[ANN][Pool][Profit-Switch][Optional Auto-Exchange per Coin][Vardiff] ~ Hashcows

[barabashko]

Why ther eis no DOGE on hascows?

[Tempered81]

I have a pending cashout on Hashcows for 16 Hours now.  It says normally takes 30 minutes?  Somethings wrong    Sent an email to their support

[AbiTxGroup]

I apologize for my newb ways, but I am trying to nail down some "facts" about this pool since I started trying it out only yesterday.  I'm connected and things are humming along but sometimes it fails and jumps to one of my backup pools.  I manually switch it back to Hashcows and it keeps on trucking.

I read on this forum that there's some question about Hashcows requiring an "older version" of CGMiner to prevent failovers, yet I couldn't find specifics in a search or in the FAQs.  Is this true, and, if so, what version should I be using (and why?)

For calculating profitability (whether or not I should stick with the pool) I am reading in this forum that 24 hours is not enough time; I need to wait for 72 hours due to a delay in auto-selling alt coins.  Again, I can't find confirmation, nor do I see this in the FAQs.  Is it true?

As far as The Hack, is there an official response post somewhere about it?  I searched and, yes, you guessed it, couldn't find anything but general conversation.  I understand I totally suck at searching, but please help me out and point me in the right direction.  I'll even happily accept a "RTFM" response as long as you point me to the URL where TFM is located!

Is there a page (or sticky post) somewhere that details what upcoming features are being worked on?  Many posters seem to want a visible accounting system, which I would like as well.  It's tough to determine how I'm doing with just a single number up there and no way to determine the time span during which that number came to be.

Thanks again, and my apologies if these answers are all out there and I just fail at searching!

On your cgminer startup, try adding "--failover-only" to it.  This helped with my miners.

In the cgminer readme.txt, the above option shows the following info:

--failover-only     Don't leak work to backup pools when primary pool is lagging

Q: Work keeps going to my backup pool even though my primary pool hasn't
failed?
A: Cgminer checks for conditions where the primary pool is lagging and will
pass some work to the backup servers under those conditions. The reason for
doing this is to try its absolute best to keep the devices working on something
useful and not risk idle periods. You can disable this behaviour with the
option --failover-only.

[Anubite]

10 minute EAC rounds? At this difficulty and hashrate, 10 minutes is nearly the average block time per gh/s lately...

Sad to say, but it looks like I'm going to make .025 btc at MC for the 21st, @1mh/s

If balances are fixed, I would like to call together a pool party to get the pool hashrate here higher for a few days, see if profits level out.

[dsgx1]

10 minute EAC rounds? At this difficulty and hashrate, 10 minutes is nearly the average block time per gh/s lately...

Sad to say, but it looks like I'm going to make .025 btc at MC for the 21st, @1mh/s

If balances are fixed, I would like to call together a pool party to get the pool hashrate here higher for a few days, see if profits level out.

That sounds good. I am noticing my profits level slowly coming back. With more hash power I think things will get back to normal.

[Sovietaced]

Why mining EAC? It's the least profitable alt coin right now...

[aTriz]

Why mining EAC? It's the least profitable alt coin right now...

I highly doubt that

EAC is on a 5x payout reward right now. It's pretty profitable for us.

[LTCer]

Hi guys, I'm new to the pool and just had a quick question as I couldn't find the answer anywhere.

I've been mining for about 9 hours so far and under my balances both in the Statistics page and in the User Info > Balances and Cashout page all say 0

How long does it take for coins to start accumulating in my account? Even if it's just 0.00000001 - I'd like to see it. Even on middlecoin it lets me see that I'm actually making some coins.

[bitbob82]

Hi

I got current balance 0.005

I press "proceed to cash out" -> tick the cash out button, press "cash out"

then it appear under the "currently pending cashout"

after 1 hour i come back and check, the "currently pending cashout" is gone, current balance become 0, but my wallet have not receiving the coin


do I have to wait another few hours or system got error?

[bitbob82]

Hi

I got current balance 0.005

I press "proceed to cash out" -> tick the cash out button, press "cash out"

then it appear under the "currently pending cashout"

after 1 hour i come back and check, the "currently pending cashout" is gone, current balance become 0, but my wallet have not receiving the coin


do I have to wait another few hours or system got error?

ahhh, nvm, the balance appear in my wallet now, I should be more patient

[MoDu]

A little heads up for the Cows, it seems the atack vector used on the hack has also been used in other pools, such as Give-Me-Coins.

[g0re79]

A little heads up for the Cows, it seems the atack vector used on the hack has also been used in other pools, such as Give-Me-Coins.

My LTC adress there is blank, but they did not give a shit about my LTC balance (forgotten 0.03 LTC)

[bitlynx]

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I'm connected and things are humming along but sometimes it fails and jumps to one of my backup pools.  I manually switch it back to Hashcows and it keeps on trucking.

