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1  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: November 17, 2015, 03:33:01 PM
Why is Slush having so much bad luck these last 4+ weeks?  I've been monitoring several of the large mining operations like AntPool, BTCC and F2Pool, their luck is nothing like Slush's they are doing great. 
With 6, 8 even 11 hours starting to become normal place it leads me to believe something in slush's setup is misconfigured.  No pool should continuously have such horrible luck for such a long time as this.  Does anyone have any ideas on what is going on?
2  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 28, 2015, 01:05:52 AM
I guess this is not fixed yet?

How does the hash rate keep climbing - yet the success rate keeps plummeting?

Lot of folk wasting a lot of electricity here..............

Maybe slush himself added some additional hashing power to the pool in order to increase the pools success rate?!?

But I pulled all of my hashing power out of Slush a couple of hours ago and have it now pointed at BTCC Pool in China.  Going to give them a couple of days and see how I like that pool.

It wasn't...

It was a guy who rented 6 PH/s for a few hours and pointed them at Slush.

Good to know!

Didn't get much bang for your buck out of it, bad timing!

3  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 28, 2015, 12:06:35 AM

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Do BTCChina payout the same way Slush does?
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I'm not interlay sure how they derive a payout but from what I've read on their site they pay twice a day on balances over .001 (not .01 like slush).  It is also a PPS (Pay Per Share) system.
I'm going to compare my payouts over the next two or so days to what I was averaging with Slush and see how it works out.  I know BTCC Pool usually averages twice the number of blocks found each day.
4  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 27, 2015, 11:03:58 PM
I guess this is not fixed yet?

How does the hash rate keep climbing - yet the success rate keeps plummeting?

Lot of folk wasting a lot of electricity here..............

Maybe slush himself added some additional hashing power to the pool in order to increase the pools success rate?!?

But I pulled all of my hashing power out of Slush a couple of hours ago and have it now pointed at BTCC Pool in China.  Going to give them a couple of days and see how I like that pool.
5  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 21, 2015, 04:30:56 AM
That's one way to shut me up.....


I guess I should work on my own Karma.


Moving my hash on the best day after 5 days of bad luck.... yeah that hurt.

Slush is really like an ex-girlfriend. The relation of Love/Hate is too close to be sustainable.

I'm sure that hurt a bit but the 2 invalid blocks almost back to back shows Slush hasn't fixed anything yet.

Very disappointed, going to start looking for another pool to devote my hash's tomorrow.
6  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 20, 2015, 07:58:12 PM
Now it appears that block 379780 which at the time of me writing this we have been mining for 48 minutes was already mined by ant pool 22 minutes ago. This is a horrible delay on Slush's part, he needs to get this crap figured out quickly.
7  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 20, 2015, 07:33:44 PM
I'm going to hold on a bit longer before moving my hashing power to another pool.  Kinda ride out this turn of luck we have suddenly seen on Slush.  It can't be a coincidence that the day them fix the invalid blocks (supposedly fixed) that the luck turns totally around as well.  Had to be more going wrong behind the scenes than they are letting on.  Don't ya think??

So what are you saying he as ripping us off?
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No, I'm not saying that.  But I do find it rather odd that the pool was not only having way too many invalid blocks but also the pool luck was sinking like a rock.  They supposedly fix the invalid issue and at the same time the pools luck does a complete 180.  I'm by no means a mining expert so I don't know if the reason for invalid blocks was also tanking our luck however I do know Slush does not report luck correctly when it comes to invalid blocks.  The pool luck should have been much lower if he was.  

I think the question as to whether or not he has been ripping us off should be answered by someone with a lot more mining knowledge then I.

EDIT:  However, case in point while having issues with invalid blocks we were seeing 4-6 hour rounds.  Now with the with the fix the rounds have been much much shorter except for the 4 hour one today which happens to be in invalid block (379375).  As a rule of thumb I don't believe in coincidences.  Don't get me wrong, I'm complaining about the good luck we have had these last two days. 
8  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 20, 2015, 06:03:28 PM
I'm going to hold on a bit longer before moving my hashing power to another pool.  Kinda ride out this turn of luck we have suddenly seen on Slush.  It can't be a coincidence that the day them fix the invalid blocks (supposedly fixed) that the luck turns totally around as well.  Had to be more going wrong behind the scenes than they are letting on.  Don't ya think??
9  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 20, 2015, 12:30:56 AM
So now that he has applied this fix have things gotten any better?

No invalid blocks today and our luck looks like it is turning around as well.
10  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 19, 2015, 06:47:42 PM
I received another reply today from Slush regarding the recent influx of invalid blocks.

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Thank you for pointing our attention to this situation. We understand your disappointment and are ready to provide you with more detailed explanation, please read below.

The primary reason for this behavior was recent malleability attack on Bitcoin network which caused the Bitcoind overload with transactions and directly affected the ability to propagate blocks into the network.
Not only our nodes were affected but many other nodes across entire BTC network as well.

Bitcoind 0.11.1 which was released 4 days ago contained bug fixes for these malleability attacks. We were testing it in the meantime in order to make sure we do will not cause any harm on our infrastructure and do not affect the
hash rate of our miners. We were stuck between a rock and a hard place these few days. But the unacceptable rise in number of invalid blocks forced us to act quickly. We would like to assure you that the new version of Bitcoind was successfully deployed on every node we use for our mining and blocks propagation. As a consequence we expect significant reduction in invalid blocks appearance in the next few days.

We hope you understand our struggle with the malleability attack and stay with us despite few bad days.
We are quick learners and are taking lessons from this experience which is going to have positive effect on your experience with our pool in the future

Martin
Customer support

SatoshiLabs
CoinMap | Slush's Pool | TREZOR

11  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 18, 2015, 09:17:38 PM
In an email reply I received from Slush inquiring about the abnormally high invalid blocks he responded by stating "it was a matter of chance to end up with invalid block".  And additionally stating "We don't have direct impact over this behavior.  Invalid blocks are natural part of the Blockchain ecosystem..."

Do all of you agree with this?
12  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [9000 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff on: October 18, 2015, 08:13:47 PM
Does anyone see these Orphaned blocks as an attack by some of these Chinese Pools (specifically Antminer)?
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