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

[OVerLoRDI]

Payout are still jacked.  I'll be back once payouts start working again.

1.) Slush might be holding back payouts because he doesn't want to pay a botnet (wild speculation)

2.) why do people need a payout from pool of 0.20 BTC like 5 times a day (see screenshot somewhere above)? Do they spend these coins instantly? Do they not trust slush for 1 BTC? (note: I don't really care, since a lot of transactions are a good test of the network, I just don't understand the logic)

3.) How the hell are people "loosing profit" when payouts are delayed for a day or so? It's not like mtgox is going down.

Some of us trade on OTC, so mtgox doesn't matter.  Also some of us have more than 1btc sitting there.

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[talktojer]

2.) why do people need a payout from pool of 0.20 BTC like 5 times a day (see screenshot somewhere above)? Do they not trust slush for 1 BTC?

Disclaimer: I'm not accusing anyone of anything here by this.


Exactly because of what is happening right now.  I have more than 1btc confirmed in there just sitting.  If I had a smaller transfer set, at least however much was confirmed up until this issue started would be safe.   Now I have to be concerned about it.  I agree that there should have been some sort of notice of something in the very least if this is intentional.

If not, then I will get it when it comes, however until then I have to be concerned about why I don't have it yet.

Noone knows what's going on?

[anodyne]

Exactly because of what is happening right now.  I have more than 1btc confirmed in there just sitting.  If I had a smaller transfer set, at least however much was confirmed up until this issue started would be safe.   Now I have to be concerned about it.  I agree that there should have been some sort of notice of something in the very least if this is intentional.

If not, then I will get it when it comes, however until then I have to be concerned about why I don't have it yet.

Noone knows what's going on?

I have no idea what's going on, beyond the obvious. But, when it comes to payouts, I think I've picked up (or deduced or somehow dreamed up) something along the lines of slush's system being set up so that payments are processed after a block has been found. Which is fine, as long as the system is able to hash up new blocks.

[talktojer]

Exactly because of what is happening right now.  I have more than 1btc confirmed in there just sitting.  If I had a smaller transfer set, at least however much was confirmed up until this issue started would be safe.   Now I have to be concerned about it.  I agree that there should have been some sort of notice of something in the very least if this is intentional.

If not, then I will get it when it comes, however until then I have to be concerned about why I don't have it yet.

Noone knows what's going on?

I have no idea what's going on, beyond the obvious. But, when it comes to payouts, I think I've picked up (or deduced or somehow dreamed up) something along the lines of slush's system being set up so that payments are processed after a block has been found. Which is fine, as long as the system is able to hash up new blocks.

well a block was just generated, so we'll see if we get paid.

[LMGTFY]

I have no idea what's going on, beyond the obvious. But, when it comes to payouts, I think I've picked up (or deduced or somehow dreamed up) something along the lines of slush's system being set up so that payments are processed after a block has been found. Which is fine, as long as the system is able to hash up new blocks.

well a block was just generated, so we'll see if we get paid.

I think the system is - if there are any payments ready then they're paid when a block is generated. In this case I suspect the payments weren't ready, and weren't paid.

To be honest, I'm not too worried because I figure Slush will process back payments manually when he reappears. I appreciate other people may not be able to be as laid back as me, however. (I'm also slightly worried about Slush - I know it's the weekend, and I don't expect Slush to monitor the pool all the time, but I hope everything is OK, and Slush isn't hurt or ill...)

[bobR]

Slush's pool is up & down like a yoyo
I've had several hash's found but not showing as they got to the pool
I think he's under a serious attack

[Jaime Frontero]

Slush's pool is up & down like a yoyo
I've had several hash's found but not showing as they got to the pool
I think he's under a serious attack

it looks that way, at this point.

damn - i like his pool.  i hope Tycho got in touch with him as was mentioned elsewhere, is providing assistance, and hardening the site is underway.  and perhaps slush will take Tycho's approach to heart: co-location in multiple national jurisdictions.

nothing to do but wait.

[colossus]

Perhaps the guy is just out enjoying the sun with cold beer. And the far from stable bitcoind is just well being unstable... suggest we just chillax. Last time I checked I wasn't paying for 24/7 support.

