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I setup a mining pool for new miners. It's focused on the more casual miners, people with lower hash rates (but others are welcome), simple instructions to be up and mining in minutes. It's built using the open ethereum pool source, and still looks a bit generic as I haven't spent much time to customize it yet.

The pool is setup on a dedicated, hosted server, 1gig network, 8 core super fast system. Payout is set at 0.05 and set to run payouts every 10 minutes.

People have been hesitant to join because it's not one of the BIG pools out there so they feel it's not stable or won't be around long.  I can assure you it's very stable and will be around a long time.  I've already paid 2 years of hosting for the dedicated server.  Hash rates are going up as more people join.  

Although this pool is designed for the smaller hash rate miners, larger rigs are welcome.  We can handle whatever you can throw at us.

Just visit http://www.noobpool.com to get started.

I feel like an ass posting about my pool everywhere, but without getting the word out, it will never be more than a couple people mining on it.  Not to mention the links to it help with search engine results.  It'd be great to get the server up to 500MH/s or even in the 1GH/s range.  Would give everyone a good shot at finding the block and getting the reward as well as seeing payouts come every day or two.  Payouts are set at .05 and every 10 minutes, but until a block is mined the eth balance doesn't go up, so you don't see a payout until then.

I'm currently looking for some more GPU's so I can increase the hash rate myself, but as everyone knows, they are very hard to find and very expensive at the moment.

I dont think you should feel like an ass, i only have a GTX 660 but maybe ill send some hashrate to the pool over the next few days, is there a GUI miner for eth?

I'm not sure, most people use ethminer or claymore to mine eth, both are just command line miners.

1) what address wallet on the pool?
2) this wallet is local?

You use your own wallet address.  

You can have a local one, or use an easy, online wallet like at http://www.myetherwallet.com

I've lowered the pool fee to 0.25% and the pools hash rate has gone up a lot.  So we should start finding blocks soon if it keeps going up like it has.

I have removed the pool feel completely.  At least for a couple months.

Hi, I'm pretty new to Ethmining and currently trying to mine on Noobpool.
I wonder how long it will take to solve a block at a speed of say 100 MH/s?

Hopefully we can keep the MH/s for the pool at 200+ and should be solving a block sometime this week I hope.  But if more people join in, it will go faster. 

Ok,

I just joined.  Speed looks good.  I think your server is somewhere central US based on ping time from east coast.  Eventually more info and graphs would be cool.  Speed update is better and I'm finding more nonce per hour than nanopool.  I want to try the small guy out.  

I'm using ethminer 0.11.rc1 which does better just for nvidia GPU mining  it boosts the speed by 1-2 mh and i'm consistently getting better throughput than I thought I should get from nanopool based on ping times.  nanopool east is faster ping than noobpool, but noo

I've got 2 ZOTAC Nvidia GTX 1060 3gb each running on old computers.  2GB - 3GB RAM, normal HD. Old CPU and minimum PCI Express 16X.  Each computer runs 120-150 Watts.  I cut power to 60% and boost memory clock as high as possible without crashing.  Memory clock is key to Ether speed. unlimited virtual memory cache, windows 10. and nothing else running.

Question, I saw a note going out that other pools were not properly setup flexible gas limits and had them fixed and was requesting this big pools change that to a variable number of some sort.  Is your pool setup that way?
https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/13793/a-handful-of-mining-pools-are-damaging-ethereum-please-help-get-their-settings-fixed

Maybe if you had a generic contact email on the page? Don't know if a page based forum would be helpful.

I'm hoping if we can all get this hash rate higher it will mean more success for all of us and possibly higher payouts initially.

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I actually posted on that thread (Danx) and said that I was using the correct gas limits.  I'm also working on the website to add more features and an easier way to contact me.

The low combined hash rate we have means a long time between finding blocks and therefore people don't see their eth going up, which it only does after we find a block.  So new people will mine for a couple hours and still see 0 and leave for the bigger pools that find blocks every 10 minutes so they can see their amount going up faster.

It would be nice to get up to a few GH/s and see a block every few days.  I'm trying to find some GPU's to build a nice rig to increase our hash rate as well. 

Yea,  one feature would be a setup section for active miners where we could enter an e-mail, if we wanted to, and set notifications in case a miner goes offline and/or highlight the miner as not producing/reporting within 1/2 hour or 15 mins or some interval.

So, with fewer miners online, once we get a successful block hit this means larger payouts by percentage in the pot correct?  Based on percentage work history.  My theory being that if we hit once or twice a month the payout could be much greater, in the beginning, for those in the pool compared to other large pools, right?  A plus for the small miners.

Yep, with only a few people mining we should make more in the long run.  Of course luck is a factor, but if we get lucky we will get bigger payoffs than with the bigger pools, it just takes us longer.

I'm looking into adding more features like graphs, etc.  The email would be nice, maybe have it send an email notification when a block is found as well.

Oh, and you asked earlier, the server is located at a datacenter on the east coast and I live on the west coast, so it's a little more of a pain in the ass to remote connect to make updates, especially since I have the slowest internet on the planet.  But it's the fastest available in the little town I'm in.

I might join the noobpool after a while but I checked the stats on the page and I see that the hashrate is very low being honest.

Miners Online: 6
Pool Hash Rate: 156.28 MH

A rig has more Mh/s than this, anyway I wish you good luck guys, I'm not aware how a mining pool is created but the 0% fee is a good thing to get started and to attract more and more miners to join your pool.

I will mine tomorrow probably at 130 MH/s at your pool and I assume I will get the payment within 24 as It is expected to earn 0.057 within 24 hours.

That's how it works, everyone sees a low hash rate and skips over to another pool that has a higher one, so our rate doesn't go up.  It also can change pretty fast, since you posted that message the number has jumped to 10 miners and hash rate is closer to 400. 

As far as payment goes, once a block is mined it splits the payment to everyone who contributed and then it shows up as their pending balance.  Every 10 minutes the system checks to see if anyone has reached the threshold of 0.05eth and sends payment.  So if you mine for 24 hours and a block isn't found in that time, you won't get paid right away, once a block is found you'll be credited for your work and payment sent.  So even if you're not mining after 24 hours and we mine the block a few days later, you'll be paid at that time.  The bigger pools work the same way, but they have so many people mining that they find blocks very fast and therefore you see your amount owed update more often.  Doesn't mean you're making more, just seeing it update faster.

Hi,

I'm currently starting mining at your pool with 180+hm. I'm just curious, why there's no payout records in your website. When did you start this pool? Thanks.

There have been no payouts because the pool hasn't mined a block yet, once a block is mined it will distribute the eth to everyone and send out payments.  The pool is fairly new, been around about a week or so.  Once more people join and our hash rate increases, blocks will be mined faster and payouts will come faster.

Right now what I like is once a block is mined we should all see a payout immediately because there are few of us here and the percentage is much higher than other huge pools.  A great statistic for each miner would be a record of hourly nonces mined which I think determines the statistical percentage of work performed.  but you do show the round share percentage which is very convenient and updates much quicker than other pools.

Its just getting used to not seeing that data until a block is found.  I track that 'A' number and my GPUs are finding more per hour than on the bigger pools.

I'm working hard on some updates, like graphs, email notifications, and estimated earnings, as well as updating the look of the site.  The pool is only a week old, so it will take some time to get everything else implemented, but I'm working on it.  Hopefully we can get a block mined soon then we will have a payout list which will make new people more confident that they will be paid and increase our hash rate.

Ok,  Here's an explanation for NOOBs.  While your pool doesn't show actual shares of ethercoin like the big pools do, yours does show the percent shares of the current pool when a block found and paid out.  So, the question for the big pools is how can they promise you shares of ether for each nonce successfully solved without a block solution?  Statistics and I would guess more money for the pool somehow.

In a way, in the beginning here, your pool is similar to mining solo.  payouts are bigger if you can do it, but a 20M Hash GPU could take a whole year to find one.  Because our pool is small the rewards are greater when we find one. 

Now, based on your pool I calculated with the help of coinwarz calculators at todays difficulty how long it will take to mine.

I'll setup 500MH is about 25-30 days or with LUCK(the statistical chance) the block will be found sooner. 
At 1GH that's about a block every 10-14days and it goes up from there.
at 2 GH that's a block every 7 days.

I would expect exponential growth in this pool once we have found a block or two.  This will help the group find block quicker and payouts will slowly get smaller. Thus, first one in gets larger payouts.

While we can't see a chart or statistic of what we are making, the percent of the round share is the indication of how much you'll get when a block is found.

So, as an example, I'm at 3% that's .15 Ether paid out to me on the solution of a block.

With nanopool that would take me about 15 days.   I've got this share in just under 24 hours of mining noobpool, that's huge.  No win until we discover a block but when we do I am way ahead of nanopool.  As time progresses my success decreases but this gives us 14 days to find a block and with more miners joining the faster we find the block.

Now, my share may go down as more miners join, but we will also solve the block sooner.
This pool is a great opportunity to be first at something before everyone else jumps on board. 
Early bird catches the worm and I think we will get this first.

every moment your GPU runs it is mining on statistics and luck to find every NONCE.  I look at the NONCE finds and compare that to finding a block.  Eventually it will happen.  Not if, but when, even on a small pool such as this.

So, for those of you who get in early and stay with this I think the rewards will be greater, even though you can't see them until a block is found. Especially for us 15-30MH GPUs. 

Our pool rate has been hovering around the 500MH/s for a few days now, hopefully we can get it up to 1-2GH/s so we can find blocks faster and people can get their eth faster.  I'll soon be implementing an estimation of how much eth you'll receive once a block is found on your stats window.

HI - I am interested is this as well - based in South Africa

Could you give a quick break down of the software that you are using - might consider setting up something similar for myself and a few friends

thnx

Well, that would be costly. You could, with your friends, join this pool so you get fair share at a very faster rate than starting your own pool (0% fee too).

Hi noobpool,
I hope you'll read this reply.
I am mining on your pool and I'll stay there till we'll find a block. My account is 0xf6ad221...
I think would be useful if you add a way to contact you on the pool website.
Bye bye

Yeah, I'm going to set that up soon as well.  email is noob@noobpool.com in case you need it.  I do check these forums often.

Setting up your own pool is a pretty big undertaking, you need a Linux system setup with a fast internet connection on a SSD if you don't want to wait days to sync up.  If you don't know Linux you will probably not be able to set it up as there are no windows pool software that I know of.

I like the statistic numbers you have for percentage of round shares.  Would be nice to show a total by hour of jobs or shares successfully submitted and if possible for each miner.   In 3 days, i've accumulated a 5% share with my 35MH miners running 24/7  thats an amazing improvement to other large pools, based on expected return.  I'm still way ahead of the other pools when the first block is found by several weeks. 

This really is a chance for the small guy to get a bigger portion of the block win.  What happened in 3 days would take 3 weeks with another large pool.  I've seen some larger miners jump on and then jump off instead of staying around for the endurance round.  I think staying with the pool now is most important as we are getting closer to finding a block.  It's not a matter of if but when and the when should be sooner.  Imagine jumping out a day before the first block is found.

Even if someone only mines for a day and leaves, they will still get their payment once a block is found if they mined enough to reach the 0.05eth threshold.  So even if they are not there mining when the block is found, they get paid for the help they did give.

I'm still working on improvements to the website to show more detailed statistics so people have a better idea of how much they are mining and an estimate of how much they will earn when the block is mined.

