[ANN] Infinitecoin (IFC) pool-Treasurequarry.com. 1.5% fee. P2pool Europe server

[TreasureSeeker]

Roll up your machines and join the fun mining some Infinitecoins at http://treasurequarry.com:9844 .  This is a new p2pool. Everything seems to be working well, including payments.  It would be great if you could give it a try - and hopefully stay if you like it  

I'm hoping it should have a high efficiency to ensure your valuable hashes aren't wasted (please see "Choosing your pseudo-share difficulty" below to maximise your efficiency).

The server is based in France in Europe.

Unlike standard pools, you don't need to sign up to mine with p2pool.

To connect, just point your miner to http://treasurequarry.com:9844 using your infinitecoin address as your username, and anything as your password.

For example with pooler's cpu miner (source code available from https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer), use:

minerd -o http://treasurequarry.com:9844 -u YOURINFINITECOINADDRESSHERE -p x

Please do not use an exchange address for your infinitecoin address. Best to use an address from your own computer's wallet.

Pool fee is 1.5%, which you can check at http://treasurequarry.com:9844/fee for confirmation at any time.  

Choosing your psuedo-share difficulty

To get a good representation of your hashrate on the pool's graphs, and also to possibly improve your efficiency, you may find that adding the following to the end of your Infinitecoin address (including the + sign) will help. Just find your nearest hashrate from the table below:

Hash Rate
(KHash/s)   Difficulty
5 or lower +0.00000582
10      +0.00001164
50      +0.00005821
100     +0.00011641
250     +0.00029103
500     +0.00058207
750     +0.00087310
1000    +0.00116414

For example with a 55 KHash/s machine, use:

minerd -o http://treasurequarry.com:9844 -u YOURINFINITECOINADDRESSHERE+0.00058207 -p x

This will make your miner report when it finds "pseudo-shares" of a certain difficulty (you'll still need to find real shares for payments to start, which may take anything between a few seconds to a half a day or so, depending on your hashrate).  Once you do find a share, payments will start going straight to your wallet as soon as the p2pool finds blocks.   Due to the way p2pool's PPLNS (pay per last N shares) works, the payments may seem to start slow but will reach a peak and reasonably steady rate after a couple of days or so.

You can view statistics at http://treasurequarry.com:9844/static/ , and graphs at http://treasurequarry.com:9844/static/graphs.html . Your own graph will show on the graphs page under the heading of your Infinitecoin address.  

If you have any questions about your mining, it would be appreciated if you would post your IFC address that you're mining with, the hashrate your miner is reporting and the number of hours continuous mining that you are querying.  This will help me to give more specific replies.

Happy mining and enjoy chipping away to get that treasure at the quarry!



Updated 4jan 13:

I've been thinking about reducing the time between shares to a lower timescale.  This would have the effect of reducing the share difficulty, which would make it easier for everyone to find shares, and would mean fewer and smaller gaps between payments.   I've posted a poll today at  http://infinitecointalk.org/index.php/topic,1083.0.html    and would be grateful if all current TreasureQuarry miners would vote on what they would prefer.

[TreasureSeeker]

Thanks, arlington and wenyuansky.  Great news, the pool has found its first block and the first payouts have been sent.  

For some reason the time of finding the block seems to be off on the "last blocks" page. I'll look into that.

[TreasureSeeker]

Second block found this afternoon!  The server clock is fine, and Infinitecoind and p2pool's logs are recording the correct time of events, but The Timestamp that p2pool is showing for the blocks is still off for some reason. I'm wondering if it's anything to do with the slow speed of the pool currently, or the fact that only two of us are mining here at the moment, so if anyone can throw some hashes at it, it would be really appreciated and may hopefully help to sort this Timestamp puzzle out....please, please.

[TreasureSeeker]

Yay, thanks, folks!!! The extra miners and hashpower has brought the timestamp for blocks found up to the correct time. The big increase in speed caused a temporary decrease in efficiency for a short while, but the pool has now compensated by increasing the difficulty of shares which has reduced the DOA rate.

Things are looking good...let's keep those machines digging at the quarry.

[TreasureSeeker]

I've changed the text "Payout if block found NOW " to "Pool fee if a block were found NOW" on the front statistics page at http://treasurequarry.com:9844/static/ as I think that's what it's showing there...it's what it's showing me anyway . Can anyone check to make sure it's showing them around 1.5% of the 524288 block reward (the pool's fee) under ""Pool fee if a block were found NOW" " when they view the page and it's not somehow showing your own expected payouts (your own expected payouts will be under the " Expected Payouts if Block Found Now" tab). The figure seems to wobble a bit but I guess it'll average out at the 1.5% fee amount.

