[UNRESPONSIVE POOL OPERATOR] 50BTC.com

[Nightlander]

Wonder is it about increase in difficulty or what, but for couple weeks it takes 2 days more to get same amount of coins than month back. Like before I got 0,1 coins in 5 days, now it takes whole week to get that much. Can it be that drastic change in difficulty? Haven't been that long in bitcoin business to know. Amount I keep rig on for mining haven't changed.

[DrG]

Wonder is it about increase in difficulty or what, but for couple weeks it takes 2 days more to get same amount of coins than month back. Like before I got 0,1 coins in 5 days, now it takes whole week to get that much. Can it be that drastic change in difficulty? Haven't been that long in bitcoin business to know. Amount I keep rig on for mining haven't changed.

Yes difficulty changed about 12 days ago.  It went up about 13%, so it takes longer to make the same amount.  It is about to go up another 10% roughly in a few hours, so you'll make even less in a few hours.

GPUs were making about 20x as much last January. The age of GPUs is ending, ASICs are here now.

Use this calc - add a 0 to the difficulty and watch your earnings drop to 1/10th as much - that should happen in the next 3 months.
http://tpbitcalc.appspot.com/

[Nightlander]

Wonder is it about increase in difficulty or what, but for couple weeks it takes 2 days more to get same amount of coins than month back. Like before I got 0,1 coins in 5 days, now it takes whole week to get that much. Can it be that drastic change in difficulty? Haven't been that long in bitcoin business to know. Amount I keep rig on for mining haven't changed.

Yes difficulty changed about 12 days ago.  It went up about 13%, so it takes longer to make the same amount.  It is about to go up another 10% roughly in a few hours, so you'll make even less in a few hours.

GPUs were making about 20x as much last January. The age of GPUs is ending, ASICs are here now.

Use this calc - add a 0 to the difficulty and watch your earnings drop to 1/10th as much - that should happen in the next 3 months.
http://tpbitcalc.appspot.com/

Thanks, that sorted some things. Seems I stepped in to this bitwagon at the edge of ASIC rocket ride. Was also looking at the 50BTC hashrate/earnings chart, and it tells pretty much the same story. Earnings were peaking above hashrate when I started, no more. Our GPU guys only hope is seemingly pretty unstable exchange rate, that it would find the way to go up for some reason (which reason can be harder to predict than where North-Korea points nukes each morning and for what reason). Otherwise seems it's only within months that electricity is more expensive than what you get out of mining. Unless.. you become pro miner with heavy investments.
Well, going to stick in out of curiosity if nothing else.
Sure thing is we're living times something peaks out of bithorizon..

[dht7479]

 [2013-05-25 21:28:35] Started cgminer 3.1.1
 [2013-05-25 21:28:36] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-05-25 21:28:38] Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid

Plz help me, I got this trouble in 2-3 days ago.
With cgminer, I try to use simple command
cgminer -o http://pool.50btc.com:8332 -u aaaaa@ccc.com -p 1 -I 9

[BitMinerN8]

[2013-05-25 21:28:35] Started cgminer 3.1.1
 [2013-05-25 21:28:36] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-05-25 21:28:38] Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid

Plz help me, I got this trouble in 2-3 days ago.
With cgminer, I try to use simple command
cgminer -o http://pool.50btc.com:8332 -u aaaaa@ccc.com -p 1 -I 9

Try this: (It's the Stratum port)
cgminer -o http://pool.50btc.com:3333 -u aaaaa@ccc.com -p 1 -I 9

[pcexpress4less]

Anyone else getting a lot of stale shares the last couple of days? I'm getting about 18-25% invalid shares now on 8 rigs running on BAMT. It was always in the low 1-2% range.

[BitMinerN8]

Anyone else getting a lot of stale shares the last couple of days? I'm getting about 18-25% invalid shares now on 8 rigs running on BAMT. It was always in the low 1-2% range.

Yeah, I have. There seems to be some trouble with the pool the last couple days. Web site becomes unavailable for a while, miners dropping off to backup pools many times a day. I'm sure they are trying to fix it.

