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

[Walter Rothbard]

We need some more hash power.

The Bitminter hashrate is falling behind the BTC/USD exchange rate.

Well I keep ordering it - eventually some of it is sure to actually arrive.

Shipped!  Woo-hoo!

[btceic]

DrHaribo,
I have decided to donate 100% of my namecoin, I don't see a perk for this...

[Luke-Jr]

Have been mining at BitMinter for a few months, this is the first time I see this:
http://blockchain.info/tx/92db8a629280b8aa782254dbf932155168f9314fd07338d5b2586b3545443698
A payment which has not confirmed in quite a few hours.  Why ?

That transaction contains no fees, so it is considered low-priority by the network. It will eventually be confirmed.

Is there a way to add a fee now, so that it does not linger in limbo ?

Theoretically, the sender could rebroadcast it with a fee, or a recipient can broadcast a transaction spending it with a fee to cover both transactions.
There's no easy way to do this with a GUI, though...

[RoadTrain]

Have been mining at BitMinter for a few months, this is the first time I see this:
http://blockchain.info/tx/92db8a629280b8aa782254dbf932155168f9314fd07338d5b2586b3545443698
A payment which has not confirmed in quite a few hours.  Why ?

That transaction contains no fees, so it is considered low-priority by the network. It will eventually be confirmed.

Is there a way to add a fee now, so that it does not linger in limbo ?

Theoretically, the sender could rebroadcast it with a fee, or a recipient can broadcast a transaction spending it with a fee to cover both transactions.
There's no easy way to do this with a GUI, though...

Is children-pays-for-parent already in place?

[Luke-Jr]

Have been mining at BitMinter for a few months, this is the first time I see this:
http://blockchain.info/tx/92db8a629280b8aa782254dbf932155168f9314fd07338d5b2586b3545443698
A payment which has not confirmed in quite a few hours.  Why ?

That transaction contains no fees, so it is considered low-priority by the network. It will eventually be confirmed.

Is there a way to add a fee now, so that it does not linger in limbo ?

Theoretically, the sender could rebroadcast it with a fee, or a recipient can broadcast a transaction spending it with a fee to cover both transactions.
There's no easy way to do this with a GUI, though...

Is children-pays-for-parent already in place?

Some miners run it.

[mrhelpful]

This pool is great, but I feel like the Terra Hash and its minig pool competitors out weigh by a lot.

Also, "name coin" is pretty useless. If it were LTC, that would be a different story.

[smoothrunnings]

Is there any reason why a couple of payouts from Bitminter over the last few days would be still stuck at "still not confirmed...seen by 4 peers" and everything else is been accounted for?

Thanks.

[bronan]

I found out that when I exceeded 125 sticks cpu use went nuts and the 125th stick read endless errors.   not sure if the pc or bitminter software is the issue.  windows 7 has a 127  usb device  limit for 1 controller.  this pc has a 5 port pcie usb card with a second controller  so I should be able to go to 240 sticks or even 250.  So when I got past the 127 device limit the cpu went nuts and the last stick added com284 just read endless errors.  in the photo below it is at  6000 and change and counting up really fast

This is a controller limit not a port limit as i understood it, the max is system wide 127 however this number is theoretical.
In reality each usb device connected takes one device slot, so in my view you loose 2 devices for the controller leaving you with 125 devices to connect.
I did not check if the hubs are seen as shared devices

I am not sure if the professional hardware solutions which you can buy can run more but those are very expenssive and contain very good components, but if they are just loaders or can run devices like needed for mining is not clear to me.

[MoreBloodWine]

This pool is great, but I feel like the Terra Hash and its minig pool competitors out weigh by a lot.

Also, "name coin" is pretty useless. If it were LTC, that would be a different story.

I wonder how hard it would be to add / change that.

[TheQuin]

Has anyone got the Blue Fury working with Bitminter client yet?

I just get this

2013.11.08 [14:12] Probing all ports for external devices
2013.11.08 [14:12]  Probe of port COM18 failed: timeout
2013.11.08 [14:12] No external devices detected.
2013.11.08 [14:12]  Probe of port COM17 failed: timeout

[wizard]

This pool is great, but I feel like the Terra Hash and its minig pool competitors out weigh by a lot.

