Hey eleuthria, we are having some major problems with our chain due to multipool hop and KGW Bug that has yet been fixed in our code. Is there any way to halt casinocoin mining on scryptguild. If you view the chain you will see the problems. http://altexplorer.net/chain/CasinoCoinOr seeing as it will be removed eventually can you do so now? I've applied a penalty to CSC for the time being so the pool will not touch it as frequently. |
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Anyone else having payout issues?
The payout amount does not work
all the time even though it is above
the minimum limit.
What coin and what payout threshold did you set? Payouts have been functioning properly. 0.01+ thresholds payout hourly. 0.00x thresholds payout once per day. Alternatively: Make sure you actually confirmed your wallet addresses. |
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Just a thought about these DOS attacks: I know that Ghash.io uses Cloudflare to block or mitigate DOS attacks (and I know some aren't too keen on Ghash.io). Would a service like that help here? Is it expensive? http://www.cloudflare.com/ddosCloudflare is explicitly a HTTP based DDOS prevention service. They will not help mining at all. Stratum would not work at all, and GBT would break as soon as the server was under attack. During an attack, Cloudflare's proxy servers use various methods to try to block attack vectors, which would break GBT as well. You'd also take a big hit to performance trying to mine over a cloudflare HTTP connection. Additionally, Cloudflare's proxy server uptimes are not remotely as stable as most pool servers. |
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Pool down!
It's up again!
It was never down to begin with... |
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A link was given to me in IRC to "Crypto Fond", which is showing BTC Guild's logo under their partners, along with BFL, BTEr, Bitstamp, Virwox, and 50BTC. They are likely a ponzi scheme.
BTC Guild (and myself) have nothing to do with them. We are not partners. Additionally, BTC Guild is not partnered *with anybody*. BTC Guild does not engage in *any* activities other than acting as a mining pool. We decline any attempt made to request an advertising or promotional deal with BTC Guild. The closest thing to a partnership BTC Guild has done is the following:
1) Early BTC Guild (2011) recommended TradeHill over MtGox and used to provide a ticker which included a referral link. This was removed after about a month and prior to TradeHill's closure because I did not feel comfortable promoting one exchange over another.
2) BTC Guild was one of the official resellers of ASICMINER hardware. Orders were always made with ASICMINER prior to being sold, it was not a pre-order system (but did have a week or so of backorders on occasion between shipments).
3) "ScryptGuild" is not a partner, but in fact a spinoff of BTC Guild run by myself. It is soon to be merging directly into BTC Guild to keep it all under one roof.
If you see any site claiming to be "partnered" with BTC Guild, please let me know.
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I have a friend working in a financial institution having access in more than 10 IBM blade servers.He runs there since Nov 2013 cpuminer later in 2014 when it became available to mine LTC and sell them for BTC he changed this now he is almost running all his machines with multipools but IMPORTANT he has not paid for them he DOES not pay electricity to run them so the fact is that he received as at today with 100Khs about 5 USD per week free. Who can say I dont want them  ? So your friend is risking his job and stealing from his employer for $20/month. You should probably look for better friends than idiotic thieves. |
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What type of hardware are you going to need to join this pool? Is there a minimum requirement of some sort?
I wouldn't recommend mining to anybody that doesn't have ASICs. The minimum withdrawal is 0.01 if you don't want to have a fee deducted from the payment for txfees. |
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Sometimes I feel like Bitcoin's hashing/difficulty algorithm is actually a cruel joke. 256 minute block -> 325 minute block -> 9 minute -> 14 minute -> 13 minute -> 3 minute.