[favelle75]

Buddy of mine just tried to set up a new miner, but the website says that his worker is always offline, yet its hashing away. Any way to solve that?

[pcexpress4less]

Anyone else getting a lot of stale shares the last couple of days? I'm getting about 18-25% invalid shares now on 8 rigs running on BAMT. It was always in the low 1-2% range.

Yeah, I have. There seems to be some trouble with the pool the last couple days. Web site becomes unavailable for a while, miners dropping off to backup pools many times a day. I'm sure they are trying to fix it.

I switched to a back up pool at BTCGuild and have 0% stale or invalid on all 8 rigs for at least a hour now. So it's definitely something to do with 50BTC pool. I will switch back when the problem is resolved.

[dht7479]

[2013-05-25 21:28:35] Started cgminer 3.1.1
 [2013-05-25 21:28:36] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-05-25 21:28:38] Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid

Plz help me, I got this trouble in 2-3 days ago.
With cgminer, I try to use simple command
cgminer -o http://pool.50btc.com:8332 -u aaaaa@ccc.com -p 1 -I 9

Try this: (It's the Stratum port)
cgminer -o http://pool.50btc.com:3333 -u aaaaa@ccc.com -p 1 -I 9

Thank you!
But it's closed immediately 
And I still run cgminer good with another pool 

[BitMinerN8]

[2013-05-25 21:28:35] Started cgminer 3.1.1
 [2013-05-25 21:28:36] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-05-25 21:28:38] Pool 0 slow/down or URL or credentials invalid

Plz help me, I got this trouble in 2-3 days ago.
With cgminer, I try to use simple command
cgminer -o http://pool.50btc.com:8332 -u aaaaa@ccc.com -p 1 -I 9

Try this: (It's the Stratum port)
cgminer -o http://pool.50btc.com:3333 -u aaaaa@ccc.com -p 1 -I 9

Thank you!
But it's closed immediately 
And I still run cgminer good with another pool 

Try removing the "http://" see if that helps.

[SwissMiner]

the following works for me:

cgminer -o pool.50btc.com:3333 -u 1Q7MmBoCMAw4MJMj6yNsrNEcp5796DUYXy -p 1Q7MmBoCMAw4MJMj6yNsrNEcp5796DUYXy -w 128

[ISAWHIM]

Well, it was fun while it lasted... Now the pool is eating my shares and just discarding them. Valid shares, not just "stale".

Turned a 2GHs into a disturbing 250MHs, even going so far as to say I was "dead", though the machines were all still churning out hundreds of shares going into never-never land...

I am sure they were going into someones account, but they were not going into mine.

Hope you enjoyed my modest hashing-power. lol. But I think I will move those machines back over to a pool that actually pays me for my shares, instead of throwing them out, and telling me my machines are "dead".

What a rip-off. I am just glad I didn't put more machines here.

[favelle75]

My shares are at 14,445 with invalid at (36).  Is that in the normal range?

[SwissMiner]

16405 Shares
146 stales
507 invalids

[notlist3d]

I personally have a huge number of invalids .  To bad their support is down to talk to on site.

[aspirez]

I'm using address for mining, and i have unpaid BTC from the the start of the month. What should i do to receive them?

[50BTC.com]

I'm using address for mining, and i have unpaid BTC from the the start of the month. What should i do to receive them?

Please, PM your bitcoin address.

[pehoko]

Anyone else getting a lot of stale shares the last couple of days? I'm getting about 18-25% invalid shares now on 8 rigs running on BAMT. It was always in the low 1-2% range.

Yeah, I have. There seems to be some trouble with the pool the last couple days. Web site becomes unavailable for a while, miners dropping off to backup pools many times a day. I'm sure they are trying to fix it.

I am sure they are not trying to fix it, this happens 2 weeks ago to my miners and still is the same. 

[notlist3d]

Anyone else tonight seem to lose some speed? And also have invalids increase?