Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - shutdown mining 2020-07-01 website 2021-06-01

[loshia]

I wish you "bugless" future Doc
For another 4x10 years at least....
Best

[HerbPean]

Another milestone: On 2015.06.26 Bitminter had been around for 4 years.

In the Bitcoin world this is a long time!

A big thanks to everyone who support Bitminter and all who did in the past. I hope to see you around in the future as well. The Bitcoin adventure is only getting started.

Happy 4 years !

[SgtMoth]

Another milestone: On 2015.06.26 Bitminter had been around for 4 years.

In the Bitcoin world this is a long time!

A big thanks to everyone who support Bitminter and all who did in the past. I hope to see you around in the future as well. The Bitcoin adventure is only getting started.

Happy 4 years !

Happy belated birthday and congratulations!

[DrHaribo]

Some of you may have heard about a blockchain fork today, with F2Pool and Antpool mining on the wrong side of the fork.

In case anyone is worried:

Bitminter has been mining version 3 bitcoin blocks for a while now, our bitcoin nodes are the latest version, and we only mine on top of blocks we have validated locally - we do not trust others to validate blocks for us.

So you can safely continue to mine at Bitminter.

[jonnybravo0311]

Well done, Doc.  Oh, and congrats on your 4 year anniversary, as well!  Does this make you and Eligius the two oldest remaining pools now that eleuthria has shuttered the guild?

[eleuthria]

Well done, Doc.  Oh, and congrats on your 4 year anniversary, as well!  Does this make you and Eligius the two oldest remaining pools now that eleuthria has shuttered the guild?

Slush, Eligius, then BitMinter, in that order, at least counting the "active" pools.  There may be some between Eligius and BitMinter that are still running, but are basically abandoned and simply continue to run the owner and maybe their friends' equipment.  There was a big explosion of new pools between May and July 2011 because of the introduction of the pushpool software and the first major Bitcoin bubble.

[organofcorti]

Well done, Doc.  Oh, and congrats on your 4 year anniversary, as well!  Does this make you and Eligius the two oldest remaining pools now that eleuthria has shuttered the guild?

Slush, Eligius, then BitMinter, in that order, at least counting the "active" pools.  There may be some between Eligius and BitMinter that are still running, but are basically abandoned and simply continue to run the owner and maybe their friends' equipment.  There was a big explosion of new pools between May and July 2011 because of the introduction of the pushpool software and the first major Bitcoin bubble.

For shits and giggles, here's the dates I have for when a pool found their first block (not when they opened):

Code:

            
Pool  First block date    Status
 1:    puddinpop 14 September 2010    Closed
 2:        Slush  16 December 2010 Operating
 3:  bitcoinPool  24 February 2011    Closed
 4:      DeepBit  25 February 2011    Closed
 5:    BTC Guild     26 April 2011    Closed
 6:      Eligius     28 April 2011 Operating
 7:        MTRed       10 May 2011    Closed
 8:    EclipseMC      08 June 2011 Operating
 9:      Polmine      16 June 2011 Operating
10: Triplemining      02 July 2011    Closed
11:    BitMinter      03 July 2011 Operating

[jonnybravo0311]

I can't believe I forgot Slush... especially after I mentioned his pool being basically the first mining pool in another recent post.  Thanks for the reminder eleuthria... and thanks for the stats organofcorti.

[DrHaribo]

Please read! Worker diff changing, getwork/gbt closing.

2015.07.11 at 10:00 UTC:

Your miners will get disconnected as this change goes live but will be able to reconnect immediately.

Default worker difficulty when miners connect: 512 (was 16)
Minimum worker difficulty: 64 (was 4)

This is to better support fast (1+ TH/s) hardware, some of which is very unhappy with low difficulty.

For old and very slow (40 GH/s and down) ASICs the new difficulty may be a bit high causing the live hashrate on the website to become very inaccurate. This may cause false alarms from the idle worker notifications if you use those. Mining will still work though.

2015.08.01:

Support for getwork and getblocktemplate (GBT) mining protocols will be turned off. Only Stratum will be supported. If you are already using Stratum you will not be disconnected or otherwise affected as this goes live.

What do you need to do if you use getwork/gbt today? Change the URL from http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 to stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333

If you need help with this, use the contact form on the website to ask for help.

