[ANN][Pool][XMR] Pool.CryptoEscrow.eu | Monero Development Supporting Pool

[ec4web]

wasted 5 hours ... no block found 

[seljak]

got no payments in last 8hours???

[seljak]

I woke up and gave bitmonerod a kick as soon as I saw. Kind of stupid you have to restart it sometimes or it won't find blocks, but it's a known issue.

so the mined xmr are lost or...?

[mindless]

As Wolf0 said - Everything is fixed up now - paying out automatically without any problems.

Also we set up a strict monitoring system, so if we have a problem in the future - probably other pools are having the same, but we will be the first to notice and fix it.

And again You are very welcome to join us!

[equipoise]

I woke up and gave bitmonerod a kick as soon as I saw. Kind of stupid you have to restart it sometimes or it won't find blocks, but it's a known issue.

so the mined xmr are lost or...?

There were no mined XMR, because of the stupid bitmonerod. It happens on other pools as well - I've seen surfer43 and dayas constantly complaining about it.

I hope you are monitoring it properly at the moment. It was obvious from the second hour after the big hash joined (other pools DDOS) and you didn't found a block (instead of 4) that there is a problem; however I left my hash power connected to your pool in spite of that. After all if your pool was lucky I would get about 1+ MRO (including friends of mine hash rate) and 2-3 weeks ago you sent me 2 asking for an address in #monero-otc - there are still a lot I'll return you from the fees .

[spatula]

I am looking at switching to your pool because you seem like a very competent developer, but now that it is growing in size, do you have any DDOS protection in place?

[spatula]

I noticed our hashrate dropping a bit - pool IS operational, just shit luck.

Are you sure? Its been another hour with a high hashrate and still no blocks.

[spatula]

I noticed our hashrate dropping a bit - pool IS operational, just shit luck.

Are you sure? Its been another hour with a high hashrate and still no blocks.

Woohoo a block!

[mindless]

Pool is running extremely smoothly, check out our statistics after we disabled the retarded firewall:

 Height    Maturity    Difficulty    Block Hash    Time Found
88465   56 to go   399600756   1410ee3bfeaf308f670cab9cd7204b6541cdc99dc4dcfd39a41d690e91b66491   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:59:52
88460   51 to go   401167020   0079bcc803d367fe94c2685d22fe5828bdd3d2e7ec482f91809453382feb48df   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:56:45
88457   48 to go   401659979   d427b5a18d61adbc065667e718cbb82f5df367a7a6c16335ce6bcf74aaa73f80   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:55:52
88448   39 to go   405109473   7b9ff92741df2d90d469cc83ed2a28eb58a265fa54b7700cecd5a2066f3a4a2c   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:44:17
88431   22 to go   404951542   095a84eae3a962932a0100953362d0c2bb8b979c60591e3d04ddf0823ddfb607   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:31:33
88416   7 to go   408950192   03b1a1cafd8c5a969dbe28c6bed0c317ff8c8bbf366ac2d2bf48045d7f009240   2014 m. birželis 17 d. 01:15:26

~400kh/s and 6 blocks in 45 minutes.

[mindless]

http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu was updated:

• We have raised ulimits and added auto restart for Monero daemon, which results in a more stable and profitable pool.
• Added email sign up feature for urgent news.
• We plan to have DDOS protection starting Thursday.

If you would like to receive news related to mining Monero(software news, hardware comparison, community news, etc.), subscribe to our mailing list: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/sign-up.html

[mcpackin]

http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu was updated:

• We have raised ulimits and added auto restart for Monero daemon, which results in a more stable and profitable pool.
• Added email sign up feature for urgent news.
• We plan to have DDOS protection starting Thursday.

If you would like to receive news related to mining Monero(software news, hardware comparison, community news, etc.), subscribe to our mailing list: http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/sign-up.html

Awesome, glad to see DDoS Protection is coming Thursday

Seems to be a while since we found a block though... With the pool sitting at around a 12th of the network hashrate... We seem to be very unlucky :[

Last block found time as of now: 6/17/2014 10:01:35 AM

[equipoise]

With normal luck and current pool hash rate and difficulty it should find a block each 15 minutes. There is something wrong with all the pools. Did you added the other big pools with the --add-priority-node when starting the daemon?

