Yes, it may be that it is not connected, even if it showed as connected.
If you are getting the green tick, then usually this is good, unless the connections you have are all behind. Current block is 39171 - nearly 2.5 hours now. Sometimes need to stop and restart the wallet. |
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gizzig - did you have a look at your wallet? Just appeared 17NBL confirmed and 35 waiting to be confirmed than strange this happening now! still pending transaction 519e500435e92ff296d55dec7bdc99b4fee2a0f396a36cbba5b27068ca3e7012 for 8.17 NBL Ok - maybe your wallet wasn't synchronizing. I usually check by going into Help - it will show the last block and time in your local time. Usually the last block will have come through within the past few hours. It will also show the number of connections. I have 1-2 connections most times. The debug command "getpeerinfo" will get the list of connections together with what block numbers they are reporting. Sometimes the connection you have is a bit behind (not-sync'ed), so your wallet will be behind - which explains why you didn't see the transactions. |
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gizzig, CaptainAK tested his pool and was able to see transactions going through. I just did a manual payout to my wallet and it has come through. 0 of 6 confirmations. Just need to wait 6 blocks before this confirms.
My wallet, and maybe all wallets are a bit strange. Now the transaction is saying Unconfirmed (2 of 6 confirmations), however in the summary, it shows the amount in the Balance, then unconfirmed is 0.00 and immature is my mined blocks. The transfer I made should have stayed in Unconfirmed until 6 confirmations, then move to Balance - very weird behaviour. gizzig - did you have a look at your wallet? |
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gizzig, CaptainAK tested his pool and was able to see transactions going through. I just did a manual payout to my wallet and it has come through. 0 of 6 confirmations. Just need to wait 6 blocks before this confirms.
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In "transactions", the 4 trasnfers show "Confirmed".
gizzig, ok. You can also now click on the transaction id - it will pop-up with the full transaction id. Once we get a block explorer, we should be able to search for this transaction. When it shows confirmed, I believe that it means that 8 blocks have occurred since the transaction, meaning it is in the blockchain. Have a look in your wallet - you should see something there as long as your wallet is synchronized. To check if you are on the right blockchain, go to your wallet, help, debug console, then type the command getblockhash 39169 it should come back with the block hash which is e06d6119ba5a49941a6fc060338192c4f8d1ae6d68d6f6e64ac1d04b6373aa2a |
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Hi JL0z
Still does not appear.
In the "TX" column from "Transactions" in the pool, when clicking shows a Litecoin block explorer.
Yes, the link is wrong - I am looking for a block explorer for NBL - if I don't find one, I might have to install a local one. If you check on your wallet, click on Transactions - they should appear after 1 confirmation, so the one from before 39144 should have already confirmed. I might do a manual payment to my wallet and see what happens. I also emailed CaptainAK. |
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Hi JL0z
The transfers from the pool, are coming to your wallet?
I am 4 transfers in progress and none to come. One before the block 39144 (23 block earlier).
thanks
gizzig, Hi. No, my transfers were going to Cryptsy, but the one from 2nd January is still being confirmed. Another one from yesterday is not showing up at Cryptsy so I have changed to go to my wallet and maybe should stop the auto-transfers. I have also opened a ticket with Cryptsy to look into this. Is your wallet up to date? I.e. block 39169 right now? |
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Unfortunately at the current mining power, being VERY VERY generous @ 12 blocks per day, you are looking at close to 3 months for a diff adjustment.. now if you are a bit more realistic its a bit longer. i would say you need a few 100 mh/s to get the network back on track.. and maybe make some changes to the diff retarget to try and avoid this?
