Still only in beta. Couple small things I want to change before it goes out as a regular release. Soon

Which results?


They started solomining. They are bigger than most pools.

It probably leaves a hs_err_pid crash log on your desktop (could also be in a temporary folder, not easy to find), which says problematic frame: amdocl.dll - a crash in the AMD OpenCL driver.

AMD has been unable to create proper drivers in 2013 so far. They work for some people, but for many they either crash all miners or some miners.

You can try installing the latest beta, maybe they finally managed to do something right, or you could try a 2012 driver. Even if you get a proper driver the AMD uninstaller doesn't work (never has since AMD was founded), and it may leave behind files that will cause miners to still crash. You could try the cleanup utility at AMD website, or driver sweeper from guru3d, or manual cleanup as discussed here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=359883


Did you install the FTDI driver? In BitMinter client when you click "devices" -> "probe all ports" in the menu it will give you a link to download the drivers if no ASIC or FPGA is detected.


Once I have the important BTC stuff under control, I will have a look at LTC and see if it makes sense.


There shouldn't be any difference there. I doubt this issue has to do with which pool you're mining with.

And today 20 blocks. Still time for more.

Nice to hear, thank you


After logging into the website go to "my account" -> "account details". Halfway down the page is the auto cash out. There are instructions there on how it works.

All cash out thresholds that were below 0.01 have now been set to 0.01 as previously announced here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg2278795#msg2278795

All cash out thresholds that were below 0.01 have now been set to 0.01 as previously announced here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg2278795#msg2278795


If Haribo candy is medicine, then I am a doctor.


Look at the price per hashpower and the availability. Looks like BFL is ramping up production. That is good.

Update: Seems like Cloudflare had an outage today, which is when our problems started. Cloudflare is the content delivery network BitMinter uses. All traffic to our website goes through them. After they fixed their issue we got slammed with over 50 000 connections on the web server. Not sure if it was DDoS or what it was. But we got enough connections and requests to make the server slow and unresponsive.

At least things are back to normal. I apologize for the website downtime.

DDoS against the website right now. Website may be up and down for a while.

There is no progress in bitcoin mining. Mining is like a lottery. Each hash is a ticket. There is no way to know that "if I get 300 more lottery tickets then I will get a winning ticket for sure." Or "I lost playing the lottery every week for 10 years. That's a lot of progress. If I play for exactly 7 more weeks then I win the big jackpot."

I don't know which pool software you are running. But round progress doesn't exist.

No, website and mining service are both running.

Hopefully the website should be stable now. A couple days ago I worked around the bug that was causing the lockups. Then I hit another one of their bugs, but it just makes the server respond more slowly after a while. Hopefully they fix that. But until then I can just restart the web server every few days to avoid slow response.

I've been working on the mining server as well. More info on that soon.

I don't think this is an issue with the Stratum protocol. You may have more luck asking in a thread that has to do with the specific software you are using.

But round_progress sounds wrong for bitcoin mining as there is no progress during the round.

Thank you, sir


Nice to hear you like the pool and miner.

The crash is a graphics driver crash. Happens often with Catalyst 13.1 and 13.4. Unfortunately AMD hasn't really been able to make any stable drivers in 2013 so far. You could perhaps try 13.6 beta or go back to 12.x drivers.

AMD uninstall doesn't work and often leaves behind broken files from the broken drivers, meaning that you may still have problems after installing working drivers. If it still crashes with proper drivers then this is probably the issue. You could try the cleanup utility at AMD's website, or driver sweeper from guru3d or manual cleanup as discussed here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=359883

Sorry for the website being down this morning.

I have found the bug that is causing this in a software component I'm using, and reported it to the people making it. Not sure if they are doing anything about it (yet). I'm looking into a workaround that should fix the issue.

All work is recorded and blocks are found independently of the website, so no worries about that. Payments also go out. The mining server has a failsafe mechanism that kicks in if it is unable to record work, at which time it begins to give you errors every time you talk to it. That's to ensure that you can either mine and get paid, or you can't mine (on that server).

Webserver back up. Apologies for the instability. Some software I am using is not working right. I'm looking for a workaround.

BitMinter is changing the minimum auto cash out threshold from 0.001 to 0.01.

The problem with 0.001 cashouts is that it gives you a "wallet full of pennies" and you will be forced to pay fees to send all those tiny amounts elsewhere later. With over 5000 active miners it is also starting to cost the pool a bit to do free cash outs, especially of such tiny amounts that demand a fee. So essentially we were spending money to help newbies shoot themselves in the foot.

Starting now, the website won't allow setting thresholds below 0.01. If you already have your threshold set below that, then it is recommended to change it to 0.01 or higher. If you don't, then that change will be forced on saturday june first (2013.06.01). Contact me (operator@bitminter.com) if you have any problems.

I'm working on stability issues right now. Haven't even had a chance to look at Litecoin at all yet. Can't make any promises.

Thanks guys, nice to hear you like the pool

More statistics on rewards will be coming when I have time.

For info on the newbie restrictions on bitcointalk, see the newbie info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177133.0

So 3% fee, and 1.5% loss of transaction fee income and 6.5% loss of namecoin. Total = 3 + 1.5 + 6.5 = 11%

But I agree that 7.5 + 1.5 + 6.5= 15.5% is more expensive.

Anyway, the difference in average income between BitMinter at 1% fee and a "3% PPS" pool is 10%. It looks like a 2% difference. But it is actually a 10% difference. An important word there is "average". You may want to pay 10% to take luck out of the equation. It looks rather expensive to me, though.

I remember the uproar when OzCoin introduced a 3% fee (later reduced). And yet there are people mining with a big smile and getting 14.5% less than the average payout at BitMinter. I guess those are two different groups of miners. What I could do is offer miners a choice between 1% and 15% fee, to cater for both groups.

Thanks, that would be awesome. I hope it works.


This pool uses the PPLNS reward system, not PPS. Rewards have been running stable for almost 2 years. It's just that there is some delay with this reward system - it's how we can pay better than most other pools.

Without the prepay perk you need to wait for blocks to be confirmed before you get your share from them. This takes about 20 hours (120 confirmations). Even without prepay there is a delay from you do the work until you get paid. Work is registered in a shift when you send it in. The work in the 10 latest completed shifts get paid when a block is found. Your work is usually paid several times before it is no longer in the 10 latest shifts. It currently takes over 4 hours before it stops being paid from new blocks. Without prepay, add a 20 hour delay before the coins reach your account.