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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [POOL][Scrypt][Scrypt-N][X11][X13] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com on: July 16, 2014, 09:31:42 AM
PW added another hidden coin that is skyrocketing profits Smiley  Would not be getting converted and payouts on this coin if it was forked, so enjoy while it lasts Smiley

Lesser conversion rate than estimated is fine, but renting additional rigs for the ride would have been a pitty on a fork.
Thanks Smiley
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [POOL][Scrypt][Scrypt-N][X11][X13] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com on: July 16, 2014, 09:04:17 AM
Quick question: profitability X13 has spiked skyhigh recently. Don´t want to rain on anyones parade, but is this just a lucky streak or is the pool mining on a fork?
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] BETARIGS.COM - Cryptocurrency cloud mining - thousands of rigs available! on: April 30, 2014, 10:39:32 AM
Hashrate graphs are now available!

Renters and rig owners on scrypt rentals can now see the hash graph live during the rental, as it would be seen from the pool.
Sha-256 and others algos are coming in the next days, as well as viewing the graphs in your rental history.

New stuff is coming in, there is unfortunately some backend work required that has not an immediate visible effect  Wink

Also, we do read feedback, our roadmap is more than 100 lines of suggestions Smiley "Support provided" limited to some given times only, cancelling a rental, the API, ... Stuff is coming!
That's a very nice addition and a well done averaging, however it appears to show around 90-95% of the speed displayed by the miner, considering it also shows 0% rejects.

I bet clients will ask me why they are getting less than what they pay for...

... and that´s exactly what I experienced today. First complaints, first worse rating because of that graph.

The miner displays constantly stable 680+ Kh/s, graph displays less. Now what? State less hashrate than the rig in fact hashes, explaining every other renter, that the calculated average hashrate may differ massive dependig on pool, proxy, location etc etc?

The fact, that the renter on Betarigs has no chance to see the real hashrate but only the graph on the site, will cause massive irritation.
Monitoring the rig constantly, offer support all day long and then being rated on "facts" that aren´t real without the chance to fix this, that´s just frustrating.


Hello,
Yes, we were expecting some of this -- I just added more explanations below the hash graphs stating that those are estimates, rely only on the average over several hours, etc. As new tickets comes in, we will be able to see what aspect is the most confusing and update the help text below.
But in the end, the hash graph we are showing is exactly the hash graph that will be shown on the mining pool, if the mining pool is making graphs.

In order to help your support and to show the real speed of your rig, you can add the URL of a cgminer monitor page; an example being using this service: http://cgminermonitor.com/

Mux

Hi Mux,

thanks for the effort.

Your stating under the graph: "On top of that, the mining pool you have selected can slightly influence the estimated hashrate."
That´s the understatement of the year I´m afraid.

Solely depending on the pool renters mine on, the shown hashrate of my stable, monitored rig (2 cards, combined 690 Kh/s rocksolid) varies from 367 Kh/s to 644 KH/s. Of course I expected a slightly lower average hashrate than the cards are working actually, but such differences couldn´t be explained by latency rig-proxy-pool etc.

The pool a renter chooses has a massive influence of the shown hashrate, since your graph calculates the estimated rate solely on the shares the pool accepts or rejects (as far as I assume). You´re implying in your explaination, the pool does influence the outcome of mining just "slightly", the influence of the proxy not at all. No wonder, since you show graphs on the site, less experienced renters do blame the rig(s) for a shown hashrate that is - in one word - false.

4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] BETARIGS.COM - Cryptocurrency cloud mining - thousands of rigs available! on: April 28, 2014, 08:50:32 PM
Hashrate graphs are now available!

Renters and rig owners on scrypt rentals can now see the hash graph live during the rental, as it would be seen from the pool.
Sha-256 and others algos are coming in the next days, as well as viewing the graphs in your rental history.

New stuff is coming in, there is unfortunately some backend work required that has not an immediate visible effect  Wink

Also, we do read feedback, our roadmap is more than 100 lines of suggestions Smiley "Support provided" limited to some given times only, cancelling a rental, the API, ... Stuff is coming!
That's a very nice addition and a well done averaging, however it appears to show around 90-95% of the speed displayed by the miner, considering it also shows 0% rejects.

I bet clients will ask me why they are getting less than what they pay for...

... and that´s exactly what I experienced today. First complaints, first worse rating because of that graph.

The miner displays constantly stable 680+ Kh/s, graph displays less. Now what? State less hashrate than the rig in fact hashes, explaining every other renter, that the calculated average hashrate may differ massive dependig on pool, proxy, location etc etc?

