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

[sd]

I'm also surprised by low latency on Tor network. I remember than few years ago it was nearly impossible to browse onion sites, but now it's pretty comfortable. Of course building circuit take some time, but then I'm usually having responses under one second, which is excellent.

New Tor address for pool is: poolziyzjb25aa4e.onion

That actually works? Impressive.

I might put a miner on it for a while just to see if TOR is up to low latency connections. I assumed it wasn't.

[slush]

I don't know if other miners will work without any modifications, but poclbm have some problems with DNS resolving, so it don't work yet. But I'll try to fix it as soon as I find some time when pool will be stable enough :-)

[slush]

OK, I misused recent pool instability to some software updates, so there were few more backend restarts not related to kernel issues. But now I'm leaving it 'as is' and will see if another kernel fixed the issue (it should, but I told it about that kernel options, too).

[FoxMURDER]

oh man and i always though the reason to use vmware is, that its working out of the box without problems ... now i'm glad i use kvm

[slush]

oh man and i always though the reason to use vmware is, that its working out of the box without problems ... now i'm glad i use kvm

I has been using Xen everytime for many years (on Linode as a customer, but also on my own boxes) and once it was running, I never had any issue with it. I'm also surprised that it don't work  out of the box.

[disclaimer201]

I'm also surprised by low latency on Tor network. I remember than few years ago it was nearly impossible to browse onion sites, but now it's pretty comfortable. Of course building circuit take some time, but then I'm usually having responses under one second, which is excellent.

New Tor address for pool is: poolziyzjb25aa4e.onion

That actually works? Impressive.

I might put a miner on it for a while just to see if TOR is up to low latency connections. I assumed it wasn't.

Hypothetically, say everyone would switch to Tor, would it still work on a large scale?

[slush]

All miners over Tor? Yes. See http://torstatus.blutmagie.de for Tor routers and their bandwith... Actually *internal* speed should be pretty good (capacity of exit nodes is different story).

Pool traffic is currently around 1MB/s and it's roughly 10% of Bitcoin hashrate. So all miners over Tor would take about 10MB/s, which is still pretty acceptable.

Edit: I'm sorry, but I cannot finish processing payments, have some important meeting now. But no coins are lost, I just need some time to recalculate crippled rounds from time out pool outages.

[Iyeman]

All miners over Tor? Yes. See http://torstatus.blutmagie.de for Tor routers and their bandwith... Actually *internal* speed should be pretty good (capacity of exit nodes is different story).

Pool traffic is currently around 1MB/s and it's roughly 10% of Bitcoin hashrate. So all miners over Tor would take about 10MB/s, which is still pretty acceptable.

Edit: I'm sorry, but I cannot finish processing payments, have some important meeting now. But no coins are lost, I just need some time to recalculate crippled rounds from time out pool outages.

8653   2011-11-02 17:05:54   0:00:11

wow, i hope i was lucky enough to get some shares in on that 11 second block lol

[digital]

All miners over Tor? Yes. See http://torstatus.blutmagie.de for Tor routers and their bandwith... Actually *internal* speed should be pretty good (capacity of exit nodes is different story).

Pool traffic is currently around 1MB/s and it's roughly 10% of Bitcoin hashrate. So all miners over Tor would take about 10MB/s, which is still pretty acceptable.

Edit: I'm sorry, but I cannot finish processing payments, have some important meeting now. But no coins are lost, I just need some time to recalculate crippled rounds from time out pool outages.

8653   2011-11-02 17:05:54   0:00:11

wow, i hope i was lucky enough to get some shares in on that 11 second block lol

Im guessing it will end up invalid.  Not sure why, but a lot of the blocks I've seen that short end up being marked invalid.

[bulanula]

OK. Hope all can be sorted by tomorrow. Thank you for the effort you are putting.

[slush]

Im guessing it will end up invalid.  Not sure why, but a lot of the blocks I've seen that short end up being marked invalid.

I'm here for a moment . No, this block is perfectly valid, you can click to blocknumber and see details on block explorer.

[DutchBrat]

It looks like we are having some good luck to make up for the outage 

Looking good and stable,

Thanks Slush !!!

[RobertRibbeck]

Im guessing it will end up invalid.  Not sure why, but a lot of the blocks I've seen that short end up being marked invalid.

