At least the pool handles them properly now! No more stuck unconfirms, or 0 confirm blocks.
Also, merged mining looks like it will be the norm. Once it is available, I'll be updating both clients and unlocking NMC as an available coin. All BTC pools will become BTC/NMC.
BTC will be primary and NMC will be secondary. This means all Long-Polling will be on the BTC side and it's blocks will have slight priority over NMC.
The switch should be near instantaneous, with only a few seconds of pool downtime.
Most of the site code is ready to handle it, and the prelims on the old server make it seem quite stable.
It's also quite likely the pool will be getting support for Tenebrix, a CPU-only coin with 5 minute rounds.
I'm glad to hear than merged mining is looking promising. By 'it will be the norm' are you suggesting that the big pools will go to merged mining right away? Nah, by 'the norm' I meant on simplecoin. The current BTC pools will become BTC/NMC pools. |
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Aww! All my little orphans! :sniff:
At least the pool handles them properly now! No more stuck unconfirms, or 0 confirm blocks. Also, merged mining looks like it will be the norm. Once it is available, I'll be updating both clients and unlocking NMC as an available coin. All BTC pools will become BTC/NMC. BTC will be primary and NMC will be secondary. This means all Long-Polling will be on the BTC side and it's blocks will have slight priority over NMC. The switch should be near instantaneous, with only a few seconds of pool downtime. Most of the site code is ready to handle it, and the prelims on the old server make it seem quite stable. It's also quite likely the pool will be getting support for Tenebrix, a CPU-only coin with 5 minute rounds. |
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Anyone experiencing high rejects on GG may want to try lowering your share queue.
for cgminer:
-s 1 or -s 2 (doesn't seem to work well for me)
-Q 1 or -Q 0
This suggestion is from Lolcust, one of the authors.
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No, fix by edited requiredFunctions.php (lock - unlock "shares")...
I hope that it was fixed...
Will see on next found block. Good sign - networkBlocks updates by every next block and part of last row in winningshares has been updated automatically.
That's good news! The next version has better locking, but it takes a lot more database work to get it off the ground. I'm going to need to build a serious manual or an install interface at this rate. |
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Hopefully Lolcust will finish the new patches for GG soon... I'm also hoping for an exchange shortly.
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networkBlocks is updated by cronjob.php
try putting a networkBlock of 1 in the table, that should force it to start updating.
I'm currently running a wholly new version of the source (working the kinks out now, especially merged-mining), so I'm referencing the git repo for answers.
I did but updating not started  Still the same error? |
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Geist Geld now has long-polling support. There are still high rejects, but I assume that is from the lightning-fast rounds.
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networkBlocks is updated by cronjob.php
try putting a networkBlock of 1 in the table, that should force it to start updating.
I'm currently running a wholly new version of the source (working the kinks out now, especially merged-mining), so I'm referencing the git repo for answers.
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Got a problem. Pool has found 2 blocks, I can see in wallet about 100 btc, but pool stat does not show founded blocks Need your urgent help!!! Table "winning_shares" is empty. Table "networkBlocks" is empty. Simplecoin v.5 Mysql 5.1.54 cronjob.php returns "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1" Ok, what line number is the error coming from (there are LOTS of sql calls from many classes in cronjob) ? V5 was fairly solid out of the box, so hopefully this is a simple fix. |
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Any idea why the x-axis of the "Blocks Found Over Last Week" chart is ordered reverse chronologically? Ah well, I guess it's better than the alphabetically ordered dates that we used to have.  I changed that. So new coins without history will show up i the correct place. |
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Man... I've been looking for it, and all I come up with is the windoze.zip file!
Hmm, I run ubuntu so I haven't tried the windows clients. If it's just the daemon, I'd assume the bitcoin rpc calls would work. Just google bitcoin rpc, and check the cli commands. |
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lol! I can't figure out how to use the console for GG!
Where do I find a walet address?
why not use the gui? |
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Are the three pools independent of each other? Or are we all still working together, just with different payout options?
Seems to me they are separate! Which sucks, because we are now three pools that will never find a block! each is under 10Gh/s!
It is 3 separate pools. However, merged mining will be up very soon as will GeistGeld. I assume solidcoins will also be getting close. It's unlikely that I will offer all the pool options for the new coins, I'm thinking prop for geistgeld, pplns & smpps for solidcoin and I'm not sure about merged. Some thoughts on merged mining and PPLNS: For merged mining I hope you are planning to essentially extend one or more of the existing pools rather than create a new pool. Creating a new PPLNS merged mining pool would almost certainly kill the existing PPLNS pool which would mean a great loss for the simplecoin users who have submitted a great deal of the last difficulty/2 shares. I would naturally want to use the same value of N for both Bitcoin and Namecoin for simplicity. Is there a good reason why this would be unwise? When merged mining hits, most Bitcoin users will be much more interested in the income bonus than in the namecoins and will naturally gravitate to pools which simply offer a 20% bonus to their BTC payout than to those that just give them the namecoins. Personally I feel that a good pool should not try to also be an exchange but good links and instructions on how to trade earned namecoins into bitcoins will probably be very helpful. Ideally, people should be able to mine and profit from namecoins without ever having to download the Namecoin client or create a Namecoin wallet (easily send coins straight from the pool to an exchange). May I ask why with PPLNS you use such a large value of N? I see that larger values of N can reduce variance (if the pool is big enough) but it also increases the risk (each share only attains it's full value if the pool survives for another N shares). PPLNS (where N is independent of pool size) is a trapezoid scheme and I think it is prudent to keep the height of the trapezoid as low as possible. Even values of N greater than 10`000 make me uneasy  . While I agree on most points.... The PPLNS value of 1/2 difficulty is arbitrary and seemed to be standard at the time I implemented it. Also, I most likely will be using a separate pool for Merged Mining. At least until everything is stabilized. Once I'm comfortable with the results I most likely will merge it. |
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i think something is up with gg! we have 1100 shares at 30 diff? just thought id try this out for the day, but it seems broken!
Yes, it is still experimental. There is also no long-polling support yet (so use cgminer). I'm working with the creator to get things sorted. The blockchain is live though. IF YOU ARE MINING ANY NEWLY ADDED COIN, BE SURE TO LOG OUT AND BACK IN! |
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Preliminary support for GeistGeld up. Still working out the kinks but it's live for testing. Also, due to an underwhelming response.... Estimates are now pure proportional. |
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Does that mean pool hoppers are welcome?
Anyone is welcome. There is a proportional pool (which will likely be hopped), as well as PPLNS & SMPPS pools. All are 0% fees. |
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Are the three pools independent of each other? Or are we all still working together, just with different payout options?
Seems to me they are separate! Which sucks, because we are now three pools that will never find a block! each is under 10Gh/s!
It is 3 separate pools. However, merged mining will be up very soon as will GeistGeld. I assume solidcoins will also be getting close. It's unlikely that I will offer all the pool options for the new coins, I'm thinking prop for geistgeld, pplns & smpps for solidcoin and I'm not sure about merged. |
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Since many new users to the pool do not like the current estimate scheme (which was originally from user request/confusion months ago), I'd like to get an idea of what the current users would prefer.
So, would you prefer precise estimates that do not grow with difficulty, or do you prefer the way they are now?
My vote is for precise.
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Setting up merged mining on the old pool server now.
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