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[coinotron]

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Due to lack of popularity we are closing BTC pool.

Please withdraw your coins until 2013-08-15.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=26727.msg2813737#msg2813737



We are proud to present to you world's first multi-coin mining pool: www.coinotron.com

Stratum mining is available in the following pools:
LTC  = coinotron.com:3334
TRC  = coinotron.com:3335
FRC  = coinotron.com:3336
FTC  = coinotron.com:3337

You can mine here

-ppcoins ( PPS, RBPPS )
-terracoins ( RBPPS )
-litecoins ( PPS, RBPPS )
-freicoins( PPS, RBPPS )
-feathercoins( RBPPS )

Today we've launched Coinotron pool. Everyone is welcome to join us!

We are not using pushpool. Pool engine is written in c#, is fast and reliable.

Coinotron advantages:
-  security is our priority, users passwords are hashed and salted
-  we are startup pool, so odds of DDOS attack are at this moment slight  
-  anti-cheating score system punishing pool-hooping cheaters
-  long poll support ( mining efficiency raises about 2% )
-  SSL
-  automatic payouts
-  Stratum

How can you join us?
1. Register here: http://www.coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=register
2. Create worker(s)
3. Configure your mining application to point to our server - examples:  http://www.coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=help
4. Start mining

IMPORTANT
For security reasons we introduced some limitations into registration process.
- Username and password must have at least 8 characters
- You should enter your real email address. It is the only way to unblock your account if you forgot password.

[1714957910]

1714957910

[gentakin]

We are not using pushpool. Pool engine is written in c#, is fast and reliable.

Nice.

-  Proportional payouts. For each block generated in our pool we get 50 BTC. Next we split these coins between miners proportionally to amount of work delivered.
[..]
-  anti-cheating score system punishing pool-hooping cheaters

So it's not really proportional, or is it? (Can you explain a bit more about your reward system?)

-  security is our priority, users passwords are hashed and salted
[..]
1. Register here: http://www.coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=register

If security is your priority, why don't you use https - at least for register/login, so passwords are not transmitted in plain text?

[coinotron]

So it's not really proportional, or is it? (Can you explain a bit more about your reward system?)

Here you have exact formula :

Share Score = exp ( C * time span from beginning of the round to share delivery time / round duration )

Payout = 50 * sum( miner’s share scores ) / sum( all miners share scores )

For C = 0 we have Share Score = 1 for each delivered share i.e system is proportional.
When we raise C value, system becomes similar to Slush’s method. Most precious are shares delivered at the end of the round.

Currently we use C = 0 – pool is small, round duration is measured in days.
But when we observe increase of pool-hoopers activity we will set this value to about 6.

If security is your priority, why don't you use https - at least for register/login, so passwords are not transmitted in plain text?

Workin on it

[coinotron]

!!! BOUNTY !!!

6 BTC for miner who finds first block in our pool.

Good luck !

[coinotron]

Today we’ve launched new version of Coinotron.
Now you can mine namecoins!

In few days difficulty in namecoins chain will decrease from 56000 to 23000.
Mining namecoins should be then very profitable.

[coinotron]

10 Gh/s total NMC+BTC !

[coinotron]

Yesterday we have found our first Namecoin block !!
After 120 confirmations we will pay out

Regards

[coinotron]

New hashrate record in our pool :  28 Gh/s !!

[coinotron]

New record today : total = 50 Gh/s

[shotgun]

Is there a JSON API? I've got all of my 3Ghash in your pool and would like to be able to monitor it without logging in.

[coinotron]

There is not JSON api. But it waits in development queue.

[coinotron]

It is hard to believe, but we have grown up from 10 Gh/s on Jul 17th to 70 Gh/s  today !!!!

That is 700% in 4 days.

Namecoins rules

[Jine]

Expected length of the name: 8
Expected length of the password: 8 - 12


Seriously?!

I won't even register now, and i would suggest no one else does it either.

[coinotron]

Expected length of the name: 8
Expected length of the password: 8 - 12


Seriously?!

I won't even register now, and i would suggest no one else does it either.

Please do your trolling job somewhere else.
Cold regards

[shotgun]

Expected length of the name: 8
Expected length of the password: 8 - 12


Seriously?!

I won't even register now, and i would suggest no one else does it either.

If that's your reason for not joining then mine elsewhere. It's not hard to create a 8 char username and a 8-12 char password. wtf.

[simonk83]

Any chance of getting more details statistics in the blocks solved page, eg how many shares you contributed and the value received?

The "Current Round Reward" seems to have borked and is just stuck on 0.00000000.  The unconfirmed seems to be updating when a block is solved though.

The "Duration" on the statistics page is wrong as well, eg:

41    16768    2011-07-22 00:28:03    0:31:38    116 to confirm
40    16767    2011-07-22 00:26:17    0:31:38    115 to confirm
39    16757    2011-07-21 23:54:39    0:30:44    105 to confirm
38    16756    2011-07-21 23:49:45    0:30:44    104 to confirm

[Jine]

Expected length of the name: 8
Expected length of the password: 8 - 12


Seriously?!

I won't even register now, and i would suggest no one else does it either.

Please do your trolling job somewhere else.
Cold regards

I was dead serious, why the HELL are you limiting the length of passwords?
I can only think of ONE reasons to such a limit:

1) Storing passwords in clear text (VARCHAR(12) for example)

It's pure idiotic to demand low security for passwords on a site that actually handles any kind of currency - virtual or not.

EDIT: Tried out the site with something really, really low security - "password" is 8 chars.
Then the next issue came up - 20 chars limit for e-mails? WTF?

mynameis@hotmail.com makes exactly 20 chars.

I would suggest you to remove the password limit completly, the username limit is up to you - i don't really care.
And increase the e-mail limit to at least the double for people that actually have long emails.

EDIT2:
Also, learn to santize your inputs to avoid these kind of issues:
http://xkcd.com/327/

Full XSS-vuln on frontpage all pages, no CSRF protection, possible SQL-injection issues.
Really, really, really bad security. No santizing of inputs WHAT so ever. Even possible to register with <script>alert(1);</script>

[Luke-Jr]

I was dead serious, why the HELL are you limiting the length of passwords?

Maybe he uses the same password for the miners (bad idea), which have a limit (I forget what) on length of username+password.

[Jine]

I was dead serious, why the HELL are you limiting the length of passwords?

Maybe he uses the same password for the miners (bad idea), which have a limit (I forget what) on length of username+password.

Worker credentials are user-choosen, not using same password.

EDIT:
"-  security is our priority, users passwords are hashed and salted"

Ok, they why the hell? Still, if security IS your priority. I'd suggest you to not take me as a troll, cause that will only make you look like a fool.

[Luke-Jr]

I'd suggest you to not take me as a troll, cause that will only make you look like a fool.

I'd suggest he does, since you've been doing an awful lot of trolling lately.

But at the same time, I agree he should work a bit more on the security.

[Jine]

I'd suggest he does, since you've been doing an awful lot of trolling lately.

Thats only against you, baby 

[simonk83]

So payouts need to be done manually (by you) still I assume?   Whenever you're ready

[simonk83]

We're missing a way to see all previous payouts and amounts as well.    A payout history basically.

[coinotron]

Any chance of getting more details statistics in the blocks solved page, eg how many shares you contributed and the value received?

The "Current Round Reward" seems to have borked and is just stuck on 0.00000000.  The unconfirmed seems to be updating when a block is solved though.

The "Duration" on the statistics page is wrong as well, eg:

41    16768    2011-07-22 00:28:03    0:31:38    116 to confirm
40    16767    2011-07-22 00:26:17    0:31:38    115 to confirm
39    16757    2011-07-21 23:54:39    0:30:44    105 to confirm
38    16756    2011-07-21 23:49:45    0:30:44    104 to confirm

More elaborated statistics were planned for this week. I even started to work on graphs. But this rapid growth of pool during last 2 days is just overwhelming. I'm only answering questions, fighting with bugs and resetting passwords

The "Current Round Reward" problem looks strange. I’m not observing such behavior on my account. Are you sure that:
-your workers are working,
-your internet browser is refreshing page properly
Try sign off, close your internet browser, start it again, sing in and check if value has changed.

"Duration" bug is annoying but no calculation depends on these values.

Thanks for this info.

[simonk83]

The current round issue sorted itself out.   Seems to reoccur every so often but it looks like some sort of delay after a block is solved. 

All good

[coinotron]

The current round issue sorted itself out.   Seems to reoccur every so often but it looks like some sort of delay after a block is solved. 

All good

You are right. Current round reward calculations are performed in batch, every 5 minutes.
I forgot about it, answering your previous post.

[de4l]

what's up with the NMC payouts? Mining solo I would have earned a block in the time that I only get 14nmc on your pool?

edit: not really an accusation, but it seems like they're really low, just looking for any explanation?

[Clipse]

what's up with the NMC payouts? Mining solo I would have earned a block in the time that I only get 14nmc on your pool?

edit: not really an accusation, but it seems like they're really low, just looking for any explanation?

You may have caught an unlucky period, Ive been on mining for last day and i can surely tell you overall ive earned more btc than I would have solo'd, so i got a big piece of the luck

[coinotron]

what's up with the NMC payouts? Mining solo I would have earned a block in the time that I only get 14nmc on your pool?

edit: not really an accusation, but it seems like they're really low, just looking for any explanation?

There are very fast rounds. Fastest I remember took only 11 seconds!
Maybe you were unlucky to deliver enough shares.
Please email me your username and email address and I will look into it.

[simonk83]

I'm the same actually unfortunately.  Mined all day at the pool yesterday and only came away with 15NMC.   

[shotgun]

People need to put more ghash into the BTC pool at CoinoTron - we're never going to solve a block if it's just me and one 600mhash guy, and we a lot of shares actively submitted that are never going to payout if no one mines BTC. Maybe some people can put 50% of the mhash into BTC? Please!

BTW, the stats are reporting my Mhash incorrectly. It says I have 1.037Ghash but I actually am running (confirmed on my cards and proxy), 3.2ghash/s. What is the averaging time period for the stats mhash/s value?

[coinotron]

People need to put more ghash into the BTC pool at CoinoTron - we're never going to solve a block if it's just me and one 600mhash guy, and we a lot of shares actively submitted that are never going to payout if no one mines BTC. Maybe some people can put 50% of the mhash into BTC? Please!

BTW, the stats are reporting my Mhash incorrectly. It says I have 1.037Ghash but I actually am running (confirmed on my cards and proxy), 3.2ghash/s. What is the averaging time period for the stats mhash/s value?

I appreciate your work shotgun. Actually I'm considering some kind of lonely miner award for you or title: the Last of the Mohicans.
You are totally right. People got mad about namecoins. When tomorrow difficulty rise over 100,  “the last will be first, and the first will be last”.
My only hope is that they stay and mine BTC.

Regarding your hashrate. – I see c.a. 2400 in BTC and 300 in NMC. Averaging period is 10 minutes.

[Clipse]

People need to put more ghash into the BTC pool at CoinoTron - we're never going to solve a block if it's just me and one 600mhash guy, and we a lot of shares actively submitted that are never going to payout if no one mines BTC. Maybe some people can put 50% of the mhash into BTC? Please!

BTW, the stats are reporting my Mhash incorrectly. It says I have 1.037Ghash but I actually am running (confirmed on my cards and proxy), 3.2ghash/s. What is the averaging time period for the stats mhash/s value?

I appreciate your work shotgun. Actually I'm considering some kind of lonely miner award for you or title: the Last of the Mohicans.
You are totally right. People got mad about namecoins. When tomorrow difficulty rise over 100,  “the last will be first, and the first will be last”.
My only hope is that they stay and mine BTC.

