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[dacoinminster]

Lately is's crap... submit you shares we'll take them    guess what u got   squat
slush decays too rapidly
the last couple days are ...
but he clames it all averages out
Well I'm NOT seeing that
I'm seeing less pay out per day..pay out per share

Hey Bob. It's time you knew the truth.

We are actually all taking a little bit of your mining profits. It's a conspiracy against you, and we are all benefiting from your loss.

I was supposed to keep this a secret, but my conscience couldn't take it anymore.

I know you will probably leave the pool and never come back because of this, and I will have to live with that, even though I will miss you very much.

[BitterTea]

Lately is's crap... submit you shares we'll take them    guess what u got   squat
slush decays too rapidly
the last couple days are ...
but he clames it all averages out
Well I'm NOT seeing that
I'm seeing less pay out per day..pay out per share

Ok, great. Feel free to take your computational power elsewhere. Constant complaints about a service while continuing to use that service make you seem like a troll.

[jared314]

Is there a way to get the average pool size and pool hash rate at the time of previously solved blocks?
I'm trying to calculate an optimal pool rate, to optimize my payout. My current estimate is 112 GH/s but i don't have enough data.

[slush]

Is there a way to get the average pool size and pool hash rate at the time of previously solved blocks?
I'm trying to calculate an optimal pool rate, to optimize my payout. My current estimate is 112 GH/s but i don't have enough data.

Yes, you can take round duration, count of shares and calculate it for yourself.

Looks like today is quite bad, less blocks than in previous days with lower hashrate. Damn probability.

[Miner-TE]

Anyone else getting a "504 Gateway Time-out" to the web pages?

Miners still active. that's good.

Edit: Never mind.

[dacoinminster]

Is there a way to get the average pool size and pool hash rate at the time of previously solved blocks?
I'm trying to calculate an optimal pool rate, to optimize my payout. My current estimate is 112 GH/s but i don't have enough data.

Also, my UI enhancements greasemonkey script does this calculation for all previous blocks on the stats page. You can get the link from a couple posts ago or post #1 on this thread.

Anyone else getting a "504 Gateway Time-out" to the web pages?

Miners still active. that's good.

I'm getting this too.

edit: it looks fine now

[bobR]

Lately is's crap... submit you shares we'll take them    guess what u got   squat
slush decays too rapidly
the last couple days are ...
but he clames it all averages out
Well I'm NOT seeing that
I'm seeing less pay out per day..pay out per share

Ok, great. Feel free to take your computational power elsewhere. Constant complaints about a service while continuing to use that service make you seem like a troll.

Thanks for AGAIN sayingnothing
you are a troll

[bobR]

Lately is's crap... submit you shares we'll take them    guess what u got   squat
slush decays too rapidly
the last couple days are ...
but he clames it all averages out
Well I'm NOT seeing that
I'm seeing less pay out per day..pay out per share

Hey Bob. It's time you knew the truth.

We are actually all taking a little bit of your mining profits. It's a conspiracy against you, and we are all benefiting from your loss.

I was supposed to keep this a secret, but my conscience couldn't take it anymore.

I know you will probably leave the pool and never come back because of this, and I will have to live with that, even though I will miss you very much.

Thanks for the bs
we really need the bs
makes things seem really important

[slush]

Anyone else getting a "504 Gateway Time-out" to the web pages?
Miners still active. that's good.
Edit: Never mind.

I did few restarts of web server. It didn't affect miners.

[Grinder]

Is there a way to get the average pool size and pool hash rate at the time of previously solved blocks?
I'm trying to calculate an optimal pool rate, to optimize my payout. My current estimate is 112 GH/s but i don't have enough data.

Why would there be an "optimal pool rate"?

[slush]

Tonight the bitcoin instance for sending rewards crashed and started to show corrupted data. So I stopped sending rewards and will have to investigate it manually later today. I have precise logs about what happen, no coins are lost. I'm very sorry for troubles with delayed payouts.