2 blocks took 9 hours followed by the pool getting 5 of the last 6 on the entire network.
maybe the cruel joke is *whatever* is affecting your pool and that good stretch was a hiccup/reset/reconfig of *whatever* is affecting your pool maybe I am wearing a tinfoil hat but maybe you have blinders on..I don't know since I never ran a pool but it is obvious *something* has pulled a few cards out of your deck Oh, it's "obvious" something is happening? The post was tongue in cheek. EVERY POOL has stretches and then bursts like I posted above, and it's annoying for all of them. If you want an idea of how far variance can swing: BTC Guild found 11 blocks in a row across the network a few months ago. That was with the pool only have ~25% of the entire network hash rate. EDIT: The blocks: 275644 - 275654. 11 blocks by BTC Guild in 1h 10m with 0 blocks from other pools in that time. |
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I'm new to this, I don't know if they do or don't, I should read up on stratum to have a better understanding of how it works and sniff the traffic to understand what's being sent over the wire. Can someone can explain how the hijacked work is redirected/attributed to someone else? Please excuse my inexperience/lack of understanding. From what I've read in this thread it sounds like work is hijacked and sent to another pool, is that correct? Is the theory that the stats pages are being attacked to mask what's happening to miners by preventing them from seeing their stats? Regarding the MiTM attack that some users reported, are those users able to see the payout address used by sniffing the outgoing packets? Is there a white list of Eligius IPs I can configure in my routers for mining traffic or any other addresses other than the one reported to block?
Why in the world should outgoing packets contain payout address? The MITM attack isn't rewriting the payout address of your workers. It's actually redirecting you to a different mining server, which is why your stats stop working. If you're affected, you'd see your speed drop off on Eligius. However, it WOULD be possible to see the Bitcoin address that coins are being mined to on the attacker's server. The stratum work messages include the coinbase which has the payout address in it. That is, assuming the server you're redirected to is it's own mining pool and not a proxy to another mining pool/service. |
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Sometimes I feel like Bitcoin's hashing/difficulty algorithm is actually a cruel joke. 256 minute block -> 325 minute block -> 9 minute -> 14 minute -> 13 minute -> 3 minute.
2 blocks took 9 hours followed by the pool getting 5 of the last 6 on the entire network.
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I noticed and considered posting, but my superstitious side said "Don't! You'll jinx it."
It seems, BTW, that the new graphing format makes the trends look starker by reducing the number of spikes in either direction. That's an observation, not a complaint. Improved responsiveness for mobile users is a Good Thing™. I look forward to seeing a positive luck streak not dip below the neutral line, too. If we're lucky (badaboom!), it will be a multi-day 125% luck streak to balance out this stomach puncher we're enduring right now.
Yes, the new system is 3 months of luck, but each data point is the combination of 3 shifts. It does smooth out the graph, in the same way our high 'N' value on PPLNS smooths out per block luck you would see on Prop/Score/DGM (you'll never see a shift at 300-2000% luck, and you'll likely never see one at 1-10% luck either). |
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This luck is a killer.
Nobody felt like pointing it out when 1D/3D/1W were over 100% last week  . Think it was on the 24th that all 3 were > 100%, which we haven't seen in a while. Still not enough to make up for the bad. |
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Luke and Wizkid is the same person. Err..no. I dunno. Ever seen them in the one room at the same time? Me neither. In fact Luke-Jr, Wizkid, Inaba, eleuthria could all be the same person, since I've never seen them together in one room before either. Or Satoshi. Or you, Luke-Jr- er I mean HellDiverUK. Hm, many people have seen myself and Inaba together in the same room at Bitcoin Conferences. You're right about wizkid057 and Eleuthria though, I've never seen them! Need to drag them both to a conference sometime...  I might make an appearance the next time a conference is in Vegas, assuming some of the core devs are there. I just don't want to go through the hassle of a modern day US airport. |
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Luke and Wizkid is the same person.
Err..no. I dunno. Ever seen them in the one room at the same time? Me neither. In fact Luke-Jr, Wizkid, Inaba, eleuthria could all be the same person, since I've never seen them together in one room before either. Or Satoshi. Or you, Luke-Jr- er I mean HellDiverUK. Don't you dare put me in the same room as Inaba! Even if there's a pizza I won't do it! |
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Would be nice to have a pool like this... Gives incentive to some smaller miners  Small miners would just end up making even less because the pool would HAVE to have a higher overall fee in order to pay a reward for block finding. Small miners aren't expected to find a block *in their lifetime* these days. The chances of them ever seeing the bonus BTC reward is quite small, but they will be paying higher fees as a result of that potential bonus. On average though you'd end up earning the same. The effect of the 5% finders fee would just be larger variance - like the 0.5% paid to the block finder on p2pool. True, but good luck expecting the average miner to understand that a huge fee can be offset by a block finder bonus. |
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The hardware has already been ordered and is being shipped to the BTC Guild colo, hopefully arriving by May 5th. The goal is that BTC Guild's scrypt mining will be enabled on May 9th. When that happens, there will be a notice on the ScryptGuild website advising users to move to BTC Guild, though the site will remain online for ~6 weeks.
