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Title: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: AnnihilaT on June 30, 2011, 10:33:32 AM
Ill leave the original post below intact for posterity but Mainframe is shutting its doors.   Dont worry we werent hacked and all BTC is safe and will be paid out on the same schedule as normal.
Please see this post for more detail:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24650.msg585867#msg585867

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Hi!

Mainframe is a mining pool founded with the goal of giving something back to the developers who help make bitcoin what it is and continue to improve it.

The Mainframe Mining Cooperative is an open registration charity mining pool which gives 50% of its earnings in user set donations to open source bitcoin developers and writers. (https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/bitcoindonationinformation.html)

!!! NEW !!!
The charity features are optional! If you want to help support developers, just set a donation percentage in your "Account Details" page. You control if you want to donate and how much you want to donate.

If you just want to mine with us and not worry about the whole charity thing, just leave your donation percentage set at zero to opt-out of the charity features of this pool.
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(If you are a bitcoin open source developer or writer, you can post your information on the bitcoin donation thread (https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18498) to request addition to the list of developers we donate to.)

We currently have an administration fee of 0.5% and utilize a PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares) scoring system for a fair payout to our committed miners. This is no longer a "pool-hopper friendly" pool.

You can use the following URL to mine with us:
http://mining.mainframe.nl:8343

Website:
http://mining.mainframe.nl

Pool Features
  • SSL
  • Dedicated Redundant Servers in Private Data Center
  • Latest bitcoind (0.3.23) patched with multi-threading and native long polling support (low stales)
  • latest pushpoold (v5) with memcached and LP enabled
  • JSON API for worker information
  • Threshold and instant manual payout options
  • PPLNS Reward System
  • Long Polling
  • Simple and Clean interface
  • Server stats JSON API (available at http://mining.mainframe.nl/api )



NOTE:  If you are unable to post in this forum please check out this thread in the newbie section where you will be able to post
Newbie Thread here:  http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24717.0
 (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24717.0)


Title: Re: [0.2 GH/sec] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - New BTC Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on June 30, 2011, 10:46:56 AM
[reserved]


Title: Re: [New Pool] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - New BTC Developer Charity Pool
Post by: shata on July 05, 2011, 12:49:38 AM
Kinda interested in your pool, what seems odd to me is. shows you mining and .13/day in bitcoins but thats not entirely true cause when you crack that block it will be 50btc. Since ur getting 100% of shares...


Title: Re: [New Pool] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - New BTC Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 05, 2011, 01:09:17 AM
Ok had a look...actually its correct.  

This is just an estimate and is calculated in 2 steps.  First calculate the time per block:

Code:
        function CalculateTimePerBlock( $btc_difficulty, $_hashrate ){
                if( $btc_difficulty > 0 && $_hashrate > 0 ) {
                        $find_time_hours = ((($btc_difficulty * bcpow(2,32)) / ($_hashrate * bcpow(10,6))) / 3600);

So bascially is the standard 2**32 calculation to find average time to solve a block based on a given hashrate  (similar to what the online mining calculators do).

Second step is calculate the coins per day. 

Code:

function CoinsPerDay( $time_per_block, $btc_block ){
                if( $time_per_block > 0 && $btc_block > 0 ) {
                        $coins_per_day = (24 / $time_per_block) * $btc_block;

Anyway as you can see its just an estimate and the real stats to look at are to the left in terms of income you will be expected to earn.
In my stats to the left it says i am estimated at 49.13488098 BTC for this round which actually just went down from 49.25 because you started mining :)


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: SeriousWorm on July 06, 2011, 12:53:08 AM
Uh I registered and tried to login but nothing happens when I click login - it just reloads the same page.

[edit] Solved!


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 06, 2011, 01:04:28 AM
Which browser?  Are you sure you typed your pass correctly?  Which user name did you sign up with ?


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: SeriousWorm on July 06, 2011, 01:08:54 AM
Which browser?  Are you sure you typed your pass correctly?  Which user name did you sign up with ?

Latest opera.
Yes, I'm sure. I even tried a bogus user/pw combo and still the same - just processes something for a second, then opens up the exact same page, like nothing happened.


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 06, 2011, 01:15:50 AM
Oh last thing i can think of is that you need to allow and enable cookies for this website.... its part of how we authenticate and log you in.   Is that maybe blocked?


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: SeriousWorm on July 06, 2011, 01:17:25 AM
Oh last thing i can think of is that you need to allow and enable cookies for this website.... its part of how we authenticate and log you in.   Is that maybe blocked?

Nope, I checked and I don't have any cookes.

Do you do any fancy redirects/flash calls? I have Opera set to not allow any cookies from any external domains, and plugins blocked.


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: SeriousWorm on July 06, 2011, 01:35:37 AM
Problem solved! :)


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: tnkflx on July 07, 2011, 07:59:27 AM
Registered :) Will start mining tomorrow ;)


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: fortismilites on July 07, 2011, 08:32:16 AM
wow cool i made into the first 25. Ill give you guys a shot, see if its more profitable this way.


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 07, 2011, 10:55:52 AM
Registered :) Will start mining tomorrow ;)

Look forward to it! :)


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 07, 2011, 10:59:02 AM
wow cool i made into the first 25. Ill give you guys a shot, see if its more profitable this way.

Gonna take awhile to hit our first block at just under 1GH/s but when we do,  the payout will be much larger for you and you are also a 0% fee user so thats another big plus for you!  

Cheers to you early adopters! :)

P.S. There are still 12 early adopter 0% fee slots left!


Title: Re: [Limited Offer!] - mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - 0% fees for first 25 miners
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 07, 2011, 02:58:33 PM
And we are finally moving!   Nice job guys!  approaching 2 GH :D

still 10 early adopter slots left!


Title: Re: [ 1.8GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Still 8 early adopter slots left!
Post by: ghxost on July 07, 2011, 08:10:44 PM
Signed up.
Lets find some blocks!


Title: Re: [ 1.8GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Still 8 early adopter slots left!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 07, 2011, 08:22:43 PM
Signed up.
Lets find some blocks!

Cool!   Welcome!

5 slots left!


Title: Re: [ 2.3 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Only 4 early adopter slots left!
Post by: klaaster on July 07, 2011, 10:51:39 PM
Signed also up.
So lets get that first block.  :)


Title: Re: [ 2.3 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Only 4 early adopter slots left!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 07, 2011, 11:16:56 PM
Signed also up.
So lets get that first block.  :)

Thanks klaaster!  Welcome!

3 more 0% fee slots left....


Title: Re: [ 3.5 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Only 1 early adopter slots left!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 12:51:43 AM
1 slot left....     :o  :o



Title: Re: [ 4.2 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 09:43:07 AM
Hi All,

We have 9 of the 10 new no-fee slots still open.   Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor of a quickly growing new pool and have lifetime free pooled mining.   

Also FYI,  until we hit our first block,  payout is set to Proportional to help share the wealth with everyone who came on board after me.   I already had so many shares in this round (from mining on my own) that cheat proof scoring results were awarding my miner too much of the first block payout which i dont think is fair so ive switched to Proportional until we start on the next round.   The stats are also set to proportional since the beginning so i think its only fair to payout what the stats have been estimating all along (or at least very near to that).

Cheers,
Anni


Title: Re: [ 4.3 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: TiWu on July 08, 2011, 10:53:03 AM
Just signed up and directed some miners to your pool.
Only been mining for about 10 minutes and already I'm on the 8th place in the top 10 hashrates.  :D

We'll see how long that remains...  ::)


Title: Re: [ 4.3 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 11:01:10 AM
Just signed up and directed some miners to your pool.
Only been mining for about 10 minutes and already I'm on the 8th place in the top 10 hashrates.  :D

We'll see how long that remains...  ::)

Welcome!  Thats part of the fun of a startup pool! :)  Let me know if you need anything!


Title: Re: [ 4.3 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 11:27:01 AM
Great idea to have 1% donated to bitcoin devs. I decided to take 0% lifetime offer (just in case when I am old and frail I need to use pool  ;D).

Jokes aside, just wanted to do some tests.

Anyway, given that some pools approaching 50%, we need more pools. Good luck to you with this.


Thanks alot for the kind words, Vladimir!  Im honored to have you join our little pool even if its only for some tests!  Of course you instantly jump to the number 1 slot with all that monster hashing power you have at your disposal :)  lol! :)  Ill have to make a screen shot of this for posterity.  you are already over 2GH/s!


Title: Re: [ 4.3 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: m3ta on July 08, 2011, 12:16:18 PM
Looking good....


Title: Re: [ 4.3 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 12:17:20 PM
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Glad to help. I need to sort a few lil problems first.. than I might just for fun throw in 100 Ghps to solve the first block.

Wow!  that would rock! :)  Let me know if i can help you troubleshoot anything from this end.

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Note to yourself: consider offering new pools "catch 22 elimination" service  ;D

That's actually a pretty damn good idea :)  We can beta test the service on our pool? hehe :)


Title: Re: [ 4.3 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 01:18:16 PM

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Note to yourself: consider offering new pools "catch 22 elimination" service  ;D

That's actually a pretty damn good idea :)  We can beta test the service on our pool? hehe :)


OK let's get this lil pool started... I'll add some more horsepower for a while.

Disclaimer: this is not all my capacity, just a few boxes/racks will get switched.



Excellent!  Huge smile on my face over here :)


Title: Re: [ 22.5 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 01:54:55 PM
Tons of thanks to Vlad for all the horsepower he is throwing at us right now :)


Title: Re: [ 14.5 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: klaaster on July 08, 2011, 02:11:19 PM
Impressive, you've got the power Jedi.  :)
Get on board miners, with Vladimirs help the first block can't hide much more longer.



Title: Re: [ 22.5 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: grid on July 08, 2011, 02:24:19 PM
Registered - plan to switch over during the weekend!


Title: Re: [ 22.5 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 02:26:51 PM
Yep guys join in. I'll throw much more horsepower into it.

Vlad,

I just think i solved our issue we were chatting about.  But its seems your miners have gone offline?  Either i solved it or i made it alot worse.   Please let me know!


Title: Re: [ 22.5 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 03:10:49 PM
http://www.imageurlhost.com/images/pkafspc1xop5tnpmt14_black-cables.png

opps... one of those got tripped, miner's life is full of danger...


haha!   I love it! :)


Title: Re: [ ~25 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - New Promotion coming soon!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 03:13:51 PM
Ok The early adopter special for first 35 users has been reached!   Thanks to all of you who have come on board!   We are gonna make this thing a success and couldnt have been done without you guys!  

If you didnt make it into the first round of Early Adopter no-fee accounts,  stay tuned!  I have a similar special in the works and will be announced later today or tomorrow! :)  


Title: Re: [ ~25 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - New Promotion coming soon!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 04:48:24 PM
Added server stats API here:

http://mining.mainframe.nl/api



Title: Re: [ ~25 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - New Promotion coming soon!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 08, 2011, 08:11:17 PM
DOne some more tweaking and gotten rid of unknown-work invalid shares from high hashpower users.   Also reduced stales significantly.   Im estimating an average stale rate of 1.5% or lower for most users.   Give us a try!


Title: Re: [ ~45 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - New Promotion coming soon!
Post by: forexmasterja on July 09, 2011, 12:46:59 AM
Good going Vladimir on adding all that power.

We should have our first block soon.


Title: Re: [ ~45 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - New Promotion coming soon!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 09, 2011, 12:52:47 AM
Good going Vladimir on adding all that power.

We should have our first block soon.

Marvelous isnt it!  :)


Title: Re: [ 22.5 GH/s ] Mainframe.nl Mining Cooperative - Early adopter offer extended!
Post by: mikegogulski on July 09, 2011, 02:59:59 AM
http://www.imageurlhost.com/images/pkafspc1xop5tnpmt14_black-cables.png

opps... one of those got tripped, miner's life is full of danger...


I like how the ~30A power cables float gracefully from wall to whereever :)


Title: Re: [ ~50 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Fastest Growing little Pool? :)
Post by: klaaster on July 10, 2011, 07:05:56 AM

whereever looks like this ;)

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7216.msg156703#msg156703 (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7216.msg156703#msg156703)

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7834/dc1shelf1outside.jpg

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/4029/dc1shelf1inside.jpg


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Fastest Growing little Pool? :)
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 10, 2011, 09:36:24 PM
If anyone is having issues let me know...  Everything still looks good from my end... that first block MUST be just around the corner...


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - New Promotion! Read for details!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 12, 2011, 09:10:08 AM
sorry but I can stay only for so long...

awwww.... too bad :/ 

Thanks for the 3 million shares you could spare tho! :)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - New Promotion! Read for details!
Post by: grid on July 12, 2011, 09:26:22 AM
Reposting in case anybody is wondering:

It is difficult these days to start a new pool. There is no reason to join a new pool if it does not at least solves a block or two per day even if otherwise the terms offered are more than reasonable.

I have about 50 Ghps hashing capacity which I can deploy to any pool. Should you wish to get some kickstart for your new pool I can help you.

The price is very modest...

Then again small pools are the key to keeping Bitcoin safe! Switching is not hard, you just need to have a little more patience for the BTCs to start rolling in.

