This has been one heck of a promo. I want to thank Mr. Lee for letting me be a part of it. I have been putting in 16+ hour day's and sadly cannot keep it up. I have went back to being a loyal customer. It's been a very time intensive promo, but glad to have been a part of it.
I have talked to Mr. Lee about the promo. I hope to see a new and less time intensive way under someone else. I thank all of you who have participated so far.
If I have read your post correctly, it would appear that you have ended your involvement with this promotion and nobody else on the original list will be receiving their free 4 hours of hashing. Is somebody else taking up the responsibility and continuing this promotion, or are those of us still on the list out of luck? Thanks for providing any further clarity!  |
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EDIT: p2pool itself has been acting up recently. For example, there are a number of threads wondering why the getBlockTemplate latency is spiking across the board. I'm a victim of it as well. It's upwards of 1s now. Between 3am and 8am this morning the latency was normal, but before and after it sits at least 2.5 times higher than normal.
Bitcoind version 0.9 changed the default blocksize from 500kB to 750kB. That may explain it. You can test by telling Bitcoin to make 500000 byte blocks again: #Block creation options
blockminsize=0 #(Sizes are in bytes) default: 0
blockmaxsize=500000 #default: 750000
blockprioritysize=196000 # high-priority/low-fee transactions d: 50000
The blockprioritysize (number of free transactions included) was lowered as well (I set it to ~1/3) Hi phillipsjk, I'm aware of the block size change in the 0.9.* clients; however, I'm not sure that would explain the latency spikes that are currently happening. I've had 0.9.1 installed and running since release and it is only within the past few days that the latency has gone haywire. My normal latency is ~0.4s, which by itself isn't that good since guys running the entire thing in a RAM drive get ~.02s. In the past 2 days, the latency has spent many hours of ~1s latency. It isn't only my node, either. Nothing has changed on my end in terms of hardware/software/load/network traffic/etc. Even if something had changed on my end, it wouldn't be reflected across multiple nodes on the network. I've come to the conclusion my S2 doesn't work properly with p2pool because:
1 - p2pool can't feed it work fast enough. Not likely because of vardiff, setting it to the max it seems to support (1024) doesn't change things
2 - the 10 second restarts
3 - something with my hardware
I'm thinking it's #2.
M
Curious... what 10 second restarts? Anyone with an S2 on p2pool also experiencing this? How about one of the SP-10 Dawsons? Dragon 1T? |
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I noticed the same behavior on my own node, and saw it on others as well. There was a period of about 5-6 hours during the night last night that everything went back to normal, but it's acting up again.
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mdude77, there's some discussion in the S2 hardware thread about the lower-than-expected hash rates. People are blaming a few things: - Under-powered PSU with which S2 ships
- Crap soldering of chips to the boards
I've been debating between the S2 and the SP-10 Dawson as my next hardware purchase. The price difference is pretty significant - at this point with S2 coupons (or 112bit's group buy) I could almost get 2 of them for the price of a single Dawson - even if I were to jump on RoadStress' group buy of the Dawson. Unfortunately I don't know if I've got enough available circuits in my house to handle 2 more miners - and paying someone outlandish rates to host in a data center isn't going to happen, either. I might be calling in the electrician to see if I can get a new 240/30 circuit and install my own rack/cabinet at home. Anyhow... that was way off topic, sorry about that Can you give me the link you are referring to? As I said it only happens with p2pool. And I replaced the PSU. M I saw your other post as well. I missed the part where you stated this was solely a p2pool issue, and that Eligius reports at 990GH/s. I checked the graphs on your node, and the attached miners seem to have the proper mean hashing speed (assuming of course your S2s are on your node) . What really strikes me as odd is the S2 itself reporting the lower-than-expected hash rate exclusively when you point it to p2pool. I wonder if the version of cgminer the S2 ships with might be the culprit? I know kano had released a new binary of cgminer for the S1. Maybe he's got one for the S2 as well? Wish I could be of more help. In your other thread you mentioned there is one chain not reporting temps, but only a single X in the list, so I'm not sure that would be the problem. Again, I keep falling back to your statement that it works properly on Eligius, but not on p2pool. That really seems to rule out a hardware problem. Since you've already changed out the PSU with no effect and made sure the boards are properly seated, I'm out of other ideas. EDIT: p2pool itself has been acting up recently. For example, there are a number of threads wondering why the getBlockTemplate latency is spiking across the board. I'm a victim of it as well. It's upwards of 1s now. Between 3am and 8am this morning the latency was normal, but before and after it sits at least 2.5 times higher than normal. I saw the same trend on the graphs on your node. Another thing I've noticed is that my local DOA percentage has climbed. Initially I was running about 1% or so... now I'm averaging about 4-6%. You can see the steady progression upwards on the monthly graphs on my node. |
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mdude77, there's some discussion in the S2 hardware thread about the lower-than-expected hash rates. People are blaming a few things: - Under-powered PSU with which S2 ships
- Crap soldering of chips to the boards
I've been debating between the S2 and the SP-10 Dawson as my next hardware purchase. The price difference is pretty significant - at this point with S2 coupons (or 112bit's group buy) I could almost get 2 of them for the price of a single Dawson - even if I were to jump on RoadStress' group buy of the Dawson. Unfortunately I don't know if I've got enough available circuits in my house to handle 2 more miners - and paying someone outlandish rates to host in a data center isn't going to happen, either. I might be calling in the electrician to see if I can get a new 240/30 circuit and install my own rack/cabinet at home. Anyhow... that was way off topic, sorry about that |
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All your coins got a block? I'm not aware that the merged coins were merged mined across each other. As in you find a good hash but it can apply to more than one coin. I guess it can though. I'm guessing you hit an nmc and since it's the hardest it counted for all of them.
