DeepBit pool thread for newbies

[abbeytim]

  still not working with my miners darn ddos
i hope tommorow it works been having to use slushs pool as a backup but its porportional not pps you have to wait for all the confirmations

[[Tycho]]

We had a DDoS issue, sorry.
Mining should work better now.

[[Tycho]]

I recently became a member on deepbit's website and now I am stuck. I have my own personal wallet on my computer and one online also. I currently use GUIMiner. I do not believe I have the option to GPU Mine, I have a Compaq laptop, probably not the greatest. I have never mined before and know i'm doing something wrong. I created a worker: ~~~~~~~@gmail.com_0 and password 123 and set that up in GUIMiner the same way and selected DeepBit from the pull down menu. The console gives me this message: Running command: poclbm.exe --user=~~~~~~~~~~@gmail.com_0 --pass=123 -o deepbit.net -p 8332 -d0 --verbose
Listener for "Default" started

What's the problem ?
If you are mining on your notebook PC then it may be a VERY slow GPU, so you have to mine for tens of minutes or even more to get your first share.

[abbeytim]

thanks tyco its working great now

[Kardonxt]

Hey [Tycho]

on 3 different machines in 3 locations i keep getting a message.

"www.deepbit.net uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for deepbit.net

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)"

That's from firefox, but i get a similar message from IE9 and Chrome.

If I Google search the website then click the deepbit.net result instead of using the address bar I don't get the error.


Good job handling the ddos BTW. I switched over from btc guild after being down for days.

[nmat]

Hi,

I'm new to the "bitcoin world". I signed up at deepbit yesterday and I downloaded the poclbm-GUI miner for my ATI 5450. I mined a few hours at 14MH/s and everything went OK. My account now has around 0.005 BTC.
Then I decided to try CPU mining and I went for the jgarzik's CPU miner. I compiled it on Ubuntu 10.04 and then I ran it. I have an i7-720 so the output was something like this:

Code:

$ minerd --url http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 --userpass xxx:xxxx
[2011-07-08 18:40:59] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2011-07-08 18:41:00] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2011-07-08 18:41:01] Long-polling activated for http://pit.deepbit.net:8332/listenChannel
[2011-07-08 18:41:01] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2
[2011-07-08 18:41:02] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3
[2011-07-08 18:41:03] Binding thread 4 to cpu 4
[2011-07-08 18:41:04] Binding thread 5 to cpu 5
[2011-07-08 18:41:05] Binding thread 6 to cpu 6
[2011-07-08 18:41:06] Binding thread 7 to cpu 7
[2011-07-08 18:41:07] 8 miner threads started, using SHA256 'c' algorithm.
[2011-07-08 18:41:44] thread 0: 16777215 hashes, 384.22 khash/sec
[2011-07-08 18:41:49] thread 1: 16777215 hashes, 359.02 khash/sec
[2011-07-08 18:41:51] LONGPOLL detected new block
[2011-07-08 18:41:51] thread 7: 11780822 hashes, 298.22 khash/sec
[2011-07-08 18:41:51] thread 3: 16241434 hashes, 353.31 khash/sec
[2011-07-08 18:41:51] thread 1: 35687 hashes, 292.71 khash/sec
[2011-07-08 18:41:51] thread 0: 1637746 hashes, 297.45 khash/sec
[2011-07-08 18:41:51] thread 4: 13361821 hashes, 301.04 khash/sec
[2011-07-08 18:41:51] thread 5: 13609740 hashes, 318.30 khash/sec
[2011-07-08 18:41:51] thread 6: 12289648 hashes, 299.09 khash/sec
.....

My problem is that my deepbit account doesn't seem to recognize the CPU miner. The miner is running for almost an hour, but on the website it still says "Workers not connected" and the average speed in the last 10 min is 0 MH/s. I was to post this on the miner's thread but I can't so I ended up here. I am not sure if this is a problem with the miner or with deepbit. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help

EDIT:

After more reading, I think the problem is that my CPU is simply too slow for deepbit. The block was probably found before I even got my first share... Could this be possible?  