I'm here for a moment . No, this block is perfectly valid, you can click to blocknumber and see details on block explorer.

Enough with the added extras
more important
   how about processing payout since this all day outage

We've been WAITING on namecoin payout for 3 days

[Thralen]

Im guessing it will end up invalid.  Not sure why, but a lot of the blocks I've seen that short end up being marked invalid.

I'm here for a moment . No, this block is perfectly valid, you can click to blocknumber and see details on block explorer.

Enough with the added extras
more important
   how about processing payout since this all day outage

We've been WAITING on namecoin payout for 3 days

clicking on the block number isn't a recently added extra, it has been there for a long time.

1. Strange, re: waiting three days since I believe my last namecoin payout from Slush occurred two days ago.
2. The webpage says (although down at the moment) that payouts should be processed by Nov 3rd at 12:00 UTC

Thralen

[DutchBrat]

It looks like we are having some good luck to make up for the outage 

Looking good and stable,

Thanks Slush !!!

Lol,

Looks like I jinxed it !

Pools having issues again 

[ajareselde]

It looks like we are having some good luck to make up for the outage 

Looking good and stable,

Thanks Slush !!!

Lol,

Looks like I jinxed it !

Pools having issues again 

this is starting to look bad

[RobertRibbeck]

Im guessing it will end up invalid.  Not sure why, but a lot of the blocks I've seen that short end up being marked invalid.

I'm here for a moment . No, this block is perfectly valid, you can click to blocknumber and see details on block explorer.

Enough with the added extras
more important
   how about processing payout since this all day outage

We've been WAITING on namecoin payout for 3 days

clicking on the block number isn't a recently added extra, it has been there for a long time.

1. Strange, re: waiting three days since I believe my last namecoin payout from Slush occurred two days ago.
2. The webpage says (although down at the moment) that payouts should be processed by Nov 3rd at 12:00 UTC

Thralen

Funny I've been checking every hr & never saw said notice

This IS BAD up & down for at least 3 days is BS
playing with tor instead of TCB
I've been getting http timeouts for 2 wks but only on one machine and yes it's using api2 address

I was trying to check namecoin stuff and have been waiting for funds to build & process

at this point I've gotten more straight pay out from deepbit in the last 24hrs
than slushes proportional pay scheme for every day last week

putting it mildly I"m not a happy camper

[cbeast]

Im guessing it will end up invalid.  Not sure why, but a lot of the blocks I've seen that short end up being marked invalid.

I'm here for a moment . No, this block is perfectly valid, you can click to blocknumber and see details on block explorer.

Enough with the added extras
more important
   how about processing payout since this all day outage

We've been WAITING on namecoin payout for 3 days

clicking on the block number isn't a recently added extra, it has been there for a long time.

1. Strange, re: waiting three days since I believe my last namecoin payout from Slush occurred two days ago.
2. The webpage says (although down at the moment) that payouts should be processed by Nov 3rd at 12:00 UTC

Thralen

Funny I've been checking every hr & never saw said notice

This IS BAD up & down for at least 3 days is BS
playing with tor instead of TCB
I've been getting http timeouts for 2 wks but only on one machine and yes it's using api2 address

I was trying to check namecoin stuff and have been waiting for funds to build & process

at this point I've gotten more straight pay out from deepbit in the last 24hrs
than slushes proportional pay scheme for every day last week

putting it mildly I"m not a happy camper

rabble rabble

[eleuthria]

Funny I've been checking every hr & never saw said notice

This IS BAD up & down for at least 3 days is BS
playing with tor instead of TCB
I've been getting http timeouts for 2 wks but only on one machine and yes it's using api2 address

I was trying to check namecoin stuff and have been waiting for funds to build & process

at this point I've gotten more straight pay out from deepbit in the last 24hrs
than slushes proportional pay scheme for every day last week

putting it mildly I"m not a happy camper

And people wonder why slush nearly shut the pool down for good... bitching about known issues doesn't exactly help them get solved faster.  All you're doing is adding more stress to the admin who does significantly more work than miners and at these prices probably doesn't make much more than them.

[disclaimer201]

Yep, calm down, it's no big deal. We can just use the back-up pool for the time being. And honestly, not that two days of payout will make you any richer unless you had 10+ Ghash pointed at the pool, in which case you could have also gone solo. Peace.