Going to keep my 1.6GHps pointed at this pool! Let's get some more users here!


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - New Promotion! Read for details!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 12, 2011, 09:32:29 AM
Please do not be upset. Please understand I am operating a business and as such manage risks. There are risks which I am not prepared to take for long.



I understand :)  Im not upset... was surprised to see you point so much  power at us for that long.... im quite surprised actually that we didnt solve a block.  You point 50GH at us for the whole weekend....odd!


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - New Promotion! Read for details!
Post by: ihokamik on July 12, 2011, 08:50:30 PM
I can't believe that the pool isn't attracting more people.    I think that it's a great idea to give a little to the developers and even with the donations, the overall fees are lower than most big pools. Props to AnnihilaT for comming up with the idea and for making it work.

Also, the pool is working great so far besides the fact that we are still are looking for the first block.     My stales count is low and I never get refused connections.

@Vladimir - We can not be mad at you. You contributed more to the pool in one weekend than the rest of us can do in a month.  Thanks for trying to kickstart this.

@AnnihilaT - Maybe you should add to the thread topic that a small percentage of the mined coins are going to the developers.  It might attract more people.


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - New Promotion! Read for details!
Post by: forexmasterja on July 12, 2011, 08:55:26 PM
It just seems to be an unlucky break that a block hasn't been found yet, but the prob is ppl feel like their has power is being wasted if they don't get payed after a certain amount of time. I think i'm going to turn back over a little more power for a while and see if the block can be found.


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - New Promotion! Read for details!
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 12, 2011, 10:22:07 PM

@AnnihilaT - Maybe you should add to the thread topic that a small percentage of the mined coins are going to the developers.  It might attract more people.


Did this in the beginning without much interest.  But im willing to try again.  Main thread topic has been edited.

BTW, full disclosure:  the idea wasnt mine.   There is credit in the original post for the guy who came up with the idea and i had a pool just about to come online when he posted his idea.  We thought it was a good cause and agreed to set our pool up this way.   Doesnt seem to be alot of interest tho on a wide scale for donating back to the bitcoin developers or else it just needs some more time for the news to get out :)   



Title: Re: [ ~25 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 13, 2011, 12:42:05 AM
And SuperVlad is back!  8)  8)  At least for the moment :)


Title: Re: [ ~25 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: kripz on July 13, 2011, 02:30:25 AM
Can you please consider changing the autopayout to 0.1 minimum.

Also, how do i know if im on 0% fees?


Title: Re: [ ~25 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: grid on July 13, 2011, 08:12:39 AM
Can you please consider changing the autopayout to 0.1 minimum.

Also, how do i know if im on 0% fees?

A related question would be - how does the "auto" payout mode work? Pay per every block found?

Also I second the request to have the fixed donation % visible somewhere in the profile.

Let's put a mention of the pool in the user signatures! I just did, we should spread the word around!


Title: Re: [ ~25 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 13, 2011, 10:18:44 AM
Can you please consider changing the autopayout to 0.1 minimum.

Also, how do i know if im on 0% fees?

Hi Kripz,

Considered and done.  Threshold settings down to 0.10 BTC are now supported.  1 BTC minimum indeed didnt make alot of sense.

Your account is 0% fee Early adopter type.   Its a good idea to give an indication of this so i will code that in a bit later today as well.


Title: Re: [ ~25 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 13, 2011, 10:30:19 AM

A related question would be - how does the "auto" payout mode work? Pay per every block found?

Also I second the request to have the fixed donation % visible somewhere in the profile.

Let's put a mention of the pool in the user signatures! I just did, we should spread the word around!

This is a good question.   More or less,  yes, it happens for every found block.  To be more accurate it is triggered for every found block with 120 confirms.  Ill explain in more detail.

A discovered block will need 120 network confirms before its paid out to your site wallet/balance.   Every few minutes the site software is checking for new blocks found and updating the number of confirmations on our own found blocks.   When the number of confirms on our own found blocks becomes greater than 119,  this triggers a full count of every shares contributed to that block, calculates the payout per user, and updates their wallet balance with the confirmed reward.   Immediately thereafter,  we check to see if any user has a balance of greater than 0.10 BTC in their wallet and if so check to see if the threshold amount is lower than the amount in their wallet.  If so,  we send them their balance otherwise the balance remains in their site wallet which can be manually cashed out at any time.  

Keep in mind that even amounts lower than 0.10 BTC can always be withdrawn with the Manual Payout / Instant method.  Its only that automatic payment can only be triggered from 0.10 BTC or higher.  If you have lower balance than that you just need to log in and manually pay yourself out from your balance.

Fixed donation percent is a good idea and will be added in soon!  Thanks for the suggestions!


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 13, 2011, 04:26:41 PM
Each account now shows when you are logged in at the left under your username what your account type is and what your pool and donate fee percentages are set to.

Cheers,
Anni


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: TiWu on July 13, 2011, 08:34:31 PM
Hi,

Another idea for the site: allow to remember the password via a cookie at login (or some ohter method you may prefer). I hate it that i have to retype my user/pass each time i visit the site.
 :-\


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 13, 2011, 08:54:54 PM
Hi,

Another idea for the site: allow to remember the password via a cookie at login (or some ohter method you may prefer). I hate it that i have to retype my user/pass each time i visit the site.
 :-\

Why dont you let your browser remember it ?   

Also, If you arent clicking logout and you are allowing cookies from this domain it should keep you logged in for 1 week at least unless your ip is changing   


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: grid on July 14, 2011, 07:08:29 AM
Having trouble with my ISP, so miners down atm :-(


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 14, 2011, 06:26:00 PM
Having trouble with my ISP, so miners down atm :-(

Saw you got it fixed.   We are having problems with a incredibly long round at the moment... wish we could do something about that :(


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: forexmasterja on July 14, 2011, 08:59:49 PM
Welcome back Vladimir


Title: Re: [ ~5 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 16, 2011, 03:19:28 PM
Just spilled some hashes to you as a backup... while primary RPC target went down on me.

But guys, do stay put, better time are coming to this pool, I am sure. Just have a bit of patience.



Guys,

He wasnt lying :)   Its official - Vladimir is back and this time its for good.   Check it out:

https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=29423.0

Now its time to rock!  Bring your friends, lovers, and enemies.... we are GOING to hit that block and get this thing moving!


Title: Re: [ ~55 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - Bitcoin Developer Charity Pool
Post by: grid on July 16, 2011, 08:01:43 PM
 ;D


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% for Early Adopters, LP, API, MORE
Post by: Sukrim on July 17, 2011, 10:35:57 AM
Hm, sounds interesting.

Which scoring method exactly is being used? The exponential one by Meni Rosenfeld? A custom one?


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% for Early Adopters, LP, API, MORE
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 11:24:06 AM
Hm, sounds interesting.

Which scoring method exactly is being used? The exponential one by Meni Rosenfeld? A custom one?


Hi,

At the moment basic proportional is being used but after the first round or two we'll be switching to the cheat proof scoring method already well documented in these forums.


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% for Early Adopters, LP, API, MORE
Post by: tnkflx on July 17, 2011, 11:46:31 AM
Hey AnnihilaT,

How about fixing HTTPS to your site? ;-)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% for Early Adopters, LP, API, MORE
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 12:01:54 PM
Hey AnnihilaT,

How about fixing HTTPS to your site? ;-)

Yes we will get around to that soon.  Need to arrange a cert and get it installed and until then no sense in having a self signed cert in place or people will just complain about that as well :)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% for Early Adopters, LP, API, MORE
Post by: tnkflx on July 17, 2011, 12:39:08 PM
Hey AnnihilaT,

How about fixing HTTPS to your site? ;-)

Yes we will get around to that soon.  Need to arrange a cert and get it installed and until then no sense in having a self signed cert in place or people will just complain about that as well :)

Ok, thanks for the quick reply ;-)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% for Early Adopters, LP, API, MORE
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 03:56:09 PM
Hey AnnihilaT,

How about fixing HTTPS to your site? ;-)

Yes we will get around to that soon.  Need to arrange a cert and get it installed and until then no sense in having a self signed cert in place or people will just complain about that as well :)

Ok, thanks for the quick reply ;-)

And how about a fast reaction as well to your request? Ask and you shall receive... :D :D 

SSL is up and working.   Everything should be available on https: as it was (and still is) on http:

Let me know if you notice any issues.


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 04:31:31 PM
Are you guys interested in idle alerts via email if your workers go idle and we sense that from our end?

Let me know.... next feature i was thinking to add in if there is demand for it.


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: tnkflx on July 17, 2011, 05:29:48 PM
Are you guys interested in idle alerts via email if your workers go idle and we sense that from our end?

Let me know.... next feature i was thinking to add in if there is demand for it.

If the option is there, I'd use it. But it's not a must have feature for me ;-)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: spankymio on July 17, 2011, 06:44:07 PM
seems like a great idea. i don't have much power, but I'll point one of my cards at you :D

tempted to overclock for a few hours to get my special prize, j/k

edit:

pointed everything i've got for the lulz... hope to be in that number 3 spot shortly ;)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: ptshamrock on July 17, 2011, 08:08:03 PM
Hi.. I could point about 15 g hash ur way because I like ur idea.. is there an api code avaliable for miner stats or bit wid app for android? Will I get liefetime zero percent? What are the best settings for so I don't get miner idle messages? Tia


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 08:51:10 PM
seems like a great idea. i don't have much power, but I'll point one of my cards at you :D

tempted to overclock for a few hours to get my special prize, j/k

edit:

pointed everything i've got for the lulz... hope to be in that number 3 spot shortly ;)

You sure?   Which user name are you?  havent seen you pop up yet in the stats :)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 08:52:44 PM
Hi.. I could point about 15 g hash ur way because I like ur idea.. is there an api code avaliable for miner stats or bit wid app for android? Will I get liefetime zero percent? What are the best settings for so I don't get miner idle messages? Tia

Hi,

15 GH would be very much appreciated and id be happy to throw you a early adopter account for that.   Which miner do you use?   We can work together on it if you are worried about anything.   Ill keep an eye and send me a PM if you see any problems when you start mining.   Also let me know your user name on the pool so i can toggle your account. 

Anni


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: spankymio on July 17, 2011, 09:19:49 PM
seems like a great idea. i don't have much power, but I'll point one of my cards at you :D

tempted to overclock for a few hours to get my special prize, j/k

edit:

pointed everything i've got for the lulz... hope to be in that number 3 spot shortly ;)

You sure?   Which user name are you?  havent seen you pop up yet in the stats :)

ddmf


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 09:26:04 PM
seems like a great idea. i don't have much power, but I'll point one of my cards at you :D

tempted to overclock for a few hours to get my special prize, j/k

edit:

pointed everything i've got for the lulz... hope to be in that number 3 spot shortly ;)

You sure?   Which user name are you?  havent seen you pop up yet in the stats :)

ddmf

oh yeah thats you!  sorry! ;)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 10:35:09 PM
Hi.. I could point about 15 g hash ur way because I like ur idea.. is there an api code avaliable for miner stats

Sorry forgot to answer this.  Yes there are apis for both server stats and miner stats.  After you create an account you will find the miner api link with your api_key in your account details section.


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: Math Man on July 17, 2011, 10:59:19 PM
I am going to give your pool a shot.  I like what you're doing.

I have one of my rigs going at more than 1 GH/s, and if everything goes well, I'll point another rig at your pool.

My User ID is 104.

Thanks!


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 17, 2011, 11:28:58 PM
I am going to give your pool a shot.  I like what you're doing.

I have one of my rigs going at more than 1 GH/s, and if everything goes well, I'll point another rig at your pool.

My User ID is 104.

Thanks!

Welcome!   (toggled to early adopter status) :D


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: Math Man on July 18, 2011, 02:57:42 AM
Are you guys interested in idle alerts via email if your workers go idle and we sense that from our end?

Let me know.... next feature i was thinking to add in if there is demand for it.

I am interested in this.


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: tnkflx on July 18, 2011, 06:29:09 AM
AnnihilaT,

Sort of a feature request ;-) Can you show under "Workers" the last time that a worker connected to the pool?

Thanks!


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: spankymio on July 18, 2011, 08:04:41 AM
Sort of a feature request ;-) Can you show under "Workers" the last time that a worker connected to the pool?

+1

(either you did a great job adding the workers page, or I'm dumb and never noticed it before - but it's certainly useful)


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: tnkflx on July 18, 2011, 08:08:20 AM
Hello Vladimir,

It's in "account details", perhaps it deserves a separate page, though.

You mean "Last updated" on the left side?


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: grid on July 18, 2011, 12:13:58 PM
First block found!!

Quote
Block   Confirms      Finder        Time
136,874   119 left   vladimir   2011-07-18 02:10:01 PM



Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: spankymio on July 18, 2011, 12:33:09 PM
Seems like the contribution stats didn't reset for the new round.


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: spankymio on July 18, 2011, 12:34:26 PM
It's in "account details", perhaps it deserves a separate page, though.

Maybe it only appeared the moment I pointed more than one worker at it, but I just never noticed it before - as mentioned, maybe I never scrolled down enough.  :'(


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: klaaster on July 18, 2011, 12:57:00 PM
Great  :) , now the ball gets rolling.