I am trying a much smaller pool right now. I will let this run for a while... I also enabled the 4way algorithm which increases the hash/sec considerably.

btw, I know these are ridiculously small values and aren't worth the few cents I will earn. I am just trying things.

EDIT2:

Yep, I was right. I now took me half an hour to make a share and it was validated by the pool. I also feel incredibly ridiculous because nobody takes that long to make a share Problem solved. Sorry for the trouble.

[jrtubs]

Is Deepbit down for people? DDoss Attacks again?

[jrtubs]

Seems to be working again, but seem to be getting connection issuse every few hours using GUI miner, and then one of my rig is total down, not sure why it dont try to reconnect. not sure if that was due to the DDos attacks. but my other 2 rigs seem to be connected and mining. just sucks losing 1.7gh every few hours and need to manually stop and reconnect. any ideas?

[irosaurus]

@nmat: I think you should use your gpu instead of your cpu - with the right settings you should be able to achieve more than 14MH/s.

I tried this pool yesterday and made about 1700 shares, but I had about 1,2% stales. I think it's a bit high - is this normal for this pool?

cheers iro

[mikemacman]

I have three miners running GUI miner on the same internet connection. One of the three is getting constant connection failures. How can I troubleshoot this?

2011-07-11 08:02:06: Listener for "First": 11/07/2011 08:02:06, Deepbit is temporarily unavailable
2011-07-11 08:02:07: Listener for "First": 11/07/2011 08:02:07, Deepbit is temporarily unavailable

[doldgigger]

I have three miners running GUI miner on the same internet connection. One of the three is getting constant connection failures. How can I troubleshoot this?

2011-07-11 08:02:06: Listener for "First": 11/07/2011 08:02:06, Deepbit is temporarily unavailable
2011-07-11 08:02:07: Listener for "First": 11/07/2011 08:02:07, Deepbit is temporarily unavailable

Maybe wait a short while. I was getting 502 and 504 HTTP errors some minutes ago, but now it can be accessed again.

[mikemacman]

I have three miners running GUI miner on the same internet connection. One of the three is getting constant connection failures. How can I troubleshoot this?

2011-07-11 08:02:06: Listener for "First": 11/07/2011 08:02:06, Deepbit is temporarily unavailable
2011-07-11 08:02:07: Listener for "First": 11/07/2011 08:02:07, Deepbit is temporarily unavailable

Maybe wait a short while. I was getting 502 and 504 HTTP errors some minutes ago, but now it can be accessed again.

Yea, everything appears to be working normally now. I was getting a lot of connection failures around 7-8am Central time. I don't have the logs from earlier so I'm not sure when it started.

[mikemacman]

I spoke too soon. Looks like the website and API are getting DDOSed again.

[[Tycho]]

on 3 different machines in 3 locations i keep getting a message.

"www.deepbit.net uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for deepbit.net

That's because pool's site is deepbit.net, not www.deepbit.net :)

[[Tycho]]

I tried this pool yesterday and made about 1700 shares, but I had about 1,2% stales. I think it's a bit high - is this normal for this pool?

Depends on the miner that you use and your connection. Usually I say that < 0.3% is perfect and < 1% is good.

[oic0]

What is the percentage on PPS?

I'm considering switching to deepbit because the Ghash rate is high enough that the luck should stay fairly steady and almost be like PPS even when you aren't using that option. I say that as I stare at a 15 hour 8 million shares so far unsolved block on my current pool. Makes for a lot of variability.

[vinas]

Well deepbit is not doing the full workload again today so it seems like more ddos activity.

[magg0t]

well you could help me with my little problem here and i'll start mining for your pool immediately!
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=28224.0

[dejest]

I have a problem with changing my bitcoin address: after pressing "Save settings", I get a "Mail_sending_failed!". Is this because of DDoS/other temporary cause or its a regular problem? If its important, I use gmail for this account. And also sorry for bad English, its not my main language

[stella]

Hey Tycho,
I lost my bicoin wallet that is being used on your pool(due to messd up unreliable bitlocker software on Win7, and not having multiple back up). I tried to change it to a new one but I kept getting the "Mail_sending_failed!" error. Can u advise me what to do please?

Thanks in advance