Yeah, you'll be fine. Also, if you upgrade to 0.94 when it comes out, the amount of space will be cut by about half. My pre-release, fully synced Armory 0.94 DB is ~175 MB, with ~46 GB worth of blocks and another 1 GB worth of "chainstate" data under BC Core.
I don't want to eat up expensive SSD space, so I think there is a way you can point to use another drive for the database. I didn't spend bookoo money on an Intel 750 SSD for an 100GB blockchain DB. One of these days the DB will just be too large for local machines. Unless developers figure something out I guess. |
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I just reinstalled my operating system. Downloaded the latest core x64 and the latest stable Armory 0.93.2. When I first run Armory it tells I cannot import my wallet because it is scanning the blockchain for my existing wallets. And on the dashboard it says, Downloading via Armory CDN. Is this normal for this version? What is it downloading? I know it has to sync with the main DB the first time you run it, using the core, but never saw this before. Just making sure this is normal.   |
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Well, I wasted a bunch of time implementing PoolPicker. They're also shutting down. Dang... http://poolpicker.eu/Then change it to Ghash.io which I asked weeks ago! |
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Since BTC Guild went away was only a matter of time Ghash would be under attack. I guess the kids needed to get together and plan things accordingly. Although, what comes around goes around.
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is there a value of BTC in USD - for Ghash Cloud mining to be / will profitable.
Now BTC is up so...
Cloud mining will never be profitable. Think about it. If it really was profitable, then the company offering it would just mine themselves and take all the "profit". Doesn't make sense to give away your hashing power and make less. Or they really are suckers out there who are paying a lot more and paying more then what Ghash would make by mining alone. Suckers are always out there. |
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What's wrong with GHASH? Been down/up for last 2 months. Soon as BTC starts to rise a little bit this pool decides to bang all miners offline. Nice Ghash!
Their pool speed went from 6.5PH to 1PH in a matter of 25 minutes on 07-11-2015 09:50:00AM EST.
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Decided to increase frequency just a little bit. All units running good and cool. 50c. On one miner I'm accumulating some HW errors. I've never overclocked and not the usual to do so, so new territory for me. Is having a HW error rate of %.015 to be concerned about? Seems it is the only one complaining. Just curious to see what the different HW error rates are out there.
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Received new firmware from Bitmain- thank you. But to test it you need to put your miner into jeopardy and I'm not willing to burn up one of my miners right now. If Bitmain wants to ship me a beat up, old, dusty, used miner to test with I'd be more then happy to test it out completely in a home situation.
They did always have good support, got busy at times but always helped out when they could. They had some growing pains, but all companies that grow so fast do.
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So the issue is that when they lose their internet connection (ie, switch or dns fails or it runs out of backup pools) the chips stay on for some reason? Eventually burning up the hardware?
Are there other symptoms? Like, the unit is on and not responsive to pings or the WebUI is not accessible?
If so, this is troubling because we host a large number of S5s that are super finicky, they randomly just stop working even with stable networking and power and require a hard reset and costs me a lot of man hours resetting these things. Also, this behavior does not seem to be heat related.
Lets start a list of firmware versions that this is happening with.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=902305.msg10833820#msg10833820 |
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I'll cut the blue wire on my S5s fan first thing tomorrow morning...
It's a little annoying if I have to sell them in the future, but I prefer that than the risk of frying them! I'll make an adapter for my next S5s (Material's coming in 3 weeks... !)
Don't cut! Be easier to buy a little tool to get the pins out, so you can put them back in if you want to re-sell. Something like this. http://www.amazon.com/mod-smart-Full-Removal-Tool/dp/B001KQDS6G |
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It shouldn't heat up if it looses internet connection, it makes no sense. I guess that unit goes into some kind of loop... But why besides that it didn't shut down >80c is beyond me...
Review the S5 thread. Sorry to hear this happened and lucky a fire didn't start or burn your place down. I reported this last March in the S5 thread. Bitmain has given me a "new" firmware but since I have all my fans directly connected now and the smits firmware is working good I'm just going to keep them the way they are. Especially in this NJ heat. Anything related to this bug should be looked at by Bitmain very closely. You should not have to re-arrange your fan configuration from stock if everything was working correct.y |
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Ok...
All other things being equal, and a bit of a derail. But... Why the HELL is eleuthria's trust rating so low? Mine is higher, and I mostly just talk.
