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

[CYPER]

at BTCGuild i get best payoff for my hasing power. not sure why, but it beats other pools.

good fee rate

I would disagree only on this one. I find the 3% fee disproportionately high to what the pool offers.
And the higher the hashrate you have the more disproportionate it is.
For someone who is making 1BTC a month that might be OK, but for people who mine 100BTC monthly I see no real reason why this service should cost them 3BTC.
Pool luck is irrelevant as it is in no way controlled by the owner, so please do not use it as a reason to justify the fee.

[Brassguy]

DDOS? Can't access site but shares are being accepted....

[Ridicuss]

DDOS? Can't access site but shares are being accepted....

Thought the same thing at first. Watching miners now, shares still accepted. Hopefully just server maintenance or something on the GUI.

[CheezWiz]

Yeah, see the same...

[eleuthria]

Website is back up and running normally.  The pools should not have been affected by it (the apache process was what was lagged).

Just a coincidence that the luck went to hell.  If you look at the block history, you'll a cluster of bad blocks (277522 - 277570).  Multiple 2-hour blocks will generally nuke luck pretty bad.  It's not that any individual block was terrible luck, just that a group of blocks taking ~2.5x longer than normal happened in a row.

[eleuthria]

Whats with the 7.5% fee?! It was 3%, then 5% and now it's 7.5% and we didn't even get a notification that the fees went up?
 
Explaination please

PPLNS is and has always been 3% with paid orphan blocks, paid transaction fees, and for the last few months, Namecoins.

PPS was 5% from October 2011 until May 2013, then increased to 7.5% with significant warnings for close to a month before it was increased.

[Ridicuss]

Whats with the 7.5% fee?! It was 3%, then 5% and now it's 7.5% and we didn't even get a notification that the fees went up?
 
Explaination please

PPLNS is and has always been 3% with paid orphan blocks, paid transaction fees, and for the last few months, Namecoins.

PPS was 5% from October 2011 until May 2013, then increased to 7.5% with significant warnings for close to a month before it was increased.

Thanks eleuthria !  I feel i have been treated as fair as possible on your pool and the attention you give your pool miners is top notch.

[eleuthria]

Website temporarily unavailable in order to debug a script that's eating up a LOT of CPU suddenly.  Should be back up very soon.  The mining servers are still running during this maintenance period.

[Fiyasko]

Website temporarily unavailable in order to debug a script that's eating up a LOT of CPU suddenly.  Should be back up very soon.  The mining servers are still running during this maintenance period.

Shares are not being accepted at the moment i keep disconnecting and my workers keep stalling because the pool is "unstable"

[jojo69]

fans all just spun down here

[eleuthria]

Problem found, and now fixed.  The public servers *should* have remained online.  The private server did require a restart unfortunately.

[jojo69]

not getting work on the public server

[mountainjam]

same here, I stopped getting work and now I'm having trouble reconnecting to the server

[jojo69]

there it goes, thanks eleuthria

[eleuthria]

Payout scripts are paused for a little bit longer (that's where the holdup is stemming from).  They'll be manually run a few times to catch up once I've caught the part that's lagging the system down.

[eleuthria]

If your miners are still having problems, please let me know ASAP!  Everything looks perfect from the server side right now (with the exception of payouts temporarily paused).

[droptable]

working.

1reconect some minutes ago.
(usa-48)
but no shares gone.

everything fine.
thx 4 the service.

[Fiyasko]

All good on my end

[eleuthria]

One block was paid out multiple times due to the script looping.  Automatic payouts temporarily offline again while the reward calculations are fixed for shifts 13478 - 13487.  It's been a LONG time since this has happened, so for users not aware, here's the breakdown:

A block reward was given out to shifts 13478-13487 multiple times.  As a result, those shifts were credited roughly 10x the amount they should have been.  If you requested a payout, or had an automatic payout trigger during those shifts, you have been paid more than you should have.

Once the payout for those shifts is corrected, your balance will adjust to what it *should* have been.  If this amount is negative, your balance will grow back with each block solve until it's back positive.  The negative balance IS correct, because you were paid more than you earned due to the error.


Luckily this was only ~8 hours worth of "extra" payout, so any negative balance accounts would not even take one day to go back to a positive balance.  Hopefully most users remain honest and only a limited number make new accounts to get around paying back the debt.

[eleuthria]

And now everything is back to normal.  All scripts running again, the error in payouts has been fixed, and all the servers appear to be running smooth from this end.  Sorry for the eventful Sunday morning.