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

[Raskal]

Has anyone else noticed a sudden decrease in their worker charts as of around 4pm (GMT) yesterday?

My stats look perfectly ok around that time - nothing outside the normal range (I use the eu.stratum server).  Possibly it was some kind of intermediate routing issue which was not local either to you or the server.

I actually had an increase in worker performance my charts had been going up and down like a toilet seat cause I set share difficulty so high but as of yesterday they actually leveled off at exactly the hashrate I'm sending to btcguild.

[HPmuirt]

Thanks for the replies gentlemen, this is very strange.

My stats went down from 230GH/s to 170GH/s and have remained at that level for 36 hours now, whereas the other half of my hash power going to slush has remained constant, as has the S3 itself which is sitting at 465GH/s. I could understand if the Slush stats had gone up (compensation for low BTC Guild) or down (AntMiner/connection issue) but since everything else remains the same, I am (easily) confused

http://www.hpmuirt.com/images/temp/BTC%20Guild%2072%20hours.JPG

I have switched over to the EU server and will see what happens.

Cheers n beers

HPmuirt

[Sir Alan]

My stats went down from 230GH/s to 170GH/s and have remained at that level for 36 hours now, whereas the other half of my hash power going to slush has remained constant, as has the S3 itself which is sitting at 465GH/s.

Thinking back, I had a similar issue with both Slush and BTCG when I first fired up my S3+s.  Initially I let the pools set their own difficulty levels, but when I changed it manually to a minimum of 256 for each worker on each pool I started getting better reported hash rates.  Each S3+ is balanced between the two pools, and each is set up as a seperate worker.  Of course, the optimum setting may be different for an S3 and so YMMV, but it could be worth experimenting.

[HPmuirt]

Thanks for the replies chaps. Not sure why, but the solution seems to have been to point at the EU server (As suggested by Sir Alan)....see below: -

http://www.hpmuirt.com/images/temp/BTC%20Guild%2072%20hours-2.JPG

As you can see, as soon as I switched to that server, my reported speed and thus rewards came back up to normal and have remained there.

Cheers n beers

HPmuirt

[stan258]

My miners are randomly loosing connection with the pool. I thought it was my Internet which I was having a problem with but it's fixed.   

[eleuthria]

Fixed a problem with entering a new address being reported as invalid.

My miners are randomly loosing connection with the pool. I thought it was my Internet which I was having a problem with but it's fixed.   

There were no connectivity issues with the servers, so it sounds like the problems you were having aren't totally fixed.

[eleuthria]

Yet another batch of phishing emails, now using support@btcguild.com instead of info@btcguild.com.  Once again, they are completely bogus, they aren't even targeted at users of BTC Guild (though I'm sure some BTC Guild users have received them as well).

So once again:  If you fall for something so painfully stupid, please destroy any and all of your electronics because you are a danger to the internet.  Anybody stupid enough to fall for a .jar attachment phishing email is obviously not running a functional computer, but some kind of virus breeding pit which is spewing out spam, worms, and UDP packets with reckless abandon.

[Sitarow]

So once again:  If you fall for something so painfully stupid, please destroy any and all of your electronics because you are a danger to the internet.  Anybody careless enough to fall for a .jar attachment phishing email is obviously not running a functional computer, but some kind of virus breeding pit which is spewing out spam, worms, and UDP packets with reckless abandon.

+1

[eleuthria]

So once again:  If you fall for something so painfully stupid, please destroy any and all of your electronics because you are a danger to the internet.  Anybody careless enough to fall for a .jar attachment phishing email is obviously not running a functional computer, but some kind of virus breeding pit which is spewing out spam, worms, and UDP packets with reckless abandon.

+1

Nope, stupid is the correct word.  It's careless to click on a link that was actually disguised or slightly misspelled in a clever way (vv instead of w, l instead of I, etc.).  It's stupid to click on an attachment to an email with the subject "Invoice Payment Confirmation" from a company that doesn't even have invoices.

