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Hi Everyone,

I want to introduce to you a new Monero mining pool: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu

Our goal is to provide the most efficient and effective mining solution for everyone.

Features:

•    3x Faster Share Validation
•    24/7 Strict Monitoring For Any Problems
•    Stratum Protocol
•    Variable Difficulty
•    Strict Firewall
•    Low 1% fee
•    DDOS protected.
•    Very low orphan rate.
•    Minimum payout 0.5XMR
•    Always the Newest Daemon.
•    Almost Instant Email Support.
•    Urgent News by Email Feature.

Stratum Ports: 3333;5555

Almost Instant Support: pool@cryptoescrow.eu

Mining code:
2014.06.17 Pool updated:

• We have raised ulimits and added auto restart for Monero daemon, which results in a more stable and profitable pool.
• Added email sign up feature for urgent news.
• We plan to have DDOS protection starting Thursday.

 2014.06.19 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• We are now DDOS protected.
• Running smoothly and fully set up.
• 0% Orphans after changing servers.
• Added port 80 and 8080 for mining through HTTP ports.
• Updated to the newest daemon.

 2014.06.26 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• Pool is being prepared for reopening at 28th of June.

 2014.06.28 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• Up & Running again
• Fees changed: 0.8% pool fee and 0.2% goes for pool code development
• Added minimum payout of 0.5XMR

 2014.07.01 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• Updated Pool Code
• Replace the Daemon with a More Stable Custom Edition

 2014.07.08 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• Updated to Freshest Pool Code
• Added port 443 for Corporate Mining

 2014.07.11 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• Upgraded to a more powerful server
• Lowered minimum payout from 0.5XMR to 0.2XMR

 2014.12.01 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• New highly skilled admin started working with the pool
• All pending payouts or stuck payments were made

If you are mining Monero and you want to have all the updates as soon as they are released our pool is your best choice!

Good luck, mining!

If you would like to receive news related to mining Monero(software news, hardware comparison, community news, pool news, etc.), subscribe to our mailing list: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/sign-up.html

too bad it's not scrypt - I'd give you some business - sound nice.

Seriously, how cool is it to have your name listed as a feature?

You've done some good work my friend!

Are you going to publish your changes to the node-cryptonote-pool project?

nice pool so far ;)
little low hashrate atm..

i noticed that the stratum connection drops sometimes which leads your site to think i have lost hashrate (i guess because its a new connection). not a problem for me: but your poolhashrate could suffer...

btw: what kind of stratum-lp are you using? atm you dont have much miners but if you have more a c implemenation helps a lot

Tonight at midnight I'll add another 12-15k hashing power to your pool.

sorry for asking if it is a stupid quastion but , will the payouts be more then 0.1 XMR?

because i am just started with this coin and both of my wallets haven t recieved anything from bittrex where i buyed my first coins and i am waiting to see if any of my wallets is realy working

btw :pool is working fine for me

the pool can promote the some coin in the future, and i hope more people support the project...

Payout depends on how many hashes you have sent when the block is being unlocked.
In this pool you are more likely to receive the highest payout possible in longer term.
In short term there is a lot of luck involved - and we are being very lucky right now :)

ok tanx but when i read the official tread i understand that payouts with an ammount less then 0.1 are not accepting by the wallets ?

i am mining with 250 hs so is it enough to recieve amounts or will the ammounts from mining with 250 hs to small and is it better to stop mining then?

ok tanx for the answer , guess i just have to wait and see what happens

btw: if a block is found , how long would it takes to see an ammount in my total paid of the pool?

it is ok , total paid of the pool is now 0.039968226502 XMR , so now i have to wait till the section "total paid" have an ammount that is bigger then 0.1 XMR if i undertand it all right?

^Did you entered "refresh" in your wallet?

i will have a try....

Your pool daemon stuck? or just luck...

Edit: It's OK. It's much worse now. Currently the pool is not finding blocks.

because my walleste are still empty , so is it or isn t it pssible to recieve a amount of 0.039968226502 XMR in my wallet?

