so if p2pool.info is underreporting the pool hashrate, doesn't that mean it's over estimating our luck?
It isn't underreporting. It is using a smoother moving average that reacts less to temporary jumps and dips in hashrate. When calculating luck, the full complement of individual 5 minute data points are used. The smoothing/averaging is only used on the UI/graph shown on the page to reduce the amount of data that has be loaded to the web browser and speed up the page load. |
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I'm currently mining in a private pool. There are many members of the Bitcoin community that mine in this pool with me that are very trustworthy. If someone would like confirmation of LRMs hashrate I can ask one of them to confirm.
The reason I chose this pool is that I was mining in it for months before getting any hardware for LRM. The stability is amazing and I love the pools readout of stats. When I switched over to Eligius, there was stability issues, but the stats readout is wonderful on Eligius. EMC was stable and has an OK stats readout for individuals who have a high hashrate, but it was only registering ~75-80% of LRMs hashrate.
Therefore I will be mining privately for the time being and will be implementing a stats readout on my website in the near future.
I am not a Lab Rat shareholder, but I also am mining at the same private pool. I can confirm that the pool's stats page lists Lab Rat in the top contributors list at 621.35Gh/s at this moment (which is only #10 on the top contributors list). This is a very stable pool aimed at high hashrate miners. |
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But max 3 blocks, so if we have ~11hrs in between blocks it "cuts" in 1.5 day
It's a max of 3 "normal length" blocks, if I recall. So it can be more than 3 blocks if there is a lucky streak and rounds are very short. I may be remembering wrong, though. |
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what's up with my node displaying much higher pool hashrates than p2pool.info?
for example right now my node says 6.07TH/s and p2pool.info reads closer to 5.2TH/s
I think p2pool.info is referencing nodes on another fork. The "other fork" is only in the 10's of GH range (last I saw) not the TH range, so it's more likely it's just estimating the network rate a bit differently than fresh's local node. For reference, my local node is currently showing a network rate of 5.93TH/s. It does vary a bit as hardware is added and removed, etc. My p2pool node (which I don't use, personally, and so don't monitor closely) got hosed somehow and was in a non-stop error loop. I killed it, git pull-ed, and restarted it and it looks like it is working again, although my node thinks the pool speed is about 4.6 TH/s. If that is not what other people's nodes think, let me know. PM me for faster service if you see any future problems  Update: P.S. p2pool.info is showing the average hashrate over the past hour based on samples taken every 5 minutes. So if hashrate spikes up briefly and then drops back to normal, you won't see the hashrate jump up as high on p2pool.info. |
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Does anybody know of a place for stats listing top transaction fees? - I wanted to see if we were particurly lucky in this respect This particular person has a badly configured bitcoin client. They have a ton on transactions in the past couple days with massive fees: https://blockchain.info/address/1MsmThtteKPu6fWxwn2SMDEnmJex3vKSBk |
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Just an honest question, will these bee available for those who aren't past customers?
thanks
No |
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1G5MNkqS5HWQ7nQ5tPGetv7Wj4NifuGKmu
Estimated Position in Payout Queue
Approximately 0.16681053 BTC remaining to enter payout queue. If you remain inactive, and the pool does not pay towards any of your shelved shares, then you will enter the payout queue, due to inactivity, in approximately a few seconds.
Why are my shelved shares still not in the payout queue. This status has been there for weeks.
You haven't "earned" those shares yet and so they are not yet part of your unpaid balance. Shelved shares represent shares that you submitted during unlucky rounds. You don't get paid for shelved shares until the pool has lucky rounds. And for very old shelved shares like yours, it has to be a lucky streak that lasts long enough to pay everyone who has shelved shares more recent than yours. |
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At this time, I would not bet on orders that low receiving coupons. There is a chance, if the rumor CanaryInTheMine started is true, which is that new coupons will be distributed to provide ALL previous orders with units. But since I have NOT heard this from any source other than CanaryInTheMine, I would not base any decisions on that rumor.
