increase it again and now all those old blocks are confirmed. Thanks for your help!

Now to get that Current Round Shares number sorted

I've got somewhere around 15000 unpaid shares at the moment on the pool :(

You need to hook up with the admin at fc.dontmine.me -- he had a similar issue and was able to resolve it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179267.0

It looks like blocks have been confirmed, but older shares have not been payed out.  I think I see why.

In cronjobs/cronjob.php:

Roughly how long does it take for the round reward to stablise?
I've been mining for about 2 hours and its still sitting at just under half of what it should be (and isn't increasing).
At 3GH, i would expect about 2.66 per round, but the estimate is 1.365.

All of the unpaid shares from those blocks that weren't confirming should now have been paid out. Sorry for any problems this has caused, and thanks to Steganos for helping me fix it.

Happy mining!

Unfortunately, I have not been credited with the FC for those 'unconfirming' blocks.

For instance, before the block history page was truncated from 500 to 50, I noted down that block 21959 was one of the blocks in questions. The credit for block 21959 still has not appeared in my transaction log (nor has there been a sudden increase in FC in my account).

Addressing this now, thanks for the headsup.

I have also not been credited with anything, from those missing blocks, my username is Klok.

Can you do something about it? is the problem fixed? I have moved to another poll until you fix that.

Problem is in the process of being fixed, should all be sorted out by tomorrow evening. All block rewards for blocks currently mined (and the last ~12ish hours) are being paid out properly and without issue.

thank you, once older payouts are fixed, I am jumping back in.

Most of the old unconfirmed blocks have been paid out. There are a few stragglers that I will be processing payments for manually. The payments for the old blocks will have a TX Type of CreditFix in your tx log.

Thanks for this, and thanks for being honest :)

We are dealing with a honest admin here !!!
I just recieve a big FC amount for all unconfirmed blocks 2 days ago.
So I come back on the pool and you get your 1% of donation... ;)

Also please fix that 25FC limit of sending coins ... 200 FC or more it will be fine ....

Thanks! :)

Done, limit is set to 500.
EDIT: I spoke too soon, limit is set for 90. I will update when it's increased.

Just set my miner to your pool. All seems to be going well. Repping the pool at our forum.


http://feathercointalk.ahsum.com

Awesome, thanks! I hope you enjoy the pool

pool is down?

something weird is going on.

See the first post for more details. Pool is in the process of being moved.

Pool is down too. I'm glad that you are adding stratum and hope that it's back up soon  :)

Pool has migrated successfully. The website may be unavailable while the DNS propagates, but you can still mine by using the pool's IP address. Stratum has been added.
The new IP is: 72.20.53.5
Adjust your miners to the following:
LP: http://72.20.53.5:9999
Stratum: stratum+tcp://72.20.53.5:9998

Once the DNS has finished propagating, you will be able to use the featherpool.com domain as normal. This process should not take longer than a few hours.

Sweet thanks!

Nice work. My ratio of accepted to rejected shares is a lot higher now. This should lead to more blocks found due to more valid shares across the workers. More blocks means more payouts :D

Website is up if you go to the new IP, but you cannot log in.

Hello! When I try to access via the IP address, I get an error message about the Peer's Certificate being revoked. Any help with that please?

Certificate issues will be resolved once DNS propagation has completed. Mining via IP address will work fine, shares are being counted as normal and payouts are occurring as normal.

Oh lawdy I love me some stratum.

Is there any issue with the login system on the site? It doesn't do anything (no errors, no success) when you try to log in?

DNS issue, should be solved within a few hours.

Thought so. Thanks for the updates.

I have auto payment set up, I just like to keep tabs on how I'm doing :P

Understandable :D

in case that you don't know ... Stratum miner have double hashrate on stats.

Thanks for the headsup

I just can't connect to stratum using guiminer scrypt, LP works fine though

Try 72.20.53.5 port 9998

It's working for me

Did the difficulty just change or are we really unlucky?

