[Solved] ZEC Claymore v8 on 480 massive difficulty spike?

[K1lo]

Hi all,

Mining on Supranova with latest claymore v8 - seeing for the last couple of days a massive drop in the number of shares being found. Is anyone else seeing this?

Four days ago I was usually seeing a share every 30 seconds judging by the logs. Currently I'm averaging a share every five minutes now, what gives?



Solution - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1696867.msg17026995#msg17026995 - I was using the wrong port on the pool and somehow the difficulty spiked.

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[adaseb]

shares carry different weights

[d57heinz]

Check your logs. See what the diff was a few days ago and compare to current diff.  And thank you for creating new thread for this. Seems many in claymore thread don't understand this.  Much appreciated

Best Regards
d57heinz

[Marvell1]

Nanopool seem to be stealing hash too my monitor shows a consitant 15k h/s but on nano it never goes over 13k h/s and thats all I get paid on

[K1lo]

Check your logs. See what the diff was a few days ago and compare to current diff.  And thank you for creating new thread for this. Seems many in claymore thread don't understand this.  Much appreciated

Best Regards
d57heinz

Yeah I didn't want to clutter things up, plus I wasn't sure if it could be a problem with the pool so I thought a new thread would be best.

So, I looked at the difficulties for the last few days and I spotted the problem..

A few days ago ..
diff:   4352H
then suddenly it jumped from 4352 to:

diff: 139264H
and it hasn't come down since.

Seriously what gives?!

[d57heinz]

See for pool mining that's no good. If you mine solo ok cuz you only want high diff share.  They are essentially stealing hashrate by setting such high diff.    that's why I ask claymore to create solo miner.  The pools are fucking us. Big time!!   If they don't have the server capacity to run a pool they shouldnt be doing it. Bottom line.  The pools are way to centralized and have too many rigs pointed at them.  Can't handle the network load is my best guess

BR

[Marvell1]

See for pool mining that's no good. If you mine solo ok cuz you only want high diff share.  They are essentially stealing hashrate by setting such high diff.    that's why I ask claymore to create solo miner.  The pools are fucking us. Big time!!   If they don't have the server capacity to run a pool they shouldnt be doing it. Bottom line.  The pools are way to centralized and have too many rigs pointed at them.  Can't handle the network load is my best guess

BR

Yeah the pools are really making hay on ZEC since solo mining is so hard due to the fact that you have to install linux and run your own node to solo mine doable but a pain.

Not sure how you expect claymore to make a solo miner for you.  If you want to solo mine install the ZEC node software on a linux box and point all your claymore 8 rigs to it.

[AleScamHole]

See for pool mining that's no good. If you mine solo ok cuz you only want high diff share.  They are essentially stealing hashrate by setting such high diff.    that's why I ask claymore to create solo miner.  The pools are fucking us. Big time!!   If they don't have the server capacity to run a pool they shouldnt be doing it. Bottom line.  The pools are way to centralized and have too many rigs pointed at them.  Can't handle the network load is my best guess

BR

Yeah the pools are really making hay on ZEC since solo mining is so hard due to the fact that you have to install linux and run your own node to solo mine doable but a pain.

Not sure how you expect claymore to make a solo miner for you.  If you want to solo mine install the ZEC node software on a linux box and point all your claymore 8 rigs to it.

luckpool.org ....

[adaseb]

Your best bet is to ask in the Suprnova thread, the 200K diff is way too high. Seems like a bug.

[Marvell1]

See for pool mining that's no good. If you mine solo ok cuz you only want high diff share.  They are essentially stealing hashrate by setting such high diff.    that's why I ask claymore to create solo miner.  The pools are fucking us. Big time!!   If they don't have the server capacity to run a pool they shouldnt be doing it. Bottom line.  The pools are way to centralized and have too many rigs pointed at them.  Can't handle the network load is my best guess

BR

Yeah the pools are really making hay on ZEC since solo mining is so hard due to the fact that you have to install linux and run your own node to solo mine doable but a pain.