Regarding your hashrate. – I see c.a. 2400 in BTC and 300 in NMC. Averaging period is 10 minutes.

Most likely a huge portion will leave after nmc rush however you might want to consider paying some incentive promotional BTC out of your own pocket during the month of july in order to keep users and make things grow onwards after nmc rush.

[shotgun]

People need to put more ghash into the BTC pool at CoinoTron - we're never going to solve a block if it's just me and one 600mhash guy, and we a lot of shares actively submitted that are never going to payout if no one mines BTC. Maybe some people can put 50% of the mhash into BTC? Please!

BTW, the stats are reporting my Mhash incorrectly. It says I have 1.037Ghash but I actually am running (confirmed on my cards and proxy), 3.2ghash/s. What is the averaging time period for the stats mhash/s value?

I appreciate your work shotgun. Actually I'm considering some kind of lonely miner award for you or title: the Last of the Mohicans.
You are totally right. People got mad about namecoins. When tomorrow difficulty rise over 100,  “the last will be first, and the first will be last”.
My only hope is that they stay and mine BTC.

Regarding your hashrate. – I see c.a. 2400 in BTC and 300 in NMC. Averaging period is 10 minutes.

Well, at this point I'm just going to keep my ghash there and hope I find a block soon ... I have 4 more cards coming next week so expect that hashrate to jump a bit

[shotgun]

There's something wrong with the pool server - the miners keep getting empty queues and sitting idle. I've been forced to switch back to BTCguild for the time being until the Coinotron pool servers respond correctly. @ other pools right now I get zero idle time and no empty queues. Kind of starting to feel like I've wasted 1.5 days mining here, which means I've not made 2BTC when I should have. What is going on?

[Dimsum]

signed up to mine NMC, but GUIminer gives password / username errors. I checked - they are fine. I'm going to take a wild stab and asume that these errors are because GUIminer is looking for the namecoin exe? I think what your help instructions on the site are missing is actually telling people to get the name coin exe and where to place it so that GUIminer can work with it.

I don't have any issues with GUIminer and the 3 pools I am using - just coinotron and NMC mining. Help!

[Jine]

... OP you actually put a max-lenght on the add-workers function aswell - but WITHOUT fixing the XSS issue? Haha.

To everybody else:
This pool is INSECURE.

If it had a "instant payout" or similar, i could easily steal your coin's without you even noticing - or worse, spread a worm that stole everybody's coins.
(Not that I would ever to something like that, but i really, really suggest that OP do read a fucking basic course in web security.)

[coinotron]

To everybody else:
This pool is INSECURE.

If it had a "instant payout" or similar, i could easily steal your coin's without you even noticing - or worse, spread a worm that stole everybody's coins.

OK. That does it. I've reported your behavior to moderator.

[Clipse]

... OP you actually put a max-lenght on the add-workers function aswell - but WITHOUT fixing the XSS issue? Haha.

To everybody else:
This pool is INSECURE.

If it had a "instant payout" or similar, i could easily steal your coin's without you even noticing - or worse, spread a worm that stole everybody's coins.
(Not that I would ever to something like that, but i really, really suggest that OP do read a fucking basic course in web security.)

If it had rainbows, it would have rained aswell ?

You do realise there isnt an instant payout cause he is fixing up stuff still and manually processing payouts atm ?

Why keep trolling his thread with "if this, then I could do that" situations.

[DiabloD3]

... OP you actually put a max-lenght on the add-workers function aswell - but WITHOUT fixing the XSS issue? Haha.

To everybody else:
This pool is INSECURE.

If it had a "instant payout" or similar, i could easily steal your coin's without you even noticing - or worse, spread a worm that stole everybody's coins.
(Not that I would ever to something like that, but i really, really suggest that OP do read a fucking basic course in web security.)

Jine, consider this an official warning. Go troll elsewhere.

[kubi]

Some Feature would be nice:

• Total Shares of current BTC/NMC Block
• Link to this Forum
• Link to an IRC-Channle

[coinotron]

After month of painful waiting we solved our 1st BTC block

[kubi]

Yes, finaly we did it.
Block is confirmed and I received my first coinotron BTC's.

Kubi

[joulesbeef]

so how often are the payouts? I'd like to cash in my pitiful amount of namecoins

[coinotron]

so how often are the payouts? I'd like to cash in my pitiful amount of namecoins

Usually 2-3 times a day.

[coinotron]

Today we introduced to our pool support for ixcoins.

Currently difficulty in ixcoins chain is pretty low. So we can mine a lot of coins

[Zoomer]

I tried this pool out for the ixcoins support. Unfortunately, I messed up and submitted more than 400 shares to port 8344 before realizing something was wrong. Are these shares lost forever?

I switched it and the shares seems to be going by a ton faster. Weird.

[coinotron]

I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't test such scenario so here are my speculations:

When you tried to connect to port 8344 you didn't send any shares but info that you want get new work when new block will be found. Server responded to your miner when there was new block, sending to you new piece of work.
I'm not 100% sure how your miner program handled this situation. But it should rather reject these messages.
In my database first proper share received from you 2011-08-14 00:10:59.890 (assuming your username is zoomerzaos). If you remember when you switched to 8322 this should answer your question.

[Jack of Diamonds]

Today we introduced to our pool support for ixcoins.

Currently difficulty in ixcoins chain is pretty low. So we can mine a lot of coins

What is the point of wasting GPU cycles on something, entirely created by the owner of the blockchain, to attempt enriching himself?

It offers *nothing* bitcoin doesn't, it has zero incentive for adaption, all the easy coins were mined & are being distributed like candy on the forum

Plus the owner is under a pseudonym (by a surname that does not exist)
& using a photo of a japanese actor called Hiroyuki Sanada.

Identical to BTC down to the supposed japanese author and front site
At least namecoin has a purpose

[Zoomer]

I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't test such scenario so here are my speculations:

When you tried to connect to port 8344 you didn't send any shares but info that you want get new work when new block will be found. Server responded to your miner when there was new block, sending to you new piece of work.
I'm not 100% sure how your miner program handled this situation. But it should rather reject these messages.
In my database first proper share received from you 2011-08-14 00:10:59.890 (assuming your username is zoomerzaos). If you remember when you switched to 8322 this should answer your question.

Thanks for the response, I just changed the server from ars and forgot to check the port. The miner appeared to be mining, so I left it alone for a while. I'm entirely sure what happened, but given the small amount of shares, it's not a big deal. Nice pool by the way, my stales are much less than 1%.

[coinotron]

Thanks for the response, I just changed the server from ars and forgot to check the port. The miner appeared to be mining, so I left it alone for a while. I'm entirely sure what happened, but given the small amount of shares, it's not a big deal. Nice pool by the way, my stales are much less than 1%.

I'm glad that you like our setup. Currently stales may be even higher than usually because of ixcoin rush. Yesterday shortest round lasted only 16 sec! 
Regarding stales we are quite liberal. We accept shares even few seconds after new block. But we don't accept the same work sent twice, works from other pools , etc.

[ewibit]

still waiting for JSON api...

[coinotron]

I've added I0coins to Coinotron.

Now you can mine for BTC, NMC, IXC or I0C

Please visit our pool.

[coinotron]

2011-08-24 New functions added:

- new worker type: AUTO ( Systems automatically chooses what coin to mine for. There is no need to point your workers to other sites, ports etc. Just choose AUTO option for worker and everything will be done by system! Calculation is based on current exchange rates, difficulties and number of coins generated in blocks. )
- support for SolidCoins
- profitability ratio for each coin type - you see what coin is best to mine
- user interface improvements

[shaun5000]

On your system I would like  Way to see the shares submitted while on auto. Also It would be cool if you could post the BTC to ALT currency exchange rate directly on the main page, next to the ratio. Most importantly, while the mining is on auto select, an automatic selling feature of the coins mined to ensure that BTC is gained and not lost by missing the sell window. As even if it was more profitable to mine an ALT currency at a specific time, it would be usless if one missed the sell window at the given price that made the mining worthwhile.

[coinotron]

On your system I would like  Way to see the shares submitted while on auto. Also It would be cool if you could post the BTC to ALT currency exchange rate directly on the main page, next to the ratio. Most importantly, while the mining is on auto select, an automatic selling feature of the coins mined to ensure that BTC is gained and not lost by missing the sell window. As even if it was more profitable to mine an ALT currency at a specific time, it would be usless if one missed the sell window at the given price that made the mining worthwhile.

shares on auto

I've done it but worked slowly and temporarly turned it off ( There is no index in database to support required select )

BTC to ALT currency exchange rate directly on the main page, next to the ratio

I will add it and probaly I will add difficulty too

Most importantly, while the mining is on auto select, an automatic selling feature of the coins mined to ensure that BTC is gained and not lost by missing the sell window.

You are right. That would be cool option.

[shaun5000]

You could do it by trading the ALT coins on your own, or a different bitparking account and then posting the coins to our coinotron account. Also since we are on the topic of auto switching mining between coins, how about submitting 1 share to each of the mining pools and then sharing in the bounty of all the pools. It could be thought of as a kind of merged mining without the actual need to merge the block chains.

[shaun5000]

Other simple options I thought would be great to add; could you include in the 'My Account' screen a count of how many coins have been mined in the last 24 hours. That will give us some ideas as to how our mining is actually doing.

[coinotron]

Other simple options I thought would be great to add; could you include in the 'My Account' screen a count of how many coins have been mined in the last 24 hours. That will give us some ideas as to how our mining is actually doing.

I understand that you are taking about coins mined by actually logged in user.
OK. I added this idea to the list of new requirements.

[coinotron]

You could do it by trading the ALT coins on your own, or a different bitparking account and then posting the coins to our coinotron account.

Yes that solution is obvious but has disadvantages. It generates a lot of manual work for pool operator (trading at bitparking, runnung batches, answering all questions relatated to exchange rates. )

Personally I would prefer some kind of automated exchange but since bitparking doesn't provide us with api it is actually not feasible.

Also since we are on the topic of auto switching mining between coins, how about submitting 1 share to each of the mining pools and then sharing in the bounty of all the pools. It could be thought of as a kind of merged mining without the actual need to merge the block chains.

ATM it will not work because client for each blockchain requires different proof of work. As far as I'm know merged mining addresses this issue by changing block acceptance algorithm.

[Technomage]

A lot of miner idle today, way too much. This pool can't take over 60 ghash which is fairly poor performance. Update us when you have done something about this.

[Clipse]

pool seems down now, sigh.

[coinotron]

I Apologize for outage.
There was disk failure in hosting company. They swap it for new one. But now they report issues with ip addresses.

I'm waiting for info from them.

[Clipse]

getting lowest stales on your pool, bring her back

[coinotron]

OK. Server is up and running !

Lets hope that his new disk will last for a while

Once again I apologize for the inconvenience.

[Clipse]

nope its down again.

Went up and down twice :/

Also round doesnt seem to count on ?

[coinotron]

Yes it worked until I've run statistics update. Then server slowed down.

They say that RAID is in rebuild mode and that may impact performance.
Actually it is killing performance.
One restart more.

[shaun5000]

site still down, any thought on when it might be up?

[coinotron]

Unfortunately RAID must be rebuild in offline mode. Process should end in 3 hours.

Please check out coinotron in 3 hours.

[Clipse]

any progress ?

[coinotron]

Still waiting.

[Clipse]

Cool seems its back up.

Can you fix the roundtime since I have no idea when a round finished in this case and poolspeed I think is also stuck.