The fact, that the renter on Betarigs has no chance to see the real hashrate but only the graph on the site, will cause massive irritation.
Monitoring the rig constantly, offer support all day long and then being rated on "facts" that aren´t real without the chance to fix this, that´s just frustrating.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][POOL] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com on: March 05, 2014, 09:05:18 PM
@Poolwaffle, nice politically correct answer. Smiley I will not provide you "any meaningful suggestions" as, to be honest, I want you to fail because (and I didn't know when I started mining but I am sure of it now) these 1.0 auto-profit switching pools are pure evil, wrecking the coin markets by operating the way they do.

I hope these pools like yours (and even the 2.0 ones) become even more useless soon when more coins start to implement custom/different protocols requiring modified mining software. We've already seen this with Keccak SHA-3 and Scrypt Jane and the different CPU only coins. I'm only hoping someone won't develop auto-protocol/algorithm-switching mining software then! Wink

You must be joking, right? What "coin markets" are you talking about? The tons and tons of useless crappy coins, often enough a bad copy of a copy of a copy, created by toolsets on the net for 0.1 btc or less that break into orphan-pieces, if hashpower switches quickly? With blocktimes of a few seconds?

When it becomes clear, that there is no real value in any of the new new new coins, the price drops and the coin vanishes, like many before. That has nothing to do with Profit Pools or Multipools or auto-switching rigs as there were many before the 4, 5 big pools.

The system is due to fail and as long as it lasts, every one trys to make a buck or two out of his electric power.

Quit whining and go playing outside if you like. Hope, that wasn´t to politically correct too. Wink


PS: sorry for offtopic, but I had to vent apparantly Smiley
6  Local / Trading und Spekulation / Re: MtGox geht in Konkurs on: February 25, 2014, 09:47:28 AM
a) wie kann man an irgendeine Website im Netz große Summen Geld (egal ob in Bitcoin oder FIAT) schicken und sich nicht bewusst sein, dass es mit dem SEND-Klick für immer weg sein kann?
Was die meisten "Newbies" nicht verstehen, ist, dass die meisten von uns "Oldies" eben nicht das "Gefühl" haben, dass es um große Summen Geld geht. Sind doch nur ein paar Bitcoins, und die haben damals nicht viel gekostet Roll Eyes
Dass das Zeug für immer weg sein kann wissen wir aber besser als jeder andere.

b) wie kann man auf irgendeiner Website im Netz große Summen Geld liegen lassen und es sich nicht sofort wieder in die eigenen Verfügung zurückholen? Wegen Transaktionsgebühren? Wenn mir die zu hoch sind, ist die Börse nicht die richtige und man nutzt sie nicht.
Faulheit. Nachlässigkeit. Als man's gerade runterziehen wollte, war die Seite down, danach hat man's wieder vergessen. Und irgendwann ging's dann nicht mehr.

Kann die Sichtweise und das "Gefühl" dazu gut nachvollziehen, gerade bei denen, die schon lange dabei sind und "ein paar Bitcoin" in den Wind schreiben müssen (nicht falsch verstehen, auch das ist nix Nettes). Das dezimiert aber meiner Meinung nach die Wertschätzung zu Bitcoin an sich nicht. Außerdem haben die "Oldies" ja auch bessere Gelegenheit, am großen Bitcoin-Spiel teilzunehmen, weil sie die technischen Investitionen in Bitcoin vornehmen können, die sie schon haben.

Wer entweder als Spekulant mit eigenem oder - noch schlimmer - fremdem Geld eingestiegen ist (was so gewesen sein muss bei dem irrsinnen Kursverlauf des letzten Jahres) oder wer mit FIAT Mininghardware gekauft hat und seine geschöpften Bitcoin auf MtGox als verfügbares FIAT vorgestellt hat, das sind eher diejenigen auf die sich meine Überlegung eben bezogen hat.

Die Befürchtung ist: da die Spekulationssicht in der Öffentlichkeit angekommen ist, die tatsächliche Nutzung von Bitcoin als Geld aufgrund spärlicher Aktzeptanz in der "wirklichen Welt" (und wenn dann als "Hackerwährung für Illegales"), wird auch hier nicht groß unterschieden werden zwischen Bitcoin und seinen unverändert attraktiven Eigenschaften an sich und den Machenschaften von MtGox.

