I'll second that, the only reason I have to swap to another pool to mine from time to time is because of the idle miner syndrome. I like everything else fine, no need for auto payout, etc. If I can't be bothered to click payout, then perhaps i have issues. (or no fingers).

But, can't let the cards sit idle... so they go over to elgius when the BTC / hour --> 0.

Hopefully though, that stops happening

Good job so far Jine, its hard to run a large pool. Just no two ways about it.

Any way to have a certain min MH/s to play? I mean if the worry is CPU miner botnets, then could you not have one node that handles first attempts / requests, and the other nodes only get involved to serve work after the first node is satisfied that its one of us (a GPU miner). Then a handoff occurs, as we are vetted? So a pool of load balancing nodes once you're in the club so to speak, that way the work is getting done, the majority of us are unaffected, however new requests, new addresses, etc (some way to filter it) can't get past the initial node w/o x share / x time?


It means issues would threaten that initial node, may make it hard to get accepted to the other nodes, but the other nodes would still cheerfully toss out work to the majority of users mining away.

Here here!

Hmm from the stats page, looks like I found that one. But damn it, 12000 shares plus to do it? Ouch, at this rate... .09btc / 12k shares is depressing at this difficulty level.

So I take it this didn't really happen? and there were multiple blocks in this one?

Received Block 136335 - Thursday 14 Jul 20:37:43 PDT
Based upon 16212 valid shares.

Because I have never, ever, ever, had that many shares go into one block at approx 850MH/s

And the one 6950 I threw at Elgius for a bit made more then my 6950 and 5850 at bitcoins.lc over the same time frame... Hopefully this is being fixed? Or is fixed with the sql restart, upgrade, etc? I mean we are running out of time where the difficulty is going to be this low... every time it ratchets up, I make less and less with my cards... Eventually, we'll be doing a block every couple days... (except everyone else will be too )

Is it fixed Jine?


Thx

Sigh... and then i tool over to the stats page and see us on a 22hr block... That's not cool. It's like working on a 3 digit lock, where there are only 999 possibly tries to open it... when you are on try 1217... Something is wrong with how you are guessing.

Whats up with this block?

Not for two weeks, no. but the odd long block.. yes. That being said, There has been a massive jump in difficulty as of late, and considering we still pop off the occasional 20 min block, it's not as bad as it would seem to be. The only issue really, are the very few "too long" blocks. That needs to be solved. Quite frankly though, we could go a week without seeing another one of those and still not know if its solved or not. However, I'd rather not see another for a while and just assume its fixed; then seeing proof that its not.

Oh agreed, then Canadian Virtual Exchange opened, and since then I've been happy. .59% fees, and usually a 40-60 cent spread between buy and sell. Plus i can get paid out in email interac transfers. Wicked place Althought i noticed If i was buying and selling at the prices on Canadian Bitcoins, I'd be able to buy and sell at Canadian Virtual Exchange and make a killing.

Glad to see another service operating up here tho. Gotta have options.

Do you set your rates off the available Canadian exchange? or Mt. Gox and others? Just curious, as once we get a few more exchanges going... the mobility of BTC should allow reasonably connected international players to normalize the pricing via arbitrage... However, that doesn't appear to be happening yet... I know from where I am sitting, the transaction costs to cash out of the US exchanges are too high in terms of wire fees. Hmm... i guess until more merchants use it, BTCs are always gonna be defined by their liquidity into other currencies.

Wow... So the verbage about why something is offline is that large of a share in the 'professionalism' ideal??

Shit, I thought it would be forthright communication, steady progress, hard work, not calling you a douche when you've come across very clearly as a douche, growing the pools base of users, implementing new features where appropriate to the prevailing conditions and circumstances, ensuring timely payments and updates for his miners, and not leaving us in a lurch ever, etc; that would form the basis of his "professionalism".


But no... Heavens heavens no. Having one feature sitting on the back burner and listed as down do to db work quashes all of that and makes him unprofessional???

You sir / ma'am / troll, are a douche!

(Jine is very professional. I however have never claimed, and am not now claiming, to be.)

I like the simplicity and anon of it... (well, if your masquerading and have a way of obfuscating your IP) But your split between Buy and Sell is quite large...

On https://www.cavirtex.com/ for example its like 40 cents... on yours it was almost $2... Perhaps a scripting error? or is your B/S differential meant to be that high?

Thanks

Ouch... you pay a lot there for not having to setup an account... Meh. Someones making money though I suppose

Yeps, however from a security perspective... Knowing that you can never be 100% safe and secure; always good to limit the damage that can be done.

In Canada, I've found the best method vice in person transactions is going through https://www.cavirtex.com/home.

Tends to be below mt. gox and Tradehill to buy BTC with interac money xfer, and other methods. They dropped their fees too, now something like .59%. I've been using them for a while to buy and sell BTC. Seems to work great

Check out their order book:

https://www.cavirtex.com/orderbook

[Recalled] - found stats page, etc.

I seem to have had a large amount of connectivity issues today... i am down by like 1/3 of my normal hash rate that I am getting credit for... More issues?

I find that email interac xfers usually take a few hours when I send em to friends / family... Never found a consistent wait time tho.. but they have never been 'instant' for me. Although far far faster then web banking payments and such.

Lol, agreed. I also don't have to send BTC and "hope" I get an email money transfer back in a few hours.

Hi all;

Just wanted to report good experiences with Canadian Virtual Exchange.

BTC are actually going there for pretty cheap ATM, offers interac transfer in deposits and more, and then interac transfers back out. I was having issues with the "paypal people", and the standard "you send first, no you send first" conundrum, so went over there to sell and trade. So far so good.

Maybe check it out, if your facing higher transaction costs due to trust issues, the "rep discount" issue, or just like being able to post a trade in Canada w/o paying $40 to get a wire transfer from a US bank to actually touch your money from the transaction.

See you there:

Canadian Virtual Exchange: Trade Book https://www.cavirtex.com/orderbook

Canadian Virtual Exchange https://www.cavirtex.com/home

Note: No, I am not getting anything for this, their transaction fee is 1% on your trades, and so far its the best one I found in Canada. Seems to be a bit lower price per BTC then Mt. Gox and Trade Hill, even accounting for the Higher Canadian Dollar. Just wanted to point out something good I found.

Having Connection problems it seems... Both my miners --> Pool, and the website has been sporadic too.

DDoS? or other issues?

Thanks


Edit: 0922 PDT - ok.. seems issues have past... interesting.