[djex]

Still down?

[coinotron]

Yes still down. And no new info from hosting company.
Fortunately wallets and db backup are safe

[Clipse]

Longest raid recovery ever

[coinotron]

Sadly, you are right. If only this hosting company was closer to place where I live I would go there and wreak havoc on them.
 But 200 km - my rage is not that strong

But seriously, there is new server, old wallets and bitcoin client about to finish downloading blocks.
In 1-2 hours pool will be up.

[coinotron]

Good news everyone.

Pool and website are up and running.

All critical data are successfully recovered.

Once again I apologize for all inconveniences.

[Botanix]

All good now. Great pool. Thanks

[Clipse]

Are you having issues with pay outs on i0coins?

I just checked to see how the pool runs at low difficulty and had confirmed payout "processed" I guess since it was confirmed then removed after it hit payout threshold.

The payout however isnt/didnt reach my wallet after nearly 100blocks now.

[coinotron]

I0Coins are again available.
Current profitability ratio vs BTC = 4 !!!

[Clipse]

I0Coins are again available.
Current profitability ratio vs BTC = 4 !!!

Any comment on my question above? I dont see it worthwhile mining i0coins on coinotron when the payouts isnt reaching my wallet after being removed from coinotron.

[coinotron]

Are you having issues with pay outs on i0coins?

I just checked to see how the pool runs at low difficulty and had confirmed payout "processed" I guess since it was confirmed then removed after it hit payout threshold.

The payout however isnt/didnt reach my wallet after nearly 100blocks now.

Payouts are being sent and received without issues. What is your login name at coinotron. Maybe you entered BTC address for payout?

[Clipse]

Are you having issues with pay outs on i0coins?

I just checked to see how the pool runs at low difficulty and had confirmed payout "processed" I guess since it was confirmed then removed after it hit payout threshold.

The payout however isnt/didnt reach my wallet after nearly 100blocks now.

Payouts are being sent and received without issues. What is your login name at coinotron. Maybe you entered BTC address for payout?

Of course I entered my i0coin wallet, Ill pm you my details.

[Clipse]

Ok Im starting to receive the payouts.

Did something go wrong with the unconfirmed box, thats why I got confused since there was listed the unconfirmed then it got cleared.

However it is starting to payout now so I think it was just pending still, unless you just fixed something

[coinotron]

OK. You setup everything correctly.
There is small bug in pool. It doesn't harm any rewards or payouts but is confusing.
When rounds are superfast sometimes process which calculates unconfirmed rewards misses them.
So you don't see unconfirmed rewards for these fast rounds. But when block is confirmed, comes second process and calculates confirmed rewards. After that process payouts are being sent.

When you wrote your messages your shares were submitted to these unfortunate rounds. But now blocks are confirmed and payouts are being sent. Please check it out on your profile.

Apologies for the invonvenience.

PS
I’m fighting with this bug  but it is very hard to pin point.

[Clipse]

Not a big problem now that I realised whats happening

I will just keep my eye on the confirmed block process on stats page

[coinotron]

And I will try to amend that f...ing bug

[Clipse]

arg coinotron is dying now with over 100gh traffic :/

Was running smooth with no idles and now sheet hit the fan :/

[coinotron]

arg coinotron is dying now with over 100gh traffic :/

Was running smooth with no idles and now sheet hit the fan :/

Coinotron solves ca 1/3 of all i0coin blocks.
New blocks are solved so quickly that often new one is found while server is sending long pool works fro previous block !

[shaun5000]

We really need to figure out how do an auto sell feature to ensure we can actually make money (BTC) based on the benifet that auto switch mining provides, any suggestions?

[Clipse]

Heya

Are you going to sort out the autopayments anytime soon? I have lumps of queued confirmed coins that havnt paid out since yesterday. Payouts went smooth before then, is this known issue ?

[BitcoinRigs.com]

Very low stales. Excellent pool!

[Syke]

Where's the on-demand payout button? I need to cash out my 20 iocoins.

[coinotron]

Where's the on-demand payout button? I need to cash out my 20 iocoins.

Change payout threshold to 19 and press "Save"

[coinotron]

We have 1000 registered users !

[n4l3hp]

Why is my SC confirmed balance negative? (-0.13310114)

[coinotron]

Why is my SC confirmed balance negative? (-0.13310114)

Please post your username to coinotron@gmail.com

[Coinbuck @ BTCLot]

[Coinbuck @ BTCLot]

Moonco.in is down so no way to get the data used for that..

I didn't knew it was using external data :\

Any info about moonco.in downtime ?

[pixilated8]

Moonco.in is down so no way to get the data used for that..

I didn't knew it was using external data :\

Any info about moonco.in downtime ?

Solidcoin24.com has an API that could be used as a backup/alternative.

[coinotron]

Yes, but with their current transactions volume it would be misleading.
For example since yesterday they have bid=0.009 ask=0.0125

[Coinbuck @ BTCLot]

Yes, but with their current transactions volume it would be misleading.
For example since yesterday they have bid=0.009 ask=0.0125

And today it is at 0.00750019 BTC O.o

[coinotron]

2011-09-13  New features added.

1. New improved version of AUTO worker is available. Now you can choose what coins can be mined using this kind of worker!  For example if you want to enable automated mining only on SC and BTC :
- go to “My account” page
- set checkboxes in column “Auto” for BTC and SC
- deselect other coins
- click “Save” button

2. Realtime calculated hash speed of workers

3. Performance improvements.

[MaGNeT]

How do I get my username of the "statistics" page?

It's easy for hackers if they know at least a username and compare it to a list of passwords (stolen from forums, mtgox, etc).

Disable button (BTCmine does have this) would be nice.

[coinotron]

How do I get my username of the "statistics" page?

It's easy for hackers if they know at least a username and compare it to a list of passwords (stolen from forums, mtgox, etc).

Disable button (BTCmine does have this) would be nice.

It is on to-do list. I just waited for first complaing person. And voila
Will be done.

[MaGNeT]

How do I get my username of the "statistics" page?

It's easy for hackers if they know at least a username and compare it to a list of passwords (stolen from forums, mtgox, etc).

Disable button (BTCmine does have this) would be nice.

It is on to-do list. I just waited for first complaing person. And voila
Will be done.

Maybe a nickname and an accountname, so you can still show up in the stats with your nickname without showing your accountname.
Would be safer and still be fun

[coinotron]

How do I get my username of the "statistics" page?

It's easy for hackers if they know at least a username and compare it to a list of passwords (stolen from forums, mtgox, etc).

Disable button (BTCmine does have this) would be nice.

It is on to-do list. I just waited for first complaing person. And voila
Will be done.

Maybe a nickname and an accountname, so you can still show up in the stats with your nickname without showing your accountname.
Would be safer and still be fun

It will be confusing for majority of users. I'm registered in email service where you have your email name-address and also a nickname. I never know what should I use when I'm signing in.

[coinotron]

2011-09-20  New features:

1. Two new columns in statistics: number of shares and difficulty at the time when block has been solved
2. For NMC, IXC, I0C, SC added links to multichain block explorer http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/
3. Links to multichain block explorer from user payouts list.
4. Pool's performance improvements - miners idle warnings almost eliminated!

[amazingrando]

2011-09-20  New features:

1. Two new columns in statistics: number of shares and difficulty at the time when block has been solved
2. For NMC, IXC, I0C, SC added links to multichain block explorer http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/
3. Links to multichain block explorer from user payouts list.
4. Pool's performance improvements - miners idle warnings almost eliminated!

Is there an ETA on the JSON API?

[coinotron]

Is there an ETA on the JSON API?

Atm no, there isn't. I'm working on pool improvements and integration with Solidcoin 2.0

[coinotron]

2011-09-28 New enhanced version of to auto-worker.

1. We've added possibility to set handicap for each coin. It affects algorithm of selection of most profitable coin. It can be used together with auto-worker. It works just like handicap in soccer betting.
If you prefer some coin over others you can set handicap to positive value. This coin will be selected for mining even if its profitability is below 1.0.
If you set negative value then coin will be selected only when its profitability is much higher than profitability of other coins.

Let's see how it works. Let's assume that we are interested only in BTC or I0C mining and BTC profitability is equal 1.

Example 1.
User wants to mine i0coins even if their profitability is below 1. He sets I0C handicap to +15%. Worker will be switched to I0C at I0C profitability = 0.87 ( 1/(1 + 15%) ). Below 0.87, worker will mine BTC.

Example 2.
User wants to mine i0coins only if they are significantly more valuable than BTC. He sets I0C handicap to -20%. Worker will be switched to I0C at I0C profitability = 1.25 ( 1/(1 - 20%) ). Below 1.25, worker will mine BTC.
 

[Mousepotato]

Any plans for a Geist Geld option?

[coinotron]

Any plans for a Geist Geld option?

Honestly I'm afraid of these 1-2 sec rounds. This will generate a lot of network traffic that may stress my VPS server too much
Instead I'm considering Tenebrix. Solidcoins 2.0 will be available as soon as it is restarted.

[MaGNeT]

Any plans for a Geist Geld option?

Honestly I'm afraid of these 1-2 sec rounds. This will generate a lot of network traffic that may stress my VPS server too much
Instead I'm considering Tenebrix. Solidcoins 2.0 will be available as soon as it is restarted.

Simplecoin.us can do it...

[Eveofwar]

Are the auto payouts via send threshold for BTC broken ?

[Eveofwar]

So it's not really proportional, or is it? (Can you explain a bit more about your reward system?)

Here you have exact formula :

Share Score = exp ( C * time span from beginning of the round to share delivery time / round duration )

Payout = 50 * sum( miner’s share scores ) / sum( all miners share scores )

For C = 0 we have Share Score = 1 for each delivered share i.e system is proportional.
When we raise C value, system becomes similar to Slush’s method. Most precious are shares delivered at the end of the round.

Currently we use C = 0 – pool is small, round duration is measured in days.
But when we observe increase of pool-hoopers activity we will set this value to about 6.

How has this changed, if at all, for the BTC side ?

[coinotron]

So it's not really proportional, or is it? (Can you explain a bit more about your reward system?)

Here you have exact formula :

Share Score = exp ( C * time span from beginning of the round to share delivery time / round duration )

Payout = 50 * sum( miner’s share scores ) / sum( all miners share scores )

For C = 0 we have Share Score = 1 for each delivered share i.e system is proportional.
When we raise C value, system becomes similar to Slush’s method. Most precious are shares delivered at the end of the round.

Currently we use C = 0 – pool is small, round duration is measured in days.
But when we observe increase of pool-hoopers activity we will set this value to about 6.

How has this changed, if at all, for the BTC side ?

It didn't change for BTC.

[coinotron]

Are the auto payouts via send threshold for BTC broken ?

No they are working fine.
If you have problems please check if payout address is valid and payout threshold > 0.5 BTC

[coinotron]

Any plans for a Geist Geld option?

Honestly I'm afraid of these 1-2 sec rounds. This will generate a lot of network traffic that may stress my VPS server too much
Instead I'm considering Tenebrix. Solidcoins 2.0 will be available as soon as it is restarted.

I like the free market approach to all these forks as opposed to DoucheExpress' dictatorial approach... So here is an idea for the people who want GG in coinotron:

Try a donation/inverse-bounty payable in any of the currencies you work with such that when whatever $$ amount is reached to be able to upgrade your server big enough to support the extra load you will upgrade and add it?

If GG has enough supporters it shouldn't take too long to drum up the cash to upgrade the server(s) I would imagine?  Plus you might get some donations from other chains hoping to monopolize on the shared increased performance to them as well?