^It is still possible with the current pool software. I received 0.0329+ from the last block the pool found (height 86324). Again: type "refresh" in your wallet (make sure the daemon is synced) and then press Enter.

ok tanx for the answer , but the pool says from 3 hours ago that i earned an ammount but still nothing in my wallet or do it need more time to shown in my wallet?

Wolf's code optimization skill ensures that this pool is more efficient (more profitable) than the others  :)

Hm, almost 10% of network and no block found?

wasted 5 hours ... no block found  ???

got no payments in last 8hours???

so the mined xmr are lost or...?

As Wolf0 said - Everything is fixed up now - paying out automatically without any problems.

Also we set up a strict monitoring system, so if we have a problem in the future - probably other pools are having the same, but we will be the first to notice and fix it.

And again You are very welcome to join us!

I hope you are monitoring it properly at the moment. It was obvious from the second hour after the big hash joined (other pools DDOS) and you didn't found a block (instead of 4) that there is a problem; however I left my hash power connected to your pool in spite of that. After all if your pool was lucky I would get about 1+ MRO (including friends of mine hash rate) and 2-3 weeks ago you sent me 2 asking for an address in #monero-otc - there are still a lot I'll return you from the fees :).

I am looking at switching to your pool because you seem like a very competent developer, but now that it is growing in size, do you have any DDOS protection in place?

Are you sure? Its been another hour with a high hashrate and still no blocks.

Woohoo a block!

Pool is running extremely smoothly, check out our statistics after we disabled the retarded firewall:

 Height    Maturity    Difficulty    Block Hash    Time Found
88465   56 to go   399600756   1410ee3bfeaf308f670cab9cd7204b6541cdc99dc4dcfd39a41d690e91b66491   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:59:52
88460   51 to go   401167020   0079bcc803d367fe94c2685d22fe5828bdd3d2e7ec482f91809453382feb48df   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:56:45
88457   48 to go   401659979   d427b5a18d61adbc065667e718cbb82f5df367a7a6c16335ce6bcf74aaa73f80   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:55:52
88448   39 to go   405109473   7b9ff92741df2d90d469cc83ed2a28eb58a265fa54b7700cecd5a2066f3a4a2c   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:44:17
88431   22 to go   404951542   095a84eae3a962932a0100953362d0c2bb8b979c60591e3d04ddf0823ddfb607   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:31:33
88416   7 to go   408950192   03b1a1cafd8c5a969dbe28c6bed0c317ff8c8bbf366ac2d2bf48045d7f009240   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:15:26

~400kh/s and 6 blocks in 45 minutes.

http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu was updated:

• We have raised ulimits and added auto restart for Monero daemon, which results in a more stable and profitable pool.
• Added email sign up feature for urgent news.
• We plan to have DDOS protection starting Thursday.

If you would like to receive news related to mining Monero(software news, hardware comparison, community news, etc.), subscribe to our mailing list: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/sign-up.html

Awesome, glad to see DDoS Protection is coming Thursday :D

Seems to be a while since we found a block though... With the pool sitting at around a 12th of the network hashrate... We seem to be very unlucky :[

Last block found time as of now: 6/17/2014 10:01:35 AM

With normal luck and current pool hash rate and difficulty it should find a block each 15 minutes. There is something wrong with all the pools. Did you added the other big pools with the --add-priority-node when starting the daemon?

EDIT: Is it possible someone or the GPU miner to withhold blocks.

So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?

We are using two servers now - one DDOS protected server for the website and another DDOS protected server for stratum mining.

Fellow, Miners,

We have some important information:
http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu
2014.06.17 20:30GMT: Moving to a new DDOS protected server
Pool stats can get very crazy - Dont Worry
Point your miners to:
stratum+tcp://5.254.116.138:3333 or
stratum+tcp://mine.cryptoescrow.eu:3333

Good luck, mining!

