To be fair, I thought the pool was dead. I tried to get people onboard but no uptake at all - I do mine on it myself occasionally when the weather is not too hot (the wife complains otherwise). I havent been looking at it as I thought no one was using it I also havent been on these forums much since they got butt raped by script kiddies. Now I see we have some users trying to mine on the pool, ill pay attention to it some more and apologize unreservedly for any confusion or skepticism I may have caused.

Charity57 - ill check the logs to verify you met the 2BTC bounty requirement first. Please PM me the address for the 2BTC bounty and ill send this tomorrow once I have verified who met the bounty requirement first.

XRcode- I do value my privacy and use privacy services where possible. I registered the domain name via privacyshark for this very reason. As for my credibility - hard to prove to anyone really when I try to keep private. I will say I have been involved with defcon and have a profile on defcon.org (published profile, not just a forum profile), but its connected back to my personal name via some easy google searches so I wont list it here. All I can offer is that now I see people are using this pool, I will take a more active role and that with time people in the BTC community will see im an honest person.

Im very interested in hearing from anyone who wishes to be involved, anyone who wants to help, anyone who has any suggestions or ideas for improvements (maybe a different payout scheme? Or perhaps mining on namecoin+bitcoin blockchains?)


Graet - yes we do use the Ozcoin fork - I loved what Ozcoin had done with the original pushpool frontend and saw you listed the software as an available fork, and published to GIT accordingly. I also verified that in the PHP scripts the code was released under GPL, which as far as my understanding means the code can be used? I checked the headers in the PHP files


I will point out that I listed that we were using the ozcoin fork on this page (http://charitycoin.org/about.php) and included the most recent donation address I could find for the creators. I also note that Ozcoin is just a fork of another GPL'd pool system. to quote GNU



As for changing the favicon - well wasnt really high on my list. I would have put more effort into the pool had more people used it. Just seems that not a lot of people are interested in new pools even with bounties to help get things going. I just used the code from your GIT repo, which I assume must have included your favicon. Its just a suggestion, but I think its probably not a good idea to include graphics you do not want used by others in GIT repo which has code published under GPL3 license if its going to upset you when someone uses those graphics?


I used forked GPL3 code, from a publicly available repository. I then credited the creators publicly on the site that used the code and included the creators BTC donation address for people to send donations, should they wish. There was also no README file specifying any additional steps I had to take to use the code. Id say whether you "mind" others using the code is irrelevant based on the fact you forked GPL3 code and then released it publicly. I'd also imagine that the steps I took to ensure you were credited on additional pages and your donation address listed are actually more than most people would do when using GPL'd code. If your code had 'powered by ozco.in fork' or similar at the bottom of each generated HTML block, then that would have stayed there - the version I pulled did not have that.

Its a shame you have closed the git repo for your fork, as it was actually the best available at the time. but thats your choice.

Very true indeed. Though over time earnings should even out - throwing 3GHsec at a big pool or 3GHsec at a small pool theoretically produces the same earnings over time, right?

mine was done last week too
thanks!

Updated to 0% fees for the first 6 months for everyone.

Bounty still available and we need miners

First miner to reach 1GH/sec average over 7 days gets 2BTC bounty

Only two miners so far. Small pools are the best for returns (as long as we get lucky!) and with a bounty too you could be in for a nice payout.

Give it a try and earn some BTC while give something back to those that make bitcoin possible

well ive only just launched a few hours ago. Im happy to see what comes of it Ill leave my own miner on it and wait the half a year for a block

No rush here.

Hello,
Im pleased to announce the launch of charitycoin - our new pool designed to give something back to the bitcoin development community. We are offering a 10 BTC bounty to the finder of our first block.

This project was inspired by Unthinkingbit in this thread http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20455.0. Whilke the pool has been running for some time, it has not been officially launched until today as we have been waiting for our new domain name. However there is some delay with that so I have used a temporary domain name to get us going as its better to get going than sit around!