Not sure how you expect claymore to make a solo miner for you.  If you want to solo mine install the ZEC node software on a linux box and point all your claymore 8 rigs to it.

luckpool.org ....

um no isnt that the pool run by that guy who stole a bunch of coins from miners on ZEC launch day, the fker stil owes me nearly 1 ZEC which was worth like 2-3 btc back then

[AleScamHole]

See for pool mining that's no good. If you mine solo ok cuz you only want high diff share.  They are essentially stealing hashrate by setting such high diff.    that's why I ask claymore to create solo miner.  The pools are fucking us. Big time!!   If they don't have the server capacity to run a pool they shouldnt be doing it. Bottom line.  The pools are way to centralized and have too many rigs pointed at them.  Can't handle the network load is my best guess

BR

Yeah the pools are really making hay on ZEC since solo mining is so hard due to the fact that you have to install linux and run your own node to solo mine doable but a pain.

Not sure how you expect claymore to make a solo miner for you.  If you want to solo mine install the ZEC node software on a linux box and point all your claymore 8 rigs to it.

luckpool.org ....

um no isnt that the pool run by that guy who stole a bunch of coins from miners on ZEC launch day, the fker stil owes me nearly 1 ZEC which was worth like 2-3 btc back then

was there ONE pool that didnt fake problems and steal the first few blocks?

[Marvell1]

See for pool mining that's no good. If you mine solo ok cuz you only want high diff share.  They are essentially stealing hashrate by setting such high diff.    that's why I ask claymore to create solo miner.  The pools are fucking us. Big time!!   If they don't have the server capacity to run a pool they shouldnt be doing it. Bottom line.  The pools are way to centralized and have too many rigs pointed at them.  Can't handle the network load is my best guess

BR

Yeah the pools are really making hay on ZEC since solo mining is so hard due to the fact that you have to install linux and run your own node to solo mine doable but a pain.

Not sure how you expect claymore to make a solo miner for you.  If you want to solo mine install the ZEC node software on a linux box and point all your claymore 8 rigs to it.

luckpool.org ....

um no isnt that the pool run by that guy who stole a bunch of coins from miners on ZEC launch day, the fker stil owes me nearly 1 ZEC which was worth like 2-3 btc back then

was there ONE pool that didnt fake problems and steal the first few blocks?

Alot did but his was the worst since alot of folks like me NEVER got thier payouts , other pools payed out way less and way late

[AleScamHole]

See for pool mining that's no good. If you mine solo ok cuz you only want high diff share.  They are essentially stealing hashrate by setting such high diff.    that's why I ask claymore to create solo miner.  The pools are fucking us. Big time!!   If they don't have the server capacity to run a pool they shouldnt be doing it. Bottom line.  The pools are way to centralized and have too many rigs pointed at them.  Can't handle the network load is my best guess

BR

Yeah the pools are really making hay on ZEC since solo mining is so hard due to the fact that you have to install linux and run your own node to solo mine doable but a pain.

Not sure how you expect claymore to make a solo miner for you.  If you want to solo mine install the ZEC node software on a linux box and point all your claymore 8 rigs to it.

luckpool.org ....

um no isnt that the pool run by that guy who stole a bunch of coins from miners on ZEC launch day, the fker stil owes me nearly 1 ZEC which was worth like 2-3 btc back then

was there ONE pool that didnt fake problems and steal the first few blocks?

Alot did but his was the worst since alot of folks like me NEVER got thier payouts , other pools payed out way less and way late

ahh, now that IS shifty.. ya i mined at supernova, i got the "tx's are sent" but "returned" 8 hours later and resent (heh,heh)

[Marvell1]

See for pool mining that's no good. If you mine solo ok cuz you only want high diff share.  They are essentially stealing hashrate by setting such high diff.    that's why I ask claymore to create solo miner.  The pools are fucking us. Big time!!   If they don't have the server capacity to run a pool they shouldnt be doing it. Bottom line.  The pools are way to centralized and have too many rigs pointed at them.  Can't handle the network load is my best guess

BR

Yeah the pools are really making hay on ZEC since solo mining is so hard due to the fact that you have to install linux and run your own node to solo mine doable but a pain.

