|
Problems at the data center where the server is hosted makes the server unreachable from the internet. Sorry for this. I hope they get things straightened out quickly.
|
|
|
|
|
It should be enough to install the latest Catalyst (full package including OpenCL). I run on Windows 7, Red Hat Linux and Ubuntu Linux, with only plain Catalyst installed.
Which operating system are you using?
|
|
|
|
By the way, good work on completing the 4th block, people. It was a difficult one with 5.4 million shares. It should be confirmed in about 4 hours from when I post this, and payments should go out soon after (within 1 hour). Remember that the 5% bonus is not shown in the "unconfirmed" BTC in your account, and also not in info on a block when you click "show payouts". It will however appear on your account as soon as the block is confirmed. It's a separate "bonus" transaction you can see in your transaction history. We're now building block 5 and 5% bonus is active till block 60, so let's get mining!  |
|
|
|
Finally! Our first unlucky block is behind us. The solution to finally mint these coins came from Colby, who is now the pool's new hero. Love the miner...actually have three people from work FINALLY getting into mining, as even at $7-8 it is still profitable for the casual miner.
The two I know of that are going to sign up have a 5870 and the other has a 4870. That should add roughly another 540Mh/s to the pool. If I can get the other two 5870's at work to join that would add another 900 Mh/s to the pool.
Great! Sounds like my efforts to make the miner user-friendly are paying off.  |
|
|
|
|
I bought alpaca socks a week ago. I wanted to try getting beef jerky too, but I was in a hurry.
What I find annoying is that you always have to email someone about buying with BTC. Is there no payment processor and shopping cart solution for merchants to accept bitcoins?
|
|
|
|
|
I'm back from Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas. Should now have time to work more on BitMinter in the near future.
|
|
|
|
Dont know if this has been brought up yet or not but it be nice if on the website it was more accurate on what your balance is. Seeing a zero after 8~ work doesnt make me feel comfortable even though i know i takes longer than that.
The website should be perfectly accurate. The problem is that until we get more members our current hashrate will only make new bitcoins every 1-2 weeks or so. This will improve as more people join. I intend to add some numbers in the account webpage showing an estimate of how much you are likely to get paid for the current round. |
|
|
|
|
Quick bugfix on the website today. Some bitcoin addresses for payouts that were valid would be rejected. This has been fixed now. Please try again now if you had problems with this - sorry for the inconvenience.
|
|
|
|
And here I was thinking I can soon take off the "beta" stamp.  couldnt sign up with chrome.. none of the open ids would work for me but aol and when it switched me to aol it put my username as joulesbeefhttp://aol ....w/e
The website appears to work fine with chrome. I'll do some testing with chrome and the sign up though. The AOL thing is a problem with logging in? Could you tell me (PM if you want) which OpenID providers that wouldn't work? That way I can track down bugs. ok so switched to IE.. got signed up.. when it asked for a wallet.. i copied and pasted one of my wallet addies that I have used many times before. it said all wallet addies must be 34 numbers, mine was 33.. and I have more than one that is 33.. so i picked one that had 34.
Oops! Thanks for catching this one. I have changed the validity check for bitcoin addresses. Just a (now correct) length check. Next I should let bitcoind validate addresses instead. Anyway, you should be able to set any valid bitcoin address now. Sorry for the inconvenience. and do you have json? or block stats There is some JSON data available: http://bitminter.com/api/pool/statshttp://bitminter.com/api/pool/toptenUnfortunately no stats on current round yet. I would like to implement a new reward system before making those data available. |
|
|
|
Thanks. Can you elaborate on this bug and the fix a little?
Sure. The extra nonce is reset at regular intervals for no apparent reason and bitcoind sends out the same work once more (with the same extra nonce as used before). This means two different invocations of "getwork" can return the same work, which of course is wasteful. Here is an example of a patch to fix it: http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/w/bitcoind/luke-jr.git/commitdiff/02d87b3aa375810bcd63dcf72637e788a75fc7d4But I don't know if reseting the extra nonce *ever* has any purpose at all? Why not just never reset it and let it loop around. I haven't studied the bitcoind source code enough to say for sure, though. |
|
|
|
|
If you are new to bitcoins and want to try mining, feel free to check out my mining pool and mining software at bitminter.com - one of my design goals was to make it as easy as possible for newbies to use.
|
|
|
|
At BitMinter I pay you 5% extra out of my own money. It's a good choice if you like bitcoins. Also, the BitMinter miner is surely easier to set up than any other. You click "engine start" on a webpage, that's it. How can anything be easier than that? Here's a start button right here:  |
|
|
|
|
Yes, it's our first unlucky block. I hope we finish it soon.
Many pools struggling with long blocks lately, and some pools seem to get abandoned. I appreciate you guys sticking it out.
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks for joining, ManOfKnight. We are growing steadily and hopefully payouts will be more regular soon.
|
|
|
|
Already in the top ten! Should have a couple of GH/s for you all when I've finished - got three custom frame rigs to build Nice! Feel free to post pics of the rigs if you want. My machines run pretty hot - I guess custom frames is what is needed. ETA - sorry, just liked the name, I'm not even using the software because I've already built a Linux install based on phoenix - it installs on all my machines, regardless of number of GPUs, and builds a central webpage table that shows salient details of each machine, GPU miner instance, temp, speed, etc. for monitoring. My Apple Macs serve the webpage. It was just an excuse to mess about with Ruby again Nice setup! Don't worry about not using the BitMinter client - it is of course purely optional. |
|
|
|
I love the software. Really nice look to it. Simple to use. It makes showing my computer challenged friends easy to show how to mine. I just set my friend up remotely from my house it was so simple. If he can do it I think there is hope for bitcoin to make it mainstream. I will be jumping in soon I have to stay in mineco so I don't lose my shares until the block finishes.
Cool - this is exactly what I wanted to achieve with BitMinter. |
|
|
|
Server is back up and everything seems to be running smoothly again. Looks like it went down at 08:15 UTC and I got things running properly again at 10:15 UTC. I'm very sorry it was down as long as 2 hours. I'm still in Las Vegas. I took a taxi to my hotel and tried to get things running again as fast as possible. Of course hotel wi-fi started to fail in the middle of things and I had to switch to internet over a cellphone. Thanks to Soak for sending me a message that the pool was down. The pool went down because the load had suddenly increased something awful. Not sure what did that. But after starting things back up, there was no problem. Will look into this later. It's 4 in the night here, so I must get some sleep. |
|
|
|
|
Issues with server. Working on it.
|
|
|
|
Site is down now?
Sorry, something wrong with the server. Working on it. More info will follow. |
|
|
|
|
Show Posts
