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

[finway]

Leave Eligius!

It's against /P2SH/

[Luke-Jr]

Leave Eligius!

It's against /P2SH/

Don't troll. Eligius is pro-P2SH (BIP 17).

[jake262144]

Don't troll. Eligius is pro-P2SH (BIP 17).

BIP17 is OP_CHV, not OP_P2SH - as you well know.
Be straight: Eligius is pro-BIP17 and therefore anti-BIP16, am I correct?

[Luke-Jr]

Don't troll. Eligius is pro-P2SH (BIP 17).

BIP17 is OP_CHV, not OP_P2SH - as you well know.
Be straight: Eligius is pro-BIP17 and therefore anti-BIP16, am I correct?

There is no OP_P2SH. BIP 12, 16, and 17 are all competing standards for P2SH. BIP 17 is the most sane, and BIP 16 the least.

[BkkCoins]

What's up with the Namecoin transactions info? I just checked my NMC json info using the python tool and it now shows my address as not existing any more.

I checked on the Namecoin block explorer and it shows a payout on the 19th. Was this a flushing out of balances and reset? Just wondering because I didn't get those NMC in my address at CryptoXchange even though past ones worked fine.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import json, urllib2, datetime

address = 'YourNameCoinAddressHere'
url = 'http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/7/NMC/balances.json'

data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url, timeout=5))
print "Address  : " + address
print "Balance  : " + str(data[address]['balance']/100000000.0)
print "Everpaid : " + str(data[address]['everpaid']/100000000.0)
print "Oldest   : " + str(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(data[address]['oldest']))
print "Newest   : " + str(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(data[address]['newest']))

Did you change the /5/ to /7/ in the python code?

Ah. Didn't even think of that. Now it works but the Everpaid has never worked for me. Or maybe it just doesn't work now since I haven't been paid since changed to /7/?

[sharky112065]

What's up with the Namecoin transactions info? I just checked my NMC json info using the python tool and it now shows my address as not existing any more.

I checked on the Namecoin block explorer and it shows a payout on the 19th. Was this a flushing out of balances and reset? Just wondering because I didn't get those NMC in my address at CryptoXchange even though past ones worked fine.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import json, urllib2, datetime

address = 'YourNameCoinAddressHere'
url = 'http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/raw/7/NMC/balances.json'

data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url, timeout=5))
print "Address  : " + address
print "Balance  : " + str(data[address]['balance']/100000000.0)
print "Everpaid : " + str(data[address]['everpaid']/100000000.0)
print "Oldest   : " + str(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(data[address]['oldest']))
print "Newest   : " + str(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(data[address]['newest']))

Did you change the /5/ to /7/ in the python code?

Ah. Didn't even think of that. Now it works but the Everpaid has never worked for me. Or maybe it just doesn't work now since I haven't been paid since changed to /7/?

Correct, Everpaid will show a value when you get your first payment on the new server.

[Gavin Andresen]

There is no OP_P2SH. BIP 12, 16, and 17 are all competing standards for P2SH. BIP 17 is the most sane, and BIP 16 the least.

<begin troll>

No it is not!  BIP 17 is bad for the network and will give you herpes!

<end troll>

[EnergyVampire]

Hello Luke-jr,

What is up with the pay at the pool? Sorry if you answered this already but I can't find any info on it. I was a bit disappointed with the payout for block # 164104. 

Cheers!

[Luke-Jr]

Upgrading to Eloipool, my new poolserver written in Python 3 this week seems to have gone mostly smooth. Hopefully it will solve the pushpool-related issues including however we were being DoS'd. However, I did notice that older versions of PhoenixMiner had trouble with the new longpolls, so I've special-cased them for now. Please report any problems here or on IRC, so I can investigate.

Thanks to lemmi who wrote the 'midstate' Python module in C to provide midstate to miners that can't make their own. If anyone else wishes to contribute (including other pools), please get in touch!

[Luke-Jr]

Just upgraded to bitcoind next-test (pre-0.6 + working pull requests) on Eligius. Seems to have gone fine, but let me know if anything seems off.

Note that this upgrade means we cannot go back to pushpool at this point (without reverting it of course) since the bitcoind maintainers no longer support solomining via getwork (it requires a lot of patches, some Eligius-specific which I didn't take the time to add to 0.6).

