BiblePay | 10% to Orphan-Charity | RANDOMX MINING | Sanctuaries (Masternodes)

[bible_pay]

NOMP pool pages are up, miners get : connection refused

15 minutes now

Update: all good now. expecting more ups and downs today

It's getting there now finally; looks like we did have a couple issues...

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[sunk818]

I've heard a lot of people ask why suffering exists and wouldn't a good God prevent suffering.

Does suffering disprove the existence of a good God?
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2019/10/does-suffering-disprove-the-existence-of-a-good-god/

[coinsinspect]

Something wrong.
All explorers and SX are on block 153345 for 40 minutes

[sunk818]

Something wrong.
All explorers and SX are on block 153345 for 40 minutes

Thanks for your report -- that's a good observation. Difficulty is 175k so it will take a while to solve. I see chain is okay after biblepay pool solved the block. Higher difficulty will lead to longer times between blocks sometimes. Mining is part luck so trying to find an acceptable an acceptable hash is much harder at difficulty 175k than 1.75k. This was not a problem when difficulty was low, but now that the external miner was released, difficulty has been steadily climbing.

[bible_pay]

BiblePay - External CPU Miner
1.0.0.8-Leisure Upgrade

- Prevent submitting duplicate shares
- Handle time encoding correctly

** Ok guys, it appears the lions share of the problem with the pool was the time encoding and submission of duplicate shares.  Please upgrade the external miner, and try again with Nomp, lets see if the valid share percentages rise now. **

[bible_pay]

I've heard a lot of people ask why suffering exists and wouldn't a good God prevent suffering.

Does suffering disprove the existence of a good God?
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2019/10/does-suffering-disprove-the-existence-of-a-good-god/

I've encountered this issue in public.  I've heard people raising these issues with me claiming God does not exist :  Why would a good God send people to Hell, why would babies crash in a plane crash, why would a person live a life of suffering - like in the case of leprosy for years?

Here are some of my opinions, from a high level:
- Only good things originate from God, but always - all bad conditions, suffering, bad situations and destruction come from Satan.  Meaning that, Satan is constantly wandering like a roaring lion, trying to find a legal right to enter, but it is up to a Christian to stand on the word of God and drive the illness, infection, or condition away.  (But the Christian must forgive and be obedient to Gods laws).
- God does sometimes allow Satan to dominate a person for a time, for example in Job, but this is to create a prototype.  Its an example, that God may choose to use a short term bad situation for long term character building, if he wishes.
- Why does Satan even exist?  Because souls truly have free will.  When a person matures they start choosing between good and evil.  A person who bears Christian fruit is choosing good (by Gods definition of good).  If a person reaches the end of their life and they are still doing bad and are unrepentant, God reserves the right to judge them (and possibly send them to damnation).
- God is bound by his own rules - so this means a buffer of time exists.  This explains how a plane full of babies can die.  Sometimes Angels do intervene.  But it can also be argued those babies are in a better place once they pass over into heaven.
- Good cannot be appreciated without bad.  A spoiled brat who receives nothing but chocolate cake daily will never appreciate hunger in third world countries the same as a starving person does, and a person who suffers will truly appreciate relief when it comes.
- Our life here is but a vapor, our length of time on a rope is like a centimeter compared to the eternity we will live in heaven or hell.  Therefore no amount of suffering here compares to the goodness we will receive with the gift of eternal life. 

[Nipar]

Now getting more of this:

Code:

 [2019-10-24 19:06:00] Stratum requested work restart
[2019-10-24 19:06:15] Stratum requested work restart
[2019-10-24 19:08:15] Stratum connection timed out
[2019-10-24 19:08:15] Stratum connection interrupted
[2019-10-24 19:08:16] Stratum requested work restart

[bible_pay]

Now getting more of this:

Code:

 [2019-10-24 19:06:00] Stratum requested work restart
[2019-10-24 19:06:15] Stratum requested work restart
[2019-10-24 19:08:15] Stratum connection timed out
[2019-10-24 19:08:15] Stratum connection interrupted
[2019-10-24 19:08:16] Stratum requested work restart

Yeah, Im restarting the pool over and over.

Please stand by- this release was not complete.

[sunk818]

1) Can we have vardiff, or difficulty at 1 too?
2) Stratum requested work restart

Is there a timeout from pool that requires miners to submit acceptable hash within say 10 seconds? If so, perhaps setting the difficulty lower will allow miners to submit to the pool more often and not require stratum to request work restart.

3) when a hash is accepted, I noticed the calculation is off, like it is counting total hash rather than from last checkpoint?

[2019-10-24 16:51:22] thread 2: 2501378434 hashes, 197981 khash/s
[2019-10-24 16:51:22] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 198024 khash/s (yay!!!)


4) https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/blob/master/binaries/bbpminer-x86.exe

32-bit version seems to pass.

Windows 10 deletes it as a Virus after it is downloaded.

"Virus scan failed" or "Virus detected"
These errors mean that your virus scanning software might have blocked you from downloading a file.

Check your virus-scanning software for details about why the file was blocked.
On Windows: Windows Attachment Manager could have removed the file you tried to download. To see what files you can download or why your file was blocked, check your Windows internet security settings.

