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

[eleuthria]

One note to Stratum users:  If you are currently mining on 50.31.149.57 (this used to be the redirect URL if you connected to btcguild.com:8332), please change your miner over to stratum.btcguild.com:3333 .  The 50.31.149.57 server will be turned off once the active connection count drops under 50, or by February 28th, whichever happens first.

This seems important enough that it should appear at the top of the web page(s) as an announcement.

I'm frequently checking my status.

I rarely read this thread. (And that announcement is now buried several pages back.)

My stratum proxy is now pointed as per your above request.

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Regarding the "new_ui". Nice enough.

However, I don't see "Performance Charts", yet. (I assume they will be coming.)

I look at those. Often. Would hate if they were left out of the new design.

No worries!  Performance Charts will be making a return before the new UI is launched.  As for the server shutdown, that is being postponed until the new website is ready.  One of the reasons for the change is this new layout has some useful ways to relay alert messages and major news [not yet available in the "demo" page].

[fcmatt]

Friedcat slowly leaving to his own pool or what?

[eleuthria]

Friedcat slowly leaving to his own pool or what?

Nope, ASICMINER just had some downtime (upgrading).  They're already turned back on, but the Hall of Fame uses a 1-hour window to determine speed for users (even playing field and doesn't swing drastically).  It will take another ~40 minutes for their full speed to show back up under the Hall of Fame.

[fcmatt]

Friedcat slowly leaving to his own pool or what?

Nope, ASICMINER just had some downtime (upgrading).  They're already turned back on, but the Hall of Fame uses a 1-hour window to determine speed for users (even playing field and doesn't swing drastically).  It will take another ~40 minutes for their full speed to show back up under the Hall of Fame.

Pfft! Excuses. Fix ur codez. ;-)

For a second i thought they made their own pool. Cool that they did not leave. I enjoy seeing your pool doing so well.

[ineededausername]

Friedcat slowly leaving to his own pool or what?

Nope, ASICMINER just had some downtime (upgrading).  They're already turned back on, but the Hall of Fame uses a 1-hour window to determine speed for users (even playing field and doesn't swing drastically).  It will take another ~40 minutes for their full speed to show back up under the Hall of Fame.

upgrading?

[eleuthria]

The demo of the new template no longer automatically displays my personal account settings if your cookies aren't forwarded.  Starting to plug in the account settings and worker management pages.  I think you are really going to like the new worker management page.  If you have a lot of workers, it is immensely better (thanks to the paginated tables with real-time search), while also being useful to people with just a few since it puts all the settings (including min-diff) onto the same page.

I'm likely going to hold off on deploying until tomorrow morning.  I think it will be ready tonight, but I'd hate to go to sleep after launching it and wake up to find everybody complaining that <X> no longer works.

[eleuthria]

Thank you those who have been emailing me or chatting with me in IRC and voicing your feedback and suggestions.  Small delay on deployment, instead of tomorrow at 8 AM it will likely be around noon.  I need time to rewrite the How-To sections, take new screenshots as needed, etc.

If you haven't taken a look yet, please do (link is available on the BTC Guild website).  I'm always open to suggestions.  It doesn't mean I'll implement everything, but the best way to make improvements is to get feedback from others.

[Serenata]

Please don't forget to include the valuable "24 Hour Earnings" information snippet in the new layout.

[LazyOtto]

Please don't forget to include the valuable "24 Hour Earnings" information snippet in the new layout.

Yes, please.

[maunderingcabal]

I like the new look, but where is the name coin info, also bumping for 24 hour stats please.

[eleuthria]

No worries, 24 hour statistics and Namecoin information will both be in the new setup before it goes live.


UPDATE 1: Namecoin is now displayed, and PPLNS now hides if you turned it off.  If you have NMC and PPLNS both turned on, all 3 will show up in row, but the font size will shrink in order to fit the information without requiring an extra row of tables.

UPDATE 2: Account settings page starting to be implemented.  Hide/Show for NMC and PPLNS is working so far.


UPDATE 3:  Looks like my noon estimate might have been in BFL-time!  I promise it won't take 6+ months to finally deploy!

[-ck]

UPDATE 3:  Looks like my noon estimate might have been in BFL-time!  I promise it won't take 6+ months to finally deploy!

No, but it might take 4-6 weeks.

[Joshwaa]

On top of the last 4 - 6 weeks from before.

[organofcorti]

Isn't it always 4 - 6 weeks away?

[eleuthria]

Isn't it always 4 - 6 weeks away?

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow, you're only [4-6 weeks] awaaayyyyyyy~~~

[crazyates]

Isn't it always 4 - 6 weeks away?

A local pub I frequent has a sign that says "Free beer tomorrow!"

Gets me every time...

[meebs]

Is it just me.. or did i just notice that this one pool alone has like 28-30% of ALL BTC hashrate...

that seems like a bit much IMO. Not that I am saying that the operator of the pool has anything but best intentions.. it just seems like it wouldn't take much to push it over 50% pretty easily if another couple bit ASIC users joined.

[maunderingcabal]

Is it just me.. or did i just notice that this one pool alone has like 28-30% of ALL BTC hashrate...

that seems like a bit much IMO. Not that I am saying that the operator of the pool has anything but best intentions.. it just seems like it wouldn't take much to push it over 50% pretty easily if another couple bit ASIC users joined.

It's a good pool, why wouldn't people be flocking to it?

[crazyates]

Is it just me.. or did i just notice that this one pool alone has like 28-30% of ALL BTC hashrate...

that seems like a bit much IMO. Not that I am saying that the operator of the pool has anything but best intentions.. it just seems like it wouldn't take much to push it over 50% pretty easily if another couple bit ASIC users joined.

It's a good pool, why wouldn't people be flocking to it?

He's not saying that it's a bad pool. He's saying that one pool controlling 30% of the network is a reason to not mine there, regardless of which pool it is.

[eleuthria]

While it's somewhat of a concern, I have a strong feeling that once Avalon/BFL chips are in more hands, the current percentage of network lead will fade quickly.  If you subtract ASICMINER from the pool, BTC Guild is roughly even with the 2nd largest pool (50BTC).  50BTC and BTCGuild (sans ASICMINER) are only ~30% larger than the #3 and #4 pools.  Assuming that ASIC distribution is roughly equal to current pool hashrate distribution, the 4-12 TH/s ASICMINER adds to BTC Guild will just be a drop in the bucket.  And they may or may not stick around once they have all their chips up and running.

We're still a long way from where we were back in 2011/early 2012 when Deepbit was on occasion in control over >= 51% of the network, and 40%+ average.