[BTE][Closed][Faucet]Bytecoin Faucet

[LucasJones]

Thanks to Digigami who donated 250 BTE to the faucet

It's the largest donation so far! Go check it out! All addresses and IPs are reclaimable to celebrate!

http://bytecoin.us.to:8000/

[LucasJones]

This pool is a scam or what? I'm submitting shares, they are accepted, blocks are solved by pool but there is no payout.

8SCfz1Lg7fa3aXYsLvM2YHycQrFvyZEAoB

You are being paid, you can see at http://blockexplorer.bytecoin.in/address/8SCfz1Lg7fa3aXYsLvM2YHycQrFvyZEAoB.

You have been paid 6 times so far.

In your client the transaction should show up as 'mined', as in it comes directly from the block, with no tampering or stealing from the server

It works now. It takes a lot of time for pool to realise miner joined, is that normal?

A lot of time as in how long? It takes a while to generate each block on the pool as it only has about 5GH/s hash power, if that's what you mean. Also, P2Pool uses a PPLNS payment system, and it is handles mining quite differently to other pools, so that could have caused a slight delay, but payments should generally be instant when each a block is found

[LucasJones]

Great work on the faucet and pool LucasJones!

I have been using cgminer with very good success for those having issues.

I just made a donation to the faucet to help keep her topped up for ya

Thank you for your donation! It is much appreciated, already over 50 people have claimed bytecoins since you donated

I thought it would be nicer to personally thank you, as it is quite a big (even though BTE isn't really worth much right now) donation, more than the pool or anyone else has mined/donated

[Digigami]

LucasJones, you sir are very welcome!

I remember getting my first BTC from the bitcoin faucet a long while ago, and I realize this is a great way to help get others on board with this new coin. Just doing my part to help spread the love! Enjoy everyone 

- Digigami

[shep80]

Great idea setting this up! I have been mining this pool in balance with the other BTE pool and it's great to see the faucet nice and full.

[LucasJones]

It takes a lot of time for pool to realise miner joined, is that normal?

A lot of time as in how long? It takes a while to generate each block on the pool as it only has about 5GH/s hash power, if that's what you mean. Also, P2Pool uses a PPLNS payment system, and it is handles mining quite differently to other pools, so that could have caused a slight delay, but payments should generally be instant when each a block is found

I stopped mining like 20 minutes ago but I'm still receiving payouts. That means there is some sort of fade-in and fade-out with pool.

Yeah, as I said, it's pretty different to most pools

It uses the Pay-Per-Last-N-Shares System:

Whenever a block is found, payment is given to shares in a window, starting with the last share submitted and going backwards up to some number N of shares. Shares older than the window are not paid. This is essentially a 0-1 cutoff decay function. There is no concept of rounds - shares can be paid even if they were found before the previous block. This means that a given share can be paid more than once - however, the payouts are chosen so that the expected reward is equal to solo expected reward. Because the payment for a share depends only on blocks found in the future and not on shares and blocks found in the past, there is no way to hop based on the current status of the pool. However, if implemented incorrectly, it is possible to hop based on imminent difficulty changes

[LucasJones]

Percentage of rejected shares is very high, over 20% on my side. Mining with either CGMiner or BFGMiner makes no difference. Blocks are no longer
solved every few seconds so there should be less rejected shares. Any fix for the issue?

Could you check your latency to the faucet page (hosted on the same IP as the pool)?

P2Pool relies heavily on low latencies, so if your connection is slower than others to the pool, it could mean that you get a higher number of rejected shares.

EDIT: I'm going to restart the server's internet connection, just tested it and it's *very* slow. Should be better in a minute, and the number of shares that are rejected should decrease

[LucasJones]

Percentage of rejected shares is very high, over 20% on my side. Mining with either CGMiner or BFGMiner makes no difference. Blocks are no longer
solved every few seconds so there should be less rejected shares. Any fix for the issue?

Could you check your latency to the faucet page (hosted on the same IP as the pool)?

P2Pool relies heavily on low latencies, so if your connection is slower than others to the pool, it could mean that you get a higher number of rejected shares.

EDIT: I'm going to restart the server's internet connection, just tested it and it's *very* slow. Should be better in a minute, and the number of shares that are rejected should decrease

Restarted it. It's rather annoying how my internet connection decays over time, It's now 163.8x faster after a restart. 163.8 times faster.  

If the faucet or pool are extremely slow for anyone later, just post here or PM me and I'll reset the connection.

[LucasJones]

***Update: New GUI for pool, with live updates!***

Check it out at: http://bytecoin.us.to:6327/

[saigo]

over 300 BTE in the faucet, but only 0.05 released at a time, maybe increase it to 0.5 for a while ?

[LucasJones]

over 300 BTE in the faucet, but only 0.05 released at a time, maybe increase it to 0.5 for a while ?

I might increase it to 0.1 for now, I'm just trying to find a balance between how much is donated/mined and how much is withdrawn (As there are over 300 payouts a day on average).

300 payouts * 0.5 = 150 BTE, which seems a bit much to give away in one day, and much more than what is mined for the faucet.

[BitHits]

Thanks, Works I'll be starting a BTE Faucet soon as well

[saigo]

over 300 BTE in the faucet, but only 0.05 released at a time, maybe increase it to 0.5 for a while ?

I might increase it to 0.1 for now, I'm just trying to find a balance between how much is donated/mined and how much is withdrawn (As there are over 300 payouts a day on average).

300 payouts * 0.5 = 150 BTE, which seems a bit much to give away in one day, and much more than what is mined for the faucet.

Understood, if 300 a day, agree 0.1 is better.

I tried mining the pool that feeds the faucet recently but got some JSON errors, will have another try later, would like to contribute to the faucet

[LucasJones]

over 300 BTE in the faucet, but only 0.05 released at a time, maybe increase it to 0.5 for a while ?

I might increase it to 0.1 for now, I'm just trying to find a balance between how much is donated/mined and how much is withdrawn (As there are over 300 payouts a day on average).

300 payouts * 0.5 = 150 BTE, which seems a bit much to give away in one day, and much more than what is mined for the faucet.

Understood, if 300 a day, agree 0.1 is better.

I tried mining the pool that feeds the faucet recently but got some JSON errors, will have another try later, would like to contribute to the faucet

If you run into any problems just post the logs here

**Update: New 'Watch' Mode for the pool! You can now watch your bytecoin address and see it's current payout amount on every page of the site!**

[maunderingcabal]

I really like your frontend for the faucet and the pool. I'm going to throw a miner to the pool. Good work.

[starik69]

pool down?

[BitHits]

New BTE Faucet Up! www.ByteHits.info !!

[LucasJones]

pool down?

Yeah, Really really sorry, the pool crashed while I was asleep

Everything should be working as normal now

Add CAPTCHA to faucet, else BOTs will drain all coins in a day. Seriously.

Yeah, I'm going to, I just don't think it is the main priority to prevent BOTs specifically for the faucet at this stage (Also there is only one payout per IP address and bytecoin address per day, they could use proxies but that seems like quite a lot of work for 0.1/0.05 BTE a pop)

Don't get the wrong idea, I'm going to try to add it, it's just slightly more difficult to do as the website uses ajax instead of posting data to the server

[saigo]

now pointing my cgminer at it... nice to be adding to the faucet 

[LucasJones]

now pointing my cgminer at it... nice to be adding to the faucet  

Thanks!

It might take a while to generate a block, as we lost a considerable amount of hashing power when the server crashed, so every contribution helps!

EDIT: Generated a block! We're getting back on track!