[ANN][POOL] ipoMiner - Profitable multipool targeting new coins + merged mining!

[ipominer]

@brooklynite I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to ask.. yes, we are partners with Multipool.us

[jparsley]

Great site

[david123]

I don't know if multipool.us will be so satisfied with this partnership, though. I changed all my workers
from multipool to ipominer, and maybe others do that as well

[nightengale]

How long do BitcoinScrypt coins take to verify?

[reesev]

why was there such a decline in the ecc production? we didnt hit the 45 days yet.

[nightengale]

BitcoinScrypt is being pumped today, profitability could be good. Or difficulty could have gone up for ECC, or we're just taking a break. I don't think we want to put 45 days worth of mining into the ECC basket. Its nice to see things change up a little.

[nightengale]

Two in a row for me -- how often to manually requested payouts run? I requested one about 30 mins ago and has not come out yet.

[PeaMine]

Site looks nice - I like the idea of having a place to go to try something new, even if speculative.  Like someone else posted, I tried to keep up with the new offerings until it got ridiculous.  Now I mostly limit myself to coin I can actual trade somewhere and has some hash rate behind it, since I have a few wallets with nowhere to trade them.  I appreciate the idea of someone keeping an eye out for new prospects with potential.

That brings me to a suggestion.  Could you post on your site somewhere (probably the FAQs tab) the main exchanges where your coins are listed and maybe a link to the 'home page' for the coins (or at least where the wallet can be found)?  You can be a 'one stop shop' for this category!  It would make it more attractive to potential miners.  Since you are already doing the research on the coins, you should have that info close at hand somewhere.

Cheers!

I agree with all of this.

[PDcologne]

its great how popular the pool is becoming - when i joined there was 48 of us - just checked and now there is almost 500... and im no loner in the top ten miners....   number 19 now

GREAT work ipominer!!!!

[roadies]

One feature I love in Multipool that is missing in ipoMiner is the ability to manually change the workers difficulty from the UI. Any chance this feature will be added to ipoMiner?

[adaseb]

When does your pool switch to BTCS?

I noticed that when the difficulty becomes low, it stays low only for a couple minutes and then spikes right back up to ~500 or so.

~500 Diff is definately not worth mining. Worth minin when <~150 or so but it rarely stays at the difficulty for long.

[ipominer]

We have switched back to ECC a few times when difficulty on BTCS has hit 300-800+. The main problem with jumping on and off BTCS based on difficulty is that after the high difficulty block clears, 3-4 blocks happen very quickly and then difficulty jumps up again. This is why no new coins use this sort of 1-block difficulty retarget with long block times... it is a horrible idea, as you can see.

@roadies We use variable difficulty, which is more efficient for both you and the pool. If you're not familiar with vardiff, the way it works is to adjust your difficulty level so that your worker is submitting a certain number of shares in a given time period. Our vardiff configuration is setup so your worker should submit shares at least once every 10 seconds over every 2 minute period. If you are over or under that, difficulty will increase or decrease by one step -- steps are 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512. The default starting difficulty is 64, so your worker will adjust from there down to 16 or up to 512.

[ipominer]

@reesev If you're asking why the amount of ECC you're receiving has decreased, there are two reasons:

1) We've been mining BTCS for the majority of the past 13 hours, with some small periods of mining ECC. Note that we switch to new coins as opportunities to make additional profits are available.

2) The difficulty on ECC has gone up, so the frequency/amount of coins received will decrease.

[ipominer]

@nightengale On demand/requested payouts are processed every minute. There was an issue with the processing of BTCS payouts for a few hours, but that has been resolved now. We posted this as a news update on the site:

There was a typo in the BTCS wallet authentication code for payouts today which prevented BTCS payouts from being sent out for a few hours. We apologize for any inconvenience -- BTCS payouts are now functioning normally. All existing "Cash Out" requests were immediately processed after the error was fixed.

[ipominer]

As most of you have probably noticed, the site's page loads have gotten a little slow as the amount of miners has grown dramatically over the past few days. I'm going to upgrade the database server -- expect to see around 1-2 minutes of downtime.

[ipominer]

The database server upgrade has been completed, site response times should be improved now.

[sogg]

Any issue with stats reporting? Ive got 2 computers, 1 doing about 730Kh/s and the other 400Kh/s, both have been running stable and fine 24/7, but my graph on the site is showing
http://s12.postimg.org/tqxw3gddp/chart.jpg

Reported stats are bouncing around like crazy

[ipominer]

We are switching between BTCS and ECC when the difficulty for BTCS blocks jumps up. Those graphs show your hashrate on a per coin basis That's your hashrate for ECC-only.

[flound1129]

One feature I love in Multipool that is missing in ipoMiner is the ability to manually change the workers difficulty from the UI. Any chance this feature will be added to ipoMiner?

vardiff makes things much easier on the database.  Custom diff is actually a feature I wish I hadn't implemented.

[ipominer]

Not only easier on the database, but more efficient for most miners too. Most people won't set their difficulty to the optimal level. It can make a big difference, especially with multipools where you would need to figure in the tcp connection timeouts for the proxy in front of the pool servers, coin switching times, etc.