Yes.

If you look at the block list at http://bitminter.com/blocks you can see that it varies a lot how much work it takes to find a block. Right now at the first page of the block list there is one block that took 95 million proofs of work and one that took 222 thousand, and both at the same difficulty. We spent 15 and a half hours on one and only 2 minutes on the other.

Bitcoin mining is similar to a lottery. Sometimes you go through a lot of lottery tickets before you find a winning one.

No, the new server is at a steady IP. The old IP is still working too. I see 58 workers still mining there.

Perhaps it is a problem of DNS resolution not working at all on those machines having issues. If so, fixing the DNS setup or entering the IP address would get it going. Preferred is to fix DNS, as servers may move again in the future.

Bitcoin is dead? I wish someone had told me sooner.

Yes, we had many DDoS attacks that caused downtime and instability. I think it's 2 weeks now since the last attack that was able to do anything, though.

Bad luck will happen once in a while, just like good luck.

The website hashrates are only estimates. The website tries to guess your hashrate based on how many proofs of work you send in. Sometimes you find many and it thinks your hashrate is higher than it is, and the other way around when you are unlucky and find few proofs of work. Your actual hashrate is what you see in your miner client.

Thanks, glad you like it, guys


Daily income will vary with luck, that's called variance.

In addition to that there is a delay from the time you do some work until that work is fully paid. The work you do is registered in a shift, and then that work is credited with income from new blocks we find until its shift is no longer among the 10 latest shifts. This takes about 15 hours currently. If you turn off the prepay perk then there is an additional delay having to wait for blocks to confirm, which takes about 20 hours.

So, assuming you have prepay on, if you do 24 hours of work and then look at the results, then only 9 of those hours of work have been fully paid. The remaining 15 hours of work are still receiving pay, even if you stop mining, because of how the shifts work.

If you do 12 hours of work and then look at the results, then even the first hour or work is not fully paid yet! Needless to say that is not going to look very profitable.

Also, comparing pools by how much you get paid for 12 hours of mining is pointless. The comparison becomes "which pool has the best luck today?" You can't use that data for anything. The luck a pool has today has no influence on its luck tomorrow.

More interesting: What is the fee? Is income from transaction fees paid out? Do you get namecoins? Is the reward system safe from pool hopping?

Depends how old the nVidia is. The very old ones don't support OpenCL and can't be used. The ones with OpenCL work.

But mining on nvidia doesn't make much sense... ASIC is the way

They have been very unstable lately. I'm not sure why.

When you get logged in you can add more OpenID identities under "my account" -> "logins".

BitMinter client also works fine on Mac.

Hook up some ASICs to your MBP and you will be good to go.

Yes, and yes.

Luckily noone paid to this scam site yet.

Shut it down, Lancik. Thanks.

The 1% fee is on the front page. The sign up page tells you about the default donation setting and how you can change it after signup.

But I know most users don't really read the text on the website. Half the questions I get are already answered on the front page. Perhaps there is too much text, or it needs to be presented in a different way? I've been thinking about a FAQ or Wiki.

For the fees etc. I have been considering a price list page, although it would be pretty simple so far. Mining: 1% + what you donate, if any. Cash out: free.

Black Lotus confirms small DDoS attacks that were easily mitigated. But you may have experienced short connectivity issues as their traffic scrubbing kicks in.

No server crash. But I see there has been two big traffic spikes. Perhaps DDoS attacks were able to make the network unstable for a moment before Black Lotus could mitigate.

No time to look at that now.

Hold your mouse pointer over an icon for a moment and all will be revealed.

This is an obvious scam.

Lancik, please shut down that site. There are better ways to make bitcoins.


Four pages of customer addresses. That looks like a lot of customers already. Just too bad those are not even valid bitcoin addresses.


Looks like noone fell for it yet. The payments to that address are all mining payouts from BitMinter.

I don't see that from where I am in the world. Must be one of the Cloudflare DNS servers having issues.

> host mint.bitminter.com
mint.bitminter.com is an alias for us1.bitminter.com.
us1.bitminter.com has address 192.31.187.114

You could use the IP address directly to keep mining going. But you should switch back later so you don't get stuck if we switch server again.

I hope the issues gets resolved soon though.

Only the OpenID identity association handle is pulled from OpenID, the thing that allows the website to recognize you and log you in. User name and email address you have to type in. User name is the only mandatory thing on the signup form. Maybe you typed in jcw188, same user name as on bitcointalk, and forgot you did? Anyway, you can use the contact form on the website to contact me and I'll see what I can do.


There's a lot of measured hashrates here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

You should have received an email at the address you registered with BitMinter. Perhaps it ended up in your spam folder?

Anyone who is among the 10 winners and didn't receive an email, contact me at operator@bitminter.com

Sure. The website is separate from mining.