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

[irishmick]

I switched to slush's pool and then regretably back to my previous pool again. I did leave Slush as my backup but the reason I switched is I got  and still get constant "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC". I don't have this with other pools and am using win7 guiminer.

[pokermon919]

I switched to slush's pool and then regretably back to my previous pool again. I did leave Slush as my backup but the reason I switched is I got  and still get constant "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC". I don't have this with other pools and am using win7 guiminer.

I feel your pain, if this keeps up for another day or two I will also be looking for another pool. I hate it when I'm out and I check the site only to see my miners are down. It usually reconnects, but twice already when I went out and one of them refuse to reconnect, so I had to go home just to click the start button again...

[tunganh91]

Anyone can predict when the difficult raise ??

[Hawkix]

Damn!

5043   2011-06-02 16:46:17   3:05:53   1671479  -     invalid
5042   2011-06-02 13:40:24   1:48:14   981119     -     invalid

Bloody long runs .. and with no payout! Probably due to network problems these precious block did not get to propagate fast enough.

[pokermon919]

Damn!

5043   2011-06-02 16:46:17   3:05:53   1671479  -     invalid
5042   2011-06-02 13:40:24   1:48:14   981119     -     invalid

Bloody long runs .. and with no payout! Probably due to network problems these precious block did not get to propagate fast enough.

I was just about to ask a general "wtf..."

How is that even right?

[Druas]

I know you've got a lot on your plate, Slush, but any word on long polling?

Wondering same thing.

[Veldy]

Anybody notice that EVERY pool [at least that I have looked at] is reporting those invalids?  BTCMine doesn't, but they had a technical problem where they were cycling the same data over and over or something like that.  It lead to a 10 hour round which seems to be where the invalid blocks were.  So, who actually won the invalid blocks that so many pools are seeing?

[marcus_of_augustus]

Anybody notice that EVERY pool [at least that I have looked at] is reporting those invalids?  BTCMine doesn't, but they had a technical problem where they were cycling the same data over and over or something like that.  It lead to a 10 hour round which seems to be where the invalid blocks were.  So, who actually won the invalid blocks that so many pools are seeing?

I have a hunch it was an orphanning attack but I need to build up some more evidence. It would be instructive to track those blocks that beat out the pool blocks that were orphanned.

[Jack of Diamonds]

The 'problems with bitcoin rpc' is even worse now than it was yesterday. Looked at my logs and my miners are reporting almost one error per 10 seconds.
At multiple ghash/s performance potentially wasted, going to have to switch to other pools for now unfortunately.

[slush]

I'm waiting on Linode developers response, I forced them before few minutes again. I hope it will be solved today.

[Bat]

Another question (I've searched full topic, no found, but no extensive read)

I've one worker with very few power (0.6MH/s)
Login   Password    Found blocks    Current shares    Score    Last share at   Actions
Bat.user    xxxxxxxxxx    0    0    0    2011-06-03 06:05:40    Edit | Delete

I've started minning yesterday and share is 0
What are the share ? Is it normal it stay to 0 ?

5068    2011-06-03 10:29:48    0:40:22    381928    none    128334    100 confirmations left
5067    2011-06-03 09:49:26    1:15:40    715704    none    128330    96 confirmations left
5066    2011-06-03 08:33:46    0:34:20    321857    none    128324    90 confirmations left
5065    2011-06-03 07:59:26    0:45:58    416687    none    128321    87 confirmations left
5064    2011-06-03 07:13:28    0:02:35    21744    none    128309    75 confirmations left
5063    2011-06-03 07:10:53    0:39:17    364832    none    128307    73 confirmations left
5062    2011-06-03 06:31:36    1:20:22    744355    0.00000579    128302    68 confirmations left
5061    2011-06-03 05:11:14    0:26:58    245964    0.00000687    128292    58 confirmations left
5060    2011-06-03 04:44:16    0:16:03    145454    none    128287    53 confirmations left

For a lot of block there is no reward ? What's the point ? There is a minimal amount under there is no reward at all ?
Or it is related of full block processing ?

Thanks in advance !

[bulin]

dude have mercy 0,6 MH is nothing u know?

[slush]

For a lot of block there is no reward ? What's the point ? There is a minimal amount under there is no reward at all ?
Or it is related of full block processing ?

Hello, 0.6Mhash/s is _really_ slow worker, so your reward is +- fine. With such slow computer, you're hitting shares just for few blocks per day...

[slush]

Damn!

5043   2011-06-02 16:46:17   3:05:53   1671479  -     invalid
5042   2011-06-02 13:40:24   1:48:14   981119     -     invalid

Bloody long runs .. and with no payout! Probably due to network problems these precious block did not get to propagate fast enough.

Good news! Marking those blocks as invalid was network glitch. I investigated them (as I do for every invalid blocks) and found they were generated by pool. So you can check stats now, your reward for those blocks are on your accounts...

[bulin]

Nice work slush , very nice

[Meatball]

Hey, stupid question.  How is it we get 'rewards' every round?  Aren't there rounds where we don't find the 50 BTC and wouldn't get any coins to hand out a reward?  I'm just a bit confused on that aspect of it.

[allinvain]

Hey, stupid question.  How is it we get 'rewards' every round?  Aren't there rounds where we don't find the 50 BTC and wouldn't get any coins to hand out a reward?  I'm just a bit confused on that aspect of it.

Well a round exists only when we find a block. There is always a round, just that some take longer some take a shorter amount of time.

[Meatball]

Ahhh...ok, I get it.  So if a round is 3 hours, there may have been multiple blocks found in that 3 hour span, but that's how long it took the pool to find a block.

Makes perfect sense, gracias

[Meatball]

Slush, you working on the pool?  Lot of connection problems in the last 10-15 mins.

[allinvain]

Ahhh...ok, I get it.  So if a round is 3 hours, there may have been multiple blocks found in that 3 hour span, but that's how long it took the pool to find a block.

Makes perfect sense, gracias

Yep essentially a round is how long it takes the pool to find a block.