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

[opentoe]

I bitch and complain like a woman and can sound like an arrogant ass, but I've always stuck with this pool from the very beginning. Even got a couple of my friends to join in and they HATE paying fees. It still baffles me how Ghash can have so much hashing power. They must be doing something right, right? If they were screwing people around wouldn't their hash rate just drop out? From what I know I think whatever BTC you make there you have to use their sister site CEX.IO to cash out your bitcoin. Gets a little confusing. At least here, everything is off one system.

Now, a technical question for the pool operator. Is this pool on a VPS or dedicated box? Maybe uses Google services for email possibly? I'm just curious, that's all.

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[eleuthria]

I bitch and complain like a woman and can sound like an arrogant ass, but I've always stuck with this pool from the very beginning. Even got a couple of my friends to join in and they HATE paying fees. It still baffles me how Ghash can have so much hashing power. They must be doing something right, right? If they were screwing people around wouldn't their hash rate just drop out? From what I know I think whatever BTC you make there you have to use their sister site CEX.IO to cash out your bitcoin. Gets a little confusing. At least here, everything is off one system.

Now, a technical question for the pool operator. Is this pool on a VPS or dedicated box? Maybe uses Google services for email possibly? I'm just curious, that's all.

All the actual pool servers are colocated in locked cabinets.  The validation servers used to filter DDoS/botnet traffic are a mix:  EC2, OVH, and Cloudflare for HTTP traffic, none of which have any actual access into the backends to avoid the risk of insider attacks like what has happened to slush in the past (on Linode and OVH).  The validation servers have read-only access to the workers table, nothing more.  The pool uses Google for email so that emails can be received and answered during DDoS attacks, which are times when email availability is crucial.

The pool also does not make use of any frameworks for its web frontend, backend, or pool server code, with the obvious exception of some JavaScript for things like charts and paginated tables (all of which is done in post-processing, rather than actually interacting with the backend directly).

[CYPER]

You'll never have proof of work per block because the pool does not track it since PPLNS has no need to care about individual block rounds.  No matter how much you bitch, it isn't going to happen because I'm not going to add an entirely new table to the database and extra scripts to try to guess how many shares went into an individual block just to track shit for you.

I am not so egocentric to expect you to "track shit" for me.
Are you so close-minded to think that I am the only person who would enjoy this feature?
Surprise yourself and check if your customers would approve of such an addition by running a poll on your website.

Btw are you running out of processing power on the servers to add such a table or is it more of a financial issue  

If the pool luck stats are accurate, they are pretty remarkable over the last month.

Approximate Pool Luck* (24H / 3D / 1W / 2W / 1M): 107.772% / 118.783% / 111.486% / 106.586% / 104.237%

Why would you assume they are inaccurate?

[krampus]

I am not so egocentric to expect you to "track shit" for me.

Are you sure about that? I mean, are you 100% positive?

[thirdlight]

I am not so egocentric to expect you to "track shit" for me.

Are you sure about that? I mean, are you 100% positive?

More importantly, was CYPER 100% positive over the last 24H / 3D / 1W / 2W / 1M, or arbitary period ?

Can CYPER prove they were 100% positive?

CYPER, Please provide data, & a chart, & a picture of a kitten.

Thanks,

[xZork]

I would love to see this kitten, I bet it is magnificent.



I really don't see the point that is trying to be put across with all these posts. Honestly, I don't think there is a point. [deleted troll food]

[HellDiverUK]

Is anyone else having intermittent connection drops with Guild?  I'm mining here at the moment, and I'm seeing my miners switching to my backup pool quite often - they NEVER switch when my backup pool is the main pool.

[eleuthria]

Is anyone else having intermittent connection drops with Guild?  I'm mining here at the moment, and I'm seeing my miners switching to my backup pool quite often - they NEVER switch when my backup pool is the main pool.

Everything is looking fine on the pool end.  No restarts, no strange bandwidth/packet loss spikes.  I have noticed on my home connection that some websites (not all) have been extremely slow for me/requiring multiple refreshes, so it's possible there may be some problems with a major ISP/backbone router causing periods of packet loss for users that pass through them en route to their destination (pool servers).

[HellDiverUK]

Yeah, it's just I'm seeing my miners flipping to Eligius quite often when mining on BTCGuild as my primary pool, but when Eligius is primary it's solid as a rock and never flips to Eligius. 

Last time it flipped was just over an hour ago, for about 10 minutes then flipped back again.  Same about 4 hours ago, and again around midnight UTC.

Two separate machines running BFGMiner on Failover - one machine has about 20GH running through it, the other about 70GH.

[eleuthria]

Yeah, it's just I'm seeing my miners flipping to Eligius quite often when mining on BTCGuild as my primary pool, but when Eligius is primary it's solid as a rock and never flips to Eligius.  

Last time it flipped was just over an hour ago, for about 10 minutes then flipped back again.  Same about 4 hours ago, and again around midnight UTC.

