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

[SgtMoth]

i took those two fan off with the plastic shroud and zip tied a case fan and an intel heat sink fan, lol...70 deg @ 400+m/h

[DrHaribo]

I got an email today from OKPAY saying they now support bitcoins, with instant conversion to USD, EUR, GBP, CHF or RUB.

From what I understand, if you have an OKPAY mastercard and you set your BitMinter cash out address to your bitcoin address at OKPAY, then it would work like this: Each time your balance reaches your threshold the bitcoins are sent from BitMinter to OKPAY. OKPAY then converts it to your chosen currency and it becomes available on your debit card to spend as you like. So after setting this up miners would be cashing out in one of the aforementioned currencies.

Has anyone tried this?

My local currency (NOK) is not supported. Perhaps I can still get a USD or EUR debit card but I guess the usage would be a bit limited for me.

Apparently you can also buy bitcoins at OKPAY.

[DrHaribo]

Just a quick restart to get new versions in.

Now the transaction history will say "donation" instead of "payment" on your donation transactions.

Actually there are a lot of changes behind the scenes to support future features.

[ZodiacDragon84]

I got an email today from OKPAY saying they now support bitcoins, with instant conversion to USD, EUR, GBP, CHF or RUB.

From what I understand, if you have an OKPAY mastercard and you set your BitMinter cash out address to your bitcoin address at OKPAY, then it would work like this: Each time your balance reaches your threshold the bitcoins are sent from BitMinter to OKPAY. OKPAY then converts it to your chosen currency and it becomes available on your debit card to spend as you like. So after setting this up miners would be cashing out in one of the aforementioned currencies.

Has anyone tried this?

My local currency (NOK) is not supported. Perhaps I can still get a USD or EUR debit card but I guess the usage would be a bit limited for me.

Apparently you can also buy bitcoins at OKPAY.

I am going to give this a try. I will let everyone know how it works out in a month or two

[pocketartillery]

Yay, I finally found a block!

[DrHaribo]

Yay, I finally found a block!

Nicely done, sir.

[boozer]

Yay, I finally found a block!

Its always a good feeling

Man, you can see when gpumax kicks in.... looks like about 30-40 GH/s of bitminter is on gpumax and drops off when a gpumax purchase is processed... Seems bitminter avg around 150Gh/s now (when there is not a gpumax purchase occcuring). 

[jake262144]

Four Bitcoin blocks mined today definitely improve the pool's luck, good job everyone.
Can we get a couple more until midnight?

[Jaryu]

DrHaribo good job with Bitminter, I've been there a little over a week and it's very nice, I already got a couple of coins hehe. If you don't mind a suggestion how about adding all the other bitcoin derived virtual currencies like devcoin, i0coin and ixcoin to the mining pool since they would cost no extra effort from the miners like we currently have with name coin and would make the pool more attractive since the overall payout would increase for no extra hash work.

[DrHaribo]

Happy to hear you like the pool, Jaryu

My impression of the bitcoin-forks is that they all seem to be dying. Probably because they serve no purpose. Namecoin does have a purpose, but still doesn't really seem to be getting anywhere.

After namecoins were introduced on BitMinter it turned out most miners didn't actually want them. And many beginners just found them confusing. How do I transfer namecoins to my bitcoin wallet? Is something wrong, I just started mining here and only got namecoins. And many miners were saying: I don't have any use for namecoins, is there a place to donate them? In short, merged mining so far wasn't much of a success.

Namecoins might still take off. And I think the bitcoin technology could probably be used for other (useful) purposes that have not been thought of yet. So it is a good thing that I can fairly easily plug more block chains into BitMinter's merged mining. But they would need to be useful in some way, or at least give miners a significant value. Otherwise I think adding a bunch of useless and valueless currencies will just detract from the whole. Also they are at high risk of 51% attacks.

So I'm ready to add a good one, but I'm just not seeing a good one yet.

[forceuser]

After having mined for an extended period (2-3 days) my computer now freezes up when I try to mine for more than a few minutes. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the program or my cards (6970 x2), guessing the cards.

Getting some pretty huge CPU spikes as well when I'm not really doing anything: https://i.imgur.com/gkHxt.png

[DrHaribo]

After having mined for an extended period (2-3 days) my computer now freezes up when I try to mine for more than a few minutes. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the program or my cards (6970 x2), guessing the cards.

Are you overclocking? How are the temperatures looking?

[forceuser]

After having mined for an extended period (2-3 days) my computer now freezes up when I try to mine for more than a few minutes. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the program or my cards (6970 x2), guessing the cards.

Are you overclocking? How are the temperatures looking?

I'm not, and my current temperature for the cards is 68c. I actually can't get Crossfire enabled in my CCC, so I only see one of the cards.

[DrHaribo]

That's a good temp under load. CPU temp looking ok under load too?

Could be a hardware fault I suppose.

[jake262144]

After having mined for an extended period (2-3 days) my computer now freezes up when I try to mine for more than a few minutes. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the program or my cards (6970 x2), guessing the cards.

Getting some pretty huge CPU spikes as well when I'm not really doing anything: https://i.imgur.com/gkHxt.png

Remove one card, see whether the problem goes away.
If it doesn't, try the other card. Be sure to test both PCIe slots.

Any case of unexpected CPU usage you're unable to track down should raise a red flag. Make sure no malware has crept into your machine.

[boozer]

Yay, I finally found a block!

And you havent stopped at that block... you've been a block finding machine!:)

[ZodiacDragon84]

Site down?

[DrHaribo]

Website had a hickup. It was back up again after a few minutes. Sorry about that.

[DrHaribo]

Website was just updated. Here are the new changes:

• Added BitMinter pages at google+ and facebook. Linked at the top of each BitMinter page. Please click like, follow, +1 and all the other nice buttons.
• Pagination for blocks, shifts, transactions and block payouts. Now you can browse historic events since the beginning of the pool.
• Filter block list by coin type. Default is to show only bitcoins. Many users felt namecoins were just in the way.
• Nicer looking error and info messages.
• Added "bitminter.com" on avatar images.
• Added one-time donations to make it possible to donate from your existing balance. Now there are one-time manual donations from your balance and repeated automatic donations from your income.
• Big livestats: rearrangeable page. Drag and drop to move things around.
• Livestats: set new gauge max value if old max is reached. No more stuck at 300 Ghps.
• Livestats: don't extrapolate rejected proofs of work. Stales come in groups at each block change - it didn't really make much sense to extrapolate between updates.

Don't forget to join BitMinter groups on your favorite social sites:

• Google+: https://plus.google.com/107253423193517853418 (shortcut: http://bitminter.com/+)
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BitMinter
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/BitMinter
• Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bitminter

[shmadz]

Kudos DrHaribo, very nice gui for your miner!

more importantly, very nice numbers for the new 7970 cards. I never did figure out how to get diablo going, and just couldn't seem to get the flags right in guiminer, so my cards have been running at only 80% for the last few weeks (months?) -- I self-rationalized that it was acceptable, kind of like a "burn-in" process, lol

recent snow storm/power failure gave me an excuse to try something new, and your miner took my cards from about 460 to roughly 580 mhps, in just a couple clicks of the mouse.

I'm so happy right now best, snow-day, ever!


**EDIT** ok, enough praise and brown-nosing  Live stats page is nice and all, but you need to exclude the namecoin from the "Latest Blocks" section, it's depressing when it's all NC and no BTC