Pool 8: experimental bytecoin mining pool

[maxmint]

I set up a bytecoin mining pool:
http://pool8.co/

Wanna join? Please point your miners to
Host: 54.225.76.105
Port: 6327
Username: [Your BTE Payout Address]
Password: 8

Stats are here: http://pool8.co/static/
Pool fee is 1%.

How do I know if my setup is working?
As soon as you have one accepted share your payout address should show up on the website. If your payout address is listed under "Registered payout addresses" then everything should be good. If you're mining and you don't see your address then please post here and I'll see what I can do.

Important Note: GUIMiner is working for me, but there have been problems reported using GUIMiner, so please be sure to test before mining too long.

Example setup for GUIMiner


This pool is totally beta, I'm currently testing stuff, please let me know if there's any problems.

Thanks to:
Gerco for the P2Pool modification and LucasJones for helping setting up bytecoind.

[Gerco]

Looks like you are running p2pool as well. Can you detail what you did to make GUIMiner work?

[maxmint]

Looks like you are running p2pool as well. Can you detail what you did to make GUIMiner work?

To be honest: I don't know. I just set up Ubuntu 12.04 on EC2, cloned your github and openend ports. I connected from 2 different computers to test and my GUIMiner workers immediately showed up in the list. So I guess it's port related??

[Mogumodz]

E2 won't that get expensive ?

I really need to brush up on AWS.

[maxmint]

E2 won't that get expensive ?

I really need to brush up on AWS.

EC2 is great to put a thing quickly. It might get expensive if you have to scale, but at the moment I'm just fiddling around for fun.

[maxmint]

I think your pools are a scam.

Once again I can't connect.

I have 15 shares.

You have shares but you can't connect? Which miner are you using?

[Gerco]

EC2 is great to put a thing quickly. It might get expensive if you have to scale, but at the moment I'm just fiddling around for fun.

Even so... last time I checked running a server 24/7 for a month would cost at least $50. Be sure to check your statement and pricing before you get an unpleasant surprise next month.

[maxmint]

I think your pools are a scam.

Once again I can't connect.

I have 15 shares.

You have shares but you can't connect? Which miner are you using?

GUI.

I don't know how you could get shares without being connected first, but I'll have a look. What's your payout address?

[maxmint]

2013-04-05 10:49:20: Listener for "try": 54.225.76.105:6327 05/04/2013 10:49:20, authorization failed with 8XSXmLJ5DB6qpdEhqv4EcfkcFUmDwa8rBA:8@54.225.76.105:6327
2013-04-05 10:49:20: Listener for "try": 54.225.76.105:6327 05/04/2013 10:49:20, Setting new difficulty: 0.999984741211
2013-04-05 10:49:23: Listener for "try": 54.225.76.105:6327 05/04/2013 10:49:23, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2


8XSXmLJ5DB6qpdEhqv4EcfkcFUmDwa8rBA

I see, settings look good. I don't know what's up but sorry that it's not working. Bummer. I'll have a look again and will report back.

[Mogumodz]

Add -v -w 128 for a start to extra flags...jeeeeeez..... kidding.

Give this a try.

Download https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0 and create a short cut, right click the short cut and put this at the end of the target.

e.g cgminer.exe -o http://54.225.76.105:6327 -g 1 -I 12 -u 8XSXmLJ5DB6qpdEhqv4EcfkcFUmDwa8rBA -p 8

[maxmint]

It's up now.

I think it's still not working. At your hashrate we would see an immediate spike of shares.

[maxmint]

Small update: it seems GUIMiner is working for some people – and not working for others (sorry strunberg, I did not find any solution for you yet).

Please just check if you see your payout address in the list. It should be there right after your first accepted share.
If it is not, then something is not working.

Thanks for anyone who's willing to give their hashpower to test, really appreciate that!

[BTC-Market]

Connected as 8WTwCGtDesrdhYKHkHMcA1MmvAqLLEH8eT

Thanks for putting this pool together!

https://i.imgur.com/5mDl5U4.png

EDIT: Is the pool hashrate accurate?

[maxmint]

Connected as 8WTwCGtDesrdhYKHkHMcA1MmvAqLLEH8eT

Thanks for putting this pool together!

https://i.imgur.com/5mDl5U4.png

Thanks, that looks awesome! I'll watch closely and hope that payout works as excepted. If not, please let me know.

[maxmint]

EDIT: Is the pool hashrate accurate?

I hope it is. I currently says  594MH/s

EDIT: I'ts at 1.12GH/s now, stats seem to be a bit delayed.

[BTC-Market]

How often do the payouts happen?

[maxmint]

How often do the payouts happen?

Payout should happen after a found block – which did not happen yet. Please note that I just set this up today, so I can't exactly tell you how it will work out until we find the first block.

How much would I have earned here?

If we would find a block right now, I'd say that would be 15 BTE.
I'm sorry that it did not work out for you, I'm still trying to figure out what's the problem here.

[maxmint]

Just sent 5 BTE as a little thank-you to all miners participating. Looking forward for the first block to be solved.