Also, "name coin" is pretty useless. If it were LTC, that would be a different story.

I wonder how hard it would be to add / change that.

It's impossible,
BTC & NMC use 'sha256' hash and LTC uses 'scrypt' hash

[Walter Rothbard]

This pool is great, but I feel like the Terra Hash and its minig pool competitors out weigh by a lot.

Also, "name coin" is pretty useless. If it were LTC, that would be a different story.

Namecoin merged-mining is "free" - it uses the same proof of work as Bitcoin (SHA256) and the nodes are designed to accept blocks merge-mined on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.  This would be impossible with LTC.  You would need a whole different pool.

NMC is just a tad bit extra income - you're free to donate it all to the pool.

[philipma1957]

Has anyone got the Blue Fury working with Bitminter client yet?

I just get this

2013.11.08 [14:12] Probing all ports for external devices
2013.11.08 [14:12]  Probe of port COM18 failed: timeout
2013.11.08 [14:12] No external devices detected.
2013.11.08 [14:12]  Probe of port COM17 failed: timeout

My red fury has the same problem.

 I am quite frustrated   2 pc's 2 mac's 4 or 5 hubs and 15 hours later zip.   with asic block erupters without erupters.   got tired of trying and waiting for a new beta.  I would even mail it to the doc so he could try it.

 In fact I would consider making it second prize in the Nov. contest.  Since I just can't keep spending time on it.  My coding skills are so so.

[TheQuin]

Has anyone got the Blue Fury working with Bitminter client yet?

I just get this

2013.11.08 [14:12] Probing all ports for external devices
2013.11.08 [14:12]  Probe of port COM18 failed: timeout
2013.11.08 [14:12] No external devices detected.
2013.11.08 [14:12]  Probe of port COM17 failed: timeout

My red fury has the same problem.

 I am quite frustrated   2 pc's 2 mac's 4 or 5 hubs and 15 hours later zip.  

I finally got them working with bfgminer 3.5.1 (it was a no go on any earlier version)

[philipma1957]

Has anyone got the Blue Fury working with Bitminter client yet?

I just get this

2013.11.08 [14:12] Probing all ports for external devices
2013.11.08 [14:12]  Probe of port COM18 failed: timeout
2013.11.08 [14:12] No external devices detected.
2013.11.08 [14:12]  Probe of port COM17 failed: timeout

My red fury has the same problem.

 I am quite frustrated   2 pc's 2 mac's 4 or 5 hubs and 15 hours later zip.  

I finally got them working with bfgminer 3.5.1 (it was a no go on any earlier version)

   do you have a link to load 3.5.1 

[TheQuin]

  do you have a link to load 3.5.1 

http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bfgminer/

[Henchman24]

Some exciting developments!

Awesome payday for allesello on block 268499 - 5.97426271btc in transaction fees!

And, subseaguru takes the lead in the mint race with a 1 minute 1 sec block  

Congrats guys!  

edit:  Love that 35 second block from bitcoinminer too!

[MoreBloodWine]

This pool is great, but I feel like the Terra Hash and its minig pool competitors out weigh by a lot.

Also, "name coin" is pretty useless. If it were LTC, that would be a different story.

I wonder how hard it would be to add / change that.

It's impossible,
BTC & NMC use 'sha256' hash and LTC uses 'scrypt' hash

Well, that said... another sha coin thats better than NMC and still managed would work then wouldn't it ?

[Henchman24]

This pool is great, but I feel like the Terra Hash and its minig pool competitors out weigh by a lot.

Also, "name coin" is pretty useless. If it were LTC, that would be a different story.

I wonder how hard it would be to add / change that.

It's impossible,
BTC & NMC use 'sha256' hash and LTC uses 'scrypt' hash

Well, that said... another sha coin thats better than NMC and still managed would work then wouldn't it ?

No, NMC is currently the only coin that can be merge mined with BTC.

[Henchman24]

This pool is great, but I feel like the Terra Hash and its minig pool competitors out weigh by a lot.

Please expand on that.  In what ways are these other pools superior?