Open their qt you should see your block plus transaction fees
Yup you're solo mining, the coins are easier than Bitcoin but great luck on 36 ghs
NMC shows a transaction on 5/4/2014 +0.01331598 NMC Address MxoBdy13H7P9zxfgXXhz9piUkgQFgL8nGz all of my coins IXC, NMC and DVC got a pay out at the same time. Norgan, whatever those payouts are, they are not from merge mining. Merge mining gives you a full block reward for the coins. Here's an example. If you find the hash that generates the next BTC block, and you are merge mining NMC, IXC, DVC, etc, you will get the full block reward for NMC, IXC and DVC because the hash from the BTC satisfies the requirements for all of the other coins. If you happen to find a hash that satisfies the requirements for IXC (currently ~4.5 billion) you would ONLY get the block reward for that coin because NMC and DVC have a higher target difficulty. Long story short, you either get the full block reward or nothing because you are essentially solo-mining those other coins. They came from somewhere and they are only there for merged mining not for any transactions. Any ideas where they may have come from? As mdude77 said, check out the transaction in the block chain: http://bitinfocharts.com/namecoin/tx/127db0ef17298714e69bd75e9b664c6a7557a5374cbbb086cbdf237a541be038Definitely not mined coin. |
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I have been getting my bitcoin on an exchange like most of us, but i need to get into an hashcloud contract. I have to give a birthday gift to someone, something different. I do not care if the value end up less than buying and holding, I want the kid to actually take it as a learning opportunity, about both bitcoin, savings, and mining. I want him to learn the concept of investing for slow long tern reward blah blah blah...
Anybody know a good cloud company taking credit card for payment?
If you're already using your credit card to purchase BTC on an exchange, couldn't you just use that BTC to purchase the hashing contract? I mean, you could always try your luck buying vouchers/contracts on eBay... pretty risky proposition there, though. Assuming you want it to be a birthday gift, perhaps you could purchase some BTC and put it on a commemorative wallet (one of those physical Bitcoins, or a wood wallet, or something else fun) and give that as the present. Then you could work with the kid to setup an online wallet, explain the mining, investing, transfer the coins, purchase a contract, whatever you want. |
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I am pleased to announce working with Mr. Lee/pcfli we are now offering 4 hour trials to let you test to out the data center and a Dragon 1T miner. This is your opportunity to test a hosted Dragon Miner for 4 hours for free! Simply post in forum and then fill out the google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Uj0Q3oj6IiqkKws5vlyvv2VoGzWr-pcpXq82AKq81d4/viewformAfter you fill it out you will be added to a list of people for a free 4 hour trial. Please only enter once, one trial per person currently. Depending on how popular this trial is will determine how long it lasts! Also make sure to use an email you have access to because directions, username, password, and timeslot will be sent to the email you used in the forum. Order will go by the order of your post in this thread on trial. After posting in thread fill out the google form above. Then just wait for your trial! Bonus “Sleep Trial” the person who has the 12 AM central spot will get an 8 hour trial! It will be from 12 AM central to 8 AM central to allow me sleep . We hope you enjoy the opportunity to test out a hosted miner at Mr. Lee’s facility. For purchases of hosted or shipped miners from Mr. Lee’s group buys please visit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.04 hours of free TH mining? Sure, I'll jump on that Filling out the google form now. Hi notlist3d. I posted and filled out the form. Should I expect an email or something with further instructions? Thanks! EDIT: Please feel free to offer me the "sleep trial" |
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RoadStress, thanks for putting together this group buy! I'm very close to pulling the trigger on purchasing one - mostly because I keep reading horror stories about the S2 and have heard nothing but positive feedback from SP-10 owners.
To the Spondoolies-Tech folks, I'd like to get a little clarification on the power and hash rates, specific to a residential installation in the US. I read on your official announcement thread that for 115v you limit the PSU to 1100 watts for safety reasons. I assume this will translate into a slightly lower-than-advertised hashing rate, correct?
My setup will be that I would plug the SP-10 into a standard US residential 120V wall outlet on a 15a circuit. Would you be kind enough to give expected hash rates for the different modes of the SP-10 for my situation (i.e. quiet, normal, turbo, etc)?
I'm aware that driving this on a 240V 30A circuit would be more efficient, and the chances are very good that I would be installing such a setup in the future, but for now I'm limited.
Another question for you is regarding the hosting option. If I chose that option, I would get one month free. At the end of that time, what would my options be (purchase of more hosted time, or unit shipment to me, or something else)?
