Pool was down for about 3 minutes while I added some extra information to the shares database to speed up the calculations.  Should be back up and running, and now the website's update each minute runs significantly faster and reducing the load of the JSON script.

There may be a few more RPC communication errors tonight, but they will be very short term (< 10 seconds).

Working full blast on features now that the basic function is nailed down.  JSON API should be coming up in the next 2 hours giving JSON access to all the stats currently visible on the site.

Worker speeds are now listed (estimated over a 15 minute window, updated once per minute), and the total for all workers is shown.

I will get that implemented this weekend.  I was avoiding collecting emails in registration since I know how paranoid some members of our community are .  I will add an email option for password recovery and also notifications of workers that haven't sent a share within a given time frame.  For SMS, I will have to do some research (I hate SMS personally, so I never experimented with web interfaces to SMS).

Suggestion noted and implemented.  There is now a third column for shares & stales since reset.


Thank you very much.  My self esteem is now inflated regarding my poor graphic design skills .

Person I spoke with on the phone said that it rarely is allowed, because a significant portion of the house must be for the business use (they said 70%, but it didn't sound official).  I'm in a 1800 sq. ft. house, 4 bedrooms.  Over half my living room is consumed by my used game store (www.eleuthria.com).  My entire dining room is now a server room housing all of the rigs.  2 bedrooms are used for the business (1 is sorted storage & packing, 1 is received packages in storage).

Hopefully it qualifies.  I'm having a friend come over to pretend to be an employee working for my game store while PG&E is here, just to add to the business image.

Higher.  Much, much higher.  I've paid over $400 a month last summer without all these computers running.  California electricity rates are robbery.  I have PG&E coming to my house on Friday to make a determination on switching me to commercial rates which will cut my bill in half.

Block Statistics contains the previous round information (duration, total shares, block number, confirmations), including a link to the block on block explorer.  I will add who found it to the list tonight.

BTC Guild logo is now clickable (can't believe I missed that).  Once I get home I will also be adding a privacy checkbox to the My Account page to hide your username from the Hall of Fame and previous round information.  If checked, it will show your user ID# instead of name.

The pool is currently operating on proportional:  Your Shares / Total Shares this round = Your % of the reward.  This could change if I am given a strong argument to switch to a score system.  If it does change, it will be at the start of a new round, to avoid any strange distribution percentages from the switch.

What stats do you have in mind, and what do you mean by global (pool as a whole, other pool comparison, network stats like bitcoincharts)?  I currently show at the top of the page total pool hash rate, worker count, share count, and round duration.

I was actually inspired to make it when Deepbit crossed the 400 gH/sec mark (while Slush was still running).  While I trust Tycho and slush, it just didn't' feel right to see a single pool with such a massive amount of the network involved.  There's a few other small pools, but the interfaces seemed either too limited, or too...computer geeky (coming from a major programming nerd that is a compliment, I swear!).

After fixing the hashing password bug, I attached a debugger to the pool software to keep an eye on it in these first few hours of public use.  I want to be able to fix any problems quickly now while it's easy to pinpoint which user caused the problem.  Please keep an eye on the idle warnings, and send me a message or post again if they keep happening after another 2 hours.

Thank you for the info, that problem has been fixed.  And for the few people who tried it earlier and got some idle/communication errors, that problem has been fixed.  The default pool software assumed worker passwords would be sent in the clear.  I added a few lines to hash the passwords to be compared to the database, which caused a bug when sending a blank password.  No crashes since.

Rig #1:
1) AMD Sempron 140 with unlocked second core.  8 GB RAM. 8 gB SSD, 60 gB SSD.  2x GigaByte 5870
2) 424 mHash/sec per card @ 975/300 clocks
3) 520-525 watts

Rig #2:
1) AMD Sempron 140.  1 GB RAM. 8 gB SSD.  2x GigaByte 5870
2) 424 mHash/sec per card @ 975/300 clocks
3) 499-504 watts

Rig #3:
1) AMD Sempron 140.  1 GB RAM. 16 gB SSD.  1x GigaByte 5870, 1x MSI Lightning 5870
2) 424 mHash/sec per card @ 975/300 clocks
3) 497-502 watts

Rig #4:
1) AMD Sempron 140.  1 GB RAM. 2 tB 5400 rpm HDD.  1x HIS  5870, 1x MSI Lightning 5870
2) 424 mHash/sec from HIS @ 975/300, 434 mHash/sec from MSI Lightning @ 1000/285
3) 500-508 wats

