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How is that confirmation of anything? The economics will rule. Perhaps they want to make some money by seeing how many LTC traders will dump back to them. Sell high, buy low is what they doing. Or other chess moves going on behind the scenes. I've read the F2Pool long ago said they would support SegWit on Litecoin, but just in any definite timeframe. Of course they have to maximize their profits and strategy along the way. What the hell are you talking about? Are you still talking about litecoin? There is no doubt their BTC signalling was an April fool's trolling since they signalled every proposal for April 1st only. |
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And f2pool has gone back to signalling nothing, confirming its BTC signalling was nothing more than an April fool's joke.
It's signalling version 0x20000004 and saying /EXTBLK/... anyone know what that is?
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Wtf... bu 50% hashrate.. man. This shit is getting big.
Don't worry, 15% of that is troll signalling for BU. If they activate BU based on that when it gets to 51% they'll end up creating a smaller fork and end up repeatedly reorganising their chain back to the real bitcoin one and invalidating all BU blocks. |
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de pool is unavailable??  DE had a wobbly, I've repaired it and restarted it with the latest updated code. Usually when I have a wobbly it's because of too many beers!!!  Well I was out drinking last night  Restarted the main pool with the same fix just in case, and it gave me an excuse to enable IPV6 support, so now both the main and de pools work on IPV6 as well as IPV4. |
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de pool is unavailable?? DE had a wobbly, I've repaired it and restarted it with the latest updated code. |
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It seems that for F2Pool the best solution is Segwit, they have already stated many times that they will signal for it eventually.
Really? I'd like to believe that but as far as I can see f2pool have always been evasive about elaborating definitively on their position. Do you have a reference for that? |
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F2pool is now signalling segwit.... and BU, and XT, and 8MB blocks and Classic.
Welcome to April 1st.
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Well this is going to change things. F2pool is about 12% of the hashrate which pushes segwit to 39% (+/- the regular variance). It also pushes BU from 37 to 49%. However segwit signalling counts towards software activation whereas BU flagging doesn't really activate anything directly - and will terrify BU miners that they're effectively a sybil attack along with bitclubnetwork's BU flagging. If BU flagging gets to 51% and antpool comes through with their threat of activating BU blocks but f2pool and bitclubnetwork are just flagging their blocks for trolling then in fact they'll end up activating with a minority since 14+% may not actually follow them.
I'm not sure what to make out of this. Remember, right now it is April Fools' Day in China.  I am aware of that. My point is that activation of segwit happens from signalling. It doesn't necessarily from BU, which is something a lot of people don't get. On the other hand this won't remotely bring us close to activation threshold. Either way I expect by April 2 they'll go back to signalling... nothing. |
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Well this is going to change things. F2pool is about 12% of the hashrate which pushes segwit to 39% (+/- the regular variance). It also pushes BU from 37 to 49%. However segwit signalling counts towards software activation whereas BU flagging doesn't really activate anything directly - and will terrify BU miners that they're effectively a sybil attack along with bitclubnetwork's BU flagging. If BU flagging gets to 51% and antpool comes through with their threat of activating BU blocks but f2pool and bitclubnetwork are just flagging their blocks for trolling then in fact they'll end up activating with a minority since 14+% may not actually follow them.
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if you do decide to make the pplns pool, around when would it be up and running?
I'm going away for a few weeks so won't really be working on it in earnest for about 3 weeks (if I go ahead). So likely it's at least a month away still. I have had interest from people out of the forum thread so it's more likely to happen now. |
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You cannot meaningfully mine bitcoin with a CPU or GPU any more and guiminer only works with those, and more importantly the mining protocol changed between GPUs and modern ASICs from 'getwork' to 'stratum' and guiminer does not speak that protocol so it cannot mine to eligius.
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I'd like to see a hybrid solomining pool, where you get your fee for running the pool, the block finder gets 50% and the rest is distributed to the other miners.
Im with P2P on that, 50% to block finder and distribute rest, plus your .5% plus the usual donation from block finder lol. If you put half your hashrate in a solo pool and half in a pplns pool then over the (very) long term you achieve the same thing and I suspect the vast majority of miners wouldn't want that scheme you're requesting (though I could be wrong.) true, but the pool you're talking about making is pplns with coinbase payouts, which I really like, but I also like solomining. If I make a coinbase payout pplns pool you can split your hashrate however you like between my 2 pools  |
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I have got hold of half a dozen gridseed blades. just the bare boards, I have knocked together some heatsinks and fans to keep them cool. The boards run fine on a windows binary with gridseed drivers I downloaded, but I want to get it working on a raspberry pi3.
