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[MinerInTheShire]

I'm more than a little frustrated with trying to mine CSC....

On CoinWarz.com it shows as being variably from 50 % to 100% more profitable than mining WDC over the past 2 and a half days.... Whilst that may be true, I've had to switch back to mining WDC for now due to the complete instability of CSC pools/P2Pools.

Unfortunately, at the moment, all the pools and P2Pool nodes I use either keep going down constantly, or just stop paying out - even if shares are bing accepted, WU is good, stales are low, etc. The trouble is that every night I've gone to bed, or during the day I've gone out - everything looks sweet... And then I just stop getting payouts.

At first I thought it was me... But I'm able to mine WDC, SBC and LTC without issue... Even using Cartman's other P2Pool nodes.

Almost every time I've seen issues there have been posts on here, or news banners on sites saying that there are issues with the various pools and P2Pool nodes. There are generally reassurances that all payouts will be okay, miners will rejoin automatically, etc... But unfortunately this hasn't been my experience. Sometimes my one, lonely, miner has automatically reconnected, and sometimes payouts have resumed - others they haven't though.

I've also noticed that switching between nodes - unfortunately - hasn't seemed to keep my payout level. When I do so, I've had to wait an hour or so and then payouts start coming in at a low level, and build... Until the payouts stop generally a few hours later.

Apart from the occasional reboot and to switch my miner manually, I've been attempting to mine CSC pretty constantly for the past 2 and a half days. With my hash rate and difficulty CoinWarz predicted I should generate 747 coins when I looked 2 and a half days ago. 24 hours later it said I should generate around 500 coins, 24 hours later around 340 coins and now 242 coins. So even if I take 500 coins for the first 24 hour period, 340 for the second and then 121 for the last 12 hours - that's a total of 961 CSC. In reality because of Pool issues I've actually received just 286.55 CSC.

As I've put further up this post I've switched back to mining WDC for the moment - this seems to be stable (on several pools or on Cartman's P2Pool node). It is currently around 50% less profitable to mine that CSC according to CoinWarz.com - but the coins generated do match those predicted, and the payouts keep coming so for me I'm finding that WDC is actually 100% more profitable than mining CSC (right at this moment).

Please don't take this the wrong way - I'm not having a go at nor am I criticising any pool operator or P2Pool node operator. I haven't tried every P2Pool node either. I am grateful for the hard work that the pool operators and P2Pool node operators put in to provide us with a service. I'm not accusing anyone of foul play or anything like that... More just sharing my frustration. I understand fully that pool operators and P2Pool node operators are probably just as frustrated as me as this will affect them also - likely more so! Their miners are likely to be affected, and if we're not mining on their pools successfully then they're not getting fees.

I'm really hoping that you guys can get everything nice and stable though - I really do want to mine CSC again! I don't know if there's much I can do to help any of you, but if there is then please let me know! Thanks again for all of your hard work! :-)

[Speedie]

I'm more than a little frustrated with trying to mine CSC....

On CoinWarz.com it shows as being variably from 50 % to 100% more profitable than mining WDC over the past 2 and a half days.... Whilst that may be true, I've had to switch back to mining WDC for now due to the complete instability of CSC pools/P2Pools.

Unfortunately, at the moment, all the pools and P2Pool nodes I use either keep going down constantly, or just stop paying out - even if shares are bing accepted, WU is good, stales are low, etc. The trouble is that every night I've gone to bed, or during the day I've gone out - everything looks sweet... And then I just stop getting payouts.

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I'm really hoping that you guys can get everything nice and stable though - I really do want to mine CSC again! I don't know if there's much I can do to help any of you, but if there is then please let me know! Thanks again for all of your hard work! :-)

Ditto to everything that you said, and especially the quoted parts. I had the same frustrations, so I initially set CGMiner up to failover to WDC pools if (or more likely when) something went wrong with the CSC pools. There's really no excuse for the pools to be constantly crashing under 30-40MH/s of load.

