[~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More

[irishmick]

Luck is pretty simple at least how it's calculated here. Well let me clarify at least how I understand it ;o)

At difficulty 1379223 if we find a valid block in 1379223 shares we are on par with the average.

On the other hand if over 24 hours our block average rate is 1517145.3 shares we are -10% on luck and each and every miner can expect 10% less btc for that 24 hours. Of course each individual miner has their own hash fluctuations but roughly 10% less.

Same applies for if our 24 hour average is 1241300.7 each miner can expect 10% greater btc plus/minus their own hash fluctuations.

I love the word fluctuation. Is that weird? lol

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[SkipDaShu]

lost route to uscentral server about 2 hours ago... just outside of Austin, TX here.

[irishmick]

lost route to uscentral server about 2 hours ago... just outside of Austin, TX here.

You could post a traceroute. It may help eleuthria if he has to call the hosting provider and prove a routing issue. No one likes to admit they have a network problem and can sometimes be difficult to prove ;o)

Tracing route to uscentral.btcguild.com [69.147.241.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

~
  7   120 ms   101 ms   101 ms  cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.153.6]
  8   121 ms   101 ms   101 ms  ggr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97]
  9   122 ms   101 ms   101 ms  206.111.2.89.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.2.89]
 10   123 ms    99 ms   102 ms  207.88.14.193.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.193]
 11   122 ms   100 ms   103 ms  207.88.14.10.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.10]
 12   124 ms   101 ms   100 ms  edge1.dal.ubiquityservers.com [207.88.185.110]
 13   122 ms   101 ms   101 ms  69.147.241.114.rdns.ubiquityservers.com [69.147.
241.114]

Central is good from North Midwest.

[eleuthria]

US Central is connecting fine from central California.

Also, fixed some payouts.  A few payouts were requested from US West while the bitcoind's were being switched over.  I voided those payouts so the funds are back in your account to request again.

[SkipDaShu]

from my desktop...

skip@c17-desktop:~$ traceroute uscentral.btcguild.com
traceroute to uscentral.btcguild.com (69.147.241.114), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
  
 4  Gi0-2-4-0.austtxrdcsc-rtr2.austin.rr.com (24.27.13.38)  20.863 ms  25.198 ms  25.361 ms
 5  agg20.austtxa-cr01.texas.rr.com (66.68.2.236)  34.327 ms  34.966 ms  35.115 ms
 6  te0-12-0-2.dllatxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com (72.179.205.56)  44.035 ms  21.949 ms  19.852 ms
 7  ae-4-0.cr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.88)  19.020 ms  21.198 ms  21.403 ms
 8  ae-3-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.209)  25.402 ms ae-1-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.179)  25.553 ms  29.158 ms
 9  ip65-47-204-137.z204-47-65.customer.algx.net (65.47.204.137)  29.319 ms te1-2-0d0.cir1.dallas2-tx.us.xo.net (65.47.204.5)  34.630 ms ip65-47-204-105.z204-47-65.customer.algx.net (65.47.204.105)  62.978 ms
10  207.88.15.46.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.15.46)  33.945 ms  34.108 ms  38.790 ms
11  65.106.4.234.ptr.us.xo.net (65.106.4.234)  39.003 ms  43.816 ms  43.444 ms
12  edge1.dal.ubiquityservers.com (207.88.185.110)  24.686 ms  16.657 ms  25.423 ms
13  69.147.241.114.rdns.ubiquityservers.com (69.147.241.114)  19.190 ms  23.139 ms  23.294 ms

Lemme go hook a miner back to it.

