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

[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.

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

Miner's will see about a half second of downtime during the restarts.  Based off the last few times restarts have been required, modern software/hardware is able to reconnect fast enough that you wouldn't even know it happened unless you were watching it at that exact moment.

[WW3]

Hi, running an antminer s2 and it says I am mining on the device at 1.7x TH/s however btcguild says I am mining at 1.3x. Is there something going on that I can fix on my end or is it something with the pool? I'll check this post later today.

Thank you,
WW3

[kano]

Hi, running an antminer s2 and it says I am mining on the device at 1.7x TH/s however btcguild says I am mining at 1.3x. Is there something going on that I can fix on my end or is it something with the pool? I'll check this post later today.

Thank you,
WW3

Check the Elapsed and Difficulty Accepted in the web interface after an hour or 2.

Then do the math:
2^32 * Difficulty Accepted / Elapsed

That is your H/s you are really mining at (ignoring stale or rejected shares)

[727miner]

Hi, running an antminer s2 and it says I am mining on the device at 1.7x TH/s however btcguild says I am mining at 1.3x. Is there something going on that I can fix on my end or is it something with the pool? I'll check this post later today.

Thank you,
WW3

Just curious, how are you getting an antminer s2 to run at that hashrate? Are you overclocking? Mine run at around 1 TH/s stock.

[WW3]

Hi, that is what the stock speed it running at for me.  I only added my credentials to guild. I did go ahead and remove my backup pools and it rebooted the miner and since that time it has increased from 1.3x th/s to 1.5. however since I started mining it has generally been in the range of 1.7 to 2 th/s. Over the last month, the speed has decreased and my payout has gone from .02btc a day to .008 and I am assuming this was somehow connected. Previously I was earning at max .05 in some cases. So, I am not sure if it's going to go back to .02 and stay steady or not. I am considering turning it off for a little while and let my antminer take a break, I bought it in mid November and it has been running nonstop since the 20th of November~

[WW3]

Hi, running an antminer s2 and it says I am mining on the device at 1.7x TH/s however btcguild says I am mining at 1.3x. Is there something going on that I can fix on my end or is it something with the pool? I'll check this post later today.

Thank you,
WW3

Check the Elapsed and Difficulty Accepted in the web interface after an hour or 2.

Then do the math:
2^32 * Difficulty Accepted / Elapsed

That is your H/s you are really mining at (ignoring stale or rejected shares)

Hi, is there a location I can convert my results to mh/s etc? I remember seeing one somewhere but I can't seem to find it now.

Thank you for the help.

[kano]

Hi, running an antminer s2 and it says I am mining on the device at 1.7x TH/s however btcguild says I am mining at 1.3x. Is there something going on that I can fix on my end or is it something with the pool? I'll check this post later today.

Thank you,
WW3

Check the Elapsed and Difficulty Accepted in the web interface after an hour or 2.

Then do the math:
2^32 * Difficulty Accepted / Elapsed

That is your H/s you are really mining at (ignoring stale or rejected shares)

Hi, is there a location I can convert my results to mh/s etc? I remember seeing one somewhere but I can't seem to find it now.

Thank you for the help.

If you mean a mining calculator - there are a few.
I also have a simple one
http://tradebtc.net/bitcalc.php

[WW3]

Hi, running an antminer s2 and it says I am mining on the device at 1.7x TH/s however btcguild says I am mining at 1.3x. Is there something going on that I can fix on my end or is it something with the pool? I'll check this post later today.

Thank you,
WW3

Check the Elapsed and Difficulty Accepted in the web interface after an hour or 2.

Then do the math:
2^32 * Difficulty Accepted / Elapsed

That is your H/s you are really mining at (ignoring stale or rejected shares)

Hi, is there a location I can convert my results to mh/s etc? I remember seeing one somewhere but I can't seem to find it now.

Thank you for the help.

If you mean a mining calculator - there are a few.
I also have a simple one
http://tradebtc.net/bitcalc.php

Much obliged Kano~

[WW3]

Hi, sorry to post again but I seem to have made a mistake on my post, I previously stated that I bought an s2, what I meant to say was an s4.

Thanks,
WW3

[Kexkey]

3 blocks in 11 minutes, niiiice!   

[xhomerx10]

3 blocks in 11 minutes, niiiice!   

 Very nice

  I'd like to see that happen more often to bring up that 3 month average!

[Kexkey]

3 blocks in 11 minutes, niiiice!   

 Very nice

  I'd like to see that happen more often to bring up that 3 month average!

I just noticed that it's one of my miners that found one of those blocks!!  But I can't find where in the site I can see the information about what block I found.  I just see I found one, as well as in my miner's interface.  Is that info published somewhere?

[BlInK311]

which one were you?
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/b8f73ec2fc205b8b7366c90ed4e540a8ab0c22467f7b11f8e23df60d9a3b7ac7
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4e88190d9566bda371e27c5c5401fdd640724d1f447c88e343b7b82beb053e09
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/377760eeadc7c427372d8d366dff8315b56b5d2362e4fc0d4bfe01841a52ad93

It actually looks like one person found those 2 blocks.  Both have the same IP address.  Am I reading that right??

[Kexkey]

which one were you?
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/b8f73ec2fc205b8b7366c90ed4e540a8ab0c22467f7b11f8e23df60d9a3b7ac7
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4e88190d9566bda371e27c5c5401fdd640724d1f447c88e343b7b82beb053e09
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/377760eeadc7c427372d8d366dff8315b56b5d2362e4fc0d4bfe01841a52ad93

It actually looks like one person found those 2 blocks.  Both have the same IP address.  Am I reading that right??