[TreasureSeeker]

Tink, tink!  Ah, that's better.  I've done a bit of tweaking to the pool's settings which seems to have increased efficiency.

If you try the pool now you should see a much lower rate of DOA shares and a higher efficiency than the last couple of days.  Yay!

[TreasureSeeker]

I've just created a block explorer at http://exploretheblocks.com so that we can view full details of blocks found by the pool now .  I had to restart p2pool to get it to pick up the correct address to use on the links on the last blocks tab and other pages...apologies for a minute or two's downtime there.

Exploretheblocks.com is on a different server to TreasureQuarry.com, to ensure the block explorer doesn't use any resources of the pool server.

[5Dzz]

Nice pool 

[SlobBastard]

Hi, I'm trying to introduce my kids to mining some alt coins and it was suggested that infinitecoin would be good for them to start with (to see results coming in).  However I have some questions starting up and would appreciate some advice for a noob!  In the instructions I have it says to put in the config file:

rpcuser=**Yourusername**
rpcpassword=**Yourpassword**

My question is what is this 'rpcuser' and 'rpcpassword'?  Where do I get them from?

Thanks!

[TreasureSeeker]

Thanks for the compliment, 5Dzz.

Good idea to get the kids introduced to Infinitecoin, SlobBastard.  You can make the rpcuser and rpcpassword anything you like...maybe something like:

rpcuser=SlobBastardIsANicePerson
rpcpassword=gqpnmvg60hje5cdlkju8h65fd56vuj9ih8565rgblsewnn974n6fd

....don't use exactly what I've put though.

[SlobBastard]

Thanks TreasureSeeker!  I'll try and get the kids mining via treasurequarry in the next day or so.

[TreasureSeeker]

You could have young millionaires there, SlobBastard! (depending on hashrates).  Don't forget the block reward halves in about 9 days - best for them, and anyone reading this, to start as soon as they can.

I've updated TreasureQuarry (and ExploreTheBlocks) to fisheater's new version1.1 of Infinitecoin to help protect the network by the way.

"Houston, we are secure and ready for the next stage of our journey...Onwards into the Infinite!"

[TreasureSeeker]

I've just upgraded TreasureQuarry and ExploreTheBlocks to the new version 1.2 of infinitecoin, released by fisheater earlier today.

TreasureQuarry is finding blocks at fast and regular rates, with efficiency running at 105% at the moment, and the coins are pouring into happy miners' machines.  If your computermachine isn't mining at the quarry yet, come join the infinite fun. 

[xyzwarrior]

When will I get the IFC to my account ? because it says I already received it (http://exploretheblocks.com:2750/address/iS3ZpW7NuwzoxoMqRE8qoRPQkES9bsQYjE), but nothing shows up on my cryptsy wallet, even no pending.

[TreasureSeeker]

Hello xyzwarrior,

Thanks for mining at the TreasureQuarry.  If the block explorer confirms it has been sent then it
would indeed have been sent to that address.

Being a P2Pool, the pool itself keeps no balances, as it sends out all payments on finding a block:

 infinitecoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 60300,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 97831,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 1.32319092,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1370969910,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "mininput" : 0.00010000,
    "errors" : ""
}

If I understand correctly, you're using your Cryptsy exchange address as a payment address for your pool earnings? The general advice for P2Pool is not to use an exchange address.  It's best to use an address from your own computer's wallet for your pool payments. You may want to check with Cryptsy regarding the payment(s) as hopefully they may be able to trace things.

Hope this helps.

[xyzwarrior]

Okay I will ask cryptsy support about that balance. Waiting for reply now

[TreasureSeeker]

Tell me how it goes, xyzwarrior. I've just checked the Cryptsy chatbox and it looks like other people are mentioning problems with IFC deposits currently so you're probably not alone - guess they may have some temporary teething troubles seeing as they only introduced IFC yesterday.

[Swimmer63]

Seems like I'm getting way too many restarts on my two workers.  Is the pool having issues?

[xyzwarrior]

Well, they said I shouldn't use cryptsy wallet for p2pool, and the balance 'may' appear after the blocks are confirmed, but so far nothing.

[TreasureSeeker]

Seems like I'm getting way too many restarts on my two workers.  Is the pool having issues?

Just been checking for you, Swimmer63.  There have been a few peaks in latency but nothing major.  Are you using cgminer?  I've been reading about odd disconnects recently at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=188533.0 . Not sure if anything in that thread relates to your problem.  What message are you getting when it disconnects, how long are they for and does it reconnect automatically after? Can you give me the command that you're using to mine too.

Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, can you give the same details?