Edit: How far does BTC trail after the period ?
Bitcoin uses 8 decimal places. Has anyone managed to get their ASIC running on BLF's easyminer android app with this pool?
I have tried every combo of settings I can think of but it just doesnt seem to work.
There should be a tab named something like "custom" or "manual". It has a command line field, where there is an example bfgminer command before you type anything. You need to put in something like: bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -u user_worker -p X Where user and worker are your user and worker names. Alternatively if you have a default worker you can just put -u user. In the example above I just put X for password, since any password is accepted at Bitminter. This results in a "ramping up" effect that is confusing, and also means that mining for a few hours doesn't give a figure that you can use to estimate what you would make mining over a longer period of time.
Yeah, I think an easier way of looking at it can be from the point of view of a single accepted proof of work. It goes into a shift. As soon as the shift is completed it becomes eligible for payments from new blocks that are found. Whether you keep mining or stop, it will keep getting paid from each new block we find until 10 more shifts are completed. After that this proof of work is no longer in one of the 10 latest shifts. So after you do some work it takes 10 shifts (currently about 10 hours) before the work is fully paid. +20 hours if prepay is turned off, but you can see the amount as unconfirmed before that. |
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We expect 5 minutes of maintenance downtime on mining, 2013.11.13 sometime between 06:00 and 07:00 UTC.
Sorry for the short notice. This should be super quick though.
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What are base fees again ? I seem to be misingg the info lol, I wana say 1% but that sounds too low.
Right now I have 0.6% in perks used... I was thinkin of prepay but that ott me to thinkin on base fees, if it's 1% and I add prepay that puts my perks at 2.10% and is base is one then my totals 3.10%.
The fee is 1% (it's on the bitminter.com front page). Yes, it's very low. So 1% fee + 0.6% donation = 1.6% If your donations reach 2% you can activate the pro minter perk, which makes all other perks free. That way you never need to go higher than 2% donation to get all the features. 1% fee + 2% donation = 3% which has long been a common fee at pools. |
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edit: Strangely, the "Work units queued up" number seems to flicker... as I watched it after posting this, it was at "410"... "405""409"... "404""408"... it flickers a lower number then settles on a higher number about once every 2/3-second. Hrm... worth looking into? Or is that just normal operation as it feeds info to the unit and gets new work?
If you compare the BFL to a baby you are trying to feed; sometimes you feed it too much and some of the food comes back out. |
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no no, i mean i only want to mine name coin with bit minter and not a merge mine with bit coin
We are mining namecoins with bitcoin hashes. We could mine them with namecoin hashes, but then we would be unable to use the same hashes to create bitcoins. It would be a massive loss on your mining income, generating the same amount of namecoins as before, but zero bitcoins. Bitminter does not offer that because it makes no sense. |
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Nope Flushing cache didn't seem to do anything  Which Java version is this, and which operating system? |
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BitMinter client v1.5.0beta3 is ready for testing. New: - Attempt to improve detection for Big Picture Mining BF1 (Red/Blue Fury)
- Attempt to work around firmware issue with Chili devices
Please check it out:  |
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That's the poster I was looking for.  |
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ok stupid question lately when I try and start Bitminter I get a "Failed to Validate certificate. The application will not be executed" error.
Could you see if it helps to flush the Java cache? http://www.java.com/en/download/help/plugin_cache.xmlPS: is there support for the NanoFury usb sticks yet?
No. Any info on how these are programmed? |
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Luck will come and go. As the British say, Keep Calm and Carry On.  |
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subseaguru seems to be sitting fairly securely in first place. We've seen a couple changes in the top ten hashes, but nothing to threaten the first place. In a couple hours one third of the race is behind us. Will subseaguru win the race? Place your bets. |
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Instead of running as root it is much better to give a less privileged user access to the serial ports. In general you should run as few programs as possible as root.
As the Bitminter client says if you probe all ports and find nothing: You may lack access to serial ports (Ubuntu: "sudo usermod -a -G dialout USERNAME" then log out and back in).
