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

[JKBtCn]

Is there an advantage of increasing difficulty from 2 Gh/s default to a threshold closer to my worker's hash rate? This would improve which variable? Sorry I'm sure this has been answered in previous thread but thought I'd ask anyway. Thanks

No advantage.  The pool adjusts your difficulty based on worker speeder.  Higher difficulty == higher variance. 

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Thanks again mdude!

[guytechie]

Such bad luck lately... brought our average down to 102%.

[opentoe]

My father locked his wallet. The BTC address he is using is tied to an Electrum client wallet. We recently updated his Electrum client and that program removed all the old receive addresses and made up all new ones. The obvious question, how do we work around in getting his payout address changed if it is locked? If the answer is you cannot change it (which is what I think it is), he would have to create a new account or something, correct? Since he would be unable to continue to use his original Electrum address.

I'm still waiting for the Electrum devs to answer on where all the receive addresses went to after the update. All the transaction history is still there, and even in the details of the transactions you can see the original BTC address, just don't know how to get the originals back.

[kjj]

My father locked his wallet. The BTC address he is using is tied to an Electrum client wallet. We recently updated his Electrum client and that program removed all the old receive addresses and made up all new ones. The obvious question, how do we work around in getting his payout address changed if it is locked? If the answer is you cannot change it (which is what I think it is), he would have to create a new account or something, correct? Since he would be unable to continue to use his original Electrum address.

I'm still waiting for the Electrum devs to answer on where all the receive addresses went to after the update. All the transaction history is still there, and even in the details of the transactions you can see the original BTC address, just don't know how to get the originals back.

I don't know Electrum, but I have a hard time believing that they'd throw away the keys to old addresses.  Try doing a manual payout that is small enough that you won't be upset if it vanishes into a black hole.

[eleuthria]

My father locked his wallet. The BTC address he is using is tied to an Electrum client wallet. We recently updated his Electrum client and that program removed all the old receive addresses and made up all new ones. The obvious question, how do we work around in getting his payout address changed if it is locked? If the answer is you cannot change it (which is what I think it is), he would have to create a new account or something, correct? Since he would be unable to continue to use his original Electrum address.

I'm still waiting for the Electrum devs to answer on where all the receive addresses went to after the update. All the transaction history is still there, and even in the details of the transactions you can see the original BTC address, just don't know how to get the originals back.

If the transaction history is still there and you can still see your wallet balance, I can't imagine the keys to that wallet were lost (otherwise you wouldn't be able to spend anything).

[opentoe]

My father locked his wallet. The BTC address he is using is tied to an Electrum client wallet. We recently updated his Electrum client and that program removed all the old receive addresses and made up all new ones. The obvious question, how do we work around in getting his payout address changed if it is locked? If the answer is you cannot change it (which is what I think it is), he would have to create a new account or something, correct? Since he would be unable to continue to use his original Electrum address.

I'm still waiting for the Electrum devs to answer on where all the receive addresses went to after the update. All the transaction history is still there, and even in the details of the transactions you can see the original BTC address, just don't know how to get the originals back.

If the transaction history is still there and you can still see your wallet balance, I can't imagine the keys to that wallet were lost (otherwise you wouldn't be able to spend anything).

I want to make an update on this....my original receive address was there. I never clicked on the little tick mark that opens up the "used" address list. That is where my old address was hiding on me. I indicated to the Electrum dev that it was a mistake on my part. Thanks for the suggestion, I was just about to do that but found the old address. Yes, I feel stupid but humble enough to admit it to the world.

[jojo69]

My father locked his wallet. The BTC address he is using is tied to an Electrum client wallet. We recently updated his Electrum client and that program removed all the old receive addresses and made up all new ones. The obvious question, how do we work around in getting his payout address changed if it is locked? If the answer is you cannot change it (which is what I think it is), he would have to create a new account or something, correct? Since he would be unable to continue to use his original Electrum address.

I'm still waiting for the Electrum devs to answer on where all the receive addresses went to after the update. All the transaction history is still there, and even in the details of the transactions you can see the original BTC address, just don't know how to get the originals back.

If the transaction history is still there and you can still see your wallet balance, I can't imagine the keys to that wallet were lost (otherwise you wouldn't be able to spend anything).

I want to make an update on this....my original receive address was there. I never clicked on the little tick mark that opens up the "used" address list. That is where my old address was hiding on me. I indicated to the Electrum dev that it was a mistake on my part. Thanks for the suggestion, I was just about to do that but found the old address. Yes, I feel stupid but humble enough to admit it to the world.

sounds like a rather opaque UI, I hate stuff like that

[JKBtCn]

Anyone else unable to connect to guild website??  Attack, maintainance, other?

[eleuthria]

Anyone else unable to connect to guild website??  Attack, maintainance, other?

My guess:  'Other - Local Problem'.  No reports of an outage in IRC, and haven't had any problem loading it from my phone or PC all day.

[JKBtCn]

Anyone else unable to connect to guild website??  Attack, maintainance, other?

