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[dustinb]

Very low. I currently have 176,204 accepted and 104 rejected. I think I may have figured it out though. Looks like minepeon was reading it wrong and the units were underdrived. After reconfiguring the settings it looks like bitminter is showing around 16.8ghps now.

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[theweiss]

DR.
I think I'm having the same issue that was mentioned above with my BFL 30 gh/s little singles.  Did I understand correctly when you said that this is an issue with the current version of the client, and that it should be solved with the version that is currently in Beta?

Since the Beta version is up and I'm trying to put these miners to work is there any reason why I wouldn't use the Beta version now?  What are the concerns, outside of loosing mining time, that exist with the new version?

[DrHaribo]

DR.
I think I'm having the same issue that was mentioned above with my BFL 30 gh/s little singles.  Did I understand correctly when you said that this is an issue with the current version of the client, and that it should be solved with the version that is currently in Beta?

Since the Beta version is up and I'm trying to put these miners to work is there any reason why I wouldn't use the Beta version now?  What are the concerns, outside of loosing mining time, that exist with the new version?

Yes, if you have the problem with slowdown and/or lockup when mining on BFL ASICs, then the beta should fix this issue for you.

I believe the beta should be fine. But beta is always less tested than regular versions. So there is a higher risk that something doesn't work, than when going with the regular one. Of course if noone tests the beta versions, then the regular releases won't be any better than the beta releases.

[theweiss]

Doc,
Thanks for the response.  I tried the Beta and I'm having the same issue.  It takes a couple start up, try, close, start up again attempts to get all three mining and then they only mine for a while before locking up, at which point I have to start the process over.  This happened a few weeks back but it seems like it's happening with an increased frequency and that they are locking up faster.

[DrHaribo]

Doc,
Thanks for the response.  I tried the Beta and I'm having the same issue.  It takes a couple start up, try, close, start up again attempts to get all three mining and then they only mine for a while before locking up, at which point I have to start the process over.  This happened a few weeks back but it seems like it's happening with an increased frequency and that they are locking up faster.

The fix is for the entire app slowing down and eventually locking up so you can't even access menus or click anywhere. Is that the problem you had? Or is it that the devices stop mining, and you have to start them up again? Do you get any error messages?

[LordBrian]

Hello all please forgive my ignorance.

I seem to be having trouble with the bitminter (1.4.3) communicating with my account on bitminter.com. I had someone else give it a try with a worker of mine to see if it works on their end and sure enough I can see their activity show up in my account. On my end the rate is ~120-150 gh/s. I am just learning this so the program is utilizing my GPU (GeForce GT 650M), and I'm glad I chose to take it slow because obviously I'm missing something. When I start bitminter client I enter my username and the number '2' for my worker and on my bitminter account page I have enabled to display worker '2'. Worker '1' is being tested by the other person and continues to show the correct hash rate and activity.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated, thank you!

[theweiss]

The fix is for the entire app slowing down and eventually locking up so you can't even access menus or click anywhere. Is that the problem you had? Or is it that the devices stop mining, and you have to start them up again? Do you get any error messages?

DOC,
No not the entire app.  I can still click the menus, and start and stop the "engine".  What I mean by "freeze up" is after a while the miners will stop mining, the gauge will show whatever hash rate I was hashing at the time of the freeze but all stats will stop changing, so all of the numbers to the right of the gauge will stay the same indefinitely, and the temperatures will stop changing as well.  I can audibly hear, if I'm in the room, as the fans in these rather noisy miners will drop from full speed to a way rpm (which they do when they're on and not mining, like if my computer is off but the miners are on).  I can kind of gauge how long they mined before freezing by looking at my accepted packets and it varies, usually from less than an hour to half a day.  Yesterday, on the Beta, I was able to get a whole day, night and it still looks good so far today (though I haven't done anything differently).

When I'm home later I'll see if there are any error messages but I can't remember anything standing out as strange. 

I don't know if its related or not but sometimes (most of the time) I have to start and close the app a couple times before the app will A- Recognize all of my miners and B - Start mining when I click the go button.  Often I hit go and a temperature will show (at 32 degrees and never move) and no mining will take place.  At which point, I'll close the app and start it up again.  If it doesn't start working after a few tries I'll reboot both the miners and the computer but that doesn't seem to be a factor (blowing in my Nintendo cartridges)

[DrHaribo]

I seem to be having trouble with the bitminter (1.4.3) communicating with my account on bitminter.com. I had someone else give it a try with a worker of mine to see if it works on their end and sure enough I can see their activity show up in my account. On my end the rate is ~120-150 gh/s. I am just learning this so the program is utilizing my GPU (GeForce GT 650M), and I'm glad I chose to take it slow because obviously I'm missing something. When I start bitminter client I enter my username and the number '2' for my worker and on my bitminter account page I have enabled to display worker '2'. Worker '1' is being tested by the other person and continues to show the correct hash rate and activity.