You are being very generous. I think we are averaging 11 blocks a day at present. We were averaging 7 blocks a few days ago. Yes, a higher hashrate would come in handy, but what we really want to do is to taper off the hashrate before the difficulty change, so that the difficulty gets easier, not harder. But then we cannot control what other miners do when they see an opportunity to make a quick buck. Yes, a change in the retargeting would help. Yeah, i suppose you need to reach the balance between network hashrate and difficulty i never thought. pumping up the network would indeed leave you in the same predicament... Is the retarget based on average network hash over the past ~2000, or just the last few blocks, or what? I don't know how the retarget works, only know when it will happen. I am making an assumption that if the network hash rate around the time of the retarget is whatever it is, the difficulty will change to allow the blocks to be solved on average in 30 seconds - this being the target block time. Maybe I will have a look at the source code and see if I can work it out. |
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Unfortunately at the current mining power, being VERY VERY generous @ 12 blocks per day, you are looking at close to 3 months for a diff adjustment.. now if you are a bit more realistic its a bit longer. i would say you need a few 100 mh/s to get the network back on track.. and maybe make some changes to the diff retarget to try and avoid this?
You are being very generous. I think we are averaging 11 blocks a day at present. We were averaging 7 blocks a few days ago. Yes, a higher hashrate would come in handy, but what we really want to do is to taper off the hashrate before the difficulty change, so that the difficulty gets easier, not harder. But then we cannot control what other miners do when they see an opportunity to make a quick buck. Yes, a change in the retargeting would help. |
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Does anyone know of a block explorer for Nibble/Nybble?
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Anyone know which pools are kicking out the most Hash?
I use Coin Base but its been donw for 4 horus today :/ - Think its time to chnage pool!
Hi, I was just on coin-base.info - I run a couple of small rigs during my night-time, they were fine when I checked this morning (Australia). The only other pool I know of is a switching pool, trademybits - I did mine JKC there for a while a week ago, but then the hash rate moved so it wasn't producing, then I went with the switching port and ended up with assorted coins. |
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Hi guys, I run nbl.pnwminer.com. So far my experience is this. Things go very slow after a diff change, but when we get within about 500 blocks or so of a drop in diff, I get a LOT of people who jump on and start mining. And once the diff drops, it is usually just a matter of hours before the pool blows through all 2016 blocks at that diff. Timing varies, but it will happen.
I know that happens, but maybe this time - some of them will stay longer and we can make good progress through the next difficulty. |
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Thanks for the info. At what block will the reset come?
40320 is when the difficulty retarget will occur - 5.6 months at the current rate, but if we can get more miners in the pool - can reduce it down to a month or so. |
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Oh my goodness did I get lucky!  I decided to try solo mining a little while ago... just to give it a try. Since my computer is running around a couple hundred Kh/s, I wasn't expecting to see anything for hours... I didn't even know if I had my miner set up correctly. I think my account over at otakasamaaa's Graincoin Pool must have been deleted or something; even though I had an account over there, I couldn't log in. Turns out that reregistering with the same user name and password worked. So while I was registering at the pool over there... I found a block! I had to have been mining for only about 10-15 minutes or so. I think I got more GRA in 15 minutes than I have in the rest of the time that I spent mining... other than giveaways, LOL. Anyhow... regarding earlier discussions here... I don't mind that GRA isn't on an exchange yet... the longer that this train keeps chugging along at low difficulty, the more of a chance that us little miners have to get some. I would have very little chance finding a block in one of the highly hyped up coins like MOON or DOGE. If this coin slowly grows and gains interest, perhaps there is less of a chance of this coin being pumped and dumped. Yes, this is where luck comes in. You must have had a block that your miner just happened to hit the right combination at the right time before the other miners or pools got it. I have one rig that is 1.7MH - I did find a block when I was playing around with solo mining, but in the end I felt it was better to go with a pool. Definitely DOGE and other coins are already at over 1GH - nothing much left for us smaller miners. I was mining Anoncoin when it was only 20MH - now it is 1.5GH - should have kept them than sell them when I was mining - lesson to be learned. Don't sell it all at once. |
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The blocks are coming through a little quicker now. Revised estimate of earnings for a 2MH miner is now 280NBL a day or approx 0.015 BTC. Block average is about 3.5 hrs per block - but this depends, some blocks can take a long time, but hopefully we can keep this up and get more miners.
