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

[norpick]

 While we are mining a block, is there a way to see how big that block is and how far into it we are, or do we just find out the final figure once block is completed?

[DrHaribo]

While we are mining a block, is there a way to see how big that block is and how far into it we are, or do we just find out the final figure once block is completed?

Look at the live stats under the "statistics" website menu, it shows data on the current round.

[DrHaribo]

The website was updated with some new perks and worker settings.

Here are the changes:

• API perk cost cut in half
• New perks added for high work submits per minute mining (low difficulty), low hashrate notification emails, creating more than 5 workers (some users created several hundred workers which can be a strain on some operations), and a "pro minter" perk that gives you all the perks at a reduced price (you still need to activate them)
• Added "config" buttons for each worker under "my account" -> "workers" with various settings
• Worker setting "default worker" allows you to choose a worker that should be used in case you don't set a worker name in the client or you set one that doesn't exist
• Worker setting "require password" allows you to disable the need for worker passwords (any password is accepted)
• Worker setting "work submits per minute" allows you affect the difficulty the server chooses for you. 20 is default. Set lower if you want higher difficulty to save bandwidth. With the "easy mode" perk you can also set a higher value than 20 (up to max 40).
• Worker setting "low hashrate warning" will email you if your worker goes below the chosen threshold.
• Worker setting "stratum extranonce2" is a bit technical - really only needed for sub-pools
• Worker setting "merged mining stale flush" can be turned on if you don't want the server to tell your client to flush all work when there is a namecoin block change. Not much point turning this off if you are mining with Stratum + it will cause more namecoin work rejects. But could save some bandwidth with gbt and getwork.
• New users now automatically get a default worker with password disabled. The signup page now only takes a user name, plus optional email address
• New workers are now created with password disabled. You can click "config" and set a password afterwards if you want one.

TL;DR: Have a look under "my account" -> "donations & perks" and "my account" -> "workers" in the website menu. Let me know if you have any questions or problems.

Update: note that changes made on the website can take 10-15 minutes to take effect on the mining server

[tripppn]

How does "Easy Mode" work?

[Krak]

How does "Easy Mode" work?

Worker setting "work submits per minute" allows you affect the difficulty the server chooses for you. 20 is default. Set lower if you want higher difficulty to save bandwidth. With the "easy mode" perk you can also set a higher value than 20 (up to max 40)

Put simply, don't use it.

[devalo]

• Worker setting "work submits per minute" allows you affect the difficulty the server chooses for you. 20 is default. Set lower if you want higher difficulty to save bandwidth. With the "easy mode" perk you can also set a higher value than 20 (up to max 40).

What exactly does this change if you turn it on? Are there any OTHER benefits than just a lower bandwith consumption?

[DrHaribo]

• Worker setting "work submits per minute" allows you affect the difficulty the server chooses for you. 20 is default. Set lower if you want higher difficulty to save bandwidth. With the "easy mode" perk you can also set a higher value than 20 (up to max 40).

What exactly does this change if you turn it on? Are there any OTHER benefits than just a lower bandwith consumption?

Normally you can set submits per minute from 1 to 20. With the easy mode perk settings from 1 to 40 are allowed.

Lower values give your client higher difficulty. This means lower bandwidth usage for you, less server load for BitMinter, but higher variance in your daily mining income.

Higher values give you a lower difficulty. This means less variance in your daily mining income, but also causes more bandwidth usage for you and more work to do for BitMinter servers.

8 proofs of work at difficulty 1 are worth the same as 1 proof of work at difficulty 8. Both show as 8 proofs of work at the website. So the pay is the same, on average. Over time it evens out and it doesn't matter which setting you use (income-wise), but in the short run higher difficulty causes more variance in your daily mining income.

Organofcorti has crunched the numbers on this. You can read about it here: https://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2012/10/71-variable-pool-difficulty.html

I think the default setting at 20 is good. But some users have expressed concern that it still uses too much bandwidth for their taste. So now if you have an extremely slow internet connection you can reduce bandwidth usage even further than before. Other users have expressed concern that their mining difficulty causes too much daily variance in their mining income. Now they can get a lower difficulty and decrease their variance. But the easy mode perk is required for this because low difficulty mining is much harder on the server.

[cesmak]

The website was updated with some new perks and worker settings.

Here are the changes:

• API perk cost cut in half
• New perks added for high work submits per minute mining (low difficulty), low hashrate notification emails, creating more than 5 workers (some users created several hundred workers which can be a strain on some operations), and a "pro minter" perk that gives you all the perks at a reduced price (you still need to activate them)
• Added "config" buttons for each worker under "my account" -> "workers" with various settings
• Worker setting "default worker" allows you to choose a worker that should be used in case you don't set a worker name in the client or you set one that doesn't exist
• Worker setting "require password" allows you to disable the need for worker passwords (any password is accepted)
• Worker setting "work submits per minute" allows you affect the difficulty the server chooses for you. 20 is default. Set lower if you want higher difficulty to save bandwidth. With the "easy mode" perk you can also set a higher value than 20 (up to max 40).
• Worker setting "low hashrate warning" will email you if your worker goes below the chosen threshold.
• Worker setting "stratum extranonce2" is a bit technical - really only needed for sub-pools
• Worker setting "merged mining stale flush" can be turned on if you don't want the server to tell your client to flush all work when there is a namecoin block change. Not much point turning this off if you are mining with Stratum + it will cause more namecoin work rejects. But could save some bandwidth with gbt and getwork.
• New users now automatically get a default worker with password disabled. The signup page now only takes a user name, plus optional email address
• New workers are now created with password disabled. You can click "config" and set a password afterwards if you want one.