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 18, 2011, 01:00:53 PM
woot! we did it guys... one thing about round stats... we handle rounds a tiny bit different than u might be used to... basically we define a round as the period of time between payouts so you won't see round stats change till we hit 120 confirms on this first block.   each 120 confirms a payout is done and the round officially ends...   hope that clears up any confusion... on my list todo I want to make a FAQ page that explains these types of things so that newcomers understand what our stats mean :)

anni


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: grid on July 18, 2011, 02:28:01 PM
basically we define a round as the period of time between payouts so you won't see round stats change till we hit 120 confirms on this first block.

What happens if another block is found before the first one has 120 confirms? How are the payout shares calculated then?


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: spankymio on July 18, 2011, 03:21:08 PM
basically we define a round as the period of time between payouts so you won't see round stats change till we hit 120 confirms on this first block.   each 120 confirms a payout is done and the round officially ends...  

that is horribly useful for pool hopping. I could have had my miners pointing at another pool generating small regular amounts of bitcoins then as soon as you receive your 1st block I jump on MMC to grab some shares for the 17 hours or so it takes to accept 120 confirmations on a block - reducing the work that has been done by the people in from the start?  :-\



Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 18, 2011, 03:55:49 PM
Hi guys,

Sorry this is my fault for not explaining well enough.... i was at the eye doctor replying on my phone so i didnt maybe explain it as well as i should have.   

When i say that we define a round as periods between payouts i meant this ONLY for the purpose of generating statistics.  CERTAINLY NOT for calculating payouts.   

If it took 100,000 shares to find block one then the round shares counter will keep going until 120 confirms are reach for that first block and a payout is done. 

Right before payout on block 1 the counter might say 350,000 round shares (block 1 plus shares towards block 2). but calculations are done only on that 100,000 shares alone and only those who contributed to that 100,000 shares are paid out of that block.

After block 1 is paid out, the 100,000 shares which contributed to finding that block will removed from the current round leaving that 150,000 shares towards block 2.   So you will see the round shares not reset to 0 after we have the first block confirmed -rather you will see them drastically reduce (its gonna be something like $current_number - the 5.8 million it took to get us to that first block). 

One other thing to note which i know will cause confusion.   Your round estimate at the moment is taking into consideration the entire amount of round shares so you can expect that it too will change when the first block is confirmed.   

I understand it might be a bit confusing and we have plans to work on this to make it better as we get the time.   I also think that the biggest oddities and confusion will only be apparent until we have the first confirmed block.  After that it should make more sense how the stats are done.   

Open to any discussion or ideas about this and appreciate the feedback! :)

Cheers,
Anni


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: spankymio on July 18, 2011, 03:57:48 PM
When i say that we define a round as periods between payouts i meant this ONLY for the purpose of generating statistics.  CERTAINLY NOT for calculating payouts.   

Clarified perfectly for me. Thanks.


Title: Re: [ ~60 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 18, 2011, 03:59:16 PM
basically we define a round as the period of time between payouts so you won't see round stats change till we hit 120 confirms on this first block.

What happens if another block is found before the first one has 120 confirms? How are the payout shares calculated then?

in case the last post didnt answer this one directly,   we know and track which shares belong to which block and payout them out accordingly.   Its just our statistics that follow a somewhat non tradtional approach.  The data is all there in the databases appropriately its just how you choose to interpret and display this data which can be left up to preference.


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 18, 2011, 07:41:22 PM
Hit the second block already!  Can we do three in a day ?


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: Math Man on July 18, 2011, 09:23:24 PM
Hit the second block already!  Can we do three in a day ?

"Ask and ye shall receive."

Talk about good luck!


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: biochem on July 18, 2011, 09:44:55 PM
Slowly transfer my GPU power to this pool.  ::)


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: klaaster on July 18, 2011, 09:45:21 PM
Hit the second block already!  Can we do three in a day ?
Yes he can!
Poetic justice.  :D


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 18, 2011, 09:51:30 PM
All,

For the coming "first" payout for the first confirmed block,  I will be in bed (4am my time)... im trusting the tests i have done and am going to let everything run automagically as coded but if anything goes seriously wrong i will be around 4-5 hours later to fix things when i wake up.  backups of data are secure and everything can be restored if something goes wrong.  

It's not my intention to worry anyone but just to reassure that since its a new pool there could be issues and if there are any we have disaster recovery plans in place to cope with any situation.  If there are problems,  we will fix them and make it right.  

Lets keep our fingers crossed! :D

Nite all!



Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 18, 2011, 09:56:30 PM
Slowly transfer my GPU power to this pool.  ::)

WElcome :)


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: Math Man on July 19, 2011, 03:45:28 AM
All,

For the coming "first" payout for the first confirmed block,  I will be in bed (4am my time)... im trusting the tests i have done and am going to let everything run automagically as coded but if anything goes seriously wrong i will be around 4-5 hours later to fix things when i wake up.  backups of data are secure and everything can be restored if something goes wrong. 

It's not my intention to worry anyone but just to reassure that since its a new pool there could be issues and if there are any we have disaster recovery plans in place to cope with any situation.  If there are problems,  we will fix them and make it right. 

Lets keep our fingers crossed! :D

Nite all!



The 1st block reached 120 confirmations, but I'm still seeing a 0 BTC account balance.  Did anyone receive any BTC from the first block?

Also, I'm pretty sure the total pool shares didn't go down by ~5.8 million from the first block.

I'll just hang tight until Annihala wakes up.  :)

EDIT:  About 35 minutes after I posted this, some BTC showed up in my account balance, but the total pool shares still don't seem to be reduced by the first block's shares.


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: kripz on July 19, 2011, 05:13:52 AM
Where can i check ny number of share submitted and total shares per block?


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: rearwheels on July 19, 2011, 05:39:20 AM

Hi guys,

I've added Mainframe MC to www.btc-poolwatch.com

If you mine at multiple pools, this should be useful to you.

The main page auto-refreshes every 5 minutes.

If you point your iphone/android phones to it, it will be formatted to 320px width so everything displays nicely.

Hope you guys like it.

Regards,
Koo


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 19, 2011, 06:15:49 AM
Guys,

there were issues.... :(  im on it.


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: Math Man on July 19, 2011, 07:04:01 AM
Guys,

there were issues.... :(  im on it.

I can't connect. I'm going to bed now, but I'll point my rigs at you in the morning if everything is back up.


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: spankymio on July 19, 2011, 08:08:06 AM
And guys, I have pointed the luckiest GPU I had to the pool now.

Nice one!  ;D


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: grid on July 19, 2011, 10:49:53 AM
I do believe that this pool has potential, which is why I stuck with it through the first very unlucky week. And then wham - 3 blocks in a single day.

I will create a couple of banners for the frontend and forum sigs. I'm no PHP developer, but I'll have a look at the code anyway and see if I can contribute any ideas on how to improve.


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: klaaster on July 19, 2011, 11:22:14 AM
Some more stats would be really nice. I think of sharecount for the last blocks and the individual shares submitted/rejected by the workers.


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 19, 2011, 11:32:22 AM
All,

Thanks for bearing with us.  As you should be able to see things should be back to normal and blocks 1 & 2 have been confirmed and paid for.  

The issue we ran into was a silly one that was a combination of factors but the main one being that i had tweaked our DB server for higher load but had forgotten to restart the daemon so it would parse the new configurations settings for them to take effect.  

When we hit the first payout,  our DB server basically took a shit trying to parse that huge first round and do calculations because the server itself was misconfigured (actually default configured and without my tweaks).  I brought everything down for a bit to preserve integrity of the data and then solved the issue and brought everything back slowly piece by piece.  

There was no data loss but we stopped accepting shares for about 30-45 mins which might have kicked some of your miners to backup pools.  

At any rate,  thats one mistake that should not happen again and the next confirm round for block 2 went as planned.  

One last thing i had to do when restoring everything back to how it should have been and testing to make sure it was ok was to set everyones auto payout thresholds to 0 so that nothing nasty would trigger while i was running tests.  

You will have to log in and reset these to the payout triggers you had before and you can either do a manual payout or you can also just change the threshold back and wait 5 minutes or so until the next stats run and then you should see your payment go out automatically.  


Thanks for bearing with us... As Vladimir says.... growing pains :)  We plan on slowly bring more stats and more data into the website as we get time.  We want to be transparent but since this is not our full time jobs (yet?) it will take a bit of time to bring in new features.   Betters stats and explanation of them is a high priority for us as well tho.  

Cheers,
Anni


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: Math Man on July 19, 2011, 02:37:11 PM
Thanks for the hard work.

The very first thing I did when I woke up was take my workers off my backup pool and put them back on MMC.


Title: Re: [ ~65 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - CPS/SSL/API/LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 19, 2011, 05:21:09 PM
I do believe that this pool has potential, which is why I stuck with it through the first very unlucky week. And then wham - 3 blocks in a single day.

I will create a couple of banners for the frontend and forum sigs. I'm no PHP developer, but I'll have a look at the code anyway and see if I can contribute any ideas on how to improve.

Very cool of you!   Im curious!   Thanks for helping out and always open to any help we can get.  much appreciated.


Title: Re: [ ~70 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: ihokamik on July 20, 2011, 01:00:21 AM
And a 4th one for Vladimir!  ;D


Title: Re: [ ~70 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: ihokamik on July 20, 2011, 01:30:49 AM
AnnihilaT, since you are looking for suggestions.   I think it would be nice if the pool had a payout history page.   Maybe you could also add a public payout page showing the donations history.   I have no doubt about your integrity but I think it would be a nice way to advertise and gain trust from miners.


Title: Re: [ ~70 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: kripz on July 20, 2011, 01:59:10 AM
Where can i check ny number of share submitted and total shares per block?


Title: Re: [ ~70 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: ihokamik on July 20, 2011, 02:57:42 AM
This was a story of block 136951 (http://blockexplorer.com/b/136951)

Are you sure it wasn't block 136920?   That block is shown as found on both Slush's pool and MMC and I don't understand why.


Title: Re: [ ~70 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: Math Man on July 20, 2011, 03:49:06 AM
2 more blocks. Nicely done.


That was the first block I've ever solved!


Title: Re: [ ~70 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 20, 2011, 07:06:36 AM
AnnihilaT, since you are looking for suggestions.   I think it would be nice if the pool had a payout history page.   Maybe you could also add a public payout page showing the donations history.   I have no doubt about your integrity but I think it would be a nice way to advertise and gain trust from miners.

Yeah for the donations.. We have plans to do that for sure and im testing the code on a test platform right now.  Maybe this weekend. 

RE: payout history - what are you looking for here?  you mean personal payout history per user?  Im not sure people want their payouit information publicly available?  ???


Title: Re: [ ~70 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: spankymio on July 20, 2011, 08:06:38 AM
RE: payout history - what are you looking for here?  you mean personal payout history per user?  Im not sure people want their payouit information publicly available?  ???

I'd like to see my payout history under my account details, purely for my eyes only.

The amount donated to date should probably be emblazoned across the top, next to the pool rate/workers etc. as this is important information.  ;D


Title: Re: [ ~70 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: ihokamik on July 20, 2011, 01:53:05 PM
RE: payout history - what are you looking for here?  you mean personal payout history per user?  Im not sure people want their payouit information publicly available?  ???

Yes I meant a private page detailing the user payout information.    I figured you could use a similar layout for the donations except that this one would be public.   

Alternatively, the system could just send an email when a payout occurs.  The results would be the same.


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 20, 2011, 07:42:40 PM
hi guys!

First 0.50 BTC donation paid out!  You can see it here:

http://blockexplorer.com/tx/b179b5523f444ba08ff62b18d58cb919a59f4a5a7b89175b4b641650f41b919e

I had to cover this one mostly out of my own pocket since we are on 0% fees for most of our active miners but full disclosure, we should have a bounty incoming for this to help reimburse me and cover some of the upcoming blocks till donations and new miners can help cover it.   I will shortly have a page up and available documenting where your donations end up and who they are sent to.

(More full disclosure:   Im one of the 19 developers on the list so i made 0.026 BTC of that money back!)
hehe.. :D :D 

In other news, Ive brought some of the stats back that were gone for awhile and changed how they work a bit.  It should be pretty clear how it works if you look closely at your stats bar on the left.

More will be coming as i get the time.... lots of irons in the fire right now and again thanks to all of you making this a possibility.   Mainframe rocks! :D


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: xurious on July 20, 2011, 09:29:24 PM
Connected to this pool this morning before I read all the info about it. Wanted to see the stability over 12 hours first, so I used 1/2 a 5870. I'll switch fully over now, it may not be completely free but I like the concept!

Have I missed something casually perusing these forums? Why must it be 120 blocks? That's a relatively long time.


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: ihokamik on July 20, 2011, 09:41:11 PM
I had to cover this one mostly out of my own pocket since we are on 0% fees for most of our active miners but full disclosure, we should have a bounty incoming for this to help reimburse me and cover some of the upcoming blocks till donations and new miners can help cover it.   I will shortly have a page up and available documenting where your donations end up and who they are sent to.

