Still have not heard anything at all.  Starting to get worried.  Maybe he is on vacation?

Sent E-mail to canary.btc@gmail.com twice.

Sent E-mail to help@bitquan.com.

Anybody got any spare chips?  Looks like I am going to have to fix this myself.

would you still be profitable if tomorrow the BTC/USD rate dropped to $100 ? like it was only a year ago.

It's only a very small amount lost (I wrote the failover strategies to be as seamless as possible), and happens with every switch. If you're not switching frequently like every minute you almost certainly won't notice a thing so it is the best option.

Jeez.  If ur paying anything over like 10-12cent kW/h.  U mine as well shutdown ur miners.   No profit to be made there. Or move them to where it free.   But that's just me.

Rotate is different again. Each failover mechanism has its positives and negatives. In rotate mode you'll lose a small amount of work every time you switch which is different to the problem in load-balance mode where you are connected to multiple pools at the same time - that's what I'm describing above.

Mainly the issue is that pools have slightly different times they notify you of the block change and during that period you are working on data from the old and the new block. Then what happens is both pools tell you to restart your work and every time you do that you throw out work and have to wait for the device to start doing meaningful work again. Strictly speaking only the work from the new block really matters, but the main issue is that you are sending your devices multiple restart messages and they usually work best with as few restarts as possible. There are also some newer devices (like ava2/3) that actually can only work on one pool at a time due to their design.

It makes no difference overall. However there is benefit to one device running full time on solo pool as the mining works better when it's not flicking from one pool to another repeatedly.

I just find this tread.
Great project .
It is better than casino for a bit coiner with small hash rate;)
Congratz
I will take the gamble with 1+ TH
happy solo mining all

It shouldn't...

All you have to do is run a bitcoind. Not much of a hassle. :|

Theoretically, it's all the same... only difference is variance.

Side note: I've also been working on a miner-oriented Bitcoin Core based on 0.9.x that I hope to release after 0.9.3 is out. In the meantime, the current build is at http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bitcoind/luke-jr/0.9.x/0.9.3rc2.ljr20140913/

Everything there makes sense, except using a centralised pool for solo mining.

I haven't thought it through yet, but maybe I could have quotas act as multipliers in rotate mode... so quota 2 with rotate of 5 minutes results in a 10 minute rotation time for that pool. Thoughts?

There's essentially no way to do 2D work stuff with load balancing, as the devices create their own work.
Have you tried something like --rotate? You will probably need to ensure the pools change jobs at least as often as you switch between the pools...

It works pretty much immediately for most devices.
"2D work" devices (Stratum proxy and Avalon2/3) do not support load balancing at this time.

upgrade those to S1 to S3  that's like 3.5 th with a power draw around 3740 watts or so my math might be wrong on  the watts but its close i think the 278 $ or so  per kit is well worth it or use bit coins. .  

Then wait for the S4 next years which more then likely we won't see till next year or in Dec if then . o yea I'm gonna get a L1 as well . I don't just farm one type of coin . imo  if you do you won't get any were .
 and my S3 I'l have  should hold me till the S4 comes out, i did think about the spondoolies sp20 home miner but if i wait till the S4 come out I'm sure they will use less power  be faster then the spondoolies sp20 home and cost way less.

also I'm glad it is harder now we get to see the true farmers etc its no longer a easy buck, it should have been that way all long, it more worth it now then it ever was . and at some Point soon hardware will slow down it all ways does.  but that's my 2 cs worth which means jack but how i see it .


If i did my math right i have one S3 on order and 4 S1 ones atm  I'll  be at like 2.2 th at normal clocks once i upgrade, if i decide to go out and  buy water cooling ( and the water cooling is not that bad as some say if you know how to i build it  i have built a few for my  videos cards and PC . for those old S1 boards that another 800 GH added back  which i know I  won't do, may even try to sell off the old S1 boards super cheap .


In Maryland atm we only pay 0.09 cents per kw/h which won't be going up for at least two more years were locked in to  that plan and may get  solar panels on top of that .  most of us in Maryland don't pay any more then 10 cents per Kw/h up to around 13 C.  some even pay less in my area. is not just  Washington state etc. from what Ive seen most of the US has really cheap Power compared to over seas .

Anyway, back on point and I am ending this experiment tonight... not worth diverting hashrate from BAN.

Alloscomp Estimate for 440GH/s (BAN and Eclipse) at current difficulty of 27428630902.3: 0.00806744BTC
Alloscomp Estimate for 125 GH/s (Discus Fish) at current difficulty of 27428630902.3: 0.00229189BTC

BAN: 0.00854369BTC - That's 105.9% of the estimate for the hashrate of an Antminer S3. Not the 12.5% bonus expected but when taken together with the 119.01% gotten yesterday it averages to... 112.5% so the 12.5% bonus is honored when averaging both out. Not bad.

Eclipse: 0.00736479BTC - That's 91.29% of the estimate. Ouch, variance really hit me here I guess. Could be the batch 5 S3 doesn't perform as well as the batch 1 but that's a big difference, even taking the fees into account.

Discus Fish: 0.00221312BTC - That's 96.56% of the estimate. Before BAN I really liked Discus Fish until I pointed my first S3 at it and got an insane amount of rejects.

assuming 3 tubes can be plugged into one controller......does each tube need a individual IP, or just one for the controller? 

They come with an Ethernet controller that runs it.  You can run an instance of miner anywhere you want if you wish to point your tube at it. PC/Pi, whatever...

Hello Everyone,

I have a problem with BFGminer 4.8.0



I'm using nicehash pool which is curently working, despite the message about the dead pool it is mining as i can see on the web page, problem is that if i put any other pool as backup it automatically uses it There is also a disturping message about coibasecheck... can anyone help?