Can anyone give me an idea of what the payouts from antpool have been like lately?
I just got my first S5 today and have an entire rack more of them on the way and wondering if antpool is a viable option for a US miner.
Thanks
Presumably Antpool works. However, it's not what it's advertised to be. Bitmain uses false advertising for Antpool. As someone stated above, it's close to the largest centralized pool out there. That's a bad thing. Might I suggest ckpool ( http://www.kano.is/)?M |
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I am new to p2pool and have set it up before, have ports forwarded, have 6 out and 9 in, 120%+ EFF, p2pool itself seems to work just fine, other then the issue I posted and was ignored BTW. I am finding shares and only have 600 GHs (I know it's a hobby my wife finds BTC to hard to be true...) but something just seems off here with my miner stats. I have an S3 and a S1 the best share for the S1 is over 14 million and I think the only one of the two miners that is finding shares because the S3 is only at 8 million best share so no way it can find one when diff is at 10-12 mill this is after a 48 hr runtime . I have tried the whole (address)/5000+512 thing and the 512 part does work but the 5000 or changing the share diff doesn't work at all for me no matter what I put for (address)/ so is this part of the p2pool code broken or am I missing something here??? IDK if this is a firmware issue with the S3 or what but something is wrong here with the S3 it works fine on all other pools but I cant stand them anymore sry but I cant. Any suggestions?  O and rock on P2Pool today been a good day... Last time I tried was obviously a bad week as I found 1 share all week and made more at a pool... Pc stats that only the node runs off of nothing else is on this PC... Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2 GHz 4 GB RAM Win 7 64 This was just an old PC Finding a "high" difficulty share is just a matter of luck. Every share your miner finds has a value. If the value is high enough, you win a share on the p2pool block chain. If it's super high, it's considered a block on the BTC block chain and everyone in p2pool wins. But it's all based on luck. The faster your machine is hashing, the more likely it is that you'll find a higher share in a given period of time. But it's not guaranteed. M |
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I still haven't got paid for the last block, when do payments happen?
Patience ... it will happen as it always does. The operators also sleep (sometimes just a little bit). EDIT:  Another block popped. And Lightsword does it again! M |
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Looks like difficulty is set to drop almost 6% in a couple of hours, hopefully that will bring our luck up a bit.  The drop was 6.14 diff is now 41.2 Sweeeeeeeeeet I'm assuming that will not go into affect until after this block or is it in affect now? Effective immediately. M |
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Sent you the stats links in PM. Hope you find out something after looking at them.
I'd like to see your pool setup in your S4 please. PM it to me if you prefer. M |
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The facts appear to be that there is no difference.
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Hey mate, I have a weird case with my 3 antminer s4's. I am in p2pool since a month and was receiving decent payouts than any other pool. I used custom cgminer built by ckolivas and made changes to que size=1. Here comes the big difference. Before the p2pool took 4days+ to find a block, my 6TH gave me like 0.1btc, 0.2btc etc for 4days. after that recently when there was no block found in 4th day my payout became BLANK. nothing displays, it was like that for 12hours and i changed the pool completely to come back when a block is found. Finally after a block is found in p2pool i pointed my miner back again to same old p2pool node but with different btc address as worker name. Ran it for 1.5hours and still no earnings. I got mad and changed to btcguild. Its been 24hours i ran my miners on node for 1.5hours yesterday. no sign of earnings at all. Is it something with the custom cgminer which is the problem here? or is it something with my node? or pool? I am really confused and dont want to leave p2pool because i know this is the best but weird things r worrying me. Thanks Sounds to me like your payout address wasn't set right as your username? M For example, If you consider my previous worker in p2pool node. It earned too much for 5 days and earnings became blank later on. Dont know why. The new btc address is correct and still no earnings after mining for 1.5hour. It also showed graphs of hashrate. I waited more than 24hours but still no sign of earnings. I doubt the node owner did some changes or pool itself has problems giving out earnings. Whats your opinion on this? Can you post a screenshot of your pool settings from your S4? M |
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The facts appear to be that there is no difference.
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Hey mate, I have a weird case with my 3 antminer s4's. I am in p2pool since a month and was receiving decent payouts than any other pool. I used custom cgminer built by ckolivas and made changes to que size=1. Here comes the big difference. Before the p2pool took 4days+ to find a block, my 6TH gave me like 0.1btc, 0.2btc etc for 4days. after that recently when there was no block found in 4th day my payout became BLANK. nothing displays, it was like that for 12hours and i changed the pool completely to come back when a block is found. Finally after a block is found in p2pool i pointed my miner back again to same old p2pool node but with different btc address as worker name. Ran it for 1.5hours and still no earnings. I got mad and changed to btcguild. Its been 24hours i ran my miners on node for 1.5hours yesterday. no sign of earnings at all. Is it something with the custom cgminer which is the problem here? or is it something with my node? or pool? I am really confused and dont want to leave p2pool because i know this is the best but weird things r worrying me. Thanks Sounds to me like your payout address wasn't set right as your username? M |
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Ok all you smart miners,.
I am running Bitmain S1,S2 and S3 and soon to be S5 miners. I have set the Queue setting to Queue=0 in all the miners i am able to set. My node averages 105% efficiency and average number of shares is approximately 20 shares in 24 hours. I have 8.7TH hash power
It seems I am running very consistent, and I was wondering is it better to set queue=0 or queue=1. There seems to be some difference of opinion.