EDIT: Strange.  Miner(Diablo) still not connecting to it but connects to deep and east.  Dang thing is practically next door isn't it?  Maybe I should just run some cat6 to it.

a few min later:

4  Gi0-2-4-0.austtxrdcsc-rtr2.austin.rr.com (24.27.13.38)  23.987 ms  24.148 ms  26.744 ms
 5  agg20.austtxa-cr01.texas.rr.com (66.68.2.236)  29.486 ms  40.763 ms  40.927 ms
 6  te0-12-0-2.dllatxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com (72.179.205.56)  40.567 ms  23.721 ms  25.457 ms
 7  ae-4-0.cr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.88)  18.275 ms  22.275 ms  26.334 ms
 8  ae-3-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.209)  26.508 ms  30.784 ms  30.942 ms
 9  ge5-0-2d0.cir1.dallas2-tx.us.xo.net (65.47.204.29)  31.101 ms ip65-47-204-105.z204-47-65.customer.algx.net (65.47.204.105)  35.063 ms ip65-47-204-141.z204-47-65.customer.algx.net (65.47.204.141)  35.234 ms
10  207.88.15.46.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.15.46)  35.396 ms  38.586 ms  38.742 ms
11  65.106.4.234.ptr.us.xo.net (65.106.4.234)  42.684 ms  42.848 ms  42.993 ms
12  edge1.dal.ubiquityservers.com (207.88.185.110)  28.384 ms  39.366 ms  13.234 ms
13  69.147.241.114.rdns.ubiquityservers.com (69.147.241.114)  13.336 ms  17.540 ms  23.253 ms

ping summary...

--- uscentral.btcguild.com ping statistics ---
39 packets transmitted, 30 received, 23% packet loss, time 38070ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 18.410/25.881/41.100/5.130 ms

went from 37% loss to 23% to now 4%...

64 bytes from 69.147.241.114.rdns.ubiquityservers.com (69.147.241.114): icmp_req=50 ttl=52 time=15.9 ms
^C
--- uscentral.btcguild.com ping statistics ---
50 packets transmitted, 48 received, 4% packet loss, time 49101ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 12.755/15.516/28.078/2.900 ms


BTW, these are from a machine that is 1 switch closer to the router than all the miners are except 1 which is on the same switch as this machine.

[irishmick]

Dang I wish I had your problem with those low latencies ;o)

Hmm before I hit post I tried a ping or three and I am losing packets all of a sudden. Something on your end eluthria?
Pinging uscentral.btcguild.com [69.147.241.114] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=50
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=50
Request timed out.
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=50
Request timed out.
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=50
Request timed out.
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=50
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=50
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 69.147.241.114:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 6, Lost = 4 (40% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 56ms, Maximum = 65ms, Average = 60ms

Edit: Sorry I'm a network guy and I abhor people saying it is my problem, which it usually isn't. Are you aware of any changes on uscentral that is causing large packet loss? ;o) and on a side note my latency dropped almost in half as well.

  8    30 ms    34 ms    31 ms  ggr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97]
  9    29 ms    29 ms    34 ms  206.111.2.89.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.2.89]
 10    45 ms    37 ms    31 ms  207.88.14.193.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.193]
 11    55 ms    61 ms    52 ms  207.88.14.10.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.10]
 12    53 ms    60 ms    57 ms  edge1.dal.ubiquityservers.com [207.88.185.110]
 13    60 ms    66 ms    65 ms  69.147.241.114.rdns.ubiquityservers.com [69.147.
241.114]

Trace complete.

Edit again: I just wanted to clarify that I'm not saying it is btcguilds fault at all lol. I re-read my edit and I realized it could be interpreted as such. My apologies if anyone understood it that way. I'm just asking if eleuthria is aware of anything. ;o) ha

[irishmick]

I'm not sure whether to apologize or not but I feel like I'm being rather needy tonight.

Round times and round shares are increasing, as are my personal shares, but none of these values, with the exception of round time are increasing as I would normally expect them to be. I don't have any concrete numbers, nor have I wrote them down in the past but from what I recall normally we do a 100%(1379223) of difficulty in 40 minutes or so. A few minutes ago we have done 1.96 M shares in 1:46:00. I'm not a stats person so I'm not even going to attempt a comparison.

What's going on?

Edit:
Confirmed increased NM. Was just crying wolf.

[Veldy]

So why doesn't BTCGuild pay out all of your confirmed rewards?  Just another way for this non-fee pool to get a few more "involuntary" donations?  BTW, I already donate 1%.

Example:
Confirmed Rewards: 0.05029424
Hit the Pay Me Now button
Paid out: 0.05
Confirmed Rewards: 0.00029424

Why?  Why not pay me out all of my confirmed rewards?  Granted, we are talking fractions of a BTC here, but still...