If you're technically adept, and have a good hashrate to throw at it, then take a stab at solo mining CSC with either CSC or WDC pools set up as failovers. I got it finished on my Debian Linux mining rig an hour or so ago and already hit my first block. Bonuses: you're only dependent on your local connection, and you get to keep the whole block reward 

[RENDERING]

URGENT UPDATE~~~  http://casinocoin.coinarmy.com

Ok guys I have figured out what is going on and fixed it for now. We where maxing out our systems because of our Member growth. We have just upgraded to a system that will only support 80 Active minners. This is for now.

Currently you cannot see the new site because the IP changed and the DNS is propagating. So be patient.

For now you can view the website directly here: http://162.243.105.94

You have to change your miner config to point to the new IP --scrypt  -o stratum+tcp://162.243.105.94:3333 -u Weblogin.Worker -p Worker password

Now with that being said we can only accept 80 active miners. Once we hit 80 active miners registration is closed until we can get some more servers built.

Today we hit 75 active miners dso it is going to hit 80 anytime.

We also have to dump a lot of money into this, but we think its worth it. If any of you can donate it would be greatly appreciated as this is turning out to be a HUGE financial burden... I talking 1000's of USD per month. But one we are willing to take! We are just asking for some help back from you guys. You can change the donation % in your account. I have been busting my ass and not sleeping to get this going for everyone.

Ok so now we have smooth sailing to 80 active miners and I will keep it smooth by closing registration at that point.

Here is our server setup:
 
-Stratum
-VARDIFF
-Every 1 Min block stats update
-Every 10 Seconds Dashboard Stats update
-Instant payout once a block is confirmed
-Block finder bonus (0.5 CSC bonus for finding a block)
-PPLNS
-Payouts every 1 minute
-Dedicated Staff (We are here everyday for you)

Thanks for your ongoing support. I am continuing to work very hard at this for all of us.

Now come join the CoinArmy!    

[FullLife]

URGENT UPDATE~~~  http://casinocoin.coinarmy.com

Ok guys I have figured out what is going on and fixed it for now. We where maxing out our systems because of our Member growth. We have just upgraded to a system that will only support 80 Active minners. This is for now.

Currently you cannot see the new site because the IP changed and the DNS is propagating. So be patient.

For now you can view the website directly here: http://162.243.105.94

You have to change your miner config to point to the new IP --scrypt  -o stratum+tcp://162.243.105.94:3333 -u Weblogin.Worker -p Worker password

Now with that being said we can only accept 80 active miners. Once we hit 80 active miners registration is closed until we can get some more servers built.

Today we hit 75 active miners dso it is going to hit 80 anytime.

We also have to dump a lot of money into this, but we think its worth it. If any of you can donate it would be greatly appreciated as this is turning out to be a HUGE financial burden... I talking 1000's of USD per month. But one we are willing to take! We are just asking for some help back from you guys. You can change the donation % in your account. I have been busting my ass and not sleeping to get this going for everyone.

Ok so now we have smooth sailing to 80 active miners and I will keep it smooth by closing registration at that point.

Here is our server setup:
 
-Stratum
-VARDIFF
-Every 1 Min block stats update
-Every 10 Seconds Dashboard Stats update
-Instant payout once a block is confirmed
-Block finder bonus (0.5 CSC bonus for finding a block)
-PPLNS
-Payouts every 1 minute
-Dedicated Staff (We are here everyday for you)

Thanks for your ongoing support. I am continuing to work very hard at this for all of us.

Now come join the CoinArmy!    

VARDIFF doesn't seem to be working.  I just mined for a little bit with 2750 Kh/s and it never increased past a difficulty of 2.

[CartmanSPC]

Have been in contact with other p2pool operators who may be opening up additional public Casinocoin p2pool nodes soon. Unfortunately and perhaps unintentionally it looks like http://casinocoin.mooo.com:8840/ has broken off on it's own  

The break up was intentional, for now. Currently the difficulty is still so low that sharing one p2pool didn't feel ideal. Also I'm trying to see what are the ideal parameters for such a fast coin. I'm not going to stay as an lonely island forever, just for a little while.

One thing that I've noticed that is pretty annoying is constantly changing share difficulty. Example:

Dragon695: That is why some miners like to set their share difficulty manually. A p2pool node sets the difficulty based on the load. If the node your on has a high hash rate it will provide your miner with a hash rate based on the load. This may be way too high for lower hash rate miners.

