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

[scouzi]

I still can't connect via Stratum since the DDoS attack. I have tried all three stratum addresses. It seems to be communicating, because when I enter an incorrect password, another message comes up.


My newbie thread about the problem, it contains more details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179870.0

Maybe you account is FUBAR on the slush side. Have you tried simply creating another account or at least a second worker on the existing account?

[scouzi]

Something doesn't seem right.

With stated 9.7k Ghash/s, slush should have a higher market share.

As the pool luck ever been this low?

http://blockchain.info/pools

[ZaMoiL]

Something doesn't seem right.

With stated 9.7k Ghash/s, slush should have a higher market share.

As the pool luck ever been this low?

http://blockchain.info/pools

My thoughts exactly.
This is really strange why as of now, only 49% luck for the last 24 hours?
Should we be worried?

[Kruncha]

It's just luck, it will change (no need to worry).

K.

[MyOldGeForce]

I still can't connect via Stratum since the DDoS attack. I have tried all three stratum addresses. It seems to be communicating, because when I enter an incorrect password, another message comes up.


My newbie thread about the problem, it contains more details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179870.0

Maybe you account is FUBAR on the slush side. Have you tried simply creating another account or at least a second worker on the existing account?

Getwork works, I just tried making another worker but that didn't work either.

Edit: I think I got it to work, thanks to the post from Kruncha in the newbie thread.

[ZaMoiL]

Okay, Seems to be going up again...
Wait and see...

[Kruncha]

Edit: I think I got it to work, thanks to the post from Kruncha in the newbie thread.

Happy to help

K.

[SebaS-DG]

New dificulty! 8,974,296.01
Im using just one ati 5850, 371-372 Mhash, somethimes at 380-382 Mhash.

These are the nw rewards

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6053/sinttulouj.jpg


Here: http://dev.bitcoinx.com/profit/

with 370 Mhash, i should get :

Coins per 24h at these conditions    0.0207 BTC

Later i post the results.

[nybbler905]

Every one should flush their DNS files to make sure we are being directed to the correct servers. ( lycos search/momma/yahoo/google it if you don't know how )

On a side note to all of this, had to kill ALL my bitcoin wallet dat files due to a corrupted block.
I'm on windows so it's user dir\%user&\aplication data\bitcoin and killed it all and dropped in the wallet.dat file i saved last night ( got a whole 0.0101 BTC so figured after all this time i better start backing it up! )
I am not sure if this is an issue on other peoples's systems or if it will affect mining, just it's weird that my system ran in to it and thought i'd pass on THAT it happened in the last 10 hours from when I posted this. ( -8 GMT, 10 AM here )
It is not fun having the wallet suddenly not work.  I also turned the monitor on to see " Update.exe " had a fatal exemption error....
I use spybot, ThreatFire and Process Explorer to keep anything off the system to max my hash rate ( unelss i need to open Firefox with NoScript ) so what ever that program was, I didn't start it and no, i do not use any automated anything other than the miner.

After the DDoS attacks that have been around BitCoin lately and posts on the forums about others ' having all their bitcoins hijacked ', I, for one, am willing to set my security to paranoid level.

[TheXev]

Several of us are wondering about why the payouts on block 17605 went down so low.  Many of us are down 25x. :/

Every one should flush their DNS files to make sure we are being directed to the correct servers. ( lycos search/momma/yahoo/google it if you don't know how )

On a side note to all of this, had to kill ALL my bitcoin wallet dat files due to a corrupted block.
I'm on windows so it's user dir\%user&\aplication data\bitcoin and killed it all and dropped in the wallet.dat file i saved last night ( got a whole 0.0101 BTC so figured after all this time i better start backing it up! )
I am not sure if this is an issue on other peoples's systems or if it will affect mining, just it's weird that my system ran in to it and thought i'd pass on THAT it happened in the last 10 hours from when I posted this. ( -8 GMT, 10 AM here )
It is not fun having the wallet suddenly not work.  I also turned the monitor on to see " Update.exe " had a fatal exemption error....
I use spybot, ThreatFire and Process Explorer to keep anything off the system to max my hash rate ( unelss i need to open Firefox with NoScript ) so what ever that program was, I didn't start it and no, i do not use any automated anything other than the miner.

After the DDoS attacks that have been around BitCoin lately and posts on the forums about others ' having all their bitcoins hijacked ', I, for one, am willing to set my security to paranoid level.

That's weird, I had the same thing happen to me.  I had to remove wallet.dat (starting a new one) and the db recovered on its own.  I'll have to see about recovering my wallet.dat, but the strange thing is my machine was shut down all weekend. O_o

[Hippie Tech]

New dificulty! 8,974,296.01
Im using just one ati 5850, 371-372 Mhash, somethimes at 380-382 Mhash.

These are the nw rewards

Here: http://dev.bitcoinx.com/profit/

with 370 Mhash, i should get :

Coins per 24h at these conditions    0.0207 BTC

Later i post the results.

