Fixed.  A drive failure on the full node machine for the pool ended up causing degradation that dropped the array to read-only mode for recovery safety.

Things are back up and running.

So, I'm admittedly unsure what direction to take this at this point.  My real life is, well, kind of hellish right now... I'd greatly prefer not to get into the details publicly.  Suffice it to say I've been blindsided on several fronts from close people I trusted, and picking up the pieces of that is taking a significant effort both mentally and financially.

Long story short, I don't think I'll have time in the near future to complete my work on Eligius-Hu's front end.  The backend is basically done, though, and running.  So if the pool finds a block, people get paid and such.

Pool is still running, working, etc... and I can host the servers pretty much indefinitely without issue.  Just a matter of completing all the front end stuff.

Admittedly, I'm not sure if it'd be worth it or not at this point.  Is there demand for such a pool still?  Looking at the current mining landscape, my guess would be no... but I could be wrong.

Thoughts appreciated.

A handful of the ~20 pool nodes got stuck mining a super old block... since the nodes were not agreeing, others were mining "empty" (coinbase only), but valid, blocks for quite a while.

Seems there was some breakdown of my alert system and I wasn't notified appropriately.  Some headaches in the rest of my life have kind of made this a lower priority and I, admittedly, hadn't manually checked on things for a while besides a physical look at the servers themselves occasionally.

In any case, I've got the pool server offline for the moment while things are resyncing.  Should be back online sometime in the morning by my estimates.  Will make another post afterward.

Put in a temporary machine for the moment.  Will fix the issue with the original later.  Should be back online.

Have a router machine acting up.  Doesn't seem to be responding to remote power cycles, either.  Have a packed day, but going to make time shortly to swing by the datacenter and resolve the issue.

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Pool pays 100% of mined rewards, including tx fees, to miners.


If the mining began after the switch to the Eligius-Hu setup, and it's a valid address, it will be paid when the balance reaches the minimum threshold.

Eligius's pool-wide hash rate is relatively low (couple of petahash) and we've found one block in the past six months or so. Payouts can only happen when we find blocks.

Pool servers are back up and working as expected.

Going to work on the web server next.

Servers offline during physical migration.  Working as quickly as possible to get things online.

Servers going offline in about an hour.  Migration expected to take several hours all together.

Should be doing the physical server migration later tonight if all goes well.

Will keep you updated.

For the record, I delete posts that shill for other pools here.

Hi everyone.

Starting out 2018 with a few upgrades and a path to getting things back on track here.

I have to physically move Eligius's server rack to the other end of the datacenter sometime between this weekend and next weekend.  There will be several hours of downtime while I work on this, so have some failovers for your miners available.  I'll post a note here as soon as I have a better idea on the timeframe.

After the move and mining is back online, next priority will be public stats, and then will move forward getting previously announced new features online from there.

The pool is running. Pool wide hash rate is pretty low, but still around a couple of Ph.  Hoping that will get a bump once the new stats are up and running.  Miners are still being paid for work when we find blocks, so no worries.

And contrary to some misinformation that's been spread around, Eligius pays out the full block subsidy _plus_ transaction fees with a 0% pool fee.

Thanks again for the support, everyone!

-wk

As has been stated, If you were due a payout, it was paid.  If you were not, you were not paid.  That's pretty much the end of the discussion.

Why would I waste time digging through data and making special arrangements to payout some dust balance below the given threshold for a payout of any kind when putting time and effort into keeping things running while also getting things back on track here is a much higher priority?

No one is telling you to mine here, nor do I (or probably anyone else) really care what you believe or otherwise feel about the pool.  By all means, mine wherever you're comfortable doing so, or not at all.  There are plenty of people continuing to mine at Eligius and do so even now.  No one said you have to be among them.  I do think it is worth pointing out that if you had continued to mine here vs just complaining about a dust balance that may or may not even exist, perhaps you would have gotten a payout in the last block. 

You've come here multiple times claiming you are owed something, you don't even provide any details that would even allow me to check anything anyway, and even had the gall to ask that some donation made previously be returned.  I'm not going out of the way to waste time chasing down your dust payout just because you think I should.  Sorry to have to be the one to break it to you, but that's not how the world works.

If you want the pool to pay you, then mine like everyone else.  If not, stop wasting everyone's time.

All of that said, further posts on this subject will be removed without warning... so just don't bother.

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Thanks to everyone else for your continued support.

If you didn't get a payout, then your balance is not over the threshold.  Asking about it over and over isn't changing that.

Payout done.  I cut the minimum payout in half for this payout so more people could get payouts.  It took quite a while for the system to process the last ~six months of shares, but all done now.

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If you don't have a mining ASIC (GPU doesn't count) then you're not going to have much luck.  I have the pool setup to block CPU/GPU miners as best as possible since it's a waste of server-side resources.

I cut a family holiday trip short by a couple of days so I could get back home and work on getting this block paid out.  Just got back, going to get settled and work on this.

Not sure where you're getting your number from, but the frozen stats pages do not represent balances as they were at the Eligius Ra->Hu transition.  Every single balance due has been paid.

All Eligius miners are paid in full with the minor exception for those who are/were active since the Hu transition and have balances below ~0.01 BTC.  Aside from that, Eligius has no balances due to miners at present.  Zero.  Nada.  Zip.  I've wasted enough time verifying and debunking people's claims about how Eligius owes them something. I'm simply not going to put any additional effort into such claims at this point and will be ignoring them from now on.  I already knew for a fact that Eligius has paid all miners due any payment, and I've reconfirmed this at least a dozen times in the past month or so when I've gotten messages from people claiming to be owed something.  I was happy to investigate and show they were incorrect, but I'm not going to waste any more effort doing so in the future.

