[4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool

[mdopro1]

Down here too. Just shutdown my machine to give it a break.

[nottm28]

Here's one for the noobs - set a backup pool in cgminer like this

cgminer.exe -o http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -o http://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u USERNAME  -p PASSWORD

Then, when this happens your miners will flip to backup pool...

[bitzip]

pool is down.

My rig is using minepeon and it must have switched to the backup pool which is eclipse.

[desired_username]

Still down. My miner's didn't switch for some reason. :S

[Aahzman]

Ah. ok so it's not just me. boooourns.

[mdopro1]

I tried the eu-stratum trick with BFGminger and it may also be down.

[Trongersoll]

Odd, one of my miners is running, fat, dumb and happy. getting work and  sending results. But my account page says nothing for over a half hour. Do i trust that this is really hooked to a working server? or do i force it to a backup pool?

[Aahzman]

anybody gone to find out what pub Slush is passed out in?

[mdopro1]

Odd, one of my miners is running, fat, dumb and happy. getting work and  sending results. But my account page says nothing for over a half hour. Do i trust that this is really hooked to a working server? or do i force it to a backup pool?

If you ping the mining server it's pinging back but more than half the responses are lost. So it might be a network issue and may work for some and not for others. Just my 2cents

[bitzip]

not just you... just got disconnected from pool

god dammit.  hashing away at BTCGuild now but so rarely go there, I have no idea what my site login is.

Same here!  Had a hard time logging on to eclipse, because I hardly go there.  Now that I'm in, I have confirmed that I'm mining at eclipse now.  At lease I know the my rig will mining at the backup pool.

[icyak]

it is up and running now, for me

[bitzip]

it is up and running now, for me

me too

[MrHempstock]

it is up and running now, for me

Yep, same here.

[cosurgi]

Pool was down for approx. 60 minutes because of unplanned datacentre outage. I'm very sorry for this, everything works again.

https://www.facebook.com/MiningBitcoinCz

[mdopro1]

Good to go.

[nottm28]

Pool was down for approx. 60 minutes because of unplanned datacentre outage. I'm very sorry for this, everything works again.

https://www.facebook.com/MiningBitcoinCz

Didn't know about this FB link - thanks

[UncleGravy]

My cgminer looked like it was happily mining away this morning, shares being accepted etc... but when I looked at my account, it said my hashrate in the last 10 rounds was zero (zero for everything really.

When I restarted cgminer, the account page starts to showing activity again.

Regarding the outage yesterday, do I have to restart cgminer everytime I loose connectivity with the pool? Even though the display on cgminer shows I am getting accepted shares?

[MrHempstock]

DL CGwatcher, it will automate most every scenario you can plan for.

[NoDisco]

Can someone explain.

Slush's pool is hashing at 26337.091 GH/s. The current block is 4+hours. Recent block times are more or less 1- 4 hours.

19420   2013-08-02 18:42:54    0:02:03    
19419   2013-08-02 18:40:51    4:16:27    
19418   2013-08-02 14:24:24    3:09:12    
19417   2013-08-02 11:15:12    0:44:44    
19416    2013-08-02 10:30:28    3:29:36    
19415    2013-08-02 07:00:52    1:09:08    
19414    2013-08-02 05:51:44    1:38:31    
19413    2013-08-02 04:13:13    2:35:45    


BTCGuild are hashing at 71738 GH/s. They report finding blocks roughly every 20-30 minutes, e.g.

   17943   249701   2013-08-02 12:57:56 AM   8625b0eb6ff412eb3e035a8adcd1e676c839e55cb8368e7c9c4df47c2117a487   25.37690003   
   17964   249789   2013-08-02 12:38:42 PM   59c7b329d1e4f8154b15833e5a57e79b09b88f0bfc6295270847be435de972ef   25.20411879   
   17963   249785   2013-08-02 12:12:55 PM   9d5c6f1fb536be0d71b693237ce7e0555f5a1c0db020fcc46adb4e5b581942c5   25.03040000   
   17962   249783   2013-08-02 12:10:10 PM   8223eba76bf5bad0b3daacacd3e33f2823ec5a88a66e9eff005b4453242c52ca   25.19504320   
   17961   249782   2013-08-02 11:56:41 AM   20871327b1808a8a04264468af41a065fb1a4396915a3cb0011146631fe04fd8   25.48635280   
   17960   249777   2013-08-02 11:29:24 AM   cf600004cde7581238d09203d404ff9ad8a0d446c977d0e5031f717fff8b857e   25.14761520   
   17991   249880   2013-08-02 11:04:39 PM   cf137ca85c3154ea9d4d26b0e47647346618a3e362a4a0b955cc0887986d22c4   25.09762002   
   17959   249773   2013-08-02 10:36:13 AM   0996563192577d9c19fb50ba6a91f99d91d3533f9b473cf92e29ba966958290b   25.19141033   
   17990   249876   2013-08-02 10:34:54 PM   2db3c8da38b03b815d6e9568d814a2624b62326911d39314a28beec342075cbf   25.31320001   
   17989   249874   2013-08-02 10:17:55 PM   d65e7f566b3c11f39296cdf2b5835aca0b74fb30b3e06fe7a69274e2962941a8   25.27131003   

How comes BTC are only 3 times bigger, yet find a massive order of magnitude more blocks more regularly?

[eleuthria]

How comes BTC are only 3 times bigger, yet find a massive order of magnitude more blocks more regularly?

Variance is big, even for large pools.  Also...your data from BTC Guild is significantly out of order.  BTC Guild's average block solve time is ~30-45 minutes.  Slush's is ~2 hours (doing rough math).

That is *average* time.  Both pools have rounds lasting seconds/a few minutes, or multiple hours.