Give me a program or script that will work with Ubuntu 12.04.  It must be written clearly enough that a somewhat experienced programmer can read it and be sure it is safe.  Everyone will have to agree to let me run it.  If it fails in any manner, none of you will have any recourse for lost funds.  It should probably use the standard API calls. 

As a reminder, I am willing to make a payout whenever there are mature funds.  I think it will increase the clutter and difficulty when you want to check the books, but that is your call.  If just 1 person calls for this, I will make it so.

Also, I am willing to produce a distribution any time someone asks for one and there are mature funds.  If you have some need coming up, I will make a distribution on demand, no questions asked.  The funds from 7:33 CDT today (Chicago/Dallas) still need about 1-2 hours to be mature, so at this time, block + 15 hours, I can't distribute them.

Another option, in principle, is for me to forgo my own payout until everyone else is an average week ahead, and continue to pay weekly.  Of course, I would want some compensation for this.  For example, I currently pay myself balance*(31/100) - miner_fee.  We could change the fraction to [( (31+k) / (100+k)) - miner_fee] where everyone's share is diluted 100 / (100+k).  I note that the value of k is currently 0.  If there is unanimous agreement on some value of k, I am willing to do prepay everyone a week.

Yes, it is a simple way to view the situation.

There is a story in Texas that a Ranger asked a man, in broken Spanish, if he had a horse.  The man said no, and the Ranger shot him dead as a liar and a criminal.  It turns out that the man was innocent and had answered truthfully.  There is still bad feeling along the border about this incident.  In Spanish, there are two words;  the analogy that carries into English is asking a man if he has a bull, and then shooting him because he has a cow and answered "no."

As to ownership, here are some choices: 
1.  The ownership is not defined until the machine passes QC, then it belongs to the assigned customer.  The customer gets a working machine no matter what manufacturing difficulties arise.  The quality variance is small, the time variance is high.
2.  The ownership is assigned early, perhaps as soon as the parts for one single board are identified.  The customer gets whatever is made, working or not.  The time variance is small, the quality variance is high.

No one can make the quality and the time variance both small.

What the community can do, however, is be so vocal and demanding that venture capitalists, who are risk adverse; and entrepreneurs, who do not know how long innovative things will take, both view the bitcoin arena as high risk.

I am troubleshooting an Avalon Batch #2.  The fans spin up and shut down as in a working unit. 

The blue led lights up on the TP-Link 703n for about 1 second, then goes dark.  On the working unit, that light blinks several times at about 1 Hz, then stays steady-on.

When I depress & hold the reset switch and power up the unit, the blue light stays on about 1 second, then goes dark.  On the working unit, it flashes at about 2 Hz.

My preliminary diagnosis is that the 703n does have power but does not boot up correctly.

I'm up and running.  I connect through the WiFi, and I stay connected without issues.  A laptop can connect through the Avalon, then the Avalon's WiFi, and out to the internet.

I will de-identify and publish a configuration file later.

I thought that.  But when I look at the free mem numbers on status --> overview both the Avalon unit and the retail unit suggest about 29,100

I want to take a retail TP-Link 703n and use it in an Avalon Batch #2 (1.52 controller board).

I will try this with a USB extender cable and the 703N outside the enclosure, so I will use the PCB antenna.

The retail 703n receives power from the micro USB connector.  I am assuming that I can connect the power adapter to this connector, and the USB extender cable back inside the Avalon. 

Does anyone know whether this will create a problem?  I have hear opinions both ways, but not from anyone that I think has read a schematic or done a test.

What is your goal?

I can't do a daily dividend.  There have been some periods of almost 48 hours between payments from eligius.  See the green line from July 17 through July 19.

I did think about putting your account numbers directly into the eligius payout.  It is not possible to be exactly sure of the payout amount, however, and so I would be doing cleanup payments, changing the miner settings, and it would lose the clarity of looking at http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/18bLcVkviErQi75zB8X39jZXxHNpSZggdC to see what's up.  I think that would reduce everyone's comfort level.

I don't understand any reason why they should throw away perfectly good hashes.  What is the objection if the test is on a live pool, especially if we can all see it?  We know that the machines work, and that a lot of them existed last weekend (10 days ago).

I was thinking every Tuesday about 12:30 PM, the weekly anniversary of when the device was powered up.
I can do it as often as 120 blocks after eligius pays out, but that will lead to a lot of clutter.
I can also do it "on demand" or whenever someone asks for it, in addition to at least every Tuesday.

At the moment, I don't have a preference.

I want a bid from someone to set up eloipool under 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  I have it running in a virtualbox and can give ssh access, preferably through IPv6.

I am thinking that this can be packaged as an appliance and distributed.

My IAFCU debit card has arrived.

Stable node at [2001:470:c019::2013:0401]:6333

Yep, wrong thread.

I am pretty good at thinking outside the box, but even so it took me days to envision this.

The table is a really cheap "get 'er done" model using pine.  I thought about making a more upscale table and selling them to the community.  I have an unemployed friend with a woodworking shop who likes to be very independent...

With another change, I can use water cooling to  pre-heat the water returning to the firebox, and just dump all the heat into a gravity fed circulating water home heating system.  The pipes in the computer room directly above the furnace are never much warmer than body temperature, even when it is -20°F outside.  This might make it simpler, to let me connect the Avalons after the firebox instead of before.

I have a bytecoind node running more or less continuously.  It is at address bte.vima.austin.tx.us or [2001:470:c019:0000::2013:0401]:6333  Note that the last 4 address digits are the date of the genesis block.  There are IPv6 nodes connected to it on an ongoing basis.

If you cannot connect to IPv6 and cannot find an IPv4 node, I can run the node for a while without
onlynet=IPv6
in the configuration file and pick some IPv4 addresses from the debug log.

My ASIC is still available.  It is earning good money on the the eligius pool.

In order to point my miner to this pool, I enter

pool:  stratum+tcp://mining.eligius.st:3334
worker:  18bLcVkviErQi75zB8X39jZXxHNpSZggdC
password (not used): secret

into the cgminer configuration panel.  There is some instruction at http://eligius.st on how a new miner connects to the pool.

There are consistent reports of trouble with P2Pool and Avalon miners.  In addition, I don't see any instructions on how to connect to the pool when I go to the web page that ahmed_bodi lists in his posts.  I am available to connect when I get working instructions.

The Avalon community is still having trouble with P2Pool.

I did a Google on my real name and address, and there are lots and lots of links.  I have not ever been very secretive.  That means that using Google+ is a clear roadmap to my house, with photos and GPS locations.  There is even an address I used in New Orleans that I swear I never, ever put on the internet or even in employment records.  I have no idea how anyone got that.

I found an anonymous photo posting service.  You can upload photos without registering, but then you don't have a way to delete them.

I found an online exif viewer.  It gives a location where the waiting photograph was taken.


I have a nice photo of the delivery man but it has GPS data in it.  I have a nice photo of the unopened box, and it has address info on it.

The photos in the basement do not have GPS data, I guess there is too much stucco and earth.  

opening
dimension
padding
blemish
utility table
firebox
placed
air filter
thermometer

Maybe they are in Australia, and have their farm connected to their thermostat.

I notice a new address on eligius at about the right speed to be a 3 module Avalon, and about the right timing to be a Batch 3 machine.


This one intrigue's me.  Surely it isn't solar powered.


edit 19:49 CDT:  now it looks like they flashed it with the new software.