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[slush]

Logo became bigger

Please set your zoom in browser back to 100% ;-). Logo has same size for at least one and half year.

However I agree that site design isn't ideal.

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[BTCvFiat]

FWIW stats page looks good from here (Opera Browser, 100% Zoom, 1920 x 1200 res screen, Win 7 x64 w SP1).

Thanks for the great work Slush from a late Bitcoin miner (though I may try my hand in Litecoin mining once I earn 1 BTC from your pool). 

[bwstacker]

 Slush, I have noticed that at times I have trouble getting work from api. I have started to use port 3333 I will tell you if it does any better. I am using cgminer with stratum support. I have noticed the difficulty, I am not making much with my little 800 mhas setup. I have still managed to mine some coins though. Keep up the good work. I have also used eletrum wallet. I like the design of it. A smart person will not lose their wallet. Good thinking on that one. User difined thing you have going on is great thing if you are fast miner. I set mine higher than 1 and I get no share. Got any idea of why? Can I set it to 2 and get 2 shares? Will it hurt my income with my slow hash rate?

[slush]

Slush, I have noticed that at times I have trouble getting work from api.

Old getwork pool (api.bitcoin.cz) isn't maintained too much and there's quite high stale rate. Obviously owners of ~500 Ghash/s hashpower don't care too much. I'm writing them emails, displaying red warnings on website, no way.

I have started to use port 3333. I will tell you if it does any better. I am using cgminer with stratum support.

Well, I'm sure this will be much better .

I have noticed the difficulty, I am not making much with my little 800 mhas setup.

For 800MHash/s setup, the difficulty 1 is fine and I don't recommend you to rise it up.

I set mine higher than 1 and I get no share. Got any idea of why? Can I set it to 2 and get 2 shares? Will it hurt my income with my slow hash rate?

With higher difficulty, you have lower chance to find the share. So  with 800MHash/s the basic difficulty is quite fine.

[slush]

Today I blocked few hundreds of IPs on Getwork pool running old, unmaintained miners even without long polling support. Their owners has been contacted by emails (without any response). If you're affected (=you can access website, but you miners cannot reach api.bitcoin.cz/api2.bitcoin.cz) and you want to fix your miners, install some newer miner and point it to stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333.

[qbits]

Slush,

I'm running 4 workers with hash rates between 400Mh/s and 800Mh/s totaling a little over 2Gh/s. That is 1800 diff1 shares/h or 30 shares/minute. (5-10 shares/minute per worker) (and yes they all run stratum)

Should difficulty increase significantly then shares/minute per worker will drop.

Will then exponential scoring system penalize me for not submitting shares very often?
At the very least my variance should go up.

Does it then make sense for me to "merge" these workers under a single user/pass? Should I use proxy?
Thx.

[slush]

Should difficulty increase significantly then shares/minute per worker will drop.

I'm running 1.6 GHash/s on diff2 and I didn't noticed increased variance in block rewards. For your hashrate I recommend diff2, you'll be fine.

Will then exponential scoring system penalize me for not submitting shares very often?
At the very least my variance should go up.

Penalize - no. Increased variance - theoretically yes. But as far as the difficulty increase isn't aggressive, you won't notice it.

Does it then make sense for me to "merge" these workers under a single user/pass? Should I use proxy?

You don't need to use single worker account, but using the proxy is always a good idea.

[jiyu_shi]

what's the matter :chain fork, stop mining on version 0.8 ?

[hmmmstrange]

Slush is working on the problem. Last word was to continue mining on slush's pool.

[19:51] <@slush> please keep mining and don'ta change anything, it will be fixed soon

[slush]

The problem is fixed now. Unfortunately we were pretty fortunate and some blocks will be orphaned because of this bitcoind issue :-(.

[RoboCoder]

The problem is fixed now. Unfortunately we were pretty fortunate and some blocks will be orphaned because of this bitcoind issue :-(.

That Forking Sucks!


(but at least it appears to be fixed...)

[BTCvFiat]

Current round duration:   3:57:03

All systems normal or everything else taking a while to catch up 

[slush]

It's mining normally now, no need to worry.

[BTCvFiat]

It's mining normally now, no need to worry.

Thanks for the response 

[mameise]

I am using BAMT and since yesterday about lunch time it stopped working and now after a restart still no connection to your pool? I have configured api2  so what can i do?
Thanks

[Camello_AR]

The blocks marked as "invalid", will be recovered, or keep "orphaned" forever? We can´t get the BTC obtaneided with them?

[slush]

The blocks marked as "invalid", will be recovered, or keep "orphaned" forever? We can´t get the BTC obtaneided with them?

These blocks will be unfortunately orphaned forever.

[shad]

sending an email to getwork users with announcing setting fee to 10%
and
banning miners without longpoll support are to different things

sure i don't care, mining on multiple pools is a nice thing

also you are the only pool where i have longpoll problems i didn't even notice

trying stratum on stratum.bitcoin.cz works better than on api.bitcoin.cz

[slush]

shad, the longpolling is working nicely, unfortunately old miners are crap software. It doesn't reconnect well, flood the connection or so. That's the reason why I'm pushing people to use Stratum, because it doesn't have most of these problems, plus it is much more optimized. I'm sorry if I banned you and you're regular user; most of banned users were just people who installed some crap software years ago and they don't care about it anymore.

And as you see, stratum is working much better ;-).

[stormos]

Hi! Could you explain please how my reward calculated in this case:

# 16857   
Block found at 2013-03-12 23:24:01   
Duration 0:43:09   
Total shares 2457187   
Your shares 3009   
Your BTC reward 0.03391125   
Block # 225560   
Block value 32.63364617