Current Difficulty   82.89790049

It's going up fast

Only two blocks in the last hour and a half

Pretty crappy for our percent of the hash rate

I guess I spoke too soon lol

:D

Can someone comment on why I'm getting a certificate warning from the website? Is this something to do with the move or something scarier?

Could still be a DNS issue, check and see if your nameservers are reporting the new IP for the site. If they're not, you're coming in from the old site, and that may cause some certificate problems. If you're accessing the site via IP and not domain name, that could also cause problems.

Everything working fine for me.

Just wondering if we are able to get a tab in the "transactions" section for unconfirmed rewards.

As far as i see, there's no way to tell until the block is paid out (120 confirms) and hits your wallet on the site.

Thanks.

Correction: where one can read "loose" (multiple times on the About page), one should read: "lose".

Tip: if it's "loose", put some glue on it. http://youryoure.com/?lose (http://youryoure.com/?lose)

I seemed to have written down the wrong password, and can't log in.

I tried the forget password and the site stated that i'd get an email, 3 hours ago.
Tried forget password 2nd time, still no email.

any help?

API not working yet? Would like to use the API for my personal PHP pages. Thanks! Great pool.

Hello! I've noticed that the stratum proxy stops working after 8 hours of mining and needs a restart. As a result any shares mined during the period when the proxy is down will be wasted and rejected. And idea why that happens?

+1

+1
email with the temporary password not coming 6+ hours
what is the maximum possible length of a password?

This is a good idea, thanks! I'll add it to my list.


I've put some glue on it :) Thanks for the heads up.


There was an issue with the mailserver, should be working now.


Not yet, I'll look into it when I have time. Thanks for the heads up.


I've never used a stratum-proxy for mining, so I can't help you with that. Sorry. Maybe try posting in a stratum-proxy related thread, or hop on IRC to see if some kind soul would give you a hand.


Try now, should be fixed.


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When using stratum my hash rate is no longer reported on the site.  Is this normal?

How long have you been mining stratum? It takes a few minutes for the site to update.

API is fixed.

alecpap

email with the temporary password now works, but gets into spam

firefox does not save the password in your site, it must be so?

Is the round estimate ok? And the daily estimate? I am mining with 21000 khs, but it seems kinda low

How long have you been mining on the pool? What's your pool username?

Perfect, thanks!

Anyone else getting frequent disconnects to the pool? Especially on Stratum?

Yup, tons.

stats updating seems rather slow :)

I'm getting like half the coins I should be getting...hashrate is stable on the graph at 3200 kh/s average, the past 3 hours my account has gained 9 coins. Should be making closer 20 coins every 3 hours. It's been that slow for at least 15 hours, the pool luck can't be that bad?

Same, I'm getting about half the shares that I usually do on stratum even though my hash rate is the same.

Something very broken here :D

i cant connest to stratum mining ftc.. does anyone have same problem now? normal mining is working for me fine. but not with stratum.. and yes i have port setup to 9998

@TheAce: Yeah stratum seems to be very flaky. Keeps getting disconnected from it. Have gone back to LP in the mean time until there's an update on the stratum situation or something.

yeah last night i was disconected 4 times in 1 hour. so i get to ltc mining.. now i even cant run stratum, so im also mining lp

Ditto to everyone above. I'm running 3200 KH/s against FeatherPool for about 6 hours, and I have 1.5 FTC for 7000 shares of work - with 18000 shares unpaid. That's what... maybe 4 FTC total for 6 hours of work? I should be hitting at least 5 FTC an hour, at the least.

Switched pools for now. Oh well.

im also going to switch to another pool maybe fc.altpool.com
this one is disconecting too often, even at lp mining

Yeah the server is acting really weird. I'm getting shares in bursts of 5-7 every 45 seconds or so rather than the 1 every 6-8 seconds I usually get.

Anyone know another pool that works? This one seems to be a waste of time and resources. With 21000 khs I should be getting 900-100 ftc per day, and at this rate, I wont get 200

I think it's because there is a sudden burst in the pool. As soon as FTC opened up on BTC-E and saw its value lots of people switched over to FTC mining.

