I believe in you two, flameruk, and tubexc, now go find the block asap  By the way flameruk, your node looks great too! www.ukp2pool.uk:9332I bet it would work well with people who wish to rent from nicehash instead of westhash. Humm I don't think so. My ping request timed out ( from Portugal ) Node must be blocked or firewalled Tubexc- Can you access the node dashboard from the link? Try a miner for a few minutes my ping time is wrong at the moment. Let me know results and I'll work on it. Looking to improve. I do run pfblocker and snort at the firewall but I'll check, I don't remember Portugal being blocked. Edit - Portugal is open by default. I'm working on ping as the ping time shows badly it's actually a very fast node and connection. This is the way pfsense handles it not sure how to fix it yet. If you throw a miner on board however it's a different story! I've had some USA rental hash this weekend ran a dream even so far away. If I ever get time I have a block of IP addresses for our network, I'll set the node up to a separate IP and just not firewall it, it can have a public facing IP and I'll handle the rest in Centos on the server. |
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Well, 2.77 BTC spent renting hash from westhash to mine ony node last week.
Rented 500TH for a couple days, then 3PH for a little while then 900TH for a few days.
Rentals ran out yesterday.
Have about 1.5 days until my shares are expired.
Crossing my fingers for p2pool to find a block before my shares expire.
Will keep my node open for anyone who wishes to mine on it.
It is running exceptionally well whether I'm throwing 3PH at it and even when I only have one miner using it with 2TH
Hoping that even if my shares expire that enough people use it to justify the monthly payment for the VPS.
If I receive a reward before my shares expire I will rent some more hashpower, if I don't I will keep my node up and running for at least a few months and maybe longer depending on whether enough miners wish to use it.
At any rate I will keep you updated.
I'm thrown some on this last few days but I'll keep a little on as well as my stock farm. Fingers crossed chance comes out way. |
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So smartpool is an interesting idea, however IMO, its a long way off, if it were to be adopted at all... We use Ethereum smart contracts to build a decentralized pooled mining protocol called SmartPool. Our solution implicitly replaces the centralized pool operator by network participants who run the Ethereum network. Also noteworthy is that this can also be built on RootStock, without depending on the Ethereum network. I read the white paper but being a HVAC consultant it's way above my head. I'm more of a hardware guy to be fair. The part of running over etherium is a little worrying but hey there are far more competent people to judge on here. I'll definitely keep my eye open. I'm still looking at grumpy and go and found a thread where bitcoind has already been ported. I'm going to put this on an old box and give it a try to see if p2Pool will run. Apparently it will multi thread over cores so could make a difference to the back end speed. https://github.com/btcsuite/btcdAnd I see this was started 3 odd years ago so old news....... |
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So smartpool is an interesting idea, however IMO, its a long way off, if it were to be adopted at all... We use Ethereum smart contracts to build a decentralized pooled mining protocol called SmartPool. Our solution implicitly replaces the centralized pool operator by network participants who run the Ethereum network. Also noteworthy is that this can also be built on RootStock, without depending on the Ethereum network. I read the white paper but being a HVAC consultant it's way above my head. I'm more of a hardware guy to be fair. The part of running over etherium is a little worrying but hey there are far more competent people to judge on here. I'll definitely keep my eye open. I'm still looking at grumpy and go and found a thread where bitcoind has already been ported. I'm going to put this on an old box and give it a try to see if p2Pool will run. Apparently it will multi thread over cores so could make a difference to the back end speed. https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd |
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Im riding on the back of your rentals. As you kick up the hash rate we seem to find a block quicker. By me adding around 40 / 50 th to my node as rentals, gives me a very cushy payout. Feel like im using you some how but hey ho whatever works and earns some coins.  |
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So essentially most if not all pools produce blocks that are not always full, not just p2pool  You can't say all, but otherwise that's correct, except that the average from most pools is much larger than p2pool. Here's a block size summary, no idea why p2pool isn't included: http://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/blocksize/6m?t=lI wish it was included, i would love to see where it falls compared to other pools, and I congratulate you for having the highest average Blocksize on your solo pool, which I love by the way! Nothing beats the excitement of finding a block via solomining!!! Although it doesn't give you the average you can clearly see how small the average p2pool block is here: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/pool/p2poolIs this just because node operators have a low maxblocksize for bitcoind? Guess to reduce getblocklatency or unsure how to configure at all? |
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If only you could always time it like that!
Dare I call it luck? LMAO, I would say it was lucky that you started your rentals when you did and that they ended when they did, and I'd also say it was lucky that I tripled my hashpower three days before as well, but I'm half terrified of the backlash I might get if I try and say that had any effect on my luck or yours. I dunno, kinda like "The Mining Games," in which case "Happy mining. And may the odds be ever in your favor." I hope so! I'm hoping for a long run of lucky blocks coming our way, yet I'm scaling back down to around 450TH for a little while. Seems like whenever I get too greedy the block gods withhold them from me to make me realize I'm just a mortal. This last week was pretty scary! Luckily it turned around and I actually came out alive. It was scary but then randomly everything just went sweet at just the right time for me. |
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If only you could always time it like that!