The calculation is simple from the percentage.  I just base that on the 5 ether block payout as a potential, but that number can go up or down slightly as miners join or leave the pool.  Is there any additional payout for 'uncles' found?  That would be an unexpected bonus but I guess we wouldn't know until the block is solved. 
 I know that you recorded work performed even after they leave, which is the right thing to do, but their percentage will decrease over time as the pool continues to mine.  Which was my point.  Why leave when the pool is close to a solution now and instead continue to maintain the percentage or build on it.

I don't base payment on a dollar amount but only on the number of potential coins for deposit.  That is the number i am comparing to large pools and the number that currently could be much higher in this pool.

I still say this is a much better pool for small 1-10 GPU miners vs. Large pools.  This pool can build off this base.

A telegram chat would be nice and very easy to setup.

I'll look into that, currently working on setting up an ETC node as well, will be etc.noobpool.com and will keep eth at noobpool.com

Like what you're doing here man I pointed my rig at your pool.  ;D The chat and projections would be a dope idea too, let's mine some eth bois!
-miner ..2480d

Something with my estimated earnings syntax was off, killed the whole stats window, I quickly changed it back to a working version.  Just gotta figure out what I did wrong.  Depending on how drunk I get tonight or how long I'm going to be gone tomorrow, I should get the chat up and running in a day or two.  Probably tomorrow night.

Can you guys explain me what the stat Current Round Variation means?

I got a blank page when I open the site,
anyone have same issue?

No, I am browsing the page at the moment.

We found our first block an hour ago and payments are going out.  Congrats to us!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
 0.39567279 eth for me!  ;D ;D ;D

Now that the payment's went out with our first block and our hash rate is up, hopefully it will continue to rise so we can mine blocks a bit faster, 1 every couple days would be nice.  It took about an hour from the time the block was found until it was verified and all payments sent out.

Yes, I can confirm the payment is very very fast   ;D ;D

Noobpool, I have two "noob question" for you:
1) Can you explain me what means the stat "Current variance"?
2) In the help page I noticed you say to use eth-proxy. But it seems to me a windows only program (I am using clayminer under linux at the moment). Am I wrong? Would be better if I'll use it?

HUGE!!!!   My numbers are much higher than other pools by about 3 times for the amount of time I've been mining.  Gotta keep this up because now that we find one there's probably another one coming soon, statistically speaking.

The variance number is more like a luck factor.  It goes up as we find shares vs difficulty.  If we mine a block with a low variance payouts are better because we didn't work as hard.  We found the last one at a 30% variance, which is good.  There is another similar pool that's variance has gone to over 115% and they haven't found a block, bad luck.  So they end up finding a lot of shares and no block.  Or something like that.  I'm still a bit confused on how to really explain it.

As for the eth-proxy, just use Claymore, it is more consistent and it's what most people use.  The command line for it is on the home page.

I setup the Telegram chat, the link is at the top left of the website.

Nice addition, just joined.
And thanks for your answers.

Since we found our first block last night we've been hovering around the 2.5GH/s mark, which is about a block a week, a little less with good luck.  :)

Congrats! I would like to join this noobpool, I should be able to contribute ~31MH/s.
However I'm located in Asia. Any disadvantage of my Asia location for joining noobpool?
Also, I just joined your telegram channel. Hope to get more news there, and now I'm setting up Claymore to point to noobpool.

Just so you know I've joined noobpool, and verified my miner status there, my address now exists and captured in your miners stat. Happy mining together!

Folks can you help recommend android apps to monitor mining tasks?

Ok after some searching I found the answer. I use json api url from noobpool  and copy paste into eth mining monitor app, it works great.

Another question I have is, I've been mining at noobpool for 5hours, the ETH pending balance is still 0. Is this normal? At least it should show some figure right?
Pending Balance: 0.00000000
Credited coins awaiting payout.

You won't get anything until, the pool finds a new block. 

To estimate the amount of ETH I can get from a block,  I should instead look at the stat name "Your Round Share: x%"  right?
This x% is to multiply with the say, 5 ETH award after noobpool successfully completing a block right?

Still learning, completely a newbie here.

The disadvantage is you don't get immediate satisfactions like in other pools.  But the advantage is your payout may be higher than other pools.  other pools have to calculate based on block not yet solved.

The numbers to look at is your percentage share for the round.  Multply that percent by 5 ethereum coins and you get your payout, once a block is solved.  If you leave the pool, you will still get a percentage though it will decrease in value over time.  Stay in the pool and you maintain or increase your share.  As more miners join, you share may go down, but then the block is solved quicker.  

The variance is the luck of the block being solved in a round.  Last time we solved a block at 30%  But you  could climb all the way up to 100% and still not solve a block, though based on statistics, at 100% a block being solved will come very soon.

Here is a technical article on statics and luck of the pool and variance.
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/07/faq-bitcoin-mining-and-luck-statistic.html

Based on hash rate up around 3 GHash we should be solving blocks every 3 to 7 days. with a 5 day mean.  Lucky is sooner, unlucky is later.

For my first round of mining effort, I got more shares in 5 days than it would take me 3 weeks in other pools.  I expect my share to decrease with pool size increase but the payout rate still looks better percentage wise.

Very good !!!
I joined too, doing mining with my gtx 1070 and claymore from Italy.

It's nice to see our hash rate over 3GH, means we will find blocks more often but still low enough that the luck factor will help keep payouts higher.  Even if we get to 12GH, that would mean a block a day and still would get better payouts than the big pools, most of the time.

Of course everyone is worried about the massive drop in ETH value, but that shouldn't scare people, just hang onto what you mine for now.  After August 1st and bitcoin has their soft-fork which should cause them to split into multiple chains, ETH should get a surge of new investors and prices could skyrocket.  If all those people with millions invested in bitcoin decide to switch to ETH it will raise the price dramatically.  My personal prediction is that ETH will hit record highs next month, but that's just my opinion based on what is happening.  So don't put much faith into the ETH calculators right now as the price has dropped dramatically this month.  Personally I'm going to try to get as much ETH as possible before the end of the month and hopefully reap the rewards in the following months.

Either that or bitcoin will crash and burn and bring down other currencies with it.  Either way it's going to be interesting.

People are also scared about investing in more GPU's and mining rigs because of the ROI with ethereum at it's current state, but you have to remember, if after the soft-fork in a couple weeks from now, if ETH doesn't recover (which it should pretty fast), we can always switch to another currency.  Mining is long term, not a quick buck.

I can't find the app, can you post the link, please?

Hi Guys

Noob here,
Currently mine to nanopool.

Am i more likeley to see higher payouts if i change to you guys?

Running 12 x RX 480's

Cheers

Normal correction.  This is long term.  We are mining so, just hold.  I'm holding position.  Every Dollar you spend in electric and GPUs now to maintain the equipment is as if your investing in ETH.  Just at a lower price.  If it got to 300 once it will again.  These miners are great to accumulate coin over time.  Crypto Currency is now considered a hold and save for later by over 1 billion people.

It will have it's ups and downs, but eventually continue up.

And that's right multiple currencies, POS, Proof of Stake, is being pushed by some young developers here in Ethereum, but they are 6 months to 1 year away from progressing forward.  There will be time to continue to mine and then switch to a more profitable mining coin in the future.  I think Ethereum developers will look long and hard at the Bitcoin fork.  It's a true test.  IMO, the Ethereum POS is an attempted move in a more centralized mechanism moving towards the programmers to profit in large exchanges.  The small guy can't win based on POS structure.   I think also part of Ethereum devaluation was a conference call with developers about 2 weeks ago. Interesting watch.  He calls the Miners a Cartel. Yet what he wants to setup with POS is more cartel like.  Talk about programmers hating miners.  I thought it was the programmers who wanted the miners to do what we are doing now.  Even Bitmain says a Decentralized network is much better with a miner in every home, even as they create large data mining centers.

How about a Pool for the PASCAL coin.  very interesting story. Zcash and Siacoin is also hot right now.

Yup.  I switched from there.  made 4 times my nanopool returns in the first round.  nanopool is a good system, but this system works just as well.  Now that there's more people here, the return will be less for me, but still more than nanopool at the moment.  My estimates is right now about double nanopool just remember you don't see the rewards until a block gets solved.  Payout happens very quickly after a block is solved.  My share count is higher per hour here than with nanopool.  That's the number of accepted "nonce" found.  If solutions occur sooner, then the payout could be more on a percentage basis.  Mine yourself a round and then see how you do.  We are probably about 1 to 3 days away from another block with good luck.  Bad luck about 3 to 5. 

Yes, I think so (I was mining on nanopool before noobpool).

I'va been minning all day but when I go to noobpool.com and want to see my stats entering my address it says "No Account Data Available", why is that? Do I need to wait to see my stats?

What is your wallet address?  Your stats should be available within a minute or two of mining.

0x3e230b4190ef047a4dc8c927f4b00427fd54938e

I don't my address in the miners list either

That is odd, what miner are you using and what command line to start it?

I'm using ethminer and the command is


At first I was also using --disable-submit-hashrate, but removed it

You left out the -G argument, and watch the window, it should say your hash rate and tell you when you find shares.

It's not working with -G argument but I'm planning to solve that soon. I can see it's mining (or at least it says so in the screen) that's why I don't understand why I can't see the stats online. Just want to make sure I'm not wasting my computing time before continuing.

If it doesn't work with the -G than it's not using your GPU to mine which will give you such an extreme low hash rate it is a waste of time.  Try switching to claymore, it's a better program, more stable, and usually faster hash rates.  The command line is on our home page for it.

Do you think that's the problem?
Even with a low CPU mining rate, shouldn't it show the stats?

Stats only show once you have mined a share.  It's worth a try, will take just a couple minutes to install and run Claymore and see.  What hash rate does ethminer show you?

Really it depends on what GPU you are using AMD or Nvidia.  

Ethminer is good with Nvidia and i'm using 0.11.0rc which boosts Nvidia GTX 1060's specially designed for when the new 1060 mining card comes out.

Here's your bat file, optimized for NVIDIA GPU's not AMD.

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

ethminer --farm-recheck 1000 -U -F http://noobpool.com:8888/0x(ether address)/<miner id>  --cuda-parallel-hash 4.

the -U is for Nvidia only.  works well.

recheck 1000 polls the server every second.  i think 200 is too often versus new block data discovery.  Statistically blocks don't update quick enough to poll 200.  now that is a different story if you are using a proxy server then it's required to be 200.

I'm using PoolWatch from Google play store. And key in the json api plugin you get from noobpool

The telegram is a nice addition. Noobpool, your plan for using telegram is for one way communication for announcement and news sharing? Or you plan to make it interactive group?

I'm new to telegram, but I want it to be an open group for others to talk.  Although I am very important and all, I think everyone should be able to talk.  :)

Could someone help test and see if it's set correctly?

Same here, looks like noobpool telegram setting is set as announcement channel, others won't be able to chat and response in the telegram, we are at the receiving end only. Noobpool is there some setting you can change?

Like I said, i'm new to Telegram.  I'll see what I can do to fix it.

Apparently Telegram is used more for one person to send out information.  I could create a group for others to be able to talk as well but that would involve inviting everyone who wants to join, one at a time.  That would be a pain.

agree, that would be a pain to add so many noobpool members around the world into telegram. We'll just treat it as a platform for special or important announcement from noobpool.

You can put on the site the link to the invitation. So who wants to join the chat have only to click on the invitation link.