I will post this section of the FAQ for you to reference:

Q: Can I set my own share difficulty?
A: You can set the level of difficulty sent to your miner by appending a difficulty setting to your wallet address.

To set the difficulty for your specific hash rate multiply by 0.00000116
For example, if your miner is capable of 1440 Kh/s:

1440 * 0.00000116 = 0.0016704

Example Connection String for a miner capable of 1440 Kh/s:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://dgc.xpool.net:8810 -u DTWPTRSi9HoLh69NPd2fbDWUGHrx1nLdmk+0.0016704 -p password --scrypt

The following difficulty settings can be used as a guide:

Kh/s        Difficulty
1           +0.00000116
50          +0.000058
100         +0.000116
250         +0.00029
500         +0.00058
750         +0.00087
1000        +0.00116
1500        +0.00174
1750        +0.00203
2000        +0.00232

[CartmanSPC]

Have been in contact with other p2pool operators who may be opening up additional public Casinocoin p2pool nodes soon. Unfortunately and perhaps unintentionally it looks like http://casinocoin.mooo.com:8840/ has broken off on it's own  

The break up was intentional, for now. Currently the difficulty is still so low that sharing one p2pool didn't feel ideal. Also I'm trying to see what are the ideal parameters for such a fast coin. I'm not going to stay as an lonely island forever, just for a little while.

Please be very careful when changing parameters and connecting to other p2pool nodes! If you try to reconnect you MUST delete the casinocoin folder in the p2pool data folder and all the parameters MUST match the other nodes. I do not know your level of experience so I wanted to caution you. If you know what your doing then please accept my apology. I would hate to see the entire Casinocoin p2pool taken down unintentionally.

[leewilson]

Have been in contact with other p2pool operators who may be opening up additional public Casinocoin p2pool nodes soon. Unfortunately and perhaps unintentionally it looks like http://casinocoin.mooo.com:8840/ has broken off on it's own  

The break up was intentional, for now. Currently the difficulty is still so low that sharing one p2pool didn't feel ideal. Also I'm trying to see what are the ideal parameters for such a fast coin. I'm not going to stay as an lonely island forever, just for a little while.

One thing that I've noticed that is pretty annoying is constantly changing share difficulty. Example:

Dragon695: That is why some miners like to set their share difficulty manually. A p2pool node sets the difficulty based on the load. If the node your on has a high hash rate it will provide your miner with a hash rate based on the load. This may be way too high for lower hash rate miners.

I will post this section of the FAQ for you to reference:

Q: Can I set my own share difficulty?
A: You can set the level of difficulty sent to your miner by appending a difficulty setting to your wallet address.

To set the difficulty for your specific hash rate multiply by 0.00000116
For example, if your miner is capable of 1440 Kh/s:

1440 * 0.00000116 = 0.0016704

Example Connection String for a miner capable of 1440 Kh/s:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://dgc.xpool.net:8810 -u DTWPTRSi9HoLh69NPd2fbDWUGHrx1nLdmk+0.0016704 -p password --scrypt

The following difficulty settings can be used as a guide:

Kh/s        Difficulty
1           +0.00000116
50          +0.000058
100         +0.000116
250         +0.00029
500         +0.00058
750         +0.00087
1000        +0.00116
1500        +0.00174
1750        +0.00203
2000        +0.00232

Can this formula be used and then appended to any username for any pool? or just p2pool accounts?

Also, can this be appended to your username in your conf file in order to use it for solo mining?  If not, is there a way to decrease difficulty as a solo miner?

[darkstaticfire]

I've been mining casinocoin for a few hours. At first I was receiving bits of coin every minute or so, but for the last hour I haven't gotten anything. I tried a few of the P2Pools with the same result. Any ideas what's going on?

[GoldSeal]

I've been mining casinocoin for a few hours. At first I was receiving bits of coin every minute or so, but for the last hour I haven't gotten anything. I tried a few of the P2Pools with the same result. Any ideas what's going on?

