Sorry for the downtime, the database server had an unexpected failure and I had to fix it manually. While I'm here, let me introduce two improvements I haven't had the time to announce. - The precision of the PPS rate and of all user balances has been increased to 12 digits.
- Automatic payouts are now processed hourly instead of twice a day.
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This is probably posted somewhere, but I have a question on if there is a fee for using the manual payout?
No, you are charged no fees for requesting an instant payout. Are you going to open up for new registrations any time soon?
I'm really sick and tired of all these crap pools and am in desperate need of a stable one now.
There seems to be a lot of interest in this pool at the moment, but I hope you understand that I can only let in as many miners as the servers can handle. As you can see, I have just upgraded the main server and added a second mining server for US miners, but I still need to apply some changes in the software and network design before I can let a lot of other people in. For now I am accepting applications (via email only please) from miners that would like to join, but I can't promise anything as to when these applications will be reviewed, because I'm working on many projects in this period, including the next release of the Litecoin client. |
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PPS rate is (time of writing) 0.00000250 on the 25th of last month 0.00001057.
The way things are going, it will be 0.00000001.
I'm I missing something?
Just in case the difficulty keeps growing, I already have plans to change the precision to 10 or 12 digits. |
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Is the pool still down? Whenever I try to access the website I get:
Service Temporarily Unavailable
The website has been up without interruptions since the maintenance ended. Try deleting your browser cache. |
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Cool beaners. Mind us asking, what hardware you are coming from and going to use?
We are moving the main server from Nehalem to Sandy Bridge, and performing RAM upgrades. try to give us some more definite warning please. thanks.
The downtime will most probably take place today, April 10, somewhere between 19:00 and 23:00 UTC. UPDATE: Maintenance will start at approximately 20:50 UTC. UPDATE: Maintenance started at 20:43 and ended at 21:12 UTC. All systems are back up and running. |
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Our servers are going to be taken offline for hardware upgrade later on today or tomorrow. Unfortunately we still don't know at what time maintenance will take place, but we will try to keep you updated. Expected downtime is estimated at 30 minutes.
Remember that if you're using cgminer you can easily configure it to automatically switch to one or more backup pools and/or to solo mining when your main pool becomes temporarily unavailable.
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so my password has to be provided in plain text in the sources of my html file to use the online miner?
That's the password of one of your workers, not your account password. All one can do with such a password is mine to your account. So anyone reading the source code of my html file of my web server can login to my account at "litecoinpool.org"  No. |
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CGMiner tells me that I'm averaging near 1 MH/s, but the pool only sees that I'm going ~25 KH/s. Here's the CGMiner command I use to start up. cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://ltcmine.ru:3333 -u UserName_WorkerName -p Password -I 13 -g 2 CGMiner Screen Shot: See those high HW figures? You are incurring in lots of hardware errors. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=165017.msg1731329#msg1731329 |
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Ok sound good, I overlooked to include 4% fee.
Again what code to include the service fee in cell B1?
=ROUND(50*(1-0.04)/(65536*A1),8) |
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I have question regarding ltc value calculation as:
48 LTC / (65536 × Current Difficulty)
Let assume diffculty is: 153.16808633, we know PPS value should = 0.00000478 according based on above formula.
Now I'm trying bulding a excel speadsheet have following cells:
Cell(A1): 153.16808633
Cell(B1): Should contain PPS value based on calculation
What is the excel formula to be inserted in cell B1 that shows 0.00000478
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What about the balance in the accounts before the issue? Will they be paid out?
Balances are of course unaffected by the attack. Instant and automatic payouts are available just like before. |
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Im sure pooler is working hard on the situation but any status updates?
Not really. Given the size of the attack, there's nothing I can do until it ceases. Proper DoS protection is not an option as it would be way too expensive. Just set your miners to auto-failover and be done with it. Run a P2Pool node if you can. EDIT: The attack appears to have subsided. All systems are back up and running. |
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Pool is currently being DDoS'ed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
If you haven't done so already, it is important to set up automatic failover to other pools (especially P2Pool, if you can run your own node) or to solo mining. This is ridiculously easy to do with cgminer.
