[POOL] Coinotron

[coinotron]

Whole traffic to coinotron is rewritten to https. Maybe this is problem for https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime

Check https://coinotron.com/ . All checkpoints are green

[peteycamey]

yeah "https" was the issue. its odd that even ip connection did not work.

[coinotron]

FYI

Today we added RBPPS 4% mode to Ethereum pool.

Round-Based Pay Per Share. Like PPS, but payouts are delayed till a block is found and confirmed by the network.
If a found block gets orphaned, earnings relative to it are not paid.
If block becomes uncle earnings related to that block are paid.

[coinotron]

LTC promotion will be continued in October:

LTC    PPS rates are lowered to 3%
LTC RBPPS rates are lowered to 2%
LTC PPLNS rates are lowered to 1%

[coinotron]

NEW !!!

We added support for Stratum in our Ethereum pool. It substantially increases mining earnings.
Mining instructions are available here: https://www.coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=help
For first few weeks Eth Stratum pool will support only PPLNS.

Please use ethminer and mining_proxy: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy

mining_proxy.exe -o coinotron.com -p 3344
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G -F http://127.0.0.1:8332/workername:workerpassword

[coinotron]

FYI

We simplified creating and managing workers in our pool. We removed link between coin and worker. From now on every worker can be used in any of our pools.
If worker's payout method is not available in pool you are minig, your rewards will be calculated using default method for that pool (in most cases PPLNS)

[coinotron]

FYI

After 10 days of running, our Ethereum stratum pool is used by 35% of Ethereum miners.
We encourage all to switch to stratum. It is 5-10% more profitable than standard getwork and uses far less bandwidth.

[coinotron]

Ethereum RBPPS rates have been lowered to 3% !!!

Ethereum RBPPS is now available in ETH Stratum pool.

[capler]

What happened? Website down

[peteycamey]

yeah. its down.

[coinotron]

Server is up and running. We had to perform 2-3 restarts.

[coinotron]

FYI

Etheteum pool status: over 50% of ETH miners are using Stratum pool.

We strongly recommend you this way of mining ethereum.

Advantages od Ethereum Stratum mining:
- reduction of orphaned and uncle blocks
- increased earnings ( my estimate is 5%-10% )
- stratum uses much less bandwidth than getwork protocol

It is really easy to set up. Just download mining_proxy.exe: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy/releases/tag/v1.0

and start mining using following commands:

mining_proxy.exe -o coinotron.com -p 3344
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G -F http://127.0.0.1:8332/workername:workerpassword

More details you can find here: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy

[coinotron]

This morning we suspended PPC payouts due to fork issue described here:
https://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin/issues/100

We will resume sending PPC payouts as soon as this is solved by PPC developers.

[coinotron]

PPC withdrawals are enabled.

Please upgrade your wallet to fixed version: https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=4312.msg41201#msg41201
Remember to backup your wallet.dat before upgrading.

[coinotron]

We are closing EXP pool. Please withdraw your coins until the end of November

[coinotron]

FYI

Recently several users pointed out that we present inaccurate ETH rates. Our source was Cryptsy and their rates seem to be quite off.

Today we changed our source of Ethereum rates to Poloniex.

[gaalx]

Good afternoon. What does this mean?
https://gyazo.com/a9fe9e91c4996294fbe169f5a9323b8b

[atp1916]

FYI

Etheteum pool status: over 50% of ETH miners are using Stratum pool.

We strongly recommend you this way of mining ethereum.

Advantages od Ethereum Stratum mining:
- reduction of orphaned and uncle blocks
- increased earnings ( my estimate is 5%-10% )
- stratum uses much less bandwidth than getwork protocol

It is really easy to set up. Just download mining_proxy.exe: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy/releases/tag/v1.0

and start mining using following commands:

mining_proxy.exe -o coinotron.com -p 3344
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G -F http://127.0.0.1:8332/workername:workerpassword

More details you can find here: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy

Instructions are good.

The one mini-gotcha is that it is really accountname.workername:workerpassword.  Knowing this convention is a standard thing for veteran miners, but is usually a source of confusion when someone puts in just their workername / password and get the connection failure output from the proxy miner.

Edit:  A 'Nice-to-have' (which i do not see that the Ethminer provides) is the estimated real-time hashrate reached on the submitted work attached to the report as printed out by the mining proxy exe.  

The problem is that as i look at the eth miner now, i cannot tell if it is running at the hashrate it should be.  (Am i missing a setting/flag on the miner?)

[coinotron]

FYI

Etheteum pool status: over 50% of ETH miners are using Stratum pool.

We strongly recommend you this way of mining ethereum.

Advantages od Ethereum Stratum mining:
- reduction of orphaned and uncle blocks
- increased earnings ( my estimate is 5%-10% )
- stratum uses much less bandwidth than getwork protocol

It is really easy to set up. Just download mining_proxy.exe: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy/releases/tag/v1.0

and start mining using following commands:

mining_proxy.exe -o coinotron.com -p 3344
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G -F http://127.0.0.1:8332/workername:workerpassword

More details you can find here: https://github.com/Coinotron/eth-stratum-mining-proxy

Instructions are good.

The one mini-gotcha is that it is really accountname.workername:workerpassword.  Knowing this convention is a standard thing for veteran miners, but is usually a source of confusion when someone puts in just their workername / password and get the connection failure output from the proxy miner.

Edit:  A 'Nice-to-have' (which i do not see that the Ethminer provides) is the estimated real-time hashrate reached on the submitted work attached to the report as printed out by the mining proxy exe.  

The problem is that as i look at the eth miner now, i cannot tell if it is running at the hashrate it should be.  (Am i missing a setting/flag on the miner?)

You are right about this "mini-gotcha". I had exactly the same problems when  I started mining myself on deepbit and slush pools back in 2011. Currently I'm working on new version of user interface. I will fix those gotchas

Currently we don't support gethashrate provided by Ethminer. I will consider it

[coinotron]

Good afternoon. What does this mean?
https://gyazo.com/a9fe9e91c4996294fbe169f5a9323b8b

It means that you submitted valid share i.e. everything is OK.
Of course it should be displayed as Info not Warning. I will fix that in new version.