[NEW CURRENCY] Maria 2.0 was banned, here is her proof. The birth of Bytecoin!

[LucasJones]

I'm currently planing on building a 6950 mining rig and before I mine litecoins with it I will definitely help you out for 24 hours as part my stress testing for the overclocks

Thanks a lot, the support is appreciated!

[FatMagic]

Question for bytecoin'ers:

At what hash rate does it make sense to solo mine Bytecoin? I'd like to try and solomine it, but I'm not sure I have the proper hash rate. Or should I just join a pool?

[shep80]

Question for bytecoin'ers:

At what hash rate does it make sense to solo mine Bytecoin? I'd like to try and solomine it, but I'm not sure I have the proper hash rate. Or should I just join a pool?

5-10 GH/s might be ok to solo at a minimum, otherwise join a pool. Difficulty is going up 4x each time...

[LucasJones]

Question for bytecoin'ers:

At what hash rate does it make sense to solo mine Bytecoin? I'd like to try and solomine it, but I'm not sure I have the proper hash rate. Or should I just join a pool?

5-10 GH/s might be ok to solo at a minimum, otherwise join a pool. Difficulty is going up 4x each time...

If you don't have enough to solo mine, feel free to join the bytecoin faucet mining pool, it gives you the equivalent payout of solo mining with only a 1% fee! (To support the faucet)

http://bytecoin.us.to:6327/

[FatMagic]

Question for bytecoin'ers:

At what hash rate does it make sense to solo mine Bytecoin? I'd like to try and solomine it, but I'm not sure I have the proper hash rate. Or should I just join a pool?

5-10 GH/s might be ok to solo at a minimum, otherwise join a pool. Difficulty is going up 4x each time...

If you don't have enough to solo mine, feel free to join the bytecoin faucet mining pool, it gives you the equivalent payout of solo mining with only a 1% fee! (To support the faucet)

http://bytecoin.us.to:6327/

Thanks Shep & Lucas! I'll do that.

[FatMagic]

Question for bytecoin'ers:

At what hash rate does it make sense to solo mine Bytecoin? I'd like to try and solomine it, but I'm not sure I have the proper hash rate. Or should I just join a pool?

5-10 GH/s might be ok to solo at a minimum, otherwise join a pool. Difficulty is going up 4x each time...

If you don't have enough to solo mine, feel free to join the bytecoin faucet mining pool, it gives you the equivalent payout of solo mining with only a 1% fee! (To support the faucet)

http://bytecoin.us.to:6327/

Getting a boat load of "Strarum from pool 0 requested work restart" - any idea what that means?
Of course the miner I'm throwing at it only hashes at 190 Mh/s. I didn't throw my main rig at it.

[LucasJones]

Getting a boat load of "Strarum from pool 0 requested work restart" - any idea what that means?
Of course the miner I'm throwing at it only hashes at 190 Mh/s. I didn't throw my main rig at it.

That seems perfectly normal, the pool holds it's own lower difficulty blockchain, and adjusts the share difficulty so that a share is generated every 10 seconds on average. Each share counts as a 'block' in the easier blockchain, so you miner needs to get new work each time a share is recieved by the server.

[FatMagic]

Getting a boat load of "Strarum from pool 0 requested work restart" - any idea what that means?
Of course the miner I'm throwing at it only hashes at 190 Mh/s. I didn't throw my main rig at it.

That seems perfectly normal, the pool holds it's own lower difficulty blockchain, and adjusts the share difficulty so that a share is generated every 10 seconds on average. Each share counts as a 'block' in the easier blockchain, so you miner needs to get new work each time a share is recieved by the server.

Gotcha. I put my main rig on it now, so hashing at 1.4 Gh/s. Also about 50%-75% reject rate, is that normal as well? Is it due to the low difficulty?

[LucasJones]

Getting a boat load of "Strarum from pool 0 requested work restart" - any idea what that means?
Of course the miner I'm throwing at it only hashes at 190 Mh/s. I didn't throw my main rig at it.

That seems perfectly normal, the pool holds it's own lower difficulty blockchain, and adjusts the share difficulty so that a share is generated every 10 seconds on average. Each share counts as a 'block' in the easier blockchain, so you miner needs to get new work each time a share is recieved by the server.

Gotcha. I put my main rig on it now, so hashing at 1.4 Gh/s. Also about 50%-75% reject rate, is that normal as well? Is it due to the low difficulty?

Hmm, the reject rate shouldn't be that high, try adding /20 to the end of your username and see if that helps (Should request difficulty 20 shares instead, feel free to change the number)

E.g. 8adiaZcaVjiE4vXkztRaLMrSDikPuY8grc/20

[FatMagic]

Getting a boat load of "Strarum from pool 0 requested work restart" - any idea what that means?
Of course the miner I'm throwing at it only hashes at 190 Mh/s. I didn't throw my main rig at it.