I'm actually finding it kind of funny that people are coming out of the woodwork now that bitcoin/USD exchange is pretty high asking about balances from ages ago that were either already paid or not due in the first place.

Some of the stories people give when trying to cheat me/Eligius out of a few bucks are pretty incredible, too.  Some are pretty amusing.  My favorite is one where this guy on IRC needed 0.001 BTC that Eligius "owed" him (already paid, actually, like a year ago) or else he was going to default on his mortgage, be evicted, etc... sitting on a Comcast residential internet connection.  Sorry, if you can afford to sit there on the internet and try to scam me out of five bucks, you either can actually afford to pay your bills, or you need to get your priorities straight.  Either way, not my problem.  *sigh*

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For those wondering what the deal is with Eligius lately, it's pretty much my fault things have not been moving forward.  Not that it's anyone's business here, but pretty much as soon as I got time to work on finishing the pool software things started taking a bad turn in several aspects of my life.  Most notable is that I'm dealing with what is turning into an overly messy divorce, and that is taking up a great deal of my free time since my ex-wife-to-be seems to have lost her mind and is just making things as difficult as they possibly can be, even in self-defeating ways.  I also had a problem with a large contract job that I completed recently, and dealing with that is taking significant time, effort, and funds to battle.  Long story short, my customer is making pretty outrageous claims that are clearly and provably false.  Nevertheless, going to have to battle them in court over this.  (All of this is unrelated to Eligius, just to note).

I have been putting time into the pool, mostly for maintenance and updates lately.  But after the first couple of days of full-time effort on completing the upgrades I've not had enough of a free moment of work time to really dedicate to it.  I am really trying to get things back on track here, and I do appreciate the support folks have shown through what has become a pretty ridiculous delay in upgrades here.  Unfortunately, the pool hasn't found a block in over three months, and with the network difficulty where it is I'm not even sure where that would put us even if I were to complete the new interface tomorrow.

I've been tossing around some ideas on how to proceed, as I'd prefer Eligius not simply die off if I don't have the time to dedicate to it as I should.  One such idea would be to get Luke-Jr back on board, if he is at a point where he would have the time to work on Eligius again, at least until I get out of this rut of mine.  (Do wish him well, by the way, as he is likely going to get at least some impact from Irma soon.)  An alternative plan would be to hire some trusted developers to complete the work I've started, however I'm probably not in a situation where it would be sensible of me make that significant of a donation to Eligius.  Overall, I'm pretty much left with just working hard to get other things out of the way so I can make time to work on this and get it done.

Unfortunately I've had to remove a post from here relating to the above.  I'm not going waste time going in circles publicly about something that is done and over with and is only being brought up now because a couple of people want to try and extort me and/or Eligius solely because of the latest hike in exchange rate.  There is no sense continuing such a line of discussion here.  It serves no purpose other than to allow FUD to be spread by those who obviously do not have a full understanding of Eligius's reward system at the time, the actual topic, and have their own motives along those lines.  There is absolutely nothing that can or will be done to change how it was handled.  The matter is closed.

Further posts spinning wheels on this topic that is beyond ancient history will be removed.  If you desire more details, check posts from June 2014 era and the posts around the closing of Eligius-Ra.

I guess I see the source of your confusion.  Let me try to clarify.  The main issue became that rewarding further back in the share log so far beyond the block withholding attack shares that were already rewarded naturally would have rewarded miners in a very disproportional manner.  It would have rewarded shares of miners who a) had abandoned the pool, and/or b) weren't affected by the withholding attack at all in the first place, and/or c) wouldn't have been rewarded a sufficient amount to be paid over 2 TBC (~0.001 BTC).  So, there was no perfect solution to this whole thing.  It didn't make sense to make many thousands of dust payouts to miners who had long stopped mining and/or didn't have anything to do with mining during the withholding attack.  At the same time, it would have been wrong to selectively choose miners who were affected by the attack and disproportionately reward shares that would have never been rewarded otherwise.  It would have been wrong to use the massive amounts of < 2 TBC balances as an excuse to suck up those funds as pool donations, too, so that was out of the question.  Rewarding and payout of the shares as was done back in January was the most fair and sensible solution available.  Again, not perfect, because it did not eliminate the issue of rewarding miners who weren't affected by the withholding attack in the first place... but that was an unsolvable problem to begin with.  At least the rest of the issues were eliminated by the final solution.

I was also not going to take any action regarding the coins that were recovered back in 2014 until after a full review by legal counsel to cover both myself and Eligius on all possible risks.  This was not an inexpensive task, either, and Eligius has virtually no real income aside from donations which haven't even covered hosting costs for a while.  I didn't think it right to take away from these held funds due to the miners to cover those costs, either, as they still were not Eligius's funds to spend.  In the end it was an issue that had to finally be resolved, and I took the steps and paid the needed costs associated with doing so myself.  Suffice it to say, not even counting my own time, over the past year or so I've Eligius's biggest donor.

I do believe, in your personal case, you're mixing natural pool luck in with the block withholding attack offset.  I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but the block withholding attack accounted for a few % drop in shares rewarded throughout the affected period.  There were other periods of bad luck that were natural and unrelated.  The CPPSRB share log was run through simulations related to the block withholding attack period and its expected effect on the share log throughout that time frame, and that data was analyzed extensively before coming to the final reward distribution method.