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

[jdany]

Is this dropping in luck comes from more orphaned blocks?

It's my fault.  I didn't realize one of my 30Gh miners went off.
I got it fired up this morning, so luck should be swinging up to normal.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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[eleuthria]

Warning to New York Residents

The latest draft of the BitLicense proposal is out, and it is even worse than the last one when it comes to pools.  This is an approximately 75-day notice that if you are using the pool from New York, you will need to request your withdrawals and change pools.  Once the comment period ends (approx. 30 days) and the BitLicense is approved, unless it is changed, it will leave a 45-day window before it becomes effective.  Once the 45-day window begins, the pool will be implementing Geo-IP to ban the creation of accounts from New York, and a splash screen will appear to users who already have accounts telling them that the pool is no longer able to serve them and that they have 45 (or less) days to request their withdrawals.  After it becomes effective, the site will no longer be available for access from New York.

[hurricandave]

What a shame, first they outlaw 72 ounce soda, then they criminalize supersize fries. Now they want to shield you from all those drug peddling,hooligan, Bitcoiners.

[ManeBjorn]

How are you going to counter VPN's and such?
I have only gave it a brief read through but I thought they had said they were leaving miners/transaction processing alone?
Note though I do not blame you.

Warning to New York Residents

The latest draft of the BitLicense proposal is out, and it is even worse than the last one when it comes to pools.  This is an approximately 75-day notice that if you are using the pool from New York, you will need to request your withdrawals and change pools.  Once the comment period ends (approx. 30 days) and the BitLicense is approved, unless it is changed, it will leave a 45-day window before it becomes effective.  Once the 45-day window begins, the pool will be implementing Geo-IP to ban the creation of accounts from New York, and a splash screen will appear to users who already have accounts telling them that the pool is no longer able to serve them and that they have 45 (or less) days to request their withdrawals.  After it becomes effective, the site will no longer be available for access from New York.

[eleuthria]

How are you going to counter VPN's and such?
I have only gave it a brief read through but I thought they had said they were leaving miners/transaction processing alone?
Note though I do not blame you.

Warning to New York Residents

The latest draft of the BitLicense proposal is out, and it is even worse than the last one when it comes to pools.  This is an approximately 75-day notice that if you are using the pool from New York, you will need to request your withdrawals and change pools.  Once the comment period ends (approx. 30 days) and the BitLicense is approved, unless it is changed, it will leave a 45-day window before it becomes effective.  Once the 45-day window begins, the pool will be implementing Geo-IP to ban the creation of accounts from New York, and a splash screen will appear to users who already have accounts telling them that the pool is no longer able to serve them and that they have 45 (or less) days to request their withdrawals.  After it becomes effective, the site will no longer be available for access from New York.

Their direct wording is any business involved in the transmission of Bitcoin to a New York resident requires a license.  Transmission has no exemptions for mining.  Now, if you're *solo mining* in New York, you wouldn't need one, since you're not transmitting to anybody.  If BTC Guild used coinbase payouts, it would also be able to bypass this, with one exception:  There is no pool doing coinbase payouts (other than p2pool which is not exactly a pool) that doesn't require a failsafe wallet to catch dust/errors, and running a manual fix to distribute the dust/errors later is transmission.  Unless BTC Guild turned itself into p2pool by setting a minimum share difficulty high enough that you would always have enough work in the PPLNS system to receive a payout, it's not an option.

Obviously you can't do anything about VPNs, but all accounts will be required to agree to an updated TOS affirming they are not residents of New York, on top of the Geo-IP ban to anybody accessing the site from New York.

[RealMalatesta]

How are you going to counter VPN's and such?
I have only gave it a brief read through but I thought they had said they were leaving miners/transaction processing alone?
Note though I do not blame you.

Warning to New York Residents

The latest draft of the BitLicense proposal is out, and it is even worse than the last one when it comes to pools.  This is an approximately 75-day notice that if you are using the pool from New York, you will need to request your withdrawals and change pools.  Once the comment period ends (approx. 30 days) and the BitLicense is approved, unless it is changed, it will leave a 45-day window before it becomes effective.  Once the 45-day window begins, the pool will be implementing Geo-IP to ban the creation of accounts from New York, and a splash screen will appear to users who already have accounts telling them that the pool is no longer able to serve them and that they have 45 (or less) days to request their withdrawals.  After it becomes effective, the site will no longer be available for access from New York.

Their direct wording is any business involved in the transmission of Bitcoin to a New York resident requires a license.  Transmission has no exemptions for mining.  Now, if you're *solo mining* in New York, you wouldn't need one, since you're not transmitting to anybody.  If BTC Guild used coinbase payouts, it would also be able to bypass this, with one exception:  There is no pool doing coinbase payouts (other than p2pool which is not exactly a pool) that doesn't require a failsafe wallet to catch dust/errors, and running a manual fix to distribute the dust/errors later is transmission.  Unless BTC Guild turned itself into p2pool by setting a minimum share difficulty high enough that you would always have enough work in the PPLNS system to receive a payout, it's not an option.

Obviously you can't do anything about VPNs, but all accounts will be required to agree to an updated TOS affirming they are not residents of New York, on top of the Geo-IP ban to anybody accessing the site from New York.

Would it help to set up a proxy for residentd of NYC?

[Sir Alan]

Would it help to set up a proxy for residentd of NYC?

Would it help if somebody smacked the legislators' silly heads?