EDIT: Is it possible someone or the GPU miner to withhold blocks.

[mcpackin]

I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.

So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?

[mindless]

I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.

So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?

We are using two servers now - one DDOS protected server for the website and another DDOS protected server for stratum mining.

Fellow, Miners,

We have some important information:
http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu
2014.06.17 20:30GMT: Moving to a new DDOS protected server
Pool stats can get very crazy - Dont Worry
Point your miners to:
stratum+tcp://5.254.116.138:3333 or
stratum+tcp://mine.cryptoescrow.eu:3333

Good luck, mining!

[mcpackin]

I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.

So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?

We seperated the backend from the frontend for two reasons - performance and security. Having a web server on a machine that stores money is unnecessary and is an attack vector. Also, having a dedicated server for mining means it can have all the resources it needs.

I understand all of this as I run and have ran multiple pools. I am curious to to why you need to completely drop pool.cryptoescrow.eu so suddenly? Why not just change the dns for pool.cryptoescrow.eu to point to the new stratum server IP? I had quite a bit of Kh/s pointed at it and there was no warning/time announced ahead of time for the switch. I do however appreciate the new faster DDoS protected servers.

[mcpackin]

I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.

So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?

We seperated the backend from the frontend for two reasons - performance and security. Having a web server on a machine that stores money is unnecessary and is an attack vector. Also, having a dedicated server for mining means it can have all the resources it needs.

I understand all of this as I run and have ran multiple pools. I am curious to to why you need to completely drop pool.cryptoescrow.eu so suddenly? Why not just change the dns for pool.cryptoescrow.eu to point to the new stratum server IP? I had quite a bit of Kh/s pointed at it and there was no warning/time announced ahead of time for the switch. I do however appreciate the new faster DDoS protected servers.

I'm gonna be completely honest - that was kind of due to a miscommunication. It was supposed to point to pool2.cryptoescrow.eu for a while, then we would phase out pool.cryptoescrow.eu's mining ports entirely.

Ahhh.. Well thanks for being honest I have pointed my miners to the new IP for now, hopefully everyone else will follow!

[mcpackin]

Now we just have to find a block 

[billotronic]

I can't edit the OP, but if you are on the pool, you need to stop mining on pool.cryptoescrow.eu and start mining on mine.cryptoescrow.eu - or when the DNS changes, you won't be connected.

So why wont pool.cryptoescrow.eu point to the IP that mine.cryptoescrow.eu provides?

We seperated the backend from the frontend for two reasons - performance and security. Having a web server on a machine that stores money is unnecessary and is an attack vector. Also, having a dedicated server for mining means it can have all the resources it needs.

I understand all of this as I run and have ran multiple pools. I am curious to to why you need to completely drop pool.cryptoescrow.eu so suddenly? Why not just change the dns for pool.cryptoescrow.eu to point to the new stratum server IP? I had quite a bit of Kh/s pointed at it and there was no warning/time announced ahead of time for the switch. I do however appreciate the new faster DDoS protected servers.

I'm gonna be completely honest - that was kind of due to a miscommunication. It was supposed to point to pool2.cryptoescrow.eu for a while, then we would phase out pool.cryptoescrow.eu's mining ports entirely.

lol This is way I hold you in high regard sir. Most shit heads would of just glazed over this lapse.

Everyone makes mistakes... what makes you a man is how you deal with them.

[equipoise]

^If someone have an optimized miner and then use some of it's power to withhold blocks and some of the power to solo mine - he's getting payed by the pool less then if he didn't withhold, but he's sharing the bad luck with all the other miners, so he's getting payed without actually contributing. He could also solo mine on lower difficulty with his other hash rate. I'm just curious if there are miners on the pool, who are not sending any high difficulty shares, not finding any blocks and are too unlucky (out of the statistically justified intervals) in spite of their hash power.

[equipoise]

^See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441465.msg7282674#msg7282674 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441465.msg7301154#msg7301154