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Hi,
I just moved to GUIMiner-Scrypt today and I am getting an Unusually high number of Invalids with this
636.14 kH/s Speed 663,538 Valid 16,176 (2.38%) Stale 77,264 (10.21%) INvalid 0 Blocks found
This is on a 7950 Running GUIMiner-Scrypt with host litecoinpool.org:3333 Stratum on and 7950 Preset option (high Usage)
Check your settings. Usually a shit ton of invalids are caused by your intensity being set too high. Thanks, I have it running at I:20 although that is the recommendation, ill change it  thank you. For reference: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=165017.msg1731329#msg1731329How can I change my wallet address in my account?
If you have locked the payout address and want to unlock it, please contact me via email or on IRC. |
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The cause of this is most often hardware errors.
cgminer checks every solution generated by your GPU, and if one turns out to be incorrect because of hardware errors it (rightfully) doesn't even submit it. Since pools can only estimate your hashrate based on how many solutions you submit in a given amount of time, their estimate will be lower than your real raw hashrate. This raw hashrate, which is correctly displayed by cgminer, is, however, not meaningful if the solutions your card generates are wrong.
You need to make sure that all of the HW figures in cgminer are zero or next-to-zero; if that's not the case, you need to review your settings.
Remember that scrypt mining puts a lot more stress on GPUs than Bitcoin mining, so you don't want to push your hardware too much.
ADDENDUM. Reaper behaves differently, as it doesn't check for hardware errors and just submits every solution your cards find. All wrong solutions will however be counted as invalid and not be paid by the pool, and you may well get banned if you keep submitting mostly invalid shares. The worst part is that many newcomers don't realize that it is not fine to have a high invalid ratio.
Also to be noted is that some pools take both valid and invalid shares into account when estimating your hashrate, so if you use Reaper the estimate provided by the pool may match the speed reported by the miner even if most of your shares are invalid. I have seen neophytes switch to Reaper just because the speed reported by the pool was higher than with cgminer.
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Regarding adaptive difficulty: Is it calculated on worker or user basis?
Worker. Because of how the Stratum protocol works, however, difficulty can only be set per connection, so if you use the proxy all the workers connecting through it will share the same share target/difficulty. Currently the behavior of the pool is to adapt the difficulty to the fastest worker connecting through the proxy. |
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I'm still seeing a high number of stales from both cpuminer (using stratum proxy on LAN) and cgminer (latest 2.11.3 using stratum and --no-submit-stale) from multiple locations. My cpuminers using the stratum proxy are between ~3.5-0.8% stales and my instances of cgminer are seeing ~1.8% stale according to the "My Account" statistics.
Are these the expected stale percentages for stratum? They still seem a bit high.
Well, all I can say is that pool-wise stratum users average a much lower stalerate, normally under 1%. Also keep in mind that the "My Account" statistics take into account all the shares you submitted since the workers were created, unless you reset them. I thought I seen something for failback pool for stratum proxy, or is this in my mind?
How would I set up stratum proxy to fallback to a secondary pool if primary pool goes down?
As far as I know the proxy itself doesn't support failover. If you were using a failover script for cpuminer I think you can keep using that, you just need to replace litecoinpool.org:9332 with yourlocaladdress:8332. |
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Now my cpu miner does not want to connect to stratum proxy. C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\pooler-cpuminer-2.2.3-win64>minerd --url 192.168.1.139:9332 --userpass removed:removed --threads 3
[2013-04-02 08:40:04] 3 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2013-04-02 08:40:05] HTTP request failed: couldn't connect to host
[2013-04-02 08:40:05] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds
I removed username and password from above, but, I triple checked and they are correct. I disabled my firewall as well. By default the proxy listens on port 8332, not 9332. For the trouble, I ain't got much, but I'm sending you one litecoin for the troubles. Edit:Sent one LTC.
Thank you very much! |
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