[ANN][TAG] TAGMining.Com is now the official pool of Tagcoin!

[ny2cafuse]

Welcome aboard Frank!  Enjoy your stay with us

Johndec - I can't put that on the site lol.  I can do the fully clothed pinup style of WW2 though.  Keep it classy lol.

24Kil0 - Good idea on the Library of Congress.  Let me know what you find.

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[ny2cafuse]

Registrations for Tagmining.com have been closed.  It will remain closed until there is a better spread of hashrate in the Tagcoin network.  I will also be increasing the pool's fees to 2% to encourage miners to spread the hashrate around.

Do not take this as me telling people to leave, but please be smart with keeping the network healthy.

-Fuse

[Dabs]

Dang, I was just about to sign up. (I don't have any miners yet, just my CPU.)

[ny2cafuse]

Dang, I was just about to sign up. (I don't have any miners yet, just my CPU.)

Dabs, give me a day or two to sort some things out and I'll shoot you an invite.

Can someone calculate the global rate right now... what is the cutoff we should be at?

[johndec2]

Can someone calculate the global rate right now... what is the cutoff we should be at?

According to a post by Dabs in the ANN thread if you multiply the diff by 17895 it should give a good approximation of the global hashrate.  As I type the diff is 54.46 which gives a global hashrate of 974MH/s.  Tagmining.com is running at 208MH/s so roughly 21%.

[johndec2]

Got a random suggestion.  When looking at pool stats it only shows the top 15 hashers (plus me if I'm not in the top 15).  I believe that is the MPOS default but can be changed either by the pool op or a tab on the page.  On the odd occasions when anonymous from China doesn't find a block it would be nice to see how active the miner that did find the block actually is.  Not a biggie I know but sometimes it's nice to see what the little guy was hashing to jag a block.

[vesperwillow]

If we know that multiplier is fairly accurate, it wouldn't take much php (or whatever code MPOS uses) to spit out an approximate network hash rate on the dashboard.

[vesperwillow]

If Viperbass doesn't already have an account on tagmining, we should invite him.

[ny2cafuse]

After deliberations with the council, I have opened the registrations back up.  I will be working on the invitation system this week between Xmas parties.  If the pool's hashrate gets too big for the my comfort, I'll close registrations again, and we will go on a invite only system.

Good news is that the pool can handle 350MH+, so woot to us!

[vesperwillow]

I looked at the MPOS source code and I'm fairly sure you can easily put in that special multiplier, so MPOS generates a network hashrate. In fact it should just be 1 line of code on one of the php include files.

Here's something I tossed together which scrapes the difficulty from tagmining.com and then calculates network rate based on that multiplier: http://dragonbunkers.com/networkrate.php

The website isn't mine, I just parked my file there as it's my buddy's website and I run the server, and he's not using his website right now.. haha

[ny2cafuse]

I looked at the MPOS source code and I'm fairly sure you can easily put in that special multiplier, so MPOS generates a network hashrate. In fact it should just be 1 line of code on one of the php include files.

Here's something I tossed together which scrapes the difficulty from tagmining.com and then calculates network rate based on that multiplier: http://dragonbunkers.com/networkrate.php

The website isn't mine, I just parked my file there as it's my buddy's website and I run the server, and he's not using his website right now.. haha

NICE!  I'll work on adding it to the site later today.

I'm currently trying to get a dual-x 280x working on my main rig, and it's artifacting.  Like single pixels all over.  It's really annoying.  I'm going to try a different driver, and see if that helps.  I really don't want to have to send back another item from the last order 

Also, I will probably be posting a WTS on my (x2) gigabyte WF3 7950s, with original boxes and cables.  I get 640kh per card.  Not sure what they're worth around these parts, but retail is redonkulously high right now.  I'd take offers here first if anyone wanted them.  TAG & BTC preferred.  Pics on request.

[vesperwillow]

NICE!  I'll work on adding it to the site later today.

Just looking at the code, I'm not sure how to make the graphical widget appear (i'm guessing that's in a config or something), but to make it calculate on the dashboard page, this should work. No guarantees since I don't run the code, this is just going off of what's on the github.. edit public/include/pages/dashboard.inc.php and find where it polls for the network statistics (lines 13-21 on my screen). This is the code to look for:

$aRoundShares = $statistics->getRoundShares(); 
$dDifficulty = 1; 
$dNetworkHashrate = 1; 
$iBlock = 0; 
if ($bitcoin->can_connect() === true) {   
$dDifficulty = $bitcoin->getdifficulty();   
$dNetworkHashrate = $bitcoin->getnetworkhashps();   
$iBlock = $bitcoin->getblockcount(); 
}

Below that add this:

// 2013-dec-23 - (begin) manual TAG network calculation: (difficulty * dabs' multiplier 17895)
if ($dNetworkHashrate <= 1) {
$dNetworkHashrate=$dDifficulty*17895;
} else {
//do nothing
}
// 2013-dec-23 - (end)

Again.. totally just doing this blind, but as long as the graphical widget is enabled (which it doesn't appear to be now), that should let us see network rate on the dashboard.

By placing the multiplier in the actual getnetworkhashps function, we could eliminate having to put that block of code in pages, and it should propogate globally.