[maxmint]

First block found, all payouts have been processed!

[frga13]

and finally!  

Edit: and thx for 5 BTE 

[maxmint]

and finally!  

Edit: and thx for 5 BTE  

It took some time – I can't believe that a crypto coin that one week ago not even existed already has such a huge hash power.

[Craftyman]

I'm mining for your pool but I do not see my address in the list? It's: 8LcYA4hGXiieg6fTFY5V5D1W2zsSG5uGrm

[Anon136]

super awesome, ill check it out.

[maxmint]

I'm mining for your pool but I do not see my address in the list? It's: 8LcYA4hGXiieg6fTFY5V5D1W2zsSG5uGrm

What miner are you using?

[Craftyman]

I'm mining for your pool but I do not see my address in the list? It's: 8LcYA4hGXiieg6fTFY5V5D1W2zsSG5uGrm

What miner are you using?

I am using the OpenCL portion of GUIminer. I have two different miners because I have two cards for a combined total of about 750 Mhash/s

I have about 700 shares so far with 0 stales.

[strunberg]

and finally!  

Edit: and thx for 5 BTE  

It took some time – I can't believe that a crypto coin that one week ago not even existed already has such a huge hash power.

Thanks for the coins as well.

I think that if byte coin continued in it's rate of gaining hash power, it might exceed bit coin's hashing power in a year or so.
Or at  the least exceed lite coin's where be begin to choose byte coin over lite coin.

[Bytas]

Hmm,
My miner says i have 6 accepted shares at the moment, but i'm not in the list on the statspage yet. :s

I'm mining at 6.6Mh/s so not expecting much anyway :p

[maxmint]

I'm mining for your pool but I do not see my address in the list? It's: 8LcYA4hGXiieg6fTFY5V5D1W2zsSG5uGrm

What miner are you using?

I am using the OpenCL portion of GUIminer. I have two different miners because I have two cards for a combined total of about 750 Mhash/s

I'm sorry to tell you that I still see people having problems using GUIMiner with the pool.
If you're mining for the pool you should see your address in the list of payout addresses as soon as you have 1 accepted share. If you don't see your address then something's wrong.
It's really strange because I know that some people (including myself) are able to use GUIminer and others can't – I'm still investigating.

You might wanna redirect your hashing power to one of the other pools:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166130.0 or
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=164569.msg1724498#msg1724498

[maxmint]

Hmm,
My miner says i have 6 accepted shares at the moment, but i'm not in the list on the statspage yet. :s

I'm mining at 6.6Mh/s so not expecting much anyway :p

Are you using GUIMiner by chance?

[Bytas]

yup, but i thought your pool was better than the provious one because you got GUIminer to work XD
I guess i'll move to another miner tomorrow.

[maxmint]

yup, but i thought your pool was better than the provious one because you got GUIminer to work XD
I guess i'll move to another miner tomorrow.

Yeah, I thought too... GUIMiner is working for me – actually, I set up this pool because I wanted it to work with GUIMiner so I could use it myself.
But obviously there's something I don't understand yet, but I'll try to figure that out. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[armodar]

I'd join with one of my dedicated rigs but 5% is wayyy too much...

[Bytas]

no problem mate.

my username is 8b6cjHSWkLJjkmWKXVjoKaoeEpZb3VtSi7 if that helps you troubleshooting
Currently on 10 shares.
I'll try another miner tomorrow.

[Craftyman]

Ok I got it working. I'm getting immature coins, what does that mean?

[maxmint]

Ok I got it working. I'm getting immature coins, what does that mean?

You're gettin freshly minted coins. Generated coins have to get included in 120 blocks ("mature") before they can be spent.

[BitHits]

2013-04-06 04:25:09: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:09, checking for stratum...
2013-04-06 04:25:09: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:09, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (Juniper)
2013-04-06 04:25:09: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:09, diverted to stratum on 54.225.76.105:6327
2013-04-06 04:25:09: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:09, Setting new difficulty: 0.999984741211
2013-04-06 04:25:10: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:10, authorization failed with 8cPyQXE4sc5tZEVwBkzxoTrJdp6esb4YPY:8@54.225.76.105:6327
2013-04-06 04:25:10: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:10, Setting new difficulty: 0.999984741211
2013-04-06 04:25:13: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:13, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2

16 shares accepted, still not showing up on /static/ page

[maxmint]

2013-04-06 04:25:09: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:09, checking for stratum...
2013-04-06 04:25:09: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:09, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (Juniper)
2013-04-06 04:25:09: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:09, diverted to stratum on 54.225.76.105:6327
2013-04-06 04:25:09: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:09, Setting new difficulty: 0.999984741211
2013-04-06 04:25:10: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:10, authorization failed with 8cPyQXE4sc5tZEVwBkzxoTrJdp6esb4YPY:8@54.225.76.105:6327
2013-04-06 04:25:10: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:10, Setting new difficulty: 0.999984741211
2013-04-06 04:25:13: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 04:25:13, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2

16 shares accepted, still not showing up on /static/ page

Are you using GUIMiner?