[49er]

Namecoins that would otherwise be allotted to unregistered accounts will be distributed between miners who are interested in getting namecoins, and myself (as compensation for the time I put into our stable merged mining implementation).

Luke-Jr:  I have a question about your pool if you don't mind.  How do you decide on the split for the extra namecoins?  Obviously you pay out the PPS for namecoins for those interested, but then how do you split the remaining "that would otherwise be allotted to unregistered accounts" between the "miners who are interested in getting namecoins, and [yourself]"?

Is it 50/50?  75/25?  How do you calculate the bonus for those of us who are interested?  Is it PPLNS with N being since the last split?  Can we see somewhere what bonus we got on our NMC PPS?

[Luke-Jr]

Namecoins that would otherwise be allotted to unregistered accounts will be distributed between miners who are interested in getting namecoins, and myself (as compensation for the time I put into our stable merged mining implementation).

Luke-Jr:  I have a question about your pool if you don't mind.  How do you decide on the split for the extra namecoins?  Obviously you pay out the PPS for namecoins for those interested, but then how do you split the remaining "that would otherwise be allotted to unregistered accounts" between the "miners who are interested in getting namecoins, and [yourself]"?

Is it 50/50?  75/25?  How do you calculate the bonus for those of us who are interested?  Is it PPLNS with N being since the last split?  Can we see somewhere what bonus we got on our NMC PPS?

NMC uses SMPPS just like BC. The non-merged-miners are simply omitted from the algorithm entirely, which basically leaves an infinite buffer. Ergo, miners who have signed up for namecoins receive full PPS even when they would otherwise have received less due to the extra credit mode. This is especially important since we don't longpoll for Namecoin, and therefore, the stale rate is rather high - so unlike the BC side which has up till recently had a large buffer, Namecoin mining would simply have infinite growth of extra credit. My "share" is basically what I feel is comfortably not needed by the Namecoin buffer to pay miners during long "dry periods". The miners' "shares" are basically Eligius effectively paying for (a high rate of) stales.

[Luke-Jr]

Since it seems a lot of pools have been hacked (and balances emptied) recently, I just thought I'd let everyone know that Eligius should be immune to this attack. Since we generally payout in generation, I can safely encrypt the pool wallet, and never unlock it on the actual pool server (ie, only create manual payout transactions on an offline system).

[Gavin Andresen]

Since it seems a lot of pools have been hacked (and balances emptied) recently, I just thought I'd let everyone know that Eligius should be immune to this attack. Since we generally payout in generation, I can safely encrypt the pool wallet, and never unlock it on the actual pool server (ie, only create manual payout transactions on an offline system).

But what if somebody hacked into your server and modified the code that decides which addresses get paid out?

If they were smart, they'd shave just a little bit from everybody's payout and insert a payout to themselves... I imagine it could take quite a while before anybody noticed.

[Luke-Jr]

But what if somebody hacked into your server and modified the code that decides which addresses get paid out?

If they were smart, they'd shave just a little bit from everybody's payout and insert a payout to themselves... I imagine it could take quite a while before anybody noticed.

They'd need to be very smart to find all the safety checks in place

At least nobody can lose their past week's worth of earnings.

[Red Emerald]

Pool seems down. Can't get to the website either

Looks like the DNS still resolves though.

[EpicBacon]

Same issue.

Pool seems down. Can't get to the website either

Looks like the DNS still resolves though.

Tracing route to eligius.st [78.47.187.254]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.11.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 6 ms 7.39.188.1
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 66.185.91.177
4 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms 69.63.250.210
5 14 ms 15 ms 16 ms 69.63.250.97
6 32 ms 32 ms 31 ms gw-init7.torontointernetxchange.net [206.108.34.
62]
7 100 ms 100 ms 100 ms r1lon1.core.init7.net [77.109.140.193]
8 112 ms 114 ms 112 ms r1fra1.core.init7.net [77.109.128.38]
9 113 ms 112 ms 113 ms gw-hetzner.init7.net [82.197.166.86]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.

[Luke-Jr]

It was a DDoS. Thanks go to ageis, and also James with BitVPS for locating the botnet controller and getting it taken offline.

[BCMan]

 When pool will be back to life?

[Luke-Jr]

When pool will be back to life?

As soon as the datacenter reactivates our IP addresses. In the meantime, IPv6 is working fine.