[OLD] Eligius: ASIC, no registration, no fee CPPSRB BTC + 105% PPS NMC, 877 #

[bmoconno]

Same here.  It looks like I got a double payment though (I was in the queue when the pool died last night).  So I'm guessing that maybe the system is "catching up" to get me back in line where I should be?

Double payment? you meant you got paid twice of what you earned?

I dont see any double payment. The last payment i got was what i earned b4 the server was down. I switched to my backup pool and didnt switch back until 9hrs ago.

Is your unpaid balance still zero? but you dont see any payout?

I have two payments that are basically the same with-in two hours of each other.  My "Estimated Change" has been the same for at least 8 hours.



P.S.  Ignore the drop in my hash rate, I just rebooted some of my miners.  

[seriouscoin]

Same here.  It looks like I got a double payment though (I was in the queue when the pool died last night).  So I'm guessing that maybe the system is "catching up" to get me back in line where I should be?

Double payment? you meant you got paid twice of what you earned?

I dont see any double payment. The last payment i got was what i earned b4 the server was down. I switched to my backup pool and didnt switch back until 9hrs ago.

Is your unpaid balance still zero? but you dont see any payout?

I have two payments that are basically the same with-in two hours of each other.  My "Estimated Change" has been the same for at least 8 hours.


P.S.  Ignore the drop in my hash rate, I just rebooted some of my miners.  

Oddly the last payout is actually exact my estimated total just b4 the server went down. I still kept that page open until the server was fixed (thanks to the lack of stats regarding shares). So i dont see how thats double payment.

[CanaryInTheMine]

Same here.  It looks like I got a double payment though (I was in the queue when the pool died last night).  So I'm guessing that maybe the system is "catching up" to get me back in line where I should be?

Double payment? you meant you got paid twice of what you earned?

I dont see any double payment. The last payment i got was what i earned b4 the server was down. I switched to my backup pool and didnt switch back until 9hrs ago.

Is your unpaid balance still zero? but you dont see any payout?

I have two payments that are basically the same with-in two hours of each other.  My "Estimated Change" has been the same for at least 8 hours.

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P.S.  Ignore the drop in my hash rate, I just rebooted some of my miners.  

OK, wizkid responded to my question, he's checking it, but no shares are lost, everything will be calculated properly for correct payouts.
no worries...

[bmoconno]

Guess I'll move my miners over to Bitminter until this is sorted out.  Hope I didn't lose 1/4 of a day here.  

[wizkid057]

Guess I'll move my miners over to Bitminter until this is sorted out.  Hope I didn't lose 1/4 of a day here.  

No need.

Guess the cat is out of the bag sooner than I had hoped.  Anyway... Abridged version:  In the confusion surrounding last night's emergency I made a mistake that allowed the reward system to overpay some miners.  
No miners have lost any income due to this and it is business as usual.

Details: The database issue happened right around the time we mined block #277343.  Since the CPPSRB code couldn't read the database at the time, it wasn't able to count the payouts in that block's coinbase transaction.  CPPSRB went into fail-safe mode pending my intervention.  

I was automatically notified very soon after of the database issue.  I saved state and shutdown CPPSRB while it was in fail-safe mode without paying attention to the fact that I hadn't allowed it to tally this one block's earnings yet.

Then I proceeded to correct the hardware issue, etc, etc........ and I completely forgot CPPSRB was in fail-safe when I saved state and shut it down.  Without thinking when I started it back up, I ignored its cries about fail-safe and allowed it to load its state and continue...... without it tallying the fail-safe'd block.

I actually realized shortly after that I had made this error.  No harm done yet.  I went to shutdown CPPSRB to correct it and the moment I did we found block 277361..... containing a set of payouts remarkably similar to those in block 277343.  Some people had then officially been double paid.

After the last issue I had with a double payment months and months ago (resulting in a final roughly 2 BTC loss that I covered at the time), I had coded in some handling of negative balances, allowing miners to "work off" an overpayment.  However, I didn't think about how the stats code would react, since they assume a balance can never be negative.  This seems to manifest on the stats as a messed up maximum reward graph and never having any balance stick until the over-payment is covered.

