Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[mininganon]

cgminer -T --config /config/cgminer.conf
 [2013-10-16 22:35:43] Started cgminer 3.4.0                    
 [2013-10-16 22:35:43] Loaded configuration file /config/cgminer.conf                    
 [2013-10-16 22:35:43] Probing for an alive pool

just hangs and put 50btc in now and checked the config again, already did the replace manuver, hard reset...

[2013-10-16 22:36:43] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.                   
 [2013-10-16 22:36:43] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input                   
 [2013-10-16 22:36:43] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers                   
 [2013-10-16 22:36:43] Pool: 0  URL: http://pool.50btc.com:8332  User: mininganon@redacted  Password: 123

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[Phoenix1969]

starting cgminer from the putty window didnt work well for me either...
but restarts fine from the gui
also ... take the "Http://" off the stratum address, that causes problems as well

[frankenmint]

cgminer -T --config /config/cgminer.conf
 [2013-10-16 22:35:43] Started cgminer 3.4.0                    
 [2013-10-16 22:35:43] Loaded configuration file /config/cgminer.conf                    
 [2013-10-16 22:35:43] Probing for an alive pool

just hangs and put 50btc in now and checked the config again, already did the replace manuver, hard reset...

[2013-10-16 22:36:43] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.                    
 [2013-10-16 22:36:43] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input                    
 [2013-10-16 22:36:43] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers                    
 [2013-10-16 22:36:43] Pool: 0  URL: http://pool.50btc.com:8332  User: mininganon@redacted  Password: 123

dumb quesiton to ask you but did you check to be sure that your ports match correctly?  also did you be sure to set stratum+tcp and not getwork protocol?  Something like Stratum+tcp://pool.50btc.com:3333?

[mininganon]

CGMiner status: Running (pid=7089 6947) in GUI?!

I think CGminer is messed up some how

[Phoenix1969]

hes not even using the stratum address.... use it.   getwork is dead

[btc_uzr]

CGMiner status: Running (pid=7089 6947) in GUI?!

I think CGminer is messed up some how

you started it twice I guess, had the same behavior in this case some days ago
what does the pool report ?

check it via
ps | grep cgminer

[mininganon]

OMFG I HATE BITCOIN MING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's working again... this is one of the worst experiences ever! Im back in CGminer

I would hug each of you if I could thanks, sorry about my public panic attack

Crazy part is I'm not sure how I fixed it?

[frankenmint]

OMFG I HATE BITCOIN MING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's working again... this is one of the worst experiences ever! Im back in CGminer

I would hug each of you if I could thanks, sorry about my public panic attack

it took me forever to figure out how to configure stratum correctly using mining proxy.exe (using mpbm and fpgas so I didn't really have much of a choice once I tried with BFGminer and it failed miserably)  Also I always had trouble until I realized to always check for http or not and also to double check  the port settings.

[mininganon]

50btc.com is my backup I find eligius is better I think I fixed something then one of the pools got messed up as I think Cg was putting eligius on http.
Edit: yea I guess I was on the wrong port / not stratum on 50btc... Thanks again

[frankenmint]

50btc.com is my backup I find eligius is better I think I fixed something then one of the pools got messed up as I think Cg was putting eligius on http.

why?  I'm asking in earnest.


I know we all say that it doesnt matter which pool is used as they balance out over time but I think that is false.  To me, you would want to be part of the larger pool getting the majority of blocks solved such that you have the highest chance of earning btc within a day.  I would think that picking a smaller pool such as something like ozarks pool or slush or possibly eligus pool you will see a larger proportion of shares per block solved, but that you wouldnt see this payout nearly as often (maybe you would be lucky and your pool would solve one block per day)  My point is that I think you would see a larger per share reward if mining the same hashpower on a smaller pool but it would happen less often...so much less often that you end up losing btc when comparing day to day performance within the same difficulty cycle.

[mininganon]

Yes I see your point and may switch back now that I know to use port 3333 on 50btc, I'll see how that goes and give a shout back.

I just saw my avg on Eligius was better than 50btc so I switched, not to much deeper than that. The payouts are regular there and I'm holding it for a while anyways. I get when my machine is in a good mood (literally) it will get 475ghs+, other wise it's 465ghs+ on 50btc. Not huge but noticeable.

[btc_uzr]

50btc.com is my backup I find eligius is better I think I fixed something then one of the pools got messed up as I think Cg was putting eligius on http.

why?  I'm asking in earnest.


