AmDD
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January 28, 2013, 07:35:53 PM |
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No fee? How do you pay for the servers? Independently wealthy?
Sounds Fishy...
Sorry if it has been posted already but 124 pages is too long of a read.
Its a donation type of thing. Most decent people will offer a 'fee' to help support the pool. But its not required. |
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WhitePhantom
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January 28, 2013, 11:48:44 PM |
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No fee? How do you pay for the servers? Independently wealthy?
Sounds Fishy...
I'm pretty sure Doc is a multi-trillionaire. In all seriousness, though, it's worth the 2% donation to get instant payouts. |
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maunderingcabal
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January 29, 2013, 01:35:46 AM |
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is it possible to mine NMC from stratum protocol? I don't think it works on any pool. I may go back to bitminter because of better transaction fees and payout. Anyone get NMC when they mine bitminter with stratum?!? Help me out guys.
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PatrickOMFG
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January 29, 2013, 02:28:24 AM |
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is it possible to mine NMC from stratum protocol? I don't think it works on any pool. I may go back to bitminter because of better transaction fees and payout. Anyone get NMC when they mine bitminter with stratum?!? Help me out guys.
I'm using stratum on bitminter and mining NMC just fine. |
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maunderingcabal
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January 29, 2013, 03:08:27 AM |
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is it possible to mine NMC from stratum protocol? I don't think it works on any pool. I may go back to bitminter because of better transaction fees and payout. Anyone get NMC when they mine bitminter with stratum?!? Help me out guys.
I'm using stratum on bitminter and mining NMC just fine. good to hear. that's selling point for me to go back to this pool. |
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maunderingcabal
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January 29, 2013, 03:21:58 AM |
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is it possible to mine NMC from stratum protocol? I don't think it works on any pool. I may go back to bitminter because of better transaction fees and payout. Anyone get NMC when they mine bitminter with stratum?!? Help me out guys.
I'm using stratum on bitminter and mining NMC just fine. What url do you use for your miner, can't get stratum to work  |
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PatrickOMFG
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January 29, 2013, 03:26:27 AM |
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is it possible to mine NMC from stratum protocol? I don't think it works on any pool. I may go back to bitminter because of better transaction fees and payout. Anyone get NMC when they mine bitminter with stratum?!? Help me out guys.
I'm using stratum on bitminter and mining NMC just fine. What url do you use for your miner, can't get stratum to work stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 |
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DrHaribo (OP)
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January 29, 2013, 07:17:42 AM |
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is it possible to mine NMC from stratum protocol? I don't think it works on any pool. I may go back to bitminter because of better transaction fees and payout. Anyone get NMC when they mine bitminter with stratum?!? Help me out guys.
There's nothing in Stratum itself that would prevent merged mining. Merged mining happens on BitMinter whether you use Stratum, GBT or getwork. No fee? How do you pay for the servers? Independently wealthy?
Sounds Fishy...
Most users donate and the pool is around the break even point. The competition between pools is very hard. For instance, several pools offer PPS at a much too low fee, with a great risk of the pool going bankrupt. After the reward halving things are changing a bit though, as transaction fees and namecoins have become a larger part of the mining income. I guess those can offset the risk if not paid out. They are paid out by BitMinter though. |
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maunderingcabal
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January 29, 2013, 10:05:28 AM |
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is it possible to mine NMC from stratum protocol? I don't think it works on any pool. I may go back to bitminter because of better transaction fees and payout. Anyone get NMC when they mine bitminter with stratum?!? Help me out guys.
There's nothing in Stratum itself that would prevent merged mining. Merged mining happens on BitMinter whether you use Stratum, GBT or getwork. No fee? How do you pay for the servers? Independently wealthy?
Sounds Fishy...
Most users donate and the pool is around the break even point. The competition between pools is very hard. For instance, several pools offer PPS at a much too low fee, with a great risk of the pool going bankrupt. After the reward halving things are changing a bit though, as transaction fees and namecoins have become a larger part of the mining income. I guess those can offset the risk if not paid out. They are paid out by BitMinter though. The 2.5% you donate as a fee seems to be totally worth it! It pays out instantly and even if the block is no good. Plus automatic FULL payout at as low as 0.001 BTC and NMC, I have hopped around to a bunch of pools and this one is the least restrictive. |
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DrHaribo (OP)
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January 31, 2013, 07:24:24 AM |
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Var diff coming for getwork users tomorrow.