[opentoe]

Was this the worst payout day ever on BTC Guild?  

2nd worst.  We've had 2 blocks ever last more than 20 hours.  Yesterday's was 23 hours, the record was 25.

Isn't this the negative affect a bitcoin pool has with fewer members?

And they turned Eleuthria into the bitcoin police! So why are you making changes? If they consent to leave, what's the problem? Unless you are protecting yourself from possible fines or a financial slap hosting New Yorkers?

[nokati]

hi,

I am new to the pool and try to figure things out   

I havent seen the Account Balance gong up anymore since 2015-02-09 07:55:11 AM
is it because there hasent been any block finded since 2015-02-09 07:55:11 AM ?

for example;

Blocks: 0
Shift ID: 22213
Per Share Rate: 0.00000000000000
Your Shares: 12275200
Your Reward 0.00000000




Totals (All Active Workers)   8,149.27 GH/s   29,558k (99.75%)   62720 / 512 / 12288


thanks,
sam

[hurricandave]

Correct Sam, the last Block found was during shift 22207. All open shifts will go up by 1 when we find the next block.

[BlInK311]

Don't worry Sam.  Today has been VERY slow.  You will get paid after we get another block.

The past 3 days have been great tho!  To bad I moved all my miners to test out another pool during those days. Moved them back to BTCGuild last night and now we got nothing. That's my luck right there.

[RealMalatesta]

Would it help to set up a proxy for residentd of NYC?

Would it help if somebody smacked the legislators' silly heads?

Slapping heads after a lobotomy may only produce a weird noise, nothing more.

[bitsolutions]

Their direct wording is any business involved in the transmission of Bitcoin to a New York resident requires a license.  Transmission has no exemptions for mining.  Now, if you're *solo mining* in New York, you wouldn't need one, since you're not transmitting to anybody.  If BTC Guild used coinbase payouts, it would also be able to bypass this, with one exception:  There is no pool doing coinbase payouts (other than p2pool which is not exactly a pool) that doesn't require a failsafe wallet to catch dust/errors, and running a manual fix to distribute the dust/errors later is transmission.  Unless BTC Guild turned itself into p2pool by setting a minimum share difficulty high enough that you would always have enough work in the PPLNS system to receive a payout, it's not an option.

Obviously you can't do anything about VPNs, but all accounts will be required to agree to an updated TOS affirming they are not residents of New York, on top of the Geo-IP ban to anybody accessing the site from New York.

And even then you likely have all sort of edge cases such as New York residents with miners co-located out of state or even non New York residents with miners co-located in New York. Rather than outright Geo-IP ban you could separate New York to a coinbase payout system separate from the main pool, since there would be less users per block solve dealing with dust may not be a problem.

[yakuza699]

Well since you don't respond to my PM's I decided to post it here maybe you will notice it.
"Hello eleuthria, I am going to make it very straight forward and short. The question is: Can you implement this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=952340.msg10437343#msg10437343.I would pay you 1BTC for that and I will pay you extra 0.005BTC0.01 per each 1KB.Please note that transactions that I push will only be valid,standard, and non-double-spend they will be just simple transactions that includes 0 fee and has unconfirmed inputs(which will have to confirmed in one single block).Thank you in advance."

[eleuthria]

Well since you don't respond to my PM's I decided to post it here maybe you will notice it.
"Hello eleuthria, I am going to make it very straight forward and short. The question is: Can you implement this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=952340.msg10437343#msg10437343.I would pay you 1BTC for that and I will pay you extra 0.005BTC0.01 per each 1KB.Please note that transactions that I push will only be valid,standard, and non-double-spend they will be just simple transactions that includes 0 fee and has unconfirmed inputs(which will have to confirmed in one single block).Thank you in advance."

No.

[scaleit]

having some issues connecting.

[eleuthria]

The frontend server used to filter botnet/DDoS traffic got a huge spike this morning and was causing it to drop a lot of incoming connections.  Established mining connections were unaffected, but restarting/disconnecting your miners may have resulted in being unable to get back on.  It should be working normally by now.

[tl121]

The frontend server used to filter botnet/DDoS traffic got a huge spike this morning and was causing it to drop a lot of incoming connections.  Established mining connections were unaffected, but restarting/disconnecting your miners may have resulted in being unable to get back on.  It should be working normally by now.

No it's not.  Existing connections work, but restarting a minor results in a dead connection (and switch to a backup pool, so the the miners and network connections are OK).

Oops, looks like it was fixed in the last 10 minutes or so... OK now.

[eleuthria]

BTC Guild will be temporarily pausing automatic and manual payout processing at 4 PM (PST) in order to clean up the hot wallet fragmentation.  This process should take approximately 2-3 hours to complete, after which time any delayed manual or automatic payouts will be processed.  This will not have any impact on the website or mining servers.

UPDATE:  Maintenance window is being postponed to Monday at 4 PM (PST) in order to line it up with a set of mining server rolling restarts.

[cloh76]

BTC Guild will be temporarily pausing automatic and manual payout processing at 4 PM (PST) in order to clean up the hot wallet fragmentation.  This process should take approximately 2-3 hours to complete, after which time any delayed manual or automatic payouts will be processed.  This will not have any impact on the website or mining servers.

UPDATE:  Maintenance window is being postponed to Monday at 4 PM (PST) in order to line it up with a set of mining server rolling restarts.

Are we still going to be able to mine or do we need to point our miners elsewhere?