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

[eleuthria]

Anybody else having some weird issues with BTCGuild right now?  I was mining fine but then my computer had to update some patches on windows update and then when I rebooted bfgminer will connect to BTCGuild but it seems to only mine a single thread ONE asic chip.  The weirdest part is that if I use a different pool it'll mine perfectly, but if I use BTCGuild it screws up.  It also doesn't seem to be loading my worker difficulty setting correctly, at least not on the US server-it thinks my difficulty is set to 2 when it's not.  If I use the EU server it sets the difficulty correctly but also does the weird one thread only thing.  I don't know what the heck is going on?  It's not a hardware issue since the miners work perfectly on the other pool, and I didn't change anything with my configuration since it was working 30 minutes ago.

Weirdest part is that one of my miners on another computer is still connected to BTCGuild and that miner is communicating perfectly and everything is mining on all the chips.  Is BTCGuild's stratum server still being DDOS'ed?  

The servers get hit on and off, normally not very long anymore.  There haven't been any attacks in the last 12 hours or so.  The worker difficulty part is a known event, since the server is validating you're a real miner before you're properly routed to the actual mining servers.  So when you first connect your difficulty will be 2, but it will then be updated after you submit the first share to prove you're a real miner.

[Xian01]

Huh ?

[eleuthria]

The website was briefly operating in 'Direct' mode, instead of operating through Cloudflare's servers.  This meant that you were only seeing the self signed certificate that BTC Guild uses.

BTC Guild's website is normally served via Cloudflare.  Your connection to Cloudflare uses Cloudflare's SSL certificate, which has a root CA that is trusted.  Then the connection between Cloudflare and BTC Guild also uses SSL, in this case a self signed certificate since there's no need to worry about the ugly 'untrusted root CA' warnings appearing on the end-user's browser.

EDIT:  Pay closer attention to the date, it expires in about 10 years, not a few days ago

[Xian01]

The website was briefly operating in 'Direct' mode, instead of operating through Cloudflare's servers.  This meant that you were only seeing the self signed certificate that BTC Guild uses.
EDIT:  Pay closer attention to the date, it expires in about 10 years, not a few days ago

 I did see the long expiry date, was just more concerned that I was getting a cert error trying to access the landing site.

 Was able to access https://www.btcguild.com/index.php?page=dashboard without any cert errors.

 Thanks for the 411.

[eleuthria]

I just made a minor cosmetic change to the PPLNS Stats luck chart.  You can now click+drag to zoom into a specific time period.

[demonmaestro]

I just made a minor cosmetic change to the PPLNS Stats luck chart.  You can now click+drag to zoom into a specific time period.

kinky.

[Mapuo]

Anybody else having some weird issues with BTCGuild right now?  I was mining fine but then my computer had to update some patches on windows update and then when I rebooted bfgminer will connect to BTCGuild but it seems to only mine a single thread ONE asic chip.  The weirdest part is that if I use a different pool it'll mine perfectly, but if I use BTCGuild it screws up.  It also doesn't seem to be loading my worker difficulty setting correctly, at least not on the US server-it thinks my difficulty is set to 2 when it's not.  If I use the EU server it sets the difficulty correctly but also does the weird one thread only thing.  I don't know what the heck is going on?  It's not a hardware issue since the miners work perfectly on the other pool, and I didn't change anything with my configuration since it was working 30 minutes ago.

Weirdest part is that one of my miners on another computer is still connected to BTCGuild and that miner is communicating perfectly and everything is mining on all the chips.  Is BTCGuild's stratum server still being DDOS'ed? 

Same here, and cant connect after first share(diff 2)

[EzCheese]

No worky, anyone else have some feedback? 

It should just work with '-o stratum.btcguild.com -p 3333'.  You then connect your miners to port 8332 on the proxy's IP.

+1 eleuthria   

-15 me

Having the correct worker info really does help...  My bad.  Thank you!

Ah yes, I get everything working.  Go to bed, then wake up to a dead PSU...  RAAAAGGGEEE!!!

[demonmaestro]

No worky, anyone else have some feedback?  

It should just work with '-o stratum.btcguild.com -p 3333'.  You then connect your miners to port 8332 on the proxy's IP.

+1 eleuthria  

-15 me

Having the correct worker info really does help...  My bad.  Thank you!

Ah yes, I get everything working.  Go to bed, then wake up to a dead PSU...  RAAAAGGGEEE!!!

And i just woke up to my ISP modem dead.   Got a new one.  <- talk about rage.!

[EzCheese]

Edit: Nevermind, I'm on PPS.

Sorry you missed out on some nice rounds for the day

Meh, Slush had me hostage.

You and me both, but now we're free!

Are we? are we really .......

