Any plans to add extra merged mined coins to the pool?
No plans for that. The other coins that allow merged mining aren't even worth a 0.1% bonus. |
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Yup! I just realized that I never put in my NMC wallet address... So is that all gone or if I put in the address now will it somehow magically reappear?
NMC accumulates whether you have a wallet set or not. It's an option in your settings to have it display on the dashboard. The NMC stats are pretty basic (earned vs paid). NMC will be added to the CSV export on PPLNS soon, but no plans to add much detail for it on the site (too much clutter for something that is worth very little). Rough math: You make ~1.6 NMC per BTC you make. 1 NMC is worth 0.0043 BTC at the moment, so roughly 0.006 extra BTC from NMC. So you're making ~0.6% extra income with merged mining at the moment. EDIT/UPDATE: The above math is wrong. You get 3.2 NMC per BTC you make because NMC is 50 per block. So the extra income is ~1.25%, not 0.6%. |
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the bigger pools generally charge higher fees.
In the course of a few day sampling, using btcguild and its ability to find 1/3 of blocks may seem better than something like slush which is hours between blocks, but over the course of weeks or months, the variance will fade away and it will become obvious which pool is keeping several percent more of your potential income
Slush is 2%, BTC Guild is 3%. BTC Guild pays for orphans. Comparing those two you'll end up with basically the same payout, except WAY smoother on BTC Guild. EDIT: And BTC Guild pays NMC which Slush doesn't anymore. That alone is a more than 1% increase in income, completely making up for the 1% fee difference without even factoring in the orphan blocks being paid out as part of the 3% fee. |
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Part of the getwork shutdown started today. I've been cleaning out the old DNS entries that were used well over a year ago, mostly used in GUIMiner's completely outdated list of BTC Guild servers. The following "recent" DNS entries were removed:
de.btcguild.com
mergedmining.btcguild.com
backup.btcguild.com
The getwork server shutdown is still planned for Friday of this week. It will probably happen around 16:00 UTC.
So, um, sorry for not keeping up with the last 200 pages, but is there no more merged mining? Or is merged mining there by default now? For the last few months, merged mining has been enabled for all users on PPLNS, including Stratum users. |
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Why is it when I fill out my info in the settings tab and I navigate away from the page and go back to settings all the settings boxes are empty again and the time has gone back to Europe time?
Change a setting, click the change button, and it will save it. If you move around on pages and then come back and try to change it on a previously loaded settings tab, you will not be have the correct security token (used to prevent XSS). |
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I just made a minor cosmetic change to the PPLNS Stats luck chart. You can now click+drag to zoom into a specific time period.
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The website was briefly operating in 'Direct' mode, instead of operating through Cloudflare's servers. This meant that you were only seeing the self signed certificate that BTC Guild uses. BTC Guild's website is normally served via Cloudflare. Your connection to Cloudflare uses Cloudflare's SSL certificate, which has a root CA that is trusted. Then the connection between Cloudflare and BTC Guild also uses SSL, in this case a self signed certificate since there's no need to worry about the ugly 'untrusted root CA' warnings appearing on the end-user's browser. EDIT: Pay closer attention to the date, it expires in about 10 years, not a few days ago  |
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Anybody else having some weird issues with BTCGuild right now? I was mining fine but then my computer had to update some patches on windows update and then when I rebooted bfgminer will connect to BTCGuild but it seems to only mine a single thread ONE asic chip. The weirdest part is that if I use a different pool it'll mine perfectly, but if I use BTCGuild it screws up. It also doesn't seem to be loading my worker difficulty setting correctly, at least not on the US server-it thinks my difficulty is set to 2 when it's not. If I use the EU server it sets the difficulty correctly but also does the weird one thread only thing. I don't know what the heck is going on? It's not a hardware issue since the miners work perfectly on the other pool, and I didn't change anything with my configuration since it was working 30 minutes ago.
Weirdest part is that one of my miners on another computer is still connected to BTCGuild and that miner is communicating perfectly and everything is mining on all the chips. Is BTCGuild's stratum server still being DDOS'ed?
The servers get hit on and off, normally not very long anymore. There haven't been any attacks in the last 12 hours or so. The worker difficulty part is a known event, since the server is validating you're a real miner before you're properly routed to the actual mining servers. So when you first connect your difficulty will be 2, but it will then be updated after you submit the first share to prove you're a real miner. |
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Edit: Nevermind, I'm on PPS.
Sorry you missed out on some nice rounds for the day |
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0.46% stale is quite usual for an Avalon these days. One thing to keep in mind is that stale rates will scale roughly in proportion with network growth rate. So when you're at a period of 20-30% network growth rate, you can expect roughly that many more stales than normal. So if 0.40% was your nominal rate, it may be 0.48-0.52% when network is growing rapidly. Dupes are often firmware related, but can also be network connectivity (resubmission of a share due to lack of response in a timely manner). I know FPGAs were big culprits of duplicates, but they weren't actually *wasted* work, it was simply that there was some kind of firmware bug that caused them to report the same nonce information in certain scenarios where no solution was found when the nonce range was depleted. My Avalon lately has been mostly clean on dupes with later firmware, generally a completely insignificant amount. It may be network connectivity, since my Avalon is on wireless across the house, with a microwave in the middle |
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No worky, anyone else have some feedback?
It should just work with '-o stratum.btcguild.com -p 3333'. You then connect your miners to port 8332 on the proxy's IP. |
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Almost 11 hours...Tough block
This block is from hell I think Slush's current block holds that title (1.7 billion shares, almost 17 hours @ 120+ TH/s). You can be the block from Heck  . |
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Part of the getwork shutdown started today. I've been cleaning out the old DNS entries that were used well over a year ago, mostly used in GUIMiner's completely outdated list of BTC Guild servers. The following "recent" DNS entries were removed:
de.btcguild.com
mergedmining.btcguild.com
backup.btcguild.com
The getwork server shutdown is still planned for Friday of this week. It will probably happen around 16:00 UTC.
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Might actually be looking at a proper record. Closing in on 10x diff. I know 10x has been done before on Guild, Deepbit, and Slush, but I don't know if anyone ever went to 11x.
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Apparently certain ISP DNS servers are not communicating with Cloudflare properly today, causing people to have issues resolving some of the BTC Guild domains. The most common culprit is the website subdomain (www). I'm assuming it's related to the fact that the website DNS uses anycast, so it's not just a static record due to Cloudflare trying to make sure website traffic is directed to the nearest Cloudflare server to speed up the connection.
If you're having problems, you might want to look into using a better DNS provider (OpenDNS or Google's DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). ISP DNS servers are always pretty crummy.
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Geez man, who is not solo mining with 100TH? It's bigger than many small pools  It probably IS a smaller pool  There's only two pools (not counting Guild and mining manufacturer's private pools) that actually have that much hash power at the moment...kinda crazy. |
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Did someone just add 100TH to BTCG? Is that one entity or just a bunch of individual KNCers?
Still looking into that user account to make sure it's legit...but all signs point to yes so far. |
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Private servers are down.
Private servers have never gone down, it's a local issue if you're seeing them down. |
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If you're interested in a backplane for ASICMINER Blades, I have four for sale. They will be sold at 0.60 BTC base price (that includes shipping anywhere in the US). They will also be discounted 0.05 BTC for each Blade you've bought from BTC Guild, if any (down to a minimum of 0.30 BTC). Send me a PM or an email to webmaster@btcguild.com . I'll respond in the morning to let you know if you were one of the first four to respond and provide an address for payment. Make sure to include your BTC Guild username if you ordered any blades previously! |
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