Thank you in advance for any answers you can provide. I hope you're enjoying your time in Amsterdam at the conference!
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Does anyone know where you can find the default (and possibly max) block size for a coin in the wallet code?
While this has nothing to do with p2pool mining... Look at the main.h for your coin: static const unsigned int DEFAULT_BLOCK_MAX_SIZE This can be overridden by passing -blockmaxsize to your *coind on startup, or by putting a value in *coin.conf files. |
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I am pleased to announce working with Mr. Lee/pcfli we are now offering 4 hour trials to let you test to out the data center and a Dragon 1T miner. This is your opportunity to test a hosted Dragon Miner for 4 hours for free! Simply post in forum and then fill out the google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Uj0Q3oj6IiqkKws5vlyvv2VoGzWr-pcpXq82AKq81d4/viewformAfter you fill it out you will be added to a list of people for a free 4 hour trial. Please only enter once, one trial per person currently. Depending on how popular this trial is will determine how long it lasts! Also make sure to use an email you have access to because directions, username, password, and timeslot will be sent to the email you used in the forum. Order will go by the order of your post in this thread on trial. After posting in thread fill out the google form above. Then just wait for your trial! Bonus “Sleep Trial” the person who has the 12 AM central spot will get an 8 hour trial! It will be from 12 AM central to 8 AM central to allow me sleep . We hope you enjoy the opportunity to test out a hosted miner at Mr. Lee’s facility. For purchases of hosted or shipped miners from Mr. Lee’s group buys please visit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.04 hours of free TH mining? Sure, I'll jump on that Filling out the google form now. |
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All your coins got a block? I'm not aware that the merged coins were merged mined across each other. As in you find a good hash but it can apply to more than one coin. I guess it can though. I'm guessing you hit an nmc and since it's the hardest it counted for all of them.
Open their qt you should see your block plus transaction fees
Yup you're solo mining, the coins are easier than Bitcoin but great luck on 36 ghs
NMC shows a transaction on 5/4/2014 +0.01331598 NMC Address MxoBdy13H7P9zxfgXXhz9piUkgQFgL8nGz all of my coins IXC, NMC and DVC got a pay out at the same time. Norgan, whatever those payouts are, they are not from merge mining. Merge mining gives you a full block reward for the coins. Here's an example. If you find the hash that generates the next BTC block, and you are merge mining NMC, IXC, DVC, etc, you will get the full block reward for NMC, IXC and DVC because the hash from the BTC satisfies the requirements for all of the other coins. If you happen to find a hash that satisfies the requirements for IXC (currently ~4.5 billion) you would ONLY get the block reward for that coin because NMC and DVC have a higher target difficulty. Long story short, you either get the full block reward or nothing because you are essentially solo-mining those other coins. |
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If you only have a single S1, you can simply forward port 80 to it from your router. You might want to change the default password, though  |
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I've got that very same PSU driving my S1s. Great choice Out of curiosity, why build the plexiglass case for the S1? |
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Well, not a whole lot of point to them really. I suppose it's a way to get some kind of BTC, but like you see... $0.27 every 4 days is not exactly a viable way to survive.
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Sorry to break the bad news, but you didn't receive $3000. The first image is showing the BitChest.me wallet. The second image shows your wallet, with a transaction from the BitChest.me wallet.
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I followed your thread and I'm still a bit confused on how what happened to you is somehow the responsibility of cex.io. You posted an auction for some GH/s voucher on cex.io to eBay. The auction was won by some user. That user then proceeded to send funds to you via PayPal. You then sent the vouchers to that user through eBay. At some point that user then reversed his PayPal payment to you. You took the risk of selling your voucher on eBay. Had you actually sent the item to the purchaser via carrier service, then PayPal would have given you the seller protection because you could prove that you did indeed ship out the goods. Your entire defense is, "But I swear I sent them something via eBay message." Since this user never actually received any physical goods, PayPal has no choice but to reverse the payment to you if the user requests it. His defense is easy, "I never received any goods from the seller." PayPal, eBay and cex.io all have terms of service that you agreed to so you could utilize their services. You took a risk and got burned on it. Perhaps you'll learn from it and adjust your activities accordingly in the future. EDIT: I neither condone, nor endorse fraudulent activity and it sucks that it happens. I agree that this user fraudulently acquired your voucher, but I do not hold cex.io at fault for it as they had nothing at all to do with your sale of that voucher. |
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Alright... seriously, what is it with the inordinate amount of NJ dwellers here? LOL... I'm also in Jersey (down south by Philly).
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To show you a real world example...
I have 400GH/s mining BTC. Therefore, at current difficulty of 8,853,416,309 the formula is:
Difficulty * 2**32 / hashrate / 86400 = number of days to solve a block
So...
8,853,416,309 * 2**32 / 400000000000 / 86400 = 1100.26427966
This means that I can expect to earn 25BTC just about every 3 years. To find out how much per day, you just take 25 and divide it by the number of days expected to solve the block:
25/1100.26427966 = 0.02272181BTC per day.
Hope this helps!
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