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[memvola]

EDIT: I'm unable to reproduce the problem I reported below. Please disregard it. It might be that my readings were wrong somehow. Thanks, martok, for looking into this.

It seems the pool doesn't support switching between pps and score-based using the same address.

I had a little more than 1.2 BTC in my account when I switched from pps to the score-based system (I kept the address and just deleted the pps suffix). It worked fine and I saw my positive "proportional" balance on the RPC, but my pps balance suddenly went down to 0.16. I think, since the shares hadn't been paid yet, the system assumed that they were submitted to the score-based scheme (it showed around ~12BTC, which is too high for half a day's work @ 2.4GH, even with optimistic calculations). Some time after I realized this, I went back to the pps scheme, which caused my "proportional" balance to also go to 0.

I wish the bug can be fixed and I can get my coins back, but either way: Use a different address for pps and score-based accounts.

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[fsasa70]

Anybody getting disconnections like every 10 minutes?

[mmortal03]

It looks like something is wrong with the server.  The main page throws up errors when checking the hashrate, etc.

[martok]

Just to get a clear answer. I need to mine a full 1BTC before getting a payout? Is this correct?

Correct, though this restriction is going away.

[martok]

Hello all,

Quick update. The 1 btc payout maximum is gone. So PPS miners and any others who have pending balances should be paid out every hour. Currently, the limit is 0.1 BTC but that may need to be adjusted depending on whether our blocks actually get confirmed. The first of these payouts has just gone out.

[maxcorrads]

Hello all,

Quick update. The 1 btc payout maximum is gone. So PPS miners and any others who have pending balances should be paid out every hour. Currently, the limit is 0.1 BTC but that may need to be adjusted depending on whether our blocks actually get confirmed. The first of these payouts has just gone out.

Nice! So now when i reach 0.1 BTC i get paid?

[memvola]

Nice! So now when i reach 0.1 BTC i get paid?

Yes. I've received 7 payments already!

[PoulGrym]

Great thanks! Good to hear it's lowered. Now with the new high difficulty level of 877227. It's going to take 50% longer to get those coins.

[maxcorrads]

Nice pool!!

[PoulGrym]

Pool server is having some real issues.. I'm disconnecting all the time. Anyone else feel the same?

[edit] seems to be more stable now..

[martok]

I believe the pool should be quite a bit more responsive now. I have deployed some scalability changes in the pool backend code which prevents it from blocking on new shares. Hopefully that also will resolve the little downtimes we were getting. Would appreciate some load testing and feedback though.

RPC still runs in a single loop so only serves one request at a time. That's the next thing I need to change as RPC is rather a busy service it would seem.

[disq]

is it possible to make exceptions on the minimum payments? i'm running PPS and having sub-1btc transactions few times a day really crimps my wallet's style :p

maybe use the password field for settings (though it wouldn't be secure) or raise the minimum auto-payout limit and provide a "button" to get paid early.

[twmz]

is it possible to make exceptions on the minimum payments? i'm running PPS and having sub-1btc transactions few times a day really crimps my wallet's style :p

maybe use the password field for settings (though it wouldn't be secure) or raise the minimum auto-payout limit and provide a "button" to get paid early.

I was thinking of something similar.  Personally, I like Deepbit's auto-payment scheme.  It's a minimum auto-payout, but they only do it once per day.  Even if you think 1 day is too long, you might consider some kind of "no more than 1 payment per X hours" system I'd be much happier getting 3 payments of 0.8 per day instead of hourly payments of 0.1.  Or something like that.

[PoulGrym]

hOw about using the miner address after the 0PPS<XX> telling in hours how often you want your payments?? if not added it's using the default.

[gsan]

I think few people would actually need that kind of fine-tuning. How about "one payment per day if the balance is above 0.1"? Or every 12 hours?

[twmz]

I think few people would actually need that kind of fine-tuning. How about "one payment per day if the balance is above 0.1"? Or every 12 hours?

+1

[martok]

Ok, payments set to twice daily.

[twmz]

is it possible to make exceptions on the minimum payments? i'm running PPS and having sub-1btc transactions few times a day really crimps my wallet's style :p

maybe use the password field for settings (though it wouldn't be secure) or raise the minimum auto-payout limit and provide a "button" to get paid early.

I was thinking of something similar.  Personally, I like Deepbit's auto-payment scheme.  It's a minimum auto-payout, but they only do it once per day.  Even if you think 1 day is too long, you might consider some kind of "no more than 1 payment per X hours" system I'd be much happier getting 3 payments of 0.8 per day instead of hourly payments of 0.1.  Or something like that.

I think that is a good balance. Say a 1 btc payout with a twice daily automatic payment. Consider it implemented.

Did you mean 0.1?

[martok]

is it possible to make exceptions on the minimum payments? i'm running PPS and having sub-1btc transactions few times a day really crimps my wallet's style :p

maybe use the password field for settings (though it wouldn't be secure) or raise the minimum auto-payout limit and provide a "button" to get paid early.

I was thinking of something similar.  Personally, I like Deepbit's auto-payment scheme.  It's a minimum auto-payout, but they only do it once per day.  Even if you think 1 day is too long, you might consider some kind of "no more than 1 payment per X hours" system I'd be much happier getting 3 payments of 0.8 per day instead of hourly payments of 0.1.  Or something like that.

I think that is a good balance. Say a 1 btc payout with a twice daily automatic payment. Consider it implemented.

Did you mean 0.1?

No I meant 1 btc = payout immediately but payout x times daily (currently 2) with a minimum of 0.1.

[twmz]

No I meant 1 btc = payout immediately but payout x times daily (currently 2) with a minimum of 0.1.

Ah, that works too.  Thanks!