So please chime on with facts if possible.
Thanks
The facts appear to be that there is no difference. M |
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Finally! Lightsword pulls off another one.
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Can these stay at the hosting facility and simply transfer ownership?
If so, how much do they cost you a month, or more importantly, how much would they cost me a month to host there?
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Can it be sold and stay in the hosting facility at that price?
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Are there any coupons available out there for Spondoolie hardware? I'm eyeing up a SP31.
Thanks.
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SP20s are sold. PSUs are still available.
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the current share diff CANNOT be changed by using pseudo share diff (max is 999.98) (it only changes the share diff to the miner not the diff set by p2pool)
p2pool share diff can be lowered by using the "/"
do correct me if i'm wrong.
Setting "+" has no effect on your payouts at all. It simply makes the graphs prettier or spikier depending on the value you set. The smaller the value, the more data points p2pool considers for your miner, the smoother the graph. In an ideal world this would be true. But with flaky bitmain hardware, setting the pseudo share difficulty will decrease your rejects, which will/may affect your payout. M You're correct, and I should have pointed out that caveat. Also, for some reason with Bitmain's web UI, if you use a power of 2 for your pseudo difficulty, best share value will always be 0. However, if you use any other value it works just fine. Bitmain definitely has some peculiar issues with their hardware, firmware and software. Bitmain has peculiar issues everywhere!! M |
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the current share diff CANNOT be changed by using pseudo share diff (max is 999.98) (it only changes the share diff to the miner not the diff set by p2pool)
p2pool share diff can be lowered by using the "/"
do correct me if i'm wrong.
Setting "+" has no effect on your payouts at all. It simply makes the graphs prettier or spikier depending on the value you set. The smaller the value, the more data points p2pool considers for your miner, the smoother the graph. In an ideal world this would be true. But with flaky bitmain hardware, setting the pseudo share difficulty will decrease your rejects, which will/may affect your payout. M |
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Edit - - - - If the Price stays stable at $280 at the exchanges I am going to turn on 1w/GH hardware again. I suspect allot of people will be doing the same.
It would behove those who had their equipment off [for whatever reason] to wait until after the difficulty change before doing so. As of now we're looking at a 6.3% decrease in difficulty in about 27 hours. M |
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tbh, if you're not sure what does those commands do, best is to leave it at defaults. ain't broken don't fix it as the old saying goes but no harm trying.
Edit: And there is really no need to set diff for your miners. P2Pool does an ok (not excellent) vardiff job. I disagree with that statement. Bitmain hardware, which a lot of people use, do not like two things: 1 - frequent work restarts. p2pool averages a restart every 30 seconds. setting the queue to 1 significantly helps the issue, but when you compare the results with spondoolie hardware, Bitmain sucks 2 - frequent share difficulty changes. that's the same as #1 when the difficulty increases, causing "low difficulty" work to be submitted and subsequently rejected You can fix #2 easily enough by setting a fixed pseudo share difficulty. M I wanted to get Spondoolie, I was not 100% Sure since everyone talks about Antminers I went with it. I will be buy one to test it out. Have anyone taking a look at this? https://bitgrade.net/shop/ Just ran it to it. But Im really skeptical about it. Looks like a scam site to me. I suggest buying directly from Bitmain. If you ask around, someone might have a coupon they can give/sell you as well to help the cause. M |
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tbh, if you're not sure what does those commands do, best is to leave it at defaults. ain't broken don't fix it as the old saying goes but no harm trying.
Edit: And there is really no need to set diff for your miners. P2Pool does an ok (not excellent) vardiff job. I disagree with that statement. Bitmain hardware, which a lot of people use, do not like two things: 1 - frequent work restarts. p2pool averages a restart every 30 seconds. setting the queue to 1 significantly helps the issue, but when you compare the results with spondoolie hardware, Bitmain sucks 2 - frequent share difficulty changes. that's the same as #1 when the difficulty increases, causing "low difficulty" work to be submitted and subsequently rejected You can fix #2 easily enough by setting a fixed pseudo share difficulty. M i'm talking abt the conf cmds not bmt (settings) that keeps on raising their prices $ suckerz yes it's sp's game now ! the current share diff CANNOT be changed by using pseudo share diff (max is 999.98) (it only changes the share diff to the miner not the diff set by p2pool) p2pool share diff can be lowered by using the "/" do correct me if i'm wrong. I'm not talking about the / command. I'm talking about the - command to raise the psuedo share difficulty going to the miner. / never made sense to me. M |
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tbh, if you're not sure what does those commands do, best is to leave it at defaults. ain't broken don't fix it as the old saying goes but no harm trying.
Edit: And there is really no need to set diff for your miners. P2Pool does an ok (not excellent) vardiff job. I disagree with that statement. Bitmain hardware, which a lot of people use, do not like two things: 1 - frequent work restarts. p2pool averages a restart every 30 seconds. setting the queue to 1 significantly helps the issue, but when you compare the results with spondoolie hardware, Bitmain sucks 2 - frequent share difficulty changes. that's the same as #1 when the difficulty increases, causing "low difficulty" work to be submitted and subsequently rejected You can fix #2 easily enough by setting a fixed pseudo share difficulty. M |
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Edit - - - - If the Price stays stable at $280 at the exchanges I am going to turn on 1w/GH hardware again. I suspect allot of people will be doing the same.
Maybe wait 29 hours for the decrease to kick in first? M |
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