Did you hide toggle off the visibility of your workers on the management page?

Still playing with ideas for the earnings side.  It's awkward showing multiple coins due to the disparity between the  amount of coins you might earn (with some coins being released in blocks of 10-100, and others 100k, and others over 1m).

I'm looking into an effective method to provide BTC equivalent earnings, but it's probably going to take a few days of playing with it internally before it's ready, since not everybody converts things to BTC, yet the "BTC Equivalent" stat is the only one that really matters.

It varies by hardware.  Faster hardware can handle higher intensities with less "dead time" where it ignores the new block updates.  The pool puts penalties of 5-20% on the profit rating for low difficulty coins depending on just how low it is.

If you run at low intensities your stale rate will be in the sub-1% no matter what coin we mine.  But that might cost you more in speed than you gain in lack of stales.  So it's a balancing act.

My understanding is that wouldn't have any effect, but I may be wrong.

Just for those wondering on stale rates, here's a breakdown on intensity:

When you're mining on your GPU, you send it batches of work of different sizes.  When your GPU is working on a batch, it is completely unresponsive.  It cannot be interrupted to be fed new work.  Once it finishes the batch, it gives it back to the miner and it's pushed to the pool.  By running a higher intensity, you remove the inefficiencies of swapping batches of work, but you increase the amount of time your GPU is completely ignoring new block announcements.

So you have a tradeoff of stale rate vs hash rate.  ScryptGuild's profit switcher already factors in the increase in stales from the very low difficulty coins.  It will switch to them only if the profit differential is greater than the expected increase in stales.  Running at high intensity on a low difficulty coin will *always* increase stale rates by a significant (3-5% or possibly higher) amount.  There is nothing a pool can do about this, your GPU is actively ignoring work updates.  But the profit switching within the pool can penalize coins to factor in stale rate vs profitability, to make it so the higher stale rate is worth having in order to maximize your profit.


Additionally, ScryptGuild does not mine very high difficulty coins at the moment, except for Doge, which is not "too high".  Right now ScryptGuild generally falls back to Worldcoin when all of the "random" reward coins are on terrible reward blocks.  Strictly speaking, Litecoin is a higher profit coin than Worldcoin.  However, the pool speed compared to Litecoin difficulty introduces *massive* amounts of variance due to our expected time to solve a Litecoin block.  While the average time might only be 45-60 minutes, a bad block might take 5-8 HOURS if we're unlucky.  Worldcoin trades off a few % of profit for a steady return.

Again:  There is no current plan (it's on a sideboard at the moment) to convert _TO_ LTC.  It may come in at some point, but it is not currently on the roadmap.

Graphs for hash rate should become available late tonight/early tomorrow.  Idle Warning emails should start working around mid-day tomorrow as well.  Once these are done, I'll be splitting work between setting up BTC-e API integration for auto conversion of LTC (and soon FTC) and getting the daily earnings information available.  Both should be working before the end of the weekend.

I personally don't want to link to files if I don't know they're safe, but I recall a binary for sgminer being linked on Reddit for both 4.0 and 4.1 when they were released.  sgminer is similar to the kalroth cgminer fork:  A scrypt-focused fork of the 3.7.2 cgminer code.

A minor update was pushed to the auto conversion.  The hourly conversion will only trade coins where you have at least 0.00001000 BTC worth of that coin.  Once per day an auto conversion will run that flushes the entire balance without this limit to clean up any dust you still have lying around.

Sorry, my uncontrollable laughter stopped me from reading past that line, referring to what the "devs" of altcoins do as hard effort.  Hell, referring to them as devs is already a stretch in most cases.

Hadn't been paying attention to the coins that we don't use in the profit switcher (KDC/FRY/NOBL were picked for alpha because they were very low diff).  Updated to the new fork on that.  Haven't figured out how I'm going to manage retiring coins from the system just yet.