We are an open registration charity mining pool which give 1% of every generated block to open source bitcoin developers and writers specified here. This is done via the donation amount being fixed at 1% for each user. You can donate more if you wish, just let me know in this thread or via PM (include your pool username) and I will make the necessary modifications.

For the first 6 months of operation we will be running with 0% transaction fees for all. Pool keeps transaction fees.

While we are waiting our new domain name from Privacyshark, you can find us here

You can use the following URL to mine with us (set up an account and miner first!):
http://charitycoin.org:8344

Website:
http://charitycoin.org

Some Pool Features

    Latest Bitcoind
    Latest pushpoold with long poll/LP and blkmonD to reduce stales
    JSON API
    Automatic payout
    ozco.in fork of simplecoin interface
    Cool stats and info
    'cheat proof score'
    Currently based on Amazon EC2 Infrastructure for resilience and reliability
    0% admin fee

Please note that until we find our first block, automatic payout is disabled. This is so I can run the payout system after finding the first block and ensure there are no bugs to ensure that everyone gets paid correctly. Once the first payout has happened, automatic payout will be enabled for all subsequent blocks. Instant payout is available with a 1% fee.

Im looking for reputable members to assist with the pool (support, coding etc) if anyone is interested, please PM me.

There is currently a 0.25 BTC bounty for anyone who reports an exploitable security vulnerability with POC

Hope to see you all on board soon and good luck to our miners in getting the bounty and future coins!

Peace

Shamen

The pool is up and running and has been for a week, there is no announcement as we are waiting on our domain name. At the minute its just an EC2 address.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24695.msg306645#msg306645

Pool announce is here

https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25022

Does anyone know how to get hold of privacy shark?

I bought and paid for a domain over 48 hours ago and haven’t had so much as an email from them. I tried their email support and got nothing back (except their anti spam countermeasure and confirmation that I had passed anti spam). The domain is still isted as available at internic.

I did get paid a small amount from this pool. Nothing compared to what was submitted as everything was 'pending'. So maybe ill get some when its back.

completely dead here for ages.

gutted. Had submitted 15,000 shares to that.

PM'd

Thats part of my reason for being involved. I really want to see bitcoin as a currency (or commodity, depending on who you talk to) flourish. If all it takes to put people off being invovled is that its no longer profitable to mine, because some people with deep pockets (and perhaps with an interest in seeing the ideal disappear) flood the system - then whats the point? If i were a large economy and felt threatened by bitcoin I would do my best to make sure people found no reason to mine through lack of profit. But if miners are here without the drive of profit, then the 'flood the market' move is, to say the least, stale. The ideal stays alive and presses on.

I know a lot of people out there who made this ideal get off the ground invested a lot of money through mining to get it going. I cant thank them enough. I'm sure they will make more money in the years to come, but I hope the ideal of what bitcoin is about stays with this forever - long after some people give up mining because they no longer make a few bucks a month.

Well, i was wondering if its just a quirk of GUIminer reporting. Personally I prefer to run linux too, btu for some reason I could not get the ATI drivers to play nicely under 2.6.36 so i made a windows install to mine. If i run one miner thread with my clock settings I get 386MH/sec. If i run multiple threads, it goes higher, but again im not sure if this is an accurate report, or a bug in guiminer.

However, as you are using linux with a pretty intense overclock this proves an interesting oppertunity. Can you try running multiple miner threads with different CPU affinity? (install the 'util-linux' package if its not already).

Why not just run three different miner instances and use the 'taskset' command to specify CPU affinity, then see if you get the same results as me. If you dont get similar results than what I see, then what I report is very likely a quirk of guiminer in reporting the MH rate for multiple miners (perhaps refresh rate from the actual miners it runs?).

If you do get the same result as what I see, then draw your own conclusions

Start three phoenix miners. Set instance 1 to agression 13, instance 2 and 3 to agression 8. Leave other switches the same.

