The second is by setting up a miner (or adding a load balance backup pool) using the worker: btcguild_donate
CGMiner seems to require a password? |
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any idea what deepbit uses?
No, but you can bet it's safe. |
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so another potentially stupid question: what if we're not mining and we're just upgrading our client to 0.8? Is that ok?
From what I have gathered scanning #bitcoin-dev - OK to run 0.8 if you are NOT mining against it. Ok, for the sake of us uniformed idiots, just what the hell is your point?!?!?!? Please enunciate your syllables as accurately as possible. |
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That may well be a human, but not humanity, not all of it anyway. |
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Holy crap  For what it's worth, I've moved my mining to this pool for now. Eleuthria you need to add a donation% option to allow us to donate above the usual pool fee. Thanks for the support. In the past I've been very stubborn on the idea that if a pool charges a fee, there shouldn't be another box asking you to "donate" more than that fee. On a 0% pool, sure. But at this point, I may put up some kind of donate button. So far only one user has made a positive response about how to return the money, which would reduce the amount lost from 1,254 to 1,207. At this point I'll take every coin I can get because it is going to take a long time to earn that amount back. When Graet got ripped off he set up a mining node just for the purpose of recouping the loss. I and many others contributed hashes to that node. I would love to have a chance to do the same for you too. |
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I'm trying to do some mining on NVidia cards (yes, I know they stink!) under Linux. Mining in a pool is nice to have, but not required.
I feel like most of the information I'm finding links to out-of-date mining software or to Windows-only applications.
Could someone please recommend a good CUDA miner? I'm totally stumped here.
Thanks in advance!
Ufasoft |
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Why does it take so long?
Difficulty is automatically adjusted every 2016 blocks to target a block solve every 10 minutes. Edit: That doesn't seem too long. Lets say bitcoin becomes adopted by physical retail stores and POS terminals for them are made, would you wait 10 minutes at the register? What exactly is keeping transactions from being processed in seconds? Is it a computational impossibility or a self imposed one? Maybe you should take a few minutes and read the Bitcoin white paper. These questions are treated somewhat in that document. |
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Why does it take so long?
Difficulty is automatically adjusted every 2016 blocks to target a block solve every 10 minutes. Edit: That doesn't seem too long. |
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but lets not pretend that those who've stayed the distance had no other choice.
Ok, had no other good choices, then. One could bail out on BFL and gamble on someone else. Or if one has the resources, preorder units/shares from each vendor. I don't have the resources to do that. But anyway I don't really want to get into an argument over a play on words. Sam |
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Here you guys go. Just pulled the most interesting ones I suppose.
Oooh, shiny. Thanks, Sam |
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I know this may be a crazy and radical idea which has no merit. But maybe try posting in the CGMiner thread???
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And...?
Honestly, this has been done to death and the BFL faithful simply don't care.
Or simply have no choice. The market isn't exactly flooded with real options at the moment. All ASIC vendors are a gamble at this point. Sam |
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What should alleviate the hysteria is pools not responding to the clamorings of a few repeat trollers to enable faster block growth with an agenda of gambling more cheaply.
Yep, but sadly that battle has done been lost. So now we're left with full disclosure of all pools to see where they are at and why!!!!!!!!!!! Sam |
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No: - This is biased to support SatoshiDice's DDoS attack against Bitcoin. Instead of "transaction discrimination", it should be "anti-flooding filter quality"
- There is no such thing as "Standard" transaction fee.
- The chart presupposes bitcoind 0.8 logic.
But couldn't you still publish the stat's that pertain to what your pools block criteria is? If you disagree with the 2 of the five classifications you could still post the other 3? right? |
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new eustratum.ozco.in is ready to go
about to move DNS
stratum nodes will have
-blockmaxsize=520000
except au.ozco.in which will remain on default block size
ecoinpool (getwork) nodesd will remain on default
over the next 24 hours we will be doing updates to bitcoinds and other software on all mining nodes, we will do one at a time, stats /website / db server will not be affected.
EDIT
Mining node updates underway
eustratum.ozco.in back us.ozco.in stratum mining back
taking au.ozco.in stratum mining down next
stratum.ozco.in will be last
Graet, Could you post this information over at this new thread organofcorti started this morning? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=151387.msg1606559#msg1606559This thread should help alleviate the block size hysteria at bit. Thanks, Sam |
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These links don't seem to go to any pics?!? |
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I see my current settings just fine.
Thanks, I'd presumed I'd entered everything when signing up, but obviously not  I completely missed all of the big blue "change" buttons the first time I used the new settings page. I had assumed a single Save button at the bottom of the page. I initially had the same/similar problem you described. |
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Deepbit still pushes out the occasional 200+ KB block. All pools create small blocks at times. The way bitcoind handles putting a block together means right after a previous block is found you will likely not be including a significant number of transactions, especially if the previous block was a large one that included most of the transactions your node had record of.
Yeah, what I have heard is that there are multiple nodes configured differently. If you look at the sizes of blocks being created by DeepBit it's clear there's a 50kb hard cap somewhere, the sizes are too perfectly close to that boundary to be anything else. Of course other pools also have a variety of nodes configured differently, but 50kb is pretty low. People can mine wherever they like, of course. I'm just pointing out that 50kb isn't really helping confirm transactions, which is the point of mining. i tghought the pint o fmining is making that coin? lol loooks i was mistaken;) Coin generation is only a portion of point of mining. As reward halves it is a smaller portion of the point of mining. Without transaction confirmations there is no Bitcoin system. So transactions are a much more important part of mining in the long term. Which is why I question the wisdom of modifying block sizes to keep the transaction fees low. Sam |
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On the settings page, would it be possible to have the current settings displayed rather than blank for email and bitcoin/namecoin wallet. You could use placeholder="Current Setting" at it's html 5 I'm a new user to the pool and can't remember if/what I entered I see my current settings just fine. TTFN, Sam |
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