I think those are IP's from the nodes that relayed the block to Blockchain.info.  Maybe they are from BTCGuild's cluster, but maybe not.  My IP is none of them.

[kano]

3 blocks in 11 minutes, niiiice!   

 Very nice

  I'd like to see that happen more often to bring up that 3 month average!

I just noticed that it's one of my miners that found one of those blocks!!  But I can't find where in the site I can see the information about what block I found.  I just see I found one, as well as in my miner's interface.  Is that info published somewhere?

You can work out the block from the cgminer "best share"
Here's how:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665.msg5292279#msg5292279
or post your best share and I'll do that

[Kexkey]

3 blocks in 11 minutes, niiiice!   

 Very nice

  I'd like to see that happen more often to bring up that 3 month average!

I just noticed that it's one of my miners that found one of those blocks!!  But I can't find where in the site I can see the information about what block I found.  I just see I found one, as well as in my miner's interface.  Is that info published somewhere?

You can work out the block from the cgminer "best share"
Here's how:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665.msg5292279#msg5292279
or post your best share and I'll do that

Haha, that's not as simple as adding subtracting some numbers...   106,908,021,038 is the best share shown by cgminer.

I found 4 blocks in 6 months last year with 10 S1's, but I haven't found anything in the last 6 months with more than 20 times that hashrate... I was wondering if my miners were working properly or being hacked in some way (BGP hijacking or whatever).  I'm now reassured and glad they can find blocks.

Thanks!

[kano]

3 blocks in 11 minutes, niiiice!   

 Very nice

  I'd like to see that happen more often to bring up that 3 month average!

I just noticed that it's one of my miners that found one of those blocks!!  But I can't find where in the site I can see the information about what block I found.  I just see I found one, as well as in my miner's interface.  Is that info published somewhere?

You can work out the block from the cgminer "best share"
Here's how:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665.msg5292279#msg5292279
or post your best share and I'll do that

Haha, that's not as simple as adding subtracting some numbers...   106,908,021,038 is the best share shown by cgminer.

I found 4 blocks in 6 months last year with 10 S1's, but I haven't found anything in the last 6 months with more than 20 times that hashrate... I was wondering if my miners were working properly or being hacked in some way (BGP hijacking or whatever).  I'm now reassured and glad they can find blocks.

Thanks!

php hex.php 106,908,021,038

Output is:
diff=106908021038
d1_16=...
blk10=...
blk16=a48d49162d676388b2dba0f93756cfb37c6cbbf830e66b2

So looking for a block 00a48d.... gives: nothing since 24-Feb

Not sure why. Either my php failed or ?.

[Kexkey]

I just noticed that it's one of my miners that found one of those blocks!!  But I can't find where in the site I can see the information about what block I found.  I just see I found one, as well as in my miner's interface.  Is that info published somewhere?

You can work out the block from the cgminer "best share"
Here's how:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665.msg5292279#msg5292279
or post your best share and I'll do that

Haha, that's not as simple as adding subtracting some numbers...   106,908,021,038 is the best share shown by cgminer.

I found 4 blocks in 6 months last year with 10 S1's, but I haven't found anything in the last 6 months with more than 20 times that hashrate... I was wondering if my miners were working properly or being hacked in some way (BGP hijacking or whatever).  I'm now reassured and glad they can find blocks.

Thanks!

php hex.php 106,908,021,038

Output is:
diff=106908021038
d1_16=...
blk10=...
blk16=a48d49162d676388b2dba0f93756cfb37c6cbbf830e66b2

So looking for a block 00a48d.... gives: nothing since 24-Feb

Not sure why. Either my php failed or ?.

BTCGuild got an orphaned block this morning, maybe that was the block?  Could that explain why nothing is found?

[kano]

I just noticed that it's one of my miners that found one of those blocks!!  But I can't find where in the site I can see the information about what block I found.  I just see I found one, as well as in my miner's interface.  Is that info published somewhere?

You can work out the block from the cgminer "best share"
Here's how:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665.msg5292279#msg5292279
or post your best share and I'll do that

Haha, that's not as simple as adding subtracting some numbers...   106,908,021,038 is the best share shown by cgminer.

I found 4 blocks in 6 months last year with 10 S1's, but I haven't found anything in the last 6 months with more than 20 times that hashrate... I was wondering if my miners were working properly or being hacked in some way (BGP hijacking or whatever).  I'm now reassured and glad they can find blocks.

Thanks!

php hex.php 106,908,021,038

Output is:
diff=106908021038
d1_16=...
blk10=...
blk16=a48d49162d676388b2dba0f93756cfb37c6cbbf830e66b2

So looking for a block 00a48d.... gives: nothing since 24-Feb

Not sure why. Either my php failed or ?.

BTCGuild got an orphaned block this morning, maybe that was the block?  Could that explain why nothing is found?

That's what I first thought, but looking at those 3 above none were orphaned.
... checking orphans ...
Yep there it is:
https://blockchain.info/block-index/800504/00000000000000000a48d49162fcd579879ba25344f31226d3d002b05ae9ac93

[eleuthria]

Thanks for helping out the last two pages kano.  Was very limited in my ability to use the internet the last few days, was in a car for 30 of the last 48 hours.