[CLOSED] BTCMine - ZERO fee mining pool (LP, SSL, JSON API, P2SH)

[ChaosFox]

I just registered under this pool and started mining. I have to wait around 2 days before I get any payments? I also don't see any option to choose PPS or proportional, is it only proportional now?

The pool is on proportional scored based rewarding system only.

You don't necessarily have to wait 2 days. You can set your payout threshold as low as 1 BTC I think, and have to wait for 120 confirmations on solved blocks for the reward to be available in your balance. That's anywhere between 20 to 5 hours depending how fast the network is compared to difficulty.

I set mine as 0.10 BTC, so it can be certainly lower. Like this I usually get a payment per day, two if I'm lucky. The wait for 120 confirmations is reasonable IMO, which is what most pools have anyway. Decided to move here for a while, with my ~20Mhash/sec rig, whee!

[russelljohnson]

I just registered under this pool and started mining. I have to wait around 2 days before I get any payments? I also don't see any option to choose PPS or proportional, is it only proportional now?

The pool is on proportional scored based rewarding system only.

You don't necessarily have to wait 2 days. You can set your payout threshold as low as 1 BTC I think, and have to wait for 120 confirmations on solved blocks for the reward to be available in your balance. That's anywhere between 20 to 5 hours depending how fast the network is compared to difficulty.

I set mine as 0.10 BTC, so it can be certainly lower. Like this I usually get a payment per day, two if I'm lucky. The wait for 120 confirmations is reasonable IMO, which is what most pools have anyway. Decided to move here for a while, with my ~20Mhash/sec rig, whee!

Ah I see. I'm new to mining and Bitcoins. Just did about a week on Deepbit so now I'm trying out BTCMine.

Pros & cons between the two pools? (Deepbit & BTCMine)

[rezin777]

I just registered under this pool and started mining. I have to wait around 2 days before I get any payments? I also don't see any option to choose PPS or proportional, is it only proportional now?

Yes, you have to wait until your account is verified to receive payments. It may take up to 2 days. This is in the OP.

Ah I see. I'm new to mining and Bitcoins. Just did about a week on Deepbit so now I'm trying out BTCMine.

Pros & cons between the two pools? (Deepbit & BTCMine)

Deepbit has a 3% or 10% fee, depending on what type of payout you choose.

BTCmine runs on donations, so if you feel the pool is doing a good job, there is a place in your profile to select a % of your earnings to donate.

[russelljohnson]

Yes, you have to wait until your account is verified to receive payments. It may take up to 2 days. This is in the OP.

Is the account verification an automatic process or is there something I have to do. It's not the activation email right?

[dbitcoin]

Is the account verification an automatic process or is there something I have to do. It's not the activation email right?

Nothing. If you not see warning message in your profile, this is mean what your account already verified.

[billywilly]

moving out from deepbit here

[dingus]

How do I know when you have lifted the payment lock?

[dbitcoin]

How do I know when you have lifted the payment lock?

Your account username please (better use email or PM).

[dbitcoin]

New versions of miners added to Download page, please update your miner to new version ASAP.

[dingus]

How do I know when you have lifted the payment lock?

Your account username please (better use email or PM).

PM sent

[xf2_org]

New versions of miners added to Download page, please update your miner to new version ASAP.

cpuminer is now at 1.0 and supports full URL in X-Long-Polling header.

[Veldy]

New versions of miners added to Download page, please update your miner to new version ASAP.

I updated as soon as I received this email.  What is the reason for the sudden update?  It is a rare thing indeed that ALL miners are updated at the same time.  Anything to do with Slush's pool going down (there were plenty of other issues he was battling, so I am just asking)?

Thank you.

[Veldy]

Ah, it must be updated long polling

[DiabloD3]

New versions of miners added to Download page, please update your miner to new version ASAP.

I updated as soon as I received this email.  What is the reason for the sudden update?  It is a rare thing indeed that ALL miners are updated at the same time.  Anything to do with Slush's pool going down (there were plenty of other issues he was battling, so I am just asking)?

Thank you.

Nope, dbitcoin just refuses to follow the LP spec and is putting a full URL in where a URL fragment belongs.

[dbitcoin]

New versions of miners added to Download page, please update your miner to new version ASAP.

I updated as soon as I received this email.  What is the reason for the sudden update?  It is a rare thing indeed that ALL miners are updated at the same time.  Anything to do with Slush's pool going down (there were plenty of other issues he was battling, so I am just asking)?

Thank you.

Nope, dbitcoin just refuses to follow the LP spec and is putting a full URL in where a URL fragment belongs.

This change (from fragment to full url) discussed a more than month ago.
Tycho, jgarzik, slush and m0mchil - all agreed what full url better. But Tycho not update spec at deepbit site.
And I see in irc logs: 1,5 month ago you do want add LP support to your miner, because no one (except deepbit) support this extension.
Now all popular miners with LP support full url.

[[Tycho]]

This change (from fragment to full url) discussed a more than month ago.
Tycho, jgarzik, slush and m0mchil - all agreed what full url better. But Tycho not update spec at deepbit site.

I know that I should add this to specs (will update today with some other minor additions), but can't remember about agreeing that FQ URL is better.

[dbitcoin]

This change (from fragment to full url) discussed a more than month ago.
Tycho, jgarzik, slush and m0mchil - all agreed what full url better. But Tycho not update spec at deepbit site.

I know that I should add this to specs (will update today with some other minor additions), but can't remember about agreeing that FQ URL is better.

You agreed with change.
I do not want waste my time now for search full discussion in logs without any navigation and indexation.
If this is so important, then at free time I make some script for grab all irc logs.

[Sebz4n]

I'll be trying out this pool, web looks slick!

[Veldy]

New versions of miners added to Download page, please update your miner to new version ASAP.

I updated as soon as I received this email.  What is the reason for the sudden update?  It is a rare thing indeed that ALL miners are updated at the same time.  Anything to do with Slush's pool going down (there were plenty of other issues he was battling, so I am just asking)?

Thank you.

Nope, dbitcoin just refuses to follow the LP spec and is putting a full URL in where a URL fragment belongs.

Well, what he has now is much better.  0 stale blocks out of 1923 so far since I restarted the miner.

[Miner-TE]

I discovered today that Websense filtering was blocking access to BTCmine.com.  It was categorized as "Games".  I had them re-categorize it to Information Technology.

>>> <databasechange@websense.com> 5/10/2011 4:20 PM >>>
Thank you for using Websense's new URL category lookup utility.

The site you submitted has been reviewed and categorized accordingly:

<http://btcmine.com/> - <Information Technology>

Categorization updates should be available in the next scheduled publication of the database. A new database is published every business day, five days a week, Pacific Standard Time.  You should notice any updates referred to in this message within 72 hours.