I understand all of this as I run and have ran multiple pools. I am curious to to why you need to completely drop pool.cryptoescrow.eu so suddenly? Why not just change the dns for pool.cryptoescrow.eu to point to the new stratum server IP? I had quite a bit of Kh/s pointed at it and there was no warning/time announced ahead of time for the switch. I do however appreciate the new faster DDoS protected servers.

Ahhh.. Well thanks for being honest :D I have pointed my miners to the new IP for now, hopefully everyone else will follow!

Now we just have to find a block  ;D

lol This is way I hold you in high regard sir. Most shit heads would of just glazed over this lapse.

Everyone makes mistakes... what makes you a man is how you deal with them.

^If someone have an optimized miner and then use some of it's power to withhold blocks and some of the power to solo mine - he's getting payed by the pool less then if he didn't withhold, but he's sharing the bad luck with all the other miners, so he's getting payed without actually contributing. He could also solo mine on lower difficulty with his other hash rate. I'm just curious if there are miners on the pool, who are not sending any high difficulty shares, not finding any blocks and are too unlucky (out of the statistically justified intervals) in spite of their hash power.

^See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441465.msg7282674#msg7282674 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441465.msg7282674#msg7282674) and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441465.msg7301154#msg7301154 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441465.msg7301154#msg7301154)

i'd say pool-hopping:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24966.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32814.0

once i find a way to get the last block from api i'll do it too ;)

i never checked... but it seems weird thats not on the faq page

just checked git: its proportional

 2014.06.19 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• We are now DDOS protected.
• Running smoothly and fully set up.
• 0% Orphans after changing servers.
• Added port 80 and 8080 for mining through HTTP ports.
• Updated to the newest daemon.

good news, i've just moved my rigs to your pool

updated :

sometimes, your pool show "connection error", and your site don't show actual my hash after run a half hour

With our New servers and updated Configuration we have 0% orphans!
Thanks to Wolf0 and great server support.

Two suggestions:

• Please add a backlink to this thread on the pool's support or contact page somewhere. This makes it easier for visitors to find past information and issues and gives another avenue for support.
• Please do something about the dust tx being sent. For example, put a minimum payout threshold or similar. This is a major problem atm because dust payouts from the pool becomes exorbitantly expensive, or even impossible, to spend.

Just a shout out to their support for this pool - The best support I've encountered with a pool.

1st suggestion - done.

2nd suggestion - we know about this problem and we will set up minimum payout on Monday or Tuesday.

Thank you very much for your ideas!


Thanks, we plan on staying this way :)

That's how you know you're doing something right.

You forgot to mention that we are being DDoSed, but continue to mine blocks and stay online :)

Mind to fix the delays?

Last Share Submitted: about a minute ago - OK
Hash Rate: displays -30% (+/-)
Total Hashes Submitted: OK
Total Paid: delay

I keep getting "Stratum authentication failed....retry in 10 secs.  Anybody around??  lol

Ahhhh....cool.  Thanks

I just need to get rid of this error.  I can probably put 2 or3 more crappy cpus on it after that lol

probably...yea

I think the trouble is on my end.  I have not tried any x11.....x13....or anything new.  i am pretty sure it is me


Could it be a port??  I have no clue on this type of mining.  i just wanted to learn.  Maybe get a couple while i am learning

i am using cpuminer.  i think i have to open a port though in the gateway.  no big deal but i have to read everything to see which one.

Hash Rate: 1.09 MH/sec
Block Found: about 5 hours ago at the moment
How it's possible?? No blocks for 5h.

probably just a front-end problem for stats, which means blocks are found by the pool but doesn't appeared on the stats for a while

no block in 10 hours? anyone know when this will be fixed?

Same for me... and not just that... Stats (and wallet) are not updating.
Like daemon crashed or something is not running well?
OP, please update us with info.

 Last Share Submitted: about a minute ago - OK
 Hash Rate: OK
 Total Hashes Submitted: OK
 Total Paid: Stopped

What about adding additional daemon restart logic?
Pool don't get a block 2.5x the time it should => restart the daemon. 12 hours are quite a lot without any monitoring.