I know we all say that it doesnt matter which pool is used as they balance out over time but I think that is false.  To me, you would want to be part of the larger pool getting the majority of blocks solved such that you have the highest chance of earning btc within a day.  I would think that picking a smaller pool such as something like ozarks pool or slush or possibly eligus pool you will see a larger proportion of shares per block solved, but that you wouldnt see this payout nearly as often (maybe you would be lucky and your pool would solve one block per day)  My point is that I think you would see a larger per share reward if mining the same hashpower on a smaller pool but it would happen less often...so much less often that you end up losing btc when comparing day to day performance within the same difficulty cycle.

indeed.
from this viewpoint the best case imaginable would be a single pool, but not a centralized one for sure!
so a merge of a p2pool-like implementation into bitcoind would offer both: decentralization and most frequent payout possible with 0% fee

[nightengale]

At this point it's become as much about the principle. In my view, the early shipments got early shipments, the latter orders have been offered refunds, and those of us in the middle are getting screwed. My latest message to customer service, after Emilia told me they could not offer compensation, when I wasn't even asking for compensation:

"I'm not asking for compensation. I'm asking for a refund, like those who ordered after me are being offered. I will pay for return shipping. We were told that refunds would be offered up until the point of our orders shipping, but two weeks before mine shipped, we were told there were no more refunds. Then my order is suddenly marked as "shipped" two weeks later (even though I still have no tracking number), refunds are resumed, but I'm told I'm not eligible because my order has already supposedly shipped. Does this sound fair to you? I'm not asking for compensation. I'm just asking for the opportunity to get the refund that was part of the terms of my order. Refunds up to the point of shipping were part of the terms offered by KnC. I will even pay for the return shipping. Please, in the name of fairness, consider this."

This blows.

[frankenmint]

50btc.com is my backup I find eligius is better I think I fixed something then one of the pools got messed up as I think Cg was putting eligius on http.

why?  I'm asking in earnest.


I know we all say that it doesnt matter which pool is used as they balance out over time but I think that is false.  To me, you would want to be part of the larger pool getting the majority of blocks solved such that you have the highest chance of earning btc within a day.  I would think that picking a smaller pool such as something like ozarks pool or slush or possibly eligus pool you will see a larger proportion of shares per block solved, but that you wouldnt see this payout nearly as often (maybe you would be lucky and your pool would solve one block per day)  My point is that I think you would see a larger per share reward if mining the same hashpower on a smaller pool but it would happen less often...so much less often that you end up losing btc when comparing day to day performance within the same difficulty cycle.

indeed.
from this viewpoint the best case imaginable would be a single pool, but not a centralized one for sure!
so a merge of a p2pool-like implementation into bitcoind would offer both: decentralization and most frequent payout possible with 0% fee

Ok so my experience goes like this  - I got some BEs for super cheap maybe 8 weeks ago.  (around 20 bucks each shipped)  I have them all pointed to two different pools:  1st one was bitminter pool which was hashing around 35 TH at that time.  I was able to get coin steadily, but then one day I just stopped getting paid It was hashing but bitminter ran into a string of bad luck, zero payouts for a day straight.  I was using cex.io at that point and saw that I could point my gear towards ghash.io pool and decided to do that instead as I knew that was a guaranteeds 200+TH all mining for that single pool, yes I did get small payouts per block, but now I'm seeing a block reward on average once every 20-30 minutes not just from once or twice per day. (isnt it doubled now to approximately 400 TH+) (didnt really keep a good comparison between pools for coins earned as the difficulty jumped)...that is what made me switch to staying on ghash.io for my btc mining.  HOWEVER, I am seeing that my hashrate seems to fluxuate a lot more from Ghash.io whereas bitminter seems to have less variation in hashrate and seemed to keep it high consistently. 

I....just like you all......want to make as much money as possible have hashpower wasted as little as possible. 

[btc_uzr]

thanks for sharing experience.

I agree on what you say and I see that -if this would be applied by all- we would end up with one centralized pool in control of everything
therefore I see a need for a next step in evolution, from solo-mining to pool-mining to decentralized p2pool/solo-mining

*edit:
p2pool doesn't work well with KnCMiners right now, do not wast GH/s (just in case one might think I'm suggesting to use it)

[joeventura]

No of course, it's my prediction, based on my reasoning.

Your "reasoning" is clouded by being a knc-fanboi. The hashrate is not going to "level out" for quite some time.

Hashrate will level out when peoples want/need for money/greed levels out.