Dude, why not just solo mine this one? The diff is low enough. WHy bother with pools until the diff goes way higher and the pools work out their issues?

[darkstaticfire]

I'm only at 700 KH/s until my PSU arrives, do you think I'd get enough?

[Speedie]

I'm only at 700 KH/s until my PSU arrives, do you think I'd get enough?

Current network hash rate is around 525,000 KH/s
Your hash rate is 700KH/s
With average luck you can expect to solve 700/525,000 = 1 in every 750 blocks
Target block time is 30 seconds
Average luck would yield 1 block per (750 x 30) = 22,500 seconds = 375 minutes = 6h 15m
Call it 4 blocks per day = 200 CSC x 0.0000595 (current best bid on Cryptsy) = 0.0119 BTC per day

At 700KH/s though you can expect massive variance.

[MinerInTheShire]

If you're technically adept, and have a good hashrate to throw at it, then take a stab at solo mining CSC with either CSC or WDC pools set up as failovers. I got it finished on my Debian Linux mining rig an hour or so ago and already hit my first block. Bonuses: you're only dependent on your local connection, and you get to keep the whole block reward 

I am technically adept to setup a solo miner... A geek and a techie by life and by trade.   I've been seriously tempted to do this - but with only one 7970 and the sharp increase in difficulty I've been wondering whether it's still worth it? I've even considered creating a private pool - but don't really want to step on anyone else's toes (and can also see the hard work that these guys put in - I don't know whether I've got the time to dedicate to be honest for that idea!).

I'm hoping santa brings me a shiny new 290 or 290x - so I'm thinking that the solo miner route is the way to go, hopefully difficulty in two weeks time will keep it worth it. Worse case is that I drop back to using a pool. :-)

This will NOT affect payouts whatsoever !!!

Hi ajochems.... Is there any news? Just seen this and my miner's been working and getting shares accepted without problems... Payouts stopped about almost 4 hours ago though.... :-(

I just wanted to thank ajochems - I woke up to your pool being back, and I can see that a nice big payment came into my wallet from your pool overnight. Thanks for the work and effort dude!

URGENT UPDATE~~~  http://casinocoin.coinarmy.com
Ok guys I have figured out what is going on and fixed it for now. We where maxing out our systems because of our Member growth. We have just upgraded to a system that will only support 80 Active minners. This is for now.

Great news Rendering - glad you've got things sorted, know the reasons and are introducing the cap to what your hardware can handle so that things run smoothly. I can only imagine that you've had a stressful few days, thanks for the effort and handwork you've put in for us miners!

I'm only at 700 KH/s until my PSU arrives, do you think I'd get enough?

With one 7970, this is what I've been pondering too. Looking at CoinWarz.com it's still showing 219 coins per 24 hours for 640Kh/s - so that's just over 4 blocks? There has been a rise in difficulty and I suppose it's the two great unknowns that could affect that further - another influx of mining power causing an increase of difficulty and the luck of the draw in finding blocks...

[rapidfire187]

welcome back transcoder

[RENDERING]

VARDIFF doesn't seem to be working.  I just mined for a little bit with 2750 Kh/s and it never increased past a difficulty of 2.
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Hehehehe oh its working. The CSC coin difficulty just jump to 3 man. Keep an eye on it!


I also forgot to mention that Cgminer rounds the number. You cannot see .something on it. It is always a whole number never 2.98 or anything.

[FullLife]

VARDIFF doesn't seem to be working.  I just mined for a little bit with 2750 Kh/s and it never increased past a difficulty of 2.

Hehehehe oh its working. The CSC coin difficulty just jump to 3 man. Keep an eye on it!
[/quote]

I think you misunderstand what I'm talking about.  I'm not talking about the network difficulty.  I'm talking about the share difficulty that's listed in cgminer.  VARDIFF is short for variable difficulty and it's supposed to adjust depending on your hash rate.  A higher hash rate gets a higher difficulty and therefore gets sent tougher shares to solve.

[RENDERING]

VARDIFF doesn't seem to be working.  I just mined for a little bit with 2750 Kh/s and it never increased past a difficulty of 2.

Hehehehe oh its working. The CSC coin difficulty just jump to 3 man. Keep an eye on it!

