Continuum Mining Pool: No fees; Client uptime monitoring via twitter and email

[fortyniner]

Yep, thank you.  I get the impression there's only about 3 or 4 miners here.  Anyone for a free pool?
www.continuumpool.com

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[brocktice]

I put my idle 5770 on there, let's see how it goes.

[brocktice]

Does twitter do anything besides down-miner notifications? To test should I just shut it off for the period (currently set to 10 by me)?

[martok]

Does twitter do anything besides down-miner notifications? To test should I just shut it off for the period (currently set to 10 by me)?

Yep, just shut your miner down and you should get an alert after 10 minutes of downtime. That's all Twitter alerts do for now but I am thinking of adding other things though it'll change the RPC API some.
Notify when the pool finds a block. That can be done with a regular tweet. Though might get spammy depending on the hashrate of the pool. For now though it makes sense.
Notification when client is paid.
So we'll see how that goes.

[Transcendental]

Hello, I joined your pool today and have not yet received payout even though I have accrued balance in excess of 3. Is the payout broken?

[brocktice]

Hello, I joined your pool today and have not yet received payout even though I have accrued balance in excess of 3. Is the payout broken?

Yeah I think also my unconfirmed balance dropped?

[Transcendental]

I have noticed this also

[brocktice]

I have noticed this also

Could be in my head. For the record, here're my current stats:

Code:

Pool: 4065964415, Worker: 200434865 (4.92957745179873 %)
Balance: 1.69809988, Unconfirmed: 2.03382808121629

[brocktice]

Does twitter do anything besides down-miner notifications? To test should I just shut it off for the period (currently set to 10 by me)?

Yep, just shut your miner down and you should get an alert after 10 minutes of downtime.

Set it to 1 and tried it, worked great.

[brocktice]

I have noticed this also

Could be in my head. For the record, here're my current stats:

Code:

Pool: 4065964415, Worker: 200434865 (4.92957745179873 %)
Balance: 1.69809988, Unconfirmed: 2.03382808121629

Yep, just dropped. Does this have to do with the anti-pool hopping stuff? This happened after I tried shutting down my miner.

Code:

Pool: 3521926923, Worker: 85900656 (2.43902437154571 %)
Balance: 1.69809988, Unconfirmed: 1.99655769845703

[martok]

Hello, I joined your pool today and have not yet received payout even though I have accrued balance in excess of 3. Is the payout broken?

Indeed. Fixed now and all payments have been sent. Sorry about that.

[fortyniner]

DOOD! I made 5 bitcoins.  Thank you.

[martok]

Hello, I joined your pool today and have not yet received payout even though I have accrued balance in excess of 3. Is the payout broken?

Yeah I think also my unconfirmed balance dropped?

The balance from current round can drop or go up depending on if hashing power is added or removed from the pool or if you stop mining. The balance from rounds that are completed will never change. Well, it'll go down when you are paid of course.

[martok]

Renamed balanceunconfirmed to balancecurrent to be clear about what is actually being returned. That is the balance from the current round. The balance() function returns an unpaid (owed) balance which should not drop.

[brocktice]

Renamed balanceunconfirmed to balancecurrent to be clear about what is actually being returned. That is the balance from the current round. The balance() function returns an unpaid (owed) balance which should not drop.

Thanks, I'm getting this?

Can't call the method not allowed by prepare(). at ./continuum_check.pl line 12

when using balancecurrent. BTW is there a donation address to support the pool?

[martok]

Renamed balanceunconfirmed to balancecurrent to be clear about what is actually being returned. That is the balance from the current round. The balance() function returns an unpaid (owed) balance which should not drop.

Thanks, I'm getting this?

Can't call the method not allowed by prepare(). at ./continuum_check.pl line 12

when using balancecurrent. BTW is there a donation address to support the pool?

Edit the $client->prepare line of your script to rename the function there.

You support the pool by using it as that decreases my variance as it does for everyone else. That is why I don't see a need to charge fees or take donations. My benefit is that as the pool grows, my own mining becomes less prone to luck.

[brocktice]

Edit the $client->prepare line of your script to rename the function there.

D'oh that fixed it. Thanks!

Later if server load becomes an issue we can talk about donations again?

[Transcendental]

I received my payout, all is well and I will continue in this pool 

[martok]

I have tweaked the RPC scripts and they are orders of magnitude faster. This required some URL changes and I have edited the top post to reflect. To summarize though, the URI is now http://rpc.continuumpool.com/rpc and everything else is the same. The old url will redirect but the new is much snappier.

[Dusty]

Is there a way to check my balance via web?
Sorry but it's unclear to me, TIA.