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[clgrissom3]

Well anyone watching the web page would have seen that was another block with lotsa zeros and question marks
I manually confirmed it after checking.
Was all OK on every bitcoind I run ... 19 of them all 0.14.2+bip91+stuff
Just ckpool decided it was yet again 'inconclusive' ...

I've been working on splitting the gits so I can have a single (private) kanodb without the ckpool crud, and also so I can apply the fixes I've worked out for the deadlock in ckpool, so I can move it forward from last august (with other changes I've made) and not have to screw up the db coz there's a commit in there to force me to not merge the old public git (only one commit, all it does is remove ckdb pool specific code I use ... no idea why he'd do that ... ... ...)
I'll add something to report what's actually wrong with this 'inconclusive' block message, so I can get it to automatically confirm them if possible.

Anyway, that's almost done.
This is the last bit related to the segwit changes that have been on going.

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Yeah these block sizes and txfees lately have been meh ... since before bip91 ...
Ours was a 90 second network block and was also confirmed only 4 seconds later.

Thanks for the update Kano...it's good to be a part of the transparent operation you have here

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[kano]

Block! by afreund

[clgrissom3]

Wohoo!  This is our 2nd of BLOCK THURSDAY!

[usernamehere]

We've got some catching up to do, let's bring on Blocks!

[Zmkarakas]

Fellow poolers,

I was wondering why my bitcoin wallet does not register payments coming from the pool, it has been several days that my balance is more than 0.0001 and have not received anything.

P.S I am using electrum so maybe I didnt set it up correctly?

[Biffa]

Fellow poolers,

I was wondering why my bitcoin wallet does not register payments coming from the pool, it has been several days that my balance is more than 0.0001 and have not received anything.

P.S I am using electrum so maybe I didnt set it up correctly?

https://kano.is/index.php?k=payout

Because we haven't found many blocks yet this month, plus it depends on how long you have been mining to know how much of each block you will get. You have to have been mining for 5 days to reach peak payout.

So each block found has to reach 101+ confirmations on the network, before the transactions go out to pay out to the miners, and even then it has to wait for the next block to be found after it has reached 101+ confirmations because then we confirm it ourselves on the pool.

[Zmkarakas]

Fellow poolers,

I was wondering why my bitcoin wallet does not register payments coming from the pool, it has been several days that my balance is more than 0.0001 and have not received anything.

P.S I am using electrum so maybe I didnt set it up correctly?

https://kano.is/index.php?k=payout

Because we haven't found many blocks yet this month, plus it depends on how long you have been mining to know how much of each block you will get. You have to have been mining for 5 days to reach peak payout.

So each block found has to reach 101+ confirmations on the network, before the transactions go out to pay out to the miners, and even then it has to wait for the next block to be found after it has reached 101+ confirmations because then we confirm it ourselves on the pool.

Aha, thanks for pointing out. So it needs to become "matured" as I understand correctly. With the electrum wallet, you can use all the addresses that is listed and they are ready to use right? or do you need to add description to them or something?

[matscol]

block!!

478837   moecarrimNEW   12.63505754   2017‑08‑03 09:37:30   

low fees are the new normal I guess


August luck is brutal so far

Monthly Statistics
UTC----- Month------...Pool Avg--------Blocks-----Expected......Mean Diff%....MeanTx%.....Luck%.......PPS%
2017 ----Aug…..........78.39PHs..............2........6.72............336.16%.......101.75%......29.75%.....30.00%

One thing I noticed about those stats --- and it's not a big deal, I'm just pointing to it --- is that they didn't recalculate at the end of the month, so it makes July look a bit better than it actually was and August a bit worse than it actually is. Put another way, it's showing the full hit of the 400+% block in August when in reality it was split over the 2 months. It's as though July ended and August began as soon as the last block was found on 7/30.

In the end, the "last 100 blocks" is still probably the best way to get a feel for how it's going (and honestly the last 100 PPS% number is the one that really matters the most to me).

[kano]

Fellow poolers,

I was wondering why my bitcoin wallet does not register payments coming from the pool, it has been several days that my balance is more than 0.0001 and have not received anything.

P.S I am using electrum so maybe I didnt set it up correctly?

The pool (currently) pays per block.
Your rewards must be over dust in each block to get a payout.
If not, they gather in your dust balance to be paid out some time before the coming of Satania

[kano]

block!!

478837   moecarrimNEW   12.63505754   2017‑08‑03 09:37:30   

low fees are the new normal I guess


August luck is brutal so far

Monthly Statistics
UTC----- Month------...Pool Avg--------Blocks-----Expected......Mean Diff%....MeanTx%.....Luck%.......PPS%
2017 ----Aug…..........78.39PHs..............2........6.72............336.16%.......101.75%......29.75%.....30.00%

One thing I noticed about those stats --- and it's not a big deal, I'm just pointing to it --- is that they didn't recalculate at the end of the month, so it makes July look a bit better than it actually was and August a bit worse than it actually is. Put another way, it's showing the full hit of the 400+% block in August when in reality it was split over the 2 months. It's as though July ended and August began as soon as the last block was found on 7/30.