This is a bug in Apple OpenCL. You need to reboot your Mac and it will start working properly again. You will then see a sane speed for the slow GeForce, not 120-150 GH/s. You will also see it finding proofs of work, rather than never finding any. For some reason Apple OpenCL sometimes breaks and after that it "finishes" all work instantly, without ever getting any results.

No not the entire app.  I can still click the menus, and start and stop the "engine".  What I mean by "freeze up" is after a while the miners will stop mining, the gauge will show whatever hash rate I was hashing at the time of the freeze but all stats will stop changing, so all of the numbers to the right of the gauge will stay the same indefinitely, and the temperatures will stop changing as well.  I can audibly hear, if I'm in the room, as the fans in these rather noisy miners will drop from full speed to a way rpm (which they do when they're on and not mining, like if my computer is off but the miners are on).  I can kind of gauge how long they mined before freezing by looking at my accepted packets and it varies, usually from less than an hour to half a day.  Yesterday, on the Beta, I was able to get a whole day, night and it still looks good so far today (though I haven't done anything differently).

This seems to be because of the ASIC driver crashing. Some users reported reinstalling the driver and that fixing the issue.

I don't know if its related or not but sometimes (most of the time) I have to start and close the app a couple times before the app will A- Recognize all of my miners and B - Start mining when I click the go button.  Often I hit go and a temperature will show (at 32 degrees and never move) and no mining will take place.  At which point, I'll close the app and start it up again.  If it doesn't start working after a few tries I'll reboot both the miners and the computer but that doesn't seem to be a factor (blowing in my Nintendo cartridges)

Problems discovering the ASICs is usually because they don't get enough power. Laptop USB, weak USB hub, weak power supply.

[LordBrian]

Of course that worked, although I did like seeing 1,000,000+ work units per hour. Thank you so much!

[profitofthegods]

Hi, I'm completely new to mining and just trying to figure things out. I like the fact that your pool pays transactions fees, but I wanted to find out more information about how they are allocated if possible. Are the transaction fees for a specific block divided between the people who were paid when that block was found in the same way as regular mining income? For how long would you continue getting payments for a given block? Are they labelled and recognizable as transaction fee income on my account page? Should I presume that if there was a break during which I wasn't mining for you I would also cease to get the transaction fees during that period, even for blocks already found?

I know the transaction fees are only a small part of the income from mining, but I'm trying to work out the profitability of what I'm doing with you as best I can before investing more and I can't find any way to work out what difference the transaction fees will make or whether its so negligible I should just ignore it in my calculations.

[DrHaribo]

The income from a block is newly minted coins plus transaction fees.

The two are handled as one total and distributed to miners together. New coins nad transaction fees are not separated in any way.

[profitofthegods]

The income from a block is newly minted coins plus transaction fees.

The two are handled as one total and distributed to miners together. New coins nad transaction fees are not separated in any way.

Oh ok, thanks.

[DCLacoste]

Great pool, I had fun jumping through the history of this thread.  Should have read it before I bought a used Jalapeno, I would have seen the posts back in May 2013 explaining how with the difficulty increases and increases in overall hashing, 5GH would only earn good BTC rates for a while.  Oh well, at least my miner contributes to the Bitcoin network in general

[freddyfarnsworth]

Great pool, I had fun jumping through the history of this thread.  Should have read it before I bought a used Jalapeno, I would have seen the posts back in May 2013 explaining how with the difficulty increases and increases in overall hashing, 5GH would only earn good BTC rates for a while.  Oh well, at least my miner contributes to the Bitcoin network in general

5gh is good, I just got there. Slow still but at least the U1 ants begin to buy themselves.
Litefoot is upgrading jallys to 30gh read thread.

(I will go find it) and post link.

Edit:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336782.0

I want one of those jalleys to upgrade - they still want way to much for them currently on bay. 6gh worth of ants is 100 bucks or so.
Used stock jalleys should be same.

[apsvinet]

Great pool, I had fun jumping through the history of this thread.  Should have read it before I bought a used Jalapeno, I would have seen the posts back in May 2013 explaining how with the difficulty increases and increases in overall hashing, 5GH would only earn good BTC rates for a while.  Oh well, at least my miner contributes to the Bitcoin network in general

Did you seriously just make a non relevant comment to a non relevant 3 year old thread? You're a newbie, I get it, you want to get your activity up. But at least post your useless comments on active threads, if you're gonna spam at all.