Unfortunately, the Bitcoin community has not been known for its honest users, overall.  So, my apologies in having to withhold this information, and I hope the reasoning is understood.  I'm sure if I had immediately posted something about this that most people who were double paid would have took off with the over-payment never to return.  It is sad, but true.  Fortunately the majority of affected miners continued to mine as usual and a good portion of this error has corrected itself.

In any case, I know there are going to be a bunch of people who now will do exactly as I initially feared and just flee with whatever part of their over-payment they have, but I kindly ask that anyone affected please have some respect, realize that I am a fallible human being that makes mistakes, consider any mistaken payment as a 0% interest payday loan, and simply continue to mine as normal so that the overage is covered because any remaining overage will end up coming out of donated funds as I don't have a huge pile of income from pool fees to fall back on for something like this.

I sincerely apologize for the issue and confusion caused by it.  Regardless of how much of these funds are unrecoverable, I won't allow any miners to be adversely affected by this mistake and will ensure that it is covered.  (As of this writing about 80% of the over-payment has been repaid through mining so far... I expect that to increase further when more shelved shares are paid.)

I have also put in code that will yell at me in the future if I try to dump CPPSRB's state while it is in fail-safe mode to prevent this particular oversight from ever happening again.

Code:

if (!safe_mode) {
    dump_full_state();
} else {
    printf("************************************************************************************\n");
    printf("*** Refusing to dump state while in safe mode.  Sorry, lost enough coins this way! *\n");
    printf("************************************************************************************\n");
}

Long story short.... business as usual.  Pool is up and running, shares are tallied, blocks are being found, everything is working as expected.  For the few miners affected by this, please accept my apologies for the confusion and I hope you will do the right thing and continue to mine.

Thanks for mining.

-wk

Edit: Clarification:  Miners/share log shares were credited for block 277343 as normal.  Also, I will correct the stats to show block 277343 soon.

[bmoconno]

Thanks for the quick reply!  I'll point my miners back at Eligius.  I know my .2 BTC that I'm working off is hardly what you're worried about, but every little bit helps. 

[BorisAlt]

I just lost connection to eligius stratum on two out of three computers at home.

http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT

One keeps hashing like nothing happened. When I tried to restart bfgminer on the two failed ones I get "Pool Setup failed". I switched to GHash.IO for the time being.

[wizkid057]

I just lost connection to eligius stratum on two out of three computers at home.

http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT

One keeps hashing like nothing happened. When I tried to restart bfgminer on the two failed ones I get "Pool Setup failed". I switched to GHash.IO for the time being.

Nothing going on that should have caused any connectivity issues on this end.

[BorisAlt]

I just lost connection to eligius stratum on two out of three computers at home.

http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT

One keeps hashing like nothing happened. When I tried to restart bfgminer on the two failed ones I get "Pool Setup failed". I switched to GHash.IO for the time being.

Nothing going on that should have caused any connectivity issues on this end.

Weird, I switched to GETWORK and it's working now. I tried stratum and still no luck on two out of three computers. I have been using Eligius since December 10 without any connection issues.

[wizkid057]

I just lost connection to eligius stratum on two out of three computers at home.

http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT

One keeps hashing like nothing happened. When I tried to restart bfgminer on the two failed ones I get "Pool Setup failed". I switched to GHash.IO for the time being.

Nothing going on that should have caused any connectivity issues on this end.

Weird, I switched to GETWORK and it's working now. I tried stratum and still no luck on two out of three computers. I have been using Eligius since December 10 without any connection issues.

Might be a DNS issue.  My scripts rotate out IPs at times on our DNS. (Part of DoS protection.)  If your one machine is stuck on an old long-disabled IP try rebooting it or flushing DNS.

 

[seriouscoin]

So wk, you're saying the double payment has caused you to lose 25BTC?

Where did that extra 25BTC come from? I thought based on CPPSRB, the pool would not have any reserved fund and all shelved shares will be paid for. Its essentially max at PPS.

Since you're not honest about the problem, dont be offended if i dont trust your whole payout system. (I understand the payout method)

[HellDiverUK]

Since you're not honest about the problem, dont be offended if i dont trust your whole payout system. (I understand the payout method)

Wow, you REALLY know how to make a mountain out of a mole hill, don't you?   

