BCH withdrawals temporarily disabled

Now starts the BCH hard fork and hash war. This may last for days.

For those who did not withdraw their BCH in time, withdrawals will be re-enabled once the dust settles and there are one or more stable BCH blockchains. You will then be able to withdraw coins on one of these chains.

Last chance to move your BCH from Bitminter before the fork!

Tomorrow, on the 15th of November, there will be a BCH hard fork and an announced hash war. When the dust settles there may be two or more versions of BCH.

BCH withdrawals will be disabled an hour or two before the fork.

Countdown for the fork: https://cash.coin.dance/

Withdrawals will be re-enabled when the dust settles, at an unknown time in the future. If you didn't withdraw in time then you will only have one of the future BCH versions.

Coinbase has promised to handle the fork for you, so you may want to put your BCH there before the fork. There's probably other services/wallets that will do this for you. If you have the technical skill and knowledge then you may be able to do it yourself.

You may be wondering if a BCH hash war will affect BTC (bitcoin). Jimmy Song talks about it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gtu_zO4Ws8

You can still import your BTC private keys from 2017-08-01 into a BCH wallet. For safety these private keys should no longer control any BTC and never be used for BTC in the future.

Some alt coin wallets may use the same folders as Bitcoin Core and mess up your Bitcoin Core data if installed on the same system.

Some alt coin wallets are malware.

If you use VirtualBox to do this in a virtual machine, note that a serious vulnerability was discovered in VirtualBox lately, see https://github.com/MorteNoir1/virtualbox_e1000_0day - I may be wrong but it looks like this is still not patched in the latest version.

There is no paranoia in cryptocurrency. Half the world actually are trying to steal your coins.

So many people got their BCH stuck by sending it to BTC addresses.

Solution: make the website extremely annoying ...strict.

For those who have BCH at Bitminter:

On the 15th of november BCH may fork into two coins.

Withdraw your BCH from Bitminter before the 15th, or you will only get one of the two coins. BCH withdrawals will be locked shortly before the fork, until the blockchain(s) stabilize, possibly several days later.

If you want both the two new BCH coins, but you don't know how to handle this yourself or you don't want to, then there are some services that will handle the fork for you and give you both resulting coins. One of them is Coinbase:

See https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/2959951

You can watch a countdown at https://cash.coin.dance/ as well as some data on the two factions, Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV, who disagree on the future of BCH.

Today is 10 years since Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/

That's pretty awesome. Thank you, Satoshi.

Thanks for testing! Yeah, it is exactly 6 months ago today that Bitminter got asicboost support. So far only a few people with Dragonmint miners have been able to use it. I guess we will see a lot more asicboost mining now.

Bitmain has released a new Antminer S9 firmware with asicboost support.

Read more about it here: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/new-firmware-activate-overt-asicboost-bm1387-antminer-models/

You can download the latest firmware here: https://service.bitmain.com/support/download

If you try the new firmware it would be interesting to hear what changes you see in hashrate, temperature and electricity usage. Post them here if you have some numbers.

If you have any BCH (bitcoin cash) in your Bitminter account, please cash it out as soon as possible.

We are not supporting the upcoming BCH forks.

I don't follow BCH closely, but from what I can tell, this is the situation:

On november 15th, Bitcoin Stash will fork from BCH. On the same day there is a BCH hardfork. It looks like everyone except bstash support this hardfork. However, it appears that Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV have different ideas for the future of BCH. This may cause more forks. There may also be other forks I'm not aware of.

So collect your BCH today, and check https://bstash.org/ for more information on bstash.

You probably don't need it. The server will adjust the difficulty to suit your ASIC miner.

If your ASIC miner isn't able to function properly because the work it is getting is too low difficulty at the beginning when it connects, then you can set a higher minimum as a work around. This should not happen to anyone, and you should let me know if it does.

If your internet connection has extremely low bandwidth then you may want to set a high difficulty to reduce data traffic to an absolute minimum. This may be useful if anyone is still connecting with an ancient 56K modem (as used in the 90s) somewhere in the world. Not sure if this actually happens in real life.

Or maybe you are renting miners and the rental service requires an extremely high difficulty. Setting the necessary minimum should work. In some cases I may also be able to add logic to automatically detect the rentral service and set the proper difficulty automatically.

Click "join" on the website to join. First you must choose a login method. Most use Google. In that case just click the Google logo. After that you can choose a user name.

Looks normal to me. What does it look like to you? Could you try it with a different browser or with plugins disabled?

Great - happy mining

Today marks 7 years since the launch of Bitminter. Thank you to all who mine and mined with Bitminter over the years.

Please use the contact form on the website or email support@bitminter.com about this. Make sure your user name is included.

There is a namecoin wallet at https://namecoin.org/download/
You can also send namecoins directly to an exchange to sell them.

There are some web wallets for namecoin that are scams. So be careful.
If anyone knows a good namecoin wallet other than namecoin core, feel free to chime in.

Yeah, hashrate is going up and down, so the time to finish a shift is varying. The size of the shift is based on an amount of work (10% of difficulty currently) and not time.

So why are so few pools supporting version-rolled ASICBoost?

It was easy to do and I didn't see any reason not to.

Yes, it will trigger warnings like "3 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version" in Bitcoin Core. But this can be easily fixed.

IMO, ASICBoost is just a simple optimization. Patents and arguing about whether it is wrong to use it is just dumb. Let everyone use ASICBoost, same as everyone started using various GPU mining optimizations that were discovered throughout 2011. That is now possible. Let all miner manufacturers speed up their miners and life goes on.

Going by the spec of the stratum extensions it's possible to fall back to reduced version-rolling or no version-rolling. I didn't know the DragonMint won't do that. So they just refuse to mine then?

Bitminter now has version-rolling ASICBoost support on all mining servers.

This means your DragonMint miners, and other future ASICBoost miners, will run full speed on Bitminter.

A big thanks to philipma1957 for helping with testing - it is much appreciated!

I believe we are the fourth pool to add this - is there a list of pools that support asicboost?
(Slushpool, ckpool, Bitcoin India is what I saw so far)