Hey Eleuthria,
I know this is probably a slightly stupid request but... would you consider implementing a feature that emails a user is they found a block ?
This is something that may be implemented, but will require backend updates. BTC Guild does not track which blocks a user has solved, it merely increases a counter when a block solving share is discovered. ScryptGuild is going to have a lot of changes to the backend in the coming weeks, one of which is including which block was solved instead of just bumping up a counter. Speaking of ScryptGuild: The Alpha has launched. Users can register, but the exact URL is only given out in IRC in order to make sure the people using it are able to report anything that doesn't look right/doesn't work right to me in chat immediately. You can join #scryptguild in IRC to get information on how to register and start mining. |
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So...ummmm...not to be indelicate, but who does eleuthria have to blow for us to find a few blocks?  Sorry, I borrowed some of our USB Rabbits Feet and blessed ethernet cables for ScryptGuild  . I'm ordering unicorn horn dust to sprinkle on the BTC servers in order to bring us a thousand years of good luck. |
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I can absolutely confirm the effects of bad wifi interference. In my new neighborhood there is so much junk over 2.4 GHz (10+ 802.11 routers visible from my living from with 4-5 out of 5 on signal strength) that it's completely unusable for gaming due to the constant latency bouncing, which sucks because the location of the modem makes it very difficulty to hardwire anything in.
While mining isn't quite as bad as gaming in terms of the effects of latency, it is the root cause of stale shares, especially if you're seeings spikes above 500ms just to talk to your router. The other cause of stales is mining hardware which can't be interrupted when new work is available, which adds an extra bit of latency to switching to new work.
Time to upgrade your gear to 5Ghz... better yet, one with MIMO antennae I got a 2.4/5 combo 802.11ac router. It's better, but not perfect. |
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I can absolutely confirm the effects of bad wifi interference. In my new neighborhood there is so much junk over 2.4 GHz (10+ 802.11 routers visible from my living from with 4-5 out of 5 on signal strength) that it's completely unusable for gaming due to the constant latency bouncing, which sucks because the location of the modem makes it very difficulty to hardwire anything in.
While mining isn't quite as bad as gaming in terms of the effects of latency, it is the root cause of stale shares, especially if you're seeings spikes above 500ms just to talk to your router. The other cause of stales is mining hardware which can't be interrupted when new work is available, which adds an extra bit of latency to switching to new work.
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I haven't mined enough to take a payment yet But whenever I click the button on the website it stops responding and windows can't recover the page. Is this simply because I haven't received a payment yet? I was just curious what that page is going to look like but can't open it at all. Just to clarify I mean the "Payments" icon at the top banner not the ones in the balance field.
Not sure why you're having issues on that page...it hasn't been changed since it was put there over a year ago. It's simply a list of your PPS earnings and payments to your wallet. |
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Greetings, recently started mining; anyone ever seen a day where there were backend issues and some good luck, or does bad luck line up 100% of the time when there are technical issues with the backend / non miner end of things?
That happens quite a lot (good luck + server issues). Actually, it's pretty much exactly as frequent as bad luck + server issues. Luck and backend issues are COMPLETELY unrelated. The luck is based on how many blocks we found vs shares that were submitted. When the backends crash for a few minutes, we aren't finding blocks, but we also aren't adding any shares either. Also, the luck wasn't that bad when the backends had trouble. The bad luck was over 6 hours before that. It's a coincidence, MinerRob.
And note that even with the soul-crushing bad luck since the 3rd, our five month average is still more than 102%.
3 month average is what's shown on the chart (all-time history made the chart freeze most browsers). Though this last week has been brutal enough to finally put our 1-month average under 100%. Not that it's not expected, you can't *always* be above 100%. |
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Everything should be back online now. There was a problem with the DB server connectivity, and the pools (hopefully) disconnected users so they would hit failover servers instead of potentially losing mining time.
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No, my average hash rate has been around 550Gh/sec. Last night I was at .13 24 hour return and this morning I'm down to .08. Did the diff jump last night or someone add some monster hashing power to the network? Pretty soon my Jupiter will be a doorstep. Who wants to buy it?