Wenn die Wahrnehmung ist: Bitcoin sind unsicher, Bitcoin vernichtet "echtes" Geld, dann ist das ein Schlag ins Genick derer, die in der letzten Zeit Anstrengungen unternommen haben, Bitcoin als normales Zahlungsmittel weiter zu etablieren und damit die Währung an sich zu stärken.
7  Local / Trading und Spekulation / Re: MtGox geht in Konkurs on: February 25, 2014, 09:14:33 AM
Mit $$$-Zeichen vor den Augen sieht man nicht besonders gut. Dabei ist es völlig egal, ob man meint über Bitcoin, Dollar, Schuldscheindarlehen oder was auch immer schnell reich werden zu können. Dass die Explosion des Bitcoin-Kurses gegenüber FIAT einer Spekulationsblase geschuldet war und nicht einem Wert, der sind an einem Handelswert von Gütern oder Dienstleistungen orientiert, das sollte jedem klar sein, der "Geld" gegen "Geld" handelt.

Ob der Big Bang bei MtGox gut oder schlecht für Bitcoin an sich ist, darüber kann man trefflich streiten. Die Austauschbarkeit in andere Währungen ist für die tatsächliche Nutzung von Bitcoin als Geld natürlich notwendig - insbesondere da eine weitflächige Schöpfung neuer Bitcoin durch viele aufgrund der Zentralisierung durch ASICs kaum noch möglich ist. Wer jetzt sagt, dass man sich auch über den Umweg Altcoins Bitcoin minen kann, der sollte bedenken, dass man dafür auch wieder Börsen braucht, die einen Austausch "Altcoin-Geld" in "Bitcoin-Geld" vornehmen - das ist im Kern nichts anderes als MtGox mit anderen Währungen getan hat.

Was ich nicht verstehen kann ist:

a) wie kann man an irgendeine Website im Netz große Summen Geld (egal ob in Bitcoin oder FIAT) schicken und sich nicht bewusst sein, dass es mit dem SEND-Klick für immer weg sein kann?

b) wie kann man auf irgendeiner Website im Netz große Summen Geld liegen lassen und es sich nicht sofort wieder in die eigenen Verfügung zurückholen? Wegen Transaktionsgebühren? Wenn mir die zu hoch sind, ist die Börse nicht die richtige und man nutzt sie nicht.

c) wie kann man vergessen, dass die zentrale Stärke von Bitcoin ist, dass man gerade KEINE zentralen Instanzen braucht und dass Bitcoin bewusst so gebaut ist, dass man dieses Vertrauen in einen Dritten nicht braucht, weil man einem Dritten eben nicht vertrauen kann?

Wenn jemand eine Email bekommt in der steht, dass man von einem afrikanischen Präsidenten 2 Millionen Dollar erhält, wenn man vorher 500 Dollar überweist, dann lachen alle über diejenigen, die das tatsächlich machen. Bin mir nicht sicher, ob diejenigen, die darüber gelacht haben, nicht Dollar, Euro und Bitcoin auf MtGox (oder anderen Börsen) irgendwo im Netz liegen haben und sich jetzt furchtbar aufregen, dass das Risiko des Komplettverlustes zumindest möglich, wenn nicht gar wahrscheinlich ist.
8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][POOL] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com on: February 23, 2014, 01:37:46 PM
Sorry for the delay, some personal stuff came up and I've been away from my computer for most of yesterday.

That said, we're still waiting for withdrawals from Cryptsy.  We have 2 pending withdrawals currently (and a ticket in to support), one for 71 btc submitted yesterday, one for 42 btc submitted just now.

I manually did payouts last night based with the funds that we had traded on coinmarket, but that was a very small portion of our overall exchanged amount.  Essentially until Cryptsy pays us, we can't pay you, and I have no idea when ours will go through.  We didn't start having withdrawal problems until a few days ago, which leaves me with 2 guesses as to why its happening:
1) We're now withdrawing large enough amounts that they need to be manually approved (and that happens once/twice a day).
2) Cryptsy's hot wallet runs out of funds, and needs restocked, and we just hit that block more often than most because of the size of withdrawals.

All that said, I'm really sorry the payouts aren't on time, but there isn't much I can do about.  I'm more sorry in the lack of communication, just some things came up, and wasn't something I was able to do.

Thanks a lot for your post. Knowing how time consuming a "normal" software project can be, I can only imagine the hours of tweaking and the lack of sleep to handle a pool, that´s hashrate has been exploding in just a few days as wafflepool experienced. It´s astounding how naive some users can be, thinking nothing happens at all or baaaaad things are hiding behind the cornes, if they don´t see an update on the site for a few hours or if you don´t post a comment every few minutes. You have a personal life? They don´t care. You need time for administrating and fixing the pool rather than chat in a forum? They don´t care.