Then set CPU affinity using taskset. get the PID of each of the three miner processes and set accordingly. for example, if you have 2 CPU cores and your miner PIDs are 1234 (agression 13), 1258 and 1299 (agression 8 ) respectively:

sudo taskset -c 1-2 1234
sudo taskset -c 1 1258
sudo taskset -c 2 1299

Then look at all three miner processes and compute the total hashrate. If you see a hashrate greater than your single miner instance of 394, then we are on to something. If you see a total of 394, then what I am seeing is just a quirk in the way guiminer reports hashrates

Its as simple as that. My personal feeling is this is a guiminer issue in the way it refreshes the hashrates form the console (usleep 1000000 anyone?), but id love to be proven wrong.



Different strokes for different folks. Personally im just an old skool geek who loves fucking around with stuff. I love squeezing every last drop out of things that I do. Look at the bitcoin total hashrate since may - do you really think all of that exponential increase is down to people looking for money? Sure some of it is the big boys with their farms, the pools and then people trying to make a quick buck. But, theres a lot of us out there that dont worry about money and just like new technologies, understding them inside out and dabbling in them.

I guess above all, put simply, Bitcoin has a certain ideal to it that attracts me.

Im based in the UK, so with current difficulty and what my system draws in terms of power, im not going to make a profit on BTC, especially if difficulty keeps going up. But does that put me off mining? Nope. This shit is fun, is a great ideal in terms of what its offering and on top of that its a challenge to get some cheap piece of hardware to do more than its designed to. Hell, I probably make more in a day with my work than I could even with a 50GH/sec rig. You do the math?

Theres millions just like me out there, and the more that hear about this the more you can expect to see being involved. Ill still be doing this if the difficulty hits 500 miilion. Im not in it for money

LOL it was only £100. pocket change.

Its lasted 2 weeks already so im happy. I was more interested in seeing what it can do and what all this mining business is about.

That being said, 960/300 @ 81oC isnt that bad. ive seen 5850s running much hotter and happy with it - one of my firends runs his at 90 to keep the noise down and that thing hasnt broke yet (6 months in). 58xx seem to be cards which can perform nicely.

But back to the point of my question - is this hashrate reporting a bug/quirk of guiminer?

So GUIminer is saying I have broke through 400MH/sec on my 5850.

What do you guys think? Is this just a bug/quirk in the way guiminer updates the hashrate when multiple miners are running, or have I found a way to squeeze out an average of 400 MH/sec from a 5850 without a massively insane overclock? It runs stable if i dont try to move anything on screen

My GPU settings are
-5870 Bios
-960 clock
-300 RAM
-1.162 Vc

I set up three phoenix instances. The first instance I set to

-k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=13  FASTLOOP=false
that worker was set with CPU affinity to use both CPU cores

Second instance:
-k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=8  FASTLOOP=false
that worker was set with CPU affinity to use CPU core #1

Third instance:
-k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=8  FASTLOOP=false
that worker was set with CPU affinity to use CPU core #2

When running, the MH/sec goes as low as 386 and as high as 412, but seems to average out at about 402 to 404

A screen grab of guiminer in operation, along with GPU-Z and Afterburner settings is here

http://www.b3tards.com/u/f6d22a29e775a1426924/wtf.jpg

This might seem like a cock length post, but i promise its not. I just want to know if this is a true hashrate or if GUIMiner has some kind of weirdness in calculating hashrates when multiple miners are running and hoped someone here would know.

I did a manual payout and the BTC has hit my wallet. Great stuff and congrats the the rest of the pool on last nights good luck

Related?

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.msg277371#msg277371

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14483.0

Burningtoad has found the issue. Looks like its relating to some work he did last night, and is fixing it now


*edit* back in now. all working fine and everything asit should be. Big thanks to burningToad for the prompt fix!

So the count of 'unable to login' is up to three members.

(btw, ive never been a member of mtgox)