That's a really good question.  The pool does have a 0% fee and I don't know the address it was sent to, how, or why it was done.  No one has access to the account except for me and I was still sleeping at the time it happened.  I'm going to look into this.

Apparently there were a lot of compromised accounts and somehow our main account was one of them, early this morning someone cleaned out our account, however there was only about .6 ETH stolen.  I have since reset our account password and was forced to restart the node.  Everything is fine now and if needed, I'll use my own eth to replace what was stolen.  This does not effect any miners and you're pending amounts are safe. 

Sorry. Don't mean to be a dick, but what do you mean there were a lot of compromised accounts? Whose? Where? I mean how did the main account get hacked and how can miners  be sure it won't happen again?

I know that you are basically doing this for free at this point, so I don't have much room to complain, but I think we need a little more info to be sure that this is under control and we aren't wasting our hashing power.

Thanks

Have you taken other precautions against other future occurances?  How'd they get in?  Could it happen again?  Worse thing is if this is a test attack and they attack right after a block is hit.

Interesting how you can trace the transactions and now they're sitting in a new wallet.

Someday a programmer will create a database of "bad" wallets and the crimes committed that could eventually lead to an individual.

I'm working on this, I've only known about it for about 2 hours.  I'm checking logs, changed passwords, and am trying to figure out how and if this can happen again. 

I do not know if it is related, but claymore miner is giving me this error:
ETH:: No new jobs were received for 10 mins - something is wrong with the pool (or check -ejobtimeout and -djobtimeout options), disconnect.

Yes, that was related.  It's fixed now, I believe I've also plugged the hole that allowed the eth to be stolen.  To test it I sent some eth to the pool account.

ok.  good to hear.  So the pool server software is ok and not compromised or file timestamps changed for the code? So this was one back door, could there be others or you got them  all plugged up?

Everything is running fine now, even was able to change the ID so that when you receive a payment it will say Noobpool instead of just the wallet address.  And I did find the issue and fixed it.  Doesn't look like there are any other vulnerabilities.  The good thing is that the software is set to start sending out payments as soon as we find a block, so that will keep any thief from being able to get much if any if they somehow found another way to hack us.  I've also setup alerts so if there are any unauthorized transactions I'll be alerted right away on my phone, which is always with me.  Since they do a test transaction first of 0 eth, then start to take money several minutes later it will give me enough time to protect any eth in the account.  But I doubt that will be an issue again anyway.

And as a final measure of safety, I'll move any excess eth to a secure wallet on another system then I can move it back when it's needed, until i'm confident that we are safe from more attacks.

I'm not giving up on finding who did it though, they only got about $100 worth of ETH, there has to be some IP fingerprint somewhere and when I find it and track them down, I'll go to their house and rape them.  Literally.  They steal from me it becomes prison rules.

Received the news from telegram this morning.  Hope this is well taken care off.
Just wondering, the hackers won't be able to do transaction without a private key of yours right?

Nope, it should be all resolved now and shouldn't happen again.  I'm keeping tabs on the stolen ETH, eventually it will be moved to an exchange or some other traceable location.  It wasn't a lot, but it's the principle that matters.  They hacked us and stole what didn't belong to them.  There will be justice in the form of their ass being violated while I sing Elton John's Can You Feel the Love Tonight...

second block was just found in just under 3 days at 3GH.  So now for more realistic numbers, I am still ahead of other pools by about 2 days.  This will be more profitable.  So, about 30 to 50% more than the big pools.

About an hour and a half to confirm then paid out in under 10 mins.

Would have been sooner but there was a minor glitch in my hacker proofing.  Next block will be faster to mature and payout once found.  But we're at about 4GH now so should be able to pull a block every 2-3 days if we stay at this rate.

Great news indeed! As a newbie I'm so happy earning my first few dollars

Okay, fixed the glitch with payouts, they should come a bit faster now.  I know 2 hours from the time we found the block until everyone was paid wasn't a big deal, but it's better now. 

I spent so much time working on the pool these last couple days that I didn't mine enough to reach the payout threshold.  How sad is that?  I need to build a dedicated mining rig soon.  Anyone have a bunch of 580's, a good mining MB, powered risers, some ram, a SSD, a couple nice PSU's, and a nice open air case they want to send me?  UPS or FedEx is fine.  Oh, and throw in a 1080 I can use for gaming. 

In my opinion, lowering the withdrawal limit to 0.03 would attract more people to this pool

Currently we have a 0% pool fee and pay the transaction fees.  So a lower limit would mean more transactions and more fees that we have to pay.  It's already lower than most pools.  A hash rate of 20MH/s can earn that much in a couple days.  But if others request a lower limit, I'll consider it.

I think a withdraw limit of 0.05 is fine and may have a financial reason behind the cost of transactions and the gas fees associated.  Keeps us mining longer.

On another note now would be a good time to remember those addresses who were here early helping you build this pool from the beginning  before everyone else jumps on and to that note, I don't mind if the pool fee goes up 1/4 percent fee to help you defray your expenses.  You deserve it.

Since your at 0% right now you should have an ETH pay address on your main page or bottom of the toolbar asking/reminding for donations for all this effort you put forth.  Donations: 0x....

A generous big miner would mail you a card or two.  I would but I don't have the resources yet.  When I'm built up to 3 to 5 rigs, then I'd send you an extra card.

I agree with eagleye, noobpool deserve some kudos for the real hard work he put in to enable all us.
Eventually when your maintenance costs go high, you shall charge some minor fees.

God, please send noobpool his dream rig  :)   We hope God hear this and enable some generous miners to make this wish comes true!

Thanks, but for now I'll leave it at 0%.  Eventually I'll move it up to 0.25% which will be such a small amount no one will notice anyway, but that won't happen for a while.  That would be 0.0125 eth divided between everyone for a full block, that would basically cover the transaction fees.

And have you noticed, the price of ETH has gone up by around $65USD over the past 2 days.  Hopefully it keeps going up!

The withdraw limit of 0.05 is fine for me too.

Noobpool, just to let you know, a couple of days ago I opened a topic in the italian section of the forum to promote your pool  ;)
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2017164.0   (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2017164.0)

Thanks, I'm sure it's good.  I can't read it, but with our hash rate going up all the time, I think all the positive things people have been saying is helping.  You, eagleye, and a few others have helped bring in a lot of miners.  Over 5GH/s now.  Should mine a block about ever 2 days now.  I think we have officially gone from being a small pool to a medium size pool.  I think a block a day would be our sweet spot, still gives time for luck to help miners get better returns yet fast enough that we get payouts daily.  That would be in the 12GH/s range.

Noobpool - first off, thanks for standing up a quality pool and addressing issues found so quickly.  I jumped in right after the first block was found and am looking forward to mining with this group for a long while.

Second - any chance you've looked at enabling notifications for the pool?  For example inactive miner or new block found email updates?  No idea what goes into doing that or how much effort it is, but thought it would be helpful to those of us in the pool.

For your 2nd proposal, you can download an App from Google Play called PoolWatch, and just key in the json API url (which you can obtain from noobpool website by keying in your public address) into this app.
It works wonderful for me to check on my rig run status.

Yeah, email notifications are a high priority, just implementing it has been a challenge.  But I'm not giving up on it. 

Excellent, I figured you were on it already but great to hear!

tcsee - thanks for the PoolWatch app suggestion, I'll check it out

You need to modify the configuration on your main page and help page.  

When using ethminer there are two switches.  the -G you mention is only for AMD based GPUs best performance.
changing the -G to
-U is the configuration for Nvidia GPUs.  I think some NOOBs are confused by this.  This is only for use with ethminer and not with claymore.

Best nvidia GTX 1050/60/70/80 config is as follows

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

ethminer --farm-recheck 500 -U -F http://noobpool.com:8888/0x<addr>/<name> --cuda-parallel-hash 4
pause
all in a .bat file running windows 10 and latest drivers

the --farm-recheck at 200 milliseconds is quite low and I find it wasted network traffic.  I find 500 to 1000ms to be sufficient.  it can be increased to 1000 or 2000 which is 1 or 2 seconds check.  1 second check reduces bandwidth slightly minimizing submissions of stale shares"nonce". at 2000 you will get rejected shares in 24 hours.  I haven't at the 1000ms mark.

Statistically, new blocks are not once every second but mostly 10's of seconds so at 500 or 1000 milliseconds you don't miss much of new work.  Going out 2000 milliseconds gives you an accurate hash rate reported by ethminer, but risk rejected blocks.

I"m at 1000 and don't have any rejected blocks

eagleye, for nvidia card 1070, any difference with using ethminer vs claymore?
I'm using claymore currently, avg hash ~26MH/s. If switching to ethminer, any idea how much % jump in hashrate?

Bump up that memory clock speed man! You should be around 30-31mh/s with your 1070. But ethminer and claymore are both pretty identical, especially with the new 9.7 claymore that just came out. Both claymore and ethminer were optimized recently and giving out another 1mh/s or so.

re 1070.

I'm using 0.11.0rc1 ethminer which was designed for the 1060 new mining GPU graphics card and also works well with performance increase on most 1060's.  I've heard that claymore is good on the 1070.  But you can check with these settings and try it out.  you may need to give the system time.  my hash rate was all over the place but now i'm averaging 19-22 Mh with a 1060  previously i was around 17-19  the longer it runs steady the better it does.  don't know why.

Try it out with the settings above and see if your hashrate improves  i would think you should get a steady 28 to 32 MH on a 1070  Boost the memory clock until it crashes then back it down a notch. Boosting memory speed doesn't do any damage at all.  It either works or it doesn't.   Also, you can probably knock the power down to 60%.  ethereum mining is pure memory intensive.  My old PC with a 1060 is running 100 to 120 watts total including system power.  the card is about 60-75 watts.   I use evga precision for timing, then I shut evga down after the settings take effect and it maintains those settings.  I find having the video software running made my system less stable at high memory speeds.  I have two cards, one runs at +290 on memory which is about 4.1Ghz the other identical card, different pc runs +400 or 4.4Ghz  any higher and they both freeze up.  I"m at 60% power.  only mining ethereum.  not dual mining at the moment.  Though claymore is the way to dual mine and I've read good reviews on the 1070.

Ditto on metacrypto's comment push up the memory clock speed.  I run 1070s from a few different manufacturers and have them dual mining sia, decred and/or lbry at around 29mh/s for eth (at around a 40 dcri).   The actual values vary by card, but on average I have the card memory clocked up to +400 and power set to 70% limit.  You'll have to see what works for your cards, but for me its a good mix between hashrate and power consumption.

guys, thanks for the input about numping memory speed. Will experiment it right away.
If using claymore, bumping the power to 70% utilization, is it using this switch -ethi 7? I read somewhere the default is 80% power intensity

Mine is Asus strix 1070, already an OC version, but I guess the memory isn't OC'ed.

Suggest you use MSI Afterburner (or similar OC utility) to set the environment and tweak the cards.  This lets you change the settings while Claymore is actively mining which makes you see relatively instant results to what you're adjusting.  There are several articles or videos online that show how to make the modifications, but in short, just keep bumping up the memory clock speed by 100 until you see the miner or graphics driver crash, then back it down to the last stable setting.  For the power, you'll typically see hashrate drop before the card crashes, but do a similar approach.  start at 100 and back the power limit down by 5 or 10% until you find a good mix of power and hashrate.  70% seems to be pretty successful for 1070s but will depend on the card.

the ethi switch may result in something similar, but I've not tried it so can't comment. 

noobpool, I look at the stat from noobpool web, my hash is only showing:
Hashrate (rough, short average) = ~18MH
Hashrate (accurate, long average) = ~22MH

However my local start.dat window is consistently showing 25 to 26MH/s
I OC memory up, I was able to get 31MH stable for 5minutes, but I don't see my hashrate stat at noobpool web get updated. Later I switch back to default mem clock for better stability.

