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

[Adeel06]

WHAT IS SLUSH'S POOL INFO?!!!! :{!

-Adeel

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WHAT IS SLUSH'S POOL INFO?!!!! :{!

-Adeel

From the FAQ:

What host, login and password I should use in my miner?

You need to use stratum-enabled miner (e.g. cgminer or bfgminer are fine, guiminer not necessarily - it depends). Then use stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 as host. As login and password you can use the default worker1, i.e. login pool_login.worker1 and its password (not password of your pool login!).

[vesperwillow]

I love slush's pool, been using it exclusively for months now. I happened to see something about the POT (pay on target) method on Ozcoin where you get more shares if you're the guy who finds the block, than with PPS. Intrigued I decided to give it a shot, and I'm liking it.

I'm wondering if slush would consider adding this in as an option for workers to choose?

Has anyone else tried POT long term? So far my results are favorable.

[Trongersoll]

I love slush's pool, been using it exclusively for months now. I happened to see something about the POT (pay on target) method on Ozcoin where you get more shares if you're the guy who finds the block, than with PPS. Intrigued I decided to give it a shot, and I'm liking it.

I'm wondering if slush would consider adding this in as an option for workers to choose?

Has anyone else tried POT long term? So far my results are favorable.

If you give the finder more, you give everyone else less. I've never found a block and don't expect to. this means that i'd just get less all the time. 

[slappo]

So butterfly labs just fudged my order and only sent me 1 out of the 2 mining boxes i ordered, which are both Jalapeno's
I called them and they are sending me another one right away.

In the meantime though, the 1 they sent me is hashing at 8.3 GH/s

Edit: Forgot to mention, they have excellent customer service.

[bobsmoke]

block 267277 with a value of 37.2971608 .... what could be the reason? someone paying high fees for a transfer?

[STT]

Some people typo the amount they want to send as the fee.   Once its sent, too late

[RenHoek]

Why cant the luck stay around 100% for a while. Why from 192% straight down to 40%  
Almost like the Texas weather, from one extreme to the other in a day.

I suspect something is wrong still with slush's pool from the problems we had on Friday. Only 5 blocks found today.. My backup pool which has a less combined hashing power than Slush found 17 blocks for the day so far!!! What is going on?

i sughest u this as backup: https://coinex.pw/mining/pools/DEM  

[vesperwillow]

I love slush's pool, been using it exclusively for months now. I happened to see something about the POT (pay on target) method on Ozcoin where you get more shares if you're the guy who finds the block, than with PPS. Intrigued I decided to give it a shot, and I'm liking it.

I'm wondering if slush would consider adding this in as an option for workers to choose?

Has anyone else tried POT long term? So far my results are favorable.

If you give the finder more, you give everyone else less. I've never found a block and don't expect to. this means that i'd just get less all the time. 

That's one side of the coin, but it's nice because it gives you the best of both worlds--you get the consistency of pool mining but you still can taste some of the sweetness of finding the block.

I'm actually being paid just as much through POT as I would normally be paid on Slush (actually, I've been getting more consistent returns by a little bit). I've also found 2 or 3 blocks in the past, so it would be neat to see a little higher bump for doing so.

[Trongersoll]

I love slush's pool, been using it exclusively for months now. I happened to see something about the POT (pay on target) method on Ozcoin where you get more shares if you're the guy who finds the block, than with PPS. Intrigued I decided to give it a shot, and I'm liking it.

I'm wondering if slush would consider adding this in as an option for workers to choose?

Has anyone else tried POT long term? So far my results are favorable.

If you give the finder more, you give everyone else less. I've never found a block and don't expect to. this means that i'd just get less all the time. 

That's one side of the coin, but it's nice because it gives you the best of both worlds--you get the consistency of pool mining but you still can taste some of the sweetness of finding the block.

I'm actually being paid just as much through POT as I would normally be paid on Slush (actually, I've been getting more consistent returns by a little bit). I've also found 2 or 3 blocks in the past, so it would be neat to see a little higher bump for doing so.

And this is why there are different pools. if you know of one that works the way you want, use that one. Changing this one to work like that one would just make me look for another pool when i'm content where i am.

[BadAss.Sx]

20685   2013-11-01 17:25:32   6:02:53   1402679276   78300   0.00000000   267325   25.04368520    73 confirmations left

Nice joke, zero results out of 87300 shares? Anyone got this?

[Trongersoll]

20685   2013-11-01 17:25:32   6:02:53   1402679276   78300   0.00000000   267325   25.04368520    73 confirmations left

Nice joke, zero results out of 87300 shares? Anyone got this?

give it time. the Stats often do that for a few minutes after a block is found. Look back in an hour.

[BadAss.Sx]

Gave it a few hours...result:

20685   2013-11-01 17:25:32   6:02:53   1402679276   78300   0.00000000   267325   25.04368520    53 confirmations left

Not nice!

[CMMPro]

I've seen that last a while before as well...it will fix itself before the block confirmation/payout.

We've had a bad run of luck for a few days....let's see some luck balance soon.
Everyone pray to Satoshi to make it rain.

[vesperwillow]

And this is why there are different pools. if you know of one that works the way you want, use that one. Changing this one to work like that one would just make me look for another pool when i'm content where i am.

Well, I just mentioned it as an option because some folks are loyal to pools (as am I), and since I like slush's alot, I figured I'd toss the suggestion. The other pool I'm on lets you choose which payment type you want, so it lets the users tailor it to themselves.

Nobody is trying to push you off.

It seems like slush's pool is hitting some bum luck the past few days which is why I switched to the other pool just to try it out. Just reporting back my findings.

[organofcorti]

......
I'm actually being paid just as much through POT as I would normally be paid on Slush (actually, I've been getting more consistent returns by a little bit). I've also found 2 or 3 blocks in the past, so it would be neat to see a little higher bump for doing so.

POT very carefully designed to be fair (that is in the long term it will pay an average of [Bitcoin reward/network difficulty] for every share submitted).

[visdude]

Is it possible that Slush's pool have a mind of its own?  I've been pointing my miners to other pools for the sake of checking and comparing results.  When I came back to Slush's and resumed mining,  my reward balance was about 0.05 btc less than the last time I checked it out (all confirmed).  In a similar situation last week, I lost about 0.22 btc when I came back to Slush's and resumed mining.  I've let many unexplained losses slide before but this is really getting ridiculous.  I'd hate to make any accusation of pilfering but given these circumstances, I can't help think about it.

Slush, what's going on?  And while I'm at it, you don't even come to your own thread/forum anymore and address concerns of pool members.

Edit:  Changed "skimming" to a more appropriate term -- "pilfering".

[opentoe]

This is why I keep going back to the Guild. They have the performance charts and info that I need to see. While other pools can easily add this info for their pools they do not, which makes me think something is always going on. I'll never trust a low fee / free free pool.

[visdude]

Considering the current value of a coin, these btc cents that are mysteriously disappearing into thin air are no longer trivial; not especially to me as my hashing rate is relatively slow and it takes me an awful long time to accumulate them.  Multiply these btc cents with the number of miner accounts in the pool...I leave this to everybody's imagination.  And speaking of which, there's really no total number of miners/accounts in Slush's stats, is there?

[Mudbankkeith]

Simple answer:- "don't leave any coins in your account", it only takes a few seconds to change your withdrawal amount.
If you don't like or trust the pool(any pool not just this one) then move. The choice is out there.