Not sure how you expect claymore to make a solo miner for you.  If you want to solo mine install the ZEC node software on a linux box and point all your claymore 8 rigs to it.

luckpool.org ....

um no isnt that the pool run by that guy who stole a bunch of coins from miners on ZEC launch day, the fker stil owes me nearly 1 ZEC which was worth like 2-3 btc back then

was there ONE pool that didnt fake problems and steal the first few blocks?

Alot did but his was the worst since alot of folks like me NEVER got thier payouts , other pools payed out way less and way late

ahh, now that IS shifty.. ya i mined at supernova, i got the "tx's are sent" but "returned" 8 hours later and resent (heh,heh)

I'd rather insyall my own node and solo mine than pay somone who already ripped me off 1% lol , but idk if i had a larger hash rate i would try it possibly

[philipma1957]

Check your logs. See what the diff was a few days ago and compare to current diff.  And thank you for creating new thread for this. Seems many in claymore thread don't understand this.  Much appreciated

Best Regards
d57heinz

Yeah I didn't want to clutter things up, plus I wasn't sure if it could be a problem with the pool so I thought a new thread would be best.

So, I looked at the difficulties for the last few days and I spotted the problem..

A few days ago ..
diff:   4352H
then suddenly it jumped from 4352 to:

diff: 139264H
and it hasn't come down since.

Seriously what gives?!

So how much hash rate do you have?

If you have multiple rigs say 1000 H/s a rig and you give them the same worker name it might help.

As it would see 2000 h vs 1000 h. So if the diff is always 139264. 2000h vs 1000h  would be twice the speed for your shares and they would come every 2.5 minutes vs every 5

[antantti]

OP is using nicehash port for some reason.

edit: change your port to 2142, 2143 is high difficulty port for nicehash miners.

[ioglnx]

pointless accusing thread.
u can set static diff..that said this thread aims something else.

[K1lo]

pointless accusing thread.
u can set static diff..that said this thread aims something else.

Hardly pointless as I was having an issue and seeking advice as well as wondering if others were experiencing this.

OP is using nicehash port for some reason.

edit: change your port to 2142, 2143 is high difficulty port for nicehash miners.

Huh strange, it worked all this time without fault. As you suggested I changed the port to 2142 and it's working much better now. Diff currently is 1088H.

Many thanks for your help!  

EDIT: now there's another strange problem - before I was getting about 190H/s with Claymore v8. Now I've changed ports and the difficulty is lower, I'm only seeing a hashrate of 160 H/s 

[antantti]

EDIT: now there's another strange problem - before I was getting about 190H/s with Claymore v8. Now I've changed ports and the difficulty is lower, I'm only seeing a hashrate of 160 H/s 

You need to try some pool that has static difficulty ports and see if that helps.
 
There are reports share difficulty affecting power consumption and hashrate, cannot confirm though.

[mewhoyou]

pointless accusing thread.
u can set static diff..that said this thread aims something else.

Hardly pointless as I was having an issue and seeking advice as well as wondering if others were experiencing this.

OP is using nicehash port for some reason.

edit: change your port to 2142, 2143 is high difficulty port for nicehash miners.

Huh strange, it worked all this time without fault. As you suggested I changed the port to 2142 and it's working much better now. Diff currently is 1088H.

Many thanks for your help!  

EDIT: now there's another strange problem - before I was getting about 190H/s with Claymore v8. Now I've changed ports and the difficulty is lower, I'm only seeing a hashrate of 160 H/s 

how do you change to 2142? you mean the port :2142?