I have no problem compileing from sourcecode on my raspberry pi, but what I am having with is compiling with the gridseed drivers. I copied the driver-gridseed.c and driver-gridseed.h over the the cgmineer directory and run sudo ./configure --enable-gridseed but when make the binary it has a moan about a lack of driver "configure: error: No mining devices configured in"
I am assuming I need to add a reference to driver-gridseed.c and driver-gridseed.h elsewhere in the sourcecode....
can anyone point me in the right direction to the files I need to edit?
Unfortunately there is no gridseed code nor support in the official cgminer, it being primarily an altcoin mining device. You'll need to seek help from whoever maintains a fork of cgminer with gridseed support. |
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Sounds good but is it doable? is the main question, and what would xtra cost be on top of dedicating the server to such a pool?
Cost to whom, me? Code time. I wouldn't have time to start on it for a few weeks anyway but I wanted the idea to get out there and get aired. I'm happy to shelve the idea if interest is low (there are plenty of other ideas I've thought up but never tackled.) |
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I'd like to see a hybrid solomining pool, where you get your fee for running the pool, the block finder gets 50% and the rest is distributed to the other miners.
Im with P2P on that, 50% to block finder and distribute rest, plus your .5% plus the usual donation from block finder lol. If you put half your hashrate in a solo pool and half in a pplns pool then over the (very) long term you achieve the same thing and I suspect the vast majority of miners wouldn't want that scheme you're requesting (though I could be wrong.) |
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Actually, not sure if it would even still like s1's or Sidehacks's upcoming Pod (>150GHs). Does it?
There would be no lower limit to hashrate, but it means some miners may end up with extremely small payouts. There would be no reserve whatsoever and no transactions for payouts with everything being paid out proportionately with each block find as a generation transaction - kind of like an extended version of what happens with this current solo pool. Of course if it only attracts small miners it may never get large enough to have consistent block finds but at least if/when a block is found everyone will get their share. It would have similar no-frills statistics as per the solo pool but with the extra information of expected reward. |
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If -- no WHEN I solve a block, will the good news appear in my stats at http://solo.ckpool.org/users/? Other than monitoring cgminer, is there anyway to know that I hit the jackpot? Or do 12.5 BTC just magically appear in my wallet? The money will magically appear in your wallet before any other notification since you get it as soon as it's solved directly to your wallet address. I wonder if there'd be a demand for a no-frills pool like this one for regular miners that does ordinary PPLNS payments? There seems to be little demand for new pools these days but perhaps there is a need for something people can set and forget like this solo pool that will take miners of any size and create coinbase payments like the solo pool does with a baseline ckpool code fee like 0.5%. I'd rather not take any hashrate away from the existing small pools but perhaps it might encourage more people to not automatically choose large pools if they have small hashrates, and might go some more way towards helping activate bitcoin core changes. What do miners think? you are basically talking about kanos pool lol No I'm not. His pool is not a no-frills pool, having full featured statistics and a proper web GUI front end, nor is it signalling segwit, and is higher fee and does not pay out minuscule miners. Would it be competing? Yes and no, since they'd be offering something different. |
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Simple as that. Please discuss.
Another zero post newbie asking inflammatory questions, presumably because they don't want to use their existing account to associate themselves with their question. As for your question: "What cryptocurrency is solving the scaling problem?" Easy: Bitcoin. |
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Hi guys, I hope this is the right thread to submit a question.
We have successfully installed, and started CKpool, but only in Standalone mode. It doesn't seems like we are receving any blocks, so i want to start the pool in regular mode. we have installed DB, so that should be ok. The problem is when we start with just ckpool, we can connect any workers.
I know im a noob in this, so Im hoping to get some tips of what could be wrong. Im helping out a freind in Asia, that have 70 units of Antminer S9 ready.
Any input would be helpful. Im not sure about the directory permissions and also the correct syntax to startup the pool.
There are so little information about CKpool and how to run it.
The documentation is all in the ckpool readme for running it in standalone mode and it is well documented. If that is not clear enough then can I suggest you're probably not skilled enough to run a pool? If you're not finding blocks then you're not finding blocks; perhaps you don't even understand that 70 Antminer S9s is an extremely small hashrate to find blocks by today's standards. |
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If -- no WHEN I solve a block, will the good news appear in my stats at http://solo.ckpool.org/users/? Other than monitoring cgminer, is there anyway to know that I hit the jackpot? Or do 12.5 BTC just magically appear in my wallet? The money will magically appear in your wallet before any other notification since you get it as soon as it's solved directly to your wallet address. I wonder if there'd be a demand for a no-frills pool like this one for regular miners that does ordinary PPLNS payments? There seems to be little demand for new pools these days but perhaps there is a need for something people can set and forget like this solo pool that will take miners of any size and create coinbase payments like the solo pool does with a baseline ckpool code fee like 0.5%. I'd rather not take any hashrate away from the existing small pools but perhaps it might encourage more people to not automatically choose large pools if they have small hashrates, and might go some more way towards helping activate bitcoin core changes. What do miners think? |
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