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Hey all, as I was getting many requests, I have made a pool for DigitalCoin: https://dgc.epools.org/
Pool fee is 1.5%, payout scheme is proportional.
Only stratum is supported by now.

* ~100% match to income calculated by coinwarz.com *
* payouts after 5 block confirmations *

Come join us!

p.s. my pools reputation thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=200074 and here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=203265

Very nice.

first block solved, drop in guys :)

oooh. got our first orphan as well. though 1 orphan of 27 blocks isnt that bad :)
also the DGC network seems healthy and we're getting 100% income match to what mining calculators (like coinwarz.com) show.

Welcome to blockchains that work as they should. :)

yep. that's awesome. cheers!

Hurrah!
Share diff 64, not 128!
Only 5 confirmations (as the network requires), not 120!

yep. all things configured properly :D
i'm not just cloning mmcfe installations. i care about stuff ;)
and i don't use mmcfe at all...

Alright, I'll take my rigs out of solo and see the accuracy for myself.   ;D

-tb-

hehe. welcome!

a bit more on that... i'm running pool software of my own, and i've made it to actually check whenever blocks get confirmed, not some hardcoded value that i've got to change here and there. and i'm also going to put share VARDIFF at some point. got some beta code for that stuff, but it has to get some more testing before putting it to production use.

Well done!  Accurate payments and hashrates.

-tb-

Only 5 confirms for payout is a big deal with miners...that should be in your title dude...

Well done, as usual, Erun.

added that to the title. thanks for the suggestion. cheers! :)

oh, we've got some lucky time - solved 5 blocks within 3 minutes lol :D

looks like a great pool erun, tyvm :)

sure. we've got plenty room to grow pool's hashrate before it goes any close to 45% where i'll close new regs :)

instant gratification... well, almost.   ;D

-tb-

yea i love how green the block stats are :D

Right on, cheers!

switched stats updater to once/3min

Hey guys, mine doesn't  run. Is there something I missed? I've got the usual setup but something's missing I'm sure ???

check your miner settings. and make sure your miner is supporting stratum protocol. otherwise you'll have to install stratum mining proxy.

Joined it ^^

added difficulty ticker!

diff gone down, drop in guys, profit time ;)

Site down?

Anti-Malware blocking your site, now is ok. :)

no, why? running smooth at 121mh/s now. server isn't breaking a sweat :D

Do you have Malwarebytes realtime protection running?  I have it running and it is blocking some of the pool sites.  If I disable malwarebytes, I can access the sites or go to another PC not running malwarebytes and can access the same sites.

-tb-

just wondering what that thing is. never heard of it, seems like it's malware itself ;D

Server location?

europe. the external pipe goes out at romanian ddos-protection provider, javapipe.com (voxility networks).
though it is safe to mine from usa or other locations if your latency to the server (ping dgc.epools.org) is less than 200ms.
stratum protocol is redundant to those latencies as opposed to longpolling.

why did you just double the price of cashing out coins at your site just now with no warning?

A .2 withdraw fee for manual and auto payouts is higher than any other site I have ever personally seen, and that even includes those that don't charge any fee percentage of mined coins. Its great that you opted to payout after only 5 confirms when creating the pool, but doubling the cashout fee with no warning seems to be poor form IMO.

i've just noticed some payouts gone with 0.2 tx fee, thus updated pool to reflect those. though that seems to affect less than a half payouts, so i'm taking that out back to 0.1. sorry for any inconvenience. i will check those transactions that were actually sent with less fee and refund corresponding accounts.
again, that was done not to take any extra profit but to stop losses.

BIG POOL SOFTWARE UPDATE!

changes:
* difficulty retarget ticker (may be inaccurate first few hours after last retarget)
* i've changed pool's payout scheme to PPLNS. that should help miners with lower hashrates to get more stable payouts.
* huge backend optimizations which lead to:
- stats are now updating every minute instead of once in 3 minutes
- stats web pages should now load like 10x times faster (almost instant!)
- pool can now handle even more load while not breaking a sweat

stay tuned!

p.s. there still may be small interface glitches in stats, i'm catching & fixing those

is there glitching going on now? Pool hashrate is 24mh...compared to 125 at the "other" pool? Is something wrong?

people need to hop on this pool, Vern has around 75% of total hash right now...

whats the other pool?