MtGox has shut down withdrawals for days and weeks without any believable explanation, Cryptsy faces deposit and withdrawal issues every other weekend - and you have to face the heat for a hiccup in transfering coins for one day? middlecoin is sitting on 206 unexchanged BTC (!) at the moment. I´m glad, Wafflepool is a serious alternative to pools with 20% rejects or 200 BTC unexchanged or 200 MH/s hashrate. Keep up the good work, thanks for your patience with user who don´t know what they are talking about and hopefully your personal life isn´t effected that much by those, who are sitting in front of their computers, blaming you not getting rich fast enough.

9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] profit switching auto-exchanging pool - www.middlecoin.com on: February 22, 2014, 10:40:42 PM
Hey guys! After delays of forever getting this thing approved, my Middlecoin Toolkit for iPhone app is finally in the app store! You can download it from https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/middlecoin-toolkit/id806921221?ls=1&mt=8.

...

Comments are appreciated, and if you like the app consider donating! 1KxZwnp8GrKFoPZ828Wagg9TSpUhvYEZUF

Enjoy Grin

Thanks for your app, download and installation went really well.

But, and I don´t want to rain on the parade, the data displayed seems to be outdated - both worker and pool info. Hows that possible... no live data from middlecoin used perhaps? Is it me or is it you?  Wink

10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][Exchange] Latest Cryptsy Additions, News and announcements. on: January 06, 2014, 04:25:08 PM
We have started a wiki for Cryptsy news, how to's, FAQ's and announcements http://cryptsy.wikidot.com/ If your a coin developer interested in editing and managing your own page PM me.

I´m sorry, what´s that? You implement completely useless "Cryptsy Points", you´re building wikis, you´re adding each and any coin of the day - but Cryptsy is not able to fix it´s ongoing deposit problems for weeks now?

Your work to establish a marketplace for Altcoins is much appreciated, but as long as the core functions don´t work reliably - this is getting ridiculous.
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][Exchange] Latest Cryptsy Additions, News and announcements. NEW SITE on: December 30, 2013, 04:02:29 PM
Can you please fix your ongoing deposit issues?

At the moment I have issues depositing Worldcoin, Feathercoin, Elacoin and Megacoin. All my transactions have between 70 and 300 confirmations - but they are not credited to my account.

On good days the deposits work within 30 minutes. On bad days they don't work at all!

Really frustrating!!!

It would be nice to get an official statement from BigVern regarding those ongoing deposit issues.



… and other coins (e.g. ELC) don't show up at all, not even as pending. For a day or two it was possible to fix some errors with their "self-audit" function - of course that isn´t available any more. Why? Only the gods of Cryptsy know why…

Every other day new coins - but the core functionality is failing over and over again. It´s a joke.
12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: MultiMiner & MobileMiner: Your Coins. Your Pools. Your way. Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile on: August 24, 2013, 09:10:03 PM
Mine doesn´t, I´m afraid  Shocked

/Applications/MultiMiner-1.1.19.app/Contents/Resources/Miners/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer -d?
Illegal instruction: 4

What sort of Mac? What version of OS X?

Can you try installing bfgminer from here:

http://homebrew.xgminer.com
http://howto.xgminer.com

And then running the same command without the directory prefix? e.g. in Terminal.app:

Code:
bfgminer -d?

Thanks a lot. I uninstalled any other miner including MultiMiner 1.1.19 and set up 1.1.20. All clear.

Impressing tool Smiley
13  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: MultiMiner & MobileMiner: Your Coins. Your Pools. Your way. Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile on: August 24, 2013, 02:04:34 AM
I tried both miners, letting MultiMiner download and install them and started the app first directly from Downloads, then from Programs. Try to start the miner in a Terminal next.

No need to move the app. I just wanted to know where it was so I could give direction.

Open Spotlight or Applications and launch Terminal.app and type the following:

Code:
/Applications/MultiMiner-1.1.19.app/Contents/Resources/Miners/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer -d?

The path is specific (that's if you dragged the app to Applications) and the version is specific as well, that's if you downloaded 1.1.19. Let me know the output of bfgminer. Mine looks like:

Code:
/Applications/MultiMiner-1.1.20.app/Contents/Resources/Miners/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer -d?
 [2013-08-23 21:35:16] Started bfgminer 3.1.4                   
 [2013-08-23 21:35:17] Devices detected:                   
 [2013-08-23 21:35:17]   0. OCL 0  (driver: opencl)                   
 [2013-08-23 21:35:17]   1. OCL 1  (driver: opencl)                   
2 devices listed

Mine doesn´t, I´m afraid  Shocked

/Applications/MultiMiner-1.1.19.app/Contents/Resources/Miners/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer -d?
Illegal instruction: 4


14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: MultiMiner & MobileMiner: Your Coins. Your Pools. Your way. Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile on: August 24, 2013, 01:32:36 AM
but unfortunately MultiMiner doesn´t detect my GPU. Mining Scrypt Coins with Diabolo or Bitcoins with guiminer (or Bitminter) works just fine.