It may not be feasible but if so this could be a good idea for you.

That is very good idea. And it looks feasible, although there will be some work to perform. If it works, I will send you a bounty

[Eveofwar]

Are the auto payouts via send threshold for BTC broken ?

No they are working fine.
If you have problems please check if payout address is valid and payout threshold > 0.5 BTC

No where on the website does it state that the threshold has to be > 0.5, might want to fix that.

[coinotron]

Are the auto payouts via send threshold for BTC broken ?

No they are working fine.
If you have problems please check if payout address is valid and payout threshold > 0.5 BTC

No where on the website does it state that the threshold has to be > 0.5, might want to fix that.

It is stated on Help page, in section Payments.

[Eveofwar]

Are the auto payouts via send threshold for BTC broken ?

No they are working fine.
If you have problems please check if payout address is valid and payout threshold > 0.5 BTC

No where on the website does it state that the threshold has to be > 0.5, might want to fix that.

It is stated on Help page, in section Payments.

Interesting, somewhat hidden

[coinotron]

Interesting, somewhat hidden

I'm planning to lower this threshold for BTC to 0.1

[Eveofwar]

Interesting, somewhat hidden

I'm planning to lower this threshold for BTC to 0.1

Ah, much appreciated and I'm sure it would be desired by many.

Maybe even a note on the My Account page stating the same minimum threshold is needed ?  Not just on the help page !

[WiseOldOwl]

Wondering how to withdraw SC?

[pixilated8]

Bitcoin round appears to be stuck at 125h10m, and no statistics for the top bitcoin miners.

[coinotron]

Bitcoin round appears to be stuck at 125h10m, and no statistics for the top bitcoin miners.

Yesterday I had to disable statistics calculation due to performance issues caused by high load in SolidCoin 2 sub-pool. Currently only lists of solved blocks are being refreshed. Best miners and main pool stats are not refreshed. 
I hope to re-enable those stats soon.

[coinotron]

FYI

All statistics are working again.

[Eveofwar]

FYI

All statistics are working again.

Any plans for round shares and/or a JSON API feed ?

[coinotron]

FYI

All statistics are working again.

Any plans for round shares and/or a JSON API feed ?

First on the list are performance improvements, merged mining, new currency.
JSON API and more detailed stats will be implemented but not in upcoming 2-3 weeks.

[pixilated8]

Congratulations on adding litecoin (LTC) to the site.

It was added right above namecoin in the list of the types of coins that are allowed to mine.  My automined coins were set between bitcoin and namecoin (the rest were unchecked).  With the addition of litecoin, bitcoin and litecoin were checked, namecoin was unchecked.  You may want to check your settings to make sure your automined coins are set properly.

[coinotron]

Congratulations on adding litecoin (LTC) to the site.

It was added right above namecoin in the list of the types of coins that are allowed to mine.  My automined coins were set between bitcoin and namecoin (the rest were unchecked).  With the addition of litecoin, bitcoin and litecoin were checked, namecoin was unchecked.  You may want to check your settings to make sure your automined coins are set properly.

Thanks

FYI
Please do not use worker type AUTO for mining LTC. Currently auto works only for BTC and NMC.
Tomorrow I'm going to implement auto-worker for CPU based currencies: SC and LTC.

[bizzy]

Nice to see a new mining option (LiteCoin) - I hadn't even heard of it yet!

My "Current Round Rewards" seems to be stuck at zero even though I've been participating in the current round - any idea why that might be? Thanks

[coinotron]

Nice to see a new mining option (LiteCoin) - I hadn't even heard of it yet!

My "Current Round Rewards" seems to be stuck at zero even though I've been participating in the current round - any idea why that might be? Thanks

Due to performance issues I had to temporally suspend some stats related jobs and job calculating current round rewards.
In the following days we will move pool to new dedicated server (now it runs on VPS). I hope that will stop performance issues we experience currently.

[coinotron]

This morning (Oct 23) Coinotron was down for 6 hours.
We had some serious performance problems. We would like to compensate you for this outage.
On 24 or 25 Oct we will move pool to new dedicated server.

[superfastkyle]

Any plans to ever implement merged mining for namecoins. Should help keep miners from leaving on long rounds

[amazingrando]

Any plans to ever implement merged mining for namecoins. Should help keep miners from leaving on long rounds

+1 for merged mining!

[coinotron]

Any plans to ever implement merged mining for namecoins. Should help keep miners from leaving on long rounds

After we move to new server. Soon.

[soptik]

Does anynone has problem with mining SC on coinotron pool? Mining seems working in miner (khs are showing, shares are sending), but account balance is still the same (at least 10 hours), pool stats for SC are strange too (last 15 blocks has still "14 to conf." status). And withdrawing SC doesn't work too.

[SAPer]

Coinotron owners must upgrade sc client on pool:
http://solidcointalk.org/topic/361-solidcoin-v201-beta-7/

[coinotron]

Yes we had some issues after moving to new server. Most of them is solved now.
Payouts (bug affecting all SC pools) is very hard to pin point. Today I managed to gather some "good" logs, send them to RealSolid. Meanwhile we are performing payouts manually every 4-5 hours.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[amazingrando]

Today I had a BTC balance of 3.19.  I just got a payout of 1.68 and now my balance is zero.  Was the balance of 3.19 wrong or the payout wrong? 

[Eveofwar]

Any reason why the "Current round rewards" for BTC isn't moving ?  I've put in plenty of shares this round to get some kind of reward

Wondering if you'll include stats for shares submitted in current round and all-time...would be helpful !

[coinotron]

Today I had a BTC balance of 3.19.  I just got a payout of 1.68 and now my balance is zero.  Was the balance of 3.19 wrong or the payout wrong? 

Any reason why the "Current round rewards" for BTC isn't moving ?  I've put in plenty of shares this round to get some kind of reward

Wondering if you'll include stats for shares submitted in current round and all-time...would be helpful !

As I wrote in one of previous posts I had to disable frequent calculations of current round reward. We are now on the new server. There are no performance issues but I forgot to enable those calculations.
That is the reason of both issues you are writing about. Current round reward just hasn't been calculated for 10 days.
I scheduled it now.

[Eveofwar]

Today I had a BTC balance of 3.19.  I just got a payout of 1.68 and now my balance is zero.  Was the balance of 3.19 wrong or the payout wrong? 

Any reason why the "Current round rewards" for BTC isn't moving ?  I've put in plenty of shares this round to get some kind of reward

Wondering if you'll include stats for shares submitted in current round and all-time...would be helpful !

As I wrote in one of previous posts I had to disable frequent calculations of current round reward. We are now on the new server. There are no performance issues but I forgot to enable those calculations.
That is the reason of both issues you are writing about. Current round reward just hasn't been calculated for 10 days.
I scheduled it now.

Great, I knew that they were disabled on the previous server...just figured it would've been common sense to re-enabled them on the new server, since all the other stats were populating now too.

Thanks for the fast response.

[coinotron]

Yes, there was a tiny instruction:  if @coinType = 'BTC'  goto
Easy to forget about it

[Litt]

It seems the blocks found on the 8th are showing confirmed on the stats page, but the rewards aren't being moved to the confirmed column to be paid out.
Might be having a similar issue as before not being calculated yet?

Can the admin take a look and see if things are working as it should?  

Edit: Admin. looks like the payment just came in and I simply spoke too soon. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't the same problem above repeating.

[coinotron]

It seems the blocks found on the 8th are showing confirmed on the stats page, but the rewards aren't being moved to the confirmed column to be paid out.
Might be having a similar issue as before not being calculated yet?

Can the admin take a look and see if things are working as it should? 

Issue fixed. Payouts sent.

[amazingrando]

I've had a confirmed btc balance of several btc that hasn't gotten paid out.  My last payout was on 11/9.  Is an issue with payouts or just my account?

[coinotron]

I've had a confirmed btc balance of several btc that hasn't gotten paid out.  My last payout was on 11/9.  Is an issue with payouts or just my account?

Your send threshold value must be > 0.5. All values between 0 and 0.5 mean no automatic payout.

[amazingrando]

Ok, that makes sense.

Perhaps there should be a message if you try to set it less than 0.5 that autopayout will stop?

[amazingrando]

Changed my payout limit to 0.5 and got the payout right away.  Thanks

[Eveofwar]

Ok, that makes sense.

Perhaps there should be a message if you try to set it less than 0.5 that autopayout will stop?

I vouched for this way back when, since the website is still somewhat confusing on that part.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=26727.msg565318#msg565318 and a few posts above it.  Looks like he still hasn't gotten around to changing it to 0.1 minimum, nor placing a message when you don't do it "right".

[amazingrando]

Ok, that makes sense.

Perhaps there should be a message if you try to set it less than 0.5 that autopayout will stop?

I vouched for this way back when, since the website is still somewhat confusing on that part.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=26727.msg565318#msg565318 and a few posts above it.  Looks like he still hasn't gotten around to changing it to 0.1 minimum, nor placing a message when you don't do it "right".

Yeah, I remember your post about that.  The minimum really should be 0.1 and there should be some notice as to why you're not getting your payouts.  Instant pay would be nice too, but isn't that critical.

[dark_silverstar]

how to enable auto payout for solidcoin 

[coinotron]

how to enable auto payout for solidcoin 

On "My account" page enter SC payout address and set SC shreshold to value > 0.5.
It is described in section Payments on Help page.

[Eveofwar]

how to enable auto payout for solidcoin 

On "My account" page enter SC payout address and set SC shreshold to value > 0.5.
It is described in section Payments on Help page.

This is the 3rd time you've had to explain the 0.5 threshold and direct someone to a completely different page than the one they are viewing.

Maybe it's time for some change...

[kjlimo]

downtime?

[Mousepotato]

Is Coinotron going to offer merged-mining for I0Coin?  Block 160K is coming up really fast...

[coinotron]

downtime?

Yes, there were issues with i0coin client. I took some measures to prevent it happening in the future

[coinotron]

Is Coinotron going to offer merged-mining for I0Coin?  Block 160K is coming up really fast...

I'm not sure yet.

[coinotron]

Due to low interest of miners we decided to close IXC and I0C sub-pools.
We will not offer merged mining for those coins.
Please withdraw your coins until 2012-01-31.

[coinotron]

On 2012-01-20 we have experimentally introduced to our pool new coin - LQC.
After 1 day LQC subpool hashrate reached 1 Mh/s !

[martychubbs]

Are you going to implement merged mining?  Why did I give you my NMC address?

I mine and mako no NMC, you Icehole! Farking Bastage...you giva me diarrhea ~ Roman Moroni (no seriousness intended  )

[coinotron]

Are you going to implement merged mining?  Why did I give you my NMC address?

I mine and mako no NMC, you Icehole! Farking Bastage...you giva me diarrhea ~ Roman Moroni (no seriousness intended  )

We will not implement mm for NMC too.

[Fuzzy]

I've been mining for a while with just over 200 kH/s and my payouts are way below what the SolidCoin calculators are quoting. Am I misunderstanding how the shares are split?

The calculators say I should be getting about 30 SC/day, just over 1/hr, but after leaving it on over night, I've got about 1.9 SC

Am I missing something?

[Rubberduckie]

the block reward changed at block 180000 from 5SC to 0.07

[Rubberduckie]

I've been mining for a while with just over 200 kH/s and my payouts are way below what the SolidCoin calculators are quoting. Am I misunderstanding how the shares are split?

