[ANN][CSC] CasinoCoin - Pool Discussion. UPDATE to V 1.2.x May 19th 2014

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CSC.DEDICATEDPOOL.COM

Benefits of Mining on DEDICATEDPOOL.COM

• Backups every 30 minutes of the databases and wallets to protect your mining endeavours.
• Full 24/7 support available at admin@dedicatedpool.com
• Mine interrupted - dedicated servers w/redundancy, DDoS protection.
• Trustworthy admins who care about your experience and mining.

Mining Information

• Custom stratum/mpos environment
• Vardiff enabled
• PPNLS payout system
• Everything is transparent - blocks, donations, fees.

Server Infrastructure

• Redundant servers in different datalocations
• DDoS protection at switch level
• 8 Core servers, 256GB DDR3 RAM, RAID 10 SSD
• Ramdisks, memcaches, to make things go extremely quick

The Future

• Implementing a full ticketing system
• Phone and SMS support.. yes phone! Call and talk to someone real.
• More servers, more power, more scalability.

I hope you take the time to come give us a try and find out why we are different than every other pool out there.  There are some great pools in casinocoin, I have to admit, but we are different because we treat your mining like a business with full 24/7 email support, support on IRC, and soon to come SMS, and telephone support as well.

If you have any suggestions or comments please let us know admin@dedicatedpool.com and we'd be happy to respond.

[CartmanSPC]

All Casinocoin P2Pool operators should update to the latest version at https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool

SHARE_PERIOD was lowered from 15 to 5 and TARGET_LOOKBEHIND from 200 to 60

The lower share period should allow more shares to be available to miners. The lower target lookbehind should allow the pool to adjust difficulty based on hash rate faster.

gururise and Rav3nPL worked on the new settings to better optimize the pool...Thanks goes out to them!

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Just as a reminder P2Pool is decentralized so if one node gets taken down the rest are not affected. There are no accounts or coins stored by the pool. No confirmations to wait for....your coins are sent to you as soon as a block is found. Every block found is simultaneously announced across all the wallets in the P2Pool so there are less orphans encountered.

The source code is freely available for you to start your own P2Pool node that you can keep private for your personal mining needs. You wont need to trust any pool operators or their ability to keep the pool running.

I believe P2Pool is beneficial to maintain the security of the blockchain.

[CasinoCoiner]

All Casinocoin P2Pool operators should update to the latest version at https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool

Looks pretty broken: https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool/blob/master/p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py#L292 also line 313 and 334

[CartmanSPC]

All Casinocoin P2Pool operators should update to the latest version at https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool

Looks pretty broken: https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool/blob/master/p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py#L292 also line 313 and 334

LOL, those were merged by request (BBQCoin, franko, Dodgecoin). They were not written by me so use at your own risk
I suppose I should only have the coins I wrote/confirmed be included?

As a bonus for miners I added a nice graphic to the graph...looks beautiful if you ask me:

http://csc.xpool.net:8840/static/stats.html

[murderouskirk]

Quick update, it seems the list needs a bit of updating.

Coinarmy has closed to the pubic due to repeated hacks, and should probably be removed from the list.



Moowh has still remained empty, and I haven't personally seen much news from the pool owner. I'm not sure if it's being maintained or not. I think his focus has shifted to other coins. I don't know if this is cause for removal from the list, but we should probably discuss it. Would be good to hear from the pool owner.

Just as a reminder P2Pool is decentralized so if one node gets taken down the rest are not affected. There are no accounts or coins stored by the pool. No confirmations to wait for....your coins are sent to you as soon as a block is found. Every block found is simultaneously announced across all the wallets in the P2Pool so there are less orphans encountered.

The source code is freely available for you to start your own P2Pool node that you can keep private for your personal mining needs. You wont need to trust any pool operators or their ability to keep the pool running.

I believe P2Pool is beneficial to maintain the security of the blockchain.

