Is there any need or performance gains to be had with 64 bit java? and Bitminter?
Should be exactly the same, 32 or 64 bit. The cumulative down time of Bitminter is wearing on the loyalty of it's members. I'm supportive but we all loose if the masses exit the service.
Yeah, that's what the attacker is trying to achieve. Thanks for your support. I will do what I can to improve DDoS resilience further. |
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We seem to be up and running again. I see there has been logged a bunch of smaller DDoS attacks that were ineffective before the attacker escalated to 16 Gbps. Someone is trying pretty hard to keep BitMinter down. On the down side - this should've been announced BEFORE the fact and not AFTER the fact. Mi miners wasted over half an hour just idling ... (and now I'll be seriously considering a better backup pool scheme)
That wasn't a restart but a 16+ Gbps DDoS attack. Frankly I'm not a happy camper either. Only reason I'm still here is it's the biggest pool that supports NMC merged mining.
Obviously this is what the attacker is trying to achieve. |
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16.06Gbps DDoS attack.
Let's see what Black Lotus can do.
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There's a communication problem between servers. Working on it now.
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SgtMoth's new equipment is stuck in customs and there is a rumor that Fefox is lacking his best rig. The timing could not be worse. Meanwhile micheletegon pushes up near the top of the top50 list and grabs a block that easily places him in first position. More surprisingly, hellerstern66, who is not even on the top 50 list lands a block good enough for second position so far. Clearly someone minting above their weight. The finish line is still a long way off though. i think everyone that participates should receive 100 devcoins
Sounds like another prize donor has arrived!  |
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Pool is down!
Just restarting the mining service.. it's a bit slow on the restart though - I will work to improve that. |
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The reason is, my blades report 12.5-13GHS at slush and it goes down to 11-11.5Ghs when mining on bitminter :S
If you are connecting the blade directly to the pool with the getwork protocol, try instead to set up a stratum proxy and connect through that. In that case the hashrate will be exactly the same. The stratum proxy will be generating new work locally and the blade hashing it, so the blade should be running full speed all the time. If the hashrate is different then you probably didn't measure it long enough to even out inaccuracies. |
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After a slow start, farfie gets the first block. Whether this will keep him in the top 10 remains to be seen. With almost a week left of the race, anything can happen.
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After a slow start farfie gets the first block. It remains to be seen whether this will keep him in the top 10. With almost a week left of the race, anything could happen.
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Thanks for the support. It's very good to see the pool growing again.  You maybe should say on the front page that the pool is now protected against DDoS by black lotus. That might make many people come back here. Just sayin'...
Good idea. Added, along with a link to the Mint Race thread. |
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For the first time we are over 6 000 active users and 10 000 active workers mining. Yay!  |
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The race is on! May the best minter win. |
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No limit on BitMinter. Run all your machines as one worker if you wish.
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[09:19] == Password Incorrect
If you google this you'll see some say it's an IP ban, while other say it can be fixed by switching to a different browser. I don't know, I've never seen it... |
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I will ask if I were to win a prize do I get to count my early contract?
The discounts are for new purchases. Note that it is possible to sell the discount code to someone else if you don't want to buy more mining contracts yourself. You won't get 1000 USD for a 1000 USD discount code, but I'm sure you could sell it for a bit less. We could hold on to the discount code and give it directly to the buyer, and I could do (bitcoin) escrow if that helps. Cloudhashings site is missing relevant information and I cant be bothered to register.. What payment options do they accept ?
Their site has the "bitcoin accepted here" and "google wallet accepted" logos. Those are the two payment options. You can use credit cards through Google Wallet. If there are any other questions, ask away. |
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With less than 21 hours left before the race we see many users arriving and getting their rigs ready for the race. I don't think I've ever seen more users mining at BitMinter. Interestingly most of them are small or medium miners. Big miners that would have a 5-10% chance of winning the first prize, at 1000 US dollar value, are nowhere to be seen. Big "warehouse size" mining operations are slower to turn around, and the mint race was announced only 2 days before start. This could be just what the smaller miners need to have a real shot at the prizes.
Questions about CloudHashing will be answered soon. I don't want to give any wrong answers.
Finally, a request to all participants: go easy on the overclocking (and have a fire extinguisher ready). We don't want to see any burned out rigs like we did in a previous race.
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Why is it down to 4Th?
Some miners moved elsewhere as we were under heavy DDoS attacks for several days and the service was very unstable. Now we have anti DDoS protection from Black Lotus and things look stable again. |
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To celebrate CloudHashing.com starting up and BitMinter turning 2 (launch date 2011.06.26), we are holding another mint race. And CloudHashing has some really awesome prizes for the winners! The race takes place at the BitMinter mining pool. All you need to do is mine. The rules are like for previous mint races ( #1, #2, #3) but the race will last a full week. Start: sunday 2013.06.23 at 20:00 UTC Finish: sunday 2013.06.30 at 20:00 UTC The prizes are discounts at CloudHashing.com: 1st place: $1000 off when you spend $1500 2nd place: $500 off when you spend $949.95 3rd place: $250 off when you spend $949.95 4-10th place: $100 off when you spend $495 So if you win first prize you can pay $500 for $1500 worth of mining contracts. Terms: Discount codes are transferable if you want to give it away or sell it, rather than spend it yourself. Discount codes valid for 2 months. Rules: - Just like your hash must beat the difficulty to produce a block, it must beat the other miners to win. The best (lowest) hashes during the race will win.
- As long as your work is accepted by the server it is valid for the race, even if it ends up "stale" or "orphaned" in the block list.
- Each person can only compete with one (their best) hash.
- If a winner cannot be reached within 1 week, the prize will go to the next on the list. You may want to make sure that the "account details" page at bitminter.com has an email address listed for you so that you are easy to reach.
- Any block by CloudHashing or DrHaribo will not count in the race.
Verifiability: Hopefully your mining software will show if you have created a block (BitMinter client does). Your block will show with your user name in the block list at http://bitminter.com/blocks. You can click the height number for the block (leftmost column) to see details. There is a link there to blockchain.info where you can see the hash value of the block both on the page and in the URL. The lowest hash value wins. Hash values are shown in hexadecimal. 0-9 is lower than A-F. A is lower than B. Pretty simple. FINAL RESULTS: Updated 2013.06.30, 20:13 UTC |
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