Any ideas? Are there any iMacs out there causing similar trouble?

MultiMiner uses either bfgminer or cgminer to work. In order to troubleshoot this you'll need to execute them directly from Terminal.app. How did you install bfgminer and cgminer? Did you install them separately or did you let MultiMiner download them? And where do you have the app (MultiMiner-XYZ.app)?

I tried both miners, letting MultiMiner download and install them and started the app first directly from Downloads, then from Programs. Try to start the miner in a Terminal next.
15  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: MultiMiner & MobileMiner: Your Coins. Your Pools. Your way. Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile on: August 24, 2013, 01:02:10 AM
Thanks a lot nwoolls,

what an great a tool. Works on my Windows Machines like a charm, having no problems at all right from the start even with the early versions.

Why not using it on my iMac, I asked myself. Everything installed, no problems starting it on iMac (2011, Lion), Coin Configuration o.k.  - but unfortunately MultiMiner doesn´t detect my GPU. Mining Scrypt Coins with Diabolo or Bitcoins with guiminer (or Bitminter) works just fine.

Any ideas? Are there any iMacs out there causing similar trouble?

16  Local / Off-Topic (Deutsch) / Re: Wählt die Bitcoinpartei am 22 September! on: August 17, 2013, 06:07:34 PM
Mit radikalen Extremisten lohnt sich keine Diskussion.

In unserer noch immer vergleichsweisen sicheren Gesellschaft vorm Rechner zu sitzen und sich für "Jeden gegen jeden" einzusetzen, das ist einfach. "Sozialismus" (in welchem Kontext auch immer dieser Begriff für eigene Motive ge- oder missbraucht wird) ist seltsamer Weise oft genug nur solang des Teufels, solange andere etwas bekommen, für das man auch zahlt. Die eigenen Vorteile, die sind dann a) selbstverständlich oder b) verdient oder c) angeblich nix wert.

PS: Vielleicht wäre es sinnvoll, wenn sich Bitcoin (in diesem Fall repräsentiert durch die Community) nicht von jeder dahergelaufenen Gruppierung vereinnahmen lassen würde. Nicht einmal "nur" namentlich.
17  Economy / Goods / Re: [WTB] Publix Sweet Tea on: July 20, 2013, 11:43:28 AM
... and their Chocolate Ganache Supreme... way to far to the nearest Publix from Germany  Cry
Sorry for hijacking this thread to daydream
18  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US Government buys Guillotines and over 600 Million rounds of hollow points. on: June 29, 2013, 09:06:59 PM
 "There is enough out there, we don't need to make stuff up."
If even Glenn Beck says something like that about these "camps", you can safely call this bullshit.  Grin
19  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Butterflylabs Huge SCAM on: June 17, 2013, 07:07:53 PM
Sorry Floridabear, your math is off.  At $0.15 kw/h power cost, a Single is still profitable to a worthwhile degree even at 900 million difficulty.  It's going to be a bit of time before we see 900 million difficulty, from 19 million now.


It´s understandable you don't want your devices called unprofitable. But - no offense - your post didn´t contain any math at all.

You´re using US-Dollar (power cost) as the base of your argument. You could do that. But what exchange rate Bitcoin - Dollar did you assume to come to your conclusion? Todays 100? Last weeks 120? Last months 150? Or the 13 half a year ago? Your reasoning makes no sense without that.

Or your basing your argument on Bitcoin. Thats of course only valid for those who bought your device with Bitcoins that haven´t been exchanged for FIAT. And even then, at least power costs have to be paid in Dollars - so you have to calculate break-even based on BFL price and power in FIAT. You see? Same same.

That said - and with all the love in der world Wink - maybe you should not argue break even or profitability of BFL devices seeing the difficulty going up immensely since months without a chance for your customers to participate in time.
20  Economy / Auctions / Re: Auctioning 1 BFL Jalapeno IN HAND. 5GH/s on: June 10, 2013, 04:48:28 PM

You could also argue that whining about price for something you are not interested in buying is pretty counter productive.  Undecided

1. If you think "other offers are worse" is good reasoning: good for you.
2. Please stop implying what I am or am not interested in. You don´t know anything about my economic interests.
3. I didn´t "whine" about anything. As a matter of facts, I did´t say anything about the minimum asked.

I wish the OP the best of luck and thanks for your refreshing experiment in mind-reading Smiley
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