I have no inside information, but the group buy I was originally in (arklan's) was also told that all 512 of the miners we originally ordered at 2 BTC each (not just 30% of them) would be eligible for the 0.1 special as soon as the current manufacturing shortage was resolved. |
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Ok, so essentially p2pool's share difficulty has been increased since I'd last used p2pool, making variance for small miners too large? And the only reason I was getting the payouts for my fee before was because of the recent good luck?
Yes. p2pool now has 4.2 TH/s instead of 400 GH/s and shares are now once per 30 seconds instead of 10 seconds, so the share difficulty is much much higher than it was a month or two ago. Fees have always been luck-based. They are awarded randomly, but average out to your percentage over the long term. Mining, in general, is becoming pointless for small miners. We are fully in the age of ASICs, these days. But for small miners that are satisfied to see a few satoshis trickle in every day, p2pool is not an optimal pool choice. Pick some PPS pool that will pay you for diff 1 shares. |
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I mostly buy bitcoins from here or through bitmit selling Amazon Gift Cards. Everyone pays using MT Gox exchange rates. I transfer my bitcoins to coinbase and use coinbase to buy stuff from a merchant who has integrated coinbase payment API. I checked coinbase exchange rates today and I was shocked to see that its exchange rates was 5% below Mt Gox rates. Thus effectively I was paying 5% extra bitcoins for each transaction. Coinbase is simple to use and I do like using it for its simplicity, however the huge gap in exchange rates feels that I am fleeced an extra 5% in each transaction just for using them
To the best of my knowledge, Bitpay processes more transactions than anyone, and they use Bitstamp rates, which are 8% less than MtGox as of today. Coinbase has the best exchange rate right now for the those of us who don't want to wait 3+ months for a withdrawal. Just stop looking at the MtGox exchange rates, and you'll feel better. I am not the one looking at MtGox rates, Bitcoin sellers are the ones who sell at Mt Gox rates. I have no option but to pay MtGox rates while buying BTC. Coinbase only allows US citizens to buy at their rates. Also I dont convert my BTC to USD, I use my bitcoins to buy stuff online. I am not a speculator,investor or geek. I am just using it to buy stuff online. I am not too amused that I have to buy BTC at $105 and then while paying through coinbase or Bitpay (the two most popular payment processor used by online stores for bitcoins) my 1 BTC has a purchasing power of $98.I'm not sure it's coinbase's fault that people on the internet are still using inflated (aka bogus) MtGox rates? The reason that MtGox's rates are way higher than every other exchange is that you can't withdraw USD from MtGox if you sell bitcoins there. Coinbase and BitPay and others are just being practical and basing their exchange rates off of exchanges other than MtGox's inflated rates. |
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Hey guys, need a little help myself this morning and my Google-fu isnt working well (lack of food probably isnt helping). I have a rig running 2 GPUs and a Jala. One of my GPUs is giving me fits for some reason today, so I want to shut it down and mine with just the one card and my Jala. Its a watercooled unit and I am in the middle of work so dont have time to just rip it apart before anyone just asks why dont I take the card out.
I am trying to shut down the one card and mine with just the other and Jala, I can use -d 1 to use the one card, or I can use -G to shut them down and mine with the Jala, but I cant get them both working with the combination of -d 1 and --usb. I think my problem is the --usb and the syntax, but for the life of me I cant seem to figure out what it is (I've tried --usb 0, --usb BAJ, --usb baj, --usb BAJ0, and --usb baj0).
Is there something I am obviously missing, or is it just not wanting to play nice with me today?
What I used to do when I was still mining with GPUs was to run multiple cgminer instances. One for my GPUs only and another one for my USB devices. It's easier to control things, that way, IMHO. Edit: I should say that the way I accomplished this was to compile cgminer multiple times: one version that only had --enable-opencl and another version that had --disable-opencl and --enable-bitforce, etc. This way, I had two versions of the cgminer binary, one for GPUs and one for everything else. However, you can probably accomplish the same thing using just a single cgminer binary and various command line options. |
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Hello!
Can i buy from this group buy at the 0.175 price if i never previously bought from you? Looking at 60 sticks.