I sent an email to the support address.

ddos ? are you kidding I think they just steal moneros

here is the support reply i got:

I did sign up to their mailing list to receive urgent updates.
Strange I didn't get notified when they know about the problem.
Let's hope our hashes are not gone and payments will be made once they get everything up to speed again.

+1

14 hours now, that's quite a lot of hashes to waste.

Sure. What about the unpaid ones? Stays unpaid?

I understand that this can happen if some piece of software hangs.
But why didn't Mindless kick it when you told him so?
And why was there no warning on the mailing list once you found out about the problem?

I lost pretty big on this and I'm quite p*##@d off :(
If you do the math, 1% for a week does not really come close to the losses.

Lower fees for a larger amount of time would pay people back over time after a while. I'd imagine you have a list of the addresses who had unsubmitted shares during this time. You could even just do it for them as a kind of loyalty thing to get them back on board?

I'm just speaking for myself here, but i'd be back on board with my 3.5mh if you did this. If i'm willing to, then i'm sure others would be also, if thats the case over the long term i'm sure it would make you more and you'd probably gain more mining share than the ~1mh/s that were mining on your pool before this happened.

Cheers!

I'd like it if i made the 10 or so coins i could have mined back... but at a 1% fee reduction, that'd take 2 months if the difficulty remains the same... :P

Its really just a business decision on your part Wolf0. I have no idea what your costs are, what you want to get out of the Pool and/or what your plan is going forward. Or whether or not its worth offering that kind of incentive to get people back on board, most people tend to forget things quickly so it might be pointless?

I'm sure if you decided to do it for the addresses that verifiably missed out on returns you'd gain a loyal user base though. Its your decision as to whether the inevitable loss that occurs is worth the loyalty and the potential gains via word of mouth/forum checking when choosing pools for moneo.

Most importantly, whatever you decide to do, make it public (perhaps a banner on the pool page so people know) and stick to it :)

Cheers mate :)

Hmm. My Total Paid: 3.084388115865 XMR doesn't match my balance in wallet (2.367636057757) how come? Does it take 24+ hours before coins get in to wallet?

Hi Everyone,

We are working on a solution how to make up for yesterday.
The main idea is to grant a very low fee to everyone who mined yesterday for a couple of months to make up for your losses and for everyone else to keep 0.5% fee for one more week.

I am working on finding a technical solution for this and will post more information later.

Wolf is making sure the auto restart script works smoothly in the future.

Also working on adding minimum payout threshold of 0.5XMR to the pool.

Pool will be down for ~10-20minutes when we install minimum payout threshold.

Can you make sure you have refreshed your wallet? The payments are fully automated and they shouldn't be delayed.

Yep. Whenever the My Total Paid goes up my wallet balance goes up by the same amount, still being ~0.7 behind.

Please PM me your wallet address, Wolf said he will take a look at what has happened here.

I asked him if the payments can get stuck and he said:

PM'd. Thanks for the help :)

No block for an hour. daemon stuck again?

No, the daemon is not stuck and wont be - we made sure of that and we are monitoring everything.
An hour without a block is normal with our current hashrate. It depends on luck, we sometimes find 2 blocks in one minute and do not find a block for two hours - it is normal and it evens out in the longrun.
If you are not sure, always check pool block history: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/#pool_blocks

Sever down?

Looks like the stats page is down. Is the server still working?

I'm getting timeout connecting to server.

Yep, it's down

You should at least bring the server back up for now with a notification with a time and date that it will no longer be operational. This gives your users time to move their miners.

We are sad to see Wolf0 leave our pool's team, but we are up and running again.
Wolf, thanks for all your input and good luck!

