[ANN] TagCoin - Multi Token Wallet and Trading Platform

[24Kilo]

Feel free to kickstart http://tag.cryptopool.it/ with all that hashing power

I dedicated 2Mh/s for about 48hrs and got nothing... for most of the time it was only me(tagging) and you... just can't afford to run miners with no return, even with a supposed reward of 18TAG if we ever found the block... just checked on the pool and I still have an 17.5 TAG reward if there is ever another block found, in the end it cost me about 50TAG or so. It is hard to get a pool up and running, went through that with Fuse over at TAGMining, we had some long, long stretches but with block finder rewards and etc, it evened out in the end and we got the pool off the ground.

If you are serious about the pool, start a thread, offer rewards and be prepared to work hard and take good care of your miners. We need another good TAG pool.

[ny2cafuse]

If you are serious about the pool, start a thread, offer rewards and be prepared to work hard and take good care of your miners. We need another good TAG pool.

Amen to that.

LeftToeCut, if it wasn't for me going out of pocket on rewards at the beginning and devoting 100% of my free time to making it work, I wouldn't have a pool right now.  You're in a good position right now, as the established pools have all scaled back block rewards and such.  I'm running a jackpot, but thankfully it's all fee and donation funded now.  So invest in some TAG and offer a block reward or special block rewards, and you'll pull some miners looking to capitalize on earning a little more for their time.  Once you get to your first week of 10MH+, things will slowly build from there.

In this pool op game, you need to spend a lot to make a little.  Once you get established, it will all even out in the end.  At least that's what I'm learning from this whole experience.

If you ever need any help with anything, PM me.

-Fuse

[ny2cafuse]

@24Kilo & ny2cafuse Always nice to see a friendly advice from a fellow pool owners and miners Thanks!

It is hard to get a pool off the ground when the difficulty shoots up. I will lower the fee to 0% for a while and transfer some of my own Tagcoin for a bonus fund, will see if that draws some hashing power my way.

NP, mate!

Just throwing this out there... another idea would be to take the Tag you put into it, and use the PPS payout system.  I believe there's only one PPS pool ATM, so that alone would be a draw.  However, you need to do your math on how much to payout on the shares, or you might end up in the hole.  But I'm not as versed in PPS as some others, so maybe someone else could offer some advice.  But again, just a thought.

I wish you the best of luck though, mate.

[Dabs]

I'm already running a couple cards and they are quiet.. - Dabs, you are welcome to come visit again and check it out, but will post pictures...

Can I buy some? I'll pay for it, but you keep it there. (like hosted mining shares.) Hopefully I have some extra money by the end of the year, and I can buy a bunch too and you can include those in your other office in India.

[tagbond]

I am just in the process of restructuring the block explorer, so it runs on tagcoin server and makes better use of existing resources, so it will be down for a short while..maybe an hour depending on propogation of dns...

EDIT: Up again now.

Next step is to make it part of the tagcoin website, make it look pretty, and add some functionality to it like enabling address searching.

[aleksand]

http://haliforex.com/tag/marketquertagbtc.php
http://haliforex.com/tag/marketquertagusd.php

found bugs
http://data3.floomby.com/files/share/14_12_2013/smrPMUGq9kqAjC5rhRwufg.jpg
http://data3.floomby.com/files/share/14_12_2013/79Mbdq2WG0286LNjohcxA.jpg

[tagbond]

yes, we didn't create that, but we will have to do something similar on our tagcoin site..:-) - We all use it every day...gets to be addictive viewing sometimes..

[ny2cafuse]

yes, we didn't create that, but we will have to do something similar on our tagcoin site..:-) - We all use it every day...gets to be addictive viewing sometimes..

Am I just blind and not seeing it anywhere?  Link?

Edit- Also, the Tagcoin.Org site is listing a couple mining pools that aren't really working anymore.  It might be easier to give a quick video on how mining works(like the other Tagbond/Tagcoin videos), and then give a link to the ANN post of this thread for a list of pools.  The pools will probably change a lot as time goes on, so it would just be easier to update it once in this thread and reference it on that page.  Just a thought.

[vesperwillow]

What if the website had a dynamically-updated list of pools, showing which were online? Just off the cuff I'm thinking there'd need to be an account/worker for each pool, then a daemon on the website could poll a certain frequency to make sure it can connect, and show online/offline. If offline for X amount of time, it would drop down the list into the 'offline' section.

Or something.