TL;DR: Have a look under "my account" -> "donations & perks" and "my account" -> "workers" in the website menu. Let me know if you have any questions or problems.

Update: note that changes made on the website can take 10-15 minutes to take effect on the mining server

Great work doc !

[devalo]

• Worker setting "work submits per minute" allows you affect the difficulty the server chooses for you. 20 is default. Set lower if you want higher difficulty to save bandwidth. With the "easy mode" perk you can also set a higher value than 20 (up to max 40).

What exactly does this change if you turn it on? Are there any OTHER benefits than just a lower bandwith consumption?

Normally you can set submits per minute from 1 to 20. With the easy mode perk settings from 1 to 40 are allowed.

Lower values give your client higher difficulty. This means lower bandwidth usage for you, less server load for BitMinter, but higher variance in your daily mining income.

Higher values give you a lower difficulty. This means less variance in your daily mining income, but also causes more bandwidth usage for you and more work to do for BitMinter servers.

8 proofs of work at difficulty 1 are worth the same as 1 proof of work at difficulty 8. Both show as 8 proofs of work at the website. So the pay is the same, on average. Over time it evens out and it doesn't matter which setting you use (income-wise), but in the short run higher difficulty causes more variance in your daily mining income.

Organofcorti has crunched the numbers on this. You can read about it here: https://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2012/10/71-variable-pool-difficulty.html

I think the default setting at 20 is good. But some users have expressed concern that it still uses too much bandwidth for their taste. So now if you have an extremely slow internet connection you can reduce bandwidth usage even further than before. Other users have expressed concern that their mining difficulty causes too much daily variance in their mining income. Now they can get a lower difficulty and decrease their variance. But the easy mode perk is required for this because low difficulty mining is much harder on the server.

Thank you for the clarification!

[juhakall]

Allowing users to set a minimum difficulty would be great. I can't be the only miner who doesn't like the idea of constantly changing difficulty. On BTC Guild, I can practically use a fixed difficulty by setting my minimum difficulty high enough. On BitMinter, I often ended up close to the threshold of two difficulties, and kept flipping between them indefinitely. I'm pretty sure cgminer handles that situation well, but being able to set a minimum difficulty would guarantee it.

[philipma1957]

looking to buy these newer sticks


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291456.0


  I wanted to know if they will plug n play on bitminter.  I run the asic miner sticks now.  

I have hubs so this would be an easy upgrade .   I could bring my hash from 33gh to 198gh on the hubs I already have.

 If these are plug n play i would sell off all my am sticks in the next 2 weeks. and use that coin to buy these sticks.

[cspindor]

I am looking for a bitcoin miner operator that live in central Texas. I want to pay someone to set up my computer. I can not figure out the miner programs. Im using bitminter with great luck. (luck as in its working) I want to do some mining in other coins, but I am having no luck in setting one up. I need someone that knows how to do the software programing. I will pay for the service and bring my computer to you. all I need you to do is the work. if any one in central Texas has the time please post here.

[Pentel]

Try:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6482.0

Here's offering tech support for most computer problems and last logged in on the 10th Sept.

[DrHaribo]

Allowing users to set a minimum difficulty would be great.

Coming right up, sir.

looking to buy these newer sticks

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291456.0

  I wanted to know if they will plug n play on bitminter.  I run the asic miner sticks now. 

I'll try and find out. If they are Icarus compatible (like the ASICminer USB sticks) then they should work in BitMinter client.

[Stack]

Allowing users to set a minimum difficulty would be great.

Coming right up, sir.

Wicked! Go Doc!

[norpick]

so can i clarify here, (yes im still getting to grips with this) if i activate my minimum donation on both Btc and Nmc of 1.50% then activate my perk for Easy Mode at 0.50% each which = 4% in total, my income will raise?

[norpick]

8% in total.....

[Krak]

so can i clarify here, (yes im still getting to grips with this) if i activate my minimum donation on both Btc and Nmc of 1.50% then activate my perk for Easy Mode at 0.50% each which = 4% in total, my income will raise?

How do you figure? "Easy mode" won't affect your income at all, aside from reducing your variance a tiny bit.

[DrHaribo]

so can i clarify here, (yes im still getting to grips with this) if i activate my minimum donation on both Btc and Nmc of 1.50% then activate my perk for Easy Mode at 0.50% each which = 4% in total, my income will raise?

For prepay of both BTC and NMC plus the easy mode perk you need 2% BTC and 2% NMC donation - much cheaper than 4% of your total income, as the NMC is only a small part of it. Also, at that point you are at 2% donation so you could activate all perks through the "pro minter" perk.

Easy mode doesn't raise your income. It allows you to set a higher submits-per-minute setting for your workers, which will reduce your daily variance a bit. Read this where I explained how it works:

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

Especially interesting is Organofcorti's analysis on how high/low difficulty mining affects your variance.

[DrHaribo]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291456.0
  I wanted to know if they will plug n play on bitminter.  I run the asic miner sticks now.  

Those will not work with the current BitMinter client versions. I'm looking into adding support for them.

You can use them on the BitMinter pool using some incarnation of cgminer or bfgminer though (either the regular or a fork).