I read on this forum that there's some question about Hashcows requiring an "older version" of CGMiner to prevent failovers, yet I couldn't find specifics in a search or in the FAQs.  Is this true, and, if so, what version should I be using (and why?)
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On your cgminer startup, try adding "--failover-only" to it.  This helped with my miners.

In the cgminer readme.txt, the above option shows the following info:

--failover-only     Don't leak work to backup pools when primary pool is lagging

</snip>

Thanks, AbiTxGroup!  Just enabled that and we'll see how it goes.  Definitely seems touchy.

Anyone have any answers to the following:

For calculating profitability (whether or not I should stick with the pool) I am reading in this forum that 24 hours is not enough time; I need to wait for 72 hours due to a delay in auto-selling alt coins.  Again, I can't find confirmation, nor do I see this in the FAQs.  Is it true?

As far as The Hack, is there an official response post somewhere about it?  I searched and, yes, you guessed it, couldn't find anything but general conversation.  I understand I totally suck at searching, but please help me out and point me in the right direction.  I'll even happily accept a "RTFM" response as long as you point me to the URL where TFM is located!

Is there a page (or sticky post) somewhere that details what upcoming features are being worked on?  Many posters seem to want a visible accounting system, which I would like as well.  It's tough to determine how I'm doing with just a single number up there and no way to determine the time span during which that number came to be.

Thanks again, and my apologies if these answers are all out there and I just fail at searching!

[Tempered81]

Now Hashcows has 2nd failed cashout attempt which has been pending for almost 48 hours... wtf   Hashcow's Email Support team has not replied to my email yet

Whats the deal?  Why does the website say 30 minutes if it takes 3 days.

[barabashko]

24hours, 8700khs
0.0527 btc

im out of here

[procrypto]

News update from nearmiss - https://hashco.ws/news/ - Addresses one or two of the concerns posted here in recent days.

im out of here

24 hours isn't really long enough to pass judgement due to the way coins are traded, for example, a bumper EAC round mined yesterday didn't get traded until today, after the daily payout had been made last night.

For a much fairer and more balanced test, check out http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoinmining/comments/1vqlhz/mchc_test_results_results_hashcows_vs/ if you haven't already.

TL;DR - there isn't much difference between the two best coin switching pools.

[AbiTxGroup]

With the trading market changing so much day-to-day, its hard to compare a couple of multicoin pools with each other unless you mine both at the same time with the same hash rate.  I tried mining a week at each but with the market swinging up and down you cannot compare properly.

Then I had an idea.  I ran a couple of 7950's on both pools for a week at the same time, meaning, two instances of cgminer using two different pairs of 7950's.  At the end of the week I now had mining info from both multicoin pools during the same market period.

From the results that I had, I still mine both pools but with specific hardware for each pool, mainly due to the difference of difficulty settings the pools use.  Both pools are also used in the miner startups as each others backup pool.

None of these pools force you to use them, you get to pick the one you want to use.  If you dont like one, then use another, no one is forcing you to use a pool you do not like. 

[barabashko]

News update from nearmiss - [Suspicious link removed]/news/ - Addresses one or two of the concerns posted here in recent days.

im out of here

24 hours isn't really long enough to pass judgement due to the way coins are traded, for example, a bumper EAC round mined yesterday didn't get traded until today, after the daily payout had been made last night.

For a much fairer and more balanced test, check out http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoinmining/comments/1vqlhz/mchc_test_results_results_hashcows_vs/ if you haven't already.

TL;DR - there isn't much difference between the two best coin switching pools.

I think balance page tells me everything i need, right? I have another multipool account which give me same valut but with 3700khs for 12 hours.
Ofcourse i will wait this magic 72hrs but i dont think it will give something new to number i gave.

[aTriz]

News update from nearmiss - [Suspicious link removed]/news/ - Addresses one or two of the concerns posted here in recent days.

im out of here

24 hours isn't really long enough to pass judgement due to the way coins are traded, for example, a bumper EAC round mined yesterday didn't get traded until today, after the daily payout had been made last night.

For a much fairer and more balanced test, check out http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoinmining/comments/1vqlhz/mchc_test_results_results_hashcows_vs/ if you haven't already.

TL;DR - there isn't much difference between the two best coin switching pools.

I think balance page tells me everything i need, right? I have another multipool account which give me same valut but with 3700khs for 12 hours.
Ofcourse i will wait this magic 72hrs but i dont think it will give something new to number i gave.

Well considering there was at least a 3 hour EAC round not traded to last night payments you will get some more today.

[barabashko]

but balance page says everything, right? what coins are traded which is not. I think i count them all.