Well, I use Oregon Mines for my hosting.  I've also heard good things about sidehack's facility (you have to PM him to see if he's got any capacity).

Yes, you can use port 3334 on the EU server.  What problem are you having with your workers?  Perhaps I can help debug something for you?

Oops .  Hopefully you can get the miner safely moved to another circuit and not burn that one out, too.

Weird.  I'll probably try a rental with MRR EU rigs to see if I can replicate that.  I know that my own rigs get their expected hash on both the US and EU servers.

I've not used MRR in EU.  I have used NH in EU, however, and have not seen lower than expected hash rates.  Have you tried multiple different rigs, or did you rent the same one twice?


Not sure what you're referring to; however, if I were to hazard a guess, I think you mean the shares that have been submitted prior to the halving.  Those shares are all recorded, and will be paid out accordingly once we find a block.  The difference is that now the blocks are 12.5 coins, rather than the 25 coins they were previously.

Well, crap.  I truly was hoping we'd find a block before the halving.  Unfortunately luck wasn't with us.

So, now we will find 2 blocks back to back

The pool most certainly does not reject vardiff.  I have no idea what you are talking about, so please explain what you are really meaning here.

I want to help you but need to understand the problem.

Perhaps this will be a bit more incentive...

If you find a block before the halving, I will send you 2BTC.

Good luck!

Congrats on 5 years Doc!

As I replied in another very similar thread started by bapparabi, there are already a number of well-established pools available for you to point your gear to.  Setting up and running your own pool is not a trivial exercise.  It isn't a simple plug and play application where you fire it up and leave it running.  It requires that you understand how Bitcoin mining works, how pooled mining works, how the reward systems work, how to run a full node, how to run and maintain application servers and database servers and web servers, etc.

If you are willing to try a small pool (which if you are thinking about starting your own pool you most certainly are), why not point yours and your friends' miners to one?  For example, there's my pool (http://bravo-mining.com), BCMonster (http://bcmonster.com), Bitminter (http://bitminter.com), mmpool (http://mmpool.org), etc.

There are quite a few well-established pools already available to which you and your friends can point your miners.  For example, I run a pool (bravo-mining.com).  Kano runs a pool (kano.is).  DrHaribo runs a pool (bitminter.com).  mmpool runs a pool (mmpool.org).

How big is your mining group in terms of total hashing power?  Where are you and your group located?

All shares are tracked in logs, and I keep the logs archived.  It would be a very painstaking process to parse all of them to determine the absolute best - especially since I first have to strip all of them of the malformed messages and characters that are constantly hitting them.

Could it be done?  Yes.  Do I have the time to?  Unfortunately, not.

I know that my own hardware has popped a 168G share recently, but that's all I know without going through the logs.

Fingers, toes, and eyes all crossed

My pool servers live in data centers.  My miners - all but the 2 A6 I have at home - live in a hosted facility.  I use Oregon Mines to host my Avalons.  Absolutely great customer service.

Oh, and the maintenance is completed.  Your miners should already be reconnecting to the US stratum server.

Just about to start the maintenance.  US stratum server will be down for about 30 minutes.  I'll post here when it's back online.

I've been praying to the Bitcoin gods, sacrificing virgins (managed to find a couple girls at the local gentlemen's club who swore they were pure ) and doing block break dances.  I want this round over with as much as all of you do.

On a completely different note, I will be taking the US stratum server offline for some maintenance tomorrow morning (about 0900 EDT on 7/1).  It shouldn't be down for more than 30 minutes, and I will update back here when everything has been completed.  The EU stratum server will remain unaffected, so make sure you've set it as a backup on your gear so you won't lose any hashing time.

Let's end this round and get a nice quick couple blocks!

Time for the virgin sacrifices... crap, anyone know any virgins?

Never a dull moment... lol

Hoping the same works here...

It's going to be a while longer.  I gave the servers a swift kick in the ass... but didn't do the maintenance I wanted to get done.  Hopefully I'll get to it later this afternoon or evening.  I'll post before I start again

A bit later today I'm going to do some maintenance on the US servers.  This will cause your miners to disconnect, so make sure you've got backup pools configured - the EU server will not be affected during this time, so feel free to point your miners there.  I figure on starting in about 3 hours or so, and the effort should hopefully not take longer than 30 minutes.

Maybe this will kick things in the ass and pop a bock or two or 5

I will update the thread once maintenance has been completed.

They use a process called SPV mining in which they do not verify transactions in a block.  They send out an empty block template to their miners, and as a result, they have the highest portion of empty blocks on the chain.  SPV mining can, and has in the past, cause a fork in the blockchain.  If they were verifying things, they wouldn't run into this problem.

In addition to this, they refuse to comply with software licensing and produce absolute crap forked versions of cgminer to power their hardware.

Oh, they also claim to support p2pool, which they absolutely do not.