So regarding the stat at noobpool web, may I know anything wrong with that hashrate? Any reason it doesn't reflect what I see at my local machine?

And I will join with 240 mh/s, are the payments to the exchanges up to date?
If I give an address from P***iex, K***en will arrive there.

The hash rate on the website is an average, it takes a while before it shows your full rate.

Payments have been going out on time after every block is found.  Everyone seems to be getting them in their wallet within moments of the payment sent.  As far as the exchanges, I don't know.  Most exchanges say to always send your ETH to a wallet first then send to them, but that's probably because of high transaction fees and when you mine on big pools you get a lot of little transactions because they mine blocks so fast, but here we find a block every few days so the transactions won't be a lot of little ones.  I don't think it will be a problem.

The web page hash rate is an average hash rate based only on blocks submitted.  The number is accurate.  Statistics says you will sometimes find blocks quicker, thus increasing your average hash rate and then sometimes you find fewer block reducing the average, but your GPUs run at the same speed for the same data.  This data at NOOBPOOL is the same with other pools I've experienced.

Later when the pool designer has time and programs charts you will be able to see your hashrate fluctuation and averages over time. 
SO maybe another calculation on the miner statistic page could be a 6hr, 12hr and 24hr hashrate average.  Maybe that's easy to  do.
The longer the average the closer to your true hash power.  3 hrs can give you the variances you are seeing.  Like this morning I had a 3hr hash rate of 25 on a 18-20GPU.  that's the luck of mining.  then it's down 6 hours later to 15 but i'm still mining at 18MH reported by ethminer.

 Your computer tells you your true real time mining hash power.  The pool only tells you your hash power based on successful submissions and a calculation based on difficulty of mining the block.

Also, I like having my own wallet.  I've got it setup on a different computer.  A little slow to download the 40GB data file but I have control over my wallet and multiple addresses if I wanted to.  Any money in an exchange has no protection or guarantees.  You or they lose your key or a market crash takes out the exchange and your coins could be gone.

Just look at the warnings they have with bitcoin that you should keep your own private key to your funds offline Aug. 1 in case something bad happens and your exchange loses your coins.

Once in the wallet, I can quickly send coins to an exchange to do whatever I want and I can quickly get them back out or converted to other coins and into my own private wallets. 
My only wait from payment is waiting for my wallet to download and update the blockchain with the transactions and voila they appear in my wallet after payment.  I also find it easy to backup the wallet key and very easy to move to a new computer when needed.

Eagleye, thanks for the sharing.
Any ideas when likely we are going to solve another block?
Which indicator do we look at to predict and calculate the estimated time needed to solve a block? Barring the luck factor.

HA!  Funny you should ask.

Based on statistics, we hit the first block at 30% variance but the pool was running for several weeks below 500MH. Small hash rate and you have a better chance at hitting in the low percentage but it takes longer.   Then we hit the second block at 53% variance and over 1 GH in 2 days.   Now, I'm taking the curve and estimating to about 75%-80% any moment now for the next block.  As we get closer to 100% variance after each round with more hash power quicker we will hit the block.  Let's see how close I am.  Notice the variance is climbing much faster now with higher hash power.  

Lets see, it's about 8:30pm here, so I'm guessing sometime around 3am when I'm sound asleep so my phone will go off and wake me, then I'll have to get up and make sure all payments went out, so that will be about an hour or so of lost sleep.. 

Are you willing to support nicehash for your pool?

Guys, which crypto to crypto exchange will you recommend? I was looking at Poloniex, but I want to explore more options...

Why?  ???

Noobpool, take a look at this:
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/what-is-the-exploit-behind-paritys-multisig-wallet-from-2017-07-19

Maybe it is related to the hacker attack we had in the past days.

For all of you, guys: it's safer to use wallet created with geth or myetherwallet.com

Honestly, I just pulled everything out of polo. Here's the primary reason: their deposit contracts on both eth and etc are wonky. Under stress, they don't seem to allocate enough gas to smaller transactions. So, for example, last week I had to keep mining etc to get to the threshold where their contract would allocate enough gas to get the transaction through to my actual account (in this case I think it was 9 etc). I have had the same thing happen with eth. And, I have had similar issues on the withdrawal side. TLDR: You get your money eventually, but it may take some time and frustration. (never did get an answer to any ticket raised about this either).

I use gemini to convert straight to fiat if I need to (it's US based and regulated in NY), but I don't think they are available outside the US or in every US state.

For alts like etc, I've switched to bittrex even though they have higher fees and a basically unusable interface (if you are trying to trade).

I was with polo for a long time trading, but the recent issues make me too nervous to keep any money there. So, I'm just not trading and only mining. So, user interface is not that important to me now.

poloniex, cionbase, gdax, bitstamp.  one each everywhere, but maintain my own wallets on the pcs.  exchanges for small amounts and moving it around.

also changelly converts directly from one coin wallet to another wallet without exchange use.

Nicehash is supported, just use Daggerhashmoto as the algorithm. 

yeah i use it on ethermine, but i need some setting from the pool to set up nicehash. Have you tried to set it up? i can't!

I don't use Parity, but it was similar.  I won't go into details, don't need to give anyone any ideas how to hack us.  If I explain what it was and how I fixed it someone might figure out another way. 

We were both wrong, at almost 90% now and still no block.  Today sometime?

I haven't used nicehash before, but the settings for the pool should be the same as the claymore settings I would think.

We are unlucky for this third block, we are at 95% of Current Round Variance and still nothing ...

We can't have good luck every block I guess, but our average will still be good, unless it goes to like 300% or something. 

looks like it.  we are approaching the mean average.  So we may move to the unlucky side of the average for this round.  the Mean at 5.3GH is 2.81 days per block average.

What will be cool is when we hit one block right after another.  bound to happen at some point with this hash power.

That will be nice.  I'd really like to get to 1-2 blocks a day.  That would still be slow enough that luck will help out with lower hash miners while still bringing in a consistent amount of ETH for everyone.  But we'd need to be up to like 15-20GH/s for that.  Eventually we might get there as people see that everything works, it's legit, payments go out on time, etc. 

Thanks for all your recommendation earlier, I'm able to increase my GTX1070 hashrate from 25MH/s to now average 30MH/s, while at the same time lowering power to 68% hence now lower temperature for my GPU.
I'm considering to add 1 more GPU, that should help the pool hashrate by a little

How did you achieve such result?
My Gtx1070 is running at 25MH  :'(

I use MSI Afterburner to tweak (although I'm using Asus Strix GPU), I learned from the forum members here too.
I tweaked to increase GPU memory frequency, incremental of 100MHz each time, click apply and let it stable for at least 10minutes, you can see the hashrate goes up real time, if PC is stable, I repeat the same step, 100MHz incremental  until your PC hit instability, marked that unstable frequency and dial back.

After achieving stable memory frequency, you can play around with GPU power level dial also, that should help to lower your electricity bill abit, and enjoy lower temperature.

For AMD cards there are actually 2 voltage settings that can be lowered in msi afterburner if you click the little button next to the voltage setting.  Lowering both dramatically lowered my heat and power use by my hash rate didn't change. 

Damn, up to 111% variance.  Hopefully we get it soon and the next one at like 3%..

noobpool, how do they calculate the "bounty" per blockchain. For example, looks like our current block is more difficult to solve, do they pay higher ETH per block? Just curios what's the price tag they attach per blockchain and what's the criteria for that price tag?

That's a good question.  Our first was 5.01, the next was 5.34.  And honestly, I have no clue.  If you figure it out please share with the class.

What are the values that are stable for you?

I'm away from PC, later tonight I'll check for you.

I'm living in a tropical country, hence my room temperature is ~29'C (~84'F). If you are in cold country, maybe can push the limit further,

In MSI Afterburner, I'm having this setting stable for 1day+ already for my GTX 1070:
Memory Clock (MHz) = +540
Core Clock (MHz) = +0
Power Limit (%) = 68%
Fan Speed Auto (sometimes I set to 60)

With above setting, I'm getting ~30MH/s, GPU temp = 55'C

Don't use your 1080ti on eth, you are wasting time and power!
eth is for 1070/1060s only on the nvidia side

Don't use your 1080ti on eth, you are wasting time and power!
eth is for 1070/1060s only on the nvidia side
[/quote]Ok, I'll stop that right away. :D Seriously is there a good reason why I shouldn't mine with the GTX 1080 Ti. I'm not using it when I'm at work or sleeping and the electricity is basically free in Finland.
[/quote]

Presumably they just mean that the GDDR5X memory is not optimized for the ETH algos in current mining software. So, there are probably more profitable ways to use your card mining.

I'm living in Italy but my room temperature is higher than yours!


I'll try this setting (as soon as I'll be able to overclock gpu under linux...).
Very very thanks  ;D

It's 5 ethereum per block discovery win.  The extra ether is the gas charge in the transactions inside the block so that's the bonus.  Look at the transaction history you will see very few transactions in the first block and many more in the second successful block.

RE: 1080  8GB.  that's a good card for dual mining.  you can mine ether with 4GB reserved memory and then the other 4GB can mine another GPU intense algo. zcash/sia/dodge/pascal

Hi, i'm still trying to set up nicehash on your pool, but it doesn't work, it seems to be incompatible:

https://s10.postimg.org/8eb7xcktl/verifpool.jpg

Can you do something about this?

The password has to be #, and the port I believe needs to be 8008.

nope, with 8008 port it says:
Error: Read timed out

Warning: Selected pool did not request min or higher working diff: 0.9 Check FAQ!

Didn't take a screenshot, just copy/paste

Pool host: noobpool.com
Pool port: 8008
Pool user: 0x4D51E8dD5E719b7ab4e806ecE390259E3b63ff83
Pool pass: #
Algorithm: DaggerHashimoto

Resolving pool host noobpool.com... OK
Establishing connection with proxy... OK
Establishing connection with pool 216.250.117.87:8008... OK
Sending eth_submitLogin... OK
Received authorization result... OK
Sending eth_getWork... OK
Received work... OK: difficulty=0.46565418

Pool verification process is complete. Tested pool is compatible!

Hey, just joined the pool from New Zealand and pointed a few rigs at this pool, if it works out I might bring all of my rigs over, should be another 900mhs on top of the 330 I have in the noobpool already. Love the idea of a small pool. Now lets find that next block  ;D

Welcome, our first couple blocks were at a low variance, but this one is being stubborn, up to 140% so far.  Maybe the next will be at like 5-10%.  :)

148% and still no block.  Okay, if we don't hit it by 151% I'm going to binge watch all the twilight movies in order and keep watching them until we hit the block.  Please god let us mine that block soon.

Update:

The pain begins... 

Please make it stop.  It's killing me, and not in a turn me into a vampire kinda way...  

Another update, watching New Moon now.  Oh god it's boring..  I want to stab myself in the eyes.  But this bottle of wine helps a little.

Is there an upper cap to the round variance???

Nope.  Theoretically you could be unlucky for some time.  the pendulum swings in both directions  We hit the first two blocks relatively quickly so now we get to experience the other side of the curve.  It's like watching the average hash power go up and down.  I'm mining on one card at 19MH but it swings from 11MH unlucky mining to 28MH lucky mining.  It's still mining at the same hash power it just depends on what the random number generator discovers.