My guess:  'Other - Local Problem'.  No reports of an outage in IRC, and haven't had any problem loading it from my phone or PC all day.

Thank you sir. Back online.

[JKBtCn]

Does PPS payout NMC or only PPNS? Or must I point miner to merged stratum for PPS NMC mining...which one? Miner currently NOT pointing to merged. thanks

[eleuthria]

Does PPS payout NMC or only PPNS? Or must I point miner to merged stratum for PPS NMC mining...which one? Miner currently NOT pointing to merged. thanks

NMC is only awarded to PPLNS.  There is no option to earn NMC when mining under PPS on BTC Guild.

[JKBtCn]

Does PPS payout NMC or only PPNS? Or must I point miner to merged stratum for PPS NMC mining...which one? Miner currently NOT pointing to merged. thanks

NMC is only awarded to PPLNS.  There is no option to earn NMC when mining under PPS on BTC Guild.

Got it, thanks!

[Bismarckbkk]

Is there an advantage of increasing difficulty from 2 Gh/s default to a threshold closer to my worker's hash rate? This would improve which variable? Sorry I'm sure this has been answered in previous thread but thought I'd ask anyway. Thanks

The only advantage in doing so is if you have high end equipment.  Lots of high end ASIC miners tend to have a few problems when running at very low difficulties due to the amount of communication required when running at hundreds of GH/s at a low difficulty.  The pool will automatically adjust your difficulty if it's not high enough, but it takes a minute or two to find the sweet spot.  By setting a minimum difficulty, you can bypass this startup phase which will save you a few rejects early on.  It also cuts down on bandwidth, though that isn't a huge deal for anybody with broadband access due to how little bandwidth it requires in general.

Higher difficulties do have higher variance, but the recommended speeds in the drop-down are set to levels where the variance is minimal as long as you have that much speed or better.

Thx for that bro,

Im having 100% accepted shares over 3 miners/workers now. About 0.4% improvement.

[allinvain]

Any chance of introducing other merged mining coins, kinda like ghash.io is doing?

[kendog77]

Such bad luck lately... brought our average down to 102%.

The luck today has been really good, so things are turning around!

[eleuthria]

Any chance of introducing other merged mining coins, kinda like ghash.io is doing?

DVC/IXC are truly worthless.  They would be even more worthless if BTC Guild bothered to merge mine them and roughly doubled their difficulty again.

Knowing the load that altcoin daemons put on servers (because they all use extremely old bitcoin forks), I'm pretty convinced that you end up hurting your earnings more than they will add to them just due to the increased rate of stales/time to perform longpolls/work restarts.  Combined they don't even add up to 0.1% additional earnings *at current difficulty*.

Of all the scamcoins/altcoins out there, the only one that is actually something new/useful is Namecoin, even though I'm personally not a major fan of it.  But all the others are mindless clones of Bitcoin that bring nothing worthwhile to the table.  At least Namecoin was designed to do something outside of a cash grab.

[Gyrsur]

Such bad luck lately... brought our average down to 102%.

The luck today has been really good, so things are turning around!

don't mention luck in any case.

[allinvain]

Any chance of introducing other merged mining coins, kinda like ghash.io is doing?

DVC/IXC are truly worthless.  They would be even more worthless if BTC Guild bothered to merge mine them and roughly doubled their difficulty again.

Knowing the load that altcoin daemons put on servers (because they all use extremely old bitcoin forks), I'm pretty convinced that you end up hurting your earnings more than they will add to them just due to the increased rate of stales/time to perform longpolls/work restarts.  Combined they don't even add up to 0.1% additional earnings *at current difficulty*.

Of all the scamcoins/altcoins out there, the only one that is actually something new/useful is Namecoin, even though I'm personally not a major fan of it.  But all the others are mindless clones of Bitcoin that bring nothing worthwhile to the table.  At least Namecoin was designed to do something outside of a cash grab.

Yeah I guess you're right. But I'm wondering what you think about PPC (aka peercoin). Useless?

[DrG]

Any chance of introducing other merged mining coins, kinda like ghash.io is doing?

DVC/IXC are truly worthless.  They would be even more worthless if BTC Guild bothered to merge mine them and roughly doubled their difficulty again.

Knowing the load that altcoin daemons put on servers (because they all use extremely old bitcoin forks), I'm pretty convinced that you end up hurting your earnings more than they will add to them just due to the increased rate of stales/time to perform longpolls/work restarts.  Combined they don't even add up to 0.1% additional earnings *at current difficulty*.

Of all the scamcoins/altcoins out there, the only one that is actually something new/useful is Namecoin, even though I'm personally not a major fan of it.  But all the others are mindless clones of Bitcoin that bring nothing worthwhile to the table.  At least Namecoin was designed to do something outside of a cash grab.

Yeah I guess you're right. But I'm wondering what you think about PPC (aka peercoin). Useless?

Don't believe that can be piggybacked onto BTC.