May 10th - ScryptGuild will continue to operate normally, BTC Guild will begin doing DOGE and LTC mining (with switching between the two available). Registrations disabled on ScryptGuild. 2% fee added.
May 15th - Auto convert disabled on ScryptGuild. Automatic mining disabled on all coins except LTC+DOGE. ScryptGuild fee increased to 10% to get people to move to the proper servers (BTC Guild).
May 20th - ScryptGuild pool server closed.
June 10th - ScryptGuild closed.
The exact dates may be moved, but that's the rough timeline.
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I think switching from Proportional to PPS only takes effect after Deepbit finds a block...which will probably never happen again. At current diff/Deepbit speed, they have like a 25-month average block time, and Deepbit has been shrinking while the network difficulty continues to rise.
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This is from Ghash. I would say this is a *massive* speed fluctuation. Over 2 Ph... 54922 Open 3 minutes 14.77 Ph/s 4.44 Th/s 6978842649 179680 0.030% 780 (0.43%) 718536943 54921 2014-04-27 09:30:29 12 minutes 14.81 Ph/s 3.83 Th/s 6978842649 647190 0.026% 0 (0%) 2500000094 54920 2014-04-27 09:18:24 11 minutes 17.02 Ph/s 4.48 Th/s 6978842649 658320 0.026% 640 (0.10%) 2500001879 But this time I jumped to backup pool since I blocked IP at router so that works Considering Ghash has a history of losing private farm or public pool connectivity on a regular basis, I'd hardly use them as a reference point. |
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What I don't understand is why it switches to LTC now with 1/3 less hash power and was not before, and only since few days, so something is changed.
Either the value of LTC mining went up (diff/price ratio), or the value of all the other alt coins went down to the point the penalty on LTC still makes it worth mining. DOGE difficulty is very spiky because of their terrible implementation of a faster adjusting difficulty as a response to multipools. We generally fell back to WDC and/or ANC (and other random coins in between) whenever DOGE difficulty spiked. I think it still doesn't work, I don't have much LTCs but, if my calculations are not wrong, should be enough to trigger the per-hour conversion.
The exchange has been refilled again, but my guess is you have a reserve set on LTC, or actually don't have enough to warrant an hourly auto conversion (or have it disabled). Earlier today an auto convert for > 100 LTC was run. The auto convert will only run if it can clear all applicable user balances in a single run. |
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Hey Eleu, any idea when you might be able to do something about renaming workers to where it doesn't really "apply" unless the pools reset.
I renamed a couple of workers and the one running work I have right now is running on a "name" it's not supposed to be.
I guess ATM all I can hope for is an unexpected pool reset like when you removed the PPS stuff.
This will be resolved the next time the stratum servers are restarted. Unfortunately, right now it's not a high priority since this problem only happens when people rename workers to a previously used name...which really doesn't happen often. If it really bugs you...name them something you haven't used before, and the problem will go away. If there is a reason to restart the stratum servers, the issue will be gone. Otherwise they won't be restarted until something else comes along that warrants restarting them. Not really a OMG I'm gonna throw a fit bother but minor annoyance. The renaming was more about having them in a specific order, I guess I could say alphabetically even though there's like 1 out of place ein that scenario. I do recall you at one point talking about trying to "patch" that when you have a bit of free time or something heh. Well, the patch is *done*, and compiled. The problem is that patch can only be deployed by restarting the server process, which I do not do often due to some miners not handling disconnects gracefully. Since this really is a cosmetic issue more than anything, caused by a non-standard renaming case, it's not something that warrants restarting the server process on its own. It looks like bfgminer is going to support SSL/TLS stratum soon, so I'm going to start working on an SSL/TLS implementation for the pool server. That change will be large enough to warrant restarting the servers. |
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