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

[digital]

Last 4 blocks found are all still processing reward...
Anything we should be worried about?

No, I just forgot (again) to setup maintenance in crontab after some changes. Blocks are already processed, sorry.

Hey no problem, i wasn't really worried.  You always seem to be right on top of things like that, which is why I'll probably never leave this pool...

[Seraphim401]

Slush you are awesome!
Just filled in my NMC address.
My thanks to everyone who made merged mining possible.
 

[slush]

Although there were some rumors on IRC and forum already, I'd like to officially announce support Merged mining for Namecoins on my pool! If you don't know what merged mining or Namecoin is, please read short introduction.

Generally it means higher income for the mining for free; you even don't need to update your miners. Everything you really need is to login to pool profile and fill correct Namecoin address to claim your interest in Namecoin.

I was playing with Namecoins for many weeks, trying to bring bleeding edge features for pool members. I had to solve some scaling issues, because adding new untested features to high availability application is always a risk. Heavy testing of all stuff is also a reason why I didn't finished GUI and accounting system on time, but I'm working on intensively and it will be in production very soon (probably tomorrow, after some sleep).

For the beginning I expect simple proportional rewarding scheme, but there will be two huge benefits for users mining Namecoin on my pool:

a) Pool already mined over 10000 Namecoins (and it is going up in very fast rate, see NMC stats. I'll start giving away those coins to pool's Namecoin miners after few days using their proportional hashpower. First namecoin miners actively mining on pool may expect really big namecoin rewards.

b) I'll be giving mined namecoins only to users who claimed their interest in Namecoin by setting up namecoin wallet on their profile. But pool is already mining for Namecoins with all his power. This effectively leads to situation that if only 1/4 of pool users setup their namecoin account (which is ratio I'm +/- expecting), they'll earn 4x more than is corresponding to their hashpower).

Happy mining!

[Iyeman]

a) Pool already mined over 10000 Namecoins (and it is going up in very fast rate, see NMC stats. I'll start giving away those coins to pool's Namecoin miners after few days using their proportional hashpower. First namecoin miners actively mining on pool may expect really big namecoin rewards.

fixed the link.

Hopefully you get everything working before the difficulty drop and start solving blocks 4 times faster for a few days lol. Thanks for adding Merged Mining.

[jaybones]

might be stupid question, but i cant seem to find where you register for a NMC wallet.
I use Mt. gox for bitcoins  but what site u suggest for NMC wallet?

jay

[jaybones]

TY SAC,

And slush i'm still getting errors..
And in last 20 mins i got this

2011-10-10 22:56:26: Listener for "Nivida miner": Server sent: {"result": false, "id": "1", "error": null}
2011-10-10 23:55:00: Listener for "Nivida miner": Retrying
2011-10-10 23:55:01: Listener for "Nivida miner": Retrying
2011-10-10 23:55:03: Listener for "Nivida miner": Retrying
2011-10-10 23:55:04: Listener for "Nivida miner": Retrying
2011-10-10 23:55:06: Listener for "Nivida miner": Retrying
2011-10-10 23:55:07: Listener for "Nivida miner": Error while sending work to server!
2011-10-11 00:00:52: Listener for "Nivida miner": Server sent: {"result": false, "id": "1", "error": null}

first i saw it retrying and then say it cant send..

jay

[slush]

And slush i'm still getting errors..

I'm playing with this one backend, actually those "retrying" was probably one restart.

[DeathAndTaxes]

Install the client on your machine or you can use the https://exchange.bitparking.com/main as one with a little fussing around with the deposit address just make sure that you change it in your settings after every send or the coins will be lost as they only accept deposits once.

What genius thought that was a good idea?  Would permanent adress have been too difficult.  I have no interest in namecoin so I will be sending 100% of my coins to the exchange.  Because of bitparking's stupid 1 address = 1 transfer system I had to install nameoin client to generate a permanent adress and then use that to transfer it to bitparking's one time addresses.

I mean honestly who thought single use address was a good idea.  It can't simplify things on their end.  It doesn't help the user.  It seems like something a government employee would come up with. ..... ok rant over.

[vapourminer]

Although there were some rumors on IRC and forum already, I'd like to officially announce support Merged mining for Namecoins on my pool!

cool!

and thanks for costing me an hours sleep. thats what I get for logging in in the middle of the night, seeing this post, and then installing namecoind (without having a clue as to what I was doing mind you, never paid attention to namecoin till now) on my ubuntu box.

heh.