This question really shouldn't need to be asked every week. There's a giant *graphical* representation of pool luck which clearly shows a massive deep in the last 24 hours. It's also spelled out directly under the chart showing you the 24-hour luck. That % is directly related to how much your earnings will fluctuate. |
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Well if you're going to play that game: BTC Guild for sure! Try Bitminter. The only pool recommended by gummibears.
to btcguild -> it has a nice interface and you can find many informations. BUT 3% fees! (7% for PPS) BTC Guild's 3% is identical to BitMinter's if you want the same features (paid orphans, idle alerts). Paid orphans are a roughly 1% earnings increase (higher actually since I recall BitMinter and Eligius both averaging more than a 1% orphan rate). |
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I tried contacting blockchain.info about this problem, but they didn't bother to reply. Best is to not use their website - the information is bad. This site is much better at finding out where a block came from: http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/Doc, have you tried contacting them again recently? Seems the question keeps coming up and if Blockchain could fix the issue, then you don't have to keep answering this same question over and over again. Blockchain.info doesn't care. They've known their block association has been broken since they added it for many pools. The only pool I think has 100% accuracy with them is BTC Guild (I don't recall a single mis-associated block in the last 6+ months). Which makes no sense, since Guild doesn't do anything unique (static payout address + coinbase message). |
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wow we have now two guys (companies) on board with 500+TH/s   Yea, but pool rate is down to 3300 now - I think some of the big boys are jumping around. I noticed BTCGuild has been having some big up and downs recently too. I think somebody is jumping between here and there and back again. One of the ASIC companies was using Guild for burn-in testing and started turning off a few days ago. So it went down 400 TH/s. The recovery since then has been new miners coming online/speeding up. The new user on Eligius is likely a different company, not the same one changing pools (that 400 TH/s user didn't show up on any other pool for more than 48 hours after they left). |
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First apologies if this question already posted. I searched and searched didn't find relevant post so I am posting it here:
I just recently switched from Slush to Bitminter to mine Namecoin alongside Bitcoin, and also tested Bitparking as well based on good feedback from other users. Here are my findings.
Using the same rig, and same reward threshold of .01, I was almost getting reward from Slush every day but it took more than 5 days to get reward from Bitminter. And forget about Bitparking, while they offer multiple alt coins, their rewards were minuscule compared to other two. So I finally today switched back to mine just bitcoin on Slush, and again I am happy to see my rewards coming every day.
My rig setup and configured correctly. But I wonder wheather the less TH/s of bitminter is contributing factor why the pay out is less than 5 time than of Slush, or is it because my hash power being divided to solve Namecoin.
I am a Noob but not a rookie. I like the idea of mining multiple coins but not at expense of losing around 5x reward value. Any words of wisdom greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sean
You're comparing somewhat small pools against each other over a very short time frame, while difficulty is increasing every 10 days roughly. When looking at smaller pools, variance over the course of a few days can be *significantly* higher. In the case of BitParking, you could end up making more in a week there than you do in a month somewhere else if they have a burst of luck, or you can make almost nothing in a week. The larger the pool, the less they should vary from expected payout. For a larger pool, when the pool has bad luck, you still limp away with a few coins. When it has good luck, you get a decent bonus. Smaller pools are more extreme, where bad luck can mean empty pockets for a day, and good luck can feel like hitting a jackpot. |
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Is the timer for scryptguild incorrect or did you add another day to your timeline?
There was an extra day added. I'm doing some pre-alpha testing via IRC (#scryptguild) to iron out a few of the kinks before doing a public alpha. In addition to he above which is still a big wow for me right now, how long does it usually take a freshly added miner to even out the 24hr avg earnings ?
32 hours, since your 24-hour earnings doesn't include the 10 open shifts (which is ~8 hours). |
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Working on the website most of today. The expected launch is Friday for *alpha* phase. You can see a screenshot of the current template, plus a timeline for the phases of alpha/beta here: https://i.imgur.com/1wQKmFw.pnglike everybody else said: WOW !!! Will there be the option to not exchanging and just paying out the coins in its currency? Yes. During most of the testing phase this is how it will work. Once auto exchanging is added, it will be opt-in, not default. |
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Does deepbit report which blocks it has mined? Or is there an API which provides this information? I can't seem to figure this out looking at their website: https://deepbit.net/statsThey don't do any kind of coinbase signature like most pools do. They do report their blocks on the website, but as posted a few pages back, the average time for Deepbit to solve a block is now nearly 5 months. |
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Are you going to start a new thread for ScriptGuild? If yes, please link it here so we can follow, keeping this one on topic. Thanks!