I do really like the idea of p2pool pools, the only issue I have with them is that in my experience smaller miners do not get paid anything. I do realize this may have just been from when the p2pool was overloaded and needed more nodes, but it may be worth running some tests to make sure everyone including small miners gets their fair coin now. (I did get plenty of coin from you pool as a small miner before it got overloaded.) Really not trying to bash on your pool here I mean no offense, you've always done a solid and respectable job, and I think p2pools are a necessity as the mpos architecture sometimes blows up. Just might be something to dig into and research a bit to further stabilize the CSC mining community. Would make me more comfortable with MooPool knowing that if all of MPOS goes down the p2pool nodes can handle the load. Keep up the good work, glad you're a part of the CSC mining community.

[CartmanSPC]

I do really like the idea of p2pool pools, the only issue I have with them is that in my experience smaller miners do not get paid anything. I do realize this may have just been from when the p2pool was overloaded and needed more nodes, but it may be worth running some tests to make sure everyone including small miners gets their fair coin now. (I did get plenty of coin from you pool as a small miner before it got overloaded.) Really not trying to bash on your pool here I mean no offense, you've always done a solid and respectable job, and I think p2pools are a necessity as the mpos architecture sometimes blows up. Just might be something to dig into and research a bit to further stabilize the CSC mining community. Would make me more comfortable with MooPool knowing that if all of MPOS goes down the p2pool nodes can handle the load. Keep up the good work, glad you're a part of the CSC mining community.

Thanks murderouskirk! It is a thankless job but just a little appreciation goes a long way

The Casinocoin p2pool specs were recently changed (thanks gururise and Rav3nPL) and I think the changes will help smaller miners. There are a few drawbacks to p2pool and being a smaller miner on a node with larger miners is one of them.

Before the Casinocoin p2pool was giving out shares every 15 seconds. This has been reduced to 5 seconds. This 3 fold increase in shares I believe may help more miners get shares more often. In other words, there is now 3x the chance that you get a share for payment. Once you do get a share we have the p2pool set to keep paying you for the next 60 blocks even if you don't get any more shares during that time.

Also, the amount of time for the p2pool to determine the share difficulty has been reduced from 200 to 60 shares. In theory this is suppose to allow the pool to adjust the share difficulty faster. I am not familiar with this setting so I am relying on other experience with this.

Please provide feedback as we are willing to keep changing the specs to best support the coin. I personally would like to see the DOA rate decreased.

P2Pools are difficult for miners. The mining console does not look as nice with the constant request for restarts. I understand that a lot of miners like non-p2pool's because of the ease of mining and web interface...have been thinking about opening up some other types of pools but it is nice not having any responsibility for people's coins or concerns about accounts being hacked. Also, although I hear it is better these days...push pools are known to be unreliable to operate.

[amarian12]

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[ANN] [P2POOL] [LTC] [DGC] [WDC] [CRC] [CSC] [DOGE] e-pool.net
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Introducing..  Casinocoin Pool

     stratum+tcp://csc.e-pool.net:8840

For getwork clients replace stratum+tcp:// with http://

No registration required. Just join, mine and get paid.

     cgminer -o stratum+tcp://csc.e-pool.net:8840 -u YourWalletAddress -p anypassword --scrypt --queue 0 --scan-time 5 --expiry 10

Currently in a very early phase, so results may vary. Also suport for LTC, DGC, WDC, CRC, DOGE visit : http://e-pool.net for info!

Thanks!

[murderouskirk]

I do really like the idea of p2pool pools, the only issue I have with them is that in my experience smaller miners do not get paid anything. I do realize this may have just been from when the p2pool was overloaded and needed more nodes, but it may be worth running some tests to make sure everyone including small miners gets their fair coin now. (I did get plenty of coin from you pool as a small miner before it got overloaded.) Really not trying to bash on your pool here I mean no offense, you've always done a solid and respectable job, and I think p2pools are a necessity as the mpos architecture sometimes blows up. Just might be something to dig into and research a bit to further stabilize the CSC mining community. Would make me more comfortable with MooPool knowing that if all of MPOS goes down the p2pool nodes can handle the load. Keep up the good work, glad you're a part of the CSC mining community.

