[Closed] MineCo.in

[teukon]

Woooooo

Yay.  Hopefully your next block will be quicker.

[1714825787]

1714825787

[teukon]

Woooooo

Yay.  Hopefully your next block will be quicker.

1 hour 35 mins!  That's more like it.

[brwyatt]

OhThankGodFinally! 

And then another 1.5 hours later!

And maybe now people will come back to the pool?

[deti]

Great! We got the 3rd block today!!!

[frownyface]

Woohoo! Finally found a block! High five!!!

[gnar1ta$]

Woohoo! Finally found a block! High five!!!

Maybe you can be happyface now???

[deepceleron]

81   23 Aug - 15:09:52    11964670
82   23 Aug - 16:45:13    95787
83   25 Aug - 09:00:48    2682514
84   25 Aug - 14:03:11    345797
85   25 Aug - 17:29:06    249814
86   27 Aug - 06:11:49    2517946
87   27 Aug - 15:21:45    617078
88   28 Aug - 02:51:13    825202

Average Round ( last 8 ): 2412351 shares
Average Round ( last 7 ): 1047734 (difficulty 1805700)

Some good block solving going on - just a few more lucky rounds needed to make up for that killer block!

[Dacm4n]

Is the current block time normal for this pool? It seems like a like a long time at 1 days 19:19:51.

[deti]

Is the current block time normal for this pool? It seems like a like a long time at 1 days 19:19:51.

Look at the "Statistics" page. There you can see the "Duration".

[Dacm4n]

Is the current block time normal for this pool? It seems like a like a long time at 1 days 19:19:51.

Look at the "Statistics" page. There you can see the "Duration".

Thanks I see some long ones there.

[deepceleron]

Is the current block time normal for this pool? It seems like a like a long time at 1 days 19:19:51.

It's normal, in fact that round was done an hour after your post, and then another block was found in ten hours.
The pool hashrate is lower than it was a few weeks ago, currently 84 Ghash/s. You get payouts less often, but they are worth more.

Let's calculate the expected round time:

Pool hashes per second: 84,000,000,000
Pool hashes per hour: 302,400,000,000,000
Bitcoin average hashes per block solve: 7,635,483,000,000,000 (at current difficulty)
= Average pool round: 25.25 hours

So blocks solves (and their payouts) average once a day at the current total hashrate. With variance, this means you might get some rounds 1/3 this length, and some 3x this length.

Here's a link to the statistics page mentioned above.
You can compare the number of shares per round to the current difficulty, 1777774. It's been a while since a really long round.

(From the hashrate graph, it also looks like some dumb pool hoppers are still jumping on at the start of new rounds, although with the PPLNS payout method they don't earn more for their work than anyone else. You also don't need to quit mining just because a round is longer than expected; if you do, you will miss out on maximum earnings when a block is found.)

[randomguy7]

Wuked, do you plan to add merged mining for namecoins to your pool?

[ChrisLandin]

Any movement on block 125?? Its still stuck at 120 confirms?

[Reikoku]

Hey Wuked,

Nice to see this is still running well.

Will come in IRC later to chat.

[infofront]

Wuked, do you plan to add merged mining for namecoins to your pool?

I'm interested in this as well.

[teukon]

Although it doesn't count for much, I would be interested in this too.

mineco.in is my secondary pool (mainly backup but sometimes I split resources for low variance and I would move the bulk over for a sufficiently good promotion).  Recently my main pool (simplecoin.us PPLNS) had a reboot to upgrade the merged mining implementation to Luke Jr's and my miners consequently switched over to this pool for 2 hours or so.  I'm very much in the market for a second solid merged-mining PPLNS (or double-geo) pool.

I also used to highly recommend this pool (I converted some users, such as bitkoyn, from BTC Guild to mineco.in) but these days I can only recommend merged mining pools.

Anyway, just some thoughts from a fan.  The true userbase comes first of course.

[BitcoinPappi]

Is the pool is currently not reporting stats properly ? 

[deepceleron]

Is the pool is currently not reporting stats properly ?  

Yep, stats look messed up, I'm still mining fine, but the pool reports a flat 3ghash/s total pool hashrate instead of the 60 or so it should show.

Edit: FYI, it seems the stats problem was due to Euro daylight savings time messing up calculations.

[BitcoinPappi]

I see, I continued minning as well. Stats seem to be working back as normal. The worker status in terms of green for active or red , not fixed yet, but thats just a fyi.

Not needed to mine, just a nice to have

[rahl]

Wuked, do you plan to add merged mining for namecoins to your pool?

I would like this as well. I mine just for fun anyway and namecoins is a very interesting project.