I was under the impression that the early adopters were not paying the pool 0.5% administration fees but that we were still giving 1% to charity.   Are you saying it's not the case? If so, I will gladly add 1% to the additional donations.


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 20, 2011, 10:02:02 PM
Added DTD (donations to date) stat at the top as suggested (good idea, btw!) :)  Click on it for more info!

Quote
I was under the impression that the early adopters were not paying the pool 0.5% administration fees but that we were still giving 1% to charity.

No thats not the case.  0% fees is 0% fees.   There really is and was no catch to that.  We arent making anything right now (in fact we are at a loss if you dont count the bounty) :)

the idea was that the early adopters would help bootstrap the pool and that the latecomers would be the ones that the opensource devs and writers could benefit from.   We are currently trying to come up with a better approach that will make everyone much happier.   We will of course keep you up to date. 


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 20, 2011, 10:03:52 PM
Connected to this pool this morning before I read all the info about it. Wanted to see the stability over 12 hours first, so I used 1/2 a 5870. I'll switch fully over now, it may not be completely free but I like the concept!

Have I missed something casually perusing these forums? Why must it be 120 blocks? That's a relatively long time.

Welcome! :)

Simply because we are a new pool and dont have the reserves to front the 50 BTC ourselves yet.  Until 120 confirms there can always be a risk that the block we found can be orphaned and we receive no money for it.  At the moment, making no profit, we havent yet decided to take that risk.   We arent the only ones who work this way, btw.  Most other pools are similar.  


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: xurious on July 20, 2011, 10:13:58 PM
1) Bring 1 GH/s or more to the pool and post here in this thread that you have signed up and are mining at ~1GH/s and i will toggle your account to 0 fees

Posting to note that I've brought 1gh/s on board, my username is the same on MF: Xurious. I'm barely hitting the 1gh/s at the moment, this damnable 95f weather is killing my rigs.

Simply because we are a new pool and dont have the reserves to front the 50 BTC ourselves yet.  Until 120 confirms there can always be a risk that the block we found can be orphaned and we receive no money for it.  At the moment, making no profit, we havent yet decided to take that risk.   We arent the only ones who work this way, btw.  Most other pools are similar. 

Indeed, most are not. I've just been used to working with BTCguild (Currently the backup). I hope MF is DDoS resilient, as that is one of the big reasons I had to find a new pool. Lost far too many shares in that debacle.


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: ihokamik on July 20, 2011, 11:29:00 PM
Added DTD (donations to date) stat at the top as suggested (good idea, btw!) :)  Click on it for more info!

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I was under the impression that the early adopters were not paying the pool 0.5% administration fees but that we were still giving 1% to charity.

No thats not the case.  0% fees is 0% fees.   There really is and was no catch to that.  We arent making anything right now (in fact we are at a loss if you dont count the bounty) :)

the idea was that the early adopters would help bootstrap the pool and that the latecomers would be the ones that the opensource devs and writers could benefit from.   We are currently trying to come up with a better approach that will make everyone much happier.   We will of course keep you up to date. 

I never thought there was any catch.   There was a clear distinction in my mind between the pool fees and the donations.   

It's hard to tell when looking at:

Early-Adopter: 0% Pool Fees
You are donating 0% extra fees


I guess the word "extra" made me think there was a base donation.  Maybe the second line should display the total % being donated instead of just the the additional donation %.  It might already be like that, it's hard to tell because I am an early adopter.     I would also remove the term fees from the second line.  I understand that technically it's all fees in the pool code but semantically it's not the same thing.

Maybe I am also just making this overly complicated, english is not my primary language.   IMHO the second line should just state "You are donating X%" or "You are donating X% of your mined bitcoins"


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 20, 2011, 11:46:27 PM
Quote
Posting to note that I've brought 1gh/s on board, my username is the same on MF: Xurious. I'm barely hitting the 1gh/s at the moment, this damnable 95f weather is killing my rigs.


Hmmm....strange i havent seen you over 750 or so yet... can you post a screenshot or something showing me this?


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: kripz on July 20, 2011, 11:55:39 PM
Where can i check ny number of share submitted and total shares per block?


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 20, 2011, 11:58:47 PM
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I guess the word "extra" made me think there was a base donation.  Maybe the second line should display the total % being donated instead of just the the additional donation %.  It might already be like that, it's hard to tell because I am an early adopter.     I would also remove the term fees from the second line.  I understand that technically it's all fees in the pool code but semantically it's not the same thing.

Maybe I am also just making this overly complicated, english is not my primary language.   IMHO the second line should just state "You are donating X%" or "You are donating X% of your mined bitcoins"

All excellent points!  You are right about that donating of your fees string.  Doesnt make much sense now that i think of it.  Have a look at it now... should be clearer i hope.  

The other comments i will wait to reply on because what i say now will be invalid by the weekend.  We are re-doing how this is done now and i think everyone will like the new way better.


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 21, 2011, 12:07:10 AM
Where can i check ny number of share submitted and total shares per block?

total submitted is to your left.  Add past and current round and you have your total.

block stats are coming.... we are young... please bear with us.  Stats are the icing on the cake and better icing is being worked on.


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: ihokamik on July 21, 2011, 01:34:15 AM
Quote
I guess the word "extra" made me think there was a base donation.  Maybe the second line should display the total % being donated instead of just the the additional donation %.  It might already be like that, it's hard to tell because I am an early adopter.     I would also remove the term fees from the second line.  I understand that technically it's all fees in the pool code but semantically it's not the same thing.

Maybe I am also just making this overly complicated, english is not my primary language.   IMHO the second line should just state "You are donating X%" or "You are donating X% of your mined bitcoins"

All excellent points!  You are right about that donating of your fees string.  Doesnt make much sense now that i think of it.  Have a look at it now... should be clearer i hope.  

The other comments i will wait to reply on because what i say now will be invalid by the weekend.  We are re-doing how this is done now and i think everyone will like the new way better.

It's indeed much clearer now.  Thank you  ;D


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: xurious on July 21, 2011, 02:52:31 AM
Quote
Posting to note that I've brought 1gh/s on board, my username is the same on MF: Xurious. I'm barely hitting the 1gh/s at the moment, this damnable 95f weather is killing my rigs.
Hmmm....strange i havent seen you over 750 or so yet... can you post a screenshot or something showing me this?

I would say I'm sorry, but I can't apologize for the transformer outside my house blowing TWICE in the last 24 hours. They finally put a new fancy one up! (It's made me a very unhappy person. Power went down about 10 minutes after I joined MF with full power.)

Hashrate is back over 1gh/s with room to spare!


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: Math Man on July 21, 2011, 04:46:44 AM
We're over 80 GH/s...nice.

I woke up to the sound of the fan on one of my 5970s grinding to a halt this morning.  It was not a pleasant way to wake up.  I hurriedly stumbled over to the computer, half asleep and half alarmed, to shut it down. 

I bet it will take 2 weeks before I get it back from RMA'ing it.  Dang!


Title: Re: [ ~75 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 21, 2011, 06:13:45 AM
Quote
Posting to note that I've brought 1gh/s on board, my username is the same on MF: Xurious. I'm barely hitting the 1gh/s at the moment, this damnable 95f weather is killing my rigs.
Hmmm....strange i havent seen you over 750 or so yet... can you post a screenshot or something showing me this?

I would say I'm sorry, but I can't apologize for the transformer outside my house blowing TWICE in the last 24 hours. They finally put a new fancy one up! (It's made me a very unhappy person. Power went down about 10 minutes after I joined MF with full power.)

Hashrate is back over 1gh/s with room to spare!

Indeed.... very easily breaking 1GH now :)  Your account has been toggled to early adopter


Quote
I woke up to the sound of the fan on one of my 5970s grinding to a halt this morning.  It was not a pleasant way to wake up.  I hurriedly stumbled over to the computer, half asleep and half alarmed, to shut it down.  

Awww too bad! Lucky you heard it and didnt burn the house down! D


IN OTHER NEWS...
FYI:  Conditions for special promotion for early adopter accounts has been updated and modified.




Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: tnkflx on July 21, 2011, 09:37:36 PM
AnnihilaT,

I don't know how much work this is, but is it possible to get more detailed statistics regarding Hashrate?
For instance MH average per day, week?


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 22, 2011, 09:23:01 AM
AnnihilaT,

I don't know how much work this is, but is it possible to get more detailed statistics regarding Hashrate?
For instance MH average per day, week?

Yeah probably but i need to sort some other things first which have a little higher priority.  I put your request on my to-do list tho :)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: cyberlync on July 23, 2011, 05:58:04 PM
Is there any way to discourage/punish people who leave while we have long rounds? I mean, all of us know that by switching pool, we could be getting more for our time, but it makes the round so much longer.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: klaaster on July 23, 2011, 07:43:29 PM
After watching the phoenix log for some time, I wonder why no new work gets pushed after a block was found by the network.
GPU_0 and GPU_1 are mining on 2 different pools for this test and both get the "new work pushed".

-----------------------------------------------------
GPU_0
[23/07/2011 21:18:24] Result: 0b0e8a39 accepted
[23/07/2011 21:19:01] LP: New work pushed
[23/07/2011 21:19:03] Result: b3f9aa74 accepted
[23/07/2011 21:19:22] Result: 39f71fdf accepted
[23/07/2011 21:19:24] LP: New work pushed
[23/07/2011 21:19:29] Result: ff28bb4b accepted
----------------------------------------------------
GPU_1
[23/07/2011 21:19:21] Result: 37f1fd93 accepted  
[23/07/2011 21:19:25] LP: New work pushed        
[23/07/2011 21:19:45] Result: 9738fe3f accepted  
[23/07/2011 21:19:45] Result: d1d0b90b accepted  
[23/07/2011 21:19:52] LP: New work pushed      
[23/07/2011 21:19:54] Result: d0dcb009 accepted  
----------------------------------------------------
GPU_2 mainframe.nl
[23/07/2011 21:18:45] Result: 0397700c accepted
[23/07/2011 21:19:00] Result: 591655d8 accepted
[23/07/2011 21:19:02] Result: 190439f4 accepted
[23/07/2011 21:19:23] Result: f2c8d7d8 accepted
[23/07/2011 21:19:42] Result: e832113b accepted
[23/07/2011 21:20:05] Result: 0dff1d00 accepted
----------------------------------------------------


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 23, 2011, 07:52:10 PM
Klaaster,

I think i read that had something to do with phoenix.... maybe i can run a test in a bit if you are around to test with me.   The miners i have tested (not phoenix) do in fact get new work pushed when the network finds a block but it might be something phoenix specific.   PM me if you are around to test a bit with me.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: klaaster on July 23, 2011, 09:27:44 PM
I had this "no new work pushed problem" above with phoenix miner r101 under ubuntu.
AnnihilaT changed something on server side and I restarted phonix miner. It now works well.

Thanks Anni. :)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 24, 2011, 12:19:56 AM
I had this "no new work pushed problem" above with phoenix miner r101 under ubuntu.
AnnihilaT changed something on server side and I restarted phonix miner. It now works well.

Thanks Anni. :)

I actually changed it back before you got it working.... the fix was just to upgrade to latest phoenix if you are on linux.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: xurious on July 24, 2011, 03:23:12 PM
Is there any way to discourage/punish people who leave while we have long rounds? I mean, all of us know that by switching pool, we could be getting more for our time, but it makes the round so much longer.

Yup, I've lost a little over 2btc so far... a 4 day block... and counting....


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: digger on July 24, 2011, 05:12:19 PM
can you make an api for  the block list stats ?

or just put the information on public?

so I can add your pool to http://digbtc.com (http://digbtc.com)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: cyberlync on July 25, 2011, 02:18:05 AM
Finally! After ~7.5mill. shares :)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: xurious on July 25, 2011, 02:47:56 AM
Wee! Time to go find Lady Luck and give her a good kick in the head!


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 25, 2011, 12:16:08 PM
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Wee! Time to go find Lady Luck and give her a good kick in the head!

No shit! grrrrr!


Quote
can you make an api for  the block list stats ?

or just put the information on public?

so I can add your pool to http://digbtc.com

Its on the list... gimme a bit of time for this.   Can you send me a PM with some example output how you would like the JSON object to look like?  Something easy for you to parse?  PM it to me and ill get started on this.



Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 25, 2011, 12:22:02 PM
UPDATE:

Guys,

 sorry its been so quiet from my end.   Ive had my head buried in a mess of code that was simplecoin for the last days.   What a nightmare.  We were dealing with heavy server loads due to very bad design grandfathered in from simplecoin (and probably mining farm before that ??).  

At any rate, i believe i have solved it or at least GREATLY improved it (on the scale of 400x faster and less load) so now that i have a workable backend structure i can build on i will move forward with all the icing on the cake (stats, etc) that will really make the site pop.   Im gonna take a few days off from coding on this project tho since my other duties have been neglected but new and cool things should start creeping in soon.   If you have ideas,  PM me and ill throw them on my todo list.    Better stats for blocks and payout history are number 1 on my list.

Please let me know asap via PM or reply to this topic if you see anything that looks off to how it used to be.  There might be a few small oddities for the FIRST next paid block (131,887 i think) but after that all should be ok.   Let me know if you have issues and i will handle them ASAP.