Two separate machines running BFGMiner on Failover - one machine has about 20GH running through it, the other about 70GH.

Sadly, I can definitely say that's a local issue if you're seeing it often.  The pools are running solid with many connections which have been active for days on end without interruption with each backend server.

[HellDiverUK]

No problems, I'll go beat my router with a stick when I get home this evening.

[eleuthria]

No problems, I'll go beat my router with a stick when I get home this evening.

Hitting routers is always a good start, the little suckers need it from time to time.  My new 802.11ac router actually has a setting (I think by default) where it will reboot on a weekly schedule just to clean house.

However, the reference to "local issue" in this sense isn't referring to your home network (though that is always a possibility), but just something between you and the pool servers is not happy.  Unfortunately (well, fortunately for the pool overall), the problem is definitely not in the pool servers or the datacenter, putting it outside of my ability to fix/tweak anything.

[DrG]

No problems, I'll go beat my router with a stick when I get home this evening.

Hitting routers is always a good start, the little suckers need it from time to time.  My new 802.11ac router actually has a setting (I think by default) where it will reboot on a weekly schedule just to clean house.

However, the reference to "local issue" in this sense isn't referring to your home network (though that is always a possibility), but just something between you and the pool servers is not happy.  Unfortunately (well, fortunately for the pool overall), the problem is definitely not in the pool servers or the datacenter, putting it outside of my ability to fix/tweak anything.

Damn you!  I thought the pool fees covered housecalls!

[KhajiitTechnologies]

Anyone else notice their 24 hour earnings drop almost in half the past 2 days or so?

[eleuthria]

Anyone else notice their 24 hour earnings drop almost in half the past 2 days or so?

You went from 130-140% 24-hour luck to 80% 24-hour luck.

[AussieHash]

The calculator at the top will tell you your ideal earnings for the current difficulty level
http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

[curt.rowland]

Hey all nice to be here after being treated like crap over at slush's pool for the first two weeks of my mining. Things seem alot more organized over here. I may be new but it cant be good when a pool continually has problems paying out confirmed rewards to its members. But dont say anything about it or else you be crying and then they will throw you a guilt trip for coming over here. It seemed like a business struggling to make payroll every week. Maybe he purposly runs it like crap to drive the newbies away and keep the hashrate low, it seems that group beleives there is to much hashing power here but I think that is stupid. Anyway nice to be here. I do have aquestion on the rewards since it is a little different format here. Im just curious, are the rewards on the pplns stats page for open shifts not reflected in your account balance until it shows in the closed shift section? Also for the rewards,  is that i am getting the block reward AND the shift rewards or is that the shift rewards just add up to the block rewards? Sory just being a noob 

[eleuthria]

Hey all nice to be here after being treated like crap over at slush's pool for the first two weeks of my mining. Things seem alot more organized over here. I may be new but it cant be good when a pool continually has problems paying out confirmed rewards to its members. But dont say anything about it or else you be crying and then they will throw you a guilt trip for coming over here. It seemed like a business struggling to make payroll every week. Maybe he purposly runs it like crap to drive the newbies away and keep the hashrate low, it seems that group beleives there is to much hashing power here but I think that is stupid. Anyway nice to be here. I do have aquestion on the rewards since it is a little different format here. Im just curious, are the rewards on the pplns stats page for open shifts not reflected in your account balance until it shows in the closed shift section? Also for the rewards,  is that i am getting the block reward AND the shift rewards or is that the shift rewards just add up to the block rewards? Sory just being a noob  

It has been a bit disheartening to see the state of Slush's thread.  It really seems wrong for a thread to have 100s of the most recent pages talking about inaccurate rewards with no word at all from the pool op about it for months.

Open shift rewards are immediately reflected in your balance.  BTC Guild does not make you wait for confirmations or for shifts to be closed.  The reason for the warning at the top of the page is people tend to freak out seeing 0-3 blocks paid and extremely low per-share rates at the top of Open Shifts, which is *normal* because they still have hours worth of time to have extra block rewards split with them.

Your rewards are based purely on shift rewards.  The block reward shown on the dashboard is just go give you an idea of how much your balance has increased with each block solve.

[eleuthria]

If everything goes according to plan, the new version of the pool server backend code will be getting deployed in the next 48 hours.  I'll be updating the thread as the time gets closer.  The goal is this will be as painless as possible (brief blip and you're on the new backend code).  I'll be running tests tonight locally, and inviting people in IRC with different types of hardware to help make sure it doesn't have any unexpected conflicts with certain software/hardware.

Once the new backend is deployed, the next project on the list is something that's been mentioned in IRC a few times:  Scrypt Guild.

[mdude77]

Once the new backend is deployed, the next project on the list is something that's been mentioned in IRC a few times:  Scrypt Guild.

Woohoo!  Multipool will get competition?  It sure needs it!

M