Sooooo... they can't fill all of the orders from the first month, to send out in the first shipment...

So, that begs the question, which hasn't been addressed but with a vague word.

Just  how many orders will be in that first 1/3? The first 20? The first week?

I got my order confirmed on the 24th, are there going to be so few orders shipped I don't even get in the first shipment, on day #2?

and... 3 weeks ago this was announced? AFTER ALL THIS TIME?

...

WTF.

-- Smoov

I have to agree with this...

BFL, you already have a black eye from how the FPGA's were handled, and now you're dropping the ball again.

Skip this whole 1/3 thing and just go back to the FIFO queue like was told from the beginning.

All this is going to do is add fodder to your detractors, and further harm an already tarnished reputation.

I had been hoping with the ASICs you'd handle this properly, having learned from your mistakes with the FPGAs, and until this whole 1/3 fiasco, it was looking like you did.

This is not the way to regain confidence of the community.

-- Smoov

Wow... just, wow...

can't get hardware that handles work-change gracefully, and sends out found hashes as they get found, to be p2pool-friendly, but, ya guys are going to put that much effort into picking the random orders for 1/3 of the ones you send out?

Really?

...

what... nobody wear hats there to pull numbers out of?

-- Smoov

Um, no, you can't... if the difficulty you set via the /### option, is less than the current share diff, then you mine at the share diff.

-- Smoov

and when you figure in NMC's current diff relative to BTC, the drop is even more significant about NMC's future...

-- Smoov

um, just... wow...

maybe you should lay off on other people's grammar...

-- Smoov

The purpose is to take up less of the actual share slots, so smaller miners can still get into the chain.

Payouts are determined by how many shares you have, and their difficulty, so if you're submitting fewer shares, but at a higher difficulty, it will balance out and you'll still get your appropriate payout, while smaller miners don't get shut out of the chain altogether from the large miner, taking up so many slots at lower difficulty, to make up his same payout.

-- Smoov

Vircurex uses fixed addresses, as does BTC-e. If you request a new address from their deposit pages, the old address continues to work, even tho it isn't shown on the page anymore.

I've been using mine for months now.

Vircurex has many trading possibilities, detailed email notifications, but they have less volume.
BTC-e has fewer trading possibilities, no email notifications, but they have more volume.

My recommendation is to have an account at both, just to have a backup available if needed.

-- Smoov

Feel free to put it on my public p2pool node

-- Smoov

You have to get the namecoin daemon and/or client if you want to do that.

If you don't intend on keeping them, then use a deposit address from one of the exchanges trading NMC, as your withdrawl address, and you can sell them off without messing with the NMC daemon at all.

-- Smoov

... but it is still Smoovious ...

 

-- Smoov

um... he wasn't being an asshole about it, he was perfectly neutral...

I'll be an asshole about it, tho.

<asshole>
None of us are getting paid to help you, but doing this for free, and a large number of us get fed up dealing with people who are too lazy and can't be bothered to put in even the most basic amount of effort to finding the information yourself, like you did.

People put together documentation, guides, wikis, even videos, in order to help out new people with information that they need, to do various things, and your unwillingness to put in even the most basic amount of effort, to read/view those things designed to answer your questions, choosing instead to ask again the same questions that have already been asked previously, even in this same thread, does not constitute an emergency on our part, or make your problem any more important or deserving of respect, that entitles you to any more of a personal effort on other people, than to point you to the guides that already exist, that answers your question.

Put in the effort to look for the information yourself, FIRST. Don't just wimp out and take the 'easy' route just cuz you're lazy. The documentation that comes with the program is the LEAST amount of effort you are obligated to put in. Scanning the thread you're going to post in, to see if it had been answered already, is also the least amount you are obligated to do.

Bring something to the table, show us you made some kind of minimal effort to resolve the issue first.

You want personal handholding, and someone to coddle your fragile feelings, go call a therapist.

Get over yourself...
</asshole>

-- Smoov

I do from time to time... it doesn't last long before it runs out for the day, but I've gotten a payout from it probably a dozen times now.

Most of the time tho I miss the window.

Last payout was day before yesterday.

-- Smoov

You don't care until the stalker has gone overboard and broken into your home, standing over you in your bed about to plunge the knife into your chest, THEN you care...

...

too much?

-- Smoov

Yeah, but it wouldn't be logged as a virus (with that label), unless it was found in some malware it got to analyze. Since it is labelled specifically Win32.BitcoinMiner, they know what it was, not just some heuristic false positive...

besides... how many people have we had coming to the forums and IRC, asking how to do that very kind of install on a system automatically?

-- Smoov

CGminer also sets off my anti-virus too.

Someone probably was embedding the miners in some trojans they were sending out to get their botnet mining for them.

-- Smoov

Perhaps having a date on the request, can be used just as an indication of priority, with a choice at the end.

Say I would like 200 BTC withdrawn by Thursday, and it is Monday.

I could put in a request for 200 BTC, with the expiration on Thursday, and the choice of "expire" or "withdraw".

Up until the expire day, it would be just a low-priority request. If the BTC becomes available via deposits at any time during that time, then just process the request as the coin comes in, at any time up until the expire time.

Once the expire time is reached, if the option is "expire", then the request is simply cleared, regardless of if it was filled, partially filled, or not at all filled. If it is "withdraw", then it would be processed as a standard withdraw request at that point, withdrawing from pirate if needed, and then sent out.

I don't think it should be used as a way to schedule when the withdraw takes place, but for how long the request is valid, and they would be processed, oldest first.

Just treat the low priority request, basically as "anytime between now and whenever, withdraw X amount when convenient."

This way, if more deposits come in than you have withdraw requests, the extra coin left over after filling the withdraws can be deposited right away.

-- Smoov

Anything stopping someone from creating a bitcoin-asic network of p2pool nodes, with a longer poll time, and adjusting the share chain to compensate, to make it more asic-friendly?

-- Smoov

I really hope they code these asics to be p2pool-friendly this time...

-- Smoov

Also, mycryptcoin has been erroring out for weeks now... can we just get them delisted until they decide to get around to getting their act together? It is rediculous now.

-- Smoov