[BitHits]

yes

2013-04-06 06:20:19: Running command: poclbm.exe 8cPyQXE4sc5tZEVwBkzxoTrJdp6esb4YPY:8@54.225.76.105:6327 --device=0 --platform=0 --verbose -r1 -v -w 128
2013-04-06 06:20:19: Listener for "54.225.76.105" started
2013-04-06 06:20:21: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 06:20:21, checking for stratum...
2013-04-06 06:20:21: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 06:20:21, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (Juniper)
2013-04-06 06:20:21: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 06:20:21, diverted to stratum on 54.225.76.105:6327
2013-04-06 06:20:21: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 06:20:21, Setting new difficulty: 0.999984741211
2013-04-06 06:20:22: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 06:20:22, authorization failed with 8cPyQXE4sc5tZEVwBkzxoTrJdp6esb4YPY:8@54.225.76.105:6327
2013-04-06 06:20:22: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 06:20:22, Setting new difficulty: 0.999984741211
2013-04-06 06:20:25: Listener for "54.225.76.105": 54.225.76.105:6327 06/04/2013 06:20:25, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2

[maxmint]

yes

I'm aware of the problem. I myself connect without problems with GUIMiner, but I know of others who can't connect properly.
I'm sorry but I currently have no solution for this, but I'm still trying to get a workaround.

[ingrownpocket]

8ZzF56YdFY7aDpWL5de5TUCbNkLcVt6o9N

257 Mhash/s
15+ shares

EDIT:
34 shares and I still don't see my address.
I'm turning it off.

[BitHits]

Other BTE Pools with a 'stratum'  option/port seem to work fine with GUIMiner, might want to look into that.

[zulzedd]

What is wrong?

[frga13]

no block more then 17 hours...  out of luck

[frga13]

The faucet has so many coins,i bet in 7 days you would have nearly 1000 coins.

khm, what? I didn't understand a thing 

[maxmint]

no block more then 17 hours...  out of luck

2 in a row right now – seems we're lucky again

[bcdvojka]

How many shares should i post before i'd see myself on the list?
im worried, i've sent more than 400 now and still cant find myself

[maxmint]

How many shares should i post before i'd see myself on the list?
im worried, i've sent more than 400 now and still cant find myself

Oh that's bad, you definitely should be on the list after a couple of shares or it might not work for your miner.
Could you let me know your payout address?

[bcdvojka]

8FVyMSZWv8jndQAXauyDXd8BrjBpXFqa2A

i stoped mining now, i've used guiminer scrypt tho

[maxmint]

8FVyMSZWv8jndQAXauyDXd8BrjBpXFqa2A

Found you in the logs, got a couple of these:

2013-04-08 15:07:35.787375 Worker 8FVyMSZWv8jndQAXauyDXd8BrjBpXFqa2A submitted share with hash > target:
2013-04-08 15:07:35.787624     Hash:   79ade484a933da6a02373afebde7fed179c2c38baaaa1b1b39365228dcc38447
2013-04-08 15:07:35.787726     Target: ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

i stoped mining now, i've used guiminer scrypt tho

I think you can't use scrypt for bytecoin, it's SHA-256

[biternana]

Why is the hashrate on the mainpage doesn't shown any more?

[maxmint]

Why is the hashrate on the mainpage doesn't shown any more?

It seemed to be inaccurate lately, but I activated it again.

[eeh]

I've mined 614 shares since last night.

But I still don't see my token on the list.

8LvhdUo1p4q7Rx7zHxJuxe2YA6vu3DNX95

Can you check?

UPDATE: If you can help me figure out what's going wrong, I can start mining again. Right now I'm supplying about 1/10th of the pool hash.

[atrane21]

so i pointed my least powerful card here to see how things would go (260mh/s) but man it takes a while to find a block. if i'm pushing that much (not a lot) and the whole pool is only 800-900mh/s i guess everyone else is cpu mining?

[brie]

so i pointed my least powerful card here to see how things would go (260mh/s) but man it takes a while to find a block. if i'm pushing that much (not a lot) and the whole pool is only 800-900mh/s i guess everyone else is cpu mining?

Yeah, I've got a bunch of little guys mining at my pool as well, Bytecoin is still in the domain of CPU mining it seems. Maria 2.0 wins again!

[atrane21]

i was going to setup solo mining but not sure if that'd be worth it either. I was just looking to make a couple coins in a new currency and see how things go.

[brie]

i was going to setup solo mining but not sure if that'd be worth it either. I was just looking to make a couple coins in a new currency and see how things go.

Unless you've got a mining farm, solo mining bytecoins isn't the way to go right now. Try mining in a pool!

[atrane21]

yea i know. i have 2 rigs (7 cards) setup but mining LTC right now. I'm part of this pool with my little 6850 just takes forever.

[brie]

yea i know. i have 2 rigs (7 cards) setup but mining LTC right now. I'm part of this pool with my little 6850 just takes forever.

I have another 700Mh/s on the way today to run in addition to my 6970.

[maxmint]

This pools is now closed.
Thanks everyone who participated!