[1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff]

[MoreBloodWine]

Hey Doc,

Where can I find a explanation on worker settings. I just turned on the notification if one of my workers goes below a certain threshold but I see other settings in there and don't really understand them.

Thanks,
Bill

General advice, set your minimum difficulty to your hashrate in GH/s divided by 1.4. Some info on difficulty and work submits per minute:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg3142713#msg3142713

Anything else?

So if my hashrate is 600Ghs, then I would want to seet my worker min diff to 429 if were rounding up to the next whole.

In case this got missed, just wana be sure I'm looking a this right even though I guess you'd have to be sort of dumb to not understand take x and divide by 1.4.

I've seen other sites say to take your hash and multiple by 1.4

Ex: 10 x 1.4 = 14

[Krak]

In case this got missed, just wana be sure I'm looking a this right even though I guess you'd have to be sort of dumb to not understand take x and divide by 1.4.

I've seen other sites say to take your hash and multiple by 1.4

Ex: 10 x 1.4 = 14

I believe with a difficulty of 14 and 10 GH/s, you'd be submitting roughly 12 shares per minute. Your stats would be a little bit more inaccurate on the website, but you would save a bit more bandwidth.

[caminilegroup]

In case this got missed, just wana be sure I'm looking a this right even though I guess you'd have to be sort of dumb to not understand take x and divide by 1.4.

I've seen other sites say to take your hash and multiple by 1.4

Ex: 10 x 1.4 = 14

I believe with a difficulty of 14 and 10 GH/s, you'd be submitting roughly 12 shares per minute. Your stats would be a little bit more inaccurate on the website, but you would save a bit more bandwidth.

I was told this by another pool owner for stratum users. Especially ones who use stratum proxy

So when you enter the difficulty, you are entering a minimum difficulty.

As for difficulty, it is increased by variable difficulty if your minimum difficulty is not high enough for the hash rate of your connection.  When pointing multiple machines at one proxy, the total speed of all hardware pointed at the proxy is used for vardiff (since stratum defines difficulty per connection, not worker).

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ovXWOzMvw5w/UqZkSP8PoHI/AAAAAAAAQZY/l6thukHhiPk/s0/Screen%2520Shot%25202013-12-09%2520at%25206.45.44%2520PM.png

[MoreBloodWine]

In case this got missed, just wana be sure I'm looking a this right even though I guess you'd have to be sort of dumb to not understand take x and divide by 1.4.

I've seen other sites say to take your hash and multiple by 1.4

Ex: 10 x 1.4 = 14

I believe with a difficulty of 14 and 10 GH/s, you'd be submitting roughly 12 shares per minute. Your stats would be a little bit more inaccurate on the website, but you would save a bit more bandwidth.

Didnt really get the clarification I needed but ty.

In case this got missed, just wana be sure I'm looking a this right even though I guess you'd have to be sort of dumb to not understand take x and divide by 1.4.

I've seen other sites say to take your hash and multiple by 1.4

Ex: 10 x 1.4 = 14

I believe with a difficulty of 14 and 10 GH/s, you'd be submitting roughly 12 shares per minute. Your stats would be a little bit more inaccurate on the website, but you would save a bit more bandwidth.

I was told this by another pool owner for stratum users. Especially ones who use stratum proxy

As for difficulty, it is increased by variable difficulty if your minimum difficulty is not high enough for the hash rate of your connection.  When pointing multiple machines at one proxy, the total speed of all hardware pointed at the proxy is used for vardiff (since stratum defines difficulty per connection, not worker).

So if you have 4 machines running 100gh, then wheater your multiplying or dividing it's done per 100 / machine and not the combined total off 400 ?

If fthat's the ase, then one would need a worker for each of the 4 machines.

[cenicsoft]

Doc, have you made any progress on finding a solution to the excessive stale Namecoin blocks?

[caminilegroup]

---Getting to long---

So if you have 4 machines running 100gh, then whether you're multiplying or dividing it's done per 100 / machine and not the combined total of 400 ?

If that's the case, then one would need a worker for each of the 4 machines.

