[ANN] The First Litecoin PPS Pool (litecoinpool.org)

[Newmineryeah]

So, I have a gawminer fury (not great I know) I was given it by a friend who is having a clear out and I almost gave up on mining. I would like to know as it is scrypt what could I mine with it. I cannot find any doge pools out there that I could use with cgminer and my gawminer, do you know of any active low networ hash for scrypt?

[Quix0r]

I have a Zeusminer Blizzard now (1.2Mh - 1.4Mh). When I let it run on my local mpos installation, the miner is finding shares (I wonder if I can find blocks with this?). But when I setup litecoinpool.org as the pool, no hashes at all are being mined.

What causes this?

[Newmineryeah]

With 1.++Mh/s you will not find a block, your probability is like 14% likely to find one in 365 days seeing as pools now are in 97,480 MH/s. Is your cgminer saying accepted work or what. can I see ascreenshot?!

[Quix0r]

Ah: Diff: 0 That is maybe why? I use bfgminer 4.2.0 with zeusminer branch (old, I know but seems to work at least with my pool).

Here is the output:

Code:

 bfgminer version 4.2.0 - Started: [2015-05-12 21:31:06] - [  0 days 00:02:28]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options                                                 [H]elp [Q]uit
 Pool 0: litecoinpool.org    Diff:0  +Strtm  LU:[21:33:10]  User:Quix0r.miner1
 Block: ...b9f1c8d5 #779274  Diff:41.5k (296.8G)  Started: [21:32:18]
 ST:202  F:0  NB:3  AS:0  BW:[ 53/  5 B/s]  E:0.00  I: 0.00 BTC/hr  BS:0
 1            |  0.35/ 1.02/ 0.00Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
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 ZUS 0:       |  2.35/ 0.99/ 0.00Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
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 [2015-05-12 21:30:49] Loaded configuration file /home/quix0r/.bfgminer/bfgminer.conf
 [2015-05-12 21:30:49] Probing for an alive pool
 [2015-05-12 21:31:06] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://litecoinpool.org:3333 alive
 [2015-05-12 21:31:06] Network difficulty changed to 41.5k (296.8G)
 [2015-05-12 21:31:06] API running in local read access mode on port 4028
 [2015-05-12 21:31:07] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us
 [2015-05-12 21:31:39] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2015-05-12 21:32:18] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

[Quix0r]

I upgraded to bfgminer version 5.1.0-36-g8b5d36b and it now works ...  

Well, okay. Never mind. :-)

Nope, it doesn't mine anything again (like above). :-(

[pooler]

I upgraded to bfgminer version 5.1.0-36-g8b5d36b and it now works ... 

Well, okay. Never mind. :-)

Great to hear that. I was just about to suggest trying to upgrade the miner. BFGminer is (just like all cgminer forks) a rather complex piece of software, and you never know where the next bug is going to pop up.

Ah: Diff: 0 That is maybe why?

Probably not. Older versions of BFGminer only display the integer part of the share difficulty, so 0 is expected if the difficulty is less than 1. (More info about BFGminer's way of formatting difficulty here.)
Also, if the difficulty were really 0, you would be submitting a lot of (invalid) shares. And I see that your miner hasn't submitted a single share yet.

[Quix0r]

Getting this on my mpos instance:

Code:

2015-05-12 22:21:04+0200 [Protocol,0,192.168.x.y] 2015-05-12 22:21:04,083 WARNING protocol # Failed message: Cannot decode mess,���C��r��M
           o���u"���Iu�\03gE9k�2@D8j�f/<A5=�' from 192.168.x.y

It looks like the newer version has some trouble, 4.2.0 is mining again (only own pool).

[Mister_Fix]

It would be nice is the JSON API updated stats more often.

[pooler]

It would be nice is the JSON API updated stats more often.

I agree. I have now decreased the minimum interval between updates of the user API from 1 minute to 10 seconds.

[Mister_Fix]

It would be nice is the JSON API updated stats more often.

I agree. I have now decreased the minimum interval between updates of the user API from 1 minute to 10 seconds.

Oh wow, thank you very much!
i use it for my java based program, here's a scrrenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/pANbqJq.png

[siouxscout]

I can't seem to get my second worker's speed to update under the /account page, has anyone else had this issue? Perhaps I'm not leaving that working on long enough. I've got a couple spare miners running ~15Mh/s under the second workers name and password, so I guess ill just leave it and see.

Just worried ill leave them running for no reason.

[pooler]

I can't seem to get my second worker's speed to update under the /account page, has anyone else had this issue? Perhaps I'm not leaving that working on long enough. I've got a couple spare miners running ~15Mh/s under the second workers name and password, so I guess ill just leave it and see.

Just worried ill leave them running for no reason.

If your miners show up as online but no shares are being submitted then I'm sorry but you are indeed running them for no reason. If that's the case, almost certainly something is wrong in your configuration.

[jstefanop]

whats the max diff your stratum server can take? Just tried setting a 131,072 diff but it knocked me down to 65,536. Do you have an asic specific server in the US?

[pooler]

whats the max diff your stratum server can take? Just tried setting a 131,072 diff but it knocked me down to 65,536. Do you have an asic specific server in the US?

There was a soft limit at 65,536, I've bumped it to 131,072 now. If you need anything higher than that just send an email to support, but keep in mind that 65k was already pretty high. For a 500 MH/s miner, 131k corresponds to an average of one share every 17 seconds.

[jstefanop]

whats the max diff your stratum server can take? Just tried setting a 131,072 diff but it knocked me down to 65,536. Do you have an asic specific server in the US?

There was a soft limit at 65,536, I've bumped it to 131,072 now. If you need anything higher than that just send an email to support, but keep in mind that 65k was already pretty high. For a 500 MH/s miner, 131k corresponds to an average of one share every 17 seconds.

Thanks...trying to get the Alcheminer 256 scrypt machines to work at full speed and seems like they like really high diffs, want to see what a 100k diff will do to the speed!

[jelin1984]

Why pps 101%%%%%%%%%%

[pooler]

Why pps 101%

Because the profitability of merged mining has gone down significantly in the last few days.

[jelin1984]

Come on


Put it up again

[matt4054]

Is the pool OK regarding the recent security issue and mandatory, urgent upgrade to the latest version?

Thanks!

[pooler]

Is the pool OK regarding the recent security issue and mandatory, urgent upgrade to the latest version?

Yes, of course. We've also been among the first to switch to v3 blocks a few weeks ago.