The trust system seems really arbitrary. Eleuthria has a trust rating visible to me of 10: -0 / +1 Yours is all 0's. So what does that mean? yeah, the system is fubar. I just wish that the default people paid more attention... Or it was abolished altogether. On my side it was showing him at 5, and me at 30. Mine probably shouldn't be anywhere near that high, and his should have at least a couple more zeroes. This forum software should have been updated quite a long time ago. Have the slightest idea on why it was never updated. I see your trust rating as 2. Others see you as 30. The whole idea of "trust" is what to expect from someone you don't know. Since I don't know you, I would rather see your true trust rating, but I don't. NEVER go by the trust rating system on here. Even with the users that have a -20 or more. It doe not work properly. |
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On the brighter side: At least our last 2 weeks might be a bit lucky, the last few days haven't been half bad.
I have read about the opinion of different pool owners regarding the Bitcoin QT vs XT debate. But, I could not find your opinion about it. Though you are a closing pool, you were one of the earliest and served successfully over a very long time. So, I'd like to know your opinion about this debate. I am sorry, if you have already stated about it. Then you may please point me to that source. The block size debate is something I've been expecting for years, and it's something I just can't see a great solution to. The real problem I'm seeing is the larger blocks, once they become normal/blocks actually start using up some of that extra space, is the ability for people to run full nodes. Similarly, solo mining/p2pool is already at a disadvantage compared to pools/farms running on datacenter quality connections, larger blocks just make it worse. I've always fallen into the camp that felt like Bitcoin would be a settlement network more than a transactional network. Services building on top of the chain rather than all trying to live inside of it. I was very interested in what sidechains could accomplish. The idea of a separate network for insignificant transactions that then get settled on the main chain as a bulk settlement rather than 10,000 transactions cluttering up the entire network. Obviously, we haven't gotten something like that ready in time, so we *need* to increase the block size in order for Bitcoin to remain functional in the next few years. Sorry to say bitcoin is just a test. There will be another virtual currency that will take its place without any of the limitations or problems bitcoin currently has. |
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Well, I only take the inclusion of luke's post of lies as siding with luke's lies.
With that, I would request that eleuthria remove me from his suggestions.
I have no wish to be suggested as an option by a pool that would allow luke's post of lies without my response.
You guys sound like bickering women. All to sensitive here. Unless you are actually a woman. |
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All valid points, & exactly the reasons I won't use Eligius or anything else even slightly connected with Luke-Jr. After reading up some, I chose p2pool - it's decentralised nature really appealed to me. The Bitcoin mining scene will be worse off without the Guild - thank you eleuthria for being an upstanding & trustworthy member of the mining community - in these times of badly coded scam pools - you will be sorely missed. I agree and am looking for a new pool myself. Might just be a good time to bow completely out of bitcoin too. I really don't like the direction it is heading. I gave slush a chance years ago, tried him again at beginning of last year and nothing changed. I saw they updated the site but he doesn't offer anything special. If anything I recall them removing merged mining and now they are "redeveloping" it. seriously I'll give a mining fee to someone else kthx. I won't join a pool that avg's a block every 24 hrs or worst. There needs to be a few to make it worth my time. Eligius sucks. There's only so many months or years you can look at "Much more to come - be patient" all over the place. And yes, it is my opinion. And I'm not sorry if you disagree. |
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kano, thanks for your feedback. Yes, my goal is to run this experiment on a long-run basis (several months). My intention is not to compare PPS/PPLNS, but primary to give insight into how payments are delivered to users when mining on various pools. And also the obvious difference between various pools performance (related to pool's location, software used, etc.). Me, as well as many other users, too, are looking to get as much as possible profit out as mining. And since mining is not as profitable as it was a year ago, a 5% can make a difference. In an ideal world it should be essentially the same on which pool one is mining. I'd like to see if my experiment can prove or deny this ... we'll see in few months.
Keep doing it and get as much information as you can. Pool operators hate transparency and easy to read stats. Keep trucking. |
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Another question. If you order, are they still shipping used/dirty hardware or are they new? Anyone receive an S5 lately?
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Can you please add Ghash pool? I've used them for over a year and haven't had any issues. I've used BTCGuild, AntPool, CkPool, Slush's and others in the past and found this one to always work better. I have also never had one issue getting my coins out. When people say they earn less on this pool there are too many variables, options, factors to really support that and actually prove. Now that MobileMiner is dead, I just used that on my iphone to check the miners some times, I never tried Crypto on my phone yet but would think it would look odd. Is Crypto going to make an app? I have it running for my dad's miners and mine on my VPS and has been working fine since I enabled IP's. And please, don't hate just because I use Ghash. I remember everyone saying they were going to take over the world and control the blockchain, and they were so serious about it. Look what happened, nothing! We have a lot more to worry about in Bitcoin then one pool. Should I update? Looks like I have a newer/beta version already installed but wants to update to a stable?  |
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