Not completely certain about that one, maybe doc can elaborate on it. I will definitely ask the other guy about it. I have 4 v2 blades and it shows ~40-44 GH/s but I did a little experiment and set my minimum to 4 and checked the proxy about an hour later and it showed a diff of 32 so it was being adjusted automatically, only thing is when my wife started streaming Netflix on the tv and I started loading the network it dropped to 16. So if you want to keep it above a certain number set it to that.

I will say this, slush's proxy with the midstate compiled is faster than bfg miner in proxy mode. Slush's I average 41 GH/s, BFG Miner I averaged 35 GH/s, big difference in my opinion.

[DrHaribo]

Doc, have you made any progress on finding a solution to the excessive stale Namecoin blocks?

Namecoin has some nasty bugs and it may be a bumpy ride until they get fixed. I don't have time to work on namecoin. Bitminter is a lot of work by itself. But namecoin has some new developers now - hopefully they can fix it.

[MoreBloodWine]

Hey Doc, without going too many replies up... can you shed some light on this ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg3898860#msg3898860

[philipma1957]

can't sign in.


 I get this:

OpenID Failure: 0x707: Fatal transport error: peer not authenticated



I use my yahoo email and I am signed into yahoo. tried on safari  chrome and firefox

[Trekkie]

can't sign in.


 I get this:

OpenID Failure: 0x707: Fatal transport error: peer not authenticated



I use my yahoo email and I am signed into yahoo. tried on safari  chrome and firefox

Appears something is amiss.   All the miners I have are down, and if you look at the stats page, they're not mining anything anywhere.

[ici_lemmy]

Pool 0 http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 not responding

[DrHaribo]

Apologies for the short downtime. Had to ban a couple users who were hammering the server.

Mining is back to normal.

If you can't connect anymore, let me know and include your IP address.

[ici_lemmy]

Whaou, problem solved fast.
Thank's Dr.

[Flashman]

Wonder if that was deliberate to try and affect the difficulty change.

[Cascaders28]

Everything just went idle on me and I'm getting connection timed out and ran out of work errors. Website doesn't seem to be tracking any mining either. 

[Flashman]

Miners still connected here but website down.

Edit: and back up, but not showing worker speed.

Edit: and now showing speed normally... nothing to see here, move along.

[Cascaders28]

Well I'm mining again but that was a weird little 15 minute outage. Things seem to be normal now 

[not.you]

My miners are staying connected and submitting shares but the stats on the webpage keeps intermittently reporting my hashrate as zero.  I can't tell yet if it is affecting my shifts adversely or not.

[DrHaribo]

My miners are staying connected and submitting shares but the stats on the webpage keeps intermittently reporting my hashrate as zero.  I can't tell yet if it is affecting my shifts adversely or not.

The live hashrates on the websites are having intermittent issues. Sorry about that. It doesn't affect anything except the website display.

[DrHaribo]

We had a bit of a bumpy ride earlier today as botnets and buggy clients were causing very high server load. I had to ban 11500 IP addresses.

If you have problems connecting to the pool now, contact me at operator@bitminter.com and include your IP address. You can get the IP using http://www.whatismyip.com/ or similar services.

A botnet hammering the server with getwork requests from many thousand IP addresses: banned. If you are legally mining with many computers, please connect them through a Stratum proxy to reduce the load on the server. bfgminer can do that job or Slush's Stratum proxy.

Some clients using getwork or getblocktemplate making several hundred connections to the server: banned for now. I will try to contact the users individually to get this fixed as it is not that many users. I have seen this happen with some bfgminer users (and not others). I don't know if other clients are affected or what exactly causes this issue. The easy fix is to switch to stratum. Use -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 to connect using Stratum. I have enabled Stratum on port 443 so you can use that in case you have firewall issues.

Three users opening over 1000 Stratum connections: banned. I'll look into this in more detail later.

A few users with cgminer older than version 2.7, with a bug causing it to spam the server with getwork requests. Seriously? Please upgrade your mining client. These dinosaur versions may be automatically banned in the future - this is the final notice.