[bible_pay]

External CPU Miner
1.0.0.9-Leisure Upgrade

- Ensure time is encoded properly for both stratum & non-stratum modes


** Ok everyone, the 1008 version is really not a working release.  I believe this version actually addresses the problem; please try now. **

[capulo]

i went to pog so i browse how it worked ... and found this guide
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Getting_Started_with_Evolution
but exec sendgscc is not working anymore...
update is needed

btw how can i check if my wallet is already joined to pog? i'm not sure if i not leaved or so
sendgscc not thrown any error

[bible_pay]

i went to pog so i browse how it worked ... and found this guide
https://wiki.biblepay.org/Getting_Started_with_Evolution
but exec sendgscc is not working anymore...
update is needed

btw how can i check if my wallet is already joined to pog? i'm not sure if i not leaved or so
sendgscc not thrown any error

1)  Its now : sendgscc instead of 'exec sendgscc', so you can type for example:  sendgscc pog 100, that would send a donation of 100 bbp to the foundation.
2)  If you leave the miner running on one thread with the wallet unlocked, it will send one sendgscc out every 12 hrs.
3)  You can try to type : exec join pog,  and it will throw an error if you already joined.

[bible_pay]

1) Can we have vardiff, or difficulty at 1 too?
2) Stratum requested work restart

Is there a timeout from pool that requires miners to submit acceptable hash within say 10 seconds? If so, perhaps setting the difficulty lower will allow miners to submit to the pool more often and not require stratum to request work restart.

3) I notice my hash rate solo is 25kh/s but with pool it drops to about 15kh/s.
4) when a hash is accepted, I noticed the calculation is off, like it is counting total hash rather than from last checkpoint?

[2019-10-24 16:51:22] thread 2: 2501378434 hashes, 197981 khash/s
[2019-10-24 16:51:22] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 198024 khash/s (yay!!!)


4) https://github.com/biblepay/cpuminer/blob/master/binaries/bbpminer-x86.exe

32-bit version seems to pass.

Windows 10 deletes it as a Virus after it is downloaded.

"Virus scan failed" or "Virus detected"
These errors mean that your virus scanning software might have blocked you from downloading a file.

Check your virus-scanning software for details about why the file was blocked.
On Windows: Windows Attachment Manager could have removed the file you tried to download. To see what files you can download or why your file was blocked, check your Windows internet security settings.

1) On vardiff - please try port :3032.  Its vardiff from 1-16 now.  I won't update the docs until things get stable, but lets try it for a couple days.

2) On Work restart - This is not worth talking about yet.

3) On your hash rate of 15kh vs the solo of 25kh:  The pool does not measure the hashes per sec, it just estimates them based on how many shares you can solve.

4) On the virus:  This is very common on every miner that includes libcurl (which is required for stratum).  I would say the best thing we can do is once its stable, is we can try deploying this to biblepay.org first.  After N downloads, I believe google will start marking it as safe.   (Along with other scanners).

[sunk818]

2) On Work restart - This is not worth talking about yet.

Looks like pool has it set for 15 seconds. So, diff needs to be low enough so a share can be submitted within every 15 seconds, or a long time out before stratum restarts work. You don't have a lot of miners so it is okay for now, but I don't think the current arrangement will scale well, especially on VPS.

[bible_pay]

2) On Work restart - This is not worth talking about yet.

Looks like pool has it set for 15 seconds. So, diff needs to be low enough so a share can be submitted within every 15 seconds, or a long time out before stratum restarts work. You don't have a lot of miners so it is okay for now, but I don't think the current arrangement will scale well, especially on VPS.

Its set this way for a reason - its not deployed to prod yet- this is beta software still.  This is why I said I dont want to talk about this yet - we dont have an unlimited amount of time to discuss things that are changing.

[sunk818]

Its set this way for a reason - its not deployed to prod yet- this is beta software still.  This is why I said I dont want to talk about this yet - we dont have an unlimited amount of time to discuss things that are changing.

Okay, sorry for pressing you. I'll wait.

[bible_pay]

Its set this way for a reason - its not deployed to prod yet- this is beta software still.  This is why I said I dont want to talk about this yet - we dont have an unlimited amount of time to discuss things that are changing.

Okay, sorry for pressing you. I'll wait.

I've had it set much longer this morning, but the issue is even with both ways (longer times between rpc polls) and shorter times (like it is now) both have a problem (I believe unrelated to the new block scan time).

But anyway, the worst thing that happens when the server asks for 'stratum requested work restart' is the client starts with a new timestamp and nonce, but in reality it does not actually stop hashing (so its not grossly inefficient).  Any hash has a chance of winning. 

But yes, I definitely will be tweaking the pool to more efficient once we know its working (as then less network data will be wasted).

Right now its still not finished - something is missing.  We did solve a block just now - with half the nomp miners, so its partially working.

Ill debug it more tomorrow.

In the mean time it looks like we have some threads to answer.

[sunk818]

yes I see the duplicate shares causing the boo in the miner.

thanks for your efforts. I'm sure it is frustrating sometimes.

[togoshigekata]

I got an email back today that my Coinsbit account was not approved

Title: Customer Doc Disapproved

No documents accepted. Please try again.

Reason: "Dear customer, good day! Your verification application was disapproved. We do not accept USA documents. Thank you for understanding."

I asked in their Telegram, "Does Coinsbit not allow users from the USA?"
Eugene from Coinsbit Support Team said "No, it's not allowed"

[bible_pay]

I got an email back today that my Coinsbit account was not approved

Title: Customer Doc Disapproved

No documents accepted. Please try again.

Reason: "Dear customer, good day! Your verification application was disapproved. We do not accept USA documents. Thank you for understanding."

I asked in their Telegram, "Does Coinsbit not allow users from the USA?"
Eugene from Coinsbit Support Team said "No, it's not allowed"

I feel like we are being misled and taken advantage of in a lot of places.  I made it pretty clear to Nick that I lived in the US and he never mentioned to me trading is not allowed.

Ok I asked support last night through their ticket system if they required a KYC, and I got a reply back - US customers are not allowed.

Well, this is material information that would change the vote potentially.

So far I only executed the contract but we did not send them any money.

Lets discuss further if we should vote this down now?