[CLOSED] Semi-private mining pool

[jamesg]

With the move of the entire network to ASIC based hardware, I would like to get some opinions on setting the minimum difficulty higher to further reduce shares submitted and to reduce data retention / maintenance.

The current average minimum difficulty for all workers is 108.4122. I would like to propose that once we hit a certain difficulty target (say 50m) that the minimum difficulty for all workers becomes 100.

I am open to hearing thoughts for or against this proposal. So what do you think?

[seriouscoin]

With the move of the entire network to ASIC based hardware, I would like to get some opinions on setting the minimum difficulty higher to further reduce shares submitted and to reduce data retention / maintenance.

The current average minimum difficulty for all workers is 108.4122. I would like to propose that once we hit a certain difficulty target (say 50m) that the minimum difficulty for all workers becomes 100.

I am open to hearing thoughts for or against this proposal. So what do you think?

Giga, are you using BFGminer?

With job per chip protocol, its effectively making BFL SC into 16 miners with 3gh/s (grade C chip) to 4gh/s (grade A chip)

Does that mean making difficulty too high would affect this?

With job per board, then higher difficulty wouldnt affect anything.

Make sure you give this some thought.

[jamesg]

Giga, are you using BFGminer?

With job per chip protocol, its effectively making BFL SC into 16 miners with 3gh/s (grade C chip) to 4gh/s (grade A chip)

Does that mean making difficulty too high would affect this?

With job per board, then higher difficulty wouldnt affect anything.

Make sure you give this some thought.

Hi seriouscoin,

cgminer works in the exact same way but just doesn't give you the possibility of seeing the details. I run all of my minirigs at 500 diff and they work flawlessly.

Whether you have 1 chip that does 500Gh/s or you have 125 chips that do 4Gh/s, the results are the same. For the latter, each chip will just find a valid nonce less, but overall both should find the same number of shares per minute on average.

Best,
James

[WhitePhantom]

Once this pool is merged mining NMC and has E-Mail notifications for when a worker goes offline, I'd like to point all my hash power here, presently 1 TH, but will be 3 TH whenever BFL finishes delivering my order.

[elasticband]

Once this pool is merged mining NMC and has E-Mail notifications for when a worker goes offline, I'd like to point all my hash power here, presently 1 TH, but will be 3 TH whenever BFL finishes delivering my order.

It has E-mail notificatio, just turn it on in your settings.

[seriouscoin]

Giga, are you using BFGminer?

With job per chip protocol, its effectively making BFL SC into 16 miners with 3gh/s (grade C chip) to 4gh/s (grade A chip)

Does that mean making difficulty too high would affect this?

With job per board, then higher difficulty wouldnt affect anything.

Make sure you give this some thought.

Hi seriouscoin,

cgminer works in the exact same way but just doesn't give you the possibility of seeing the details. I run all of my minirigs at 500 diff and they work flawlessly.

Whether you have 1 chip that does 500Gh/s or you have 125 chips that do 4Gh/s, the results are the same. For the latter, each chip will just find a valid nonce less, but overall both should find the same number of shares per minute on average.

Best,
James

Hi James,

After some testing, i found CGminer use CPU power alot more than BFGminer. Have you noticed the same thing? I guess if your host is a recent  year PC it wouldnt be very noticable. Mine is a RPI. with 240GHs, CGminer takes 80% while BFGminer only takes 15%.

I dont know if thats contributing to the Job per chip protocol.... Any thoughts?

Btw, please PM me the pool access. I would love to join.

[jamesg]

Btw, please PM me the pool access. I would love to join.

You can email me at james at gigamining dot com if you would like a link.

We do not share links though the PM system here for obvious reasons.

[jamesg]

We are very close to 30Th/s. 

Who is going to push us over the top?

[oliv2915]

We are very close to 30Th/s.  

Who is going to push us over the top?

I have sent you an email.

[WhitePhantom]

Giga, would you mind if I ask where you get the fancy power cables that are hooked up to your Mini-Rigs?  Do they have L6 connectors?

Thanks,
WP

[jamesg]

Giga, would you mind if I ask where you get the fancy power cables that are hooked up to your Mini-Rigs?  Do they have L6 connectors?

Thanks,
WP

Not sure what you are referring to.

Email me at james at gigamining dot com and lets chat further.

Best,
James

[emark]

I just sent u an email.. I like to try out my Avalon on ur site!

[jamesg]

30Th/s reached!!! 

Thanks to everyone who has joined the pool.

[emark]

Giga, I have question about the pool.  I ve been mining on it for little over hour, although I haven t seen anything post  for either confirmed rewards, pending or unpaid rewards even though I've accumulated about 52k shares ? 

[jamesg]

Giga, I have question about the pool.  I ve been mining on it for little over hour, although I haven t seen anything post  for either confirmed rewards, pending or unpaid rewards even though I've accumulated about 52k shares ? 

We use PPLNS as a rewards system. It will take you 10 shifts to fully into earnings. If you ever leave the pool, you will be paid for 10 shifts after that moment.

At the time of this writing, you have only earned into 1 shift and no blocks have been applied to that shift.

Hope this helps.

Best,
James

[emark]

Well, that clears it up, I wasn't certain I was mining pplns or pps.   Thanks

[mdbssm]

Nice to see the pool in the OOC weekly pool wrap. 4th largest hashrate.

Great job James!

[jamesg]

Nice to see the pool in the OOC weekly pool wrap. 4th largest hashrate.

Great job James!

Thanks mdbssm.

If anyone hasn't seen it, we are now included in organofcorti's weekly writeup of the network including pool stats and lots of awesome charts.

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2013/08/august-11th-2013-weekly-pool-and.html

I'm glad to be a part of the writeup. There is no reason why we can't be transparent while also keeping the pool URL quite.

[seriouscoin]

James, i emailed you but got no reply. Did you receive it?

[jamesg]

James, i emailed you but got no reply. Did you receive it?

I received it and replied. 

I'll forward the sent message again.