Then there was something broken on your side, because pool is performing as expected in long term (and 4 months is enough "long term").

But you're gone, ok, you switched pools and you're happy. Allright, please stop discussion as there's no point at this anymore. If you still want to elaborate possible connection issues or whatever, please write me PM and don't flood this thread. Thank you for your understanding.

I'm also asking others to not continue this flame, it must be really annoying for others to read pages and pages of this mess.

Today update - QoS on LP implemented

I succesfully implemented prioritization of longpoll broadcasts. It means that crappy CPU miners don't block LP broadcasts for regular miners using GPU or strong rigs, because priority is calculated from average hashrate over last 10 blocks.

This of course means that QoS is not instant - if you're new on the pool, you need to wait some time to get higher priority. You can watch average hashrate (that's the same number which longpolling daemon use for prioritization) on your profile.

You don't need to do anything on your side, it's transparent for miners.

Digital: Actually it's only sudden effect of stable pool, lower difficulty and normal luck. A week ago pool luck was pretty crappy, so I hope that normal or slightly better luck will be with us for some time now :-).

No, it's not because of this. You're missing the reason why I'm calling you a troll. But I don't want to chat about it anymore, have better things to do.

You're watching it in wrong way. Don't follow reward *per round*, it doesn't give you almost any valuable information. Per-round reward is affected by too many factors like pool size and rewarding system. And also - who cares about reward PER ROUND? Isn't important reward PER TIME? So follow daily, weekly or monthly income, it is much better measure of pool performance.

240Mhash is enough to see very stable daily or weekly payouts, but maybe not enough to see per round payouts. But again - who cares? Really anybody need to earn the same amount of bitcents every minute or every hour?


I'm sorry, but you cannot compare fully-working pool with pool which is under reinstall. For example I has been tuning server parameters for few hours with only a half of traffic, the other half has been cut off on firewall. So this is one of reasons why some users saw weird numbers in round rewards during the outage. However I fixed those rounds later by recalculating rounds with proportional method.

I'm in process to moving pool thread to another forum completely. I'm missing a lot of features here and you're right that thread with 230 pages is a mess...

Well, that part about rewards in score system still isn't perfect, but better than original version, thanks .

Hm, I see "slush" 4x in the text, so I feel I should reply.


*headdesk* *headdesk* Why you don't write that I *benefit* those who connect before round finish? That you can earn much more just for few seconds of mining? Texts such this are one-sided and I really don't understand why all those people are so much concerned about this point. This "feature" of score based systems is not here for punish anybody for unstable connection or whatever. No matter when you disconnect and connect to the pool, your average payout will be the same. It's fact and a lot of text has been written about it, not just by me.


Only? So typical case - "setup wallet, threshold and forget" is worse than need to clicking every few days to manual payout? Pool allow you to withdraw even 0.01 from your account, to 8 decimal places. Payouts are done every 15 minutes, if you are really hurry, just setup threshold 0.01 and wait few minutes.

Yes, you see, but you don't understand. It works also on other side - when you connect in the middle of 6h block, you'll get complete reward as if you has been mining for all 6 hours. So - where's the problem? Everything averages out, it's just your mind who don't accept such concept. Sorry. If you don't like my pool, pick another, but stop trolling here. Thank you.

Are you saying that your account is registered on email which isn't yours?  Please PM me your nickname, your correct email and also email which you see in your confirmation request.

^ No doubt it wasn't sent to wallet yet.

But can you imagine speculation subforum without any images? :-)

Then ask Virwox guys. Payment is probably pending there and wasn't sent to Bitcoin network yet.


No, payments on Bitcoin network are almost instant.

I'm signing this.

Hmm, I like the possibility to turning on/off images in signatures. Personally I'd like to leave it "on" as I'm finding useful information here.

Per user turning on/off images in signatures can be pretty easy, however needs some custom development. When somebody put image to his signature, some special html class should be given to HTML representation of this image. Then anybody can check on/off "Show images in signature" in his account settings, which will modify CSS style 'display' for this html class (that piece of css style can be placed inline to page source)...

Just an idea how not to fed up many forum users...

Well, *technically* it's not dangerous for p2p network, of course. But crash of MtGox (for any stupid reason like they get busted for keeping marijuana in their office?) would be the real disaster for Bitcoin project and economy. Mostly because they hold milions of bitcoins and some huge amount of dollars. Many bitcoin businesses are holding funds there. Also trust in whole concept will be shaken a LOT ("where we should keep our funds when *even MtGox* is gone?"). I believe that only few believers will remain here after such disaster scenario.

For longterm success of Bitcoin project we need to spread this power across more exchanges, make that pie charts above more balanced. Exchanges like Intersango and Cryptoxchange, which are built as serious businesses (not like some anonymous guys from east Europe), looks trustworthy and are promising competitors. Let's see if they'll be successful - it's in the interest of all of us.

Yes, it's pretty stupid, bitparking cannot be used for pool payouts - or you need to change address everytime you receive email about payout. Btw if you click in Transaction history to NMC address, you'll see NMC block explorer. If payout is listed there, then it's out of the pool.

NMC payouts fixed, it was stupid issue. Namecoin timed out during sending payouts for some unknown reason, which stops automatic payouts and need manual investigation from my side. However I forgot to setup alert for namecoind daemon (it was only for bitcoin daemon) for this issue on new server so I missed that problem in monitoring. Now they're sent and monitoring fixed.

Well, this is highly offtopic and I don't want to hijack eleuthria's thread, but short (and last) response. It's simply because both pools are mining namecoins with all their hashpower, but they spread namecoins only for people who claimed their interest in namecoins by providing nmc wallet. As far as Eligius members are mostly geeks (well, it's a compliment), their interest in nmc is higher than interest of members on my pool. Which means that every nmc miner on my pool get more coins, because majority of pool members don't care or don't understand what namecoin is. When all pool members claim their namecoin address, average namecoin reward should be same or similar as on Eligius.

There's a lot of legal restrictions on handling with gold in EU, like reporting who bought gold, gold stores need to save their records for many years etc. It's not like go to gold store, buy 1kg of gold bars locally and resend them by post. Actually it's fastest way to get busted :-).


Of course overseas delivery is a little bit tricky and need to be adressed. At this point I'm just asking for interest.

Well, if you trust me, then you also should (at least partially) trust business partner which I carefully choose. Unfortunately I cannot personally do everything. Maybe I'm good as a pool operator, but definitely not as a good gold reseller, because that's not my domain. Let everybody do the job in which he's good enough. And I believe that people who're handling gold as their main business will do better job in gold and silver delivery than me.