[CLOSED] Semi-private mining pool

[jamesg]

Hi, just checking in on if there has been any progress on expanding the API to include information on current account balances (confirmed/unconfirmed rewards, pending/paid rewards, unpaid rewards, etc).

I'm back in my cave working on the pool today. Let's see how far I can get with this.

[jamesg]

Something is wrong with the graph, it suddenly drops in hashrate yet my miners still mine the same.

Also my total speed is reporting fine i think. Just the graph thats messed up.

Some backend processes stopped overnight and have been restarted. Charts should catch up over the next little while.

[jamesg]

OK. I've had a chance to sleep in my own bed and start to dig into issues with the pool.

I've:

• Drastically reduced load times for any slow pages and charts.
• Set a new "soft" limit for minimum worker difficulty to 100. This is only for new workers or editing current workers.
• Block length and CDF charts were getting a little stuffed so we are only looking back 500 blocks now.

I'm now going to be digging into:

• More pages as API calls so you can get workers, overall stats, rewards, payments and anything else that can be enabled for this functionality.
• I'm going to look into merged mining, no promises though.

If you have anything else that I may have missed, let me know.

[mdbssm]

OK. I've had a chance to sleep in my own bed and start to dig into issues with the pool.

I've:

• Drastically reduced load times for any slow pages and charts.
• Set a new "soft" limit for minimum worker difficulty to 100. This is only for new workers or editing current workers.
• Block length and CDF charts were getting a little stuffed so we are only looking back 500 blocks now.

I'm now going to be digging into:

• More pages as API calls so you can get workers, overall stats, rewards, payments and anything else that can be enabled for this functionality.
• I'm going to look into merged mining, no promises though.

If you have anything else that I may have missed, let me know.

Much snappier load times. Thanks for the changes.

How about cumulative BTC earned per worker? That way we can track ROI for individual devices.

[jamesg]

* gigavps presses the easy button 

You will find a new top navigation link named "API" that details out all of the functionality you can access via the API.

I have added the ability for you to get worker, reward and payment information.

[twmz]

* gigavps presses the easy button 

You will find a new top navigation link named "API" that details out all of the functionality you can access via the API.

I have added the ability for you to get worker, reward and payment information.

Awesome, thanks. 

What I am looking to do is include on my own mining dashboard an indication of how much balance (including unconfirmed rewards) has built up that hasn't been paid out yet.  On the website UI, that translates to "Total Rewards - (Paid Rewards + Pending Rewards)".

If there was an API that just had these 4 summary numbers, I'd have everything I need:  Confirmed Rewards and Unconfirmed Rewards (from the Rewards tab), and Paid Rewards and Pending Rewards (from the Payments tab).

As far as I can tell, the only way to get those numbers is to call the rewards.json and payments.json APIs (repeatedly to get each page of results until I get an empty page) and add up the numbers from those results.  Certainly doable, but probably means hitting the APIs harder than is probably ideal.  I am assuming that you have a quicker way to get at those numbers internally with less CPU/database overhead since you are displaying them on the web pages. 

[jamesg]

Awesome, thanks. 

Anytime. 

What I am looking to do is include on my own mining dashboard an indication of how much balance (including unconfirmed rewards) has built up that hasn't been paid out yet.  On the website UI, that translates to "Total Rewards - (Paid Rewards + Pending Rewards)".
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Done. The rewards and payments list now include the totals. This means instead of getting an array back, you get a dict with two keys, totals and rewards (or payments).

[smracer]

Can you make a notification to email me or text me if my miners go down?  I could write a perl script to check the api every few minutes or so I guess and if my hashrate drops it can email me if it can't be done.

Thanks

[jamesg]

Can you make a notification to email me or text me if my miners go down? 

There is already functionality available per worker to be notified by email if that worker stops receiving hashes.

As for thresholds of mining power per worker, you can now write your own script to check for this via the API.

[Omen1855]

Hey I mailed you in private to reset my password, but either I am totally blind or is this a basic missing feature on your site. I'm set stiill getting payed, so all is well, but I'd feel more conformable logging in as well

[jamesg]

Hey I mailed you in private to reset my password, but either I am totally blind or is this a basic missing feature on your site. I'm set stiill getting payed, so all is well, but I'd feel more conformable logging in as well

My apologies. I'll make the feature first thing tomorrow afternoon.

[Omen1855]

No problem, best pool anyway, and thank you for your swift action.

[Morblias]

Should we all buy some rabbit's feet or something? We have to be the unluckiest group of people around! 

[Epoch]

Should we all buy some rabbit's feet or something? We have to be the unluckiest group of people around! 

No, that would be Bitminter. There was a very recent period where they found 12 blocks in 5 days; they were expected to find 25 ... so 50% payout over a 5-day period. *That's* unlucky.

[jamesg]

Should we all buy some rabbit's feet or something? We have to be the unluckiest group of people around! 

Gotta have the bad luck to have the good luck. While the CDF stats are horrible right now, we still ran a little over 83% PPS for the week. Please remember that CDF stats deal with probabilities of the same sequence of events happening again.

I'm looking into added what our actual % rate compared to PPS over particular time spans.

Plus, none of you were around for the block that took 7 days.... 

[jamesg]

so 50% payout over a 5-day period. *That's* unlucky.

We've seen 51% weeks too and have come back to 100% over the long term.

You can read all about it here -> http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2013/08/151-semi-private-mining-pool.html

[jamesg]

New Site Feature

If you forget your password, you can now request to reset it! There is a new link next to the password field on the sign in page that will take you to this functionality.

If you have two factor authentication setup, you'll need to enter it along with the email address you registered with.

As with all forms on the site, they are protected in multiple ways to ensure no brute force attacks can take place.

Also, since we use the top standards in password encryption (bcrypt), there is no way to retrieve your old password so you must create a new one.

Hopefully this is helpful to those who don't use lastpass.com. 

[smracer]

1151    257,203    1 hour    XXXXXXX    86,933,017    1,028,438,370    01h 04m 10s    1.15Ph/s    10    100.00%

I wonder when will see that stat for real.

[jamesg]

1151    257,203    1 hour    XXXXXXX    86,933,017    1,028,438,370    01h 04m 10s    1.15Ph/s    10    100.00%

I wonder when will see that stat for real.

Small pool glitch. Things are back to normal. 

[bkpduke]

Giga, just wanted to say thanks.

Best pool I have been in.  Things just work, and work smoothly.  Will be bringing over more in the coming 2 months.