I'm currently trying to get a dual-x 280x working on my main rig, and it's artifacting.  Like single pixels all over.  It's really annoying.  I'm going to try a different driver, and see if that helps.  I really don't want to have to send back another item from the last order 

Also, I will probably be posting a WTS on my (x2) gigabyte WF3 7950s, with original boxes and cables.  I get 640kh per card.  Not sure what they're worth around these parts, but retail is redonkulously high right now.  I'd take offers here first if anyone wanted them.  TAG & BTC preferred.  Pics on request.

Oh that blows, artifacting is never good. How old are these? What are your settings? Can it hash without artifacting? Any HW errors? I'd be interested.. but not for a premium price lol

[ny2cafuse]

+1 to the code.  I'll do it as soon as I get this card squared away.

Oh that blows, artifacting is never good. How old are these? What are your settings? Can it hash without artifacting? Any HW errors? I'd be interested.. but not for a premium price lol

The 280X is fresh out of the box.  It hashes fine, no hardware errors, no other issues at all other than the random single pixel artifacts..  This happened with one of my 7950s when I first bought it.  I had to roll with the beta drivers at the time and it resolved the issues.  I'm hoping it's a driver issue, as everything else, even gaming, works fine.  In fact, you almost can't notice it if you're not paying attention.

Edit- definitely a driver issue.  Uninstalling the driver to do a roll back install stopped the artifacting completely.  Now I just need to find a working driver.

Shoot me an offer on the 7950s in PM.  I'd rather sell them here in the states and save on the shipping.  PM with pictures incoming.

[24Kilo]

Fuse,

My pair of Dual-X's would artifact as well, seems to be something to do with the design of the card, hardware, firmware, software... not sure... but the Dual-X's hash like a punk on speed and do not like to stop hashing for anything else. All my other cards will respond quickly and slow the hash-rate as soon as I start using the computer for anything other than mining, but once the Dual-X's get on hash, it almost takes brute force to get them to consider doing anything else, thus significant artifacting even when just running a web browser.

If I was in the USA, I would buy your 7950's, but not worth shipping to Australia.

[ny2cafuse]

Fuse,

My pair of Dual-X's would artifact as well, seems to be something to do with the design of the card, hardware, firmware, software... not sure... but the Dual-X's hash like a punk on speed and do not like to stop hashing for anything else. All my other cards will respond quickly and slow the hash-rate as soon as I start using the computer for anything other than mining, but once the Dual-X's get on hash, it almost takes brute force to get them to consider doing anything else, thus significant artifacting even when just running a web browser.

If I was in the USA, I would buy your 7950's, but not worth shipping to Australia.

Good to hear I'm not the only one.  I might swap this one for one of the toxics I have in my dad's rig then.  This is my day to day rig, and this artifacting will start to wear on me after a while.  I can wait until they sort it out in the drivers.

I hear you on the shipping.  The world needs teleporters, stat!

[ny2cafuse]

NICE!  I'll work on adding it to the site later today.

Just looking at the code, I'm not sure how to make the graphical widget appear (i'm guessing that's in a config or something), but to make it calculate on the dashboard page, this should work. No guarantees since I don't run the code, this is just going off of what's on the github.. edit public/include/pages/dashboard.inc.php and find where it polls for the network statistics (lines 13-21 on my screen). This is the code to look for:

$aRoundShares = $statistics->getRoundShares(); 
$dDifficulty = 1; 
$dNetworkHashrate = 1; 
$iBlock = 0; 
if ($bitcoin->can_connect() === true) {   
$dDifficulty = $bitcoin->getdifficulty();   
$dNetworkHashrate = $bitcoin->getnetworkhashps();   
$iBlock = $bitcoin->getblockcount(); 
}

Below that add this:

// 2013-dec-23 - (begin) manual TAG network calculation: (difficulty * dabs' multiplier 17895)
if ($dNetworkHashrate <= 1) {
$dNetworkHashrate=$dDifficulty*17895;
} else {
//do nothing
}
// 2013-dec-23 - (end)

Again.. totally just doing this blind, but as long as the graphical widget is enabled (which it doesn't appear to be now), that should let us see network rate on the dashboard.

By placing the multiplier in the actual getnetworkhashps function, we could eliminate having to put that block of code in pages, and it should propogate globally.

So I played around with this a little tonight, and it's not as simple as adding the code snippet you provided.  The radial graph is called by javascript and references a predefined tagcoind variable.  I'm thinking that we should probably just push for Mark to fix the variable call in Tagcoind.  Then it would just work everywhere out of the box for everyone.

[vesperwillow]

I bet I could make it work if I had the code.. haha.. well not a bad shot for doing it blind. It's being pushed via the templates likely, I didn't browse through those much.

[vesperwillow]

Fuse, how much bandwidth/month is your pool server using?

[ny2cafuse]

Fuse, how much bandwidth/month is your pool server using?

To be honest, I don't know.  My provider doesn't give me a total usage number.  Instead they give me a chart that graphs the upload/download figures.  It's not enough to go over the 2-3TB allowance they give me though.  I can put in a support ticket to find out if you'd really like to know.  I think they'll provide the info if I ask.

[vesperwillow]

Fuse, how much bandwidth/month is your pool server using?

To be honest, I don't know.  My provider doesn't give me a total usage number.  Instead they give me a chart that graphs the upload/download figures.  It's not enough to go over the 2-3TB allowance they give me though.  I can put in a support ticket to find out if you'd really like to know.  I think they'll provide the info if I ask.

No need to inquire, I appreciate it. Was just getting a feel for it. Keep pondering the idea of throwing a pool on one of my offiste servers just for the heck of it and was getting an idea of bandwidth usage.