I think you misunderstand what I'm talking about.  I'm not talking about the network difficulty.  I'm talking about the share difficulty that's listed in cgminer.  VARDIFF is short for variable difficulty and it's supposed to adjust depending on your hash rate.  A higher hash rate gets a higher difficulty and therefore gets sent tougher shares to solve.
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I also forgot to mention that Cgminer rounds the number. You cannot see .something on it. It is always a whole number never 2.98 or anything. End if you look at the block stats we are finding blocks while Cgminer displays 3, proving that it rounds the numbers.

[RENDERING]

URGENT UPDATE~~~  http://casinocoin.coinarmy.com
Ok guys I have figured out what is going on and fixed it for now. We where maxing out our systems because of our Member growth. We have just upgraded to a system that will only support 80 Active minners. This is for now.

Great news Rendering - glad you've got things sorted, know the reasons and are introducing the cap to what your hardware can handle so that things run smoothly. I can only imagine that you've had a stressful few days, thanks for the effort and handwork you've put in for us miners!

Thank you! That really means a lot to me to get good feedback, been sooooo stressed out the last week with this but finally I am on the home stretch to growth!

[FullLife]

VARDIFF doesn't seem to be working.  I just mined for a little bit with 2750 Kh/s and it never increased past a difficulty of 2.

Hehehehe oh its working. The CSC coin difficulty just jump to 3 man. Keep an eye on it!

I think you misunderstand what I'm talking about.  I'm not talking about the network difficulty.  I'm talking about the share difficulty that's listed in cgminer.  VARDIFF is short for variable difficulty and it's supposed to adjust depending on your hash rate.  A higher hash rate gets a higher difficulty and therefore gets sent tougher shares to solve.

I also forgot to mention that Cgminer rounds the number. You cannot see .something on it. It is always a whole number never 2.98 or anything. End if you look at the block stats we are finding blocks while Cgminer displays 3, proving that it rounds the numbers.
[/quote]

Hehe, ok.  It still doesn't sound like you understand what I'm talking about.  The number I'm referring to never has decimal places, it's always a whole number.  It's also never been set to 2 and stayed that low, ever.  I've mined in a lot of VARDIFF pools and the lowest share difficulty I've been assigned was probably 64.

Edit:  Just checked again and VARDIFF finally increased it from 2 to 540, much better.  I've never seen VARDIFF take that long to adjust, but better late than never.

Edit2:  Aaaand now it's back to 2 again haha.  Something is definitely not right with VARDIFF.

[CasinoCoiner]

One thing that I've noticed that is pretty annoying is constantly changing share difficulty. Example:

[2013-12-12 19:31:17] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 721.128538
[2013-12-12 19:31:17] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-12-12 19:31:18] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 610.394723
[2013-12-12 19:31:18] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-12-12 19:31:26] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 587.288722
[2013-12-12 19:31:26] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-12-12 19:31:30] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 425.892274

Instead of sending a work restart/share diff change every 5-10 seconds, maybe cap it to a min of 45 seconds. I am pretty sure that having to do these computations for every miner so often is what is causing load issues, not to mention it increases the likelihood of stales.

The low diff adjustment is needed for casinocoin, and it only affects the amount of shares you get from the p2pool, it doesn't affect your earnings because everyone has the same "issue". It's not really an issue, it's just the way p2pools need to operate on fast coins.

Also you should not use --no-submit-stale, because if you find a block and your miner considers it as stale, it will not submit it. Even when it might still be a valid block against CasinoCoin block chain (p2pool has its own block chain).

Please be very careful when changing parameters and connecting to other p2pool nodes! If you try to reconnect you MUST delete the casinocoin folder in the p2pool data folder and all the parameters MUST match the other nodes.

I know, but it's a fair warning thanks!

[transcoder]

First off, I just wanted to say thanks for the overwhelming responses and support for CasinoCoin! Hearing from people looking to volunteer their services for the overall betterment of CasinoCoin has been humbling and uplifting at the same time. Fortunately, my recent diagnosis doesn't affect longevity of life, but it does indeed effect quality of life, so I thereby can't overextend myself as I have in the past. Knowing that a team is forming now really makes me excited of what's to come with CasinoCoin! I will be in contact in the next few days with some of you who have contacted me, so please be patient.