This is a marathon and not a sprint.  We have good hashpower now and should be finding them much sooner than this.  Just give it time. The pendulum will swing back to the lucky side.

Watching your GPU find a share is an amplified version of finding the block.  You'll see minutes go by sometime on one GPU and nothing found, then a "nonce" appears out of nowhere.  Then you see it find two in a row.  Same thing with us finding a block.

167% of unluck :D

Yep, maybe the next one we'll find at like 5% to make up for it.  

If we don't hit it by 200% I'll eat my own face.  I'll cut it off and eat it.  I'll upload the video to youtube.

looks like 174% was the magic number, we finally found a block!

I don't have to cut off my face and eat it afterall.  On the downside, it was an uncle.  But at least we are passed that block and looking for better luck on the next.

And it was an uncle of a block.  Talk about pulling teeth. :P :o

Yeah, was a rough week for noobpool.  Things should be better now.  Uncles are such a low % chance to get, and we get one on our 3rd block, and at 175% variance. 

Finally, let's get the bad luck outta our way!

noobpool, just want to ask, for example, for a new block, if I started mining for a day, then I temporary quit the mining session, and I played PC games for a couple of hours, while I played PC games noobpool hit a jackpot solving a block, will I also get paid for the previous 1 day mining work that I contributed?

Yep, you still get paid for the work you did, you don't have to be mining when we hit a block to get your payout as long as the amount you mined is enough for you to reach the payout threshold. 

And on a positive note, I almost have the email notifications working.  I'm so close I can taste it, just something isn't exactly right.  I know it's gonna be something simple, like a port number in a config file..

Guys, can you explain me what an uncle block is and why it paid us only 3.75 eth?


(I am happy  :D I just managed to overclock the nvidia 1070s: under linux isn't a simple task...)

An uncle block is kinda like a stale or orphaned block that you would see in some other currencies like bitcoin except with Ethereum you still get paid some.  The normal rate for uncle bocks is about 3%, so the fact that we found one on our 3rd block is just really bad luck.  I'm sure someone could explain it better.  Some pools don't pay for uncle blocks, but that seems really unfair and would cause a lot of people to stop mining if it were on a small pool.  On big pools you might not notice it. 

that's correct.  Uncle block payments is a plus.  that's the profit in other pools.  An uncle is a late confirmation, but it's still a confirmation so you get residual credit..

On another note, pool server just crashed.  main web page is working, but no access to workers data or pool

Yep. Mine thrown off the pool and can't re-connect.

pool just came back up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  mining again.  only 1 hour of downtime.

Not sure what caused the crash, happened while I was asleep.  But glad it corrected itself.  Only problem is we lost some miners.  Hopefully they come back as well.  I'll check the logs and see if I can figure out what happened.

Seeing rejections from the server again.   Looks like it might have crashed again...

Yep, restarting the server.  Will be back in a few minutes.

Okay, figured it out.  With the amount of data the server has been pushing, it was forced to do a re-sync with the raid.  That's what caused our crash, it couldn't handle the resync while we were still pushing so much data.  Once the resync is finished it won't happen again because there will be much less to sync, this is the first time since starting the server it's had to do this. 

The sync will take another 10-15 minutes and everything will be restarted.  Sorry for the problems.

Ok,

Good to know.  Thanks for the update and the solution to the issue.  Will wait for my error messages to disappear.

and we are back...


How about a --refresh on the miners of 500 to 1000.  I think every 200 milliseconds is too quick and a waste of traffic, however small that traffic may be.   I read 200 Ms was the idea behind each mining card polling the proxy server to reduce traffic.  the proxy server checks every 500 ms.

It can take 20 to 200ms just waiting for network traffic pinging of data between miners and pool.

Found the root of our issue, the folder that kept all backend stats was only set at 4gigs, so once stats reached that point it stopped working and caused our issues with the server trying to resync to the raid, etc.  So I fixed that problem and it won't happen again.  A few hiccups for our first month hasn't been too bad.  Got hit by a hacker for 0.66eth, had a stubborn block that went to 175% variance then turned out to be an uncle, and now a server crash, which was 100% my fault for not monitoring the folder size.  I don't think anything else can go wrong now, so we should be in the clear.  Just afraid we have lost the faith of a lot of miners over these things.  Hopefully we can get our hash rate back up soon, we were at 6GH, now we are down to 2GH.  But even 2GH isn't that bad.  :)

Na.

You lost about 20 on the first crash this  morning.  After you came back up now those 50+ came right back.  It's just taking the average hash rate time to refresh back up to 4 GH.  these miners have been working hard and not finding much right away but the hash rate is increasing.

Yeah, it's slowly going up.  Hopefully we can get it high enough that blocks are found more often and payouts more often.  1 or 2 blocks a day would be great, more payouts.  We just need more miners. 

Hi,
Need some advice here. Is it possible to mine ethereum using mix GPU? 1xAMD and 1xNvidia card in same rig?
I have a GTX1070, planning to get one AMD RX580.... just curious, for obvious reason RX580 is cheaper.

Yeah, it can be done, but you should use claymore and run each in a different instance since your command line arguments will be a little different for each card.

Got it and thanks, I also found some articles that mixing AMD+Nvidia works fine. Will research more into this.

Added telegram chat, will put the link on our website later.  Now everyone can talk.

https://t.me/joinchat/FT9nbw3HfI3t5HUqwxYDdQ

re : webpage.

thanks for the update so we know something is going on with the main web page.  good luck attacking the web gremlins.

one point.  My preloaded pages are updating correctly with stats.  from your former home page settings.  I don't want to change the page in fear of losing this data.  both my stats and home page data is automatically loading correctly.  But i don't want to click on a link and lose that page info.

Yeah, everything should stay fine unless you leave the page.  I'm still working on it.  I may have to wipe the whole front end and re-install, but that's a pain.  Mining will not be effected.

After about 10 hours of work, I got the webpage and stats back up.  As you can see, those who kept mining continued to get credit.  None of that was messed with, it was only the webpage.  But it's all back to normal.

Thanks for getting this stats up. My miner was running but the stat didn't show it. I restart my start.bat and now I can see my miner stats at noobpool web.

All the stats were being saved, but there was an issue with the web server software, took me all day but I got it resolved.

We currently average around 4GH/s, we want to get that up to around 10-12GH/s.  There is plenty of room to grow, no fees, on time payments, and a fun group of people to chat with while you mine.  Come join us.

Can't agree more with noobpool... noobpool himself is very helpful and almost instant reply if he is awake, if you encounter any issues with the pool.
Yes, fun group in the telegram!

Are we going to meet another uncle block? 75% :|

2 in a row?  I don't think our luck can be that bad. 

I can't help myself, I have to check variance every five minutes or so...

Me too, checking noobpool every now and then in a day... May lucky stars come very soon!

We are ranked #1 in mining pools on cryptocompare.com, right below the sponsored pool.  https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/#/pools  Maybe this will help bring in more people and a higher hash rate.

Congrats! This ETH noobpool is actually more happening than what is perceived here in this forum. There is a very active noobpool Telegram group going on, lively, hence less comments here in this forum I guess...

102% :(

Yeah, it's slowed down on the forum a lot since I setup the chat room.  We just need to remember to come bump this post once in a while so we don't get lost.  :)

this variance is killing me again!

Should I threaten to cut my face off and eat it again if we don't hit it by a set %?

Don't have to cut, because our pool has solved the block! Yahoo

good solve right on cue for statistical average

But where's the  payout?  It didn't happen automatically.  One payment left but the others are pending.

It says Min. payout threshold: 0.05 Ether, Payouts run every 10 minutes.
But i guess it doesn't work that way :|

no, there is obviously a bug in the payout.  It should have paid multiple, but only paid one.  I guess we wait.

Will let Noobpool comment of course, but there was a hacker that made off with the eth generated from the block found earlier today before payments could go out.  Pending balance is still showing correctly on the site, so that info isn't lost, and he's working hard to plug any remaining holes in the system and potentially get the stolen eth back. 

We were hacked once again, they managed to steal the block reward almost instantly. The stolen eth was sent directly to Shapeshift who were notified about the theft. If we are lucky they will be able to stop them from withdrawing the money and get it back to us. Until them I'm going to try to fund the account myself to get the payments out, but it could take me a few days.

new block hit at 48% on the lucky side.   However, some of us are not seeing payouts above .05   :(

Because of the problems occurring, there should be payouts for all on the block until it's all resolved.  I.E. payouts on the blocks successful, or did the thief steal more than the last block payout?   It doesn't look good when there is a successful block and I don't receive any payment when others do and my number is above 0.05. 

Over 30 miners were paid in full today before the account ran out of funds.  I'm going to be funding the account myself in the next few days to cover the loss from the stolen block.  So if you have a pending balance you will be paid that amount soon.

I just moved one of my rack to this pool. Looking to see how it works compared to large pools.

The pool is in the 9GH range now, so blocks should be coming on a more regular basis.  Also the issues with Nicehash have been resolved so now anyone who wants to use nicehash on our pool can without any problem.

Pool host: noobpool.com
Pool port: 8008
Pool user: Your wallet address
Pool pass: #
Algorithm: DaggerHashimoto

It's that simple.

just found a block and received payment.  excellent!!!!!

Still have a bit of catching up to do after being hacked and loosing some eth.  But at least we have hack proofed the server and payments are going out with no issues.  And I'm trying to fund the main account myself to make up for the lost block reward a few blocks back.

But we have a steady amount of miners that hovers around 100, and a hash rate that stays around 9GH, jumps higher when people decide to go nuts with nicehash like they did last night, hit 17GH.

Need to find a way to increase our mining pool, maybe bring on someone to help do some marketing.  We find a block every 2 days, but would be nice to get our hash rate up enough to start finding a couple blocks a day.  We have a good group of people, an open chat for everyone to talk and help each other.  It's a good pool.

I will move my miner in a moment. How do I set up the Min. payout threshold?

Once we hit a block it adds the reward to everyone's pending balance, if your balance is over 0.05 you get paid, if it's less it keeps it there until the next block and adds your share again and checks again to see if you have reached the 0.05.

Right now we have around 115 miners and 12GH/s.  Not too bad for a pool that's only a month old.

if i have .049 coins in the pool, but my rig die and i will never mine, can i get the coins?

email me with your wallet address and I'll see what I can do.

Noob here, been mining on np with just my 1060 for the last couple weeks. I'm trying to figure out how how to get eth to coinbase one way or another. I don't understand how all this works and I'm really confused. It says .05387677 for pending balance since the last block was mined a couple days ago. Total Paid has been zero the entire time. How do I get a payout or get this to coinbase some how? I thought it was supposed to do something after it hit .05? I have my address and the private key that goes with it but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do here?

There was a hack a few blocks back. You'll get paid next block that gets mined. Many of us are behind a payment because of the hack and the pool owner is running this at a loss right now to build the pool up.

And the pool was hacked again.  I can't stop them.  We are being targeted for some reason.  It took them 14 seconds from the time we found the block until they had stole the reward.  The wallet was locked, rpc was not accessible to the internet, and SSH was key + encrypted password which was only accessible from a flash drive sitting on my desk.  I'm doing everything I can to make it hacker proof, but hackers are smarter than me.  If you choose to mine on my pool, don't hold me personally responsible if we are hacked again.  You are aware of the risks.