Thanks for bearing with us through yet ANOTHER horrible round and here is hoping that the next one hits more on schedule.   If server load was any issue for causing such a long round (highly doubt it but possible) then at least thats one more thing we dont have to worry about again for awhile (i hope) :D :D !

Anni


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 26, 2011, 04:21:49 PM
another long round but we are running strong with the new backend.   


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: biochem on July 27, 2011, 11:34:03 PM
Last one was very quick ;) Will add some more ghash soon  ::)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: grid on July 28, 2011, 09:32:19 AM
Long round, then two blocks found one after another (vladimir is on to something here  ;D)

I have a feeling we are still running below the expected average, hopefully the variance makes a turn in our favor now!

Edit:
PS
Working on the banners, but RL is very very hectic right now so not getting much spare time. Still planning to contribute, just need to make some time!


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 28, 2011, 06:21:35 PM
Long round, then two blocks found one after another (vladimir is on to something here  ;D)

make that three :)

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I have a feeling we are still running below the expected average, hopefully the variance makes a turn in our favor now!

We also have the feeling that we are running at a bit under average but hoping that it will even out... with three blocks in one day its looking up again.  

FYI, I've also upgraded bitcoind to newest x.24 version and applied some nice patches for multithreading and native longpolling among other things.


Quote
Edit:
PS
Working on the banners, but RL is very very hectic right now so not getting much spare time. Still planning to contribute, just need to make some time!


Very curious to see them :)  Ill put them up on the site somewhere if you want when they are ready.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: grid on July 28, 2011, 08:23:01 PM
Quote
I have a feeling we are still running below the expected average, hopefully the variance makes a turn in our favor now!
We also have the feeling that we are running at a bit under average but hoping that it will even out... with three blocks in one day its looking up again.  

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6100/dilbertrandom.gif (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/200/dilbertrandom.gif/)

Sorry, couldn't help it  :D


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 28, 2011, 08:34:27 PM
Quote
I have a feeling we are still running below the expected average, hopefully the variance makes a turn in our favor now!
We also have the feeling that we are running at a bit under average but hoping that it will even out... with three blocks in one day its looking up again.  

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6100/dilbertrandom.gif (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/200/dilbertrandom.gif/)

Sorry, couldn't help it  :D

:D :D :D :D


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: slammed on July 30, 2011, 05:54:31 PM
what modus have this pool ?

PP ?

is the statistik live ?

mfg
OP


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 30, 2011, 09:34:24 PM
what modus have this pool ?

PP ?

is the statistik live ?

mfg
OP

Statistics are live and method is a form of proportional at the moment.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 31, 2011, 12:10:57 AM
Working on it! :)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 31, 2011, 08:07:16 AM
This is quite a milestone. It seems we have stopped creating a new post here for every new block solved.  8)

Indeed! :D  I guess that can only be a good thing :)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on July 31, 2011, 08:21:21 AM
According to this we've just made it into top 10 (at least for a moment).

http://www.btc-poolwatch.com/poolstats



Noticed the same thing when i woke up this morning :)  Ive also mailed btcwatch to see if they will add us to their hashrate graphs.  We are bigger than several others they are already listing.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: Math Man on August 02, 2011, 11:26:18 PM
I've been meaning to post that the additions/changes to the website are well done.  Good job!


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - 0% fee special - SSL/API/LP/MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 02, 2011, 11:34:50 PM
I've been meaning to post that the additions/changes to the website are well done.  Good job!

Thanks for the feedback!   Ive been quietly introducing changes and should probably be announcing them more often here when i make them.   As always any input is appreciated.  AFAIK,  ive implemented most of whats been asked for to date with the next plans revolving around a new hopping proof scoring method and a more flexible and "everyone friendly" donation scheme. (let users decide if they donate to developers and how much and implement the proper code to handle this). 

On a different note,  seems like our inital bad luck is being offset by pretty damn good luck lately *knocks on wood*  Given current difficulty we are doing pretty damn well lately (IMO).



Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 04, 2011, 07:15:18 AM
We are the block masters lately!  Seems like we are doing well above average lately... *knocks on wood* :D :D


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 06, 2011, 10:45:54 AM
Go Cyberlync! :)  Nice to see someone other than luxs and vladimir finding some blocken! :)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: cyberlync on August 06, 2011, 12:34:19 PM
Go Cyberlync! :)  Nice to see someone other than luxs and vladimir finding some blocken! :)

Hehe thank you, I'm glad to finally find a block here as well, just recently (before I switched all my miners over to this pool) found a block on BTCguild, and started mining in general just over a month ago :D


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 06, 2011, 01:50:01 PM
Hi All,

I'll warn up front this is going to be a bit of a long post.  Please be sure to read the last section of this post!  I need input for a new feature i want to implement regarding donations!

First some status updates.  Been busy working on refining alot of the backend code which is resulting on very low load on the server and better response and performance in general.  Also been adding in some new features and testing others which i hope to roll out soon.  Some of the new stuff added:

- more info in JSON api (last share submitted timestamp if your worker is active)
- shares per solved block
- account payment history (complete mutations on your account now visible in account details) This includes how much you were paid per block and any credits or witdhrawals from your account.
- added some documentation on the about page for our server and user api code
- under the DTD link (donations to date) you can now see how much is reserved and waiting to be donated to developers.  Because of the transaction costs involved in sending large amounts of small payments,  im "queueing" these donations up in blocks of 0.50 BTC and sending them when the queued amount reaches this amount.

Also, in case you havent noticed,  we are now known, tracked, and graphed at most if not all of the aggregate statistics sites such ass bitcoinwatch, btc-poolwatch, pident, etc...


Now regarding donations,  I need your guys' input on a new way of handling donations.   

The main problem is that most of our miners were early adopters (meaning 0% fees) and this means that we are not really collecting much in the way of donations to the open source bitcoin developers.   The secondary issue is that im afraid we might be excluding certain miners who may not want to donate anything to opensource devs but might be interested in joining us if they werent forced to donate.  There may also be users who wish to donate more than the fixed amount we currently are donating to charity.   In essence,  the idea is that perhaps we need to rethink the idea of making donations mandatory and non adjustable by and for the user.  As it stands now,  the system is a little odd and difficult to explain and also difficult to do donation calculations. 

My plan is to change things to a simpler scheme where we simply say 50% of anything the pool makes (less admin fee) are donated to charity.

So if you set 1% donation amount,  .5% goes to charity and the rest to maintaining the pool.  You can set this as high as you want or as low as you want and in this way choose to support the pool and charity or choose to not support charity at all. 

This would also make calculations more straightforward and transparent and not completely exclude new users who are not interested in donating anything to charity.

I will let this float for a few days here and look for feedback and suggestions from you all and if noone has any objections to this i will be implementing it in 3-7 days unless we collectively come up with a better approach. 

Basically nothing really changes for anyone who currently has an account.  It just changes the way i have to calculate how much goes to charity and makes it easier to communicate to users how these calculations are done.   Right now its a bit vague and im afraid not everyone understands how it works.   By communicating it in this way i hope to remove the confusion and It just sounds alot better anyway to say half of what we earn goes to charity.  1% of the earnings of those who choose to donate something is not amounting to alot and if you just try to read that sentence it almost makes no sense.    Much clearer to just say 50% of what the pool makes in user set donations, goes to charity.  Period.

So what do you guys think?  Im open to all suggestions.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: slammed on August 06, 2011, 01:53:08 PM
i love this pool.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: cyberlync on August 06, 2011, 05:34:01 PM
I'm gonna think about and comment on the new post soon.

I'm writing this time because I saw there was a payout to my wallet earlier, even tho I had set it to 10btc automatic, it paid out when I had 4btc, and the automatic payment was reset to 1btc.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: tnkflx on August 06, 2011, 09:32:02 PM
Thanks for all the hard work, love it ;-)


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 06, 2011, 10:56:54 PM
I'm gonna think about and comment on the new post soon.

I'm writing this time because I saw there was a payout to my wallet earlier, even tho I had set it to 10btc automatic, it paid out when I had 4btc, and the automatic payment was reset to 1btc.


Cyberlync,  Yes this was me.   Im sorry but i manually set alot of thresholds to 1 BTC back today as the pool wallet was getting quite large and im not comfortable holding that much of other peoples money to be quite honest.   Hope it didnt cause you any problem.  Quote from the new account details page:

"Please note: Mainframe reserves the right to periodically lower your threshold setting to force payout on balances larger than 1 BTC. We don't want to be your bank. Sorry! We will only do this when we feel that the pool wallet is getting too full."


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - (https://mining.mainframe.nl)
Post by: cyberlync on August 06, 2011, 11:18:47 PM
I'm gonna think about and comment on the new post soon.

I'm writing this time because I saw there was a payout to my wallet earlier, even tho I had set it to 10btc automatic, it paid out when I had 4btc, and the automatic payment was reset to 1btc.


Cyberlync,  Yes this was me.   Im sorry but i manually set alot of thresholds to 1 BTC back today as the pool wallet was getting quite large and im not comfortable holding that much of other peoples money to be quite honest.   Hope it didnt cause you any problem.  Quote from the new account details page:

"Please note: Mainframe reserves the right to periodically lower your threshold setting to force payout on balances larger than 1 BTC. We don't want to be your bank. Sorry! We will only do this when we feel that the pool wallet is getting too full."

With that reasoning, I'm perfectly fine with what you did, better safe than sorry :)

And to reply on the changes proposal, it sounds as a good idea, the "effect" is the same, but the wording is clearer and it's easier to maintain for you.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe MC (charity now optional!) - 8 decimal, SSL, API, LP, MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 07, 2011, 12:28:39 PM
Hi All,

Due to only receiving positive feedback on the new optional charity donation methods,  ive gone ahead and implemented it and Im super happy with the transparency and ease of maintenance this will bring. 

In light of this,  if you have a normal user account you will notice that the fees you are paying have been reduced from 1.5% to 0.5% because the 1% for charity has been made optional.   If you feel so inclined to donate, please take a moment to update your donation settings. :)

Kind Regards,
Anni


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe MC (charity now optional!) - 8 decimal, SSL, API, LP, MT
Post by: cyberlync on August 10, 2011, 03:37:10 PM
I am looking for some feedback here on which stats miners want to see. I know what I would like to have as a miner, but still your input is very important. Thank You.



I would like to have some info on stale shares, on the individual workers, the number of stales and also a percentage next to it (I kind of like the worker stats on BTCguild). Total share stats on the individual workers, possibility to reset the share count (not for all shares, but to be able to test various worker setups, again kind of like BTCguild does it.)

Perhaps current estimated speed, and all-time average speed, which could take all the shares produced by the worker, divide or whatever needs to be done with worker age. Just an idea.

Sorry for comparing to BTCguild so much, but they do have some stat features that I like, and it's easier to give you an example.


Title: Re: [ ~90 GH/s ] Mainframe MC (charity now optional!) - 8 decimal, SSL, API, LP, MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 12, 2011, 05:00:33 PM
I am looking for some feedback here on which stats miners want to see. I know what I would like to have as a miner, but still your input is very important. Thank You.



I would like to have some info on stale shares, on the individual workers, the number of stales and also a percentage next to it (I kind of like the worker stats on BTCguild). Total share stats on the individual workers, possibility to reset the share count (not for all shares, but to be able to test various worker setups, again kind of like BTCguild does it.)

Perhaps current estimated speed, and all-time average speed, which could take all the shares produced by the worker, divide or whatever needs to be done with worker age. Just an idea.

Sorry for comparing to BTCguild so much, but they do have some stat features that I like, and it's easier to give you an example.

Thanks for the input!  Vladimir or I will have a look and see what we can implement... sounds reasonable. :)


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC (charity now optional!) - 8 decimal, SSL, API, LP, MT
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 12, 2011, 05:02:55 PM
Hope everyone noticed the changes to the site.  Major overhaul actually and have a nice framework in place to start adding some really nice new stuff.  Graphs are coming next with more stats and more details on everything possible.   Stay tuned and please give feedback on the new design!! :) 


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC (charity now optional!) - 8 decimal, SSL, API, LP, MT
Post by: ihokamik on August 12, 2011, 06:46:09 PM
Hope everyone noticed the changes to the site.  Major overhaul actually and have a nice framework in place to start adding some really nice new stuff.  Graphs are coming next with more stats and more details on everything possible.   Stay tuned and please give feedback on the new design!! :)  

I really like the new look.   It's still light and well spaced but it looks more refined at the same time.

I noticed some minor visual bugs with the new design. Nothing exactly critical but I felt like sharing.

When reloading a page using Firefox 5, I can see the page with no CSS at all flash quickly before it's fully rendered.  It's as if the CSS was applied only after everything is dowloaded.    I only get this problem in FF, Chrome and IE both render the CSS instantly.    

IE has a few different rendering issues like some stuff overlapping but frankly, it's to be expected with IE.  If I was in your place, I would ignore most IE issues.

When simulating a smaller screen, the "statistic line" that tells us the BTC value, hash rate and donation will overlap with the pool name on the left.   This happens in all 3 browsers I tested.

Keep up the good work!  The site is only getting better and better.