@casinocoin:
Thank you for gracefully handling the decision to not launch CAC / CasinoCoin 2.0. While I agree with some of the posters on here that a potential partnership would be ideal, I respect your decision with the launch of a new coin.

Since the launch of CasinoCoin, I strategically never had the intention to build out my own casino. The idea was to build tools to help developers build out casino applications that integrate with CasinoCoin. The reason why I wanted to separate coin from casino and not directly get into the casino business by starting my own is the looming legality issues of operating an illegal gambling business, especially here in the United States where I am based and have no intention of relocating due to my current circumstances. Hypothetically speaking, if the casino that I were to have developed and operate were to be legally taken down and I was in legal peril, that could jeopardize the ongoing development of the coin. I am however in full support of those that currently run casino operations and would like to integrate CSC and those that are developing online casino gaming applications. That's why I was excited to hear about you and your team's current efforts to build an online casino. If you decide to integrate CasinoCoin into your gaming application, I would be more than happy to stake a CasinoCoin loan from my personal stack to help you fund the house stack. I'm also open to any collaboration efforts. Else, if you need assistance with anything coin related, I'm here.

@trdiablo:
I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I can understand your point of view given the circumstances that followed my return. CasinoCoin isn't intended to be a pump & dump. While I must admit I sold off about 3% of my personal stack in this recent value rise, I did so out of excitement from the fact that CSC has never reached these levels before as far as I could recall. The funds will be used to pay off CSC infrastructure costs. But rest assure that I am in this for the long haul.

@itsjar:
Short term plans are to fix up the core infrastructure and re-establishing the CasinoCoin forums in order to eliminate the massive spam that I've been experiencing. Many volunteers have contacted me on the marketing and engineering fronts, and I will be establing contact with them on how they can contribute. Once everything is re-established, I have an interesting side project that I would like to pursue related to CasinoCoin. I was fortunate enough to receive a pair of Google Glass recently, and my plan is to download and fool around with the Glass Software Development Kit with the intent of building a Bitcoin / Litecoin / CasinoCoin price ticker app for Google Glass. I'd like to have it ready prior to the official launch of Google Glass to the public so that anyone interested in Bitcoin would be downloading the app and would see CasinoCoin listed as well, which might spark some interest in CasinoCoin since only BTC/LTC/CSC will be listed. I'm really looking forward to messing around with development on Google Glass!

@Prinzert:
Infrastructure wise, it looks like CasinoCoin currently has 3 pushpools and 4 p2pools. Additional pools would be useful in spreading out the hashrate and increasing security. One of the short term needs would be a CasinoCoin block explorer. The ones listed are no longer active, so establishing a CSC block explorer would be extremely helpful.

@judyballhairy:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=258090.msg3926432#msg3926432
I couldn't have said so any better myself
As for the forums, at first I wanted to avoid blowing it up and recreating from scatch, but it looks like I might be heading down this path in addition to employing additional anti-spam techniques and suggestions from MinerInTheShire.

@MinerInTheShire:
Any SPAM eliminating ideas/scripts will be EXTREMELY helpful! In the past I found I spent more time attempting to eliminate spam then time spent communicating with the community! I will reach out to you in the next few days.

@human:
Your services with the client update will be much appreciated! Do you have a GitHub profile? I really like the idea of setting a CasinoCoin Foundation and a separate wallet to manage bounty allocations. I just started one with a modest 5000 CSC (which I'll add to as needed in the future) at the following address: CcG1Wm8ugYhjMeUUa7EeFkWJEpMV3Dhy6p (we welcome your donations). I'll be in touch in the next few days.

@murderouskirk and @SirSavary:
I appreciate the enthusiasm! Once your pool is up, let me know the details and I will update the first post. I will be in contact with you guys in the next few days.

I'm also seeking a developer proficient in Java to help with the port of BitcoinJ to CasinoCoinJ. PM me if you are interested.

If I missed anyone, please send me a PM and I will get back to you.