I can say I'm sorry, but that won't help.  I don't have the money to pay out of pocket for another lost block reward.  Help from anyone to try to stop future attacks would be appreciated.  Just contact me on the website, our telegram chat, or email.  

Yeah I'll be finding a new pool. Thanks for the wonderful introduction to ethereum mining, lol. Guess I should be glad I only lost $20 before I learned my lesson.

the pool and miners are connecting using http:  instead of stratum+tcp.  So technically, the data is unsecure and more vulnerable to attack.  If that's unsecure, then how is your server pool secured to other nodes?  I suspect a hijack hack on your web data and spoofed ip addresses.  Somehow, your wallet address got swapped when the block passed through. Maybe there is a flaw with the node you connect to in the ether blockchain.  Maybe the node your server connect to is not trusted compared to other nodes.

What about switching up the payment receipt address for each block?

It really sucks because you have a nice pool.  just some thoughts.   I'm no expert.   Time for some experts here to contact you and give you some good tips.  

I bet other pools are jealous you are forming something good, but they may have 2+ years experience and are now taking advantage of your site flaws from what they may have previously experienced.

Don't give up!!!!   More pools benefit network decentralization and reduce centralization.

EDIT:

Thanks for the home page status update.  For anyone out there, I believe this guy is an honorable pool operator.  He has and will makeup for shortages in future block rewards from my previous experience.  So, it may take a little longer, but as the wallet builds, so does the payout.  Hopefully he has it all plugged up by now.  Block finds have been narrowed down to within 2 - 4 days, which is good and getting better.  Sticking with him.

Like I said above, he is a target because he has been doing well for pool miners.  Pool block hits are right on statistical target here.  one block will arrive late and one early, but all work out to a statistical mean block finding average right down the middle.

So we were hacked a while back, I then got together with some experts and we plugged every security hole we could find.  I changed our wallet address, but didn't delete the old one that had been hacked.  Somehow the hacker got in and changed our block reward to go back to the old, hacked wallet.  The new wallet has never had an issue.  I don't know how they managed to change it back to the old one, but it's my fault for not deleting it I guess.  It's deleted now of course.  I also added new security measures to ban any ip that tries to connect to the server through SSH, and that ban list is growing at an alarming rate. 

I don't know why we are being targeted, but I would love to meet the guy.  I'm pretty sure I narrowed it down to a hacker with an ip out of San Diego, CA.  If only I could get their ISP to give me his address. 

In one month we grew to 120 miners and average of 11GH/s.  I think that's pretty good.  Of course now it's much lower and I can understand why a lot of people left, mining costs money and if it gets stolen, what's the point.  All I can do is keep trying.

file a police report.  This involves theft and any ISP cannot hide theft as that makes them accomplices and liable for damages caused by the user.  They must release the information, but it may require some police input.  Also, FBI internet crime database.  You may not be the only victim.  But it takes reporting them to build data on who may be involved.

Now the minimum eth has been raised to .25eth for payout.

If I were a scammer running a pool, I would execute my playbook exactly the way you are.

Yep, you caught me.  I worked all day, every day to answer questions, help people, and get the pool running smooth just to steal the block reward and send it to my account with over 2 million USD worth of eth.  I'm an evil mastermind!

Other than that dumbshit's stupid response....

Several of the bigger hash miners have asked to forfeit their pending balances to help the pool pay off everyone else.  Now that is loyalty and faith in a pool.

I did raise the minimum payout to 0.25, and since a lot of people don't understand exactly how a pool works and payouts, mathematically it will help me catch up on payments.  After every block I'm going to lower the min back down by 0.05 until we get back to 0.05 min.  I'm also going to add my own funds once we see that the pool is secure from more hacks.  I've worked hard to stop them and have fixed the last vulnerability that was used.

Until everyone gets paid your "good faith" is just words. We'll see how it plays out in the end...

Yep, people will see, word will spread about the hard times we had and how we were able to work together and overcome them, and more people will join.  We have a feeling of community and everyone only wants to help everyone else.  Payments will go out every couple days when we find a block and by the end of the month everyone will be paid in full and normal payments going out on time, every time.

Hit another block today, the new security measures worked and hackers were kept out.  The payments went out.  We are still running behind, but people are getting paid.

No,

Good faith is not just words.  He pulled through on previous problems and paid out so he's not scamming here.  If he did he wouldn't have to work this hard.  There's a lot of faithful people and I've been the victim along with everyone else.  I missed a few payments and then they came back.  It will happen, just give it time.  Your balance accumulates until paid so that number is all good.

This is a very new pool operator and he is going through the growing pains.  But this pool works and does well compared to other pools.  It's more similar to solo mining and hitting the blocks.  Impossible to hit ethereum solo mining at 20-50MH.  Unless you like the lottery.   This is a good pool, it's growing and awards well to the miner. 

If he was a scammer, he  could easily reset the block rewards and say tuff, but hasn't and payouts happen.  This is just another reason to stay in here as you number grows the payout will eventually happen and when it happens later it will be bigger.  With the price of ether over $250 that means much bigger rewards for the same block percentage.  NOOB has worked hard and from what I've seen honorable in his word.  I too questioned it in the past but he proved his word to me and payouts in whole.  It will happen.  A scammer wouldn't have wasted the time he's spent here.

Not a scammer, an evil mastermind!  There are no such thing as hackers.  People don't try to steal ethereum, that would just be silly.  It's all me!  I spent thousands of dollars on a server, insane amounts of time setting up the server and getting it secure, countless hours answering emails and chat questions, even spent time creating a video to show new people how to setup a wallet and get connected to our server.  All the money and hard work has paid off by stealing 5 eth!

I'm rich now!  I'm headed to Vegas, if you need me I'll be in a the presidential suit at the most expensive casino resort I can find with half a dozen hookers and a large bag of coke for the next couple years.

Viva La Scamming! 

The professionalism really shines through here...

Look, at the end of the day you screwed up and costed your miners thousands of dollars. You were hacked multiple times and each time proclaimed "we are now hacker proof!!".  Clearly computer security isn't your forte, and if it isn't you should be warning people from day one you have no clue what you're doing.  They can then decide if the 1% pool fee makes up for the fact they may be mining for free.

To make it worse you promised after the first times to personally cover the loses.  This never happened.  You now say you will do so once the pool is proven to be secure.  What difference does that make?  Pay up what you promised and very clearly warn others that future blocks have a high probability of being lost.

Sorry you've lost so much time and money on this venture but you started this to make money off of pool fees.  It's a business and you've failed your customers.

You are wrong.  The only person who has lost anything is me.  People are still being paid, we are still finding blocks.  Sure we are behind, but it doesn't mean everyone won't get paid.  I did add some of my own money with the first hack to cover some of the payouts. 

If you're such a security expert, why don't you explain to us incompetent people how the hacks happened?  I didn't think so.

So why don't you calm down because you didn't get your 0.05eth yet and STFU until you know what you're talking about.

Thanks.

I'm still on the fence on whether or not you're a scammer. You can laugh and make jokes about it but it is entirely plausible that under the current circumstances you could walk away with about 5k if that is what you are doing. There have been 2 or is it 3 hacks? Is that 15eth? You've made claims about paying people back with your own money, or big miners giving up their reward to pay off others, etc. But there is no evidence of this ever occurring. If you had a deal with say 10 other miners that have the more powerful rigs and you guys were sharing the difference I don't think anyone would know for sure for a few more weeks. Your numerous promises are still floating out there, yet to be fulfilled, leading people on to keep mining...

Even if you're not a scammer it's kind of a moot point to me now. Your attitude is absolutely terrible and I would not trust you or want anything to do with you whatsoever.

3 block rewards and payments for anyone under .25eth is still indebted. Until you pay that off you should probably not be a self righteous obnoxious jerk.

You talk about evidence yet you refuse to actually look at the evidence.  Trace the block rewards that were stolen, it's out there for anyone to see, and you'll see them going into an account with millions and many comments about the account stealing money by hacking others.  So if I were keeping the money, why would I go to all the trouble just to steal 2 (yes, it was only 2) block rewards?  At the time of the first one eth was about $180, the second one it was around $250.  

Again, look at the evidence, look at the payouts.  If I were working with 10 of the bigger miners to steal the money from the smaller miners, why have there been so many small payouts?  Why would I steal 2 blocks out of 8?  Why would I do that after only having the pool open for a month?  If I were a scammer I would let the pool continue to grow, since it was growing very fast, wait until we were pulling in several blocks a day then say there was something wrong with the payment system, keep people mining for a while, then shut everything down, take the eth and be done with it.

Sorry, had to cut my message short as the pool hit another block as I was typing it.  So editing now to continue to tell you what an idiot you are for making assumptions without actually looking at the evidence.  And now another block, safe, and payments all went out until there is only $2 worth of eth left.  Everyone who had a pending balance of 0.1 or higher was paid in full.  Now when the next block hits, we will be back to 0.05 eth threshold. 

And yes I make jokes about it because the idea that I've scammed anyone out of eth is funny to me.  And yes, we did lose some miners over the lost reward, and we've had some come back after payouts were secure and they started getting paid what they were owed because as I keep saying, everyone WILL BE PAID, and I'm proving that.  Even you will be paid, if you haven't been already, because I won't steal money, even from someone like you.

Alright, that's a pretty decent argument. I didn't know that you could trace the transactions and see that it went to some theft lord. I will apologize for suggesting you could be a scammer. Though I will say you should have explained it all like this at first instead of calling me a dumbshit and being a sarcastic ass.

9 hours after the last post we've hit another block, but it's a damn uncle.  Still not bad for a short period of time.  Payments are still going out, no hacker issues for the last few blocks.  Looks like I finally managed to patch all the holes and keep them out.

I wouldn't apologize as you aren't completely wrong.  Only one of the blocks went to the 'theft lord' wallet.

For example, this theft went to a never used wallet and then quickly disappeared somewhere on Shapeshift

https://etherscan.io/address/0xe825371da6cbf8c1a6ecff1ec737f9d1cb3d2449

I'd hazard a guess different parties were involved in each of the incidents.

Warning! This pool seems to be a scam. More details here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2078147.0.

It's a pretty funny post, everyone should read it.  It's basically a 'I've been trying to cheat the system and they put up a warning saying it won't be allowed'  Then he cries and whines about it. 

You are pretty funny yourself for talking about cheating the system where the only "cheater" at this point is yourself for stealing funds.

All anyone has to do is check the transactions and they can see that I haven't cheated anyone.  Since I keep everything 100% transparent anyone can see anything related to the pool.

I guess you won't be pool hopping on our pool again, so everything worked out for the best.

For everyone else, I don't consider people who mine on our pool, then hop to another pool a pool hopper.  I'm only talking about the bot users who jump on the pool the moment we hit a new block with 20+ GH, which is more than twice the combined pool's hash power, they stay for an hour or two and their bot software sends them to another pool that has just hit a block to steal a big % from them.  We like prop, it's the most fair way so that everyone gets paid for the work they did.  But people who cheat the system like you do is not going to be tolerated.

How is he cheating the system?   It's a known approach. This is why no normal pool runs a straight up prop system anymore.  At the end of the day your 'tax', if true, is what's really the theft and I hope someone holds you accountable to that.  

This whole thing has been a big joke.  Why you have 100 people putting hash power against your sever is beyond me.   I guess part of it is that you're catering to the newcomers and unfortunately they are still too inexperienced to understand what they're seeing.

