status API (actual_24h) reports and actual payouts do have some serious mismatches .. anyone else experiencing this and is there some issue on the pool? (mainly mining on x16r/s). there are 3x/day almost zero payouts in a period of ~4hrs. Not sure if this is expected on zergpool or there is some issue with auto-exchange?

looks like: 4hrs almost no balance change followed by 4 hrs steady balance rise, then again 4 hrs no balance change. not sure if this matches up with the mismatch between reported vs real earnings ( but looks like )

luck factor never changes. probability changes with the amount of hashrate on a pool - you can assume but not predict. btc value changes. you can assume but not predict .. there are just lots of unpredictable factors.

Pool Estimates are made by looking at past results. That will differ, because block finding is luck. So if you found 20 blocks the past 24h, that desn not necessarily mean, you will find 20 blocks in the next 24h - still you made an assumption that it will be so if the hashrate/diff stays the same (which is never the case). At least, that's how I understand it.

Now, AM seems to compare the estimates to actual payouts. So what they actually compare is how "correct" the pool estimate was. Which again - involves luck and time because they have to wait for maturing at least. The only real information you can get out of this is how CONISTENT that percentage is. So if over a period of - say - >1 week, a pool gets measured at 70% you can assume, that it will be wrong always. If a pool gets measured 70% for just a day it may mean nothing at all.

and beside that, in the past years, the estimates were ALWAYS too high. Always. Every Pool, NH as well. Because those estimates are highly volatile and can never reach a 100% accuracy, which is completely fine, as long as they keep comparable and not being manipulated

If you are on pool A mining but pool B has the luck to find a block - it would've been better to be on pool B. But you wasn't. That's the game.

If someone is interested, I do permanent measurements on earnings and zergpool for example has a 10% rate everyday at 18:00-19:00h GMT, those payouts arrive later on, not sure why this is, but all I care is 24h profit and yes, the estimates don't match. But they never do and never did, at no pool, I've measured lots of them. NH (not a pool but still) has the most accurate so far, which is easy, because they don't need to make any assumptions at all, they have realtime data

Profit based Algo-Switching Software Developer here.

Would you suggest using /status or /currencies API for getting the current most profitable algorithm from ZergPool? I am currently using the status API inspecting the field "actual_last24h" like all other algo-switchers do.

Is that the preferred way or shall I implement lookup in currencies api call?

edit: for auto-exchange algorithms

looks like nobody knows. From examining the source code nobody thought about it and the units are not fed into the API result ..

the links in the first post are google drive and mega links, google does not allow download because of virus and mega cannot be used with wget (for example) .. I would just like a simple HTTP download link. Looks like I have to host the files myself then

is it nanopool/ewbf-miner ? I wasn't sure if this is the official repo because it has nanopool in it (I don't know if they are related)

any chance to get the official binaries somewhere else to have them available for automatic downloads?

google does not allow because of virus and mega is complicated in automated environments.

Thanks for any hints

or is the only option to host the binaries myself (am I allowed to do so?)

Can anyone point me in some direction how to interpret the yiimp API result, which column should be used to get the current profit per algo, and which units are those fields meant in?

example from zPool:

{"name":"nist5","port":3833,"coins":6,"fees":2,"hashrate":36290627388,"workers":144,"estimate_current":"0.00000189","estimate_last24h":"0.00000309","actual_last24h":"0.00205" .... }

the "actual_last24" is in an "unknown" unit, looks like it can be figured out by looking on the website if it is mentioned (but that is often wrong or incomplete for zPool) .. so this column is basically useless for auomated parsing because it does not report the unit and the unit differs per algo

"estimate_current" & "estimate_last24h" it seems, those are always in BTC/Gh/day .. (is that true?) - but those values are unrealiable as well because if an algo goes down for whatever reason on the pool (exchangeproblem, like it happened with LUXCOIN at ahashpool recently), those fields are still populated and therefore wrong.

Is there any chance to get the "actual" column in a fixed unit? It's not really the brightest idea to return a value with an unknown unit in an API response ..

I am interested in this as well.

the actual_last24h is pretty clear, it is the mBTC/Mh/day value (configured differently on the yiimp pools)- you can see the units for that one on stats page at the bottom of the table.

No idea, what the other two columns are, please explain

I am actually surprised that some people believe that there should be backups for everything. I wonder if they all have a spare car in the garage just in case, their main car breaks down so they can go to work and a spare toilet and a spare kitchen, hell, does everyone has a spare house just in case, one get's blown away by a hurricane? I don't think so because - right - it would be too expensive to maintain.

I don't care HOW they do it, I don't need daily information, I just hope they do it properly and deliver a reasonable priced service agai, because - right - there are no real alternatives atm

will be just the same scam - they use your money to buy hardware and then tell, that it's failed. The hardware is still there, they mine with it until they can pay everyone back and then they have all profits for themselves.

why should they share the profits anyway when they can just get a free credit for funding?

Envion looks like to be the same scam

just to let you know: advcash mastercard is not longer working

how do you get the bitcoins to advcash ..? they consistently use a very bad rate for btc conversion. yesterday, gdax had btc at ~10k euro but advcash wanted to exchange the btc for ~8000k .. that's way off. Do they display their current exchange rate somewhere ..?

thanks for mentioning. unfortunately, ecopayz has a 1000 limit on virtualcards.

I don't have a problem with verification in general, it just takes too much time for the moment.

Hi guys

After the WaveCrest Issue, I have a hard time finding a service, which issues at least virtual debit cards funded by BTC. I had some success with AdvCash but for whatever reason, their current exchange for 1 BTC = <8000eur .. which is way to far off for my taste (gdax value ~10k).

I am in SEPA zone and actually need a Virtual Card without daylong verification for ~2000eur online purchase - any chances?

if you use a gpu in the x16 slot plugged directly it may use too much pcie lanes. get another riser (they only use up x1, a gpu on the board consumes x16 lanes)

This board works without any problems for me, 6 GPUs, setting up, starting miner, runs forever

Envion started and lots of ppl maybe got in with BTC - envion is now exchanging those btc, price drops. just guessing. there was a lot of money involved

in settings you can activate "show command windows" (or something like that), also make sure the mode is manual and not automatic mining, otherwise it will stop for no reason even on a headless rig.

yesterday i got some algos not mining because the stratum failed to connect (activate command windows, so you can see whats the prob)

works fine - there is a lot of random looking switching/benchmarking/switching back going on here and then and some wierd behaviour when the gpu crashes.

atm you have to nanny it a bit. for me revenue is little less then it was with nicehack, but they may also be because of dumping altcoin value.

The fees (all in all until btc in my wallet) are a bit steep.

Question: How is the current balance calculated .. ? we mine altcoins, so which price is taken, or does winminer basically buy hasing power from the users in order to mine themselves.. it's just unclear to me how that is calculated.

In NH it was pretty clear because we got BTC at the moment of mining - would love to get some detail info about it in WinMiner