[Thndr]

Tried to change my NameCoin address and it keeps saying the confirmation link is invalid.

I put it as the exchange address before reading that it was only a onetime address, and trying to change it to a namecoin generate one  

Edit: Nevermind. THe confirmation link uses the namecoin address as the confirmation number, but the cancel link has the confirmation number in the url. Should probably fix this

[dishwara]

From where to download precompiled namecoin client for windows?, so that address can be generated?

[Thndr]

From where to download precompiled namecoin client for windows?, so that address can be generated?

http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page

As far as I know there is no GUI client yet. If there is someone please steer us.

[slush]

Edit: Nevermind. THe confirmation link uses the namecoin address as the confirmation number, but the cancel link has the confirmation number in the url. Should probably fix this

Oh, what a stupid bug. Will fix it soon. Thanks!

Edit: Fixed bad confirmation link in email.

[max in montreal]

Is there a better guide somewhere on how to setup a wallet for namecoin? or how to start with namecoins?

[Iyeman]

Is there a better guide somewhere on how to setup a wallet for namecoin? or how to start with namecoins?

http://dot-bit.org/InstallAndConfigureNamecoin

that guide is pretty straight forward.

[max in montreal]

im on win 7
i got the program running, but there is just a flashing _

[Iyeman]

im on win 7
i got the program running, but there is just a flashing _

Yeah that's the part that is downloading the block chain and keeping it up to date. to run commands open another command prompt.



((Step 5's  Note : on windows, this message may not appear, and you need to open a new terminal to type other commands.))

[max in montreal]

i tried from the namecoin directory but i am getting errors telling me its not recognised as a command...

[DeathAndTaxes]

Windows simplified instructions to setup namecoin & get your namecoin address

1) Download the windows namecoind binary http://dot-bit.org/files/namecoin_win32.7z

2) Extract namecoind.exe and save to a folder, any folder (example c:\namecoin\)

3) Open a command prompt to where you saved namecoind.exe, and run namecoind  ( "namecoind")

4) You will get an error message.  This is normal.  It will create the folder for config file and install some files.  
Read the error message it will tell you where to make a config file.  

For Windows Vista/7 users it likely will be in:

Code:

C:\Users\<YOUR USERNAME HERE>\AppData\Roaming\Namecoin\

For Windows xP:
Maybe someone can let me know and I will update it

Note: AppData folder may be hidden in Vista/Win7.  If you can't see it then in explorer hit Alt key, select View menu then Folder Options, turn on hidden files & folders.

5) Once you locate your configuration folder (you should see bunch of files including a wallet.dat) create a new text file in that folder, name it bitcoin.conf  (yeah it is bitcoind not namecoind).
Edit the text file and copy these lines

Code:

rpcuser=your_user
rpcpassword=your_pass
rpcport=8336
daemon=1

Obviously change your_user & your_pass to something unique.  It doesn't matter what being unencrypted it provides only token security.

Note: Sometimes in windows it will save the file as a text file.  For example bitcoin.conf.txt not bitcoin.conf.
If it does: Hit Alt key, select Tools, Select View menu then Folder Options, uncheck "hide known extensions".  Edit the filename so there is no txt.  It should be bitcoin.conf exactly.

6) Go back to your command prompt and run namecoind.exe again ("namecoind").  If you get no error then good.  
On Windows there will be nothing but blinking prompt.   DON'T CLOSE THIS WINDOW.  Just minimize it if you want.

7) Open another command prompt to folder you saved namecoind.exe.  Just to be super clear this is a second command prompt, different than your previous one.  You must leave the first command prompt w/ namecoind running open.

Enter:

Code:

namecoind listreceivedbyaddress 0 true

It will display something like this:

Code:

[
    {
        "address" : "NKZTF7365tuyEUZZZZZZZZZZZX8sL8S7a",
        "account" : "",
        "label" : "",
        "amount" : 0.00000000,
        "confirmations" : 0
    }
]

The "NKZTF7365tuyEUZZZZZZZZZZZX8sL8S7a" (this one is not real/valid) is your namecoin address.  Copy it into your account page in slush's pool.

[Grinder]

a) Pool already mined over 10000 Namecoins (and it is going up in very fast rate, see NMC stats. I'll start giving away those coins to pool's Namecoin miners after few days using their proportional hashpower. First namecoin miners actively mining on pool may expect really big namecoin rewards.

Do you mean the hash power we're putting in now, or when you start giving them out? If it's the latter it seems it would be better for me to use a pool that is already giving them out and come back to you later?