Dare I call it luck? |
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Now that was nice to wake up to especially with most of my shares in the chain. That makes this last week a very successful happy week! Now to try and work out when to drop some rental Hash back on again. |
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Nice one, 2 hrs after my rentals ran out. Very good one for me you couldn't have timed it better! Not a very good strike  I think i didn't profit anything only stress  That was a tough one was hoping for it 4 to 5 days ago. Next one could be much better but I'm laying off rentals for a few days now. |
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Nice one, 2 hrs after my rentals ran out. Very good one for me you couldn't have timed it better! |
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A clean surge free power on and off should be ok.
If you have auto tune firmware boot up will take a while.
Turning Miners on and off frequently is never really good.
Better to leave them running continually where possible.
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Hi,
I've got SP20. plugged my 750W PSU to it and a lan wire coming from my router.
When I turn the PSU on, it runs the miner for like less than a minute at two intervals... third time, it runs for a couple of minutes and take pause ... this thing repeats itself. the real issue is... I can't find the IP address of the miner to configure it. I've tried 'net view' (cmd) and advanced IP scanner. the advance IP scanner shows my router, pc in live hosts, but there's nothing in there except these. I've reset my router with no luck. thoughts?
PS: when I look at the back side of the miner, it has a green light (blinking state)? I think it's mining, but not sure for whom and on what pool.
There's a possibility that the miner has an IP on a different subnet. Have you just purchased it? First time trying to run? Probably download the firmware and boot the miner from a ssd card to recover the firmware then the miner will grab an IP address by dhcp. With the SP20's the time to worry is when the fan runs permanently on boot up. This is normally a broken controller card. Let us know if this works for you. Yes. I've just purchased it and this is the first time that I'm trying to run it. I've found a guide, it has firmware.tar and sdcardrecovery.tar, which one should I be copying to the sd card to boot the miner from? Also, now when I run the miner, it works constantly (no pause like earlier) and there are no green or yellow lights blinking anymore? (been this for like 3 minutes) Also, assuming I'm copying the sd-recovery tar file to the sd card, do I need to uncompress it in my pc first or just copy it as a tar to the sd card? From memory just copy the tar onto the sd card then it should boot. In the mining / hardware there will be an SP20 support thread. |
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The fan running continually is bad news.
Seriously point a hair dryer into the miner and warm it up so it's very hot then turn it back on.
This might (should) cure the problem.
If it does then the controller is broken and the miner is scrap unless you can get a spare controller.
I ran 14 of these for a while once they are bashing they are ok but Power on and off is a little scary.
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I'm on a 60mb down/5 up from Charter cable in the SE US. I can't complain at all. Must not be any real bandwidth hogs in the neighborhood. (Or maybe I'm the hog...?? Lol) Seriously, we're good. I have no cable TV and get all of my TV over the internet. I also feed all the Wi-Fi in the house and a wired network with three always on PC's and two laptops. One of the isolated PC's is running a full BTC node/wallet and have five S9 miners running 24/7. Couldn't be happier. I would cry if I had to use dsl again or dial-up. Arggggggggggggggg Exactly why I moved everything to the office, you can't beat a leased line straight onto the Ethernet back bone! Runs like a dream. I can't ever remember what Adsl was like it's been so long..... |
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Or join the P2Pool network. It's almost solo mining but with less variance. You can run a local bitcoin node with P2Pool on the same box and mine direct to that. I run my own node for my own Miners which allows public access zero fee. www.ukp2pool.uk if u want to give it a try. |
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Hi,
I've got SP20. plugged my 750W PSU to it and a lan wire coming from my router.
When I turn the PSU on, it runs the miner for like less than a minute at two intervals... third time, it runs for a couple of minutes and take pause ... this thing repeats itself. the real issue is... I can't find the IP address of the miner to configure it. I've tried 'net view' (cmd) and advanced IP scanner. the advance IP scanner shows my router, pc in live hosts, but there's nothing in there except these. I've reset my router with no luck. thoughts?
PS: when I look at the back side of the miner, it has a green light (blinking state)? I think it's mining, but not sure for whom and on what pool.
There's a possibility that the miner has an IP on a different subnet. Have you just purchased it? First time trying to run? Probably download the firmware and boot the miner from a ssd card to recover the firmware then the miner will grab an IP address by dhcp. With the SP20's the time to worry is when the fan runs permanently on boot up. This is normally a broken controller card. Let us know if this works for you. |
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Check out mining to p2pool if you like to take a gamble! You might not earn for a while but generally payouts are good. You should grab a couple of shares each day with that miner! Look for a node near you and try and mine for a week. Earnings will ramp up over a few days. If you are in the UK, you can use my node for free http://www.ukp2pool.uk:9332/static/Good luck anyway! |
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I've not used MRR for quite some time so things may have changed. However, when I did use them, there was a method by which the renter/seller could communicate directly with each other to try and rectify any hash rate discrepancies - typically the seller would add some time to the end of the rental to make up for the discrepancy. Also, MRR support tickets were very quickly answered. If you haven't already, I'd suggest opening a support ticket with MRR so they can evaluate the advertised vs actual hash rates for you.
OK I'll log in now I'm home and check. Thanks for the advice. |
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