EDIT: One more little thing, I think that the monospaced text on the donation page (osList) is a little hard to read with the default font size values.  The size could probably be increased a little.


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: cyberlync on August 12, 2011, 07:10:14 PM
I like the new design, feels more polished. I have a comment on the "Update Settings" "Cash Out" "Change Password" buttons, I feel the color is a little too bright, perhaps if it matched the same blue as the top of the site it wouldn't stick out as a sore thumb. Maybe I'm being picky, it's not a problem at all if you don't change it, it's aesthetics.

edit: The link on the support subpage should be updated to bitcointalk.org


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 14, 2011, 08:17:25 PM
Hey cyberlync and ihokamik,  thanks alot for the input.  I think ive fixed the issues the two of you mentioned (kinda cheated on the color issue but i will work on nicer coloring later and pull out photoshop for some repainting on a few elements all at once - bah...i hate design work!)  Which reminds me if anyone wants to work on a new color scheme i can provide an image pack if anyone feels like playing or helping out in that regard.   Im only mildy useful with fireworks and almost useless with photoshop. :P

Gonna go work on some graphs now. :D


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: cyberlync on August 14, 2011, 11:49:09 PM
Hey cyberlync and ihokamik,  thanks alot for the input.  I think ive fixed the issues the two of you mentioned (kinda cheated on the color issue but i will work on nicer coloring later and pull out photoshop for some repainting on a few elements all at once - bah...i hate design work!)  Which reminds me if anyone wants to work on a new color scheme i can provide an image pack if anyone feels like playing or helping out in that regard.   Im only mildy useful with fireworks and almost useless with photoshop. :P

Gonna go work on some graphs now. :D

I don't blame you for postponing the design work, not a biggie at all. I still see that the link on http://mining.mainframe.nl/support is pointing to forum.bitcoin.org I think it should be updated to bitcointalk.org since it got moved and all that.
I am looking forward to the graphs!  ;D Would still like to see a bit more worker stats in time, like total share count for each worker, round share count (which could be resettable) for each worker, perhaps add a average lifetime speed of individual workers (if possible to implement). Not trying to be an arse, just trying to bury you alive in work ;)


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 15, 2011, 12:15:33 AM
Hey cyberlync and ihokamik,  thanks alot for the input.  I think ive fixed the issues the two of you mentioned (kinda cheated on the color issue but i will work on nicer coloring later and pull out photoshop for some repainting on a few elements all at once - bah...i hate design work!)  Which reminds me if anyone wants to work on a new color scheme i can provide an image pack if anyone feels like playing or helping out in that regard.   Im only mildy useful with fireworks and almost useless with photoshop. :P

Gonna go work on some graphs now. :D
Not trying to be an arse, just trying to bury you alive in work ;)

Haha! :D  Thanks alot, man!  Just what i need! 

All good suggestions... ill do what i can as i get the time.   User stats are a bit tricky for the long term because in order to keep the site fast i throw a lot of data out after a round has been paid out.   I only keep counts after everything is paid out correctly but perhaps there is something i can do.  Ill have a look at the data I keep and see what can be done with it and if need be more data can perhaps be retained to make better stats... we'll see :)  Thanks for the input!   


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: cyberlync on August 15, 2011, 02:18:34 AM
No problems, and please take your time, as this is your hobby project. It's just whenever you have some spare time, and most important things are scratched off the list. Thank you for the work you put into this pool.


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 15, 2011, 08:17:28 AM
Wow 3 blocks got solved since last time I had a look. Nice!


Yeah, im sure it will pleasure you to know that 141014 was another race and we have apparently won again.  Simplecoin is claiming the same block with 0 confirms and looks like the invalid has buggered his pool software once again :D :P


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: Ten98 on August 15, 2011, 01:43:55 PM
This is a very good pool, certainly seems to be blessed with very good luck for a pool this size :D

I like the new design of your site too. I just love visiting it every day and checking how much my balance has increased :)



Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 15, 2011, 03:59:04 PM
This is a very good pool, certainly seems to be blessed with very good luck for a pool this size :D

I like the new design of your site too. I just love visiting it every day and checking how much my balance has increased :)



Thanks for the nice words and welcome to the pool!  Very happy to have you! :)


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 16, 2011, 04:21:40 PM
I guess its a good thing when a pool the size of ours has such a quiet thread.   It means the miners are happy and there are no issues with the pool :)  At least im going to be optimistic and assume thats the reason :)


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC ( New Design - Charity Optional!) - 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 19, 2011, 09:24:14 AM
thanks for sticking thru the last long round... fingers crossed the next one will be better.


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 20, 2011, 09:15:27 AM
bump for new promotion.  Read post #1 for details.


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: 3phase on August 20, 2011, 01:16:40 PM
Hi, AnnihilaT

Switched over to your pool for testing yesterday, and am impressed by the stability and the low percent of rejections.

The Promo makes me feel much better as well  :).

I decided to give up the stable PPS of Eligius, or the regular payouts of Slush/Deepbit for your more adventurous approach! By adventurous I mean getting knowledgeably lucky, even with 1 block per day average. It seems like you know very well what you are doing.

I am here to stay.

Thank you for your work.

And on the topic of suggestions, in my view, Eligius has some of the best statistics and graphs around (open source by Artefact2). You might want to consider it. Having said that, I feel that your current setup is good enough to keep me mining here.


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: spankymio on August 20, 2011, 03:26:12 PM
dear whoever mentioned luck,

please stfu - you jinxed us.

many regards,
me

lol/jk  ;D


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 20, 2011, 04:13:30 PM
Hi, AnnihilaT

Switched over to your pool for testing yesterday, and am impressed by the stability and the low percent of rejections.

The Promo makes me feel much better as well  :).

I decided to give up the stable PPS of Eligius, or the regular payouts of Slush/Deepbit for your more adventurous approach! By adventurous I mean getting knowledgeably lucky, even with 1 block per day average. It seems like you know very well what you are doing.

I am here to stay.

Thank you for your work.

And on the topic of suggestions, in my view, Eligius has some of the best statistics and graphs around (open source by Artefact2). You might want to consider it. Having said that, I feel that your current setup is good enough to keep me mining here.

Welcome!!! very happy to have you join us... tell your friends about us and that's the biggest thanks you can give us :)

for the stats...don't worry... lots in the works.  we have only been up for a bit more than a month now and are steadily and regularly coding new features.  lots more will be added as we get the time.

also our code is open source as well and if anyone wants to help add features and functionality please feel free to do so.


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: tnkflx on August 21, 2011, 08:55:35 PM
First block ever found :-)


Title: Re: [ ~95 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 21, 2011, 08:56:59 PM
Congrats to tnkflx finder of block #141,959.

Tnkflx,  your account has been credited 1 BTC extra.  TX type is BONUS.

Cheers! and congrats on your first block ever :)


Title: Re: [ ~100 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: RaTTuS on August 22, 2011, 09:46:52 AM
I'm slowly moving my backup miners to this pool.
+1 for luck


Title: Re: [ ~100 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 22, 2011, 01:06:10 PM
Mainframe Mining Cooperative OFFICIAL NOTICE:

After careful monitoring of our current situation, we have determined that the erosion of income from our loyal miners has no longer become merely negligible due to pool hopping.  In order to head this off before it becomes a problem and discourages loyal miners from using this pool we have taken the following immediate action. 

10 minutes ago after our last block payout,  I implemented a PPLNS reward system in this pool.   From this point forward, Mainframe is no longer a "pool hopper friendly" pool.

Let this serve as official notice to all pool hoppers - Mainframe will not help you cheat our loyal users out of hard earned BTC.

Cheers!
AnnihilaT, Vladimir, and the rest of the Mainframe Staff.


Title: Re: [ ~100 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway Promo!] - 8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 22, 2011, 01:15:05 PM
I'm slowly moving my backup miners to this pool.
+1 for luck


welcome!  great news!


Title: Re: [ ~100 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway!] - PPLNS,8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 23, 2011, 02:35:26 PM
Welcome and good luck to the new miners joining us!


Title: Re: [ ~130 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway!] - PPLNS,8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 24, 2011, 08:33:22 AM
We got stickied into the top 10!  Milestone!  Congrats everyone!


Title: Re: [ ~125 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway!] - PPLNS,8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: cyberlync on August 24, 2011, 02:30:11 PM
We got stickied into the top 10!  Milestone!  Congrats everyone!


That's pretty nice. "Viribus Unitis"  8)


Title: Re: [ ~160 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway!] - PPLNS,8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 25, 2011, 02:46:49 PM
Small update:


Today we have found already three blocks one of which was orphaned due to deepbit getting it into the network before we could.   Coincidentally there was a network and UPS maintenance window scheduled in my datacenter last nite with some unfortunate side effects of reduced I/O to one of the storage array disk clusters the pool cluster is using which was causing some latency and load issues for the pool.  At the very moment we found block 142,496 we were getting this array back up to speed and im convinced that everything running a bit slower is what caused us to lose our first race.   

Unfortunate or we would have 3 blocks up on the board right now.  You win some, you lose some :)

If any of you saw some oddities with portions of the stats reporting a found block but it not showing up in the list,  this was the reason for it.  Some of the code knew that it wasnt a valid block while other pieces of code had already entered it into a found block table the moment it had been found.   This is our first orphaned block so i hope to improve how this works a little bit when i have the time.  For the time being if you ever see the time stats showing a recent found block but it is not in the list,  this means it has been orphaned/invalidated. (at least i hope thats all it means!) :D

In the interest of full disclosure,  here is the transaction list from the pool showing our last confirmed block (142413), the orphaned 142496 block,  followed by the 2 blocks currently awaiting confirmation/generation.

Code:
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "generate",
        "amount" : 50.09279550,
        "confirmations" : 120,
        "txid" : "d1aa00b3346417e0d818ad2a2708ee600c181fa54a796a905bb73190c535c89e",
        "time" : 1314200416
    },
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "orphan",
        "amount" : 50.01300000,
        "confirmations" : 0,
        "txid" : "9152ed1267f3dd9ee1e4dbec76a9a1226ac52e63863ee5f121ba3a0b07db35af",
        "time" : 1314257607
    },
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "immature",
        "amount" : 50.01000000,
        "confirmations" : 14,
        "txid" : "9b8bf99bb4a6d5e4e7e988c6bbd6ebf197485360b8f12ac67367f4ff7d75a534",
        "time" : 1314270291
    },
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "immature",
        "amount" : 50.11531383,
        "confirmations" : 2,
        "txid" : "4ec7933d83c7d78d64af6a4ca3620c3049f8f0568de0a693d098c4a22c1de845",
        "time" : 1314280514
    },



Title: Re: [ ~170 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway!] - PPLNS,8dec,SSL,API,LP
Post by: cyberlync on August 25, 2011, 04:21:29 PM
Thank you for keeping us informed :)


Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: 3phase on August 28, 2011, 07:37:13 AM
I'm back after the SolidCoin goldrush. Let's get this block!!!!



Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 28, 2011, 09:25:45 AM
welcome back!  how much SC did you make off with ? :D


Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 28, 2011, 11:22:49 AM
Congrats to Monacelli for finally finding the last block!  Your account will be credited with a 1BTC Bonus as soon as it confirms. 


Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: 3phase on August 28, 2011, 11:36:11 AM
welcome back!  how much SC did you make off with ? :D

I don't remember  :D

All I know is I made 50 BTC mining and trading in 3 days.

Would take 45 days non-stop with my miners.

And cheers for the block!


Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 28, 2011, 11:48:53 AM
wow thats pretty impressive... i have not been following whats going on with solidcoin at all... was it just volume?  you were able to mine so much SC because of low difficulty?  Is it over now?


Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: 3phase on August 28, 2011, 01:45:42 PM
Mining made me some, yes. At some point, it was 3x-4x more profitable than BTC. I also spent 10 BTC to buy some more, having seen similar patterns for all previous alt. chains.

Cashed out at the top. Almost...  ;D

It's slowly downhill at the moment. Unless they pull a rabbit off their hat, it's gonna drop even more. It's slightly unprofitable now to mine SC.


Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: 3phase on August 29, 2011, 02:21:35 PM
I am tempted to start a thread

"Mining on MMC is now 2x more profitable than mining Solidcoins"  :D

But I guess they will call me a troll...


Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 29, 2011, 02:24:15 PM
I am tempted to start a thread

"Mining on MMC is now 2x more profitable than mining Solidcoins"  :D

But I guess they will call me a troll...

lol!  that would be funny,...  do it for the lulz!!! :)


Title: Re: [ ~185 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: 3phase on August 29, 2011, 03:47:04 PM
Just did:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40057.0

Cheers AnnihilaT,

This is the first pool that makes me feel good  :)


Title: Re: [ ~185 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 29, 2011, 04:00:43 PM
Just did:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40057.0

Cheers AnnihilaT,

This is the first pool that makes me feel good  :)

I love it! :D :D  Thanks for the laugh!


Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: cyberlync on August 29, 2011, 04:21:19 PM
I am tempted to start a thread

"Mining on MMC is now 2x more profitable than mining Solidcoins"  :D

But I guess they will call me a troll...