This. The sudden surge in users was unexpected. The stratum issues have been resolved, and AFAIK the longpoll issues have been resolved as well. I'm not running any pushpool miners, so I'm not 100% on this. I'm in IRC if anyone is still having issues.

EDIT: I urge everyone to switch over to stratum if you have not done so already.

It's still running slow for me.

Was getting about 14 shares per minute last night, now I'm getting less than half that with the exact same configuration, hash rate, and everything.

EDIT: And I'm still getting disconnected every now and then.

Ditto.

And the issue predates the BTCe thing by almost a day for me.

We are under a light DDoS attack. I'm working with the host to resolve the issue. Thanks for your understanding.

Certainly there are people out there not happy with FTC. :-\

im my observation the displayed hashrate dropped by 30-40% since early this morning with the same hashing power applied, on the stratum pool


any ideas?

I have been mining on stratum 24hrs on both dirtriderdan.1 and dirtriderdan.2 workers both running at 2.2Mhash each.  Still reports 0Khash for those 2 workers.  I didn't switch dirtriderdan.0 and that shows about 900 khash which is correct.  Now I'm getting nervous...

I went back to non-stratum use for now.  Please look into payment for the last 24 hrs on my account.

Tried switching back to stratum, same problem, share submits could take up to 20000ms which is far higher than the usual 200ms, or even fully disconnect for a few moments at times.

I got paid half coins compared to the FTC/Day (est) chart,is the chart correct or somethings wrong?

Hey all, I appreciate you all letting me know when you have issues. I'm aware of the disconnects, there's been a DDoS against the pool for almost 24 hours at this point. I'm working with my provider to mitigate as much as possible, within budget. I apologize for the aggravation disconnects can cause.

I will be out of town this weekend, and won't be online as much. I will be checking email regularly (contact@featherpool.com), and trying to get in on IRC when I can, so please feel free to contact me there. I will return on Wednesday, May 8th. I will be working on the server as time permits, and I look forward to getting things running smoothly.

Thanks for mining on featherpool!

Oh - one more thing. I've been asked several times in IRC what my motivation behind running this pool is. I want to learn more about how cryptocoin pooled mining works, so I set up a pool. I'm footing the bill for the server myself, as I enjoy learning new things, and it's quite rewarding when a system as complex as a mining pool works. As I stated in the original post, the pool is a 0% fee. It may, at some point, switch to a low fee (perhaps 1%), but for now I have no plans of adding a fee. If I do, I will let everyone know in advance (at least 1 week notice). I want to thank the miners on the pool who have opted to donate a portion of their mining to the pool, as every little bit helps pay for the server.

Thanks for all your work.

I'll pledge to up my donation from my usual 1% to 3% for a week when you fix the issues (if that's incentive for you :P)

around 40% rejected shares (prev hash-stale) this morning...  :'(

[2013-05-03 08:11:55] Rejected 01a8a7f6 Diff 154/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:11:57] Rejected 07337922 Diff 35/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:01] Rejected 0220129d Diff 120/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:06] Rejected 02e63949 Diff 88/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:07] Rejected 03009309 Diff 85/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:08] Rejected 029d7583 Diff 97/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:13] Rejected 0082ba18 Diff 501/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:19] Rejected 067dd2d9 Diff 39/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:23] Rejected 0527256a Diff 49/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:24] Rejected 031534b3 Diff 83/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:26] Rejected 04eea95d Diff 51/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:29] Rejected 01ad37b0 Diff 152/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:33] Rejected 01b9411c Diff 148/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:33] Rejected 02183708 Diff 122/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:39] Rejected 06758baa Diff 39/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)
 [2013-05-03 08:12:48] Rejected 05ee54d3 Diff 43/31 GPU 0  (prevhash-stale)

If I didn't know any better, I would say that I am getting paid at ltc rates (50 coins per block)... I am only getting 1/4 of the predicted coins.

