P2pool is not only a good thing, it's a great thing, it's really what Bitcoin is all about.  I think the main reason more people don't use it is because it's not as user friendly as simply pointing your miners to kano.is, for example.  There are lots of extra steps to take, and granted many bitcoiners know more about the ins and outs of computing than the general public, a lot of what p2pool needs to get up and running is beyond the grasp of even your average bitcoiner.

Thanks for the additional explanation, I didn't know the debug.log would show the corrupted file.  When core crashes on me there is no indication in the log at all what happened, it always looks like the program is running fine if you just looked at the debug log, but next time corruption strikes I'll try your method, thanks.

Uh, what?  Once the blockchain is corrupt core has to redownload the whole thing again.  I actually have to delete everything in my bitcoin folder or core simply crashes right away again.  Provide some explanation for your statement, please.

No, it makes no difference.  All that matters is how much total hash power you have, could be one machine or 10,000.

My S3+ with Kano's updated software:


At these settings my S3+ hums along at 500GH/s.  Are you saying the voltage field is meaningless and has no effect on the miner?  I'm not sure I agree.

When you change to DHCP the ip address of the machine changes.  You need to access the machine via its new address once you "save and apply".

Well it has been over $400 a couple times in the last week, then drops back to 380-390.  At least it seems like we have stabilized around the 400 mark and it's holding value.  We were at 200 for so long that to be double that now is a cool thing, makes that coin mined back then look even better in my wallet.

It's funny how the luck of the calculation goes sometimes.  One of my compac sticks has been finding shares of higher value than my S3+ for the last couple weeks.  Current bestever on the stick is 179M, and only 27M on the S3+.

{"hashrate1m": "509G", "hashrate5m": "428G", "hashrate1hr": "462G", "hashrate1d": "484G", "hashrate7d": "294G", "lastupdate": 1453918889, "workers": 1, "shares": 63676781, "bestshare": 9693755.8634971641, "bestever": 27528845}

{"hashrate1m": "30.8G", "hashrate5m": "27.1G", "hashrate1hr": "26.7G", "hashrate1d": "26.2G", "hashrate7d": "24G", "lastupdate": 1453918889, "shares": 8624552, "bestshare": 576712.76746331062, "bestever": 179524550}

The S3+ has found higher shares than 27M, but not since "bestever" was implemented.

I run one S3+ as a lotto machine, despite my tier 4 $0.33 kW/h electricity rate. 

They are still capable of solving blocks at today's difficulty, so I figure why not have at least 1 pony in the races?

No, you still earn interest hourly in Wallet, but it is "frozen" until the 1st of the next month so you cannot withdraw it before then, but you still earn it.


I have not seen the post regarding withdraw fees, can you link to it please?

And that's my complaint, it should be able to pin down the error to a specific block or something.  Having 1 small error corrupt 50 gigs of data requiring it to all be downloaded again is terrible design, there should be a better way to code it.

5% was not so bad when the network difficulty was 30G, but 5% of 111G is a very significant increase!  I think we're going to see solid increases right up to the halving, especially as new tech is being introduced.  I suspect there will be some efficiency break throughs right around the halving, too, in order to keep mining profitable for the huge farms.

Wallet has no minimum deposit and you can withdraw at any time and still earn interest.  Finance has a minimum deposit amount (10btc I think) and you have to keep it deposited for a fixed amount of time to earn interest.

Have any S7s made it to the used market yet?  Are they holding their resale value?  I would like to pick one up to have it hosted, but I don't like paying new full price.

Happy birthday, and thanks for the give away!  The second account is a little confusing, though.

This club will solve a block, I just know it!  Only a mater of time (not too much, hopefully)...

If you up the frequency you need to up the voltage as well.  The new voltage setting in the gui saves you from having to ssh into the machine and edit the files manually.

My core finally finished resyninc on Friday, again, and then it crashed this morning and now has to resync... again!  Holy crap this is frustrating.  All 50gigs of the block chain cannot be corrupted, I don't understand why the software can't just replace the bad piece of data rather than having to sync the whole chain...

Congrats on the event, I saw the postings on twitter.  Good to see HaoBTC taking a proactive stance, and as I understand it the Chinese big guns are in favor of a 2MB block size.

Dropping price and rising difficulty isn't good for anyone, I would rather see the opposite happen!  As long as the price floor stays ~$380 I don't think too many people complain, but personally I like seeing $4XX as the bottom, it just makes me feel better.

Great luck over the weekend, my phone has been dinging at me like crazy.  Congrats to the first Avalon6 winner, that's really cool.

Blocks that are "close" to network difficulty are submitted anyways, just in case.  Sure, it's clear if it's a solve or not, but better safe than sorry.