Thanks murderouskirk! It is a thankless job but just a little appreciation goes a long way

The Casinocoin p2pool specs were recently changed (thanks gururise and Rav3nPL) and I think the changes will help smaller miners. There are a few drawbacks to p2pool and being a smaller miner on a node with larger miners is one of them.

Before the Casinocoin p2pool was giving out shares every 15 seconds. This has been reduced to 5 seconds. This 3 fold increase in shares I believe may help more miners get shares more often. In other words, there is now 3x the chance that you get a share for payment. Once you do get a share we have the p2pool set to keep paying you for the next 60 blocks even if you don't get any more shares during that time.

Also, the amount of time for the p2pool to determine the share difficulty has been reduced from 200 to 60 shares. In theory this is suppose to allow the pool to adjust the share difficulty faster. I am not familiar with this setting so I am relying on other experience with this.

Please provide feedback as we are willing to keep changing the specs to best support the coin. I personally would like to see the DOA rate decreased.

P2Pools are difficult for miners. The mining console does not look as nice with the constant request for restarts. I understand that a lot of miners like non-p2pool's because of the ease of mining and web interface...have been thinking about opening up some other types of pools but it is nice not having any responsibility for people's coins or concerns about accounts being hacked. Also, although I hear it is better these days...push pools are known to be unreliable to operate.

Glad to hear you're making progress with P2Pools! We've got a lot in store for our custom push pool and we're hoping to make it a lot more reliable than the current standard. While the open source MPOS platform is nice, it seems to require some hotfixes right out of the gate. Fortunately we've been able to catch and fix most of these before they caused any kind of a problem. Definitely keeps us on our toes though. Will be nice to have our own reliable platform to work with. Any advances is pool operations currently mining CasinoCoin would definitely help out the coin as a whole. Glad to hear advancements are being made all around.

[murderouskirk]

MooPool.com Has decided to drop all taxes to 0% in every pool!

Custom Platform Projected Launch Date: January 20th

~Planned Feature List~

Referral Program! - Users can earn 1% of their referrals 2% pool tax!
One pool, Many Coins! - Only one account, and one set of workers will be needed to mine any and all of our coins.
Easy Sign In! - Use your MooPool account, or other services to log in.
Full Ticketing System! - For a much easier time keeping track of, and properly responding to all open tickets. No more Gmail nonsense.
Advanced Pool and Worker Statistics - Faster, more accurate pool data.
Easy Start Scripts! Copy and paste the start scripts for each worker to easily start mining.
Increased Security! The additional safety of proprietary pool code, and a passion for cutting edge security.
Mandatory Automatic Payouts! - We are not (currently) a wallet service and do not want the opportunity to lose anybody's coins.
Community Interaction! - Chat with your fellow miners live, or in the forums.
Advanced Admin Features! - To help us efficiently maintain and upgrade our pools.

~Development Update #1~

When we decided to make MooPool.com, we set out determined to create the next best pooling website. As we were developing, we became aware of the prompt need for a second pool to support the new popularity of our favorite coin, CasinoCoin. To help support the coin we opened early with the open source "MPOS" pooling platform. While we were able to fill the need for a time, other MPOS pools have since stepped in to do the same thing (and are doing a great job). Managing this MPOS platform has turned out to be non stop work finding and hotfixing pool breaking bugs, potential security holes, and fending off a myriad of MPOS targeted attacks being developed every day (since it's open source and everybody can see the MPOS code, it makes it a target). While we are absolutely happy to do this, it's holding us back from what we want MooPool to become. As a result:

We have decided to make some policy changes.

In order to help us focus on completing our new platform, we will be reducing support for the MPOS platform to a minimum.