If you don't like Eligius, why don't you go mine somewhere else?  GHash.io are really transparent... 

[organofcorti]

Where did that extra 25BTC come from? I thought based on CPPSRB, the pool would not have any reserved fund and all shelved shares will be paid for. Its essentially max at PPS.

If the same thing happened as last time, it will come out of wk's pocket.

[Luke-Jr]

So wk, you're saying the double payment has caused you to lose 25BTC?

Where did that extra 25BTC come from? I thought based on CPPSRB, the pool would not have any reserved fund and all shelved shares will be paid for. Its essentially max at PPS.

Since you're not honest about the problem, dont be offended if i dont trust your whole payout system. (I understand the payout method)

Obviously he's covering it out of pocket. I don't know what you're accusing him of being dishonest about... 

[seriouscoin]

Where did that extra 25BTC come from? I thought based on CPPSRB, the pool would not have any reserved fund and all shelved shares will be paid for. Its essentially max at PPS.

If the same thing happened as last time, it will come out of wk's pocket.

So the pool's wallet and his personal wallet is one? Because otherwise he would have noticed the double payout or the server wouldnt have made the double payout due to empty balance.

[Luke-Jr]

Where did that extra 25BTC come from? I thought based on CPPSRB, the pool would not have any reserved fund and all shelved shares will be paid for. Its essentially max at PPS.

If the same thing happened as last time, it will come out of wk's pocket.

So the pool's wallet and his personal wallet is one? Because otherwise he would have noticed the double payout or the server wouldnt have made the double payout due to empty balance.

Uh, you must be new here. Eligius generates payouts, they don't come out of a wallet except in rare cases.

[seriouscoin]

So wk, you're saying the double payment has caused you to lose 25BTC?

Where did that extra 25BTC come from? I thought based on CPPSRB, the pool would not have any reserved fund and all shelved shares will be paid for. Its essentially max at PPS.

Since you're not honest about the problem, dont be offended if i dont trust your whole payout system. (I understand the payout method)

Obviously he's covering it out of pocket. I don't know what you're accusing him of being dishonest about... 

I'm not accusing. He withhold the information. I understand his reason but i dont understand how double payout is possible if the pool's wallet is empty!

[seriouscoin]

Where did that extra 25BTC come from? I thought based on CPPSRB, the pool would not have any reserved fund and all shelved shares will be paid for. Its essentially max at PPS.

If the same thing happened as last time, it will come out of wk's pocket.

So the pool's wallet and his personal wallet is one? Because otherwise he would have noticed the double payout or the server wouldnt have made the double payout due to empty balance.

Uh, you must be new here. Eligius generates payouts, they don't come out of a wallet except in rare cases.

Then explain to me where did the extra 25btc comes from? I know it came from a new block but it wasnt paid out according to shares log.... (shelved shares). How did that happen?

Edit: basically from what i read wk's post, the payout system didnt have the updated shares log (or its not synced properly). So the shelved shared were not paid and how exactly wk is going to do to fix it? can wk explain how the miners would have to "work off" the double paid? dont they already shelved shares to be deleted?

[bmoconno]

Then explain to me where did the extra 25btc comes from? I know it came from a new block but it wasnt paid out according to shares log.... (shelved shares). How did that happen?

If you read wk's post from last night he clearly explains that the BTC for the double-payment came from block #277361 that was found just as he was taking the system out of fail-safe.  The original payment was meant to come out of the BTC mined from block #277343, which was found just before the system went into fail-safe mode.

Hope this clears it up for you, if not, please re-read the entirety of wk's post from last night where he explains the situation.

[seriouscoin]

Then explain to me where did the extra 25btc comes from? I know it came from a new block but it wasnt paid out according to shares log.... (shelved shares). How did that happen?

If you read wk's post from last night he clearly explains that the BTC for the double-payment came from block #277361 that was found just as he was taking the system out of fail-safe.  The original payment was meant to come out of the BTC mined from block #277343, which was found just before the system went into fail-safe mode.

Hope this clears it up for you, if not, please re-read the entirety of wk's post from last night where he explains the situation.

I understood the mess up. Please read the post above