[UNRESPONSIVE POOL OPERATOR] 50BTC.com

[Mike Hearn]

Hi there 50BTC,

Would it be possible for you to select and document your block policies as other pools are doing, please? See my post here:

  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149668.0

It means selecting size of blocks to create and then setting some flags on your node. BTCGuild is currently making 750kb blocks and OzCoin has moved to 500kb. You are still on the default of 250kb. Larger blocks mean transactions confirm faster because we don't run out of space.

Miners will appreciate knowing pool policies so they can select a pool that they agree with.

[50BTC.com]

Hello, Mike!

We need a little time to give a complete answer. Most likely, we also increase the block size .
Any advice on the preferred size would appreciated.

[Mike Hearn]

That's up to you! The post in my example has 1023kb (ie close to the 1mb limit).

If I ran a pool, what I'd do is set the block size to be as high as possible until I saw my blocks getting orphaned much more than was acceptable (I'd accept a slightly higher orphan rate). I don't think anyone has found out what such a size is yet, so if you want to experiment, go right ahead. To some extent it depends on whether other miners have upgraded to Bitcoin 0.8 which is much faster, also, if mining pools peer with each other directly, that will also reduce propagation time and reduce chances of an increased orphan rate.

[narousberg]

Something wrong with statistic. My rig working fine and send shares to pool, but on the site i see that my worker offline.

[hi]

my rigs are mining but getting no rewards nor stats...last time this happened...we mined for free....I am moving my miners.

[hi]

My rigs mined for a few hours and the stats nor rewards updated.  I just checked and the rewards never updated therefore I was mining for them and getting nothing..terrible.

[narousberg]

you not alone. Same problem too. I have switched to http://pool.50btc.com:8332 and all OK now.
But this problem with this pools: http://pool-ru.50btc.com:8332 and "pool2.50btc.com"

[50BTC.com]

We have got stats failure on pool-ru. At the moment this issue fixed, all shares were counted and paid.

[narousberg]

which version of bitcoin you are run? 0.7 or 0.8 ??

[50BTC.com]

Dear users. Mining was temporary stopped for servers' upgrade due to bitcoin chain split http://bitcoin.org/chainfork.html  All servers have been rolled back to 0.7 now.


Currently, all mining servers are back and working

[yellowcoin]

are the stats down again?

[50BTC.com]

It was temporary stats failure. Issue was fixed in hour, sorry for the inconvenience.

[DBordello]

On an Avalon, I am seeing a high discard/accepted ratio (~60%).  This is not the case with other pools.

Thoughts?

[50BTC.com]

On an Avalon, I am seeing a high discard/accepted ratio (~60%).  This is not the case with other pools.

Thoughts?

Thanks for the feedback! We have no experience with the Avalon and it would be great if you could help us.
We offer you a reward and compensation for all lost shares.
If you agree, please PM your worker name.

[yellowcoin]

sigh... is the site getting Ddos?


EDIT: looks like its back up again...

[50BTC.com]

From 10.00 PM UTC on 03.21.2013 till 09.00 AM UTC on 03.21.2013  we had problems with one of our stratum servers, occasionally pool did not accept shares from some workers. Everyone who encountered such a problem - please, contact our support in order to get compensation.

[fulepp]

is there a problem with the pool?

The dashboard seems out of sync. My worker showed offline but the miners were geting the work...

[50BTC.com]

It was stats failure, all shares were recalculated and paid.

[smracer]

Is the site down?  All my miners stopped mining.

[Gator-hex]

pool.50btc.com:8332 27/03/2013 15:18:39 GMT,
<start loop>
 Problems communicatiing with bitcoin RPC 0 2
 Problems communicatiing with bitcoin RPC 1 2
 Problems communicatiing with bitcoin RPC 2 2
 No more backup pools left. Using primary and starting over.
<end loop>

 

working again, thanks