If one card consistently has a lot more stales than the other, then I would suspect it's actually the GPU miscalculating, and not the data being stale. Maybe the GPU is too hot, overclocked too much?

I can't remember if Phoenix detects this sort of thing? If Phoenix doesn't double-check GPU shares with the CPU, then try a miner that does and see if that is your problem. Works with DiabloMiner, my miner (BitMinter)  and surely some others.

The answer is obvious. Since my pool is paying +5% bonus on the first 60 blocks, it is more profitable than soloing.

There's no point thinking about whether you have more or less luck and what you should do because of that. Luck is completely random. If you don't agree with this, try praying while mining - see if it helps.

My miner is of course best.  Ok, maybe I'm a little biased. But it is easy to use and you don't need to install it. If you have Radeon drivers and Java, just click a button to start it. Click my signature if you want to try it.

Phoenix was my favorite for a while before I made my own miner. But then it started to lock up if there was a network problem (like pool server restarting). I had to kill it and restart it to get it going again. Sometimes it was stuck all night, not mining. Maybe someone can confirm if this is fixed in the newer versions?

DiabloMiner seems like a solid product. Never had any problems with it.

Be careful, don't start a fire   

Yesterday we grew about 40% in computing power compared to the day before.
Today it looks like we grow more than 100% compared to yesterday.

What's going on? Are you guys overclocking?

It's like scratching lottery tickets. It's pure luck how many winning tickets you find.

But if you measure it over several hours and have a fast GPU, it should even out..

Good, good. Looks like the bugfix got it back to normal.


Yep. We have CPU-miners and multi-GPU-miners. We have 24/7 miners, and miners who mine once a week. Just have fun and mine whichever way you want.


Website update: chat added. It's under community->chat in the menus.

It's also possible to connect to the chat with a regular IRC client, like mIRC (Windows) or irssi (Linux). Connect to irc.freenode.net and join #bitminter

I think 0.3% is too high. And I think maybe you got it because of the pool backend bug today that caused instability with long polling.

I hope your stales stay lower now that the bug is fixed.

Yes, that's annoying. I put it on my list - thanks


Didn't know it could happen with 11.6. I'll see what I can do about it.

ToriAmos1963 already requested submitted shares in performance mode. I will have it in there soon!

The reason it is this way is because the miner started out without performance mode. I put info specific to a device in that device's own area. And data not specific to a device I put down there. Then I noticed that the speed gauges, at least if you have multiple GPUs, actually slow things down a bit. Also the window got quite big. So I put in performance mode, but didn't think to change the way info is displayed.


Hehe. Let me know if it happens again. Only problem I am aware of with the log is on Linux if you go to perf mode and back to detailed mode the log gets really big. Will fix when I have time.


Are you running Catalyst 11.7 preview? I noticed this happening after I installed 11.7, but haven't found the cause yet. Working on it.

If a device fails to start, just hit the start button again. Usually starts on second or third try. Sorry, I don't mean to make your GPU look like an old tired car  Will fix!

Glad to hear you get good performance

Yes, there are new patches for 4xxx and 5xxx series Radeon in.

On my 5970, with Catalyst 11.7 preview drivers, the BitMinter miner still runs a little slower than DiabloMiner, so I need to work on it some more.

But it would be helpful to hear how the new version compares to people's favorite miners.

Had a pool backend instability for a while today. But the bug is fixed now. Stales were slightly higher for a while - should be back to normal again.

Nice - good you got it working

Server pool bug fixed and now running stable. Should be back to lower stales.

If you want to earn bitcoins by some other way than mining, perhaps there is work you can do for bitcoins? I think more goods and services being offered for bitcoins would help the bitcoin a lot as currency.

Or join BitMinter and we will pay you 5% extra (until we reach 60 blocks) instead of you donating 2.5%. We also pay out with full 8 decimal places.

Yeah, I noticed that after I wrote the code that simply checks the length. So it's on my TODO list - it's just a veeeery long list.

Hmm. Are you using the "copy to clipboard" button in the bitcoin program and pasting it in? If you are manually copying it, maybe you get some "invisible" characters in there.

I will look into it, but the 34 character check really is just a check for 34 chars. There could of course be a bug there though.

Until you get the correct address in there, you can set the minimum payout threshold high if you want to make sure there are no payouts to the old address.


I think the highest stales I have seen in the pool so far is 0.05%. And the server load is still low, so it's not that.

But the pool backend is experiencing a software malfunction every 10-30 minutes, which is causing long polling connections to be reset. When your long poll is disconnected for a second it can cause a stale or two. I will work to fix this ASAP. At least the pool is still running, and it doesn't seem to be causing that many stales - it's still below most pools I think.

Sweet!

Hope it hasn't gone up now. I am seeing intermittent error messages from the HTTP library that the pool backend uses. At the same time in the miner running on my computer I see the long polling connection was reset when this was happening. This could cause some stales. I've never seen this happen in the backend until today. I'm working on finding out what is causing this.

Great! Welcome aboard If you have any questions/problems, let me know.


That's good stuff! We are already picking up speed - growing a little every day.

That does indeed sound bad. Looking into this now. Which drivers are you using? Catalyst 11.6?


Thanks, mate


Hi Nice 24/7 work from you guys!

To you and other early members - thanks for joining! It's tough getting a new pool off the ground.