Yes I'd like to upgrade the server. Where in the US is best?
For a single US location Dallas, TX is probably best. Which is where the current pool server is. |
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Alright, well the fee doesn't seem to be a problem. Would people be satisfied with it being advertised as "Not for profit pool, all mining is at miners risk." Just like a car park, all care, no responsibility blah blah.
Yeah absolutely. But still, lets make a server upgrade, if its old... to minimise the chances of a failure. Yes I'd like to upgrade the server. Where in the US is best? |
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Alright, well the fee doesn't seem to be a problem. Would people be satisfied with it being advertised as "Not for profit pool, all mining is at miners risk." Just like a car park, all care, no responsibility blah blah.
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1. I think you should keep the fee.
2. Yes, this sounds about right.
3. Maybe, but if you keep the fees, is it needed?
4. Absolutely. + we will keep donating, once we find those blocks.
5. Profit)
6. Lets upgrade you're server, to the best available hardware, theres absolutely no reason for you to spend your money on this hardware, lets use the best cpu, and a really fast ssd, for swap files and etc.
7.Im ready to donate, who's ready to donate, just send a message here..
If I keep the fee, it no longer is really a not-for-profit pool and with it comes the onus of being paid by it. |
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I've thought of a potential solution that involves moving to a completely different model for running the pool.
1. The pool becomes fee free.
2. The pool is now advertised as a 'not for profit" service and mining is "at own risk"
3. A fund is set up to pay for server fees
4. Donations to the maintainer (me) separately for my time and effort are completely voluntary.
5. Profit
If the server fee fund ever dries up the pool closes. If something goes wrong, bad luck.
Thoughts?
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That said, when major pools fuck things up, they just silently reset things and tell people bad luck.
Yes, that's what im saying, this pool is transparent, as it gets. Theres no other pool like Yours. Fuck ups always happen, but major pools will keep it a secret. Besides, its always better to have a chance, than not to have it at all. P.s. and also if theres anything needed for this pool to keep it going, just tell us. We are ready to donate.. or smthg like this. I'm aware I'm transparent and that's what causes me the issue. Let's say someone decides to dump 300PH on this pool until they find a block, then they have bad luck and it takes them 10x the normal duration and on top of that something goes wrong on the pool and they don't get a block. They are now down 10x6.25BTC's worth of mining and demand at least one block as reward. I have no intention of ever forking out that much money again for an error or problem. I wouldn't expect the community to fund it either; how would you feel about trying to find 6.25BTC amongst the community just to appease them? Should I just tell them "bad luck shit happens" and join the reputation of the big pools? |
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What happens the next time something goes wrong?
But why should it? Your pool worked flawlessly for the past 7 years or so... One of the most stable pools ever. As I understood there was a glitch, because the server was overloaded, now that theres only this pool left, it should continue working flawlessly as it did before. No it did not work flawlessly. I fucked up the transition to segwit myself and had a server overload yesterday. That's three blocks that should never have been lost. Never assume that everything will be flawless all the time. That said, when major pools fuck things up, they just silently reset things and tell people bad luck. |
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Removing the shared pool has trimmed the resource requirements and the server should be more than capable of running this solo pool now
If there's enough resources, for this pool only. Maybe we can keep it running then? Maybe until the next halving? I mean, I love this pool. Theres so many memories connected with it, and hell the only reason why I keep mining with my s9, is that i believe it will find a bock someday. The possibilities that this pool offers can not be found anywhere else. This pool is like a fair lottery, that keeps making you believe that you will find that block eventually. And theres nobody else that can be more trustworthy than you, to keep it running. So on my behalf, im asking you to keep it running, im 100% sure that fellow soloist agree with me. What happens the next time something goes wrong? |
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Sorry we didn't smash a block before the halving. Luck wasn't on our side, and I checked logs to make sure there were no failed block submits  I have to reassess whether I wish to keep this pool open or not. Removing the shared pool has trimmed the resource requirements and the server should be more than capable of running this solo pool now. I suspect the pool will probably not even find a block for months now with the halving so the cost of running it versus any profit would be the worst ever as well, but that was already factored in by increasing the pool fee to 2%. For the time being I will keep it running while I make my decision. I've been thinking about what stresses me most about this pool that makes it troublesome to run, and it's the risk associated with it more than anything. The disaster I had with the conversion to segwit, and the server overload issue I had yesterday would never be well received. As I feel a sense of responsibility I can't just say "bad luck" to the people who dumped a lot of money's worth of hash into the pool. If the burden of responsibility was off me in case of disasters like that, I could keep the pool running as is. Considering I'm only running this as a service to the community as is, the thought of having to fork out hundreds or even thousands of dollars for something going wrong makes it really stupid to run. Maybe I'll just keep it running till the next block find and call it a day. |
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Pool 0 stratum+tcp://pool.ckpool.org:3333 not responding! Pool is offline again..  That's the shared pool, not solo, and that pool is now closed. |
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Pool is now closed. I'm leaving the basic statistics up there for people to check on but the web interface is retired as well. Thanks everyone for your support till now and I'm sorry we couldn't make it work.
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As much as possible before the halving would be wise.
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If anyone is still up for a group rental, count me in... I know it's out of character for me but wtf why not.
good morning ck, at the first thanks for your support and running the solo pool, i startet a lot of group run (mybe more than 30 or 40 and all was fine in the past!) You can enter our next solo run --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247028.0i count you in *nice* how many BTC can i write down for you? min 0,01 BTC max. is what you or your wallet can  here are the NiceHash deposit adress --> 3KWE8HcunSfvfNBy3CdXZdQ2HyvierBxeT Please send me after your deposit the TX ID Best regards from Germany Willi Hi Willi. Yes I know your group runs very well. May as well count me in for 0.03. Did you want the deposit straight up or are you collecting only once there are enough people? |
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If anyone is still up for a group rental, count me in... I know it's out of character for me but wtf why not.
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Good karma right now would be a block. That would make me feel much better about keeping the pool open :s
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Perhaps if I trim down my commitments to just the solo pool and just the one server in the US it would be more manageable. Then I could set up a better server to cope with the demands as well. ckpool.org had chapters in CN and DE and this had DE as well, so the total servers were adding up and adding load. Let me think about it, but ckpool.org definitely goes.
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In addition, I've made publicly available the code as used by this solo pool now as well: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool-soloBear in mind it expects certain customisations and I will take no responsibility if someone misuses this in the community and creates a new solo pool with it, but perhaps someone skilled enough can fill the gap with it from me closing this pool. What about we make it a community pool? It would be a real shame to lose both the solo and main pools there a staple on bitcointalk for a lot of members and with the halving around the corner and price uncertainty things could change really quickly in the mining game and it would be a shame not to have this resource here if that we're to happen. i'm sure a few of us regulars might pitch in to ensure it's continuation. Who would you trust to administrate it, and how is that any different to the current solo pool? In addition it expects certain customisations and I'm not really keen to hand hold someone into how it works. |
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In addition, I've made publicly available the code as used by this solo pool now as well: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool-soloBear in mind it expects certain customisations and I will take no responsibility if someone misuses this in the community and creates a new solo pool with it, but perhaps someone skilled enough can fill the gap with it from me closing this pool. |
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