Well, this is an unfortunate part of life and the world we live in......not just the Bitcoin world.

If eleuthria made a deal with the 'Devil' to save BTCGuild for the rest of us (miners that is) then I commend him for doin so.
I see NO SHAME in doing so and to attack BTCGuild because of it's relationship with the attackers of other pools is completely RETARDED....and of course, I use the term RELATIONSHIP loosely.

Anyone who thinks that eleuthria did wrong, should NEVER become involved in World Politics.

Anyone who supports Slush's attack on BTCG is wrong.....

WOW....
So what you have done is basically re-wrote the 'book' on DDoS attacks and how to 'DEAL' with them.

So now every time a Pool operator is pissed off and under attack, he can 'SPREAD THE WEALTH' among other pools to have them suffer the same fate ?

LAME. Sour Grapes is all that is.....

Because I like to know WHERE I am connecting, you fucking douche nozzel........

Simply put: Fuck it if my Network's Security doesn't allow any outgoing connection to where ever the 'donation' pool is located.

Can you clarify something ?

Is the PPS Pool currently doing Merged Mining in the background ?

Will Solidcoin 3 also be ready for the Bitcoin collapse ? or is that just Solidcoin 2 that will be ready for the collapse ?
Obviously Solidcoin 1 wasn't ready.....

Cool.
What do I do with all my version 1 & version 2 Solidcoins then ? It would be nice to consolidate multiple wallets.

Does anyone know when Solidcoin 3 will be released ?

ckolivas, please create an account on http://pps.btcguild.com (if you do not already have one)......

Rather than use the built-in % donation feature in CGMiner, I would just as well log one of my video cards into a mining account for a set amount of time and make my donation that way.

I am sure there are others who would do the same, so create a miner for me using part of my username, so you know where they (shares) came from.

Something simple like: (assuming it's for pps.btcguild.com)
Miner User - ckolivas_bitlane
Miner Pass - worker

Obviously I don't need the actual account credentials, just a single miner's credentials......

Let me know when you have done this and I will mine some shares for you, as it's a PPS Pool.

I am looking for Cards & Power Supplies in CANADA ONLY, as I would rather not risk Import Fees, long shipping times etc.

So, if you have cards & power supplies for sale and are in CANADA, let me know the following:
- What you have for sale (model#'s etc).
- Price including shipping to Calgary, AB.
- WHERE YOU ARE, WHERE YOU ARE SHIPPING FROM.
- Payment Terms, what you accept.
- Rep, Sales History etc.

Again, this is for sellers in CANADA ONLY.

Thanks.

I will definately do that with the next block.

Another thing I forgot to mention that I just remembered is that at the START of a block, things seem to go quite well, but as the block progresses things seem to go downhill for me, as I described above.

Has anyone else noticed degraded performance as the block goes on longer ? It's like if the block doesn't get solved quickly, performance degrades over time. I don't think this is an issolated incident, as this might explain why the pool either has extremely SHORT blocks or extremely LONG blocks and nothing in between as it were.....I could be wrong though. See you next block.
Allan

Hey Kinlo, I use CGMiner and I get a retarded amount of stales from Triplemining for some reason. There are a couple other pools that are similar, but I can also achive under 1% from a few others.

At 1 point, I actually had to set my work-scan-time to 10 seconds in order to avoid submitting stales constantly, so if a hash couldn't be achived in 10 seconds, it would move onto the next attempt.

Could you shed some light on why this might be and why my temporary fix worked ?

Could this have something to do with the fact that CGMiner is multi-threaded and has the ability to use a single account for an entire motherboard (if setup that way....4 cards, 1 account?)...just thought I would add that.

Perhaps you might want to create a Java app for that ? .....but then again, with it, I might be forced to eat only your dog shit and not have a choice in the end...... 

How about THIS:

The 1 Month Challenge......

I feel comfortable enough to mine for an entire month long WITHOUT A WITHDRAWL and feel confident in my funds still being there after 30 days. How about we both try this with about 3 GH/s using PPS....me on BTCG and YOU on your 0% Fee Pool.
Let's see who can sleep at night after the second week and who can not (while pretending BTC=$25 USD/BTC.....LOL).

Well, considering it's the BROKE PEOPLE who reign supreme (or so the Total Hash rates say for the network as a whole) while mining Deepbit & BTCG, I'd say it's a safe bet that anyone who says anything bad about them is either a jelous pool owner themselves, or far too rich and shouldn't concern themselves with the lowly miners to begin with  

Well, I will end by saying this:

My comparison (ON TOPIC AT THAT) was between Deepbit and BTC Guild ONLY..... 10% vs 7% for PPS payouts.

Frankly, most other pools mentioned in this thread, with the exception of Luke's pool and Slush's Pool, do not even belong in the same sentance, let alone the same thread as either 1.....especially being compared to.

These are the 2 largest Pools and are 2 of the oldest/most established pools.

Now, let's see a 0% Fee PPS Pool rack up the stats that either of these pools has done regardless of their fees, then we can talk.

BTC Guild - FTW ! .....Currently paying 0.00003167154226788676/share after the difficulty change...and I am FINE with that.

Must I really say P P S once again ?

What is ABC's current payout per share ?

0% Fee, Pays for Stales......In this Difficulty ?
Be realistic, how long can you expect a pool with that payment model to be around for ? ....till the owner starts having to support it out of his own pocket ?
With it's current hashrate and not using difficult math to explain things, that pool needs to find 2.5 Blocks per day just to stay alive and pay it's users, not to mention the overhead.

Even established pools such as MTred have felt the 'pinch' as of late, but then again, ABC might not offer multiple payout methods....

Not to say anything bad about the pool, but, I just can't see the longevity in it.

Compared to the 10% PPS Fee @ Deepbit ? ....... What PURE-PPS Pools offer a lower fee with stability and under 1% Stale count ? ..not to mention, paying out for bad blocks.....IMMEDIATELY, no wait.

BTC Guild PPS is unbeatable in that respect.

For those who PPS mine, BTC Guild's PPS Pool is by far the best in terms of performance, stability and payout options. I don't understand why more people don't use it.

- Instant payouts (no waiting for a block to end, no confirmations...just a running total of your earnings available at any time).
- Insanely LOW Stales etc.....like INSANELY LOW (4/4000 shares ON A BAD DAY, for me anyways...closer to 4/40000 most times).
- Established Pool with history.
- Standard 7% PPS Fee.

...and still only 80-90 GH/s for the most part. Where is everyone ?

For the reasons given above, noone should be PPS mining at Deepbit any longer and move their rigs to BTCG immediately, even if only for the 3% increased earnings immediately.....and in this BTC Economy, every %% counts.

I am not affiliated with either pool....I'm just a cheap-ass miner who is happy with BTCG.

http://pps.btcguild.com