[CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers

[dmcurser]

Ok issue seems funny if I have all my miners pointed at btc one of them randomly has a connection issue but if I point.t one at another pool. I have no issue does anyone have and suggestion on what to do I really.don't want to have to spilt up mi.ers like that

[os2sam]

Ok issue seems funny if I have all my miners pointed at btc one of them randomly has a connection issue but if I point.t one at another pool. I have no issue does anyone have and suggestion on what to do I really.don't want to have to spilt up mi.ers like that

Since they are all on one machine use CG Miner or Ufasoft miner.  Both of these mining programs will use all three GPU's at once.  So it will be one miner using the three cards.  With CG Miner you can configure it to use multiple pools if you like.
Sam

[bitlane]

Since they are all on one machine use CG Miner

CGMiner FTW !

[dmcurser]

ok i dont mean to sound like a noob but i was trying like hell to get cgminer to work last night and to no avail no matter how hard i tryed and youtube had no walkthroughs lol so if you guys would be as so kind to help with a walk through i would love it lol. bc no matter what i tried i got no server found host name rong or work not mad blah blah blah so plz help much appreciated

edit after sleep i tryed it again an i got it to work yay lol

[eleuthria]

I will be adding the following features tomorrow:

1) Permanent Wallet Lock
2) Permanent Email Lock
3) Automatic Payouts [may be Saturday instead of Friday]
4) Pool Block History
5) Pool Speed/Performance History


I originally didn't think much of adding a Pool Block History, since its irrelevant to the users income.  However, I was reminded in IRC this morning that by not showing our blocks it isn't transparent regarding merged mining (or lack thereof).

Merged mining is still eventually planned.  The big problem with merged mining is the increase in BTC stale rates due to extra long polls.  It may take 0-2 seconds for a long poll to finish being issued to all miners, and it may take an extra 0-1 second for a miner to react to it depending on their latency.  Merged mining more than doubles the rate of long polls, meaning there is a higher risk of BTC stales.

I think I have been very clear in the past that I am not a fan of namecoin.  I understand the niche, but I don't think it has much future.  Because of this view, my priority has always been BTC, and I will not implement MM unless it has a close to 0% effect on BTC hashing.


The good news is that shadders is close to finishing an update to PoolServerJ, which fixes the biggest limitation pools have had:  Speed of generating work at long polls.  Even with JoelKatz' patches, bitcoind can vary randomly, producing anywhere from 500 (worst case scenario) to ~5000 getwork/second.  Generally due to the overhead of the initial block chain update within bitciond, the client normally produces around 1500-2000 getwork/second for a moment after a new block.

The next version of PoolServerJ will be generating the work within the pool software, which will drastically speed up the ability to send out thousands of getworks once a new block is found on the network.

[eleuthria]

Item 1 finished early.  Wallet Lock is now active, and is replacing the previous 24 hour Payout Lock feature.  By enabling Wallet Lock, you are PERMANENTLY locking your bitcoin address in your account.  This means even if you are hacked, an attacker cannot do anything to your account other than change your worker names or email address (unless that is locked, which should be available in the next few minutes).

UPDATE:  Email lock has now been added as well.  If you combine these two security features, your account cannot be drained.  At worst, somebody who has your login/password could mess with your worker names, or continually reset your account password if they have access to your email.  However, they cannot change the email, so you will ALWAYS be able to change your password back, and they can't change the wallet under any circumstances with Wallet Lock.

[bitlane]

Awesome security features. I am using both.

[ancow]

Wallet Lock is now active, and is replacing the previous 24 hour Payout Lock feature.

Do you think you could keep the 24h payout lock as an alternative? I don't like the idea of locking my wallet as it means that I will have to create a new account, should I want to use a different wallet address for whatever reason (e.g. if I lost my wallet to a lightning strike; and no, I can't afford backup that will withstand lightning...)
I also may want to change my email address in the future. I use a webmail provider, and should they ever decide to change their policy or demand money for their service, I won't be able to stay with them.
I really don't want to have to create a new account and the 24h payout lock was a nice alternative for me.

[Crypt_Current]

Do you have plans to implement merged mining?

Now that profit is extremely low and NMC price falling to 0.01 BTC I ask you this "What is the point, considering it is such a pain and may impact on BTC mining ?"

