Just keep in mind that the default code base and the released binaries of XT include more than just the block size changes. 'Voting for' XT is a vote in favor of all changes, not just the block size ones.
He also released a fork of core with just the big blocks patched. that's the version I'll be running. |
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Come on Richy, you been around as long as anyone. What I do or don't doesn't make for a hill of beans. My hashpower amounts for as much as my vote, absolutely nothing.
My concern here is that if there is no scarcity of inclusion in the blocks, then there is no incentive to pay a fee. No fees, no incentive to mine.
It's pretty simple. If there does not exist enough monetary incentive to secure the network at a level larger than the potential reward for attacking the network, then we're toast. "Game over man, game over."
It was the generic "you". The point is, the miners get to choose which transactions to include in a block. There is nothing to stop someone from running mining software that would only include transactions with, say, a 0.5% fee minimum. Of course, they will be in competition with other miners so if miners are willing to include blocks with no fees, those transactions would be included. But by your definition, these miners would not exist because they would have no incentive to mine. This is the essence of a free market. The artificial limit is like paying farmers not to plant crops. |
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...as can be seen, my usage rarely goes above 40kBs download & 34kBs upload, so running one p2pool node & one Bitcoin wallet is not a problem on even the slowest ADSL line. It's simply a case of setting maxconnections on your wallets & making sure your QOS settings are right, no changes to p2pool connections are needed - I use the standard settings. If you are still having bottleneck issues/slowdowns after checking your settings then it's time to buy a new router......  Edit: The only time you will drown your network is when you sync your wallets/p2pool (ie: restarts etc). Possibly you are correct. I need to fire up league of legends, watch the ping and do some analysis. I have a very basic setup right now. To be clear, it's not like the connection is swamped, it's just that gaming is sensitive. I need to take another look at the QOS because turning that on killed my p2p payouts back in the day. But I may have been over-throttling bitcoind. |
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Lol, "commie talk" indeed, I should mine for you for free?
Fuck you, enjoy your fork, asshole.
Then only mine transactions with fees at a level you find acceptable. That's the point, not artificial scarcity. [And yes, the block reward is heavily distorting the market right now. However, transactions are currently being oversubsidised which is an argument not to artificially restrict transactions in a block if anything] |
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They dont care as long as Cnbc etc dont start to headline: "Bitcoin divided! Is the war of developers destroying the Virtual Currency?"
This can seriously bring us down to double digits in no time. Pretty naive to start such a public nerd fight imo.
Yeah, it could be as bad as Microsoft and Apple. Or Coke and Pepsi... |
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My payout came in this morning about 10 hours past the normal time. No big deal, just unusual.
Yeah, it was a little worrying to me as I had changed the payout address but all good now. |
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The issue is really with bursty applications (which bitcoind certainly is and I suspect p2pool is). It is possible to saturate a pipe, causing issues, for relatively short periods of time. Applying a little traffic shaping will often not affect things adversely but provide an improved perception of performance all-round. This is the essence of QOS. There is no point paying huge amounts of money for a smoking-fast internet connection if you are only using that speed for a dozen milliseconds every hour.
Also, many of us are on ADSL where even someone also on ADSL connecting to us can saturate our upstream whilst only taking a small fraction of their own downstream. Bandwidth management is a thing.
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I got a payout last night. It seemed like it happened later than previous payouts yet the time on the antpool site is about the same. I'd need to look closer into it though as there appear to be about three timezones in play.
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I've just worked out why p2pool might have been escaping my bandwidth limiting efforts. I had edited a copy of tc.sh but was still running the original. D'oh  I'll post up my version of tc.sh when done in case anyone else can use it. I'll still limit the connections though since fewer connections with more speed per is probably better than many extremely crippled ones. |
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time to change the internet box if she can't handle this "not so heavy traffic" compared to connexion on a P2P filesharing software ...  (close to 200-400 connexions per 5s) I have bittorrent and it is throttled and causes no issue (unless I'm in a hurry and the cap comes off). I could try QOS on the router again but as previously stated, that caused issues with p2pool previously. Though thinking about it, that *may* have actually been a bitcoind thing (I was hashing but not getting shares). I would consider upping the connection speed *but* it's Comcast with their craptastic 300GB cap and I'm not paying extra for exactly the same amount of data. |
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Whee, I got a chunk of this one. I'll be back on board as soon as I can work out not killing my daughter's ping.
