Actually I've never seen this. I use performance mode all the time and look at those stats. Which stats are not showing the totals? Accepted proofs of work? Hashrate? All of them?


Which settings should an advanced mode enable?

Payment processing has been improved and is now quite fast, like it used to be.

Ability to adjust up the difficulty if you wish will come soon. The automatic adjustments aim for 20 submitted proofs of work per minute.

Thanks for all the ideas - all noted

Probably a GPU crash. Are you overclocking or the GPU running hot?

No, that's not normal. Do you get network errors in the log as well? Is internet connectivity working fine on that computer?

It's untested on XLINK devices, that's the minirigs. So I can't know whether it works yet on those. The beta version should run fine on the other ones though.

Yes, the hashrate in the pool went up, which does not affect your daily payouts except reduce variance. You get more blocks with less pay per block.

Also the global hashrate keeps going up and that drives the difficulty up. That does reduce payouts for everyone, in all pools.

I'm thinking of removing the "expected pay per block" because it confuses people. Maybe I'll replace it with an expected 24 hour earnings.

There was an issue at the server and I had to restart mining operations. Check your client if you use one that has problems with server restarts.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Looks like bitcoind went haywire and lagged the entire server. Fixed again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The client tries to recognize your GPU and where the speed would normally be. That's where it places the green area for the hashrate gauge. For Turks that should be 105 Mhps. There are some different Turks models though, so that's not very exact.

If it shows 200 Mhps when the GPU name is "Turks" then that must be a bug, or perhaps an older version of BitMinter client - the numbers have been adjusted a few times.

Thanks for all the praise And welcome to the pool, all who recently joined


I think the green zone should be about 105 Mhps on Turks. There are some different Turks models though. I think you are getting the speed you can expect out of your GPU.

Is that showing up with the name Turks?

Is there any place to sell ixcoins now? Vircurex wrote on Twitter that they won't do IXC trading anymore. They are apparently down right now due to being hacked, though.

I may consider adding DVC, if there will still be an exchange supporting them.

No, the rate at which we generate NMC is determined by our hashrate and the NMC difficulty, only those two factors.

Just to clarify:

Merged mining of namecoins takes place on Stratum, GBT (getblocktemplate) and getwork.

Some pools choose to do namecoins only on getwork. That is a choice. It is easy to do with Stratum too if the pool op wants to. It has nothing to do with Stratum being a difficult protocol in any way.

It is normal to make many more namecoins than bitcoins. This is because namecoin has a lower difficulty than bitcoin, and because there are 50 NMC per block but only 25 BTC per block.

Not stale, fixed to show "processing" now, that was a bug.

We're getting so many namecoin blocks it's falling way behind.. I'll get this sped up this weekend. The payment server has a rather slow connection to the rest of the system, that's becoming a problem as we generate blocks faster. Apologies for that.

No, it gives you (currently) almost 8% more income without slowing down your BTC mining at all. But if you don't want that you can set NMC donation to 100% to get rid of them. No need to switch pools to get rid of extra income, the pool is always happy to accept it as donations. 


It has temperature monitoring only for BFL FPGAs and BFL ASICs. Monitoring of GPUs got stuck on the TODO list while I have been busy with other things.

Stop spamming please. I get enough spam mail already.

Recent bad luck at BitMinter had some miners worried, or even moving to pools with high fees, no transaction fee income, and no namecoin income, because they felt it would be more profitable than the bad luck at BitMinter, which they thought was so bad it must be more than bad luck, a bug of some sort.

I commissioned organofcorti to do a detailed analysis based on hard facts:

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2013/05/131-bitminter-and-luck.html

We did indeed have bad luck lately, but take note of this: our payouts beat most pools even when we have bad luck! And even without counting the income from namecoins, which is almost 8% extra income at the moment!

So if you are paying high fees (3+ %) for PPS mining in a pool that doesn't even pay out transaction fee income or namecoins, then you really have to ask yourself:

Instead of sometimes high and sometimes low pay, did you choose to get extra-low pay consistently every day because it feels safer? Yes, you are guaranteed to never have a decent payout ever. You are safe from that. Although you did get rid of the element of luck, I don't think this is really what you wanted.

Thanks to organofcorti for a very detailed analysis. If you need to make sense out of numbers, he's the man for the job.

TLDR; when we have bad luck, PPS miners are sad. When we have good luck, PPS miners cry. 

Quick website update, now showing "processing" for new unchecked blocks instead of "stale". I hope to have the processing time back to normal again soon too.

Oh, and about the email notifications for the 1% fee, they did go out. But I assume some of you didn't get them because of spam filtering. Email is becoming a very unreliable medium for communication, and it's not easy to send out thousands of mails without some of them being eaten by spam filters.

All ASICs can be used with the BitMinter pool. But BitMinter client only supports the BFL ASICs so far. It may also work with the new tiny USB dongle ASICs from ASICminer, as they function like an Icarus FPGA. But that has not been tested with BitMinter client yet.