I won't mine at any pool that doesn't have merged mining implemented, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[os2sam]

Do you have plans to implement merged mining?

Now that profit is extremely low and NMC price falling to 0.01 BTC I ask you this "What is the point, considering it is such a pain and may impact on BTC mining ?"

I won't mine at any pool that doesn't have merged mining implemented, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

And I'm considering not mining at any pool that does implement Merged Mining, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Sam

[Eveofwar]

Do you have plans to implement merged mining?

Now that profit is extremely low and NMC price falling to 0.01 BTC I ask you this "What is the point, considering it is such a pain and may impact on BTC mining ?"

I won't mine at any pool that doesn't have merged mining implemented, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

And I'm considering not mining at any pool that does implement Merged Mining, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Sam

And I'm considering not mining at any pool that doesn't implement a proportional payout method, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[CyberPhunk]

Anyone other miners idling like crazy atm?

*edit*

Hmm, seems to have fixed itself, now.

[LoupGaroux]

Do you have plans to implement merged mining?

Now that profit is extremely low and NMC price falling to 0.01 BTC I ask you this "What is the point, considering it is such a pain and may impact on BTC mining ?"

I won't mine at any pool that doesn't have merged mining implemented, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

And I'm considering not mining at any pool that does implement Merged Mining, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Sam

And I'm considering not mining at any pool that doesn't implement a proportional payout method, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

And I'm considering not dining at any pool that doesn't have hot waitresses, and cheap drinks.

Seriously, it's an open market. Find a pool that fits your flavor instead of bitching about this one not changing to fit your specific needs. Features are suggested and decided on, and implemented or not at the pace the pool operator chooses. We are guests in his world, and should show due respect.

[eleuthria]

It's been long overdue, but automatic payouts have finally been added to the pool.  They're implemented slightly different than what you may be used to:

1) Set your automatic payment threshold either through the My Account page, or the sidebar.
2) Only whole numbers are accepted.  Set it to '0' to disable the automatic payouts.

Automatic payouts are processed every hour.  If your unpaid rewards are equal to or greater than your threshold, you will be paid the amount you set.  This is different from some pools, where an automatic payout might be your full balance once it crosses the threshold.  I chose this method because it allows users to keep their wallets clean with whole numbers for timed payouts, and people using automatic payouts are planning on continuing to mine (otherwise they'd just cash out and leave).  You always have the option for an instant payout which includes your full balance.

[os2sam]

Do you have plans to implement merged mining?

Now that profit is extremely low and NMC price falling to 0.01 BTC I ask you this "What is the point, considering it is such a pain and may impact on BTC mining ?"

I won't mine at any pool that doesn't have merged mining implemented, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

And I'm considering not mining at any pool that does implement Merged Mining, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Sam

And I'm considering not mining at any pool that doesn't implement a proportional payout method, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

And I'm considering not dining at any pool that doesn't have hot waitresses, and cheap drinks.

Seriously, it's an open market. Find a pool that fits your flavor instead of bitching about this one not changing to fit your specific needs. Features are suggested and decided on, and implemented or not at the pace the pool operator chooses. We are guests in his world, and should show due respect.

You forgot to add "and I'm sure I'm not the only one." 
But point taken and I fully agree.
Sam

[bitlane]

Oh Oh....it just got really quiet in here as all my fans spin down....lol

<EDIT>
...and 10 seconds later, it's LOUD again....hehe

[eleuthria]

Added Pool Block History page, API for it will be coming soon as well so web services can scrape our block data.

Regarding bitlane's post, yes, there was about 15 seconds of downtime last night for a pool restart.

[bulanula]

Added Pool Block History page, API for it will be coming soon as well so web services can scrape our block data.

Regarding bitlane's post, yes, there was about 15 seconds of downtime last night for a pool restart.

MM coming soon I assume then ?

[eleuthria]

Added Pool Block History page, API for it will be coming soon as well so web services can scrape our block data.

Regarding bitlane's post, yes, there was about 15 seconds of downtime last night for a pool restart.

MM coming soon I assume then ?

Not until shadders releases the final PSJ which includes built in work generation for merged mining.

[eleuthria]

Shares are still being logged right now, don't panic.  Looks like daylight savings time is messing with the speed calculations, should clear up shortly.