[btc_uzr]

At this point it's become as much about the principle. In my view, the early shipments got early shipments, the latter orders have been offered refunds, and those of us in the middle are getting screwed. My latest message to customer service, after Emilia told me they could not offer compensation, when I wasn't even asking for compensation:

"I'm not asking for compensation. I'm asking for a refund, like those who ordered after me are being offered. I will pay for return shipping. We were told that refunds would be offered up until the point of our orders shipping, but two weeks before mine shipped, we were told there were no more refunds. Then my order is suddenly marked as "shipped" two weeks later (even though I still have no tracking number), refunds are resumed, but I'm told I'm not eligible because my order has already supposedly shipped. Does this sound fair to you? I'm not asking for compensation. I'm just asking for the opportunity to get the refund that was part of the terms of my order. Refunds up to the point of shipping were part of the terms offered by KnC. I will even pay for the return shipping. Please, in the name of fairness, consider this."

This blows.

Do you really want a refund on your order ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bitcoin-Miner-KNC-Jupiter-576-GH-s-IN-HAND-not-preorder-/190933709851?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c7489341b

*you can sell it with profit

[Ytterbium]

5% is 5%... Where does it say that's just for NMC? The top of eligius page says 105% pps, and doesn't specify NMC only on that.  in the end, it's not 5%. Dishonest or misleading at the very least.

It doesn't even say on the Eligius homepage anything about % PPS or anything about NMC for that matter yet because I haven't had a chance to update it.

The forum thread here is titled: Eligius: ASIC, no registration, no fee CPPSRB BTC + 105% PPS NMC, 877 #

This is in no way misleading or even ambiguous.  It says 105% PPS NMC, and the pool pays exactly that with roughly daily NMC payouts.

-wk

Phoenix1969 thought eligius would pay him 105% PPS overall, something only Pirate ever did to launder his ponzi.
What eligius apparently does is pay 5% extra on NMC. I guess Luke has tons of namecoins ?

Eligius has a huge buffer of namecoins, yes.  That combined with not everyone desiring to be paid NMC makes it easy to provide 105% PPS for NMC.

Thank you for explaining that Wizkid  much appriciated.
So, NMC is 105%
and BTC is 100%
that's still the best around.

It's not 100% on BTC, it's 100% minus TX fees, which are probably around 1-2%

[1l1l11ll1l]

No of course, it's my prediction, based on my reasoning.

Your "reasoning" is clouded by being a knc-fanboi. The hashrate is not going to "level out" for quite some time.

Think about it. This shipment has been the most disruptive major volume of hashrate unleashed upon the network in a short period of time. You're seeing the effect of that. KnC aren't shipping for another month. Who else is going to have such a marked effect in that time? When they do ship on the following occasion it's unlikely to be equal to what's shipping now, and even if it was it wouldn't have the effect the current outlay will, because the current shipment will already be part of the total network hashrate at that point. They will not be shipping anything like what they are shipping now PLUS what already existed. Therefore the increase will not be as proportional and be more incremental. What you are seeing now will be the largest single increase - proportionately - for a given finite period.

Why would you use logic instead of FUD? You don't make sense here in these forums.

[FeedbackLoop]

5% is 5%... Where does it say that's just for NMC? The top of eligius page says 105% pps, and doesn't specify NMC only on that.  in the end, it's not 5%. Dishonest or misleading at the very least.

It doesn't even say on the Eligius homepage anything about % PPS or anything about NMC for that matter yet because I haven't had a chance to update it.

The forum thread here is titled: Eligius: ASIC, no registration, no fee CPPSRB BTC + 105% PPS NMC, 877 #

This is in no way misleading or even ambiguous.  It says 105% PPS NMC, and the pool pays exactly that with roughly daily NMC payouts.

-wk

Phoenix1969 thought eligius would pay him 105% PPS overall, something only Pirate ever did to launder his ponzi.
What eligius apparently does is pay 5% extra on NMC. I guess Luke has tons of namecoins ?

Eligius has a huge buffer of namecoins, yes.  That combined with not everyone desiring to be paid NMC makes it easy to provide 105% PPS for NMC.

Thank you for explaining that Wizkid  much appriciated.
So, NMC is 105%
and BTC is 100%
that's still the best around.

It's not 100% on BTC, it's 100% minus TX fees, which are probably around 1-2%

erm... or maybe everything gets sent in the 25 Bitcoin transaction that the pool mines?? How about that?

What's this with people picking on the pool with the best fees (absence of, plus tx fees to miners, plus 105% NMC!!!) by far?