I'd recommend to them to take a meager 1% pool fee in exchange for stable payout, no hacks, no shady business and squeeze what they can out of mining eth before it's all over in a few months...  

How about I recommend you get a life and stop worrying about my business.  Legit miners get paid, cheaters will not.  Look it up, everyone who isn't a pool hopper sees it as cheating the system.  Prop works best for part time miners, noobs, people who don't run 24/7 mining rigs.  So changing up the system to pplns so that pool hoppers don't profit will hurt those that the pool caters to the most.  So I give a fair warning to pool hoppers.  You will not profit using noobpool, it's for real miners, not people trying to cheat the system.

If you don't like it Chiefsmith, don't mine there, it's pretty simple.  If other people think it's shady practice or don't like it for whatever reason, they don't have to mine there either.  PPLNS isn't the only way to stop pool hoppers. 

If pool hoppers were not a problem, pplns wouldn't be popular, so obviously they are a problem and I'm putting a stop to it on my pool and not going to be forced to change the payout system just because of a few people who want to cheat and make a quick buck off the work of others. 

As for the 100 people mining that you call inexperienced, maybe take a closer look.  There are a lot of miners with multiple rigs, I don't think I'd call them inexperienced. 

I'm really tired of arguing this with you and everyone else.  I'm done with this subject.  Bottom line, pool hoppers are not welcome, everyone gets paid, hackers are no longer an issue, I've never cheated, stole, or scammed from anyone.  So you can STFU now and move on.

The only problems the pool has is the negative comments around different forums.  Everyone is mining, we have been finding a lot of blocks, everyone is being paid, everyone is happy, and the pool hoppers have stayed away.  So life is good at noobpool.com. 

No one has bashed us in like 2 days.  Maybe because everyone is getting paid and the server is secure. 

No, just pointless arguing with you and your attitude.  People have been warned and they can choose as they wish to mine with.

BTW you might want to look on your own telegram channel.  It sure doesn't sounds like everyone is getting paid and is happy.

I knew I could count on you to bump this post with your negative comments.  Stalking us now too?  Shocker.. 

the hacks were unfortunate that's for sure but noobs been a man of his word. pointed my rig at ethermine for a few blocks while my pending balance got paid back and now im 100% squared up and back on noobpool.. payouts are consistently higher here vs ethermine so these guys can bitch and complain all they want, we're still here collecting while theyre paying fees lmao noobpool ftw!

The pool is bigger than ever, we recovered from our hack issues, have made the pool secure and blocks have been flowing in.  Except for the current one which is being stubborn, but we will get that one soon.

New block.  A bit over at 250% but the average is still 4% luckier at 96%.  so it was 4 days at 250% which should be 2 days at 100% with 10GH rate.  but we've doubled the hash rate to 20-25 GH.  So with a 100% statistical average, that's a block a day or less.  Luckier, soon, unlucky maybe 2 days.  these statistical averages are right on target and this long round balanced out the recent blocks found much sooner and earlier.

just solved another block.  That's 2 days at about 10-15GH.  But jump on board now cuz there's a few large miners who joined and we've jumped over 250GH.  That means we should be solving a block every 3  hours.  Things may start happening quickly now.

ok, now we are rockin'.!!!!   That's the fastest next block ever in under an hour.

correction:   now it's two more blocks  and two of them within 10 minutes.  this is screamin'......

That was fun, a couple guys bought a big bunch of nicehash power for a couple hours last night.  Ended up finding 4 blocks in about 2 hours.  They doubled their money, so it worked out for everyone.  Even hit one block at 10%.  The pool is going great.

You opened your mouth too soon... For a couple of hours you say.... but by your definition of cheaters that you have said that is them right there yet you pay them out + you say everyone is getting paid, so how does that relate to pool hoppers if they are part of the "everyone"

You're something else man ::)

you should change your main page.    I don't see a problem with pool hopping with large hash power.  in the end long term miners receive steady income and pool hoppers with large hash power help the pool solve blocks quicker.  rental power is the same as pool hopping but in huge massive numbers.  maybe your main page should be changed to remove that statement and since the major block hits I would think you'd be caught up by now on payments with greater than 0.05. 

If you had large pool hoppers, you may find your pool jump to greater than 100GH and blocks found daily which benefits everyone.  This weekend nicehash episode proves that rental and pool hopping is a good thing and helps all in the pool.

Get some more useful information on the main page.  The main page does lead to a negative vibe.

You sure talk a lot of shit, but then again you can hide behind your computer to do it, so have fun.  I think I remember telling you to fuck off at one point and stay out of my business.  It's good advice.

These guys were not pool hoppers, they were regular miners of the pool who wanted to boost it up for a few hours.  Mathematically pool hoppers cheat the system and it's just not going to be allowed.  There is no benefit to everyone if people jump in at the start of a block with 10X the hash power of the entire pool combined, take 90% of the block reward in a short period of time and jump to another pool to let everyone else spend the time to actually solve the block.  There are plenty of articles out that break down the math and show how it is a form of cheating.

I run an honest pool for honest miners.  Once the pool grows big enough, pool hoppers won't make enough of an impact to matter, then I won't bother with them.  But for now it is a problem.

What more information do you want on the main page.  There are links and step by step instructions on how to setup to mine, there is even a video to walk people through it.  It can't get any easier than that.  It's not the prettiest webpage, but it works.

that's fine.  the updated page just looks better.  even though it's simple.  it's ok.  doesn't look negative like before. 

And we are fully caught up from the loss from hackers.  No one lost anything except me.  Now when we find a block it gets credited to the miners and paid out, no more waiting for the next block.

One of our most loyal miners, Alfred was generous enough to help the pool out so we can continue to grow.  We have found around 20 blocks now since switching from our compromised wallet and adding all the extra security and have had no issues at all.

What's the advantage of smaller mining pool vs. larger ones?  I'm assuming it's kinda like solo vs. pool mining, just not as drastic.  i.e. the rewards are bigger, but they happen less often.

I have about 185 MH/s of Eth mining on nanopool now, but thinking about making a switch.  Quite honestly I wanted to try zcash or monero instead, but wouldn't mind trying a smaller pool first.

The advantage is the luck factor, it doesn't make much of a difference with pools like nanopool that find a block every few minutes, but when it takes a day to find a block and you get good luck and find one in an hour, you get paid the same amount as you would have if you would have mined a whole day.  But luck isn't always good, sometimes you hit a bad block and it takes a bit longer.  Our average is at 80% right now, so that's good.

There is also the community, we have a chat channel that always has people in it to help, answer questions, talk to, etc.  You can be one of 37k+ miners, or one of 120 miners.

What happened to the shit talkers who said they would never be paid?  The ones who said I stole the money myself?  Not much to say these days I guess.  Every person who has ever mined on noobpool.com and hit the 0.05 payout has been paid.  And those who didn't hit the payout, their balances are still there waiting for them to come back and continue mining.

You are stealing.  A bunch of people complaining now that you've retroactively decided to keep tranascation fees for yourself.  That's equivalent to a 2% hit in payments.   Even your own page still proudly proclaims "Pool always pay full block reward including TX fees and uncle rewards.".   Look at the last few block rewards - no transaction fees paid out!!   What a crock...

Yes, hide in the telegram chat, hide behind your keyboard.  Keep searching for something, anything.  You probably even mine on the pool.  What a pussy.  Yet with all your posts, all your shit talking, the pool keeps growing bigger each day. 

I think it's simply really. If you mine on the pool consistently and then order nicehash... that isn't pool hopping. But if you only mine when block is found to get round % and then leave, that is called "hopping". I need more popcorn for this thread :D

Been mining for almost 3 weeks now on the noobpool and payouts have been as expected.. working. Thanks N00b!

This new difficulty is really making it hard on smaller pools.  But then again we are stuck on a stubborn block. 

What is going on with the pool?

"Server has been brought down for maintenance and to refresh our ETH node. Estimated time is 2 hours. Until then you can mine on our ETC pool at http://etc.noobpool.com You only have to change the address and port number in your mining software."
 
This is the second time this happends in 24H.

Last updates on mined blocks is 24/8/2017
now only 2gh/s mining on this pool, everyone is leaving.

Noobpool are you there?

We got stuck on a block that went to over 400% variance and our blockchain database had grown very large over the last couple months, so it was decided to do a re-sync of the blockchain and in turn we ended up loosing the work we did on the 400% variance block, it pissed off a lot of people and a lot of miners left.  We also opened an ETC pool as well at http://etc.noobpool.com

So now we are having to rebuild our mining base, it's a slow process, but it will happen eventually.

Pool is down for me, is it just me? I really want to check out this 0% pool fee

Nope, pools are up and running.  About 70 people mining at the moment.

Been having good luck with the last few blocks, all sub 100 variance, last one was two were 27 and 10..  Our ETC node isn't having as much luck, but not as many people mining etc.

This post hasn't been bumped for a while.  Both ETC and ETH nodes are running great.  Steady at around 15GH, and payouts on time, every time.

Pool hoppers have been taken care of.  Actually they still use their bots to show up, but they get taxed and the tax money is spread out to all the miners, so in essence they are helping us find the block faster as well as helping everyone else make more money at the same time without being able to cheat. 

So instead of them jumping in with 4-5 times the total pool's hash rate and taking a big 60-80% of the share, they get a smaller share and the rest goes to the other people mining.  There is always some leftover shares with the code in which there is a lottery system in place and it gives that small amount to a random miner as a bonus. 

And it's safe for non pool hoppers.  They are known and on a list, so all regular miners who decide to just grab a bunch of NH power for some extra shares are safe from the tax system.  Only the people specifically on the list get taxed. 

Call it stealing, call it cheating, but that's what pool hoppers are doing.  They just get punished for doing it on noobpool.com

This way we can stay a prop system, which is the best system for part time miners and noobs, and don't have to go to pplns which hurts people who don't mine 24/7.

And don't forget about our etc node, the eth difficulty has gone way up and will stay that way for the next two weeks, so why not mine etc for a while.  etc.noobpool.com

Hi Just wondering if there was some issues at the minute?
I had my first payout on the 20th of this month, but since then the balances on the website havent changed from 0.00000, to be fair i only have 70+ mh, but would have expected the site to have updated the balances from 0.000 by now.
Help thoughts would be great.

Many thanks

Balances update when we find a block, and we have been stuck on a really difficult block for several days.

Hi thanks for the quick reply.
looks like we got through that one :)

Cheers

I'll point a few rigs your way and give your pool a try. 

Hello,

I wanted to know why on this page:  http://www.noobpool.com/#/blocks

for example the block 0x77692cd6e9ea6d4506bf628c5a7012500e68fc92f2ca2306847157bd49448c50 is having a reward of
5.000000

but when I go check to etherscan:
https://etherscan.io/block/0x77692cd6e9ea6d4506bf628c5a7012500e68fc92f2ca2306847157bd49448c50

The reward says:
5.189126247476750747 Ether (5 + 0.189126247476750747)

Does someone know?
Thanks

The amount (0.189) is transaction fees and all of it goes to the Noobpool owner.

  this pool is scam. why nobody deleted this theard?!

And how is it a scam?  Lets hear the details.  Is it because it's a prop pool that found a way to stop pool hoppers?  You must be one of those.  If so, on behalf of all the people mining on the pool, thank you for the free shares and hash power.  Everyone enjoys the bonus money they get from the tax put on the pool hoppers.

I have never tried your pool, but are you sure it is actual pool hoppers and not people who just setup your pool as perhaps one of their backup options in case their primary pool were to go down?