EDIT:  Actually, it's pretty stupid to be clicking any email attachment at all unless you were expecting it, even if the subject/company/attachment name make sense.  Also it's pretty stupid to not notice a '.jar' extension.  And if the excuse is your email client hides extensions...that's also quite stupid.

EDIT #2: TL;DR:  I'm a tech elitist who has no issue with blaming the victim for their own stupidity.

[Sir Alan]

It's stupid to click on an attachment to an email with the subject "Invoice Payment Confirmation" from a company that doesn't even have invoices.

What degree of foolishness would you assign when the person doing the clicking has never even had dealings with the company named?

[BRADLEYPLOOF]

It's stupid to click on an attachment to an email with the subject "Invoice Payment Confirmation" from a company that doesn't even have invoices.

What degree of foolishness would you assign when the person doing the clicking has never even had dealings with the company named?

 

[bugcatchr]

Yet another batch of phishing emails, now using support@btcguild.com instead of info@btcguild.com.  Once again, they are completely bogus, they aren't even targeted at users of BTC Guild (though I'm sure some BTC Guild users have received them as well).

So once again:  If you fall for something so painfully stupid, please destroy any and all of your electronics because you are a danger to the internet.  Anybody stupid enough to fall for a .jar attachment phishing email is obviously not running a functional computer, but some kind of virus breeding pit which is spewing out spam, worms, and UDP packets with reckless abandon.

can you submit the .jar to virustotal

[opentoe]

After that huge post on /r/Bitcoin, you reverted your decision?

The response to the intent to close the pool were definitely weighing heavily on me.  That was originally why I began to consider selling the pool to keep it running.  After responding to the first wave of inquiries about buying the pool, I started to realize that selling the pool would likely not be possible.  I could not separate myself from the pool, and the only thing going through my head over the last two days was the concern that if I sold it and somebody ruined it, opened it up to vulnerabilities, or wronged the users, it would be my fault even if it happened years after I was gone.

In the business world if you want to know what your business is worth, put it up for sale. Costs nothing and you'll get multiple offers. I think once you saw those numbers you may have started to change your mind right there and then. It does seem weird to do a 180 with such a big projectm life changing event. Usually the answer to %99 of all questions is "money".

But in the long run, good luck.

[eleuthria]

It is the end of an area in the Bitcoin mining landscape but it is comforting to know you are leaving ahead and paying everyone

Sorry, but I deleted your post due to the size of the quote, and the fact that it is no longer accurate.  The pool is remaining open (and not being sold).  The same process outlined in that post would still apply should the pool ever get forced to close however [legal or profitability issues].

[clanbake]

GAW is mostly scrypt so no typo

1) GAW still does not have proof of a single block mined. 2) The fake pictures this GAW_CEO moron posted on his little hashtalk website were all antminer S2 or even S4 meaning SHA256 (not scrypt). So, again, how would you even come to a conclusion that GAW, if they mine anything at all, they mine scrypt?

[mavericklm]

besides stratum.btcguild.com:3333 and the eu server, is there another one, or other way of typing it?
strange shit only one s1 connects the rest can not....
 
thx!

[Sir Alan]

only one s1 connects the rest can not

Perhaps a factory reset on the defaulters might help before starting again.  If one can connect, the others should also be able to, so perhaps the settings have been mucked around a little too much.  Of course, you are using a different IP address for each miner, and all in the same group as the successful miner and the router?

[mavericklm]

yes, all got a reset punch. yes different ip for each one!
same for s2, server dead! but they work on solo pool, eligius...

[Sir Alan]

they work on solo pool, eligius...

Have you compared all the settings between the one that works and those that don't?  Checked the worker name is correct?  Have you tried a cold reboot of the router?

[mavericklm]

most of the hardware got a restart

tried:
stratum+tcp://stratum.btcguild.com:3333
stratum.btcguild.com:3333
eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333

user name i take it directly from site, so it cant be wrong

I got to hook back up the only miner that i know works fine, maybe some there is some setting...

thx!

LE: somehow eu server is working!!! i didn't do jack shit!