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

[dogie]

NOBODYFUCKINGMOVE, NOBODYTOUCHANYTHING. Luck is OP atm.

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[os2sam]

Luck is OP atm.

Translation

>> Luck is Original Post Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

That makes absolutely no sense.

[dogie]

Luck is OP atm.

Translation

>> Luck is Original Post Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

That makes absolutely no sense.

Why are you so old atm = at the moment

[os2sam]

Luck is OP atm.

Translation

>> Luck is Original Post Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

That makes absolutely no sense.

Why are you so old atm = at the moment

That one I actually figured out, but OP?

[organofcorti]

Luck is OP atm.

Translation

>> Luck is Original Post Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

That makes absolutely no sense.

Why are you so old atm = at the moment

That one I actually figured out, but OP?

Usually means original post, or original poster.

[dogie]

In this context it means overpowered.

[os2sam]

In this context it means overpowered.

Hooray a complete sentance.

Sorry for OT post.  Now I'm doing it.

[eleuthria]

Another update on Stratum+merged mining server progress:  I'm expecting to have a working implementation (tested with bitcoin+namecoin testnet-in-a-box servers) sometime tomorrow.  Once everything is working, I will make an updated version designed to work on the live networks, which should only take a few minutes.  I will be setting up a special test server on livenet tomorrow/Monday, which will be set to record shares at current difficulty+1 and a 0% fee, and will be asking for volunteers to mine on this test server.


Once the test server is up, I will post the details for connecting and anybody is free to give it a try.  The test server will get shut down without much notice, so make sure you have another BTC Guild server set as your backup before switching over!

For the test server, you will NOT earn NMC, but you will get 0% PPS on the Bitcoin network for the duration of the testing.  Since it is a test server, obvious warnings are applicable:  Have backup servers set up, monitor your workers, and if you see shares stop counting, STOP mining and move back to the main server because I cannot *guarantee* restoration of missing shares if something breaks on the test server [thread locking/mysql failure conflicts COULD happen but shouldn't].

[josiasrdz]

I volunteer my 1.6 ghs for the test 

[rammy2k2]

good news ! cant wait to earn some extra 

[Naelr]

I have 5 G/hash ready for testing!!!

[eleuthria]

Getting very close now, running into some issues with namecoind claiming "nBits below minimum" work.  Once that's gone it *should* be working.  Hoping to have it done tonight still (even if it requires a half gallon of coffee and "tonight" being redefined to "before dawn").

As stated previously, the information for the public test server on the live network will be made available in the forums as soon as its online.

[LazyOtto]

"tonight" being redefined to "before dawn"

<lol>

Done many of that.

Good luck.

[eleuthria]

Decided to sleep on the problem rather than stay up til dawn last night.  Woke up this morning and found my error!  Testnet mining in progress right now, will update later.


Small warning to EU users:  An antivirus company has reported my servers as hosting/running a trojan to the dedi provider.  Since both the dedicated server provider and antivirus companies are complete morons, there is a chance the servers get shut down and I have to move DNS to the US if that happens.  I've responded to the abuse email and sent an email to Symantec.  I honestly thought by now AV companies had enough of a clue to understand the difference between a C&C server and a Bitcoin server, but apparently they're still clueless on the distinction.

In the event that DNS is required to change, you shouldn't experience much downtime.

[wtfvanity]

Symantec.

That's actually a personal swear word this week. They sure catch a lot of dolphins in their tuna nets.

[eleuthria]

Merged Mining Progress Update

Now successfully merged mining on testnet!  Now fixing up some of the code (I was using a dummy namecoin coinbase rather than one I can actually claim coins from).  I won't say for certain the MM-Stratum server will be available for public testing tonight, but it's highly likely.  Keep checking the forum, I will be continuing to provide progress updates as the server nears live network testing.

[rammy2k2]

Merged Mining Progress Update

Now successfully merged mining on testnet!  Now fixing up some of the code (I was using a dummy namecoin coinbase rather than one I can actually claim coins from).  I won't say for certain the MM-Stratum server will be available for public testing tonight, but it's highly likely.  Keep checking the forum, I will be continuing to provide progress updates as the server nears live network testing.

cant wait to go live !

[eleuthria]

Merged Mining Progress Update

Next series of tests are done on testnet.  I constantly "crashed" the namecoin daemon in order to test how the stratum code functioned.  As expected, 0 impact was seen on the bitcoin side.  The server continued along happily as if nothing was wrong (other than my logs going nuts due to constant RPC connect errors on namecoind).

Live testing server will be up in the next 2-3 hours hopefully.  Once the livenet testing is under way, I will post a formal explanation of how namecoins will be distributed via Stratum, and what to expect on the website frontend.  The biggest focus I've had during this update to the code is that namecoin should not have ANY impact on performance.  This includes inside the pool server as well as on the database server.

[rammy2k2]

goodie !

[induktor]

Nice!
thanks!