Current block 39155.
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Of course some pools are luckier, in that they seem to get more than their expected proportion. This is occasionally due to a single large miner, i.e. a miner that is 20MH in a pool where the other pool has a largest miner of 10MH, can sometimes swing the luck more to that pool. But anyway, for two pools - it really doesn't matter. For three pools or more - as I mentioned before, I would usually go with the second largest as long as it has a reasonable percentage, >20% of the hashrate. But that is my opinion.
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Pool estimates based on pool size.
Network hash rate = 100MH
Pool1 = 60MH Pool2 = 40MH
Block % = 60 Block % = 40
Over 100 Blocks at say 1000 GRA per block
Pool1 = 60,000 Pool2 = 40,000
Your share at 0.3MH
60,000*0.3/60 40,000*0.3/40
=300GRA/100Blk =300GRA/100Blk
This is just to show what I mean that it balances out in the end. Your hashrate contributes to the pool and earns a percentage of the pool earnings. With a larger pool you earn a smaller percentage of more blocks. The smaller pool earns a larger percentage of less blocks. So in the end...it is more or less the same.
Even with bonus blocks, the pools generally get a similar proportion.
Now the above is generally when the pools are similar size, not too lopsided. What can happen if we get say Pool1 = 90%, and pool2 = 10% is that Pool1 gets more than 90% of the blocks, like 92-95%. It happens because the pool that gets the block starts working on the next block before the other pool knows that the previous block has been found. I know that this is really only seconds - but seconds count with block times like 30 seconds. I find that sometimes a pool will get a run of blocks before the other pool catches up and vice-versa.
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Ok, then perhaps pool mining would be best. Any recommendations of which pool I should use?
There are two pools that I know of gra.forkpool.com gra.livechains.net Basically between the two of them (and a few solo miners) they will get most of the blocks. The larger pool will get more blocks, but then it is shared amongst the miners. The smaller pool will get less blocks, but you get more of each block, so in the end - it really balances out more or less. We don't really want a pool to get too large because then it is harder for smaller pools to get blocks and it can happen that people then end up all in one pool - which we don't want to happen, but it is your choice. I am with forkpool which was the first pool to go live. Livechains came along and I understand is doing well and the fee is less. You can always register with both and look at both pool statistics and decide which one or both you want to mine with. Most miners do similarly and switch pools from time to time. |
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I'm on 290Khash/sec.
Worth solo mining? Or just join a pool?
The network hash rate right now is about 87MH, so you 290kH is only 0.3% of the network. If all things were random, it means that you have 0.3% chance of solving a block, or 3 blocks in a thousand blocks or 1 in 330 or so. The current block rate is about 3 per minute so theoretically you could get a block every couple of hours. In reality though, your hashrate is very low, so you might not get a block even if you mined for 5-6 hours. I would solo-mine if I can get 10% of the network or more. The suggestions of joining a pool are great - you will get consistent earnings as opposed to the chance or scoring the big one that might not come. Again - in the pool you are only getting a percentage of the earnings, but you are getting that percentage. [Edit] Also, choice of a pool makes a difference - a pool with very little percentage of the network will also earn very little - I usually go with the second largest pool if there were more than two pools, otherwise go with the largest pool. |
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Yo guys.
I'm getting rejected with "this worker was banned temporarily" in cgminer window. Mining on gra.forkpool.com.
Restarted, everything seems fine for now.
What was that?
You were probably generating too many bad shares - the pool would have requested work restarts, and if that didn't help - would have blocked you for a time. Check the HW: number for hardware errors. If the number is higher than 0, you are sending out bad shares. As long as the number is relatively low, you are ok, but if it is a significant proportion of Accepts - then you have problems with your cgminer configuration. |
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