[DrHaribo]

Great pool, I had fun jumping through the history of this thread.  Should have read it before I bought a used Jalapeno, I would have seen the posts back in May 2013 explaining how with the difficulty increases and increases in overall hashing, 5GH would only earn good BTC rates for a while.  Oh well, at least my miner contributes to the Bitcoin network in general

Did you seriously just make a non relevant comment to a non relevant 3 year old thread? You're a newbie, I get it, you want to get your activity up. But at least post your useless comments on active threads, if you're gonna spam at all.

This is the Bitminter newbie thread - it's an active one (look at the posts).

[Rydenius]

DrHaribo,

I wonder if there's something off with the website and the block find reporting (and payout). According to the website we've had a horrible string of bad luck:

3/7 - 1 block (88.7% CDF)
3/8 - 2 blocks (51.1%, 75.6% CDF)
3/9 - 1 block (91.5% CDF)
3/10 - 1 block (76.5% CDF)
3/11 - still working (90.96% CDF)


But https://blockchain.info/blocks/BitMinter is showing the following BitMinter submits:
Height   Time   Hash
290021 (Main Chain)   2014-03-11 11:10:11   00000000000000009cb0e3b44204b2622f633cfa8b121c5f543385f5c08fd408
289975 (Main Chain)   2014-03-11 04:48:10   000000000000000057952059ff8f12685d1089973c4280cb9aa285bf5b1a3a6e
289942 (Main Chain)   2014-03-11 00:00:55   0000000000000000771495f1cc3ce33d1b49c66c64e6844505654c59b52173c5
289867 (Main Chain)   2014-03-10 11:21:47   0000000000000000ae0429a82b49331a5bed34dac89e4d2ffd01e7d82979ab83
289751 (Main Chain)   2014-03-09 20:29:59   0000000000000000331aea0f333be954eaaefcb3a1d7b533724d0f4afce122c6
289733 (Main Chain)   2014-03-09 17:40:23   00000000000000010e08d9a7047466346116e66d258050f5194fe134b673ee0b
289690 (Main Chain)   2014-03-09 09:58:49   00000000000000006a1b92c29fdf149301d72c8ac16fe2bb75f527e0c2a5178a
289643 (Main Chain)   2014-03-09 03:56:07   0000000000000000e47c98fb0e7d75853605a615e5cb6796cb43e5d9f6cb4e04
289579 (Main Chain)   2014-03-08 19:08:30   000000000000000074991b528f776a12291ec6905b8ee7b0efff48fe0c58fa7f
289489 (Main Chain)   2014-03-08 04:46:23   0000000000000000073d4aeeb26c3515a0f13ddf0685d33ced070ce2a6ad3fd6
289430 (Main Chain)   2014-03-07 21:27:47   0000000000000000b8febdb26b59b57d2dcc70fc877e381bcf07feb31c1fdd24

which looks more like normal probability.

Is there something up with this?

[Cascaders28]

About blockchain.info showing too many Bitminter blocks, let me put it this way, I have sometimes seen their site get something right, but it's not often.

I emailed them about the problem, but they didn't reply.

According to them Deepbit is still finding several blocks per day, and half of P2pool's blocks are made by Bitminter. It would be funny if it wasn't confusing so many people.

TL;DR: blockchain.info data is usually wrong. Use this instead: http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/

And then

All links to blockchain.info has been removed from bitminter.com. Perhaps that will help reduce the confusion.

I encourage all other website owners to do the same. Even having no information is better than linking to misinformation.

Alternative for block, transaction and address information: http://blockexplorer.com/

Alternative for block origin information: http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/

This is over in the main Bitminter thread.

[Rydenius]

Thanks Cascaders28.

Blockorigin looks to match up with what the BitMinter website is reporting.

Wow... if we've really only found about a block per day over the last week that's really disappointing.  Especially considering the computation power was around 450TH. In the past the BitMinter pool has averaged 3 blocks per day, with 4 blocks on a good day.

This kind of variance is too much for me, I think. I'm going to move to Eligius for a while and see if I can get better luck there. (Of course soon as I do that BitMinter pool will have a string of easy finds... )

[DCLacoste]

I wouldn't call it a non-relevant thread.  I think providing the 1 key data point I surmised from reading the thread is relevant to this active thread.  If you don't want to read Newbie comments, feel free to skip this thread 

Oh .. and +1 

Peace and love

Great pool, I had fun jumping through the history of this thread.  Should have read it before I bought a used Jalapeno, I would have seen the posts back in May 2013 explaining how with the difficulty increases and increases in overall hashing, 5GH would only earn good BTC rates for a while.  Oh well, at least my miner contributes to the Bitcoin network in general

Did you seriously just make a non relevant comment to a non relevant 3 year old thread? You're a newbie, I get it, you want to get your activity up. But at least post your useless comments on active threads, if you're gonna spam at all.