Damn, I turned on cheat mode for the wrong type of coin 

The problem with namecoins is exactly the fact that noone wants them. I wonder if people would donate towards block bonuses or perhaps some of each block should be reserved for whoever created it.

Dave has slain the dragon! All hail Dave!

I paid out a 2 BTC bonus for that. That block was really bad. Need to think about an automatic and more permanent bonus system for blocks.

I think some pools reserve a percentage of the income for the person who created the block.

Another option is a new donation cause ('Minting bonus' or something like that?). The payout for each block could be whatever is in the donation box at the time. Or it could be CDF percent of the donations. So if you get an easy 10% block, you get 10% of the current donations. For a block like today 99.9% of the available donated funds.

Hehe 

Yeah, use cgminer for now for BFL devices. I will see about getting BFL support in my miner soon.


That will be awesome. We should be able to attain a quite decent hash rate!


Thanks for your support, guys. It is very much appreciated.

Did anyone compare the BitMinter miner against DiabloMiner on a 7970? (or cgminer with DiabloMiner kernel)

I don't have such a GPU to test it myself.

I have gotten a few reports that the miner runs very fast on 7970s.

Has anyone compared directly against DiabloMiner? I don't have a 7970 to test on.

9-16 days for a block. The good old days. Err, wait...


Thanks, glad you like it


Sweet. I don't have a 7970 to test it myself, but I've gotten a few reports that it runs very fast on them.


Yeah, I will probably do the same thing as I did with the block list, only show BTC as default.

Glad you like the software and find it easy to use.

One of the main reasons for writing it was to make a user-friendly alternative.

Some updates on the website today.

The details are in the main thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg833549#msg833549

Website was just updated. Here are the new changes:

• Added BitMinter pages at google+ and facebook. Linked at the top of each BitMinter page. Please click like, follow, +1 and all the other nice buttons.
• Pagination for blocks, shifts, transactions and block payouts. Now you can browse historic events since the beginning of the pool.
• Filter block list by coin type. Default is to show only bitcoins. Many users felt namecoins were just in the way.
• Nicer looking error and info messages.
• Added "bitminter.com" on avatar images.
• Added one-time donations to make it possible to donate from your existing balance. Now there are one-time manual donations from your balance and repeated automatic donations from your income.
• Big livestats: rearrangeable page. Drag and drop to move things around.
• Livestats: set new gauge max value if old max is reached. No more stuck at 300 Ghps.
• Livestats: don't extrapolate rejected proofs of work. Stales come in groups at each block change - it didn't really make much sense to extrapolate between updates.

Don't forget to join BitMinter groups on your favorite social sites:

• Google+: https://plus.google.com/107253423193517853418 (shortcut: http://bitminter.com/+)
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BitMinter
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/BitMinter
• Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bitminter

Website had a hickup. It was back up again after a few minutes. Sorry about that.

That's a good temp under load. CPU temp looking ok under load too?

Could be a hardware fault I suppose.

Are you overclocking? How are the temperatures looking?

Happy to hear you like the pool, Jaryu

My impression of the bitcoin-forks is that they all seem to be dying. Probably because they serve no purpose. Namecoin does have a purpose, but still doesn't really seem to be getting anywhere.

After namecoins were introduced on BitMinter it turned out most miners didn't actually want them. And many beginners just found them confusing. How do I transfer namecoins to my bitcoin wallet? Is something wrong, I just started mining here and only got namecoins. And many miners were saying: I don't have any use for namecoins, is there a place to donate them? In short, merged mining so far wasn't much of a success.

Namecoins might still take off. And I think the bitcoin technology could probably be used for other (useful) purposes that have not been thought of yet. So it is a good thing that I can fairly easily plug more block chains into BitMinter's merged mining. But they would need to be useful in some way, or at least give miners a significant value. Otherwise I think adding a bunch of useless and valueless currencies will just detract from the whole. Also they are at high risk of 51% attacks.

So I'm ready to add a good one, but I'm just not seeing a good one yet.

Nicely done, sir.

Just a quick restart to get new versions in.

Now the transaction history will say "donation" instead of "payment" on your donation transactions.

Actually there are a lot of changes behind the scenes to support future features.

I got an email today from OKPAY saying they now support bitcoins, with instant conversion to USD, EUR, GBP, CHF or RUB.

From what I understand, if you have an OKPAY mastercard and you set your BitMinter cash out address to your bitcoin address at OKPAY, then it would work like this: Each time your balance reaches your threshold the bitcoins are sent from BitMinter to OKPAY. OKPAY then converts it to your chosen currency and it becomes available on your debit card to spend as you like. So after setting this up miners would be cashing out in one of the aforementioned currencies.

Has anyone tried this?

My local currency (NOK) is not supported. Perhaps I can still get a USD or EUR debit card but I guess the usage would be a bit limited for me.

Apparently you can also buy bitcoins at OKPAY.

Sorry, there was an issue with the signup page after the update. The problem has been fixed, so if you tried to join last night please try again.

And thanks for turning on donations, guys, it is a good motivational boost to keep developing new features.

Updates today:

• Automatic donations added. You find them under "my account" -> "donations and perks". Default for new users 2%, default for existing users 0%. You can set it to anything you'd like. Please donate to support the continued development of BitMinter.
• Database code revamped. Hopefully will run a bit smoother.
• New rounding method when block income is split between miners, using the Huntington-Hill apportionment method. You may have noticed the old rounding caused the server to sometimes give out a little too much, and sometimes keep a little of the "bit dust". Now it always shares out the exact income from the block as fairly as possible.

One-time donations (where you type in a sum and donate it) and perks (extra features you get for your auto donations) will be coming soon.


Sorry I forgot about this - will keep it in mind for the next update! I feel it may be more natural to list bitcoins first, though.

Am I seeing double? Touchdown !

Nice work kjd and Chris.