Yes, definitely some issues with this pool. Anyone know of any good alternatives?

you have choice between the hammered like this one, those who're down and those who put difficulty so high there aren't stales but you won't make zilch either with a single card.
It'll calm down the day FTC won't fill your pockets faster than LTC  8)

Yup, looks like it may be more profitable to mine ltc after all...

Losing massive percentage of shares now. Switching until DDoS resolves.  :'(

anyone having 5% rejects from this pool? i want to mine from this pool, shud i use the stratum or the normal one ??

please advise. thank you

I am only getting 1/3 of the predicted coins =( Why?

It is a PPLNS pool.
I dont find N=? (how much last shares accaunted when new block found?)

Many people have the same issue and there's been no response from the owner. Bit shady or at the very least not acceptable to have this going on for so long with no solution or even acknowledgement of a problem.

I bailed to another pool some time ago, suggest you do the same. Plenty of other pools out there.

https://featherpool.com/news
3 May 2013 Admin will be gone until 8 May.

Can someone here tell me, that uses the pool obviously, what is the time between "Accepted" shares from your hashing? This is what I have been getting using feathercoin-is-a-geek and even fc.dontmine.me I tried, I got 5 accepted and then closed my CMD, opened it, no success. I either get REALLY long accepted rate like 2-5 minutes between them or I get these server errors because apparently everyones pool is having issues.

http://gyazo.com/112d32b381e2146428edf6135addc3bf

I have my Automatic Payout Threshold set to .10 and my Account Balance is currently at .335

Why have I not received a payout?

number of shares is dependent on pool difficulty, and also unrelated to actual payout (In terms of FTC/share)

I do appreciate that the owner addressed this quickly and I received a payment in short order.  I think he is trying to run a legitimate pool.  Unfortunately I experienced the same issue again mining with dirtriderdan.0 over the last couple days.  Not sure what exactly is going on...

You are right, he is trying to run a legit pool and the problems aren't him trying to scam anyone. Most scrypt based pools are having the same issues with stratum.

There are auto-payout issues.

Had the auto-payout issues with my pools as well.  I figured out that users were putting in improper wallet address.  Some used URLs and others just had strange randomness entered.  A quick sort and visual check on the sendAddress field of the database shows the offending address.  Once I removed the address, problem solved.  The payout.php ran just fine.

yeah i also have payout issues.. till yeasterday everything run smoothly..  but now im not getting paid about 10hours

I've had quite a few users email me with auto payout issues, only to email a few minutes later and let me know they entered in an invalid FTC address. Once they entered a valid FTC address, payout issues were resolved. If you're having auto payout issues, please double check that you've entered a valid FTC address as your payout address.

Is the pool still operating? Was getting shares a while back but now it looks like no one is on the pool! I haven't forgotten about FTC! Im wondering how many miners jump back in once the difficulty comes back down in two weeks..

There is currently an issue with the pool not paying out shares. I stopped the pool in order to look into this issue further. All shares have been recorded, the automated payout is just a bit off, you will all be paid.

Thanks for updating us on the issue, hope it gets resolved smoothly!

yeah right now i have about 11k valid unpais shares.. and its about 40 hours..still not paid

Confirms are taking a longer than normal time due to diff and network hashrate

Not to be just another "me too", but my threshhold is set way lower than my balance, which is just sitting there. Auto-payout is failing on my account, too, and my address is double-checked and accurate.  Looking forward to a fix!

Dumb Question #1

Will the pool go back to operational once the problem with the confirms is taken care of or is everyone just going to be paid for their shares and the pool ends? Im asking because it was the only feather coin pool I was able to run smoothly in and would like to keep mining in it.

Alecpap:

My auto payment was not working at all. Then I had to do the manual one and pay you some fee :/

And I haven't been able to mine here for almost a week now.

Something else: It seems to me it would be a good thing for you to find someone else to share pool's responsability =D

This was the best pool of I all I knew, hope it to keep on as well :)

Hello all,
Due to a lack of time on my part, the pool will be completely closing in one week (4 June 2013). Please withdraw all your coins before then, thank you.
I've had the pool servers offline for a few weeks now, and most have already withdrawn coins. The few remaining users who have not, please do so.