That seems perfectly normal, the pool holds it's own lower difficulty blockchain, and adjusts the share difficulty so that a share is generated every 10 seconds on average. Each share counts as a 'block' in the easier blockchain, so you miner needs to get new work each time a share is recieved by the server.

Gotcha. I put my main rig on it now, so hashing at 1.4 Gh/s. Also about 50%-75% reject rate, is that normal as well? Is it due to the low difficulty?

Hmm, the reject rate shouldn't be that high, try adding /20 to the end of your username and see if that helps (Should request difficulty 20 shares instead, feel free to change the number)

E.g. 8adiaZcaVjiE4vXkztRaLMrSDikPuY8grc/20

Seems to be accepting more, less rejects.
CGminer still shows "diff 1" and many of the accepted shares are 1/1 or 2/1 - is it still pulling 20 diff shares?
Accepted rate is definitely better though. i.e. 32/5 now. instead of 30/20 like it was before

[Digigami]

Since we're still waiting for an exchange, I setup an orderbook here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170157.0

[LucasJones]

Seems to be accepting more, less rejects.
CGminer still shows "diff 1" and many of the accepted shares are 1/1 or 2/1 - is it still pulling 20 diff shares?
Accepted rate is definitely better though. i.e. 32/5 now. instead of 30/20 like it was before

Oh, that changes the pool difficulty, it can be quite hard to understand at first.

Examples of usernames:

username = use default server shares and local share difficulty
username/1000 = use difficulty 1000 shares for server shares and default share difficulty
username/650+4 = use difficulty 650 server shares and 4 difficulty local shares

Try using username/800+10 (or whatever local share difficulty you want)

[LucasJones]

Since we're still waiting for an exchange, I setup an orderbook here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170157.0

Looks pretty nice I'll register now.

[FatMagic]

Lucas

Just stupid aesthetic thing for your pool site - can you change your "favicon" for your site to the bytecoin icon?
I have it "pinned" in my Chrome, and it looks boring with the plain white page icon! Hahhaa

Reject rate is 10%, not horrible. I could probably tweak it with difficulty. Too lazy now that it's working better :-P

[LucasJones]

Lucas

Just stupid aesthetic thing for your pool site - can you change your "favicon" for your site to the bytecoin icon?
I have it "pinned" in my Chrome, and it looks boring with the plain white page icon! Hahhaa

Reject rate is 10%, not horrible. I could probably tweak it with difficulty. Too lazy now that it's working better :-P

Oh, I apologise, I meant to change it before, but I must have forgot in the rush to publish it

Should be changed in a minute.

EDIT: Changed for the faucet and the pool

[FatMagic]

Oh, I apologise, I meant to change it before, but I must have forgot in the rush to publish it

Should be changed in a minute.

EDIT: Changed for the faucet and the pool

Yes! My Chrome tabs are happy

[FatMagic]

Lucas,

One more question - just looking at the pool stats, and trying to understand it all (most I do). I'm only confused about the block part. Are we really only working on the 2nd block every found by the pool? I didn't realize it took so long to find block even with the hashing rate we're putting out.

Also, I'm currently "2nd" on the list for highest payout if the block is found - if I stopped mining right now, would I lose that payout percentage? I'm just not sure how this type of pool works (I've only ever mined in PPS pools).

[LucasJones]

Lucas,

One more question - just looking at the pool stats, and trying to understand it all (most I do). I'm only confused about the block part. Are we really only working on the 2nd block every found by the pool? I didn't realize it took so long to find block even with the hashing rate we're putting out.

Also, I'm currently "2nd" on the list for highest payout if the block is found - if I stopped mining right now, would I lose that payout percentage? I'm just not sure how this type of pool works (I've only ever mined in PPS pools).

First question: No, we are not working on the second block found by the pool, we are working on the second block found today, as the difficulty is quite high for our hash power. (We have found over 130 blocks so far)

This pool pays out over an average of about 48000 shares, so if you left now, you would be paid for the shares you have submitted so far, until they were pushed out of the chain by new shares (You can be paid multiple times for each share)

[FatMagic]

First question: No, we are not working on the second block found by the pool, we are working on the second block found today, as the difficulty is quite high for our hash power. (We have found over 130 blocks so far)

This pool pays out over an average of about 48000 shares, so if you left now, you would be paid for the shares you have submitted so far, until they were pushed out of the chain by new shares (You can be paid multiple times for each share)

Great thanks! That clears things up.

[LucasJones]

What does everyone think about having a 'bytecoin gem', pretty much the same concept as the bitcoin gem site?

I may consider making this if there is enough public interest for it