Full decimal payouts had issues on older bitcoin clients, and it wasn't fixed until 0.3.21 (I believe that was the version, may have been +/- 0.0.1).  The amounts would not show up in your balance, and would often end up being included as transaction fees without your knowledge.

Once Automatic Payouts are implemented (this weekend unless something catastrophic happens with the servers), there will be a setting you can use which will allow full precision payouts.  It will default to 'off' and warn you when enabling that you should be using the most recent bitcoin client if you want to receive all 8 decimals of precision.

0.3.22 I believe, but there were bugs for some users when used to host solo mining, so the current version 0.3.23 is about it.

[CubedRoot]

What happened to all the hashing power of BTCGuild?  It was close to 3000 GH/sec.... now its back down to about 1500 GH/sec.

[newunit16]

What happened to all the hashing power of BTCGuild?  It was close to 3000 GH/sec.... now its back down to about 1500 GH/sec.

no clue, but i just noticed a string of idles on my workers.

must have been a hiccup with BTCGuild. all systems go.

[AngelusWebDesign]

My miners are still reporting "Trying to fail back to primary server (BTCguild)" ... followed by a failure.

What's going on, a DDoS?

Matthew

[Druas]

My miners are still reporting "Trying to fail back to primary server (BTCguild)" ... followed by a failure.

What's going on, a DDoS?

Matthew

I am sure we will know once Eleuthria wakes up. I think there was hiccup with most of the servers, but some seemed to have recovered. US Central seems to have bit the dust though. This is why it is nice to have so many because you just have to make a small edit to your miners or have a backup being a different BTC Guild server and you can just keep going on the same block. I feel like the chances of them all going down at once is pretty small.

[compro01]

What happened to all the hashing power of BTCGuild?  It was close to 3000 GH/sec.... now its back down to about 1500 GH/sec.

now sitting at about 2500, but us central seems to be out of commission.

[hugolp]

3:30 the previous block and almost 4 hours this one? Are we really being so unlucky or there is something wrong?

[Jen4538]

woke to find one of my miners not able to connect to uscentral as well , sigh .   sleeping is bad to do when your loosing a miner


Jen

[BookLover]

So why doesn't BTCGuild pay out all of your confirmed rewards?  Just another way for this non-fee pool to get a few more "involuntary" donations?  BTW, I already donate 1%.

Example:
Confirmed Rewards: 0.05029424
Hit the Pay Me Now button
Paid out: 0.05
Confirmed Rewards: 0.00029424

Why?  Why not pay me out all of my confirmed rewards?  Granted, we are talking fractions of a BTC here, but still...

Full decimal payouts had issues on older bitcoin clients, and it wasn't fixed until 0.3.21 (I believe that was the version, may have been +/- 0.0.1).  The amounts would not show up in your balance, and would often end up being included as transaction fees without your knowledge.

Once Automatic Payouts are implemented (this weekend unless something catastrophic happens with the servers), there will be a setting you can use which will allow full precision payouts.  It will default to 'off' and warn you when enabling that you should be using the most recent bitcoin client if you want to receive all 8 decimals of precision.

0.3.22 I believe, but there were bugs for some users when used to host solo mining, so the current version 0.3.23 is about it.

What were the bugs?

[anatolikostis]

eleuthria

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24448.0 - do you know about this?

are you servers protected against botnet account/mining?

now we have Trojan.Win32.Powp.rdf - that goes mining to

http://habrastorage.org/storage1/4e8f0195/75ecfedb/a263d79f/72be3aff.png

Please, comment this!

Are this account blocked? Or you are trying to hide? Do you deal with botnet?

[boaz2020]

Round Time   4:17:36
Round Shares 1489197

Ummmm.

[snailbrain]

problem with BTCguild?

all my miners are working.. my confirmed money is not going up.. my bitcoins per day has gone down by a half, yet my miners are working and have been working all night..

i didn't receive a bitcoin that i withdraw a few hours ago..

should i change pool?

don't know what to do

[anty]

I withdrew my BTCs about two hours ago and it has 15 confirmations. So no problem there.
I'd love to know too, if it's really bad luck or if there's a problem. I'm staying for now.