it's not the P2Pool that it kill your connexion ... it's the Bitcoin Core upload block to users. restrict the connexion of Bitcoin Core (but, keep in mind that P2Pool can be block because of this, the lack of opened connexion). i restrict to 30 connexions and 150MB of cache. Nah, it was pretty definitely correlated to starting and stopping p2pool. Bitcoind was running throughout, start p2pool, ping to 1000, stop p2pool, ping to 85 or less. I have the game on my computer too so it's just a case of spending an hour or so tweaking things a bit. I'll probably try 3/3 on the p2pool connections per the optimizing thread. |
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Whee, I got a chunk of this one. I'll be back on board as soon as I can work out not killing my daughter's ping.
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too many invalid proxy images, what is happening?
Something to do with Chartbuddy's hosting occasionally goes tits up. That's the most regular issue. That's not been an issue in a while since I started using imgur. So it's probably imgur. |
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Given a shipping cost of $90, and NO increase in difficulty, a handy table to see how ugly Halving? |
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Meh, it's only 15A at 240V   xD It still just does not make sense. Look at the design. You want that to dissipate 3500 watts of electricity? xD That's like 2 ovens. I don't know, maybe its some 6k rpm fans and the unit would actually come with 6 fans. Maybe it could dissipate all that heat. It just doesn't look like a home miner. Yeah, it's about equal to two fan heaters in the UK (looks like the same in the US. Highter current). My basement could probably soak that up but that's probably not appropriate for everybody. WRT the PSU, it looks like nine boards. The docs said not to use more than one PSU per board but presumably you could power say three boards per PSU at ~1200W per. Looks like three connecters per board now though so that will be some wiring to do. |
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they are not going to raise interest rate.. that is just talk.. they talk about it to help the markets cuz everyone thinks if fed says they are going to raise interest rates soon then everything must be good ... but they can't raise interest rates.. if they did everything would implode.. they wouldn't be able to service the debt.. they will go negative interest rates before the ever go up again. they aren't going to stop QE either.. instead they outsource the QE. i keep raising the bets... lol .
Very much this. One week you're going to the cash advance to get money for hookers and blow. Next week you're going there to get money for the rent. The week after, you're going to the next cash advance down the road to get money to pay the first cash advance. How many cash advances are there? |
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Meh, it's only 15A at 240V |
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If you have other S5's connected and running without issue then you are right to suggest an internet issue can not cause your S5's to become unresponsive, however, having run a few S5's in my time, I know an internet outage CAN cause all sorts of issues with S5's, including (but by no means limited to) becoming un-responsive.
It's down to you whether you explore that or not, but the dual incidence of your S5's failure to connect @6AM on consecutive days is too much of a coincidence to rule out internet failure (maybe running your node ran got you over your broadband allowance / fair usage threshhold and your ISP is reseting the connection at 6AM ...?).
You asked the question, and you got a legitimate answer.
Sorry if I appeared snappy, I am open to discussion. In actual fact, I wasn't running any nodes last night. I had stopped the one I had been running to rsync the blockchain to another device. If the S5 genuinely can go down if connection to the internet is lost, I can accept that (though it would be annoying), just looking to get it down to something solid. |
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You stop being able to hear it after a while, its surprising what level of noise can become the baseline. Its also a lot easier because miner noise is perfectly level.
Please consider whether you might be damaging your hearing. You might want to try and borrow a sound level meter. |
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I've had a bit of an issue the last couple of days and I'm hoping to nip it in the bud...
By process of simple elimination, I'd say the issue is with your internet connection. It may be that it is reset at 6am every morning (of late) for some reason, and could that also explain the issues you had with your local P2Pool node? The only issue with the p2pool really was that it caused high pings for an online game. I don't see how an internet issue would cause the miner to become unresponsive on the local network either. |
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