Would that not curse the pool? Just like the *coins? They got a huge boost in a few days, and boom.. dead.

so... what are you trying to do here?  :o



Title: Re: [ ~165 GH/s ] Mainframe [1BTC Giveaway Promo!] PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 29, 2011, 11:42:35 PM
I am tempted to start a thread

"Mining on MMC is now 2x more profitable than mining Solidcoins"  :D

But I guess they will call me a troll...

Would that not curse the pool? Just like the *coins? They got a huge boost in a few days, and boom.. dead.

so... what are you trying to do here?  :o



I think he was just trying to be funny and poke a bit of fun at the shitcoins :)


Title: Re: [ ~185 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: cyberlync on August 29, 2011, 11:51:20 PM
I was hoping the smiley would reveal that I was kidding... alas ;)


Title: Re: [ ~185 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 30, 2011, 12:01:26 AM
I was hoping the smiley would reveal that I was kidding... alas ;)

oh i thought it was a worried smiley :)  Oh its shocked ---> :o

:)


Title: Re: [ ~185 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway!] - PPLNS,8d
Post by: Jack of Diamonds on August 31, 2011, 07:55:02 PM
We got stickied into the top 10!  Milestone!  Congrats everyone!

This just proves Vladimirs technique works (injecting massive hash rates into startup pools)
critics who were doubting the sanity of people who would buy such a service, should rethink their position

Top 10 pool in a bit over a month, from absolute zero to near 200ghash/s.


Title: Re: [ ~185 GH/s ] Mainframe MC [New Design + 1BTC Giveaway!] - PPLNS,8d
Post by: AnnihilaT on August 31, 2011, 10:14:59 PM
Quote
All credit should go to AnnihilaT really.

Thanks for the kind words, Vladmir!  But we've gotten this far together and with the support of the miners who believed in us.    All credit goes to all of us in an equal share (thats fitting).   Viribus Unitis!


Quote
This just proves Vladimirs technique works (injecting massive hash rates into startup pools)
critics who were doubting the sanity of people who would buy such a service, should rethink their position

Top 10 pool in a bit over a month, from absolute zero to near 200ghash/s.

Thank you for the kind words.  I would like to shout this from a rooftop! Vindicated! :)  jk :D


Title: Re: [ ~210 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 07, 2011, 07:42:27 PM
Just thought i would share some of the new graphs ive been working on and just implemented in the pool.  Screenshots below:

https://bitcoin.org.uk/forums/i/poolhash.png

https://bitcoin.org.uk/forums/i/luck070911.png

More to come...  I promised eye candy...  well this is the start of it.  Login to your account to check these graphs out live.


Title: Re: [ ~210 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: 3phase on September 08, 2011, 05:41:38 AM
Very nice!!!

I would however suggest that the "effective difficulty in the second chart should be a moving average (so datapoint no. 1 in the chart should be the average of blocks -99 to -50, supposing that block 0 is the latest block, block -1 is the last but one block, and so on). So, even if you don't have data older than 50 blocks behind on the chart, this line should be affected by this older data.

This would normalize the curve, instead of it starting at a low point when the -49 block was a lucky one and starting at a high point when the -49 block was unlucky.

I hope I'm making myself clear.

Also, a bigger y-scale (double it maybe) will show the fluctuations of effective difficulty more pronounced and clear.

Keep up the good work.



Title: Re: [ ~210 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 08, 2011, 12:37:48 PM
Very nice!!!

I would however suggest that the "effective difficulty in the second chart should be a moving average (so datapoint no. 1 in the chart should be the average of blocks -99 to -50, supposing that block 0 is the latest block, block -1 is the last but one block, and so on). So, even if you don't have data older than 50 blocks behind on the chart, this line should be affected by this older data.

This would normalize the curve, instead of it starting at a low point when the -49 block was a lucky one and starting at a high point when the -49 block was unlucky.

I hope I'm making myself clear.

Also, a bigger y-scale (double it maybe) will show the fluctuations of effective difficulty more pronounced and clear.

Keep up the good work.



Y scale is now selectable by zoom method...  click and drag your mouse on the graph to soom in on the y axis.


Title: Re: [ ~210 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 11, 2011, 10:23:23 AM
Very nice!!!

I would however suggest that the "effective difficulty in the second chart should be a moving average (so datapoint no. 1 in the chart should be the average of blocks -99 to -50, supposing that block 0 is the latest block, block -1 is the last but one block, and so on). So, even if you don't have data older than 50 blocks behind on the chart, this line should be affected by this older data.

This would normalize the curve, instead of it starting at a low point when the -49 block was a lucky one and starting at a high point when the -49 block was unlucky.

I hope I'm making myself clear.

Also, a bigger y-scale (double it maybe) will show the fluctuations of effective difficulty more pronounced and clear.

Keep up the good work.



This questions is furthur addressed here:

https://bitcoin.org.uk/forums/topic/214-replies-to-questions-asked-in-other-forums/


Title: Re: [ ~220 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: jamesg on September 12, 2011, 08:57:14 PM
Is there a way to change my username within your website? I signed up a while back to get the 0% fee account and would like to come over and test it out but can't find a way to change the username.


Title: Re: [ ~220 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 13, 2011, 07:29:25 AM
Is there a way to change my username within your website? I signed up a while back to get the 0% fee account and would like to come over and test it out but can't find a way to change the username.

sent you a pm :) 

Also, we are on freenode irc btw:  channel #mainframe.nl if anyone ever wants real time support.


Title: Re: [ ~230 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 14, 2011, 09:08:44 AM
twmz added support for MMC today.... looks nice, eh?

http://btcstats.net/?mmc

Go get yours today before they run out.... first come first served... (raw materials needed to craft banners are getting scarce these days so i wouldnt wait too long on this)  

They look something like this:

http://btcstats.net/sig/kxHvLg2

Thanks also to gigavps for help on this....


Title: Re: [ ~230 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: brandon@sourcewerks on September 14, 2011, 01:14:20 PM
The recent run of good luck at MMC is sweet!  ;D


Title: Re: [ ~230 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS+, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: jamesg on September 14, 2011, 05:58:20 PM
Is the irc channel now invite only?   ???


Title: Re: [ 213 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: jamesg on September 15, 2011, 08:14:06 PM
Awesome pool AnnihilaT. Really nice web interface and the pool is rock solid!


Title: Re: [ ~250 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: flower1024 on September 18, 2011, 09:22:31 AM
hi,

do you have any plans regarding merged mining?
it'll come in 196nmc blocks...


Title: Re: [ ~250 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 21, 2011, 06:07:55 AM
Quote
hi,

do you have any plans regarding merged mining?
it'll come in 196nmc blocks...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44546.msg537256#msg537256


Title: Re: [ ~220 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: cyberlync on September 22, 2011, 03:58:13 AM
Tired of unstable and disconnecting pools? Tired of pool hoppers? Tired of lack of stats and nice graphs?

Join this pool, and your worries will be over, in addition, there is a great staff operating the pool, we have already won several block races!!

Don't hesitate, migrate!


Title: Re: [ ~220 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: tiberiandusk on September 27, 2011, 04:19:35 AM
Anyone want to make me Chrome Extension that pops up a notification window when Mainframe finds a block?


Title: Re: [ ~220 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: bayer on October 08, 2011, 03:27:55 PM
no information here for the orphan block ?

why no payout for block

http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000474ce77f83e8acd371c5ade02013ee90f243ced3a739d8ddec5 (http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000474ce77f83e8acd371c5ade02013ee90f243ced3a739d8ddec5)

?

pls more informations.


Title: Re: [ ~220 GH/s ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative - PPLNS, 8dec, SSL, API, LP
Post by: AnnihilaT on October 09, 2011, 12:12:45 AM
148434 was payed out normally.  The block before that one which is no longer listed (148284 i believe) was orphaned and mainframe has never paid for orphaned/invalid blocks.   Hope this addresses your concerns.


Title: Mainframe Mining Cooperative has shutdown.
Post by: AnnihilaT on October 20, 2011, 11:10:22 PM
Mainframe is shutting its doors.   Dont worry we werent hacked and all BTC is safe and will be paid out on the same schedule as normal.

I will write more about this when i get the time.  Sorry it was so sudden.  There was no other choice.

You can still login here via the old stats page to retreive your funds:
http://mining.mainframe.nl/stats

Once logged in you can reach most of the old site and order a manual payout, change payment addresses, etc.  This part of the site will stay up for at least 2 weeks for everyone to get their BTC out (unless the site is brought up on other servers in the meantime)

EDIT:  More information here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24650.msg589039#msg589039


Title: Re: [0 GH/s] Mainframe Mining Cooperative has shutdown. (may or may not return)
Post by: Pontius on October 21, 2011, 06:47:30 AM
Quote from: www.mainframe.nl
Mainframe has shutdown. See forums for more details. All payouts will be made as they confirm.

Mainframe is shutting its doors.   Dont worry we werent hacked and all BTC is safe and will be paid out on the same schedule as normal.

I will write more about this when i get the time.  Sorry it was so sudden.  There was no other choice.

So this is more details??? We could argue on this I guess.
Anyway I'm quite curious about your explaination and hope MMC gets back to service in near future.


Title: Speculation
Post by: phillipsjk on October 21, 2011, 07:41:07 AM
I am reading this thread trying to decide if the ~11Gbps DDOS attack is still underway. Just yesterday Slush said he wasn't coming back without implementing a distributed mining pool (has since changed his mind). A better place to get info may be IRC (I haved been using Bitcoin Watch, but that only covers the largest pools).

Vague details can be found here: Mass DDOS part 2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49038.0).

MagicalTux's post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49038.msg583992#msg583992) disclosing the magnitude of the attack.

Slush's Giving up (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg584181#msg584181) post.

Speculation: I suspect the mainframe mining pool was also hit by this DDOS attack. Most webhosts provide 100Mbps connectivity. A 11Gbps DDOS would saturate such a pipe 110 times over. If the datacenter is relatively small, a 11Gbps DDOS may saturate at least one of the pipes going into the datacenter (assuming 10Gbps or smaller). My own webhost has a "Triple OC-3 Backbone". According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OC-3), that works out to 148.608 Mbit/s of payload (x3=445.824Mbps). A 11Gbps DDOS would shutdown my webserver's datacenter 25 times over.

When faced with this situation, the hosting provider probably said "find a new provider." If the hosting provider actually has the capacity, the request was probably to upgrade to a more expensive plan.

What can be done? One possibility is to avoid pools: they are easy targets. Of course, so is every individual bitcoin node (but collectively a hard target). If you like the lower variance of a pool, there is at least one hybrid pool (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0) that combines pooling and solo mining,


Title: Re: [0 GH/s] Mainframe Mining Cooperative has shutdown.
Post by: evlew on October 21, 2011, 05:23:48 PM
that sucks.  this was a really awesome pool.


Title: Re: [0 GH/s] Mainframe Mining Cooperative has shutdown.
Post by: Inaba on October 21, 2011, 08:20:50 PM
"Fighting fire with fire" is not really practical (never mind the legal implications, which are substantial)... if for no other reason than there is not a single vector of attack that is used to compromise the boxes in question.  Some infections may come from drive by, some from unpatched holes, some from malware, some from email, some from social engineering, some from trojans, etc...  It's also entirely possible that the exploit used to initially infect the box is patched, but the machine is already infected. 

With a huge number of different boxes, each box would have to be handled on a case by case basis.  Each box is exceptionally time consuming.  You'd need an army of people with the skills to accomplish this and I can't think of even one who'd waste his/her time for little or no gain.  Not practical in any sense.  Definitely not legal.


Title: Re: [0 GH/s] Mainframe Mining Cooperative has shutdown.
Post by: Eveofwar on October 21, 2011, 08:21:55 PM
MMC was cool and I was a member there. Not a big fish, but a regular top 10 participant.


There was a great community and the software was neat too.

Are these DDoS attacks really being operated by one or two people with a bad attitude? Surely, with the power a pool has at its disposal (in terms of many members, most of which will have decent internet connections and high-powered hardware), simply finding the perpetrator and then fighting fire with fire may work?

I'm looking at it from the old-bloke hacker perspective - try to fuck with my network and I'll fuck with yours. It's harder with DDoS due to the fact that the 'attackers' are idiots with unsecured Windows boxes who don't even know that they're being exploited.

But if there's a way to trace back to the originator... certainly something could be done.

Another potential trick - let's assume the DDoS is carried out by vulnerable Windows boxes, controlled by some evil piece of crap. If the perpetrator doesn't immediately secure the Windows box (and he can't - because he needs to send messages to the zombie box to attack a particular pool) then what's to stop our pool operators from breaking into the zombie box *too* and changing the hosts file to point the pool DNS names to localhost?

Basically I'm saying fight them at their own level. If they have got a way into a zombie box and not secured it, then a pool operator (or a hired hacker for the pool) can get in too, and then subvert the zombie's own DNS resolution system to ensure that the well-known pool DNS names resolve to localhost (or nowhere) - on that machine only.

This would only harm the zombies if they were also legitimately mining - and any miner with an IQ above room temperature would notice his/her hash rate disappear as the machine bombs the pool he/she is trying to mine with...