The calculators say I should be getting about 30 SC/day, just over 1/hr, but after leaving it on over night, I've got about 1.9 SC

Am I missing something?

http://solidcointalk.org/topic/523-new-economic-changes-in-solidcoin-v204/

[Fuzzy]

Looks like I just missed the boat. They've drawn the line for early adopters, and any mining done hence forth will be lucky to break even with the power bill 

[coinotron]

DGM reward system in BTC pool !
 
We are changing our BTC payout algorithm to Meni Rosenfeld's Double Geometric Method. This method has been designed to limit reward variance and is hopping-proof. Details about DGM you can find here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0
We chose following values for DGM parameters:
 f = -1
c = 0.5
o = 0.25

Edit: DGM will be enabled in next round, ie round number 56. Current round (55) will be payed out like previous one, as proportional.

[martychubbs]

DGM reward system in BTC pool !
 
We are changing our BTC payout algorithm to Meni Rosenfeld's Double Geometric Method. This method has been designed to limit reward variance and is hopping-proof. Details about DGM you can find here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0
We chose following values for DGM parameters:
 f = -1
c = 0.5
o = 0.25
For next 10 rounds BTC mining fees will be reduced to 0%

Thanks for the notice!  Now there are sooo many reasons to mine coinotron!  Merged mining right?   Switched in mid round, right?

[coinotron]

DGM reward system in BTC pool !
 
We are changing our BTC payout algorithm to Meni Rosenfeld's Double Geometric Method. This method has been designed to limit reward variance and is hopping-proof. Details about DGM you can find here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0
We chose following values for DGM parameters:
 f = -1
c = 0.5
o = 0.25
For next 10 rounds BTC mining fees will be reduced to 0%

Thanks for the notice!  Now there are sooo many reasons to mine coinotron!  Merged mining right?   Switched in mid round, right?

Heh, DGM will be enabled in next round. Current round is proportional.
And to clarify merged mining issue: we don't plan to introduce it.

[joulesbeef]

can we get the BTC  min withdraw lowered so some of us slower peeps can get our coins off?

seem like anything below 0.5 doesnt work

[coinotron]

can we get the BTC  min withdraw lowered so some of us slower peeps can get our coins off?

seem like anything below 0.5 doesnt work

OK. I changed minimum withdraw amount to 0.1

[Schwede65]

all coinotron pools down?

how does the dgm handle the pool downtime, this seems like hopping of the members, but it is not hopping...

[joulesbeef]

can we get the BTC  min withdraw lowered so some of us slower peeps can get our coins off?

seem like anything below 0.5 doesnt work

OK. I changed minimum withdraw amount to 0.1

that was quick.. thanks

[coinotron]

can we get the BTC  min withdraw lowered so some of us slower peeps can get our coins off?

seem like anything below 0.5 doesnt work

OK. I changed minimum withdraw amount to 0.1

that was quick.. thanks

I was going to change that few months ago, but I was too lazy then

[coinotron]

FYI.

Today last proportional BTC block has been solved.
Current round will be rewarded using DGM.

[Schwede65]

FYI.

Today last proportional BTC block has been solved.
Current round will be rewarded using DGM.

as i asked above:

what is with the pool-server-downtime in DGM-reward?

[coinotron]

FYI.

Today last proportional BTC block has been solved.
Current round will be rewarded using DGM.

as i asked above:

what is with the pool-server-downtime in DGM-reward?

As far as I understand DGM, such downtime doesn't change miner's reward because algorithm of reward calculation doesn't depend on time when given share was submitted.

Here is quote from Meni's thread about DGM:
"In the capacitor analogy, every miner has a capacitor which is charged as he submits shares, and its charge level affects how much he gets per future block found. The pool at large does not have a capacitor which charges as blocks are found and affects the reward for future shares submitted. The pool's history has no effect whatsoever on the rewards for future shares."

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.msg687419#msg687419
 

[coinotron]

First DGM round was unlucky for pool ( 11 days and 2360000 ). Nonetheless we payed out 69 BTC !

PS
I hope, next round will be shorter

[roomservice]

Do value for "current round rewards" for btc update when a round is in progress? Just wondering how miners can take a look at their submitted shares.

[coinotron]

Do value for "current round rewards" for btc update when a round is in progress? Just wondering how miners can take a look at their submitted shares.

Yes, it is being updated every 2 hours.

[coinotron]

Second DGM block solved. We payed out 65 BTC !

[coinotron]

5 DGM blocks solved.

[coinotron]

Latest news:

1. Amended Profitability matrix. We added new entries, showing figures for LTC vs BTC profitability on Nvidia and Ati(AMD) GPUs.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49182.msg1044577#msg1044577

2. We have made major improvement in Long Poll support. Now LP works fine even if all your miners are pointed to one worker. Previously there was limitation 1 worker = 1 mining program with LP or many mining programs without LP

3. DGM is working fine.

[muqali]

Testing you guys LTC pool with a bit over 100KH at present, so far so good.

[coinotron]

FYI
2 weeks after DDOS attacks. Pool is working fine.

[coinotron]

We have started a PPCoin pool!

1. You can use any BTC miner
2. On our website choose worker type PPC. Point worker to coinotron.com, port 8322 or 9322.

[c4n10]

Hello,

Just started mining PPCoin with Coinotron today and I have a question:

I have my payout threshold set to 1 PPC and I have more than 1 PPC in confirmed rewards. When can I expect my confirmed rewards to be paid out?

[coinotron]

Hello,

Just started mining PPCoin with Coinotron today and I have a question:

I have my payout threshold set to 1 PPC and I have more than 1 PPC in confirmed rewards. When can I expect my confirmed rewards to be paid out?

Hey
You must have at least 10 PPC confirmed coins: http://coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=home
Automatic payouts are processed every 10 minutes.

There is separate Coinotron thread dedicated to alternate currencies(PPC,LTC,SC,LQC): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49182.0

[coinotron]

Pool was under DDOS attack this morning. I had to hard reset server. Unfortunately Bitcoin's db has been broken.
What a shitty db they use in bitcoin!
Now, I'm finishing downloading whole bitcoin blockchain (block # 190 000). Pool will be available as soon as I download blockchain.( 2-3 hours )

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

[coinotron]

BTC pool is up and running.

[420]

How to tell how many stales?

[420]

LTC mining down

[tiberiandusk]

I'm over my cashout limit for confirmed litecoins but I haven't been paid for a couple days.

[coinotron]

I'm over my cashout limit for confirmed litecoins but I haven't been paid for a couple days.

Probably you set too low "Payout Threshold" value.
Detailed reward system is described here: www.coinotron.com

[coinotron]

How to tell how many stales?

Currently that info is not available.
I'm planning to add it in future.

[tiberiandusk]

I'm over my cashout limit for confirmed litecoins but I haven't been paid for a couple days.

Probably you set too low "Payout Threshold" value.
Detailed reward system is described here: www.coinotron.com

I don't see Payout Threshold on the front page.

[coinotron]

I'm over my cashout limit for confirmed litecoins but I haven't been paid for a couple days.

Probably you set too low "Payout Threshold" value.
Detailed reward system is described here: www.coinotron.com

I don't see Payout Threshold on the front page.

"Payout threshold" is placed on "My account" page.

Automatic payouts work only when you set "Payout threshold" to a value greater than or equal "Minimum Withdrawal Threshold".
"Minimum Withdrawal Threshold" values for each currency you can find on the front page.

[coinotron]

We have added SSL support. Our website forces all connections to HTTPS.

[coinotron]

Any chance of having an auto exchange to mine one thing and convert to another or trade 1 coin for another ?

Currently I'm not planning to provide such functionality. It would require a lot of hard work to setup and probably would be used only by few miners.
I will reconsider this idea when alt currency networks grow in size significantly.

[coinotron]

TRC-relevant stats should link here:
http://www.cryptocoinexplorer.com:3750/

I will add it in next release of website.

It seems to me BTC per day is still calculated at 50 BTC / block.

Thanks. You are correct. There was unspotted 50 BTC hidden in sourcecode
Fixed.

[coinotron]

We are introducing PPS/RBPPS payout algorithm in our Bitcoin Pool.

New system will be turned on at the beginning of BTC round #112. Simultaneously DGM system will be switched off.
All existing BTC workers will be automatically switched to RBPPS.  
All remaining ("buffered") DGM rewards will be credited to miners balances at the end of current round (#111).

Shares delivered via PPS/RBPPS worker will be rewarded with constant rate:  
RBPPS share value = 0.98 * 25 BTC * Share difficulty / Current BTC Difficulty  
PPS share value   = 0.965 * 25 BTC * Share difficulty / Current BTC Difficulty  

RBPPS means Round-Based Pay Per Share. It works like Like PPS with one exception: payouts are delayed till a block is found and confirmed by the network. If a found block gets orphaned, earnings relative to it are not paid.  

[coinotron]

What is the reason for LTC having so high payout threshold? Looking at reward per share, I think 1 would be more appropriate value.

Almost to each transaction below 10LTC litecoin client adds 0.1 LTC transaction fee. In case of 1 LTC payout it is 10% !
Relatively high 10 LTC threshold was easiest to implement.
Another solution is small payout fee for payouts below say 10-20 LTC.

[coinotron]

So high transaction fees could kill Litecoin. Anyway, thanks for clarifying the threshold.

When it comes to Terracoin, pool is still not linking payouts, e.g. payout address(es) to Terracoin explorer. Login > click on executed TRC payout > fail!  

Have you considered adding Namecoin as merge-mined with Bitcoin? Quite a lot of pools have such setup.

Those fees were designed to protect LTC chain from spam attacks.
I completely forgot about payout links! I will fix it ASAP.
I don't like the idea of merged mining in general + a lot of work to implement = no MM in Coinotron

[coinotron]

Useful info to add would be how often auto-payout triggers. Few people I sent to Coinotron went mad on me because it's not
instant, LOL! They were expecting that payment will be made as soon as they have enough confirmed coins, set payout amount
equal or higher than minimum value and click on "Save".

Yeah, that must be irritating.
Instant payout is on my dev. list.
Meanwhile I added info  how often auto-payout triggers.
Thanks for your help and suggestions

[meebs]

Useful info to add would be how often auto-payout triggers. Few people I sent to Coinotron went mad on me because it's not
instant, LOL! They were expecting that payment will be made as soon as they have enough confirmed coins, set payout amount
equal or higher than minimum value and click on "Save".

Yeah, that must be irritating.
Instant payout is on my dev. list.
Meanwhile I added info  how often auto-payout triggers.
Thanks for your help and suggestions

considering your lower fees.. for a 24/7 miner it is worth it to have to wait a little bit longer for the coins if you are getting more of them

that said.. I REALLY wish you guys would track # of share submitted by miner....

[coinotron]

considering your lower fees.. for a 24/7 miner it is worth it to have to wait a little bit longer for the coins if you are getting more of them

that said.. I REALLY wish you guys would track # of share submitted by miner....

We are tracking and storing # of shares submitted by each worker for all coins since beginning. However there is no UI to view actual values. Simply there was always something more important to do Currently for example Stratum/GBT seems to be such thing.

[coinotron]

FYI

PPS / RBPPS mode in BTC pool works perfectly. Coinotron solved first PPS BTC block (210499). Payouts has been calculated and sent.

[coinotron]

We are under DDOS attack.

[coinotron]

Pool is up and running.

[coinotron]

FYI
Usage of PPS and RBPPS workers :

          PPS     RBPPS       
BTC     15%      85%     ( 3 days after introduction of PPS/RBPPS workers )
LTC     50%      50%
PPC     60%      40%
TRC     70%      30% 

BTC miners seem to decisively prefer RBPPS atm.

[tomaszsz]

FreiCoin another coin without exchange and future, what about ?Microcash ? and solidcoin 

and what about  Mhash as Ghash ?  Continue to look for gullible people?