Vern's pool was the one I was talking about.

what's wrong is that bigvern doesnt care about spreading hashrate.

I have 1.1 mh/s and I should get about 280 coins per day at the current diff, but I only get 150 coins...

http://www.coinwarz.com

My Average coins/hr = 6.5 - mining about 2 hrs on your pool.

you have to wait for a hour or two for this to set up. since payout scheme is now PPLNS and average calculates over the last hour.

pool security fix applied!

just added a filter to show only payouts or withdrawals in transactions list. should be useful. enjoy! ;)

drop in people, server isn't breaking a sweat ;)

Was that the stratum bug/flaw thing affecting LTC pools?

yep. we had that part of stratum code at our pools too.

Good to hear that's all fixed.

Did you notice any foul play? Things seemed pretty good.

nope, i didn't find any problems, but thought it'd be good to apply the fix and say we're secure :)

Wish I could join you pool but not getting paid like on Big Vern's pool ... could be because from AZ, USA ping to your server is not that great: over 200 ms

Ping statistics for 37.221.163.27:
    Packets: Sent = 175, Received = 175, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 194ms, Maximum = 910ms, Average = 222ms

200ms should be fine with stratum... it's just pool hashrate not big enough to cut the unlucky rounds.

drop in guys, we need more hashpower! :)

I recommend this pool.  :)

Have just been using dgcpool.com guys and I have been getting ripped off, I have been mining over 12 hours and only got 28 coins... I had the same problem with wemineltc... Something is very a miss! I have 1400+ kh/s

WTF is going on?

Sorry I know this is not your pool op but couldn't find a thread for dgcpool...

So pissed off with this!

Edit: just to add I thought it was a bit wrong so I noticed my coins and how many blocks were yet unconfirmed, came back and some blocks had confirmed but no change to my coins!

does this has anything to do with http://dgc.epools.org ? Not sure why did you post this here...

I posted here cos it was the first dgc pool thread I saw but I probably shouldn't have, made my own thread now...

Can I just ask how many coins would you expect me to get a day with 1400 kh/s? And can I try out your pool for a day and get you to look at my stats to see if you can see if something is wrong? I checked the calc and it says I should get 112 or something so 28 for over 12 hours is nowhere near what I should be getting...

Just don't understand it, I have never had these problems before...

Edit: I have joined your pool and hope you can help me get to the bottom of it... If I get problems on your pool then it must be something my end... If not then I don't know what to think... Btw if all goes well I will stick with your pool, it looks nice!

if your account is snaz32, you are mining for like a few minutes now so there's nothing to check yet. wait for a hour or two and check your stats then.

Yeah like I said I will give it a day mate... But I can already see a MASSIVE improvement! Don't even need you to check or to wait an hour... This is what I should be getting... It is already saying 1.92 an hour and I have banked like 1.6ish... I knew something was wrong... It must be those pools mate, what else can it be?

Edit: and I know that the payouts are still increasing... Come on, 28 for over 12 hours is not right mate, not by a long way...

good to know you enjoy this pool, though this is just not the right thread to complain about other pools ;)

Yeah I know I was just so frustrated mate... Everywhere I turned I seemed to be getting ripped off... Didn't know if I had a trojan or what... Yours was the first thread I found after googling the other pool so came in here... Glad I did now anyway cos finally found one that gives me what I should get...

hey guys, drop some more hashrate to this pool! :)

Hey fella, my average coins per hour seems to have dropped of a cliff over the last hour, do you know why that is? I did notice some notices in cgminer saying "lost 30 shares due to stratum disconnect" or something like that... Do you know what causes this? Cheers

stratum should not disconnect unless you had some local connectivity interruptions. i can't see anything bad on server graphs. and about lower payouts, that is due to a bad luck, that happens sometimes. you can notice some 3-5-10 minutes blocks in block stats, that's why payouts were slower that time.

