[ POOL CLOSED ] Mainframe Mining Cooperative

[AnnihilaT]

bump for new promotion.  Read post #1 for details.

[3phase]

Hi, AnnihilaT

Switched over to your pool for testing yesterday, and am impressed by the stability and the low percent of rejections.

The Promo makes me feel much better as well  .

I decided to give up the stable PPS of Eligius, or the regular payouts of Slush/Deepbit for your more adventurous approach! By adventurous I mean getting knowledgeably lucky, even with 1 block per day average. It seems like you know very well what you are doing.

I am here to stay.

Thank you for your work.

And on the topic of suggestions, in my view, Eligius has some of the best statistics and graphs around (open source by Artefact2). You might want to consider it. Having said that, I feel that your current setup is good enough to keep me mining here.

[spankymio]

dear whoever mentioned luck,

please stfu - you jinxed us.

many regards,
me

lol/jk 

[AnnihilaT]

Hi, AnnihilaT

Switched over to your pool for testing yesterday, and am impressed by the stability and the low percent of rejections.

The Promo makes me feel much better as well  .

I decided to give up the stable PPS of Eligius, or the regular payouts of Slush/Deepbit for your more adventurous approach! By adventurous I mean getting knowledgeably lucky, even with 1 block per day average. It seems like you know very well what you are doing.

I am here to stay.

Thank you for your work.

And on the topic of suggestions, in my view, Eligius has some of the best statistics and graphs around (open source by Artefact2). You might want to consider it. Having said that, I feel that your current setup is good enough to keep me mining here.

Welcome!!! very happy to have you join us... tell your friends about us and that's the biggest thanks you can give us

for the stats...don't worry... lots in the works.  we have only been up for a bit more than a month now and are steadily and regularly coding new features.  lots more will be added as we get the time.

also our code is open source as well and if anyone wants to help add features and functionality please feel free to do so.

[tnkflx]

First block ever found :-)

[AnnihilaT]

Congrats to tnkflx finder of block #141,959.

Tnkflx,  your account has been credited 1 BTC extra.  TX type is BONUS.

Cheers! and congrats on your first block ever

[RaTTuS]

I'm slowly moving my backup miners to this pool.
+1 for luck

[AnnihilaT]

Mainframe Mining Cooperative OFFICIAL NOTICE:

After careful monitoring of our current situation, we have determined that the erosion of income from our loyal miners has no longer become merely negligible due to pool hopping.  In order to head this off before it becomes a problem and discourages loyal miners from using this pool we have taken the following immediate action. 

10 minutes ago after our last block payout,  I implemented a PPLNS reward system in this pool.   From this point forward, Mainframe is no longer a "pool hopper friendly" pool.

Let this serve as official notice to all pool hoppers - Mainframe will not help you cheat our loyal users out of hard earned BTC.

Cheers!
AnnihilaT, Vladimir, and the rest of the Mainframe Staff.

[AnnihilaT]

I'm slowly moving my backup miners to this pool.
+1 for luck

welcome!  great news!

[AnnihilaT]

Welcome and good luck to the new miners joining us!

[AnnihilaT]

We got stickied into the top 10!  Milestone!  Congrats everyone!

[cyberlync]

We got stickied into the top 10!  Milestone!  Congrats everyone!

That's pretty nice. "Viribus Unitis"  

[AnnihilaT]

Small update:


Today we have found already three blocks one of which was orphaned due to deepbit getting it into the network before we could.   Coincidentally there was a network and UPS maintenance window scheduled in my datacenter last nite with some unfortunate side effects of reduced I/O to one of the storage array disk clusters the pool cluster is using which was causing some latency and load issues for the pool.  At the very moment we found block 142,496 we were getting this array back up to speed and im convinced that everything running a bit slower is what caused us to lose our first race.   

Unfortunate or we would have 3 blocks up on the board right now.  You win some, you lose some

If any of you saw some oddities with portions of the stats reporting a found block but it not showing up in the list,  this was the reason for it.  Some of the code knew that it wasnt a valid block while other pieces of code had already entered it into a found block table the moment it had been found.   This is our first orphaned block so i hope to improve how this works a little bit when i have the time.  For the time being if you ever see the time stats showing a recent found block but it is not in the list,  this means it has been orphaned/invalidated. (at least i hope thats all it means!)

In the interest of full disclosure,  here is the transaction list from the pool showing our last confirmed block (142413), the orphaned 142496 block,  followed by the 2 blocks currently awaiting confirmation/generation.

Code:

    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "generate",
        "amount" : 50.09279550,
        "confirmations" : 120,
        "txid" : "d1aa00b3346417e0d818ad2a2708ee600c181fa54a796a905bb73190c535c89e",
        "time" : 1314200416
    },
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "orphan",
        "amount" : 50.01300000,
        "confirmations" : 0,
        "txid" : "9152ed1267f3dd9ee1e4dbec76a9a1226ac52e63863ee5f121ba3a0b07db35af",
        "time" : 1314257607
    },
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "immature",
        "amount" : 50.01000000,
        "confirmations" : 14,
        "txid" : "9b8bf99bb4a6d5e4e7e988c6bbd6ebf197485360b8f12ac67367f4ff7d75a534",
        "time" : 1314270291
    },
    {
        "account" : "",
        "category" : "immature",
        "amount" : 50.11531383,
        "confirmations" : 2,
        "txid" : "4ec7933d83c7d78d64af6a4ca3620c3049f8f0568de0a693d098c4a22c1de845",
        "time" : 1314280514
    },

[cyberlync]

Thank you for keeping us informed

[3phase]

I'm back after the SolidCoin goldrush. Let's get this block!!!!

[AnnihilaT]

welcome back!  how much SC did you make off with ?

[AnnihilaT]

Congrats to Monacelli for finally finding the last block!  Your account will be credited with a 1BTC Bonus as soon as it confirms. 

[3phase]

welcome back!  how much SC did you make off with ?

I don't remember 

All I know is I made 50 BTC mining and trading in 3 days.

Would take 45 days non-stop with my miners.

And cheers for the block!

[AnnihilaT]

wow thats pretty impressive... i have not been following whats going on with solidcoin at all... was it just volume?  you were able to mine so much SC because of low difficulty?  Is it over now?

[3phase]

Mining made me some, yes. At some point, it was 3x-4x more profitable than BTC. I also spent 10 BTC to buy some more, having seen similar patterns for all previous alt. chains.

Cashed out at the top. Almost... 

It's slowly downhill at the moment. Unless they pull a rabbit off their hat, it's gonna drop even more. It's slightly unprofitable now to mine SC.