Hio

How many diff-1 shares per day does 370 mhash/s work out to ? 7000 ish ??

That calculator is likely based on expected PPS earnings. Proportionally you should be making 0.00096, on average per round, with the pool at its current hashrate, 9700+ ghash/s. eg.. (your hashrate/pool's hashrate) * 25+ BTC

Btw, thanks to prop pools, I've consistantly made 10-25% more than the expected PPS earnings, during my 6 months of mining. I have yet to see variance eat my cake before I get the chance to. lol

gl

[nybbler905]

bit of digging and the ' update ' file that failed was related to an old NERO i had to install to make a KNOPPIX iso in to a disk.... forgot that older ( win 98 compatable ) programs dumped things in to task sheduler but it should not have had an issue with the wallet.

If you did not get the wallet to back up your transactions ( any since starting it ) finding any coins for the ' old ' wallet may be useless and there is no way ( that I know of with out the cost of sending ' to yourself ' ) to make one wallet out of 2.
The only way I know to restore is to close the wallet, move the backup file ( of the walllet.dat ) on top of ( replacing and re-naming if needed to ' wallet.dat ' ) in the previously mentioned folder ( for those that missed it &system&\&user&\application data\bitcoin )

[scouzi]

bit of digging and the ' update ' file that failed was related to an old NERO i had to install to make a KNOPPIX iso in to a disk.... forgot that older ( win 98 compatable ) programs dumped things in to task sheduler but it should not have had an issue with the wallet.

If you did not get the wallet to back up your transactions ( any since starting it ) finding any coins for the ' old ' wallet may be useless and there is no way ( that I know of with out the cost of sending ' to yourself ' ) to make one wallet out of 2.
The only way I know to restore is to close the wallet, move the backup file ( of the walllet.dat ) on top of ( replacing and re-naming if needed to ' wallet.dat ' ) in the previously mentioned folder ( for those that missed it &system&\&user&\application data\bitcoin )

Create a wallet at blockchain.info and drag and drop you wallet.dat file there. It supports encrypted files. If you don't trust their security, you can then transfer to a new address created otherwise.

[TiborB]

Several of us are wondering about why the payouts on block 17605 went down so low.  Many of us are down 25x. :/

(...)

Yes, that seems really strange to me as well. It might just be the side effect of the scoring algorithm, but this one block seems so much out of normal there might some other reason.
In my case, the reward from block is 3% of my earning from the previous block, although all 3 of my miners were constantly hashing.

Seems I am not the only one wondering...  Does anybody have any idea/theory?

Cheers,
   T

[Kruncha]

Several of us are wondering about why the payouts on block 17605 went down so low.  Many of us are down 25x. :/

(...)

Yes, that seems really strange to me as well. It might just be the side effect of the scoring algorithm, but this one block seems so much out of normal there might some other reason.
In my case, the reward from block is 3% of my earning from the previous block, although all 3 of my miners were constantly hashing.

Seems I am not the only one wondering...  Does anybody have any idea/theory?

Cheers,
   T

The score resets at certain intervals. It reset just before the block was found meaning slower miners would be on a very low score.

K.

[stanke]

Hi

Same issue on my side too. I wrote to slush PM, waiting for an answer

[joolzg]

Block 17605 me also

But my other question is that before the ddos and now i seem to have a reward of 30% less. My cards are the same and my hash rate has gone up by 2%.

joolz

[stanke]

I'm maybe wrong but before the ddos the pool rate was around 8-8.5TH/s now is nearly 10

[joolzg]

Several of us are wondering about why the payouts on block 17605 went down so low.  Many of us are down 25x. :/

(...)

Yes, that seems really strange to me as well. It might just be the side effect of the scoring algorithm, but this one block seems so much out of normal there might some other reason.
In my case, the reward from block is 3% of my earning from the previous block, although all 3 of my miners were constantly hashing.

Seems I am not the only one wondering...  Does anybody have any idea/theory?

Cheers,
   T

The score resets at certain intervals. It reset just before the block was found meaning slower miners would be on a very low score.

K.

ok but im running 10 workers all around 300Mhash each, how can i lose 2400% my normal reward. we are talking .084 down to .00035

joolz

[TiborB]

Several of us are wondering about why the payouts on block 17605 went down so low.  Many of us are down 25x. :/

(...)

Yes, that seems really strange to me as well. It might just be the side effect of the scoring algorithm, but this one block seems so much out of normal there might some other reason.
In my case, the reward from block is 3% of my earning from the previous block, although all 3 of my miners were constantly hashing.

Seems I am not the only one wondering...  Does anybody have any idea/theory?

Cheers,
   T

The score resets at certain intervals. It reset just before the block was found meaning slower miners would be on a very low score.

K.

I have read the details of the reward calculation. Even without a periodic reset, the exponential nature of the calculation would be effective against pool hopping, correct?
Do you know for a fact, that scores were reset just immediately before the end of the block?
My fastest miner is around 800MHash/s, I know there are beefier rigs out there but 3% is really out of normal, isn't it?

Cheers,
   T