Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB

[PlanetCrypto]

"I just don't want to go through the hassle of a modern day US airport."

Haven't flown since 2003 as I refuse to be the subject of a "random" whole body cavity search.
I take the train (Amtrak) or drive.
Besides being bitcoin miners has probably got us on some terrorist watch list. lol.
Subversive financial types that we are.

[DaveF]

I might make an appearance the next time a conference is in Vegas, assuming some of the core devs are there.  I just don't want to go through the hassle of a modern day US airport.

Then fly through LGA in New York. It's more 3rd world airport then modern day airport.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-worst-airports-2013/3

I live here and have to use it a lot. Walking is starting to look like a better option.

-Dave

[Bitcoin.Greece]

is there any way to manage the difficulty of the miner manually ?

Pretty sure it's dynamic (server-determined) only, calculated to provide 32 shares/minute:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

So there is no way ... because dragon miners need the difficulty to be handled be the pool .
I try the dragon miner on Eligius and does not give normal speed

[Luke-Jr]

is there any way to manage the difficulty of the miner manually ?

Pretty sure it's dynamic (server-determined) only, calculated to provide 32 shares/minute:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

So there is no way ... because dragon miners need the difficulty to be handled be the pool .
I try the dragon miner on Eligius and does not give normal speed

See if the Dragon miner people will provide a sample unit and docs so I can implement BFGMiner support.
Besides having support from the leading mining software, BFGMiner support avoids bugs like this.

[merv77]

is there any way to manage the difficulty of the miner manually ?

Pretty sure it's dynamic (server-determined) only, calculated to provide 32 shares/minute:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

So there is no way ... because dragon miners need the difficulty to be handled be the pool .
I try the dragon miner on Eligius and does not give normal speed

I have 3 (4 blade) 1TH/s Dragon miners and I've selected 256 for mining difficulty via web interface and all 3 have been mining just over 1TH/s for 3 weeks

edit. I've just noticed in the stats page that the difficulty is actually set to 511.99, so not sure what the setting via the web interface does.

[Biomech]

Luke and Wizkid is the same person.

Err..no.  

I dunno. Ever seen them in the one room at the same time? Me neither. In fact Luke-Jr, Wizkid, Inaba, eleuthria could all be the same person, since I've never seen them together in one room before either. Or Satoshi. Or you, Luke-Jr- er I mean HellDiverUK.

Don't you dare put me in the same room as Inaba!   Even if there's a pizza I won't do it!

What about a gun? 

[klondike_bar]

in the last ~6hrs my mining speed at eligius for some units has been a little sporadic. even having 3 stable antminer S1s ont he same power supply, only one of them shows 60-80GH for a data point and then bounces back. seems like when these data points happen about 1/3-1/2 of my machines will show slightly low hashrate at the pool then jump up again to normal.

is this a pool issue? (high difficulty to the miner, stats page issues, etc)?  Its not enough to severely impact my 3hr hashrate, but my 22.5min hashrate shows about 20% lower whenever it occurs. Its not the first time, these little chunks of instability or low hashing on select units seems to occur during small 1-4hr periods of time and then absolutely problem-free for hours or days after

[freebit13]

in the last ~6hrs my mining speed at eligius for some units has been a little sporadic. even having 3 stable antminer S1s ont he same power supply, only one of them shows 60-80GH for a data point and then bounces back. seems like when these data points happen about 1/3-1/2 of my machines will show slightly low hashrate at the pool then jump up again to normal.

is this a pool issue? (high difficulty to the miner, stats page issues, etc)?  Its not enough to severely impact my 3hr hashrate, but my 22.5min hashrate shows about 20% lower whenever it occurs. Its not the first time, these little chunks of instability or low hashing on select units seems to occur during small 1-4hr periods of time and then absolutely problem-free for hours or days after

Check if those miners are 'leaking' shares to your backup pool. I've also noticed some strange stats in the last 2 days and found that my miners (S1 & S2) had switched pools for a while and moved back again... happened again about 40mins ago.

[braindead]

May i know when namecoins payments will start ??

[jonnybravo0311]

in the last ~6hrs my mining speed at eligius for some units has been a little sporadic. even having 3 stable antminer S1s ont he same power supply, only one of them shows 60-80GH for a data point and then bounces back. seems like when these data points happen about 1/3-1/2 of my machines will show slightly low hashrate at the pool then jump up again to normal.

is this a pool issue? (high difficulty to the miner, stats page issues, etc)?  Its not enough to severely impact my 3hr hashrate, but my 22.5min hashrate shows about 20% lower whenever it occurs. Its not the first time, these little chunks of instability or low hashing on select units seems to occur during small 1-4hr periods of time and then absolutely problem-free for hours or days after

Check if those miners are 'leaking' shares to your backup pool. I've also noticed some strange stats in the last 2 days and found that my miners (S1 & S2) had switched pools for a while and moved back again... happened again about 40mins ago.

