Sheesh... took long enough to figure out wtf I was doing wrong on the easy_target. Sorry about that.

http://184.107.145.244

Okay, We've got Longpolling enabled, stats are delayed 5 minutes.

Registration is simple. Submit a litecoin address. That is your LOGIN name. No password required. Password is required for changing your minimum payouts and making an instant payout. Passwords are double sha'd salt and peppered. I would still not recommend using a password you use on other sites.

The address you sign up with is where payments will go. You CANNOT change this later.

Your worker names are your LTCADDRESS_1:1 through 9 (LTCADDRESS_9:9) No worker registration required. If you need more workers, please register another account.

I do have some built in precautions against botnets. If you have a high number of IP's going at one account, please contact me first.


and FYI! While typing this, we just found our first block after I made the easy_target changes!!! We've found about 10 blocks now.

Payouts are made after your payment threshold that you set is met and after the block has matured 120 confirmations. You can request an instant payment any time.

The pool currently charges a 5% fee. I was worried about orphans, but so far, none. Difficulty looks like it is strong enough now.

If BTC-E doesn't implement quickly, my next project is a quick BTC TBX LTC exchange.

I see this question asked a lot on the forums or IRC with the answer typically being "not very much".

I started an ubuntu server nothing on it except for bitcoin and vnstat. I let it run a few days to get some connections reliably built up. I started vnstat today.

In the last 3 hours averaging between 115 and 130 connections, the server has:

Received 28.08 MiB
Transmitted 115.55 MiB

Total: 143.63 Mib


I will run it for a few weeks/months and copy some of its charts into a later post. On this average so far if the trend continues (which it has +-10% for the last three hours) this would be Over a gig of transfer per day for a server with > 100 connections. Over 30 GB a month.

If those numbers hold up for scaling down to 8 connections, this would be around 100 MB per day, 3 GB per month.

I'll have more data for you in a while.

I will pay 1 BTC to someone that tells me which files to edit to change the default work difficulty to say 10 and 50 and 100 in pushpool. I want to set up a pool and can see a couple of places but have no idea what to change it to or if those are all of the spots. Can anyone help me out? I know it has to be really easy. Does anyone that runs a pool have some tips and hints to keep CPU usage low or to limit the amount of get work requests per worker? I was thinking about opening it up to botnets but with a higher difficulty it should still give GPU's an advantage. How stupid of an idea is that? Remember, just an idea. I really want to change the difficulty.

Also, another 1 BTC for someone to provide code to implement pushpool doing a SHA512 hash on the supplied password and modifying the database to have not just a user and password but also a salt field. Sure worker usernames aren't really as secure as say the web interface by why would we not protect those while we are at it too? Is that another dumb idea of mine?

I took the mtgox list and ran it through some word lists I have and did a basic brute force. Found a bunch that weren't in the leaked lists already.

If you didn't change your password even if you think it was secure, you're still being stupid.

http://pastebin.com/MD3gEQwT