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

[Benjy_Bronk]

I've read over and over again how people think Slush is up to something or planning something or intentionally doing something so people won't make as much. If you honestly believe that, why do you stick around?

[PhillyWild]

I've read over and over again how people think Slush is up to something or planning something or intentionally doing something so people won't make as much. If you honestly believe that, why do you stick around?

I wonder that as well. The hash rate dropped probably because people were antsy about the whole 2 blocks in 27 hours thing and moved on to different pools. Everyone always feels like something nefarious is going on, when they are more than welcome to choose a different pool to be a part of.

[anthem]

I've read over and over again how people think Slush is up to something or planning something or intentionally doing something so people won't make as much. If you honestly believe that, why do you stick around?

i don't think he is up to anything personally. . .  I think its just plain bad luck combined with the difficulty rising. .   I haven't seen pool luck down at 20 for as long as I remember, and eventually the number will even out, or actually the overall statistics forces the number to even out to 100 at some point over the long term ..   whether that is the actual scalar values changing or whether its just luck.. .

It's just quite a shock to see with the difficulty rising as well as the current results to see where we are now at. . .

I can see how one block in 24 hours would result in 50TH leaving. . .

[Trefdraeth]

I concur.
As a relative newbie after a lot of research I settled on this pool. It is widely regarded as fair and well run. It's also been here for ages (in internet time)
The beauty of the vast internet is that if someone disagrees, they an upsticks and head off elsewhere.
What the internet does also give them the right to do, is sit here whinging.
That's just a waste of time and hashes IMHO 

I suspect that the rate of return will decline to such a level that it becomes more if a hobby for most of us, anyway. 

[celsomenaia]

Some people think that the grass is always greenest some were else .
I´m mining since December 2013 and I´m not leaving , its a good stable pool
best regards

[CroverNo01]

Been a member since 2011, Just feel things have not been going so smooth since Jan 2014 

Slush is a good pool don't get me wrong, just wondering what happened my logs show stratum server went off line. I have a backup ADSL as well as my Fibre line and my local internet never dropped.

The connection to the Stratum server dropped!!

Hopefully over the next 24 hours Slush will rise from this 20%

Seems odd that other pools are racking in so many rounds in ahhhh luck these days

[Mudbankkeith]

Been a member since 2011, Just feel things have not been going so smooth since Jan 2014 

Slush is a good pool don't get me wrong, just wondering what happened my logs show stratum server went off line. I have a backup ADSL as well as my Fibre line and my local internet never dropped.

The connection to the Stratum server dropped!!

Hopefully over the next 24 hours Slush will rise from this 20%

Seems odd that other pools are racking in so many rounds in ahhhh luck these days

Landed butter side up on this one.
I moved 3/4 of my Gh to Eclipse about 3 hours before the end of the round.
Lost 10 hours worth of nothing here, then gained 3 hours on Eclipse, so made up the equivalent of a normal round on Slush.
Still get a minimal payout from Slush as well.

The first time pool hopping has worked for me.

[dlowings]

Been a member since 2011, Just feel things have not been going so smooth since Jan 2014  

Slush is a good pool don't get me wrong, just wondering what happened my logs show stratum server went off line. I have a backup ADSL as well as my Fibre line and my local internet never dropped.

The connection to the Stratum server dropped!!

Hopefully over the next 24 hours Slush will rise from this 20%

Seems odd that other pools are racking in so many rounds in ahhhh luck these days

I understand your questions a 100% , and when you are dealing with money only a dumb man doesn't ask questions ... I'm a little skeptical of people who replied to your post who have only, one or two history posts.. I myself am VERY new , and I understand your concern.. Honestly I would love to know the data points you keep an eye on so that I can learn more. As for the LARGE drop you seen... Keep this in mind... the stratum servers may not have went down, they may have only became unreachable from your point of view.. I work for a global ISP, and built the US's first OC 192 coast to coast... when traffic traverses the internet it has to pass from what I call the edge routers up to a particular route reflector that services a specific region of the US.. If the route reflector shifts this type of dynamic traffic, you WILL see a drop ... I have seen these complaints come in a MILLION times over from companies that deal in online trading of MAJOR us companies ... I can tell you this, It can happen .... The listeners of the stratum servers are up, but "a portion" of traffic is dropped on the traverse ... It all boils down to trust, honestly that sucks... but it is what it is .. I just got in this to play around and see what it is all about, like I said I'm a beginner when it comes to "Bitcoin" pools but I have YEARS and YEARS experience in networking and server support.. I have supported some of the worlds biggest businesses and I have seen things like this a lot and there is very rarely ill intention . I'm not saying that being skeptical is bad, its good to ask question, but you need to also understand the limitations of the answers that can be given .