Hmmm, well I am hard wired internet wise and not running anything else off it like youtube or such, just normal browsing... I didn't notice the 3-10 minute blocks and when I saw it, it was dipping up and down even though they were all 1-3 minute blocks... I was getting like 5.5 per hour but this went down to 2.5 at its lowest then hovered around 3ish for quite a while... It is still doing it now...

I will reboot my miner and see what that does... Thanks for looking at it anyway, I guess there must be an issue my end afterall...

Edit: rebooted and did an internet speed test... 39 ms ping 7 mb download but only 0.8 mb upload... Is there anything there that could be an issue? That upload looks rather pants...

Edit: Can't say I can see any improvement since the reboot, though I haven't seen that stratum error (though haven't really been looking)... Still I have banked 17 odd in like 4 hours so much much better than before... I'll keep an eye on it anyway... I do realise that there is some varience with these things and that payout will go up and down, it just seemed to stay down even though the blocks were coming in thick and fast... I would expect it to start going back up but it went down some more then up and down, but never back to the 5 odds level I was getting before.

Edit: Seems to be going back up again, might have just been the usual pool varience or due to the orphans maybe? Still a little concerned about the lost shares issue but I will look into that some more my end... Thanks again for looking into it for me...

Edit: Okay I am getting some more stratum disconnects and I am checking internet while that happens, other sites load fine and snappy as usual but yours does not, i am fairly sure it is not my end. Is there a way we can illiminate the problem? Or find out for sure which end it is?

Oh and the miner also reports that the stratum is not responding... Cheers bud

diff dropped a bit, get in! squeeze some more coins out of the network :D

Holy orphan's batman... Does that happen because of how fast they are coming in?

not sure. we should ask baritus about that.

Baritus? Who is that?... I have read before that is the reason for orphans previously but not sure how true it is.

he's the developer of the DGC ;)

I see, to be honest the only thing I know about dgc is that you can buy a mars bar with them! lol... Oh and a house, though i looked at them and I wouldn't touch either with a barge pole! lol

i had a short conversation with him and he said it's okay to have some that amount of orphans. not sure if he'll come up here himself.

Yes but did he say why? lol... Oh and what actually is an orphan? Again I do remember reading about it but I do so much reading the lines can get blured... Are they actually coins? If so are they lost forever? I would like to know these kinds of things but purely out of curiosity so no stress if you don't know/can't find out...

Would be inetersting to see what baritus has to say about the future of dgc, like whether there are any upcoming developments... I suppose the dgc forum would be the place to ask that though, I have probably spammed your thread too much already! lol... Sorry about that, although at least you get a bump ;)

this is because a network latency occurs sometimes. orphan blocks mean then never got to the blockchain so they aren't valid thus noone gets those coins.

So they are gone forever then? Thanks for the info.

Those Mars bars work out at ~18.32 USD buy it now.

I hope he already sold a few :0

Wow, that is a pricey mars bar lol... I think when it was posted though the price was a fraction of what it is now, though it would of still worked out very expensive... crazy stuff

announce: all of my pools now got proper HTTPS certificates, thus it is recommended now to visit them at https://[pool_name].epools.org link

is your pools down? can't access them  :(

Me neither.

Two of biggest DGC pools are having problems.
Hmmm. I wonder why..

still lots of dgc to cash out on the pool hope they come back. lesson: should not keep coins on any pool must cash out from time to time...

server got a kernel panic while i was asleep. restoring it now.

fixed. up & running again. sorry for the inconvenience :(

hello, just wonder my account balance is still on same ammount and i'm still mining.
it didnt change for about three hours, hashrate is still appearing.

been ming for a few hours. My miners show I am hashing. My hashrate is being displayed in the pool stats. Yet I have been credited 0 DGC in this amount of time.

The issue is that the block stats lists the amount of each award I should receive. Even after all the confirms come in, it is not crediting coins to my pool account.

