Stingers:  I got similar email on Feb 12 2016.  Had my blockchain wallet for maybe 2 years now, haven't signed in there in a long time.  Just FYI

Kano:  if you know ckolivas and you developed cgminer together, I'm assuming I don't know, but why was he not saying those things to me? 

What would you do differently if you were me?  That'll help me understand better.

I have no care/consideration for what Bitcoin represents?  HUH??

You are a cgminer developer?   Please explain your ethical position to me.  I do not understand why you think I am abusing the Bitcoin network by simply mining on it.     

When I look at my log, I don't see anything like that.  I have, however, seen that fffffffffffff thing, when my Win8 computer for some reason goes offline.  I was mining wireless on it the last 2 days with cgminer and I'm not sure if I had the right drivers installed via Zadig.    If you have 0 hashrate, maybe you're not connected? Just a thought

Thanks!  How do I apply this kernel patch on your site, the linux 3.13?   I'm on Ubuntu 13 and I have this kernel:  3.2.0-59-generic-pae

Would that patch even work on my system?  Just curious, I just saw your site and thought I'd ask.   

Honestly, I'd much rather help decentralization. 

I have got 2 Antminer S1's now and other stuff, so I have 510 GH/s power.   When my new miner gets here in the next 2 days, another 60 GH/s BFL and another Antminer S1, I will have about 770 GH/s full power.     Right now, I have 26 GH/s on p2pool and the remaining 500 GH on Slush. 

I was planning on putting the new Antminer I'm getting soon on p2pool and the 60 somewhere else.  Do you think I should divide them up differently?   

Just as an aside,  you guys may be surprised to hear this, but I was fired from my job of 10 years at a hospital last summer and I live on Bitcoin only.   I am not looking just to make a bunch of money, I am simply looking to survive.  I am done (hopefully) with working for "the man."  I'm willing to listen, learn and do what is best for p2pool - not my profits.  I just want a steady income ($1736/mo) to live on!  That honestly folks is all I want!  And some weeks it gets scary because my little payments don't amount to much.  My problem is, and the people like me out there who are mining, we end up switching back to Slush for the dependable $25-$35 payouts from say 300-500 GH/s, because I receive them fairly rapidly.   I do this out of necessity.  Anyone know of a place where I'd be better of parking my miners for a stable $1700/mo?  I'm not sure, that's why I'm on here learning & talking.  I'm in this for the long haul, my name is Marlon, so if any other serious miners out there wanna talk, I'm here!  I have one running p2pool node now and another node on a Win8 computer in the other room.  I've got 2 more miners on the way but my power bill is now about $175-$250/mo, whereas before it was rarely over $150.   So i'm paying a bit more in power, but it is manageable even with no job!  I make enough to cover the bills, but yeah I guess we are all trying mining out for different reasons.  I am not overtly suspicious of others, I just don't trust the NSA or government because they obviously hate democracy & don't care about us.  I just wanna make enough to live on here (not extra profits unless it's just a nice bonus).  So I'm here, if anyone comes up with ideas, I can implement them on my end, maybe we can do something to change some things about this situation.  Maybe we won't be able to, but I'm gonna try!! 

I've been watching the pool hashrate for several days now.  On 04/09, it was at 201 TH/s, and 4/10 at 2 am CST, it was 214 TH/s.  Right now it's at 126 TH/s.   I think people are jumping ship, but won't that just create a huge variance payout for the ones left behind?  What can we do to make p2pool more efficient?  Are there any ideas?  I don't understand how it works enough to say.  I'm not giving up, I'm staying on p2pool indefinitely.   I'm thinking something else is wrong, some kind of configuration problem maybe?  The expected numbers on the block list are so high after a found block the day before.  I've tweaked latency issues on my own computer, and I get about 92% consistently to maybe 97% efficiency.  And I run nothing else but p2pool and BTC wallet. 

I've been mining in p2pool the last 3-4 days and I'm wondering, if anyone else has these thoughts, that maybe something is not operating as efficiently as possible.  I am looking at p2pool.info and if you look at the long list of blocks, each time miners get out of a good block, and get some % of what was expected, it goes immediately into a new block but it ends up like the one 3 days ago, at -352% expected.  Is this because of the issues around p2pool running on a computer?  Is this just part of the system or can we tweak the efficiency and if so how?  I know probably all p2pool miners are configuring/tweaking the best they can, I'm just curious why there seems to be so much mining work inefficiency.  I'm using Ubuntu and p2pool runs great.  I get a lot of "peer sent entire transaction "jerlkjerlkje" that was already received.  My stale rate right now is 17.2%, that is somewhat high isn't it, given I have an Intel Core i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz x 4, and I don't use the computer for anything but p2pool and btc wallet.  I guess it's the latency issue, is that the real problem causing the inefficiency in numbers?  OR do you guys think it will balance out later?  Just curious.  I really love p2pool by the way, I think it's definitely the way to go for miners. 

OK, I just checked again and you are right, it is installed.  That's weird, it showed it was not installed earlier, my error. 

Maybe this is a dumb question, but I've got p2pool running on Ubuntu.  I have Bitcoin-qt obviously, but why is bitcoind not installed on my system?  Where is my computer storing the blockchain?  Don't I need to install bitcoind immediately?  I'm just lookin to be as efficient as possible and I have plenty of hard drive space.   Thanks!

Let me know how that goes...I have tried to reset mine but I hold in the S2 black button for 10-20 seconds, re-power it up, and it doesn't seem to be resetting mine. 

So you cannot sign into the miner at all? 

If your pool is alive, then you're connected.  What else does your screen show?  I can compare it to mine, maybe we can figure out the problem.

I don't understand what U mean.  If mine stays on all the time and it's working, why would yours work and hash if the light does not stay on?   It sounds to me like your Antminer has a problem, but I'm not really sure.  All I can tell you is what mine is doing and it's mining and hashing fine.

AngusCanine:    On my running Antminer S1, my green light stays on all the time on the right side if you're looking at the fan.  I just went and looked, and it stays on all the time.  Just thought I'd let you know.

No, there is not.  I had said in my earlier post (which is back several posts now haha) that I have 2 Antminers and I'd already changed the IP on the first Antminer to 98 (sticker said 99) and the second Antminer I got also has the same IP sticker (so I left it at 99, since the other one is at 98 and I can see it on IPscan).  When I do an IP scan with the second Antminer hooked up directly to the router via ethernet cable, it just won't show up there.  It was showing up when I first opened the box and hooked it up.  I changed something and can't remember what, and now I can't sign back into it.

I have reset the Antminer S1, to no avail.  I still cannot get it in a web browser (I do get the black Lula sign-in screen) but it just hangs there.  The reset S2 button however does not seem to be resetting the machine.  When I plug in ethernet cable, the green lights blink 2-3 times and they shut off and never come back.  I have another Antminer doing just fine, but I cannot get this second one online.  It was online yesterday -- I had it pulled up and changed something in the WAN/LAN/WWAN area and when I restarted it, I now have this problem where it won't come up on a web browser.  Help!

Answer is here:  http://coinhash.co/blogs/news/12221729-how-to-setup-antminer-s1-ip-network-configuration-guide-lan-wan-wifi-dhcp