[coinotron]

FYI
Usage of PPS and RBPPS workers :

          PPS     RBPPS       
BTC     20%      80%     ( 1 month after introduction of PPS/RBPPS workers )
LTC     75%      25%
PPC     40%      60%
TRC     20%      80% 
FRC     40%      60%

[crazyearner]

Website just had some connection problem on.

Also do you guys have IRC ?

[BitcoinOxygen]

Also do you guys have IRC ?

You could check channel #coinotron ;)wink

Regards
BitcoinOxygen

[coinotron]

Website just had some connection problem on.

Also do you guys have IRC ?

Sorry for that outage. I was applying security patches. Unfortunately it took little more time to complete than I estimated
We don't have our own IRC channel, but I'm always present on #litecoin

[coinotron]

We have added Stratum support to BTC pool. So now we have stratum in BTC, LTC, TRC !

1. Please use latest versions of following miners: cgminer, bfgminer, guiminer, poclbm <br />
2. Stratum mining is available in the following pools:

BTC  = coinotron.com:3333
LTC  = coinotron.com:3334
TRC  = coinotron.com:3335

3. Share difficulty may differ from main getwork pool.

[coinotron]

FYI

Efficiency of Stratum pools :

BTC pool efficiency = 99.78%
LTC pool efficienfy = 99.4%
TRC pool efficiency = 99.36%

[coinotron]

Currently 10% of BTC miners switched to Stratum. I think we can start comparing getwork vs stratum efficiency.

Here are the numbers:

getwork efficiency = 99.39%
stratum efficiency = 99.92% ( 14 stales in 17000 submitted shares ! )

When more and more miners switch to stratum we will have more reliable data.

[coinotron]

FYI

20% of BTC miners is mining in Stratum pool.

[coinotron]

We are under DDOS attack.

[kjlimo]

We are under DDOS attack.

Bummer, good luck!  Seals just went through that.  Took em about 12-18 hours from what I recall to fight it.

And just when https://vircurex.com/ started selling TRC!

[KrLos]

Man, i miss coinotron! it's my favorite place for mine LTC.

Come back!

[coinotron]

I'm sorry to inform you,  they are still ddosing Coinotron.

[coinotron]

Pool (getwork and stratum) is up and running
I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this ddos attack.

[luffy]

finally!
is there a way to prevent Ddos?

[coinotron]

finally!
is there a way to prevent Ddos?

Cloudflare for example. But It costs at least 200$.

[KrLos]

It's under DDOS again?

[coinotron]

We are again under DDoS attack

[awatson824]

Aww.. I missed this site, when I come back it's being ddosed..

[sal002]

I really miss the calc at the top that reflected which cryptocurrency was worth mining at any given time...

[coinotron]

Good news!

Pool is up and running.
Payouts are enabled.
NVC Pool is closed. Please withdraw coins before March 15, 2013
BTC Pool is back DGM.

Thanks to Neotrix our website is under protection of koddos.com

[maunderingcabal]

I don't know if this belongs here or not. But is there a way to find out how many blocks I've solved on any of the coinotron pools? Also is there a way to see how many confirms are left on blocks that go past the 20 that are displayed? Thanks.

[coinotron]

I don't know if this belongs here or not. But is there a way to find out how many blocks I've solved on any of the coinotron pools? Also is there a way to see how many confirms are left on blocks that go past the 20 that are displayed? Thanks.

This data is of course available from database but it isn't presented on the website.

[luffy]

really great news!
but i cannot connect to site!

[420]

is there payment for stales/rejects where can I see that statistic?

[maunderingcabal]

I don't know if this belongs here or not. But is there a way to find out how many blocks I've solved on any of the coinotron pools? Also is there a way to see how many confirms are left on blocks that go past the 20 that are displayed? Thanks.

This data is of course available from database but it isn't presented on the website.

How do I see whats on the database then?

[coinotron]

I don't know if this belongs here or not. But is there a way to find out how many blocks I've solved on any of the coinotron pools? Also is there a way to see how many confirms are left on blocks that go past the 20 that are displayed? Thanks.

This data is of course available from database but it isn't presented on the website.

How do I see whats on the database then?

Only operator has access to db. If you want I can provide you with a list of blocks solved by you.

[ssateneth]

Hi, I have stopped mining litecoins, and I have 5.50340927 litecoins stuck on the pool. It won't let me pay out because there is no manual payout button and it's below the 10 litecoin automatic payout threshhold. Could you please force a payout of the remaining balance to the litecoin address on file? My account name is ssateneth

[coinotron]

Hi, I have stopped mining litecoins, and I have 5.50340927 litecoins stuck on the pool. It won't let me pay out because there is no manual payout button and it's below the 10 litecoin automatic payout threshhold. Could you please force a payout of the remaining balance to the litecoin address on file? My account name is ssateneth

Done.

[coinotron]

FYI
I turned on SSL on website.

[ssateneth]

Site getting DDoS?

[DigitalDoom]

http://www.websitedown.info/coinotron.com

Says Coinotron is down.

I've been wondering why my LTC miner has been running but not displaying any work on the site.

[RandomQ]

I was just curious if there is a way to change from say TRC to PPC on the Fly without restarting the miner software.

because the option to change workers to different coin types on the my account page.

[luffy]

stratum for PPC? 

[ewibit]

stratum for PPC? 

+1 

[coinotron]

stratum for PPC? 

+1 

As soon as PPC developers (Sunny King) introduce getblocktemplate support in ppcoin client

[fcmatt]

registration is closed?

[hope2907]

it look like that, when i stop mining, Unconfirmed rewards alway @ unconfirm

[aspirez]

Does the pool have API?

[FaT]

TRC payouts are not working.

[ehoffman]

PPC payout is also not working.  Set to 50, and I now have over 100PPC.  6 hours after passing the 50 mark and still no transfer.  What's going on?

[tal0n4]

Is registration closed? No matter what info I try to signup with, I get "Registration unsuccessful"... 

[wizzard0]

There seems to be a problem with FRC withdrawals, min amount is 10, set mine to 20, and after 74 FRC confirmed and some hours passed - nothing appeared in the client :/

[mige]

ppc payout still wont work 

I tried several times....

pls fix the problem.

[Crystallas]

Can we set difficulties? That could help with the pool server bandwidth.

[bcdvojka]

hello, no matter what i try, i cannot get my guiminer srypt to work with coinotron trc pool

i get:
2013-04-06 21:23:45: Listener for "TRC2": Creating 1 GPU threads
2013-04-06 21:23:45: Listener for "TRC2": 1...done
2013-04-06 21:23:45: Listener for "TRC2": Error 52 getting work. See http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html for error code explanations.
2013-04-06 21:23:45: Listener for "TRC2": 2013-04-06 21:23:45 Couldn't connect to server. Trying again in a few seconds...

using guiminer-scrypt inbuilt reaper
guiminer-scrypt default just starts and doesnt do anything

any ideas?
cgminer doesnt work for me somehow, but im being able to mine litecoin

[wizzard0]

There seems to be a problem with FRC withdrawals, min amount is 10, set mine to 20, and after 74 FRC confirmed and some hours passed - nothing appeared in the client :/

My FRC finally arrived!

[superfastkyle]

Is anyone getting decent performance from the ppc pool and if so how? I only get about half the ppc I should and my hashrate stays about half while the pool hashrate goes insanely higher. Miners constantly have fans spinning up and down load going to 0% and back to full load

you need stratum support now for his trc pool only on port 3335 so you may need to update to the latest cgminer

hello, no matter what i try, i cannot get my guiminer srypt to work with coinotron trc pool

i get:
2013-04-06 21:23:45: Listener for "TRC2": Creating 1 GPU threads
2013-04-06 21:23:45: Listener for "TRC2": 1...done
2013-04-06 21:23:45: Listener for "TRC2": Error 52 getting work. See http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html for error code explanations.
2013-04-06 21:23:45: Listener for "TRC2": 2013-04-06 21:23:45 Couldn't connect to server. Trying again in a few seconds...

using guiminer-scrypt inbuilt reaper
guiminer-scrypt default just starts and doesnt do anything

any ideas?
cgminer doesnt work for me somehow, but im being able to mine litecoin

[Crystallas]

Is anyone getting decent performance from the ppc pool and if so how? I only get about half the ppc I should and my hashrate stays about half while the pool hashrate goes insanely higher. Miners constantly have fans spinning up and down load going to 0% and back to full load

Yes, there are problems for sure. Enough stop/starts to make your power-supply pack up and find a new home in a microwave. LOL

[Marrs]

ppc payout still wont work 

Litecoin payout doesn't seem to be working either. :-/

[coinotron]

This topic is dedicated to BTC pool. Please stop posting here messages about other currencies

There is separate thread for questions/problems regarding other currencies available at Coinotron.
LTC, PPC, TRC, FRC thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49182.0

Thanks

[A Meteorite]

I can't login to my account. Is it just me?

Current Date time: Mon Apr 08 00:32:55 CEST 2013
You are not authorized to view this page.

Also, last I logged in, my auto payouts were not being processed. Now I'm getting worried...

[coinotron]

I can't login to my account. Is it just me?

Current Date time: Mon Apr 08 00:32:55 CEST 2013
You are not authorized to view this page.

Also, last I logged in, my auto payouts were not being processed. Now I'm getting worried...

Sign off, sign in. If that won't help clear your browser's cache.

[A Meteorite]

I can't login to my account. Is it just me?

Current Date time: Mon Apr 08 00:32:55 CEST 2013
You are not authorized to view this page.

Also, last I logged in, my auto payouts were not being processed. Now I'm getting worried...

Sign off, sign in. If that won't help clear your browser's cache.

Thanks, seemed to work. That was odd.

And now that I'm in I can see that some of the blocks must have been orphaned so auto payouts weren't processed. No worries.

[psychok9]

Hello,
I'm mining LTC with a Radeon 5850 clocked at 575MHz(1.038v)/700MHz(GDDR5).
CGminer show actual khash 210.4K/s but on Coinotron website it seems very low (like 28K/s).

What's the problem?
This is the command line:
cgminer -d 0 -I 12 -v 1 -w 128 -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3334 -u xxx -p xxx --scrypt

Catalyst 13.2/AMD SDK 2.5/Windows 8.

There is separate thread for questions/problems regarding other currencies available at Coinotron.
LTC, PPC, TRC, FRC thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49182.0

You probably have bad cgminer configuration. I'm not an expert on this topic.
Please read this guide:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117221.0

Sorry, and thank you.

[coinotron]

Hello,
I'm mining LTC with a Radeon 5850 clocked at 575MHz(1.038v)/700MHz(GDDR5).
CGminer show actual khash 210.4K/s but on Coinotron website it seems very low (like 28K/s).

What's the problem?
This is the command line:
cgminer -d 0 -I 12 -v 1 -w 128 -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3334 -u xxx -p xxx --scrypt

Catalyst 13.2/AMD SDK 2.5/Windows 8.

There is separate thread for questions/problems regarding other currencies available at Coinotron.
LTC, PPC, TRC, FRC thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49182.0

You probably have bad cgminer configuration. I'm not an expert on this topic.
Please read this guide:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117221.0

[riku2015]

Heya all,

I have issues(can't use any proxy) using stratum proxy on coinotron can anyone take look on this topic?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170527.0

Thanks already, have nice mining!

[lophie]

Hey guys I can't connect to coinotron it just loads forever even though I am mining okay on coinotron.

Is it only me?

Disclaimer: For some reason coinotron website never worked for me unless I go to it though google search redirection in first place. But now even this doesn't work!