In the end, the "last 100 blocks" is still probably the best way to get a feel for how it's going (and honestly the last 100 PPS% number is the one that really matters the most to me).

The monthly stats are the stats for blocks found in the month, not shares submitted.
Blocks are what we are interested in here
(and I don't keep balances as at midnight each day - since it's not needed for anything at all in bitcoin - time per block doesn't matter, as long as it not weeks, only diff per block)

[xuy]

From Coinbase:
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Over the last several days, we’ve examined all of the relevant issues and have decided to work on adding support for bitcoin cash for Coinbase customers. We made this decision based on factors such as the security of the network, customer demand, trading volumes, and regulatory considerations.

We are planning to have support for bitcoin cash by January 1, 2018, assuming no additional risks emerge during that time.

Once supported, customers will be able to withdraw bitcoin cash. We'll make a determination at a later date about adding trading support. In the meantime, customer bitcoin cash will remain safely stored on Coinbase.

Anyway it will build some trust. Just hope both BTC and BCH can hold or up from the current level

[cre8ive]

From Coinbase:
...
Over the last several days, we’ve examined all of the relevant issues and have decided to work on adding support for bitcoin cash for Coinbase customers. We made this decision based on factors such as the security of the network, customer demand, trading volumes, and regulatory considerations.

We are planning to have support for bitcoin cash by January 1, 2018, assuming no additional risks emerge during that time.

Once supported, customers will be able to withdraw bitcoin cash. We'll make a determination at a later date about adding trading support. In the meantime, customer bitcoin cash will remain safely stored on Coinbase.

Anyway it will build some trust. Just hope both BTC and BCH can hold or up from the current level

From Tech Crunch:

But here’s the thing — it’s currently really hard to sell bitcoin cash. While some exchanges have added the new currency for trading, liquidity is super low, which is why some say the price is being artificially inflated. Because most exchanges aren’t accepting deposits yet, the only bitcoin cash available to trade is currency that was credited by exchanges after the fork. Users holding bitcoin cash outside of exchanges, or in exchanges that don’t support trading, are stuck waiting.

So the moral of the story is that there’s probably a ton of bitcoin cash waiting to be sold, as soon as people can transfer it. That’s because there’s not a whole lot of incentive to keep the coins, especially when people think it is overvalued and want to quickly cash out.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/02/wtf-is-bitcoin-cash-and-is-it-worth-anything/

[usernamehere]

Block by Canaan!

[kano]

Block by Canaan!

and a payout
We get to keep the $1

[usernamehere]

Block by Canaan!

and a payout
We get to keep the $1

Awesome, I'm assuming the payout was one of the transactions you pushed out with an extra miner fee?

[kano]

There was also some failover/failback, at 04:23 UTC 4 minutes after the block, on the LA node of the 2 that handle stratum.kano.is (the other is Silicon Valley)
It affected about 20% of the miners on stratum.kano.is - with just a failover and an immediate failback.

[kano]

Block by Canaan!

and a payout
We get to keep the $1

Awesome, I'm assume the payout was one of the transactions you pushed out with an extra miner fee?

Yeah I been putting a 42,000 sat fee in each of the block payouts (and I'll keep doing this for the time being while it continues to work)

[xuy]

Can someone recommend on-line BCH wallet?

[JRygh]

There was also some failover/failback, at 04:23 UTC 4 minutes after the block, on the LA node of the 2 that handle stratum.kano.is (the other is Silicon Valley)
It affected about 20% of the miners on stratum.kano.is - with just a failover and an immediate failback.

I did not get reward for the last block. My miner has been online and running all the time. It was dropping hashrate during the failback, but why is the reward missing?

[kano]

There was also some failover/failback, at 04:23 UTC 4 minutes after the block, on the LA node of the 2 that handle stratum.kano.is (the other is Silicon Valley)
It affected about 20% of the miners on stratum.kano.is - with just a failover and an immediate failback.

I did not get reward for the last block. My miner has been online and running all the time. It was dropping hashrate during the failback, but why is the reward missing?

If you mean there's no rewards shown on the web site for 478946 yet?
Yeah it can sometimes take a while before kdb generates them.
It always does generate them, but the new code seems to delay it on occasion ... oh it did it just now ... 05:22:16 UTC

Edit: you can tell it hasn't done it yet coz the Blocks page still shows the "~" approximate stats.
Within a minute after it updates the block, and thus removes the "~"s, it generates the rewards.

Edit2: the processing order is: generate the shift that shows on the Shifts page first, then next update the block's statistics that shows that on the Blocks page by removing the "~", then lastly generate the rewards.

That step from 1 to 2 seems to take a long time sometimes, and yes I will look into again, at a later date, to see why there's a delay there, I didn't spot why with a quick look back when I first updated the DB code and the first new block also had the long delay of almost an hour.
I do know why it's supposed to be a bit slower, since I did write the code , but I guess there's some unusual case where it can take almost an hour after the block, to decide to update the block's stats.