I primarily point my miners at Ethermine where they normally stay, but every once it awhile they fail-over to one of my backup pools, such as Nanopool. Since the mining software periodically rechecks the primary pool to see if it is back up, I may only mine on the backup pool for a short period of time before the hashrate moves back to the primary pool.  I would hate to think this sudden inflow of hash power to my backup pool would be considered pool hopping and be penalized for it.

The pool hoppers I am talking about are the people who jump on the instant we hit a block with hash power equal the the amount of the rest of the pool combined, stay till 30% variance and leave.  They always leave at exactly 30% and always jump on as soon as a block is hit.  Those are the ones who we have stopped, and some have noticed and removed us from their bot list, others still continue to do it because it's all run by bots and they never actually check to see if they are making anything or not.

People who only mine part time are not considered pool hoppers.  Just the ones like I described.

It doesn’t take long watching this pool to see what noobpool said is indeed true.  In the past couple weeks I’ve watched it closely.  I’ve even seen a single miner jump on with greater hash rate than everyone else on the pool combined.  The hash rate at least doubles or triples immediately after a solved block. Also as he said they are gone at 30% even though statistically they could stay as long as 43.5%.  But they leave beforehand so they can do the same things to more other pools. Examine the block chain and see how many pools they are getting funds from.  However, many obfuscate further using multiple wallets I’m sure.  I’m glad to see noobpool’s oversight. It’s the only chance PPS has to function as intended.  It’s a good thing to decentralize some hash rate to a well run smaller pool.  No complaints by me  so far.  Hopefully stays that way. 

Do you filter out the hoppers that jump at that 30%, or also the ones that stay a bit longer?. In other words how and by what rules do you determan when a hopper is a hopper.
And how much are they being "taxed"?  Maby its an idea to show it in the stats how much they have been taxed for.? Could work as a warning to keep them away.

(sorry for my English, its a bit rusty).

It's pretty easy to tell who the hoppers are.  As soon as we hit a block and suddenly we have 2-3 people jump in with big hash rates, then leave the instant we hit 30%, pretty clear it's a hopper.  The script doesn't try to autodetect hoppers and add them, we watch the pool close and when we see a pattern of it, then they are manually added to the script.  For people who jump on later, or stay longer, they don't get listed.  Since they always leave at 30%, they get a 70% tax which is given to the rest of the people mining automatically.  If a hopper from the list jumps on, every 2 minutes they get taxed so that if we hit a fast block they don't take all the reward.  The script also keeps track of how much they have mined so we don't take more than 70% of their total amount mined. 

Despite the recent negative reviews, the pool continues to grow, average hash rate between 20-25gh and around 180 miners on ETH.  ETC has dropped a lot since the fork, but still chugging along.  Soon to add Decred for dual mining.

As far as the negative things that have been said recently, it's all due to the fact that the pool keeps transaction fees and charges 0% pool fee.  Some people see the transaction fees as a type of pool fee and feel it's dishonest to say there is a 0% pool fee.  However since the fork, transaction fees are much less and the average is below 1% of the total reward.  No pool can run 100% free, there are costs to cover and maintain the pool. 

If you dig around other pools you will see a large amount of them that keep transaction fees, some keep transaction fees and charge a pool fee on top of that.  Others hide their fees, and even some that charge fees and keep all uncle rewards.  This pool is 100% transparent and you can view all blocks, rewards, how much the pool makes, etc.  And our home page clearly states at the top, in big bold letters, that the pool keeps transaction fees, which on uncles is nothing, and most blocks range from a few cents to a few dollars.  As an example, yesterday we found 3 blocks which came out to around $2700usd worth of eth.  Of that the pool made about $20, the rest all went to the miners.

So if you want to be part of a good community with an always active chat channel full of very helpful people, a pool that is PROP yet has no pool hoppers, although they are welcome because we have an anti hopper script that will take a % of their shares and give them to everyone else, and a pretty good luck variance, feel free to come join us.  However, if you want to be a small fish in a giant pond of thousands of bigger fish where you pay higher fees, no support, and no one to talk to, that's your choice.

And don't worry about being seen as a pool hopper if you're just a part time miner, or you actually hop around to different pools.  The hoppers I'm talking about are the bot using people who only hop on the instant we hit a block and leave by 30% variance.  And anything under 1GH isn't even looked at anyway.  We welcome part time miners and people new to mining.  Afterall, it is called noobpool.com

noobquestion for noobpool:

why blocks are now 3 eth instead of 5?

p.s. i'm a part time miner, i only mine in the evenings :D

That has nothing to do with this pool and everything to do with the Byzantium hard fork.  Notice also the blocks are solved faster. 

https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/10/12/byzantium-hf-announcement/

Yep, all blocks on all pools are 3eth now since the fork. 

I want to buy soms hp on nicehash.its poolverifier says noobpool is not suitable.

https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=faq#faqb3

What to do.

People use NH with the pool all the time.  Just make sure you set the password as #. 

Seriously bad luck this past week but not bailing yet and even throwing a bit more at it.  Glad all those other > 1 GH/s miners who jumped off real early should be getting taxed. 

Well we finally got over the hump but a 150-170 GH/s single miner is now tearing it up.  Nothing like a single miner adding 8x the hashrate of the whole pool.  Curious the payouts don't reflect a tax.  Is it because that miner stayed past 30%?  If so just curious why 30% was chosen as the cut off point if the white paper on the subject matter says 43.5% is the magic number?

Current Round Variance: 102%.  The miner with 170 GH dropped down to a minuscule 60 MH sometime between the 30%-45% variance (wasn't watching exactly when he dropped).  So he technically has 59% of round share right now and also has technically continued mining the whole block.  Did this miner find the loop hole and is he circumventing the "tax"?  Not complaining.  Just observing and being transparent.  I think miners on the pool would like to know.

Has anyone have any issues connected to this pool today?  I was on it fine earlier and my rig rebooted now I get an error stating socket was remotely closed by the pool.  Both of my rigs aren't connected with error messages for both.

No connection issues here

Can anyone connect to this pool today? I got "dip error" or some thing.I dont know what happen here. I will try again tomorrow for more info.

I took a couple days away for my birthday and hoppers went nuts.  I'm back, they are on the hopper list and everything is good now.  I guess I can't leave again.

Stupid question, but I just joined today (switched from ethpool), currently supplying around 230 MH.  My question is how long until I see any credit towards my account?  I'm a novice to mining in general, and just wanted to know how long I need to invest into this before I actually see ANY return at all.  Thanks for any help. 

Your balance updates every time a block is hit.  You just happened to join when we are stuck on a difficult block.  We usually hit at least 1 block a day.

We currently only have one node on the east coast of the US.  Would anyone be interested in joining if we added Asian and EU nodes to the server, or any current miners who would benefit from them?

Speaking of connections, I noticed I can never get to the pool when on AT&T cellular network.  Would be nice to be able to monitor workers on the pool and their status via cell phone data plan.  Works when I jump onto Wi-Fi.  DNS???

That's been an issue for iPhone users.  We have an android app on the google play store and and ios app coming out very soon, that should help with the issue.

That happens to be my luck all the time.  That's fine though, I'll tough it out, and hopefully it'll pick up again.  Thanks for the input :).

What’s the problem exactly?  I didn’t look into it further.

All afternoon I’ve had connection issues.  Socket closed remotely by pool.

So you're having issues mining?  It sounds like the system banned you for some reason.  Email me with your ip address and I'll fix it.  Or contact me on Telegram with it. 

Pm sent

Wow, we went several days without a block, finally hit at 650% variance.  Biggest one we have ever seen, but hit 3 blocks so far today so it's making up for that bad one. 

We are preparing to release our updated website with all new features, graphs, and a sleek new look.  Come join now and be sure to join our telegram chat to interact, hang out, chat, and learn.  It's a fun place to spend your time while mining.

We have had a string of difficulty blocks recently and has lowered our overall hash rate.  But we got through the last one and need more miners to get a more consistent rate.  So come join the pool, join our chat, learn from others, help others, and just have fun. It's a friendly place where everyone has a good time, not like the big pools where you are just 1 our of 35k anonymous users that no one cares about.  We treat people with 20mh the same as people with 1gh.  And we are PROP so part time miners can still mine without a problem, however hoppers who use bots to game the system and penalized and their shares go to the other miners.

Updated website design is now live.  Still working on new features for it, but looks a lot better than before. 

Had a few high variance blocks, but then we end up with a sting of low ones, so it evens out.  Despite the bad reviews and the people going out of their way to bad mouth the pool and calling it a scam, the pool continues to grow, people continue to be paid on time, and aside from a few people who think the pool should be 100% free and I should cover all server and transaction costs, it's profitable for everyone.

AVOID LIKE CANCER

A well designed scam. No historical data about the pools and payments. For 14 days we found 3 blocks 2 of which were uncles.

Running @ 283mh i got paid 0.06 eth in 14 days. A group of retards spamming "bad luck" in the telegram channel.

If you try to scrutinize the owner you'll get a ban.

If you don't want to loose your money don't mine there.

Good day Noobpool,
It is my first time trying your pool
My only concern is that the website is not mobile-friendly

I'm using Iphone, and. Have tried both Safari and Chrome app.
I can view the homepage of your site, but as I tried viewing the account, it won't load,
I have cleared my history and cache and still it is the same,
I tried using the desktop and it is working,

As I am always outside the house working, I usually am using my mobile phone to view or access my account
And is there a chance that you will be adding an asia server?

Thanks

Thanks for a great pool.
I have been mining here since janauar and no problem at all.

I'd like to mine here, but "Connection closed by pool" messages are preventing me.

I just joined 2 days ago and gave a 2 week try for noobpool (~270mh) to see how its work, will bring an update at end of the second week.

BTW I got reply from noobpool for my question in minutes, it was quite positive.

whats your setup?

Got my second payout without problem, pool is looks good so far.

Nice pool for small rigs, had no any issue so far.

Hello

Also new to this pool

I am using ethminer + Jaxx wallet

I am noob at mining and have  a question: How can make sure ethminer is comunicating properly with my wallet?.

I know i have to wait some time before finding/resolving/sharing earnings of a block.But i would like to make sure that once that is achieved i will get some credits and not loose that computer time.

I see few blocks founds in March compared to February. What happened?.Netwoek dificulty rised or some big miner left?

.....Is this still alive?.What do u think?

Yeah, March was a difficult month, a lot of uncles and not a lot of blocks.  Things have picked up a lot for April, only 2 uncles so far and plenty of full blocks.  Our average hashrate is around 25gh and the difficulty has dropped a bit, so we are seeing more blocks.  Also a few adjustments to our node seems to have resolved the uncle issue.

I moved and had very limited access to the server until today because I moved to the middle of nowhere and internet has been a real pain to get setup.  But I'm back now and hopefully we can continue to grow the pool.

If anyone gets a 'Connection closed by pool' message, just contact me through email noob@noobpool.com and I can resolve it for you.  It's caused by the server banning you for some reason, like too much OC on your cards and it's submitting bad shares, or you had some issue with your command line that the server didn't like.  The security measures are pretty tight and people get banned by mistake sometimes.  But I can unban you, just send me your ip address by email or in our telegram chat.  Email is usually faster.

do you have any info for nicehash setup to mine on your pool

Sure, use Daggerhashimoto as the algorithm, noobpool.com as the host name, port 8008 or 8009 for higher hash rates, and the password as #.  Put your wallet address as your username.