Yep. That was a funny one!!!

    You've got the patience of a saint, s0br; so I think we should call the Vatican and get you canonized. You could be St. s0br, patron saint of hashing.  Haha!!!

    Don't worry about these fools. You are right, and they are wrong. Keep on being right; because that is what really matters. 

    It was just a dream? Wow, mine was a nightmare.

    Some a$$hat was trolling my friends on the forums... 

    Honestly, I don't care to know anything about "Really". In fact, I have him ignored, but only read his last post; because I thought that maybe he was going to concede that he was wrong; which we all know that he is. Instead, he has just confirmed that he and all his trollish friends/"alternate accounts"/"voices in his head" are the true "sockpuppets".

    I've learned my lesson, and I'm just going to keep "Really" on ignore; because he is far from "Real".

... said the "Newbie".

I see a lot of happy people here. Nice toys, and nice times!!! 

I do like shashlik.

    Very nice, I think. I have them both connected and functioning as one big unit. For boxes generating over 1.2 Th/s, surprisingly, there is not much noise or heat coming from them. A single 1 TH/s dragon miner, or AntMiner S2 is much louder. I think my gaming PC puts out more heat.

    Both of my new miners arrived today. Instead of two Antminer S3s, s0br bought me two BTCGarden AM-V1X2 620gh/s Bitcoin Miner (628 watts). Wow!!! The one day shipping was a surprise. Thank you very much, s0br.  

    Before reading that article, I thought they were referring to me as a sockpuppet because of my goggily eyes, puffball nose, and terrycloth skin. As it is described in that article, the ironic thing is those accounts doing most of the complaining are the sockpuppets, right? And that header, "A Wonderland for Pathological Liars and Attention Whores", describes them perfectly.

    You are wrong.

    s0br has made every effort to make sure that the pool does not hold onto anyone's money. His original efforts had people actually complaining that they were being paid too frequently and complaining that they would rather wait until the payouts were totaling larger amounts before they were transferred. It just goes to show that you can't please everyone, no matter how hard you try. He's addressed these requests, and has made changes for pool members to decide how frequently.

    It has been my experience that when you offer folks a deal that exceeds the 1:1 ratio of effort in their favor, they will find a reason to complain, hoping that they will get even more than the excess being offered. For instance, the "all you can eat buffet"; which tends to attract a certain clientele that will eat all that they can, and then make a spurious complaint, hoping to get that meal for free. Sometimes you can be too generous.

    The "consensus" you've seen is one or two losers, using multiple accounts, that have nothing better to do between school classes, than harass the folks on this forum. In the MMO world, they are known as "griefers". I wouldn't put any value into their hate.


    This pool gets better every day. If you check the opening post in this thread, and the index page for the pool's web-site, you'll read that this is admittedly a work in progress. There was no pretense offered that it was perfect... yet. The 12.5% bonus, and the S3 prizes, were enticements to attract a pool membership, and inspire some patience while the quirks are worked out; because he believes that one day folks will stay on this pool afterwards, knowing that in the long run, they will make money here for their efforts.

    Nobody has lost any money here, and anyone that claims to has not worked with the support staff to clear it up.

    Keep checking back. I think you'll be as happy with this pool as I am.

    Please, seek professional help... I am begging you.

Sometimes that is a good sign. It means we hit a block... but I won't swear that is what it means all of the time... or this time.  

    It's just sad that you can thank your pool's members for being patient, yet you couldn't extend the same courtesy here, and be just a little patient.

    And he should modify/remove the "News" item on his pool's web-site for August 31st.

It's only a BAN issue because a bunch of us were talking about it in the BAN IRC channel. It's also a BAN issue, because the current Invalid Shares count includes the 66 million I was writing about. Let's not start trying to tell folks where and when they can write things, and let others decide for themselves what is worthwhile.

The link you've provided is exactly the file that I had used; because it is supposed to fix it. That is why I tried it. That is why I am advising others not to.

Hi,

    For all my fellow BAN pool miners that are using Antminer S2s, I thought I'd give you a heads up on a couple of things we were talking about in the IRC chat over this past weekend.

    The default firmware file leaves an open security hole for folks to exploit, and hijack your miner to work for them. So far, this has happened to me, with a miner using the name "benutzer" (German for "user"... apropos, right?) at BTC Guild. I don't blame BTC Guild for this one bad apple, but I did try to appeal to them to drop this guy. I don't think I made any progress on that part. I'm sure that they might be good people, with one bad apple.

    Well, what I found was a firmware file that was not from Bitmain, but specific for the S2, initramfs.bin.SD-Kano-20140611145346.tar... Avoid it!!! I tried it, and I had 66 million invalid shares in just a moment. What a mess!!!  

    If your miners are not behind a firewall, for now, all I can advise is that for you to make sure /etc/cgminer.conf.factory has api-allow set as something like this:

        "api-allow": "W:127.0.0.1,R:0/0",

    It allows you to modify the configurations locally, or via the web interface.

Hello All,

    There was a good suggestion made on the pool's IRC chat yesterday, about a giveaway for the low hashrate miners of the pool (less than 250 Gh/s members); so I thought I'd follow s0br's example and "pay it forward".

    I am giving away one of my "Nano Fury 6 - 11 Gh/s (stock) USB Bitcoin Miner" from Moonlight Miner. It's fun to play with.

    The winner will be announced within the next 24 hours, and I'll ship it to the winner myself. Good luck to all!!  

    It's feigned skepticism, and feigned concern for anyone but themselves.

    This pool is great, and I can't do much as a user here, except to let others know how happy I am to be part of this pool.