And i'm in eu. What was the drill then? need to pay .005 extra /stick for fedex? You can mark them as 8GB usb memory sticks and price them at $5 each right?
And finally, you will get them shipped to you at the 10th? so we are looking at delivery in 2-3 weeks?
Prior customers only. M New customers must have a price also! or why is the reason for not allowing new clients? The manufacturer of these chips is offering a deal only to those that have bought one before. For each device previously purchased, he is offering to sell us 1 for 0.1 BTC (to which arklan is adding a 0.075 fee). So this group buy is for the people who have already purchased one before and qualify for this special pricing. If you would like to buy miners, you can, but you'll have to pay the normal price of 0.6 BTC and buy them from someone selling them (another group buy, or someplace like btcguild.com, etc). This group buy is only for previous customers taking advantage of the special pricing. |
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can i buy more than one ?
For every 1 you bought in the first group buy, you can buy 1 in this special group buy. So if you bought 5 last time, you can buy 5 this time, etc. You can request more than that, but there are no guarantees on availability. |
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I got 2, how many more can I get?
Zero, at this point. At this time you can get up to as many as you got in the original group buy. There *may* be a possibility to get more. That depends on how many of the original buyers exercise this option. And then how those 'available extras' get distributed is still TBD. Zero? I got 2 in the original group buy. Anyway, at this price I'd get a bunch more for sure. I think he just misunderstood and was saying "zero beyond 2". For every 1 you bought the first time around, you can get 1 now. You can't get any more than that, though unless some people that originally bought some decide not to claim their 0.175 units. The tally on how many extras are available to be distributed to those that want them won't be available for a week or (until after the deadline). |
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bla bli blu... asicminer constantly holds more than 20% of the network. go analyze, rising star!
No it doesn't: http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/top.php
Edit: nevermind that link, as it is wrong. |
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Uhm, sorry for the noobies question i give here, but i guess i need something sorted out about P2pool. First of all, i always used Slush's pool, so i used cgminer and the same string everyone is using and mined away. Yesterday i read about p2pool and went to the website p2pool.org and all i saw on the mainsite was Mining for Bitcoins on P2Pool.org is quick and easy. Simply point your miner to the provided URL and use your Bitcoin address as the username and payments will be sent there automatically. Use settings below to start mining BTC! Pool URL: http://p2pool.org:9332Username: Bitcoin Address Password: Anything Mining at p2pool.org is a bad idea (at least right now) because they are not on the latest version of p2pool software and as such are on a tiny fork of the p2pool network that only has a few GH/s. You may as well be mining solo. Run your own node or find a different public node to mine at. It's unfortunate that such a high visibility public node is out of date. |
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I'm confused - if I open my p2pool to the general internet public, how do they get paid? Does p2pool do all this automatically?
If Joe Bloggs mines on my p2pool node using his BTC address as his username, does p2pool automatically pay Joe when a block is found?
The way p2pool works is that the coinbase transaction (generated by the node that finds the block) directly pays the 25 BTC to each of the addresses that earned the payout. This is true regardless of if someone mines on a private or public node. So payments go to other/my nodes, rather than to miners who connect to my node? So, if Joe Bloggs connected his miner to my pool, he'd just be donating some hashes to my node for no reward? payouts go to the addresses that found shares. If a miner connecting to your node uses their address as their username and finds shares, they will get paid. If they don't use an address as a username, your node will use your node's address for any found shares (i.e. they are donating hashes to you). You can also specify a fee % so that some percentage of the shares they find will be assigned to your node's address instead of the address they used as a username. |
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I'm confused - if I open my p2pool to the general internet public, how do they get paid? Does p2pool do all this automatically?
If Joe Bloggs mines on my p2pool node using his BTC address as his username, does p2pool automatically pay Joe when a block is found?
The way p2pool works is that the coinbase transaction (generated by the node that finds the block) directly pays the 25 BTC to each of the addresses that earned the payout. This is true regardless of if someone mines on a private or public node. |
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Oh, json rules, I thought you meant Jason sucks  Works great, thanks. jannson is the c library cgminer uses for parsing json. And it is not wonderful |
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