[ahmed_bodi]

dont forget tag.cryptopools.com PPS pool is still alive and kicking!

to the pool op whos new. The best advice i can give is.
1) Use a method to make your pool stand out. (theme, payout system/bonus which even an idiot wouldnt do haha)
2) Try and answer any support requests as fast as possible and if needed give a few coins away as a goodwill gesture to unhappy miners
3) Think like a miner not like a pool OP. how would you want the pool to run if you were a miner ?

[ahmed_bodi]

What if the website had a dynamically-updated list of pools, showing which were online? Just off the cuff I'm thinking there'd need to be an account/worker for each pool, then a daemon on the website could poll a certain frequency to make sure it can connect, and show online/offline. If offline for X amount of time, it would drop down the list into the 'offline' section.
Or something.

i used to have that on my site. its as easy as signing up to uptimerobot. entering the url/port for each pool then fetching it with php on the site

[aleksand]

Is it possible to change points to tagcoins?

[ny2cafuse]

What if the website had a dynamically-updated list of pools, showing which were online? Just off the cuff I'm thinking there'd need to be an account/worker for each pool, then a daemon on the website could poll a certain frequency to make sure it can connect, and show online/offline. If offline for X amount of time, it would drop down the list into the 'offline' section.
Or something.

i used to have that on my site. its as easy as signing up to uptimerobot. entering the url/port for each pool then fetching it with php on the site

Mark, maybe this is the answer.  The only issue I see with uptimerobot though is the fact that a front-end might be up and showing up with uptime robot, but the backend might be down and the pool isn't mining.  That's why I use to uptime stats on my pool- one for the website and one for stratum.  A pool worker would supply a API JSON string that you could use to do a getdashboarddata or getpoolhashrate query.  The hashrate stat would quickly show what pools are mining and which ones are dead.

[centurion76]

@Tagbond,

I just checked your forum feed on TagYak and it looks like your forum (forums.tagbond.com) is getting hit with a pretty massive deluge of spam at the moment (9+ pages). I thought everyone might be off for the weekend, and didn't know if you had seen it, and wanted to give you a heads-up.

[tagbond]

I will look into seeing a way to add in mining pools, so that anyone can enter their own mining pool, but if there was no hashrate coming back from a query the it won't show. I can do a cron to check every few hours, or once a day.

The explorer is at http://explorer.tagcoin.org - I did have it on a large instance but I dropped it to a small instance, since the coin daemon and mysql dbs are on different machines. Forgot to give IP access for a few hours to the new machine (when instance changed the IP changed), so that was why it wasn't updated. It should be fine now - I don't imagine it gets that much traffic where it has to sit on a bigger server..

As for points converting to TAG, no that is not something we offer. Points are given out by a community/business and they decide if they want to convert them to something else, be it TAG, another crypto currency or chickens.. Points are worth whatever the business decides.

[vesperwillow]

Mark, maybe this is the answer.  The only issue I see with uptimerobot though is the fact that a front-end might be up and showing up with uptime robot, but the backend might be down and the pool isn't mining.  That's why I use to uptime stats on my pool- one for the website and one for stratum.  A pool worker would supply a API JSON string that you could use to do a getdashboarddata or getpoolhashrate query.  The hashrate stat would quickly show what pools are mining and which ones are dead.

Yeah that's why with how I was thinking, the backend is what gets checked to make sure you can connect and hash. Presumably, if a worker can connect, the backend is up.

[ahmed_bodi]

What if the website had a dynamically-updated list of pools, showing which were online? Just off the cuff I'm thinking there'd need to be an account/worker for each pool, then a daemon on the website could poll a certain frequency to make sure it can connect, and show online/offline. If offline for X amount of time, it would drop down the list into the 'offline' section.
Or something.

i always set it to monitor the port so that should be done then

i used to have that on my site. its as easy as signing up to uptimerobot. entering the url/port for each pool then fetching it with php on the site

Mark, maybe this is the answer.  The only issue I see with uptimerobot though is the fact that a front-end might be up and showing up with uptime robot, but the backend might be down and the pool isn't mining.  That's why I use to uptime stats on my pool- one for the website and one for stratum.  A pool worker would supply a API JSON string that you could use to do a getdashboarddata or getpoolhashrate query.  The hashrate stat would quickly show what pools are mining and which ones are dead.

[aleksand]

Why the price of tagcoins down?

[Don007]

I don't know. Looks like there isn't as much demand as it was before. I don't bother, 0,0013 BTC for each TAG is really a bargain. I've bought many again ^^.

[aleksand]

I don't know. Looks like there isn't as much demand as it was before. I don't bother, 0,0013 BTC for each TAG is really a bargain. I've bought many again ^^.

yeah, I think the price will up again) That's why I hold all my coins and think to buy else)