If that many miners was maintained on the solo pool I'd have to upgrade my server plan. As it is there's barely enough ram for bitcoind which is a ram hog and leaks memory over time and I need to restart it regularly. It got killed by an out-of-memory condition today, but luckily I have the backup bitcoind on another server for just such an occasion, though it is a little higher latency until the server's own bitcoind gets restarted.
Further to this discussion, if you are planning on dumping a lot of hashrate on this pool in the future, I should plan at the very least a server restart to pull in the latest ckpool changes which decrease memory usage further to minimise the risk of running out of memory again. This sort of upgrade would only have seconds of downtime at worst. If more hashrate is planned longer term, I'll pay the extra for more server ram but that will require more warning and time to do the upgrade so please inform me if this is planned as the cost is substantial as well. |
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Blocks finds have been taking way too long. I'm stuck at 75 & 41 confirmations - and i'm going to loose 250Th of Hashing power  Oh well, easy come easy go. If that many miners was maintained on the solo pool I'd have to upgrade my server plan. As it is there's barely enough ram for bitcoind which is a ram hog and leaks memory over time and I need to restart it regularly. It got killed by an out-of-memory condition today, but luckily I have the backup bitcoind on another server for just such an occasion, though it is a little higher latency until the server's own bitcoind gets restarted. |
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Why don't you use a standard .25 BTC fee instead of the %? Personally, I could care less if the fee was .5 BTC.
Higher fees would make sense if I were going for bigger profits. The reality is I'll never make very much running this pool, and the low fee represents the fact that it's a no frills pool and technology demonstration (though the demo is clearly over, everything works well now). If people feel obliged to donate it actually seems to bring the better out of this community which hasn't been particularly friendly in a long time. Admittedly when people find themselves sitting on 25BTC, 0.5 as a donation doesn't seem so bad, but that's after the fact. When you don't have the BTC in the first place, 0.5 BTC seems like a lot whereas 0.5% does not. |
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There are many thinking this way and many thinking the better way off... If everyone would ever to do this, then it will be possible for so many newbies to make some good coins generated using their CPUs only, as the difficulty would have dropped down hard due to this and blockchain may get stopped and no ledgers might take place...
Difficulty drops are limited and they happen very slowly, and blocks still need to be solved before the difficulty changes. It would take 10 years before the difficulty would drop back to CPU mining levels... Bitcoin mining already has contingency plans built into its design to make these ideas pointless. |
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nice donation to ckpool ads! For a moment there I thought you found another one  Not yet  Was that your donation? If so, thanks! So far everyone who found a block has donated 0.5BTC which has become a nice practice since the 0.5% fees barely do more than recoup the costs of running the server if only one block is found per month |
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You could mine on my solo pool which takes away the guesswork about whether it's working or not, and takes care of the responsibility of the high speed nodes, bandwidth and scalability you need to ensure to avoid orphans: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.0 |
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is it ok to mine with slush stratum proxy? hashrate seems to be reported correctly
Any properly working stratum implementation can mine here. |
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Running a bitcoin pool means people will direct tens of thousands of dollars worth of hardware at the pool, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin. Do you think people will be happy to do that if you don't even know how to set one up? This is one of those tasks that if you don't know what you are doing, you shouldn't be doing it.
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at nicehash there is a lot about extranonce.
what is that extranonce? are old miners without this extranonce patch outdated? and therefore have lower chance to solve a block?
It's a modification they made for their coin hopping service. It has nothing to do with bitcoin mining and having your cgminer bastardised with the patch or not has no effect here. |
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i just want That difficulty drop and we can make some coins Easier..?
No |
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I think you would have been better renting a bunch of miners vs, one at 2ph - looks like it didn't keep up to the speeds for you either.
It actually looked fine to me, though the time is up and there was no block found... easy come easy go eh? EDIT: Looks like it averaged 2PH looking at the 1hr rate, before the time was up: {"hashrate5m": "2.14P", "hashrate1hr": "2.03P", "hashrate1d": "514T", "hashrate7d": "134T", "workers": 870}
Oh well. Worth a try I suppose. I'm still happy had a good few days You stayed on afterwards it seems because... CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN! https://blockchain.info/tx/28f9ea3fd08b924cfd4e068eebc62781fa7300b300c7eb3a0444dfab536c36f8 |
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Nothing would happen for an hour and then everything would resume as it always did and difficulty would still rise virtually the same amount. There are periods of over an hour where no blocks are found even with all the mining in the world still going on and this would be no different to those periods. If you want difficulty to drop as much as possible you need to stop people mining for 8 weeks. In that time the lack of transaction processing would lead to a bitcoin collapse unlike any before and it would be totally utterly worthless at the end of it.
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From reading the change log it seems that CGMiner will support Butterfly Labs Monarch's, but when I look at the Monarch specifications, it says it only supports BFGMiner. Why is that? I'd prefer to stay with CGMiner for my Monarchs.
The "relationship" between bfl and cgminer has always been awkward and strained. They've never directly supported running cgminer on it and they employed the fork miner author to write their official driver, though they then sent us devices to write drivers for them. Cgminer supports the monarchs fine, even if BFL doesn't say so. |
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Ah, that is good to know, pointed ~55TH from my rigs to it. Guess I will see how lucky I am LOL.
Good luck to you then! Ckpool can handle any sized rigs. At one stage there was one miner with just one worker at 3PH. |
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p2p went poof once stratum come along and theris newer coming out soon. So no doubt stratum will end up soon becoming like p2p went. p2p had too many problems on it. To begin with it was fine for none asic equipment but soon as aics turnd up acisc chomped though shairs like water in a river soon come along stratum and fixed a lot of problems and cured stale or rejected shares that p2p seems to have. I know my acis I have do not like p2p pools yet they are some good p2p pools still going that do work fine but not many because their crap.
Don't mix your thoughts about stratum's demise with complaints about p2pool. Stratum isn't going anywhere. While it wasn't a perfect protocol, it was billions of times better than getwork and is "good enough" and now everything uses it so there is zero initiative on either the mining software or pool software side to change it. |
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I think you would have been better renting a bunch of miners vs, one at 2ph - looks like it didn't keep up to the speeds for you either.
It actually looked fine to me, though the time is up and there was no block found... easy come easy go eh? EDIT: Looks like it averaged 2PH looking at the 1hr rate, before the time was up: {"hashrate5m": "2.14P", "hashrate1hr": "2.03P", "hashrate1d": "514T", "hashrate7d": "134T", "workers": 870}
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1,886.06THs?  It's likely only for a couple of hours. Someone's gambling with 2PH from here on solo pool. |
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Well, someone's dumping a busload of hashrate here for a bit it seems. |
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