And if you read what I wrote, I addressed that.  Blockchain.info defaults a TON of IPs to Deepbit even though they have absolutely nothing to do with them.  It's because blockchain.info's block assignment system is garbage and makes assumptions based on times where Deepbit used to be 20-40% of the network.

I've fixed an error (damn typo) in the profit switching algorithm.  Litecoin was supposed to be receiving a penalty to it's profit score due to the expected high variance.  While statistically it may be worth mining as much as we have, it causes big swings in our daily profit due to the variance caused by mining a 2500-3500 difficulty coin with only 2-3 GH/s.  Litecoin's profit rating is now being penalized by a decent margin.

Our average profit will go down slightly from the penalty (since we're ignoring a coin that should be most profitable at the time), but it will be more consistent.  The penalty is variable, based on the pool speed vs. network difficulty of a high difficulty coin.

This error was not hurting our expected earnings, but it was causing situations like the last two days, where 1/3 to 1/2 of our shares were going to LTC for some shifts, which was the right choice, but we weren't hitting any blocks due to bad luck.  Consistency in preferred in this case, and is worth a slight reduction in expected payout.

I deleted the most recent posts about ScryptGuild.  Please keep ScryptGuild questions in the ScryptGuild thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=457016.0

What software are you using?  Unknown work means one of three things:


1) You're submitting work that didn't come from ScryptGuild
2) You're submitting work that is more than 10 blocks old for that specific coin (meaning it's stale 10 times over, so old the pool no longer has record of sending it to you)
3) Your miner is screwing something up and making the work submissions unrecognizable

FRY is a coin that was added in alpha because it was a fresh launch.  It is not traded on any decent exchanges though.  The dashboard only includes coins which are part of the profit switching algorithm, which means the coins are traded on Cryptsy or BTC-e (exchanges with good volume and an API that allows for automatic trading).



Automatic payouts run every hour.  You set your threshold on the Wallets page.  If your balance exceeds your threshold, your entire balance will be sent at the next automatic payout.  The minimum is 0.01 for any coin.

Not according to Deepbit.  Blockchain.info still likes to say blocks came from Deepbit when they haven't.  Last I heard, it's been many months since Deepbit actually solved a block.  At its current speed, the average time for blocks is something like 18 months.

It's one of the next on the list.  I'll probably be adding at least 3-4 more coins this weekend, along with getting the integration with BTC-e's API so auto-convert can work for LTC.

If you run your miners on a very high intensity, you can see very large amounts of stales, especially when the pool is pointed towards coins that a lot of multipools are on, or very low diff coins.  Wafflepool lately has been on Auroracoin a lot lately, which has 10 minute block times.  ScryptGuild on the other hand is bouncing between much lower difficulty coins because Auroracoin is simply too high difficulty to bother with at current pool speed (people would bitch about 6 hours without any blocks).

ScryptGuild's profit algorithm already takes stale rates from low difficulty coins into account when evaluating which coin to move to.  However, 10% is *WAY* above normal.  If you don't run at high intensity, the stale rates are ~1% on my 90-100ms ping (with spikes due to being on wireless).  Intensity will cause stales because it means your GPUs are running larger batches of work before allowing an interrupt for a new block notification.

An automatic payout failed earlier due to the hot wallet not having enough funds.  Moving funds from one of the cold wallets now and the automatic payout will be resent once those funds confirmed.  Just an explanation of why the system ran dry:


1) The MtGox hysteria caused a spike in withdrawals.
2) Bad luck meant the wallet wasn't refilling as fast as normal.
3) The extremely good luck after that bad luck meant we had a significant amount of funds in the hot wallet that couldn't be spent.  Mined blocks can't be spent til 120 confirmations, but BTC Guild credits accounts immediately since it pays for orphans.


The new auto payout should get pushed out within the hour.  This only affected one automatic payout.  All other payouts have continued to work normally.


UPDATE:  Hot wallet refill complete.  The failed automatic payout has been resent to all who were affected.