Yes, serial ports were once used to access a modem that would use a copper wire called a telephone line to communicate. Initiating these ancient connections was known as dialling out. So on Ubuntu if you add the "dialout" group to your user then you will get access to the serial ports. Other Linuxes may work differently.
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I've noticed the Livestats\big page is now showing only BTC blocks under the 'Lastest Blocks' section; up until a few days ago it used to show NMC as well. Was this change intentional?
Yes. For a long time people were complaining it is disappointing to hear the new block sound and then realize it was only an NMC block. NMC value also dropped a lot lately and is a less significant part of the income now. So I made the latest blocks on the livestats only show BTC. And the transaction history and workers page only show BTC data by default, and there's a filter you can change to see the NMC data. |
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Thanks for clarification. I'm understanding the dashboard and immense information given slowly one thing at a time. Earlier I made some suggestions and now I see why those suggestions were not implemented since those are no needed that much.
Good suggestions go on my TODO list. But it may take a while before I get to them - it's a long list. What I'd like to see is a timer showing "time since last block found" as it would help in deciding when to turn off my miners for the night and other times of the day.
This is already available. Look at "duration" for the BTC and NMC round data shown at https://bitminter.com/livestats/bigBUT: it doesn't matter when you turn off your equipment. There is no good or bad time to stop mining. It used to be that for many pools there was a good time to stop mining at the pool, to maximize income. This was called pool hopping. Only a few pools are still vulnerable to it. More info here: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5072/what-is-pool-hopping |
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Nothing bad happens with the work you already did in a shift if you disconnect and stop working.
If you have noisy miners and need to sleep, or you have expensive electricity part of the day, then you don't have to mine 24/7.
But the more work you do the more you get paid. That goes for any pool and any reward model.
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Difficulty has almost tripled in the last month (as in +200%) from ~155 million to 550 million. Everything else being the same you would be making 72% less. If you started a little earlier and the initial difficulty was ~100 million you will be making 82% less.
This is very important to understand when you are mining. "Difficulty" is not just a word without meaning that people drop. I have some miners who don't believe the difficulty is real, and they claim I am stealing their money. They claim they should always get the same pay for the same hashrate. I have others who believe I am the one controlling the difficulty and that I'm cranking it up just to make their lives miserable. The difficulty is very real and it is an automatic mechanism in Bitcoin that pool operators do not control. You need to understand difficulty if you are mining. Measuring the luck of 4 different pools is useless. Thinking that the luck yesterday will affect the luck today is called gambler's fallacy. You can read about it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacyMeasuring the income from different pools as you move between them while the difficulty is changing... is worse than useless. The difficulty going up 50% will have an effect on your mining income - there's nothing any pool can do to eliminate that effect. Going back to the previous pool you will find that earnings have dropped there too. |
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Vegeta screams at you and crushes the display. Seriously though, I'm pretty sure BitMinter's graphics always show the pointer near the next large round number, and it auto extends as needed.
A lot of users are disappointed to find the display just changes to accomodate higher numbers. I'll have to think of something more cool for the future. Cant connect to pool... anyone else have the same issue?
Seems to be running fine from what I can see. Are you seeing timeouts or something else? |
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If you use Google or Verisign you should be able to activate their 2-factor authentication for logging in. Using it to protect account settings could be interesting though. I'll look into it. Although it is cleaner looking I am not loving the shifts page. Although it shows a hashrate my percentage is just 0.0000 for every shift. Kind of liked seeing the score more better.
What do you mean it shows zero. *whistles innocently* Have another look. Maybe I should make a shift page, like the block page, with more details on each shift. |
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Some changes on the website: - Added btc/nmc filter for transaction history
- Added your average hashrate to shifts page and show score as percentage
- Worker page: show 10 workers at a time + added filters
- Live stats: only list BTC blocks in latest block list + change mhps to ghps
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