[ANN][LTC][Pool][PPLNS][STRATUM] - ltc.kattare.com - burnside's Mining Pool

[burnside]

Introducing burnside's LTC Mining Pool...

Features:
   - STRATUM protocol support.
   - PPLNS payout structure with a 0% Fee  (but please donate if you like it!)
   - FREE dead worker notifications via email.  (worker monitoring)
   - Longpoll support.
   - Custom patched & compiled litecoind to reduce stales in pushpoold.
   - Full reaper v13b4 support
   - Traditional simplecoin interface, tweaked for LTC.
   - Automatic and instant payout options.
   - Graphs, history, and network stats available.
   - BTC & USD profit calculator.
   - Per-user timezone settings.
   - Low per-withdrawl fee of 0.05 LTC.  (to cover the Litecoin client transaction fees.)
   - Dedicated server hosted at www.kattare.com in Oregon, USA.

Come and visit burnside's LTC Mining Pool at http://ltc.kattare.com.


FAQ

I am getting 403 errors when connecting to the mining port.

Double check your WORKER username/password settings.

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[burnside]

Looks like we have some miners!  Thanks everyone, and please let me know if any issues crop up!

[burnside]

I was checking out the payouts, making sure everyone was getting their LTC and discovered an issue.  There was a simplecoin bug in the dividing up of the shares when a block is found.  I manually divided up all the coins in the wallet based on share counts and fixed the bug.

Thanks for using burnside's LTC Mining Pool!    

[burnside]

I was testing the API out today.  Turned out it was not working due to an invalid function call.  It's working now.  ;-)

[burnside]

Lots of improvements went in last night.  Many of them behind the scenes.

- Fixed the links to the block info.
- Several UI tweaks.
- Moved pushpoold to it's own UID.  (trying to secure the config file in case there's ever a hack discovered in Simplecoin.)

The pushpoold change required a brief outage, sorry about that.  It was for a good cause!

[burnside]

The server was getting hammered by too many shares.  (Thanks for using the pool!)

I had to shift the difficulty from 16 to 18 on the shares.  There was a brief outage when I restarted pushpoold.  Things should be a bit smoother now.  ;-)

[burnside]

Just wrapped up a few updates.

Added a calculator.
Added BTC-e conversion rates to the header.
Fixed a bug on the my stats page that was causing it to stop halfway through.

[Winterfrost]

Just fyi, this is showing up for me just below the footer.

Code:

Connecting to localhost

Query using db simplecoin_v5
SELECT secret, pass, sessionTimeoutStamp FROM webUsers WHERE id = 7 LIMIT 0,1 (0.0001 seconds)
SELECT count(*) as id FROM shares WHERE time > DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 10 MINUTE) (0.0648 seconds)
SELECT value FROM currencies WHERE currency='BTC' (0.0003 seconds)
SELECT value FROM currencies WHERE currency='USD' (0.0001 seconds)
SELECT id, username, email, pin, pass, admin, api_key, IFNULL(donate_percent, '0') as donate_percent, btc_lock FROM webUsers WHERE id = 5 LIMIT 0,1 (0.0001 seconds)
SELECT balance, IFNULL(sendAddress,'') as sendAddress, threshold FROM accountBalance WHERE userId = '5' LIMIT 0,1 (0.0001 seconds)
SELECT id, username, password FROM pool_worker WHERE associatedUserId = 5 (7.7009 seconds)

[burnside]

Just fyi, this is showing up for me just below the footer.

Thanks for the heads up!  Been trying to optimize some queries.  ;-)

Cheers.

[burnside]

Added network hashrate display
Added estimated next difficulty display
Added summary of how PPLNS works on the About page.

[burnside]

This beta pool has flown under the radar so far and has not been DDoS attacked, but just to keep from attracting unwanted attention I have closed it off to all but registered users for the time being.  Hopefully no one minds. 

[burnside]

Crap.  I was trying to figure out how my pool wallet was losing money.  Being zero fee it should have been just hovering at the same balance.  I started digging into the transaction log on the litecoin client and it turns out that even though I have "paytxfee=0.00" set in my litecoin.conf I've still been paying 0.1 LTC fees on payout transactions.  Ugh.

Examples:

    {
        "account" : "",
        "address" : "LeFMKDnxfc49vDa2JHgxzLtYMjoAdowxHA",
        "category" : "send",
        "amount" : -5.24153911,
        "fee" : -0.10000000,
        "confirmations" : 14,
        "blockhash" : "6fbdb5e3b49f29070ba5bdaea03a52628b417ccc4ba66f72f6346f524a9e5a2a",
        "blockindex" : 8,
        "txid" : "200b62cc64458d374ee6d5f0b522350d9ff7d6d581a20135974bdd5a6ad6deee",
        "time" : 1343195971
    },

    {
        "account" : "",
        "address" : "LgRrEs88eNsBAiDb71ayDkoQzv7cmR29NX",
        "category" : "send",
        "amount" : -1.23728250,
        "fee" : -0.10000000,
        "confirmations" : 14,
        "blockhash" : "6fbdb5e3b49f29070ba5bdaea03a52628b417ccc4ba66f72f6346f524a9e5a2a",
        "blockindex" : 7,
        "txid" : "ae772409e1301297f63d2650ea2dd8d02e99cbdfab3e70c2b946b6189a192b4e",
        "time" : 1343195973
    },

Since not every transaction is costing 0.1 LTC (seems like about half are) I have set the transaction fee to 0.05 LTC.  Sorry everyone.  I really hoped I could leave it zero fee.   

To hopefully reduce the impact of this on people with auto payouts, I have bumped up the max auto payout to 100 LTC.

Fair warning as well, eventually I am going to require auto payouts.  If the site is ever hacked I don't want to have a big pool of other people's LTC in my wallet.  Hope that makes sense.

Cheers.

[burnside]

I bumped the rpc.target.bits to 20 today, seems like most of the pools are running at 20 or 21 now as difficulty has gone up.

I also implemented a few anti-ddos measures today.  Sorry about the brief interruptions as I was making tweaks. 

[burnside]

coblee rolled out a new litecoin client today, no new blocks were accepted on the old one.  (thus the 8 hour gap of no new blocks)

we're updated now, and things seem to be rolling smoothly.

[burnside]

Added dead worker notifications via email.  If your worker goes dead and is no longer registering shares, you'll receive an email from us.

To turn it on, browse to your account settings, check the 'Monitor' box for the worker you want to be notified on, and click 'Update Worker'.

Cheers.

[NRF]

Hi,

Good pool, been playing with it for a few days (I even found a block with a CPU miner (asdfnz)), I do have one request though, how about allowing users to set their timezone.  Or at the very least set your server to UTC (like the blockchain).

PST is cool and all, but it makes my head hurt when I look at your graphs.

[burnside]

That's a great idea...  I'll see what I can do.

Hi,

Good pool, been playing with it for a few days (I even found a block with a CPU miner (asdfnz)), I do have one request though, how about allowing users to set their timezone.  Or at the very least set your server to UTC (like the blockchain).

PST is cool and all, but it makes my head hurt when I look at your graphs.

[burnside]

New feature... Timezone support.  ;-)  Set your timezone in your account settings.

[wndrbr3d]

What mods did you make to pushpoold?

Is there a git repo I could pull them from? I run a private pool and would love to lower the stales

[NRF]

New feature... Timezone support.  ;-)  Set your timezone in your account settings.

Cool, thanks for that, my head only seems to work in NZST or UTC (GMT).  I am getting old