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[eleuthria]

The wheels are falling off ghash

8 orphaned/stale/rejected blocks out of the last 77 blocks.

As much as I hate GHash.io (*nelson Ha-Ha*), curious why the post in this thread about them.

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[jarhed]

The wheels are falling off ghash

8 orphaned/stale/rejected blocks out of the last 77 blocks.

Sky is falling eh?
Aren't they just installing bigger wheels?

[matt4054]

The wheels are falling off ghash

8 orphaned/stale/rejected blocks out of the last 77 blocks.

Sky is falling eh?
Aren't they just installing bigger wheels?

Or maybe the price to pay for unsuccessful selfish mining attempts?

This is a semi-troll, agreed (but deserved, to some extent, IMHO)

[Trongersoll]

The wheels are falling off ghash

8 orphaned/stale/rejected blocks out of the last 77 blocks.

As much as I hate GHash.io (*nelson Ha-Ha*), curious why the post in this thread about them.

Because Mining is a Team sport. It is Us vs Them. They were orphanning everyone else, so it is good to see them get what they were giving. At least that is my guess. Go Team BTCguild!

[navigator]

Should I make a 2nd account if I want to monitor the btc production of a new miner I'm adding?

[mdude77]

Should I make a 2nd account if I want to monitor the btc production of a new miner I'm adding?

You can have 2 workers, no need for a 2nd account.

M

[navigator]

Should I make a 2nd account if I want to monitor the btc production of a new miner I'm adding?

You can have 2 workers, no need for a 2nd account.

M

There are no individual stats for each worker. Mining under the same account I won't be able to see how much btc each miner is producing. I want to see how long it takes to mine back the btc that the new miner cost.

[mdude77]

Should I make a 2nd account if I want to monitor the btc production of a new miner I'm adding?

You can have 2 workers, no need for a 2nd account.

M

There are no individual stats for each worker. Mining under the same account I won't be able to see how much btc each miner is producing. I want to see how long it takes to mine back the btc that the new miner cost.

There are stats, but you're right, not BTC stats per worker.  Sounds like you need a 2nd account.

M

[abyssmu]

Hey guys. I'm somewhat new here. I have been trying to connect to the pool for a few days now and nothing has come of it.

I am using an older version of cgminer. 3.7.2 as it supports gpu mining because I have yet to purchase any ASIC miners.

I have tried many times to connect to many different pools, and nothing has happened. My miner gets up and running and it says it is doing stuff, but the website doesn't say a thing.

My best guess is that my computer is blocking the port preventing information from being sent, but I have tried opening and allowing 3333 through Windows Firewall, but it hasn't done a thing.

Anybody have any suggestions?

http://s909.photobucket.com/user/abyssmu1/media/Untitled_zps3148dcfb.png.html?filters[user]=138870818&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

That is what my miner looks like as it is working.

[mdude77]

Hey guys. I'm somewhat new here. I have been trying to connect to the pool for a few days now and nothing has come of it.

I am using an older version of cgminer. 3.7.2 as it supports gpu mining because I have yet to purchase any ASIC miners.

It's not worth using a GPU for BTC mining.  I suggest using it for scrypt mining on another pool, like multipool.

M

[BRADLEYPLOOF]

Hey guys. I'm somewhat new here. I have been trying to connect to the pool for a few days now and nothing has come of it.

I am using an older version of cgminer. 3.7.2 as it supports gpu mining because I have yet to purchase any ASIC miners.

I have tried many times to connect to many different pools, and nothing has happened. My miner gets up and running and it says it is doing stuff, but the website doesn't say a thing.

My best guess is that my computer is blocking the port preventing information from being sent, but I have tried opening and allowing 3333 through Windows Firewall, but it hasn't done a thing.

Anybody have any suggestions?

http://s909.photobucket.com/user/abyssmu1/media/Untitled_zps3148dcfb.png.html?filters[user]=138870818&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

That is what my miner looks like as it is working.

The website doesn't say anything because you need to submit a difficulty 2 share and your best share at that point was a difficulty 1 share.  At 10 MH/S it will take you approximately 4 hours to find a single difficulty 2 share.  You are merely wasting power and working your graphics card for no reason.  Try mining litecoins at www.liteguardian.com.  When you convert your miner to --scrypt you'll do about 10 kh/s, which will net you about .001 litecoins per day...

My suggestion is to either buy some better graphics cards to mine litecoin or buy a few little asics to mine bitcoin.  Either way, you won't get rich, but you'll support the system.

EDIT: You will make more bitcoin per day going here: http://freebitco.in/?r=241175 and punching in two captcha words every hour...roughly 220 satoshis...and it takes a few seconds to do and wastes a LOT less electricity...

[Trongersoll]

Hey guys. I'm somewhat new here. I have been trying to connect to the pool for a few days now and nothing has come of it.

I am using an older version of cgminer. 3.7.2 as it supports gpu mining because I have yet to purchase any ASIC miners.

I have tried many times to connect to many different pools, and nothing has happened. My miner gets up and running and it says it is doing stuff, but the website doesn't say a thing.

My best guess is that my computer is blocking the port preventing information from being sent, but I have tried opening and allowing 3333 through Windows Firewall, but it hasn't done a thing.

Anybody have any suggestions?

http://s909.photobucket.com/user/abyssmu1/media/Untitled_zps3148dcfb.png.html?filters[user]=138870818&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

That is what my miner looks like as it is working.

The website doesn't say anything because you need to submit a difficulty 2 share and your best share at that point was a difficulty 1 share.  At 10 MH/S it will take you approximately 4 hours to find a single difficulty 2 share.  You are merely wasting power and working your graphics card for no reason.  Try mining litecoins at www.liteguardian.com.  When you convert your miner to --scrypt you'll do about 10 kh/s, which will net you about .001 litecoins per day...