[Mudbankkeith]

over the last 30 rounds the Slush pool average is 4 hours 5 mins

as the pool share is currently at 4% of the pie and the nominal time for 1 block is 10 mins

that works out at an average round for Slush being 4 hours 10 mins

therefore we are still ahead of the system by 5 mins in 30 rounds (that's 122 hours 11 mins).

[CheeseSammich]

Could be worse... Eclipse had a 37 hour block a few days ago and is currently working on a 17 hour block. 

[Trefdraeth]

over the last 30 rounds the Slush pool average is 4 hours 5 mins

as the pool share is currently at 4% of the pie and the nominal time for 1 block is 10 mins

that works out at an average round for Slush being 4 hours 10 mins

therefore we are still ahead of the system by 5 mins in 30 rounds (that's 122 hours 11 mins).

them there are statistics! Puts it all into perspective! 

[Trongersoll]

Small pools are not for the feint of heart. Or, people who sit and watch them all day. 

been Slushing since May 2013, nothing has changed except the Pools hashrate.

[manic miner]

Cluster performance dropped.
People jumping ship??

[KNK]

Small pools are not for the feint of heart.

Every pool has it's good and bad times. What matters is the pool trust and support, which keeps it running. Just few examples from the past:
deepbit (my second favourite pool) is so far the only pool which had over 51%, but is now below 1Th ... just because it has no stratum (yet)
BTC Guild was close to 50% with the help of ASIC miner, but is now overrun by GHash.IO, while ASIC miner is not even on the chart
50BTC and EMC were much more than Slush at some point in time, but are now out of the chart.

Some day Slush may go out of the chart too, just because the mining became corporate business, but until then and until the pool is supported there is no reason to leave it, because of a bad day ... be it luck, DDoS or other (short, because Slush is fixing them) connectivity or stability problems.

[surfer433]

There is apparently an update to the mining_proxy.exe (ver. 1.5.5) however the download location https[Suspicious link removed] does not work.

edit: well the link was removed, but it was the correct one.

[anthem]

Cluster performance dropped.
People jumping ship??

I am sure people who went through a 12hour round followed by a 16 hour round wouldn't be happy and probably tried something else. .  not much you can do, its "luck" at that point. .   We did get a 1:14 round but are now on a 5+ hour round now. ..

[manic miner]

Cluster performance dropped.
People jumping ship??

I am sure people who went through a 12hour round followed by a 16 hour round wouldn't be happy and probably tried something else. .  not much you can do, its "luck" at that point. .   We did get a 1:14 round but are now on a 5+ hour round now. ..

You wait, when we get a string of sub 5min rounds all will be forgiven.

I must stop looking at the stats so often, just cant help myself.   

[Professoruss]

I just wrote an app that will monitor the slush api and tells you when the pool finds a block.
It can optionally send push notifications to iOS/android via https://pushover.net

https://github.com/professoruss/blockfound

Let me know if you have any feedback or can find a cheaper push app (pushover is $4.99)

output looks like this:
Found new block!! Elapsed: 11:52:20 Hashrate: 879340.212GH/s

I like this idea, well done. Have installed pushover but having read the Readme, not sure how I install you api into it? Any help with?

Thanks

you need to login to the pushover site, create a new application, name it, then it will give you an api token.  put that and your user key in pushover.yaml and run `ruby blockfound.rb pushover`

[Trefdraeth]

And No. 3 for the day....

[bebooba11]

I hope we get 5 more!!