Good to hear you like the pool

The pool hashrate shouldn't affect yours. And the server being further away should just increase your stale rate a tiny bit.

Are you getting messages about running out of work and devices idling? Perhaps network error messages?

Not yet, that's on my list.

Yeah it looks like you have some USB issues. Maybe one of those USB hubs that "sometimes work" ?

I believe I have fixed the website slowdowns that would cause Cloudflare errors. Let me know if you still see any.

There is also a new beta of BitMinter client out that should work better on BFL ASIC singles and minirigs. If you have such hardware, please give it a try. If there aren't any problems then this will soon be the next stable release.

BitMinter client v1.4.1beta2 is ready for testing.

New:

• Fixed unstable hashrate on BFL ASIC singles and minirigs

Please check it out:


Let me know how it runs, especially on singles and minirigs.

Thanks, I put that on my list.

Ouch. I would report that to the cgminer guys. One pool going down shouldn't prevent it from switching to backup pool, or switching back to BitMinter when the server comes back up.

It is being considered. However I am quite busy with important things with the existing pool. Adding any big features like that will have to wait a bit.


On the worker page if it shows a hashrate then it is alive. With slow workers like you have currently though, the website isn't able to estimate a hashrate. It bases the estimates on how often you send in a proof of work, which is too seldom with slow workers, so it thinks you stopped mining. But yeah, if the numbers are changing, like after waiting 30 sec you refresh and the accepted proofs of work went up, then it is working. With a slow CPU miner you may have to wait a couple hours for any change to show though.

Idle/failed worker notifications by email is being tested now. It basically just needs an interface on the website so you can configure it. However it won't work with slow workers for which the hashrate estimate is too unreliable.


There are already apps to monitor workers and balances. You find them under "tools" -> "third party apps" in the website menu.

It understands getwork and GBT (getblocktemplate). There is talk about removing getwork. Pools use GBT to talk to bitcoind. I haven't tried but you could probably connect a mining client using GBT directly to it.


Not currently. I'll think about that for a future update. I am planning to expand the API quite a bit. All ideas are welcome.


That's basically the current balance, or did you mean something else?

Each transaction on your account has a category, even though it's not shown on the website yet. I am planning to show totals by category. So you could see how much your total mining income is, how much you donated in total, etc.

Things are looking more stable again. Hopefully to stay that way.

Backup pools is one of the next features for BitMinter client. No ETA on that yet though, as there are a few other critical things that also need to be handled.

Looks like it was a short outage at Black Lotus. Everything ran incredibly slow and I could barely load their support website.

Seems OK again now though.

EDIT: I spoke too soon. Still instability with their network.

Currently very slow connectivity to/from mining server. Looking into it.

I just put in a small update for the website, it should take care of the live hashrates not recovering after network issues.

What I am working on for the next updates:

Idle worker notifications are working but need a web interface to activate it. You can send a request using the contact page on the website if you need this sooner and I can set it up for you manually. Same thing goes for if you want less then 20 work submits per minute as your difficulty target. In the future I will even out the hashrate measurements a bit more. Currently you should have the threshold 30% or so below normal to avoid false positives. You also get one email for each worker if several go up or down. In the future I'll have it put info about more than one worker in a single email.

Sometimes the website gets slowed down causing Cloudflare to believe it is offline. I'm looking for the cause of this.

BitMinter client runs fine on BFL 5 GH/s units but with unstable hashrate on singles and minirigs. If you are having problems with this, please come to the chat/IRC for help with setting up another mining client while I work on this issue. That's #bitminter on freenode with a regular IRC client, or go through the chat page under "community" -> "chat" on the BitMinter website for an easy to use web version.

Sometimes stale work would have created a block. I think BitMinter is the only pool that shows those "could have been" blocks. Maybe it's better to remove that, as it just has a negative psychological effect.

Sometimes stale work would have created a block. I think BitMinter is the only pool that shows those "could have been" blocks. Maybe it's better to remove that, as it just has a negative psychological effect.

The webserver is sometimes slowed down, causing Cloudflare to determine that the site is down. I'm looking into this.

Yes, at BitMinter you merged mine namecoins no matter which protocol you choose; Stratum, GBT or getwork.


Looks like another myopenid.com failure. I think their server is working again now though. Try to log in and then go to "my account" -> "logins" in the menu and add an OpenID identity from a more stable provider. myopenid.com is unfortunately not reliable anymore.

From what I can see 2-step verification and 2-factor authentication on Google seems to be the same thing?

You can use that for logging in at BitMinter. I believe also Verisign and possibly other OpenID identity providers support 2-factor auth.

I'm not sure if there is a way for me to force you to re-authenticate through Google again with 2-factor when you want to make critical changes to your account. If you are already logged in with Google it just bounces you back to the BitMinter site without any need to log in. It's an interesting idea though - I'll have to look into that further.

Something is causing the website to sometimes respond slowly, which can cause Cloudflare to think it is down. I'll need to investigate that..

Just a little more good luck and we can recover from the bad luck before the difficulty change.

I was about to say that the BitMinter website doesn't use Flash anywhere. But it does have a Youtube video on the front page, which uses Flash. But I wouldn't expect Youtube to crash Flash.