Once it's launched beyond alpha, it will split into its own thread. I understand the desire to keep the BTC Guild thread focused on BTC Guild alone, but I also know that there's a large audience of miners that moved off BTC Guild into Scrypt coins for their GPUs, and still use BTC Guild for their ASICs. Once the pool is launched properly, there will be a separate thread in the Alternate Cryptocurrncies forum specifically for ScryptGuild support (and any requests for ScryptGuild support in this thread will not be answered, and instead deleted and a message sent asking for it to be posted in the proper thread). On the home screen where the account balances are for BTC and NMC, would it be possible to add an "Expected Per Block" field ?
I'm not a fan of showing expected amounts, since it's very frequently taken out of context or taken as an absolute fact rather than what it is: an estimate based on current performance. man, I don't know how you do it....looking good, keep it up @el
Thanks. It's been fun getting back into the design side of things. It's always a blast laying foundation work and building up something new, rather than mostly focusing on maintenance. |
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hey eleuthria, haven't been here in a bit....read up as much as I could find so far on Scryptguild.....really excited about it.....any thread link or more info anywhere other than this thread?
Will it have option for auto switch to the more profitable coin? or will that be a manual function for the end users?
thanks.
sbfree
Working on the website most of today. The expected launch is Friday for *alpha* phase. You can see a screenshot of the current template, plus a timeline for the phases of alpha/beta here: https://i.imgur.com/1wQKmFw.png |
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Hello,
Quick question.
It looks like one of my miners solved a block recently. I was wondering if there was a way to determine which one it was?
Thanks!
-alan
At this time, the specific block a user solved is not recorded. This is something that is on the list of modifications to the BTC Guild stratum backend, and will likely be added after I have a chance to evaluate the changes that are being made for ScryptGuild. As stated before, ScryptGuild is giving me a good way to test new modifications to the backend software for additional statistics tracking. |
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ScryptGuild? ? ? Tell me more! I haven't been on the forums in a while and missed any reference to this. Is there a thread I can search for? I also have a question about the Dashboard page. Is PPS Rate really relevant any more? I'd like to see that replaced with something like current difficulty / blocks to next difficulty. (OK, not something like, but actually those two bits of information exactly!) I know that you're keen not to have a cluttered page, and I wholeheartedly agree with that concept, but the only reason I check bitcoincharts is to get that information, and they're not always up to date. Just my contribution to the suggestion box.  PPS rate is relevant for PPS users, though they are a minority audience these days. It's useful for PPLNS users when eyeballing their paid rate on recent shifts to get a general idea on luck. I may change the tooltip on the PPS rate to show the stats you're asking for though. ScryptGuild is expected to launch *alpha* testing on Friday, at 5 PM PST. There's a countdown timer at www.scryptguild.com . When it launches, the front page will include a rough timeline of what features will be added during the different phases of testing. During alpha, it will be 0% fee. During beta, the new features will be 0% fee, and the "known stable" features will be 2% PPLNS. |
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New diff as of 2/5/14 2:15am EST: 2,621,404,453 (+ 427,556,583)
On side note,
Eleuthria... do you ever see sub pools in BTC Guilds future. Not too sure on how they work but as I think I understand it, they sorta work like a referral system for people that bring hash in. They get a bump of sorts in pay or w/e.
Also, someone able to explain to me why I saw this in CGMiner when there was still one block left before the diff jump. I know this because I was watching my node stats at he same time and the diff didn't change til 2:05, 35mins after what I saw in CGMiner.
[2014-02-05 01:40:44] Accepted 45aa1ebf Diff 4/2 AMU 0 pool 0
[2014-02-05 01:40:52] Network diff set to 2.62G
[2014-02-05 01:40:52] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-02-05 01:40:55] Accepted 027c0b0a Diff 103/2 AMU 2 pool 0
The network difficulty actually jumps up before the first block at that difficulty is found. So while the first block to be mined at the new difficulty was at 2:15, the difficulty was known when the block before it was found at 1:40. |
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