I thought the S1s were strictly failover.  I figure you could probably edit /etc/init.d/cgminer to add the --failover-only to your secondary and tertiary pools, but OOTB, it's not there.

[nottm28]

in the last ~6hrs my mining speed at eligius for some units has been a little sporadic. even having 3 stable antminer S1s ont he same power supply, only one of them shows 60-80GH for a data point and then bounces back. seems like when these data points happen about 1/3-1/2 of my machines will show slightly low hashrate at the pool then jump up again to normal.

is this a pool issue? (high difficulty to the miner, stats page issues, etc)?  Its not enough to severely impact my 3hr hashrate, but my 22.5min hashrate shows about 20% lower whenever it occurs. Its not the first time, these little chunks of instability or low hashing on select units seems to occur during small 1-4hr periods of time and then absolutely problem-free for hours or days after

Check if those miners are 'leaking' shares to your backup pool. I've also noticed some strange stats in the last 2 days and found that my miners (S1 & S2) had switched pools for a while and moved back again... happened again about 40mins ago.

I thought the S1s were strictly failover.  I figure you could probably edit /etc/init.d/cgminer to add the --failover-only to your secondary and tertiary pools, but OOTB, it's not there.

Could be the man in the middle attack that's been happening (across all pools by the looks of it) - Configure your router to block all outbound traffic to 46.28.205.80 - UDP and TCP - not sure if it actually helps (I mean wont they just change the ip address after a while) - but for me I seemed to notice my miners stopped fluctuating so bad...

[freebit13]

I thought the S1s were strictly failover.  I figure you could probably edit /etc/init.d/cgminer to add the --failover-only to your secondary and tertiary pools, but OOTB, it's not there.

Yes, they are, but apparently the DDOS attacks were causing some miners to disconnect, which would make them failover to the backup pool.

[nottm28]

May i know when namecoins payments will start ??

This gets asked loads - just have to suck it and see alas...

[jonnybravo0311]

I thought the S1s were strictly failover.  I figure you could probably edit /etc/init.d/cgminer to add the --failover-only to your secondary and tertiary pools, but OOTB, it's not there.

Yes, they are, but apparently the DDOS attacks were causing some miners to disconnect, which would make them failover to the backup pool.

That's my point... since the S1 is failover, if it was disconnected from Eligius due to DDOS attack, it wouldn't go back to Eligius without a reboot (or changing the pool configurations).  They wouldn't "leak" shares, they'd simply stop mining on Eligius altogether.

[mdude77]

I thought the S1s were strictly failover.  I figure you could probably edit /etc/init.d/cgminer to add the --failover-only to your secondary and tertiary pools, but OOTB, it's not there.

Yes, they are, but apparently the DDOS attacks were causing some miners to disconnect, which would make them failover to the backup pool.

That's my point... since the S1 is failover, if it was disconnected from Eligius due to DDOS attack, it wouldn't go back to Eligius without a reboot (or changing the pool configurations).  They wouldn't "leak" shares, they'd simply stop mining on Eligius altogether.

I have all my ants pointed to a local stratum proxy, and the proxy pointed at the pool.  The backup for each ant is connecting to the pool themselves.  The third backup is another pool entirely.

M

[jonnybravo0311]

That's an interesting setup... use my proxy... if that blows up, use the pool itself... and if that's gone, try a completely different pool.  Any advantages to using the local stratum proxy?

[Bitcoin.Greece]

is there any way to manage the difficulty of the miner manually ?

Pretty sure it's dynamic (server-determined) only, calculated to provide 32 shares/minute:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

So there is no way ... because dragon miners need the difficulty to be handled be the pool .
I try the dragon miner on Eligius and does not give normal speed

See if the Dragon miner people will provide a sample unit and docs so I can implement BFGMiner support.
Besides having support from the leading mining software, BFGMiner support avoids bugs like this.

I think that Eligius experts must take care of this problem and contact them to find some kind of solution.
I like Eligius but I am forced now to go to BTC Guild

[mdude77]

That's an interesting setup... use my proxy... if that blows up, use the pool itself... and if that's gone, try a completely different pool.  Any advantages to using the local stratum proxy?

One connection .. a fraction of the bandwidth.

M

[Biffa]

That last block is a doozy! Cmon luck drag yourself up into positive numbers I want my BTC!

[gallery2000]

That last block is a doozy! Cmon luck drag yourself up into positive numbers I want my BTC!

It is time to pray to the almighty hemaphrodite.