[dafishman]

Perhaps the guy is just out enjoying the sun with cold beer. And the far from stable bitcoind is just well being unstable... suggest we just chillax. Last time I checked I wasn't paying for 24/7 support.

I agree! It's mother's day weekend. Perhaps the guy took his wife or mom away and promised no computer for the weekend. I am using this time to attempt some solo mining and learning more about how this all works. I'll be back as soon he fixes things up, but I'm not riding his a$s to get it done.

[Litt]

I guess we aren't paying fo 24/7 support, but we do pay the 2% fee. We pay for a service which currently isn't running which I do see as a problem. In fact, noone has even reponded officially about that status of the pool.

It's hard not to think that for just 1% more you can purchase the reliability of deepbit along with long polling. Or for free you can still get up and running BTCmine.com with a real choice to payment to operator so you don't feel like you are paying for nothing.

[Veldy]

I guess we aren't paying fo 24/7 support, but we do pay the 2% fee. We pay for a service which currently isn't running which I do see as a problem. In fact, noone has even reponded officially about that status of the pool.

It's hard not to think that for just 1% more you can purchase the reliability of deepbit along with long polling. Or for free you can still get up and running BTCmine.com with a real choice to payment to operator so you don't feel like you are paying for nothing.

Slush has left the building.   Handed the keys to Tycho.

[bobR]

Seems to be coming back
Hash rate is increasing
and connections seem to be staying up

[dishwara]

yes, seems coming back.
profile updates, but statistics not.
hope every thing back to normal soon.

[Miner-TE]

Cool,  I'll wait for the official announcement before switching back.

[slush]

I was out of internet for the weekend, I'm working on that, long report will be later. Mining works again, payouts are stopped, analyzing troubles.

Edit: Payouts working, need to go sleep. I'll write report tomorrow.

[xenon481]

I was out of internet for the weekend, I'm working on that, long report will be later. Mining works again, payouts are stopped, analyzing troubles.

Welcome back! I hope you had a relaxing time to make up for coming back to a shitstorm.

[OVerLoRDI]

I was out of internet for the weekend, I'm working on that, long report will be later. Mining works again, payouts are stopped, analyzing troubles.

What a fantastic way to come back to civilization.  Again, I don't envy you slush..  I hope you had a good time and that pool cleaning isn't too horrible.

[Dayofswords]

2.) why do people need a payout from pool of 0.20 BTC like 5 times a day (see screenshot somewhere above)? Do they spend these coins instantly? Do they not trust slush for 1 BTC? (note: I don't really care, since a lot of transactions are a good test of the network, I just don't understand the logic)

If you look it's like twice a day(i had special situation for that to happen) to once every two weeks, I'm a slow miner so I get a nice feeling just getting them sent to me, I'm not worried or anything. I should probably turn it up to 1BTC though, but with difficulty sky rocketing, it be a month maybe before i'd get paid ~$4 worth of BTC....

EDIT: This is a problem with bitcoin, if small transactions are bad, then that spells trouble. IRL I could give back and forth a penny to someone a million times withour issue, in Bitcoin this is terrible.

If you buy a piece of gum, your stressing the network... there's too much reliance on others to make sure it works.

[anodyne]

Exactly because of what is happening right now.  I have more than 1btc confirmed in there just sitting.  If I had a smaller transfer set, at least however much was confirmed up until this issue started would be safe.   Now I have to be concerned about it.  I agree that there should have been some sort of notice of something in the very least if this is intentional.

If not, then I will get it when it comes, however until then I have to be concerned about why I don't have it yet.

Noone knows what's going on?

I have no idea what's going on, beyond the obvious. But, when it comes to payouts, I think I've picked up (or deduced or somehow dreamed up) something along the lines of slush's system being set up so that payments are processed after a block has been found. Which is fine, as long as the system is able to hash up new blocks.

well a block was just generated, so we'll see if we get paid.

It was a theory, at least. But I see now that slush is on the case, and that I have new btc on my pool address so I guess things are going back to normal.

[klorum]

I think its time to remove the dots on the graphs, or let users toggle them.

How do you make the graphs now?