My suggestion is to either buy some better graphics cards to mine litecoin or buy a few little asics to mine bitcoin.  Either way, you won't get rich, but you'll support the system.

EDIT: You will make more bitcoin per day going here: http://freebitco.in/?r=241175 and punching in two captcha words every hour...roughly 220 satoshis...and it takes a few seconds to do and wastes a LOT less electricity...

Of course all that dust from the free coin site will mess up your wallet.

[eleuthria]

There will be a server restart on all BTC Guild stratum servers at 0:00 GMT.  This restart is not to deploy new software, but to patch a bug that would arise at the next difficulty change.  The original (and still under use) stratum code for BTC Guild will not handle difficulties above 2.1b when it comes to Pay-per-Share recording.  This was a fix in the new pool software, but since that project has been scrapped, the fix is being rolled into the old software today.

[MoreBloodWine]

There will be a server restart on all BTC Guild stratum servers at 0:00 GMT.  This restart is not to deploy new software, but to patch a bug that would arise at the next difficulty change.  The original (and still under use) stratum code for BTC Guild will not handle difficulties above 2.1b when it comes to Pay-per-Share recording.  This was a fix in the new pool software, but since that project has been scrapped, the fix is being rolled into the old software today.

I'm using CGMiner 3.8.1 with my AM sticks, after the restart everything should reconnect right ?

[eleuthria]

There will be a server restart on all BTC Guild stratum servers at 0:00 GMT.  This restart is not to deploy new software, but to patch a bug that would arise at the next difficulty change.  The original (and still under use) stratum code for BTC Guild will not handle difficulties above 2.1b when it comes to Pay-per-Share recording.  This was a fix in the new pool software, but since that project has been scrapped, the fix is being rolled into the old software today.

I'm using CGMiner 3.8.1 with my AM sticks, after the restart everything should reconnect right ?

Ideally, restarts as fast as Guild's shouldn't cause problems.  But mining software is pretty unpredictable (see the cgminer crashes a few days ago).  Everytime there is a round of server restarts there tends to be a 5-10% drop in pool speed that lasts about an hour.  Some of that is probably just miners failing over and then coming back a few minutes later.  Some of that is almost certainly mining software/hardware failing to properly handle a disconnect.

[MoreBloodWine]

There will be a server restart on all BTC Guild stratum servers at 0:00 GMT.  This restart is not to deploy new software, but to patch a bug that would arise at the next difficulty change.  The original (and still under use) stratum code for BTC Guild will not handle difficulties above 2.1b when it comes to Pay-per-Share recording.  This was a fix in the new pool software, but since that project has been scrapped, the fix is being rolled into the old software today.

I'm using CGMiner 3.8.1 with my AM sticks, after the restart everything should reconnect right ?

Ideally, restarts as fast as Guild's shouldn't cause problems.  But mining software is pretty unpredictable (see the cgminer crashes a few days ago).  Everytime there is a round of server restarts there tends to be a 5-10% drop in pool speed that lasts about an hour.  Some of that is probably just miners failing over and then coming back a few minutes later.  Some of that is almost certainly mining software/hardware failing to properly handle a disconnect.

Well, in either case I ot two backup pools in my config file. So assuming everything works out, I should drop to one of the backups and then I guess somehow CGMiner should sense BTC is back up and add mee back to it.

[eleuthria]

There will be a server restart on all BTC Guild stratum servers at 0:00 GMT.  This restart is not to deploy new software, but to patch a bug that would arise at the next difficulty change.  The original (and still under use) stratum code for BTC Guild will not handle difficulties above 2.1b when it comes to Pay-per-Share recording.  This was a fix in the new pool software, but since that project has been scrapped, the fix is being rolled into the old software today.

I'm using CGMiner 3.8.1 with my AM sticks, after the restart everything should reconnect right ?

Ideally, restarts as fast as Guild's shouldn't cause problems.  But mining software is pretty unpredictable (see the cgminer crashes a few days ago).  Everytime there is a round of server restarts there tends to be a 5-10% drop in pool speed that lasts about an hour.  Some of that is probably just miners failing over and then coming back a few minutes later.  Some of that is almost certainly mining software/hardware failing to properly handle a disconnect.

Well, in either case I ot two backup pools in my config file. So assuming everything works out, I should drop to one of the backups and then I guess somehow CGMiner should sense BTC is back up and add mee back to it.

Yep, that's how everything should (and probably will work).  In my experience, it's normally embedded miners (like Avalons with their built in cgminer/router or ASICMINER blades) and stratum proxies that act up the worst on disconnects.

[eleuthria]

Servers have now been upgraded.  Sorry the downtime was a little longer than expected.  One specific function used by the server monitoring scripts was missed in changing network difficulty from a long to a double, so each time the script polled the server it was causing it to segfault/reboot.

Downtime to get the patch applied was ~4 minutes in total.

[MoreBloodWine]

Side track, I'm working on modifying some code hat displays my BTCG hash rate. Am I correct in the tier system for lack of a better term ?

Mh/s > Gh/s > Th/s > Ph/s

Just want to make sure I'm not mising anything, don't plan on including the Petahash in the code though since it's unlikely I'll ever hit that mark LMFAO.

[eleuthria]

Side track, I'm working on modifying some code hat displays my BTCG hash rate. Am I correct in the tier system for lack of a better term ?

Mh/s > Gh/s > Th/s > Ph/s

Just want to make sure I'm not mising anything, don't plan on including the Petahash in the code though since it's unlikely I'll ever hit that mark LMFAO.

That's the correct progression.  Next up is Eh/s (exahash) btw.