[apophis]

Tonight the bitcoin instance for sending rewards crashed and started to show corrupted data. So I stopped sending rewards and will have to investigate it manually later today. I have precise logs about what happen, no coins are lost. I'm very sorry for troubles with delayed payouts.

Maybe this explains why I delayed coverage of coins my account

[cdhowie]

Tonight the bitcoin instance for sending rewards crashed and started to show corrupted data. So I stopped sending rewards and will have to investigate it manually later today. I have precise logs about what happen, no coins are lost. I'm very sorry for troubles with delayed payouts.

Is this related to the fact that I got a payout early this morning, but no email about it, nor any mention in the payout history on the website?  I'm pretty sure that this payout was correctly processed at least when it comes to all the critical financial data -- my confirmed balance appears to have been adjusted correctly, for example.

[comboy]

It looks like when block is being processed, no getworks are sent. I understand that this is a feature, but could you let miners work even of the fake shares? It causes GPU to cool down for a moment, and as far as I know the worst part about high temperatures are temperature changes. If 90C stays on the card all the time is probably more healthy for it than when you have 80C and cooling every half an hour to 50C (Thermal expansion and stuff). Also for me it causes diablominer to freeze sometimes, but that's some software issue and maybe just my misconfiguration. If it is not possible to implement for you, maybe somebody have some suggestions on how can I keep them busy? I'm quite busy myself lately so something like writing software to switch to local mining or whatever for this time is too much for me.

[dacoinminster]

Tonight the bitcoin instance for sending rewards crashed and started to show corrupted data. So I stopped sending rewards and will have to investigate it manually later today. I have precise logs about what happen, no coins are lost. I'm very sorry for troubles with delayed payouts.

My confirmed reward stopped going up a few hours ago. I'm guessing that is related.

Thought experiment: if a pool operator in a pool this size claimed technical difficulties making payouts, how many bitcoins could he collect before miners would cut their losses and move their miners to mine solo or in another pool? At 150 GHash/Second, a trick like that right now would allow him to collect more than 2000 BTC/day until people started getting wise to what was happening. Compare that to the less than 50 BTC/day he makes collecting 2% and you can see how that might be a profitable exit strategy if he decided he was done being a pool operator.

This is NOT an accusation of any kind, and I am not pulling my miners out of the pool or suggesting that anyone else do so. It's just that this particular problem makes me wonder what would happen if slush were evil.

I think the test for evilness would be whether after 24 hours or so the pool operator started making manual payments to the biggest miners while he worked on fixing the problem. I think that would be sufficient to prove no ill intent.

[cdhowie]

If it is not possible to implement for you, maybe somebody have some suggestions on how can I keep them busy?

A simple idea might be to write a proxy that, if the remote server returns failure or an invalid getwork response, generates some random crap and throws it at the miner so it will keep churning.

[CryptikEnigma]

I just signed up, but when I click start mining it says 'unknown login CryptikEnigma', I'm positive I have my username and password right, and I know I'm using the right server, any ideas whats wrong?

[FairUser]

I just signed up, but when I click start mining it says 'unknown login CryptikEnigma', I'm positive I have my username and password right, and I know I'm using the right server, any ideas whats wrong?

If you're having problems with this pool, you're more than welcome @ BitcoinPool.  Plus there are no fees.

[CryptikEnigma]

I just signed up, but when I click start mining it says 'unknown login CryptikEnigma', I'm positive I have my username and password right, and I know I'm using the right server, any ideas whats wrong?

If you're having problems with this pool, you're more than welcome @ BitcoinPool.  Plus there are no fees.

Okay I'll try that

[theGECK]

I just signed up, but when I click start mining it says 'unknown login CryptikEnigma', I'm positive I have my username and password right, and I know I'm using the right server, any ideas whats wrong?

Your username is CryptikEnigma.workername (username.workername). It sounds like you are using the poclbm-gui, as that's what I had returned to me when I hit stop, deleted a letter, and then started again.