We had help from zone117x, he will also help us in the future regarding the pool set up

Pool fees have been changed: 0.8% pool fee + 0.2% pool development funding(goes to zone117x)
Minimum payout set to 0.5XMR

If you there mining with us at: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu
You have probably noticed, that we are the luckiest mining pool
on the market for the last 3 days.
Or the luckiest mining pool since our relaunch with zone117x on our team.
I don't know if this is his setup, but we are averaging 488% luck for the last 3 days.
This can be checked and proved at: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/#pool_blocks

If you weren't mining with us, it's never too late to join!

Quick pool code:

Our Pool's Advantages:

• Always running the freshest code(Updated 2014.07.01)
• DDoS protected
• Custom & Stable Daemon
• W/ tech support from zone117x (the developer of the pool software)

Could you tell us what's custom or different about your daemon? What changes did you make?

I don't know the details, because i didn't see the code and didn't set it up.
What i can see and tell that our daemon never got stuck since the update.
4 Days and the daemon hasn't wasted a single hash - a huge difference to what was happening before.

that's very interesting because as far as I know, nobody has figured out what causes the daemon to silently crash. if you have a fix and are keeping it secret, you really should release the code to the public so we can all benefit from it. open source, and all that jazz.

From what i have heard, these daemon fixes were released, but the devs reverted the fixes to avoid some possible bugs with wallet synchronization.

Looks like stratum is offline.

Edit: back online after ~15min.

Edit2: seeing periodic connection timeouts

If i say our internet connection is very good, doesn't mean i invented the internet :)
But I agree my expression wasn't very accurate.

Stratum was off for ~5mins, we had to do some tech maintenance and a restart.

Are you seeing connection timeouts on the website, or on your mining software?
Connection timeouts on the website does not have any effect on mining efficiency and its normal to see them from time to time.

Mining software.  Website outage doesn't matter to me, but my rigs are failing over to backup pools a lot right now.

Sent you a pm, for more info.

Hi, Fellow Miners,

We want to make an announcement, that the daemon we use at:
pool.cryptoescrow.eu
Is one of the most stable daemons available on the market.

Since the daemon update 5 days ago, our Monero daemon never got stuck.
Other pools are usually restarting the daemon every 30minutes which
results in wasted hashes, because the daemon needs some time to save
the blockchain and to restart.
On average it takes around 90 seconds.

The math is simple:
48 restarts x 90 seconds = 4320 seconds = 72 minutes = 5% of all hashes wasted.

We do not waste these 5% of all the hashes.

Have a great day!

Another great day at http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu
Our Luck Average is staying at: 367%
Our custom Daemon hasn't got stuck even once in 6 days - didn't need a restart, which means that maximum mining efficiency is guaranteed.

Currently showing pool hasrate = 0
Last block found 2 hours ago
Block found every: Infinity years

Are your miners wasting their hashes again?

It was an API update done by zone117x, which was done very quickly and is impossible to do without turning off the old api.
You can see our stats, that the pool never got stuck and hasn't wasted hashes: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/#pool_blocks

We even had this message on our website: July 4th: Front-end currently being updated to latest pool code. Mining is (as always) completely working.
But if you had the website cached it wouldn't show up unless you reload it with Ctrl + F5

The Monero Mining Hardware Comparison at the bottom of the home page seems outdated?

At highest it lists i7-2600 at at 134H/s - I get a stable 252H/s with my i7-2600 running stock clocks and stock cooling (Windows 8 machine).
i7-4770 is similarly listed at 160H/s, but I gett a stable 279H/s with my i7-4770 running stock clocks and stock cooling (Gentoo linux build).

Overclocking provides more hashrate too, of course.

Not sure how beneficial it is to have that document linked when there are at least 3 cpu miners, as well as nvidia and amd mining options available, unless you're going to keep it updated.

I will definitely update the list as soon as i have more spare time.

Just updated to freshest pool code and added port 443.

Can someone send a very small amount to 41sgKgRkkdNYxqTwrjjtipPTMT7gHvXVwNmoCfMaWojfDHsokvDyc5P4vqnmJ62fZDUC1T8iAFNn8Cv 4Z8mTXF5LGHAqFWR
please?