--What this means for you, while using the the MPOS platform--

We will no longer be taking responsibility for users coins. While we will of course protect them as best we can, every user should have automatic payouts setup.
We are not, and do not (currently), want to be an online wallet service.
We will no longer be pursuing minor hotfixes, security advances, and new features in the MPOS platform. If there is a critical failure with the MPOS platform we will likely just reset the pool and keep coding the new one.
If you have a specific concerns regarding how these changes relate to your account please email us at MooPoolMining@gmail.com. We will be handling concerns on a case by case basis.

--What this means for MooPool.com as a whole.--

These changes will allow us to aggressively pursue our custom mining platform.
This also allows us release a projected completion time of two weeks (January 20th).
We are also able to drop taxes to 0% till the completion of our new platform.
We are excited to finally be able to announce our feature list!

[miseree]

http://csc.icalcul8.com

New CSC Pool --- icalcul8 CasinoCoin Pool featuring:

• Full Block Reward
• Proportional Payout
• Stratum
• Variable Difficulty
• 1% Fee

This is a new pool that has been mining blocks for awhile now at 7-8mh/s and is finding blocks very consistently. Help me stretch its legs and let's get some blocks!

[CartmanSPC]

For anyone running a Casinocoin p2pool node please update to the latest source on github:

https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool

Changes:
https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool/commit/3dc8a7a791b671331318071046b81cdd27e70825

[amarian12]

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[ANN] [P2POOL] [LTC] [DGC] [WDC] [CRC] [CSC] [DOGE] e-pool.net
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Introducing..  Casinocoin Pool

     stratum+tcp://csc.e-pool.net:8840

For getwork clients replace stratum+tcp:// with http://

No registration required. Just join, mine and get paid.

     cgminer -o stratum+tcp://csc.e-pool.net:8840 -u YourWalletAddress -p anypassword --scrypt --queue 0 --scan-time 5 --expiry 10

Currently in a very early phase, so results may vary. Also suport for LTC, DGC, WDC, CRC, DOGE visit : http://e-pool.net for info!

Thanks!

My pool run on latest 13.4 version, you are invited to join!

[infernaltoast]

Big Crypto Pool
http://www.bigcryptopool.com

https://i.imgur.com/TOEpGRP.png

-Mine directly into your wallet
-Reduce 51% attacks by mining with us, we use P2Pool which is decentralized
-No signup required, no need to transfer coins (no x-fer fees)
-Professional interface
-Provides .bat scripts to make mining easier than ever
-Supports CSC with a 1% fee
-Highly active devs, always accepting suggestions
-Online since 2013

Happy Mining!

[gjerek]

I added new pool.

http://csc.coin-pool.org/

PPLNS 1% Fee, with stratum + vardiff

[CartmanSPC]

Lowering the fee of http://csc.xpool.net:8840 to 1%.

Limiting the number of miners to 200. If the node approaches 200 miners I will open additional nodes to accommodate.

[casinocoin]

I havent been monitoring this thread and that is my fault. I will be updating all pools etc if someone has some info on them please pm me or i will look through them all!
If i have not added your pool pm me please, if there is changes pm me please!
Cheers

[Zen00]

Thanks for updating the thread casinocoin, had my first person sign up for an account. Then get turned off by a bug in MPOS which me and xisi just fixed. :/

Oh well, good show, there will be more!

And if any of you pool runners out there have a bug to be fixed, please PM me so I can pass them on to the rest of the dev team, we're working on bug fixes right now and need all of them we can find.

[Zen00]

Updated our website, transaction fees are now 0.01 coin to cover the network cost, and payout confirmations are much faster! Also the mail servers are working so as part of our security measures future accounts will need email verification for actions for your safety.

Pool difficulty drops in 20 minutes, so sign up and get your CSC now!

[Zen00]

We've heard it from the devs themselves, Hash.so is using too much of the network all in one place!

Swap your mining pool now to help secure the network, mine at  www.zenproductions.org/csc, the CASINOCOIN SLASHERS, no block is too hard!

[boozoodoo]

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