This should not be a problem if you are running a recent miner version. If you see a lot of rejected work then you need to upgrade your miner. You still get paid for the accepted work, though, so you don't lose any income. If there are any questions or problems, let me know.
BitMinter client 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 work fine with var diff. If you are using version 1.1.2 or 1.2.0 you may see it count miscalculations (hardware errors) that are not actual errors and count accepted/rejected work wrong because it doesn't take difficulty into account.
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scrubadub
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February 01, 2013, 01:14:08 PM |
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Var diff coming for getwork users tomorrow.
Is this done on a per worker basis, or per account? If i have a few slow graphics cards, then bring up an asic what happens? |
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FreshJR
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February 01, 2013, 06:41:03 PM |
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So Stratum vs GBT  Which one should I use? (I plan to continue using cgminer) |
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-ck
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February 01, 2013, 10:24:05 PM |
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So Stratum vs GBT Which one should I use? (I plan to continue using cgminer) Stratum |
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DrHaribo (OP)
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February 01, 2013, 11:03:51 PM |
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Variable difficulty ("var diff") is now enabled for those using the getwork protocol. It was already enabled for Stratum and GBT. Let me know if you have any issues. Some older miners may not be happy with it, but they should still be able to mine. I am observing a decent drop in CPU usage on the server, so I am quite happy with it so far.  Max difficulty is still 16. This will be increased later as more ASICs turn up. Is this done on a per worker basis, or per account? If i have a few slow graphics cards, then bring up an asic what happens?
This is per worker. If you have a slow GPU and an ASIC then you may want to use different worker accounts for them. It's not the end of the world if you don't though, it just adds variance. |
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LazyOtto
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February 02, 2013, 03:43:05 PM |
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Could we have an option to set a minimum diff on the website, please?
I'm only cranking about 2.5gh, so the algorithm you use for vardiff doesn't quite push me over the edge, but I would like to set a minimum diff of 2 or 4, and accept the increased variance, just to reduce my network traffic.
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lenny_
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February 02, 2013, 04:28:04 PM |
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Could we have an option to set a minimum diff on the website, please?
I'm only cranking about 2.5gh, so the algorithm you use for vardiff doesn't quite push me over the edge, but I would like to set a minimum diff of 2 or 4, and accept the increased variance, just to reduce my network traffic.
Why don't you just switch to Stratum? |
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LazyOtto
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February 02, 2013, 04:34:15 PM |
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I'm using Stratum.
Increasing the diff level could cut the/my *outgoing* number of packets in half or by a fourth.
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lenny_
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February 02, 2013, 04:41:25 PM |
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I'm using Stratum.
Increasing the diff level could cut the/my *outgoing* number of packets in half or by a fourth.
If you're using Stratum your bandwidth usage is already low, comparing to GetWork, which is still used by a lots of people. Diff on Stratum is sorted automatically based on your hashrate, to keep your bandwidth usage as same, low level, regardless of the hashing power. If you want to have static diff, changes has to be made to Stratum protocol itself, which may not be greatest idea, as it is working now as indented (dynamically). |
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LazyOtto
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February 02, 2013, 04:57:07 PM |
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I'm using Stratum.
Increasing the diff level could cut the/my *outgoing* number of packets in half or by a fourth.
If you're using Stratum your bandwidth usage is already low, comparing to GetWork, which is still used by a lots of people. Diff on Stratum is sorted automatically based on your hashrate, to keep your bandwidth usage as same, low level, regardless of the hashing power. If you want to have static diff, changes has to be made to Stratum protocol itself, which may not be greatest idea, as it is working now as indented (dynamically). "If you're using Stratum your bandwidth usage is already low, comparing to GetWork" Yes, I know. "Diff on Stratum is sorted automatically based on your hashrate" No. This is not inherent to Stratum. This is how BitMinter is setting vardiff. "If you want to have static diff, changes has to be made to Stratum protocol itself" False. Again, this is not inherent to Stratum. You are making authoritative sounding responses without fully understanding the subject matter. |
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