Rig #5:
1) AMD Sempron 140.  1 GB RAM. 500 gB 7200 rpm HDD.  1x Sapphire 5870, 1x GigaByte 5870
2) 411 mHash/sec from Sapphire @ 950/225, 424 mHash/sec from GigaByte @ 975/300
3) 498-503 watts

Rig #6:
1) Intel Core i7 980 (overclocked & watercooled), 12 gB RAM, 160 gig SSD, 2 1tB 7200rpm HDDs, 1 1.5 tB 7200 rpm HDD.  1x Sapphire 5970
2) 320 mHash/sec per core @ 790/500.
3) 480-490 watts

BTC Guild - http://www.btcguild.com

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Advantages

• Pure PPS - We pay a fixed rate per share, period.  There is no buffer, there is no limit based on good/bad luck.  If your share is valid, your account is credited for the value of that share within 10 seconds.
• Long-polling support, reducing the number of stale shares if your miner supports it.
• SSL security - Access the website via https://www.btcguild.com to protect your information from being sent in plaintext.
• Full precision payouts - Get all 8 decimals of your balance transferred when you request a payout.
• On-demand payouts.  Once a block has been confirmed, your reward can be paid out at any time by clicking the 'Pay Me Now' button on your account page (must be at least 0.10 balance).
• No invalid blocks - PPS Guild is Pure PPS.  You get paid a fixed rate per share, regardless of if the block itself is invalid.

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BTC Guild is a Pure Pay-per-Share pool.  This means that every valid share you submit is always worth a fixed amount, based on the current bitcoin difficulty.  Each share is worth (1 / difficulty) * 47.5.  It is multiplied by 47.5 instead of 50 because we charge a 5% fee for Pure PPS.  This is because in a Pure PPS model, you assume no risk, and the only variance you will have is your luck on finding shares.  We assume all the risk of block finding variance, and will purchase additional BTC to meet our liabilities if we have not found enough blocks to make payouts.

The pool has been tested on poclbm. phoenix, and diablo miners.  To point your miner at the pool, you can use the following (example for poclbm):
poclbm.exe -d1 --host=btcguild.com --port=8332 --user=[username]_[workername] --pass=[anything]


Visit our IRC channel on FreeNode.net to chat with other members or the pool operator: #btcguild

My combined hashrate just crossed 5 gHash/sec today.  The 5 in one day on Deepbit was pure luck.  I think all 5 of them were within a 6 hour window.  I know 3 of them were within 1 hour, I found 3 of the 4 blocks found that hour at Deepbit.  I believe I was around 4 gH/s at the time.

I found 5 blocks a few days ago on deepbit, and another 4 on Slush last week.  Not sure how many before that (I made new accounts once I started keeping track of expenses/revenue for my taxes).

Currently looking into setting up either a private or public (0%, donation supported) pool with one of the earlier server boxes I built.  Haven't found one yet in my test pool, but I've only got half my machines working in it while my others stick to a reliable pool.

Well I'm just one unlucky person.  I was slaving away coding my own pool this evening, after moving my miners to your pool about 14 hours ago Tycho.  And what do I see before going to sleep?

19:22:02, 20:12:37, and 20:18:36 (GMT -7) blocks were found by me.  That's right.  There were 4 blocks discovered by Deepbit.net between 19:22 and 20:22, and 3 of them were from my miners.  I bet if I finish making my own pool I'll never find one again!

I've seen things....things...much much worse than what was pictured above.  I strongly believe that I exterminated a new intelligent race that formed inside the computer a friend brought to me after it stopped working.

I'm pretty sure VirtualBox creates a virtual video card adapter.  This means that ATI's drivers, tools, and SDK won't do you any good, because as far as the OS is concerned, you're not using an ATI video card.

I'm generating around 50/day, but I'm selling off every 200-300 to ensure that my hardware is all paid off rather than holding it for speculation.  Depending on difficulty jumps, all my 5 rigs should be paid for in about 5 weeks.

I'm still unsure about what the difficulty change will be AFTER this one due to the OCN thread causing a big spike in computing power during this difficulty, which is already starting to die down.  The damage has already been done by it regarding the next jump, but I have a feeling the following jump will be minor (< 5%), or even a drop.