Yes, I know it's immoral. But we're dealing with criminals here. Sometimes it's the only way... only the pool operators will know, but if they're banning entire botnets, then they will have a list of IP addresses of members of the botnet. That list of IPs can be given to someone who will take down all the zombies' ability to attack certain DNS names (i.e. those of the pool)... make sense?

So you're advocating for pool operators to illegally break into compromised machines that are attacking them ?

I just want to get this straight...you expect a pool operator to break into ALL of the zombie boxes (at ~11 Gbps, how many potential machines do you think that is ?)...

It's bad enough in my opinion that BTCGuild has made a "deal" with the botnet operators.

Get real.


Title: Re: [0 GH/s] Mainframe Mining Cooperative has shutdown.
Post by: Littleshop on October 21, 2011, 08:52:40 PM

Another potential trick - let's assume the DDoS is carried out by vulnerable Windows boxes, controlled by some evil piece of crap. If the perpetrator doesn't immediately secure the Windows box (and he can't - because he needs to send messages to the zombie box to attack a particular pool) then what's to stop our pool operators from breaking into the zombie box *too* and changing the hosts file to point the pool DNS names to localhost?

Actually the zombie boxes are infected with very sophisticated software.  Sometimes the zombie command and control networks have been taken over by some advanced hackers, but most of the time it is near impossible.  The machines once infected are usually secured against other takeovers and get patches that don't interfere with their own software.  It is very hard to completely remove the software from the machine without a reformat.  The command and control of these machines is usually done with types of encrypted keys as well.  Without the key, you don't get to do much to the machine. 



Title: Re: Speculation
Post by: AnnihilaT on October 23, 2011, 12:43:58 AM
Speculation: I suspect the mainframe mining pool was also hit by this DDOS attack.

Close.  We got word that we were next on the "hit list" and that a large scale attack was imminent (more than 11gbps).   I had very little time to make a decision.

Faced with this situation and knowing that my datacenter didnt have the capacity to cope with an attack of this scale i made the decision to spare other mission critical services, colleagues, employees, and other paying customers the loss of revenue, headaches, and inconvenience an attack of the scale would have caused.

I resent being forced into this situation.  It doesnt feel right to shut Mainframe down.

Now i have also had to re-evaluate the entire situation and realize that there simply is not enough revenue being generated from this pool for it to support itself outside of my own network and the danger to my other clients, colleagues, etc. is too great to justify keeping this personal hobby project of mine up and running at the detriment of everyone else in this network.   (In case its not clear,  i co-own the company where the pool was hosted so the bandwidth and server costs were negligible as long as it was hosted in my own network)   

At any rate,  the pool just doesnt make enough to pay for the type of hardware and bandwidth needed to run it properly and the person who was donating this hardware and bandwidth (me) can no longer do it.  I cant say im really happy about any of this (Im not) but sometimes the most logical action is not always the most popular one or the one you really feel like doing.  I just dont see any other options right now.

It was fun.  I wish it could go on.  Im proud of 0 downtime and 0 problems during our 3 month run.  We had a good service which was stable, reliable and just worked and we had the best miners in the community.  I guess its not a bad record to go out with.   

- Anni




Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: cyberlync on October 23, 2011, 03:41:19 AM
Thank you for the service that was provided! I wish you all the best with any future endeavors. Had some great times at the pool, and as stated above, the fellow miners were a great bunch. Perhaps if Vladimirs pool gets done we can all meet again. Viribus Unitis


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: Shevek on October 23, 2011, 06:14:36 PM
I'll be thinking about setting up another pool which would be more long term viable than MMC turned out to be and which would be able to resist multi   Tbps DDoS attacks, in a phoenix like fashion. But so far it is all on drawing boards, so nothing much to talk about.

Vladimir, with your mining power perhaps you can contribute an idea like p2pool to stabilize. No more DDoS, distributed mining (and distribute reward) in the spirit of the whole Bitcoin project.

Please, take a glance and consider a testing period on it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: Jack of Diamonds on October 23, 2011, 06:35:40 PM
Fair enough, that was a very hot-headed post from me because I was, and still am, pretty angry about the situation where we've effectively got an Internet run by people with power but no responsibility.

Idiots with the virtual equivalent of major first-world armies at their command, but without the restraint to use them only in times of justified war; it's the equivalent of the USA bombing the hell out of anyone just for teh lulz. Fucking anarchy.

The fact is that two pools now have publicly stated that they've appeased the bullies, and done what they've been ordered. These words will sting Anni (sorry, I respect you and I really enjoyed being part of your pool, but this has become a bigger moral debate) and the BTCGuild guy, but it's true.

What next? Given that Anni's just said that his paying clients were important and that the size of the DDoS would cripple his datacentre, then the criminals operating these zombie botnets will presumably now be requesting protection money. Some things never change... 'nice datacentre you've got here... would be a shame if it got DDoS'd, my boys can take care of that for a fee'...

I don't want to be involved in a world like that. There's giving up, abandoning the enterprise, giving the criminals money, or just letting the whole thing fall apart until everyone gets bored. But there must be *active* preventative measures - not just defence, but offence as well - surely?

Defensively - why not run the pool on a P2P basis, with signed code to prevent each pool member *not* distributing the earnings amongst the network (actually, the entire Bitcoin 'reward' system could be rewritten to pay *every* contributing miner a proportional basis of the money supply - eliminating 'luck' and pool-hopping entirely, but it'd also remove the ability of 'being a pool' - that's probably deserving of its own thread, but I'm sure someone has thought of this already)?

Offensively - I admit there's little point in attacking zombie machines (though my opinion has *always* been that if you're unskilled enough to secure your own machines / network, and your machines are used as attack vectors, then your machines should be taken off the network for the network's good) but there are only two points where a DDoS can be stopped; either at the zombie bot, or the zombie bot's ISP. If the ISP can't give a damn, then they are just as complicit. Massive traffic identified as a DDoS attack can be stopped by the ISP refusing to forward on the zombie's packets before they end up, along with all the other zombies, filling up someone's pipe. And stopping the attack at the zombie machine itself requires hacking the zombie machine, which is unethical as per responses above.

Is there any way to ask the router *upstream* of your datacentre to filter packets on a certain-number-per-originator basis? All source IPs would get through but only at a restricted rate. This wouldn't affect normal operation but would slow down 'flood' type attacks...

It's a fucking shame, an absolute fucking shame. I understand why Anni did what he did, and on a business basis it makes sense (unless it leads to threats of financial extortion) but the whole situation could snowball into causing mistrust in the Bitcoin community, the further devaluation of the BTC, and eventual total financial loss for those who have invested in the enterprise.

Perhaps I'm being somewhat pessimistic, but right now, with organised crime assaulting the Bitcoin mining infrastructure, I don't see the likelihood of Bitcoin actually *succeeding* being very high any more. I think my investment in hardware will be wasted and mining eventually ending. Organised crime doesn't gain anything from this outcome - maybe the vested interests of established fiat currencies may gain, but I wouldn't expect them to approach the problem *this* way.

Again it comes down to power without responsibility - such idiots shouldn't be allowed to have such heavy weapons...


I truly hope that something rises from the ashes of MMC... I was proud to be a member of that pool and I'd be back in a heartbeat. I don't have the facilities to offer but will help in any other way - I'm hoping Vladimir has something up his sleeve :)


Everyone pays for protection from the stronger. Even you pay for protection by taxes.

At some point DDoS protection will be an ordinary business expense
just as guarding & security services purchased by corporations and stores in the physical world.

Tor is not the ideal protection method either as an attacker with relatively low bandwidth can bring down the network very easily

(Fake TLS handshakes, attacking directory services and all active routers on the network, consuming the network bandwidth grinding it to a halt)


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: ydenys on October 25, 2011, 02:24:46 AM
Sorry, Annhila, i feel for you being almost ddos’s/Vladimir leaving/etc. But do you mind telling me why you failed to auto pay me (far above the limit) forcing me to pay you the fee to withdraw the last of my BTCs? Anyway, thanks for letting me to withdraw them, I guess. Keep the change, beware of those bad people on the webs. All the bestest. Ta.


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: AnnihilaT on October 25, 2011, 08:00:53 AM
But do you mind telling me why you failed to auto pay me (far above the limit) forcing me to pay you the fee to withdraw the last of my BTCs? Anyway, thanks for letting me to withdraw them, I guess.

1) you never set a threshold for auto payments.  It was still set at 0 which means its turned off.  If you would have read the instructions you would have already known this.

2) Even if you had, the min. threshold amount is .10 (also clearly stated) and you never mined more than ~0.05 BTC with us anyway which was paid out when you requested.   

Some people are impossible to please.  Do you really come here to bitch about .0005 BTC TX fees?  Tsss...


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on October 26, 2011, 01:31:09 AM
.05 BTC.  LOLZ.  Some people are just sad.


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: humble on October 31, 2011, 03:59:34 PM
I'll be thinking about setting up another pool which would be more long term viable than MMC turned out to be and which would be able to resist multi   Tbps DDoS attacks, in a phoenix like fashion. But so far it is all on drawing boards, so nothing much to talk about.

Vladimir, with your mining power perhaps you can contribute an idea like p2pool to stabilize. No more DDoS, distributed mining (and distribute reward) in the spirit of the whole Bitcoin project.

Please, take a glance and consider a testing period on it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0

So sorry to see Mainframe go. I'd been load-balancing between p2pool and mainframe for the last while and only learned of the shutdown when I got back from a two week vacation yesterday.

Vladimir, would like to second Shevek's invitation to have you put some of your considerable talents and resources into helping test and level out the variance on http://p2pool.org (http://p2pool.org).



Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: abracadabra on November 01, 2011, 12:39:28 AM
Why would someone threaten to DDOS this pool?


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: Eveofwar on November 01, 2011, 12:40:07 AM
Why would someone threaten to DDOS this pool?

Pool probably shutdown their botnet of CPU miners ;P

It seems to be quite the rave lately.


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on November 01, 2011, 12:56:19 AM
Why would someone threaten to DDOS this pool?

Pool probably shutdown their botnet of CPU miners ;P

It seems to be quite the rave lately.

Or simple extortion.


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 30, 2012, 08:53:56 PM
So hows life? :)  How many of you MMC'ers are still mining bitcoin?


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: Math Man on September 30, 2012, 08:59:16 PM
Hey buddy!  I'm still plugging away.

Sometimes I reminisce about the good old days of MMC, Vladimir, and the crew   :D


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 30, 2012, 09:03:23 PM
Hey buddy!  I'm still plugging away.

Sometimes I reminisce about the good old days of MMC, Vladimir, and the crew   :D

haha :) good to hear! :)   I fired up the old MMC servers today to see if could re-purpose them and then i got stuck digging through the old code remembering the "old days".   AFter more than 6 months downtime,  i still have miners trying to connect to the servers when i brought them up again.  Someone is really not paying attention to their boxes (legitimate or not). :D


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: AnnihilaT on September 30, 2012, 09:35:39 PM
lol, yea, it was a blast.

Vladimir! :)


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: MacT on September 30, 2012, 11:37:04 PM

 Still here also. MMC was so far ahead it hasn't been passed in usability and stats yet.


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: AnnihilaT on October 01, 2012, 07:36:49 AM

 Still here also. MMC was so far ahead it hasn't been passed in usability and stats yet.

Is that so?  That kind of surprises me... I always that usability was nice and stats were pretty but i seem to remember alot more overal features abvailable from deepbit and btcguild


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: tnkflx on October 01, 2012, 08:03:23 AM
So hows life? :)  How many of you MMC'ers are still mining bitcoin?

Well well well, look who has decided to come back to life ;) And yes, we still MMC :)


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: RaTTuS on October 03, 2012, 11:43:44 AM
was a shame to see it go ....
I'm still plugging away
...

some of my miners may still have the mmc in in the rotation for alternative pools [I think I changed them all though - but you never can be sure ]



Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: cyberlync on October 03, 2012, 02:11:32 PM
Still here and mining ;)


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: spankymio on November 03, 2012, 07:44:10 PM
wow, good to see so many recognised names. I stopped mining due to a combination of noise and cost - my wife finally "persuaded" me to tidy up the spare room so that my son could move in, and of course it was uneconomical to mine for a while...


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: AnnihilaT on February 03, 2013, 04:14:21 PM
Im still lurking! :)  Looking at the new ASIC offerings and getting very tempted to jump back in and play some more even though i know ill be too late for the easy ROI :)


Title: Re: [ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative
Post by: AnnihilaT on February 04, 2013, 07:21:21 AM
With the benefit of hindsight I do not think there were too many days during last 4 years where investing into mining hardware and power was more cost effective than simply buying BTC. Yes, at the time it often was much less risky to mine than to buy BTC. Indeed, different risk profile of buying versus mining was always obvious with GPU's/CPUs.

Note that most people who paid for ASIC's that are to be delivered soon (hopefully) paid for it when BTC was at 5$. The cost of lost opportunity for them is already nearly 300% of ROI. This means that they need to quadruple their investment just to catch up with those who decided to pass on ASIC mining and simply keep/buy some BTC instead. Good luck with this.


All very good points, Vladimir.  I do find it interesting to keep an eye on whats happening though especially with the first 300 units now out there.  Time will tell, as always.