I am on the pool and it is saying it paid out but I have nothing in wallet. Either I have something wrong with wallet file or the transactions are not happening. I think I have met any required minimum.
Thanks in advance.
DBA

^Did you tried 'refresh' in the wallet after your daemon is synced?

Did the daemon get stuck earlier? I noticed that the Network "block found" went as high as '5 hours ago' earlier today, and all the other stats froze too.

Hi, Fellow Miners,

I have some important news for you:

1) We have upgraded our server to a more powerful one - please
check if your miners are reconnected.

2) We have lowered minimum payout from 0.5XMR to 0.2XMR, because of
requests we received from our miners.

3) Claymore GPU miners were updated to version 5. If you are mining
on a GPU this will give you a significant increase in hashrate.
50% increase on 6xxx cards with "-a 3" mode
Check BCT talk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638915.0
Download link: https://mega.co.nz/#F!e4JVEAIJ!l1iF4z10fMyJzY5-LnyC2A


If you are not mining with us now, quick connection code:


No, the daemon was never stuck.

Ok.. Was just weird that all the stats froze on the Web UI. Not sure if your web frontend was having issues or what? I was watching it on and off for ages and then it eventually snapped back to life.

Actually, I am using YAM miner... it has outperformed your miner in all my tests so far (enough so to justify a 1% dev donation).

Thanks for contributing to the community.

Block Found: about 11 hours ago

wtf!

It took you 12 hours to figure out it was down ? No auto-restart script in place ?

I and my 45KH/s are out.

Is nobody maintaining this pool?  My miners can't maintain a connection for crud lately.

Over the past few days, I have ~70% of work going to my backup pool.

Pool is always maintained by zone117x.
We had a few attacks on our pool for the last few days, which overloaded the cpu and crashed the daemon.
Attacks have stopped now and we are upgrading to 16hgz cpu, so overloading the cpu will be pretty much impossible.

I'm mining here...  ;D

Block Found: about 5 hours ago.

We have upgraded our server yesterday, now we are more stable than ever.

The pool still seems unreliable. Case in point, yesterday pool was unresponsive for a good part of the day I had to switch to another pool.

pool's wallet is 8.8.1
I update to 8.8.2 .
xmr do not received.

What about payments?

This week we have made over 2000 manual payouts(it took me ~35 hours to do), because of the earlier blockchain attack.
Now we have paid every single miner in our pool and automated payouts are back to normal.
Also we have added some xmr of our own to compensate all the miners for the lost hashes with corrupted blockchain.

I am showing a pending balance of over 1 XMR. No payment since the 28th of September.

If you are in a hurry, email me(pool[at)cryptoescrow.eu) your wallet address and i will make a manual payment for you. We have raised minimum payout to 2XMR to keep the pool profitable with current transaction fees.

This pool is a SCAM dont mine you here,because you will never see that XMR what are you mining.
They are fucking lyers,they told that they will do the payment on monday,here we are on another monday pass out and still none payments.
This demonstrate that they dont keep their word.fucking Scamers pools
This Zone 117 and Linas go fuck yourself.
For this scam i will stop mining XMR also i will go on another coin because of this.

Give the people money back fucking Scamers.

They don't pay out :(

Give my XMR BACK FUKING SCAMERS

XMR FALL BECAUSE GUYS LIKE YOU

We paid out to all our miners, but it took some time to do the payments, because our old pool admin(zone117x) left us without any prior notification.
During the time of stuck payments we always kept our users informed on our website about the current situation and gave estimates when to expect their payments.

 2014.12.01 Significant Pool Updates were made:

• New highly skilled admin started working with the pool
• All pending payouts or stuck payments were made

Is there another pool that I could trust?

Pool.cryptoescrow.eu announcement 2015.02.04

Hi, Fellow, Miners!

We are closing down this pool, because our hashrate could not keep up with the server cost for too long.
All miners have been paid out.

We recommend using one of the pools on this topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0:
:
Good luck mining!