[Vantix]

CGminer can't connect to coinotron.com

[Bitcoin.Greece]

site does not work but LTC pool seems to work fine with cgminer

[leopard2]

TRC difficulty

often there is a significant difference between TRC difficulty on Coinotron page and the well known

http://dustcoin.com/mining

So when I mine at Coinotron at any given point in time which difficulty is the right one? What am I mining against? If dustcoin says 500%+ and Coinotron homepage says 60% what the @#%$!! should I do?   

[spunit262]

TRC difficulty

often there is a significant difference between TRC difficulty on Coinotron page and the well known

http://dustcoin.com/mining

So when I mine at Coinotron at any given point in time which difficulty is the right one? What am I mining against? If dustcoin says 500%+ and Coinotron homepage says 60% what the @#%$!! should I do?   

The difficulty on TRC changes every hour unlike most coins. I'm not sure which one is more up to date but I would guess Coinotron would as it's actively mining it.

[sal002]

TRC difficulty

often there is a significant difference between TRC difficulty on Coinotron page and the well known

http://dustcoin.com/mining

So when I mine at Coinotron at any given point in time which difficulty is the right one? What am I mining against? If dustcoin says 500%+ and Coinotron homepage says 60% what the @#%$!! should I do?   

TRC changes even faster - my site averages out for the given hour to reflect current difficulty, but I'd be weary enough of TRC's difficulty as it is.

[rm187]

my BTC wont payout..

[coinotron]

my BTC wont payout..

BTC pool is DGM. That means coins are confirmed (ready to withdraw)  when block is confirmed ie after 120 conf. Current block has only 73 confirmations.

[jjiimm_64]

feature request:

block info page.

IRC quote: <jimbit> not sure where else to look for you..  I was wondering if youcan PLEASE add a blocks found page, or a block info page for each coin.  with the block finder included.  I would mine there more often if I could identify when i found blocks.

[coinotron]

feature request:

block info page.

IRC quote: <jimbit> not sure where else to look for you..  I was wondering if youcan PLEASE add a blocks found page, or a block info page for each coin.  with the block finder included.  I would mine there more often if I could identify when i found blocks.

Added to todo list. I will probably add 1 more column to "Solved blocks" table.

[Tejsei3]

Please add email notification when a worker goes down. Otherwise love the pool.

Thanks,

[420]

pool seems down now and every time i've checked today

[coinotron]

pool seems down now and every time i've checked today

Pool is running. Website is going down from time to time. I'm working on it.

[DebitMe]

Is anyone else having this problem with PPcoin, I am using guiminer and it will connect and get shares for about 10 to 15 minutes, but then will go to connection problem, only does this for PPcoin, and I have tried ports 8322 and 9322.  Why would it mine fine for a bit, and then all of a sudden have a problem?  And it isnt a localized event, the same thing happened to my friend who tried to mine PPcoin at Coinotron.

[ewibit]

when is stratum@PPcoin?
TIA

[420]

pool seems down now and every time i've checked today

Pool is running. Website is going down from time to time. I'm working on it.

sorry i did mean the website. I wasn't currently mining there

[Mastergerund]

I've been pointing my CPU at your LTC pool for a while now, using mining_proxy and minerd. It works slow but gets shares.

I finally installed a Radeon 6570, and use cgminer. When I point it at ANY of your pools, using default settings from your Help section, I get very few shares. I have tried it on BTC and TRC, as well as on LTC (using scrypt, of course). In other BTC pools I have tried I get shares (about 80-85 Mh/s) but in your pools I get very few, if any. (I was connected to TRC pool for ten minutes leading up to the time of this point, and got two shares only.) Has your pool been rejecting connections, or should I be doing something special?

[coinotron]

I've been pointing my CPU at your LTC pool for a while now, using mining_proxy and minerd. It works slow but gets shares.

I finally installed a Radeon 6570, and use cgminer. When I point it at ANY of your pools, using default settings from your Help section, I get very few shares. I have tried it on BTC and TRC, as well as on LTC (using scrypt, of course). In other BTC pools I have tried I get shares (about 80-85 Mh/s) but in your pools I get very few, if any. (I was connected to TRC pool for ten minutes leading up to the time of this point, and got two shares only.) Has your pool been rejecting connections, or should I be doing something special?

Coinotron pools send shares of higher difficulty than 1. So you submit shares less frequently but they are more valuable.

Here you can find actual values: https://www.coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=home ( BTC stratum uses share difficulty 4)
 

[Mastergerund]

Thank you for the valuable explanation. I let it run all night and checked the actual shares earned in the morning, and I am mining the expected number of coins.

[rm187]

This pool is some type of scam. Have been mining on this site for 26 days w/ 1.5gh. Over the past 7 days my total reward has only changed from .22btc to .24btc.. Missing over a full BTC from this month. My miners are not having problems. Shares are accepted. pool sucks

[coinotron]

This pool is some type of scam. Have been mining on this site for 26 days w/ 1.5gh. Over the past 7 days my total reward has only changed from .22btc to .24btc.. Missing over a full BTC from this month. My miners are not having problems. Shares are accepted. pool sucks

1. Pool uses DGM method, not PPS
2. In last 7 days pool didn't find a block.
3. Your total reward includes only estimation of current round reward.
4. DGM is a hybrid between PPLNS and the geometric method. That geometric part is responsible for behavior you are observing. It is hard to explain more accurately without going into technical details. DGM algorithm is described here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0
5. DGM will add those "missing" coins to your balance in next few rounds.

[cdog]

Yeah, the problem is coinotron is essentially a LTC pool now.

LTC miners outnumber BTC miners by around 200-1, so finding blocks is gonna be very tough, even with youpieie pulling 30k mh/s

[juhakall]

I can't change any payment thresholds, it says "Change data successful" but nothing changes.

[rograz]

Ye something is up with it, threshold can't be changed and automatic payment not working it seems.

[zif33rs]

getting an incredible amount of stales mining litecoin here...never have before...sup?  think your server needs a reboot.

and why is the difficulty set so high?  26.5 mil?   diff for litecoin is 400 something.  someone please explain.
.

[Protagonus]

uh, pool down? 

[imafish2002]

I personally can't connect to LTC pool at the mo, not sure why or if others are having the same problem 

[rm187]

This pool is some type of scam. Have been mining on this site for 26 days w/ 1.5gh. Over the past 7 days my total reward has only changed from .22btc to .24btc.. Missing over a full BTC from this month. My miners are not having problems. Shares are accepted. pool sucks

1. Pool uses DGM method, not PPS
2. In last 7 days pool didn't find a block.
3. Your total reward includes only estimation of current round reward.
4. DGM is a hybrid between PPLNS and the geometric method. That geometric part is responsible for behavior you are observing. It is hard to explain more accurately without going into technical details. DGM algorithm is described here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0
5. DGM will add those "missing" coins to your balance in next few rounds.

I know how DGM works(ish). and your delusional to think I am going to get paid 3 BTC from the blocks that were solved 6 weeks ago. Or makeup that loss over the next blocks.

From the time of last post, I left 500mh on coinotron, and put 500mh on a different DGM pool.
Coinotron still the exact same balance as two days ago. Already up to .08 btc on the other pool. Coinotron; not a single number has changed in two days.

And your going to tell me my missing 3+btc is your DGM? hmmm. I'll get flamed; but its clearly the pool op skimming off the top. Maybe I am wrong, but this pool is trash ether way.

[roy7]

I know how DGM works(ish). and your delusional to think I am going to get paid 3 BTC from the blocks that were solved 6 weeks ago. Or makeup that loss over the next blocks.

From the time of last post, I left 500mh on coinotron, and put 500mh on a different DGM pool.
Coinotron still the exact same balance as two days ago. Already up to .08 btc on the other pool. Coinotron; not a single number has changed in two days.

And your going to tell me my missing 3+btc is your DGM? hmmm. I'll get flamed; but its clearly the pool op skimming off the top. Maybe I am wrong, but this pool is trash ether way.

Coinotron's statistics page shows the last block found was on 4-17. Once a block is eventually found, miners will get paid based on their DGM scores. No, you don't get your 3 "missing" BTC because it isn't missing. It's a long round, and everyone shares the bad luck. Just like in short rounds, you'd all share the additional profit (and make more than PPS would have paid for the short round). Over a long period of time, the good luck equals the bad luck (in a mathematical sense) and it evens out. Of course, any stretch of good or bad luck could last for years, being random and all.

[mhps]

Is the withdrawal limit (without fee) 10 for PPC ? The Reward System page says so but I am not sure if it is up-to-date, because it also says the limit for LTC is 1 (in contradiction with the red statements in My Account page).

[juhakall]

MY FRC rewards haven't been paid out. Maybe the hot wallet has ran out because of sudden popularity?

[mhps]

Mining LTC on Coinotron has a higher rejection (stale) rate than other pools. It is 5+%. It is because the miner-difficulty is too high.

So far the pool finds a block every 11.8 minutes. My miner generate a share every 1.7 min. When the pool finds a block and "close the door for the round", I have have a probability of 1.7min /2  / 11.8min = 5.5% not being able to register the work I have done with the pool. I measured the actual stale rate in 12 hours and it is 5.2%, in good agreement iwth my estimate.

So how can I set the difficulty for me lower? It is 198 now (my miner is 160kH/s). I would like to get the difficulty 60 or lower.

[WinVery.com]

MY FRC rewards haven't been paid out. Maybe the hot wallet has ran out because of sudden popularity?

Same issue with PPC/LTC... 

[coinotron]

MY FRC rewards haven't been paid out. Maybe the hot wallet has ran out because of sudden popularity?

Same issue with PPC/LTC... 

I'm sorry for that.
FRC, LTC Hot wallets were empty today morning.
All withdrawals have been sent ASAP

[kislam]

Mining LTC on Coinotron has a higher rejection (stale) rate than other pools. It is 5+%. It is because the miner-difficulty is too high.

So far the pool finds a block every 11.8 minutes. My miner generate a share every 1.7 min. When the pool finds a block and "close the door for the round", I have have a probability of 1.7min /2  / 11.8min = 5.5% not being able to register the work I have done with the pool. I measured the actual stale rate in 12 hours and it is 5.2%, in good agreement iwth my estimate.

So how can I set the difficulty for me lower? It is 198 now (my miner is 160kH/s). I would like to get the difficulty 60 or lower.

Same thing happens to me but much worse! I am trying to mine TRC but can hardly submit a share when difficulty is low. With frequent new blocks, my reject/stale/discard rate is sky high. Please either lower the difficulty or provide an option to choose our own difficulty. Much appreciated.

[Waramp22]

Newb here...Mining litecoin with 650 hash/second. Few weeks in and i have a bit over 14 Confirmed rewards. I was wondering why it wouldn't pay out and noticed the box where you can set your payout threshold. I set it just below what Ive got confirmed and its been a couple hours with no payout. Is there something i am missing? I'm not in a panic for them...i just want to get my first deposit into my wallet.

[whittsteve7]

I think your guys' hot wallet is empty again for LTC. Any chance you can re-up it?

[mhps]

Mining LTC on Coinotron has a higher rejection (stale) rate than other pools. It is 5+%. It is because the miner-difficulty is too high.

So far the pool finds a block every 11.8 minutes. My miner generate a share every 1.7 min. When the pool finds a block and "close the door for the round", I have have a probability of 1.7min /2  / 11.8min = 5.5% not being able to register the work I have done with the pool. I measured the actual stale rate in 12 hours and it is 5.2%, in good agreement iwth my estimate.