No...  Now where did my tail go. 

[jarhed]

I thought I sensed an unpleasant disturbance in the force.....

Where's the 100TH?

[Mattster28]

Why is it when I fill out my info in the settings tab and I navigate away from the page and go back to settings all the settings boxes are empty again and the time has gone back to Europe time?

[eleuthria]

Why is it when I fill out my info in the settings tab and I navigate away from the page and go back to settings all the settings boxes are empty again and the time has gone back to Europe time?

Change a setting, click the change button, and it will save it.  If you move around on pages and then come back and try to change it on a previously loaded settings tab, you will not be have the correct security token (used to prevent XSS).

[Mattster28]

Why is it when I fill out my info in the settings tab and I navigate away from the page and go back to settings all the settings boxes are empty again and the time has gone back to Europe time?

Change a setting, click the change button, and it will save it.  If you move around on pages and then come back and try to change it on a previously loaded settings tab, you will not be have the correct security token (used to prevent XSS).

Well I filled everything out but I never hit the change button. Now when I went back I filled in my e-mail and hit change, then I changed the time and hit change and got an error about the token. Not sure what I have to do now. Sure hope I will be able to cash out of here once I recieve enough to cash out.

[OleOle]

Sure hope I will be able to cash out of here once I receive enough to cash out.

Set yourself up for Auto Payout for both BTC and NMC and the coins will come rolling in like clockwork. If you don't have or want a Namecoin wallet, many folks use an exchange which accepts mined coins. Not all exchanges do but www.btc-e.com does and it works fine for me. Go to the 'Finances' or 'Funds' tab on btc-e, click the 'Deposit' button alongside NMC and you'll be given an address at the bottom of the page which you can use with BTC Guild.

Namecoins seem to be mined a little faster than Bitcoins, so take the time to do this, no point missing out on the additional incremental revenue of merged mining and you can trade NMC for BTC on the btc-e exchange making the process straightforward.

You've found the best pool, so sit back and relax, the challenge now is keeping your rig running smoothly

[murraypaul]

Set yourself up for Auto Payout for both BTC and NMC and the coins will come rolling in like clockwork. If you don't have or want a Namecoin wallet, many folks use an exchange which accepts mined coins. Not all exchanges do but www.btc-e.com does and it works fine for me.

Payouts from BTCGuild aren't mined coins in the sense of p2pool, where they come from the coinbase transaction.
You can payout from BTCGuild to Cryptsy, for example.

[OleOle]

Set yourself up for Auto Payout for both BTC and NMC and the coins will come rolling in like clockwork. If you don't have or want a Namecoin wallet, many folks use an exchange which accepts mined coins. Not all exchanges do but www.btc-e.com does and it works fine for me.

Payouts from BTCGuild aren't mined coins in the sense of p2pool, where they come from the coinbase transaction.
You can payout from BTCGuild to Cryptsy, for example.

Good to know. Thanks for the clarification, there's always something to learn on this thread.

Much appreciated

[Rassah]

Part of the getwork shutdown started today.  I've been cleaning out the old DNS entries that were used well over a year ago, mostly used in GUIMiner's completely outdated list of BTC Guild servers.  The following "recent" DNS entries were removed:

de.btcguild.com
mergedmining.btcguild.com
backup.btcguild.com


The getwork server shutdown is still planned for Friday of this week.  It will probably happen around 16:00 UTC.

So, um, sorry for not keeping up with the last 200 pages, but is there no more merged mining? Or is merged mining there by default now?

[eleuthria]

Part of the getwork shutdown started today.  I've been cleaning out the old DNS entries that were used well over a year ago, mostly used in GUIMiner's completely outdated list of BTC Guild servers.  The following "recent" DNS entries were removed:

de.btcguild.com
mergedmining.btcguild.com
backup.btcguild.com


The getwork server shutdown is still planned for Friday of this week.  It will probably happen around 16:00 UTC.

So, um, sorry for not keeping up with the last 200 pages, but is there no more merged mining? Or is merged mining there by default now?

For the last few months, merged mining has been enabled for all users on PPLNS, including Stratum users.

[Rassah]

Part of the getwork shutdown started today.  I've been cleaning out the old DNS entries that were used well over a year ago, mostly used in GUIMiner's completely outdated list of BTC Guild servers.  The following "recent" DNS entries were removed:

de.btcguild.com
mergedmining.btcguild.com
backup.btcguild.com


The getwork server shutdown is still planned for Friday of this week.  It will probably happen around 16:00 UTC.

So, um, sorry for not keeping up with the last 200 pages, but is there no more merged mining? Or is merged mining there by default now?

For the last few months, merged mining has been enabled for all users on PPLNS, including Stratum users.

Ah, nice, thanks!