If you look at my transactions log, you will find that I cashed out 60 coins and then quit hashing on the pool for a few hours. This is the most recent transaction history it has for , despite doing a multiple hour mining session since then. I do not know why the payout owed is as low as it is, my estimated reward got REALLY low there towards the most recent blocks, but whatever.

From the most recent block #241,394 and the first block I participated in during the mining session in question (block 240,655) I have added every partial reward that I have been credited. This amount is 21.39297 DGC. Please note that I am still mining in the pool, so depending when you read this, there will be more DGC owed to me.

Please fix this ASAP.

Im going to have to mine somewhere else until this is resolved.

EDIT: I have tallied the entire DGC balance due to me from my multiple hour mining session where I have still been credited with zero coins. From the most recent block of  #241,578 through the starting block of # 240,655 my block rewards total 28.20317 DGC.

I hope this is corrected soon. I speak highly about your pools not only on this forum, but also on multiple exchanges. I understand that earlier today there was site issues, and perhaps when you got the pool back online you messed up somewhere. Stuff happens. I have not lost faith in your services, but I DID have to hedge myself by mining at another pool until I know things are running smoothly again.

Feel free to private message me if it is easier to send my DGC to my address rather than crediting my pool account. Thanks for your help erundook.

updates daemon hanged, just restarted it. please give it few minutes to update your balances. all the payouts are accurate.
again, nothing bad happened except web interface not showing updates to your balances.

everything is back to normal. feel free to get back to the pool :)

I’ve patched stratum software at DGC pool so it should be able to squeeze a bit more blocks out of the network, doing less stales thus increasing miners payouts.

8k of mining power on this site the past few hours and no payouts!  :'(

sorry, the last stratum patch went wild while i was asleep. it got locked up and was waiting for me to get up and fix it.

hey guys, I started getting about 40% DISCARDED WORK since two weeks ago on dgc.epools.org. Used to have normal discarded before that.
High discarded rate shows in cgwatcher as a lower efficiency which is not the case on other pools.

what is discarded work? rejected shares?

No, CGminer defines discarded work as "work from block no longer valid to work on" , and I never got a an answer to how does cgminer determines discarded work..

looks like new block notifier was stalled, should be better now

was that related to the discarded work or the slow finding new blocks rate which caused the low payments ?

low amount of found blocks was related to the high amount of discarded work which was related to a stalled new block notifier thus not sending the new work to miners fast enough.

discarded work is still at about 40%

also payments are still low.

how do you monitor that 'discarded work'? could you please be a bit more specific about that?
got no complaints from other miners.

And you shouldn't, that is fine.

I was just wondering if its related to the problem.

If you are familiar with CGWATCHER it(discarted work) can be found at the "status" tab on version 1.1.3 and lower or at the report tab under "Current Mining Session".
On some pools the discarded work rate could be at 0-10% or higher up to 40-50%..

forget it, im probably chasing a shadow..

^ It suffers from high "Discarded work" and some stale shares..

try adding -s 1 to your cgminer string. i was mining there for more than 10hrs and got around 1% stales+rejects

Already had it..
It looks ok now that the difficulty is high and everyone left  ;D

So how do I withdraw my coin from this pool... ?

click on balances and on the bottom left you'll see an actions panel which allows you to withdraw your coins

cashed out on all pools where i still had balances :)

Connection problems ?

DGC daemon hanged for unknown reason. restarted it.
please drop an email to support@coinex.pw to get a faster reaction to your report
thanks!

Again, 10% rejected.  must be due to dgc network overload as usual..
DGC network is so weak...

i personally blame auto-switching pools for that. they're doing too much damage lately. look at PXC stuck at diff 8 for days without any significant hash rate...

Hashrate drops about 30% every few seconds while mining on coinex.. happens on 2 rigs, doesnt happen on other pools or solo mining the same coin.


** changing to "-q 2" did the trick.
thanks erundook!  ;)

It's not caused by DGC network.

erundook is right.