So how can I set the difficulty for me lower? It is 198 now (my miner is 160kH/s). I would like to get the difficulty 60 or lower.

Same thing happens to me but much worse! I am trying to mine TRC but can hardly submit a share when difficulty is low. With frequent new blocks, my reject/stale/discard rate is sky high. Please either lower the difficulty or provide an option to choose our own difficulty. Much appreciated.

My questions were answered here in the alcoin thread for Coinotron  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49182.msg2034215#msg2034215

But the problem remains (and getting worse)

[i3one21]

If the website is down, does that mean mining is not working either?

[massnerder]

No, my miner is still running and accepting shares.  I am concerned about the website being down though, I should be crossing my payout threshold any minute now....   

[kislam]

No, my miner is still running and accepting shares.  I am concerned about the website being down though, I should be crossing my payout threshold any minute now....   

web site is working, but i crossed my payout limit few hours ago, not getting any payout yet...

[massnerder]

I got the payout I was due yesterday....  Now I am more worried about how LTC diff. rose by 26% in a few hours while I was sleeping  

[sathackr]

First on the list are performance improvements, merged mining, new currency.
JSON API and more detailed stats will be implemented but not in upcoming 2-3 weeks.

how about that API? 

[gog1]

with PPC and TRC stabilized, any chance PPS fee will drop for PPC and turned on for TRC?

[coinotron]

I answered your question in Alt coins topic:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49182.msg2188956#msg2188956

[RustyShackleford1950]

I'm getting really poor rewards on the BTC pool.

I should be getting about 0.08 BTC per day at 1750Mh/s, instead, from my own calcs I'm getting an average of 0.03BTC per day? Anyone know what's up?

[rammy2k2]

im not getting any FRC payments ... anyone else?

[MaxGen]

No FRC payouts here either.  I guess wallet is low?  Should we be concerned?

[rammy2k2]

still no payment after 12 hours

[coinotron]

Please use this topic for BTC only.

I suspended FRC payouts before hard fork block 28336. Just in case. Yesterday morning payouts were enabled:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49182.msg2254646#msg2254646

[ajg007]

I'm new to litecoin mining.    I've signed up and configured my miner and its connected and working at around 100khs.


Is it normal to get 'pool request that work restart'   and stratum connection to pool 0 disrupted'  quite a lot??   Only got that now and then when Btc mining.


Thanks

http://i40.tinypic.com/ie2ghx.jpg

[Sorrowfox]

I'm new to litecoin mining.    I've signed up and configured my miner and its connected and working at around 100khs.


Is it normal to get 'pool request that work restart'   and stratum connection to pool 0 disrupted'  quite a lot??   Only got that now and then when Btc mining.


Thanks

I'm new also, I don't know why but I had a feeling to change the Intensity to 12 and I don't get that problem... scratch that as I write this my badass 4850 just got the interupt/restart but so far my 7850 hasn't...  but either way, got a combined 300+ khash off them.

[ajg007]

I'm new to litecoin mining.    I've signed up and configured my miner and its connected and working at around 100khs.


Is it normal to get 'pool request that work restart'   and stratum connection to pool 0 disrupted'  quite a lot??   Only got that now and then when Btc mining.


Thanks

http://i40.tinypic.com/ie2ghx.jpg

I'm new also, I don't know why but I had a feeling to change the Intensity to 12 and I don't get that problem... scratch that as I write this my badass 4850 just got the interupt/restart but so far my 7850 hasn't...  but either way, got a combined 300+ khash off them.

thanks,    I went back to a basic cgminer config and and added things step by step.     My hash rate has dropped by 20 hashes but at least its a bit more stable, and not as many connection problems.


EDIT: i'd like to report it was driver issues causing my issues.   and a matter of finding the right intensity

[jayeeyee]

BAH! Another downtime!  Time to switch pools once again.

[oxxon]

under DDoS? I had 13 LTC in 

[coinotron]

under DDoS? I had 13 LTC in 

Our hosting service had "Problems with network".

[rammy2k2]

under DDoS? I had 13 LTC in 

Our hosting service had "Problems with network".

looks like it still has

[coinotron]

under DDoS? I had 13 LTC in 

Our hosting service had "Problems with network".

looks like it still has

Sadly, yes

[Kartoff]

Can be expected soon to be online ?

[vm1990]

what makes it really funny is the people stopping coinotron from getting ddosed is also down XD either
A.heavy heavy attack
B.koddos.com is usless
C. something went very very wrong somewhere on there side

[vm1990]

after looking around looks like someone messed up an upgrade.......
https://twitter.com/KoddosCom

[ben62884]

Is the site down for everyone again right now? Haven't been able to access the site for a couple hours

[vm1990]

back up and working for a few hours now

[forsetifox]

Anyone mining on the TRC node right now? I can't connect to it.

Edit: Same message on Multipool about being unable to connect. Tried the Redpoint TRC pool and it connects.

 

[xRUFUSx]

My PPC confirmed rewards have been 0.04 more than my payout threshold for weeks  

IMHO Coinotron is in desperate need of a payout on demand feature!!

[coinotron]

My PPC confirmed rewards have been 0.04 more than my payout threshold for weeks  

IMHO Coinotron is in desperate need of a payout on demand feature!!

Why you didn't just send email to support?
Please send me your account name: coinotron@gmail.com

[Mastergerund]

Is the rewards chart outdated? It says share difficulty 1 for BTC, but I'm mining on the pool right now and cgminer is targeting 8.

[coinotron]

Can you flush all LTC owed to me to my address? My account name is Wolf0.

Done.

[ehoffman]

Payout seems to be stuck again...  Been waiting for hours for FRC transfer that doesn't happen...

I set it to 50, and I have 175 FRC confirmed FRC.

[SteveB]

Payout seems to be stuck again...  Been waiting for hours for FRC transfer that doesn't happen...

I set it to 50, and I have 175 FRC confirmed FRC.

I'm also waiting for an FRC payout.
Tried different thresholds (10, 50, 100) but it's not paying out.

[coinotron]

Payout seems to be stuck again...  Been waiting for hours for FRC transfer that doesn't happen...

I set it to 50, and I have 175 FRC confirmed FRC.

I'm sorry, FRC Hot wallet was empty. Payouts have been sent.

[stslimited]

thanks

[superman3486]

website down, miners still running..whats going on? any updates....

[AtomSea]

I mined BTC on Coinotron after P2Pool got some errors - but now the Coinotron is 900 hours and no block found 
Is there a way for Coinotron to get some asics assistance so we can get the block and help out some small time miners? 
Please 

[sinergy]

Something strange is going on with FTC mining. All blocks proof to be orphan and there are no payouts. Anyone know what is going on?

[coinotron]

Something strange is going on with FTC mining. All blocks proof to be orphan and there are no payouts. Anyone know what is going on?

FTC network is under attack:
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?board=55.0

[Schrankwand]

Finally, the BTC Spell has been broken...

[coinotron]

FYI

Due to lack of popularity we are closing BTC pool.

Please withdraw your coins until 2013-08-15.

[mxmenga]

Due to lack of popularity we are closing BTC pool.

Please withdraw your coins until 2013-08-31.

ok , but i have a 0,098 btc, i cannot automatic withdraw my coins .. you can implements a manual withdraw?
thanks

[coinotron]

Due to lack of popularity we are closing BTC pool.

Please withdraw your coins until 2013-08-31.

ok , but i have a 0,098 btc, i cannot automatic withdraw my coins .. you can implements a manual withdraw?
thanks

just email cash out request to coinotron@gmail.com from email you specified during registration.

[mxmenga]

Due to lack of popularity we are closing BTC pool.

Please withdraw your coins until 2013-08-31.

ok , but i have a 0,098 btc, i cannot automatic withdraw my coins .. you can implements a manual withdraw?
thanks

just email cash out request to coinotron@gmail.com from email you specified during registration.

i'm registered without specified my mail , and i can put in this time, but the system replies "Registration unsuccessful"

[coinotron]

Due to lack of popularity we are closing BTC pool.

Please withdraw your coins until 2013-08-31.

ok , but i have a 0,098 btc, i cannot automatic withdraw my coins .. you can implements a manual withdraw?
thanks

just email cash out request to coinotron@gmail.com from email you specified during registration.

i'm registered without specified my mail , and i can put in this time, but the system replies "Registration unsuccessful"

Please contact me vie email: coinotron@gmail.com

[mxmenga]

Due to lack of popularity we are closing BTC pool.

Please withdraw your coins until 2013-08-31.

ok , but i have a 0,098 btc, i cannot automatic withdraw my coins .. you can implements a manual withdraw?
thanks

just email cash out request to coinotron@gmail.com from email you specified during registration.

i'm registered without specified my mail , and i can put in this time, but the system replies "Registration unsuccessful"

Please contact me vie email: coinotron@gmail.com

ok i send mail, thanks

[nesic1]

i have 0.00094873BTC, can i withdraw too?

[coinotron]

i have 0.00094873BTC, can i withdraw too?

Yes.
On website set your payout address and send me email with cash out request: coinotron@gmail.com

[ninjaboon]

FYI

Due to lack of popularity we are closing BTC pool.

Please withdraw your coins until 2013-08-31.

EDIT: Please wait with withdrawals until last solved block reaches 120 confirmations.

Sad to see your BTC pool shutting down.
I've been using your PPC pool in the last 2 days since the D7 pool had problems.
So far, its good. Keep up the good work.

[DogtownHero]

emailed you a withdrawal request. sorry to hear that your pool is shutting down. i was making pretty good rewards there off of only one Block Eruptor. was wondering what the deal was when cgminer switched to a different pool and i couldn't login to my coinotron account. kinda worried it was a scam or something. anywho, sorry to see your pool go.

[coinotron]

emailed you a withdrawal request. sorry to hear that your pool is shutting down. i was making pretty good rewards there off of only one Block Eruptor. was wondering what the deal was when cgminer switched to a different pool and i couldn't login to my coinotron account. kinda worried it was a scam or something. anywho, sorry to see your pool go.

BTC pool got about 1% of other Coinotron's pools hashrate. One month to solve single BTC block. This was just too painful for me and miners.
You are welcome to mine alt coins on Coinotron

[ryantc]

sent you an e-mail about the withdraw.

also want to thank you for maintaining good pools for miners

[lajz99]

Are there known issues with the hash rate being under reported?  I'm mining at 199 but only reporting as 139 on the site.

[tiberiandusk]

Hashrate is calculated from the number of shares submitted so it will fluctuate depending on your luck finding shares.

[Truecoin]

i have 0.00094873BTC, can i withdraw too?

Yes.
On website set your payout address and send me email with cash out request: coinotron@gmail.com

Is it possible to remove the minimum withdraw threshold for bitcoins  so everybody could just withdraw their
remaining coins without emailing any cash out requests?

[coinotron]

i have 0.00094873BTC, can i withdraw too?

Yes.
On website set your payout address and send me email with cash out request: coinotron@gmail.com

Is it possible to remove the minimum withdraw threshold for bitcoins  so everybody could just withdraw their
remaining coins without emailing any cash out requests?

It is not a big deal to send email with cashout request.

[huryde]

I'm not seeing all of my hash power and even tho shares are accepted it is not adding up.

[Shimple]

I forgot my account but I see no option anywhere to recover it? How is this done?

[cosurgi]

Is this the official coinotron thread?

I post because I see some errors in my miners. Pool requires getwork restart, or some shares lost. I don't think this is a network problem, because avalons are working just fine.

Do you have the same problem?

[cosurgi]

nevermind, I installed p2pool locally, and it works much better. And also has a very nice www page with stats.