[DrHaribo]

Another third party app added Bitminter support: http://cryptoglance.info/

Now listed in tools menu at bitminter.com

[luthermarcus]

hey my miner on your pool is registering a best share of 0. Is there a way to change diff. I fail to find a guide on your website. Currently giving at least 2T with one s4 and i am on stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333. I have some miners coming of rental and was wondering if there is something i could do to increase the best share to better the results.Also i notice that there is some failover as well.

[DrHaribo]

hey my miner on your pool is registering a best share of 0. Is there a way to change diff. I fail to find a guide on your website. currently giving at least 2T with one s4

Is your S4 not mining? I'm not sure what the problem is. Any errors?

Default diff is 512. You can set 1024 as minimum diff if you prefer that. Look under "my account" -> "workers" in the website menu and click the gear icon to access the settings.

[SimonDraken]

my first post... been here like a week learnings and reading... and I finally have something to post...

these new changes.. as I am currently a nothing hobbyist 1 to 3Gh.. and new enough not to know anything about getwork/gbt closing.. how do they effect me, as I see.. my worker today, has had serious problems being seen as a worker.. then instead of my normal, very small change, I get no change and no worker, and then I get a worker, and a blast of 54 Ghps and it shows I have 640 accepted and back to 0 worker 0 Ghps.

is it now too difficult...

[DrHaribo]

Yeah, the live hashrates will not be reliable now at extremely low hashrates. Mining still works though.

I would not recommend starting with 1-3 GH/s. At 3 GH/s you are mining $3.12 worth of bitcoin in a whole year. Minus electricity. It probably comes out negative as those old miners are not very efficient and also require a PC (although you could run them on a raspberry pi).

1 TH/s is a better starting point.

[SimonDraken]

I only am using one R9 295X2, I enjoyed seeing the little bit it was making... but also, yes, I am looking at a mining machine..

so currently, under my worker, in settings, I do not need to change anything, I can leave it at difficulty 1

[cryptoglance]

Another third party app added Bitminter support: http://cryptoglance.info/

Now listed in tools menu at bitminter.com

Thank you DrHaribo!

[DrHaribo]

Another third party app added Bitminter support: http://cryptoglance.info/

Now listed in tools menu at bitminter.com

Thank you DrHaribo!

Thank you for adding support for Bitminter. It's a cool app - I hope you will see some new users now

[Chrithu]

Hi. Dunno if this is the right place. But since the new round started (like an hiur ago)  I fail to get work updates from Bitminter. Is anyone else experiencing this?

For Info: I am running two Antminer U2s (the "old" 2 GH/s usb sticks) using BFGMiner 3.10.0. Worked just fine until about an hour ago.

[DrHaribo]

Hi. Dunno if this is the right place. But since the new round started (like an hiur ago)  I fail to get work updates from Bitminter. Is anyone else experiencing this?

For Info: I am running two Antminer U2s (the "old" 2 GH/s usb sticks) using BFGMiner 3.10.0. Worked just fine until about an hour ago.

Which URL are you mining with? If you are using getwork or getblocktemplate, please switch to stratum. Getwork/GBT support is being shut down on the first of august.

That means switching from http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 to stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333

You may also want to upgrade to a new bfgminer version - 3.10 is very old.

[Chrithu]

Hi. Dunno if this is the right place. But since the new round started (like an hiur ago)  I fail to get work updates from Bitminter. Is anyone else experiencing this?

For Info: I am running two Antminer U2s (the "old" 2 GH/s usb sticks) using BFGMiner 3.10.0. Worked just fine until about an hour ago.

Which URL are you mining with? If you are using getwork or getblocktemplate, please switch to stratum. Getwork/GBT support is being shut down on the first of august.

That means switching from http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 to stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333

You may also want to upgrade to a new bfgminer version - 3.10 is very old.

Hi. I am mining on stratum. It's all fine. I didn't check on things for two weeks and missed that the minimum diff was raised. Obviously the U2s take longer than before solving diff 64 shares. This leads to a different output from BFGMiner. Before there were a lot of solved accepted shares reported with the occasional request for work in between now it is the other way around a lot of work request with the occasional solved share. So that is as should be expected.