bitHopper: Python Pool Hopper Proxy

[organofcorti]

Slush is known to be broken

what exactly does mine_slush do? should I be mining them? I seem to be doing well with slush, but I know this could be luck.

Yeha the more I thought about mine_charity the more I thought it was the exact opposite of hopping and could possible lead to eff below 100%, I'm glad someone else did the math.

mine_slush hops on at 0 and off at 10%. My stats are broken atm, what are yours? (efficiency and shares submitted)

[Sukrim]

Slush is known to be broken

...and thats why i'd love to get my hands on his algo so i can find the max efficiency hop on/off points accurately.

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg50002#msg50002

[bitcoindaddy]

mine_slush hops on at 0 and off at 10%. My stats are broken atm, what are yours? (efficiency and shares submitted)

Has the 10% figure been arrived at mathematically or is it just someone's best guess? I currently have slush disabled because I can't bear to watch the balance keep going down after leaving.

[Sukrim]

mine_slush hops on at 0 and off at 10%. My stats are broken atm, what are yours? (efficiency and shares submitted)

Has the 10% figure been arrived at mathematically or is it just someone's best guess? I currently have slush disabled because I can't bear to watch the balance keep going down after leaving.

Well, I remember reading somewhere something about a number in the 10-15% range that should be optimal for slush, so it can't be that bad.

Btw. I make more than 170% of expected value, these 0 rounds are just higher variance...

[hawks5999]

mine_slush hops on at 0 and off at 10%. My stats are broken atm, what are yours? (efficiency and shares submitted)

Has the 10% figure been arrived at mathematically or is it just someone's best guess? I currently have slush disabled because I can't bear to watch the balance keep going down after leaving.

Doesn't balance from every pool keep going down after you leave?

[Sukrim]

not exponentially

[muyoso]

mine_slush hops on at 0 and off at 10%. My stats are broken atm, what are yours? (efficiency and shares submitted)

Has the 10% figure been arrived at mathematically or is it just someone's best guess? I currently have slush disabled because I can't bear to watch the balance keep going down after leaving.

I was the same way until I figured it out.  Make sure that the role for slush is "mine_slush" and not just "mine".  Basically what happens is that on rounds less than 10 minutes you make a MASSIVE reward for the number of shares you submit (3-400% efficiency range) and on rounds longer than like 30 minutes you basically get nothing.  It works out to between 100-200% efficiency.  Been running it for a day myself and I am currently at over 150% efficiency.    Believe me, it works.  

[EskimoBob]

what is "mine_friendly" and how it works?

[Sukrim]

It kills your hopping income by hopping back into long rounds of prop pools instead of mining at a proper backup pool.

We really should rename it "mine_charity"... You only risk being tagged by the pool as hopper and still loosing massive on long rounds, there is no reason other than charity to use this method.

[MaGNeT]

api_key: <br/>Round Shares:([ 0-9]+)<br/>

For BTCPool24.com

Missing the "/" after "br"...
Adding them fixed it.

[gnaget]

what is "mine_friendly" and how it works?

It is a way to mine hopper friendly pools, in hopes that it'll give hoppers a bad name.  Some people are more interested in squeezing every last percent of efficiency more than being good community members.  What it does is hop the pool normally, leaving after 43%, but when they have particularity bad blocks (> 200% difficulty) and there is nowhere to hop, it jumps to them to help get a new block. 

[Sukrim]

@MaGNeT:
Weird, I got the (badly translated...) german version and it reads

Code:

<span style="position: absolute; left: 318px; width: 190px; top: 44px; height: 49px;">
Aktueller Block: 139170<br>Aktuelle Difficulty: 1888786.71<br>PPS BTC/Share: 0.00002647<br>Runden Shares: 4687996<br><br></span>

Also you seem to have brackets () there?!

[MaGNeT]

@MaGNeT:
Weird, I got the (badly translated...) german version and it reads

Code:

<span style="position: absolute; left: 318px; width: 190px; top: 44px; height: 49px;">
Aktueller Block: 139170<br>Aktuelle Difficulty: 1888786.71<br>PPS BTC/Share: 0.00002647<br>Runden Shares: 4687996<br><br></span>

Also you seem to have brackets () there?!

Maybe it depends on your IP?
I'm in the Netherlands, next to Germany so you would expect... German... But the stats page is English when I look at it

[paraipan]

seem like bmunion's owner doesn't like the "attention" he's getting

[MaGNeT]

seem like bmunion's owner doesn't like the "attention" he's getting

Or the pool just broke down a bit...

[burp]

Oh well, fantastic choice to put pool.cfg in the repository after it was used as a custom user configuration. I had several customized pool configurations there, not to mention all the usernames and passwords. Now everything is lost during the pull.

A warning to everyone: backup your pool.cfg before pulling or commit it to the repository and merge, otherwise it's los!

[Sukrim]

Does reverting not work/help?

Anyways, the bmunion fail is maybe part of their "heavily being worked on security" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32921.msg417892#msg417892

Seems like a very sophisticated system to... being able to cheat your own miners unnoticed at will!

[gnaget]

Oh well, fantastic choice to put pool.cfg in the repository after it was used as a custom user configuration. I had several customized pool configurations there, not to mention all the usernames and passwords. Now everything is lost during the pull.

A warning to everyone: backup your pool.cfg before pulling or commit it to the repository and merge, otherwise it's los!

Ouch man, that sucks.  I'm glad I haven't pulled it yet

[burp]

Does reverting not work/help?

Anyways, the bmunion fail is maybe part of their "heavily being worked on security" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32921.msg417892#msg417892

Seems like a very sophisticated system to... being able to cheat your own miners unnoticed at will!

There is nothing to revert when the file was not in the repository before. I didn't know git allowed such things to happen, well now I do

[djex]

api_key: <br/>Round Shares:([ 0-9]+)<br/>

For BTCPool24.com

Missing the "/" after "br"...
Adding them fixed it.

They have json now, should we use that?

http://www.btcpool24.com/json_stats.php