I mean, by my math with 1000 shares you'd have yielded 0.00000192 Btc. ($0.0013 at 700$btc)

So, by some regards, yes you did waste 5 hours :-D

But, yes the site should still show that result. Are you positive you specified the correct btc address in your miner? Does it show the shares on the website?
It sounds like you're mining with your CPU or graphics card - in which case I would recommend a X11 pool - OR the scrypt-n pool of coinsolver.

Wait, good point, are you on scrypt or scrypt-n? You have to choose scrypt-n on the top of the userstats page if that's what you were mining. I bet that's the issue. If it's not, then stop mining scrypt with your GPU and mine scrypt-n, you'll have much better profits. 

Sure you just have to compile the cgminer yourself.

Here's a RPi r-box cgminer binary I compiled that works great. I use it with MinePeon, just replace the included cgminer binary with this one

https://mega.co.nz/#!aN4RhYYZ!duR0CSLpgy3jNGqjrN1sW4e0Xp-vgJVMNOt_-R3Nlvw

If it keeps acting up you might try a different SD card.
Some sd cards can be weird like this but for me a sandisk is rock solid

Well I've ordered two more so I'll cross my fingers 

35GH/s

So the instructions from rockminer say that frequencies 270-290 are supported. 270 worked. 290 was a little faster. Tried to experiment with 285 and now the box is no longer recognized over usb :-|

Thoughts?

UPDATE: Using the cg-debug command provided in the windows binaries seems to have reset the frequencies for the chips. Testing was a little obfuscated because ghash went down at the same time which caused cgminer to have trouble starting. new pool, new test, seems to be back to working as normal.

After completely striking out with the windows instructions I was able to compile a working binary for raspberry pi despite having no idea what I'm doing. Google is fantastic sometimes.

Here's the link. It's working, hashing, showing up on the pool, and great for me but for obvious reasons use at your own risk and in no way mine.

https://mega.co.nz/#!aN4RhYYZ!duR0CSLpgy3jNGqjrN1sW4e0Xp-vgJVMNOt_-R3Nlvw

Darkcoin is X11 algorithm not Scrypt algorithm like Litecoin and others.
There are not hardware ASIC miners for X11 - all mining (at least for now) is CPU or GPU based.

Theoretically you could set up the CPU on the ras pi to mine darkcoin but speeds would be infinitesimally low.
So, short answer, no.

Hopefully bobsag can give us an update on this, but I'd presume they've resigned themselves to not taking any further pre-orders and instead selling them when they are truly in stock.

and this little piggy went hashing

cust# 891

In lieu of a text joke, I present this image I photoshopped some years ago which still makes me laugh uncontrollably on occasion:

At the risk of being accused of shilling myself as well, I've seen these documents, and they demonstrate nothing.

There are indications of tax shelters, and people were concerned that the director of a Hong Kong company was a Bulgarian (or was it Hungarian?) living in Britian.

Maybe that raises questions, perhaps. But there's nothing that demonstrates a scam.

Maybe they were deleted as a cover up, maybe they were deleted because they contain some dudes home address and private email. I honestly don't know.

I don't see a scam. I see another delayed piece of bitcoin hardware by a company that still has an opportunity to at least partially make things right.

Actually I like the idea of this feature:
No-auth read-only access.

What do you guys think?

Glad to hear!

I agree, as I'm sure at least some others here do, that your only priority at the moment should be getting units shipping. I look forward to an update shortly thereafter!

Looks promising. Here's hoping next week I will at long last have a hashing x-1.

Well - hopefully 2 as 2:1 compensation still seems more than in order at this point :-)

Thank you for the update.

..... the POLICE?

 for WHAT?

Grumble Grumble. First day trying the pool.
.003 confirmed balance - no payout.

The minimum is indeed .001, no? Payed out at "about 11pm EST"?

Nope :-|

Actually the payout went fine, only a little late. Color me satisfied! Going to stick to this pool for a while.

It's a HUB and not a SWITCH? There's an important distinction. Hubs can behave erratically if everything isn't setup correctly. Once I accidentally took down the network in an entire academic building by accidentally plugging a hub into itself. (A condition known as loopback)

Not sure the exact network topology you've got over there but I wonder if it would behave nicely with a switch.

For what it's worth - I unplugged the network switch running my mining gear from the router and plugged it back in without causing a problem for the miner.


Also, your mileage may vary but I feel like sdcard corruption is unlikely even with cold power cycles on the Pi.

That's an interesting bug. I'd be curious to see the output if while it's in that hang-y state if you ssh'd in an ran "Top" to see what was bogging down the system.

Also I don't mean to pry, but I have some questions about your tests and setup:
1)You said you simulated a power fail on UPS by unplugging the ethernet - So I'm to presume that your modem and router (or other networking gateway) are not going to be on the UPS.

In this case - how would you SSH in? There would be no network to ssh through without at least a switch and a computer also on battery. I guess the best case scenario would be to put the router and modem (or whatever you use) ALSO on battery so you can keep mining away in the event of a power fail.

2) OR just don't use a UPS at all. I gathered that you wanted to prevent losing saved frequencies or stats in a power fail situation but since your solution is to sudo poweroff once or after the power fails what's the benefit of the UPS? Just let the system go down - it comes up clean. I have an occasional problem with my setup that the Pi dies in a strange way and I can't ssh in or access the web - So I have a WeMo switch that power cycles it if an alert email comes in. Easy-peasy. IMHO unless you have the networking gear, the miners and the Pi all on UPS there's no value to using one.

Again - not trying to pry or tell you that you're doing it wrong, just not sure what you're going through all the trouble for.

Odds approach 100% - of all the scammers out there I'm positive Eleuthera isn't one of them.

I'm not saying it IS a scam, but the burning question is why have the x-1's not shipped?