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fireduck (OP)
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October 16, 2012, 07:25:28 PM |
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I'm in the process of upgrading one of the supporting bitcoind instances to 0.7. It has decided it needs to inspect the world for a while so share processing is down until it completes.
Mining, block creation and share recording are going fine (they use a different bitcoind). Payments and share recording btc amounts for shares will be back whenever it is done.
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bitcoindaddy
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October 22, 2012, 05:51:29 PM |
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Are there any plans to support the Stratum protocol?
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fireduck (OP)
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October 22, 2012, 06:41:10 PM |
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Are there any plans to support the Stratum protocol?
I have only just now heard of it so I have no plans. Does it provide any significant advantages to miners?
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bitcoindaddy
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October 22, 2012, 07:40:39 PM |
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It's supposed to be more of a benefit for the pool operator, keeping the network traffic to a minimum.
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Shadow383
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October 22, 2012, 07:44:10 PM |
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It's supposed to be more of a benefit for the pool operator, keeping the network traffic to a minimum.
I have to wonder whether traffic's really an issue when you're working on high-difficulty shares...
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JWU42
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October 25, 2012, 12:05:18 PM |
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We need to find a block!!
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ShadesOfMarble
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October 25, 2012, 12:40:41 PM |
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That's your job, isn't it? ;p
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Shadow383
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October 25, 2012, 04:30:21 PM |
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I can't remember how to do risk of ruin calculations on BTC pools, but I tried inputting the pool's current balance into a sim I made.
200 runs, 88 of them resulted in pool bankruptcy within 100 blocks. 61 of them (30.5%) resulted in pool bankruptcy within 10 blocks. The real case is likely to be worse than this as not all miners are mining at the 2% fee I assumed.
This is why you need a big buffer to pay PPS. The pool should look at alternative financing methods.
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JWU42
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October 25, 2012, 09:32:17 PM |
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I am back on full time for now - keeping fingers crossed...
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fireduck (OP)
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October 29, 2012, 01:48:35 PM |
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So the pool has been pretty low and I put some more in yesterday or the day before. I begin to lose track, I've been traveling.
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JWU42
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October 29, 2012, 01:51:30 PM |
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Thanks fireduck - I moved off the pool as we were getting low as I feared payouts would be curtailed until a block was found. Hopefully we get lucky again and find a few shares in the coming day(s)!
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Shadow383
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October 30, 2012, 03:04:10 AM |
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Well, since you're committed to keeping this pool open, I'll point some of my personal hashrate your way too - just a few gigahash but hopefully it'll bump things up a bit
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JWU42
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October 30, 2012, 09:49:07 PM |
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I found another one - still way in the hole though...
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October 31, 2012, 11:07:02 AM |
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And another found this morning... I swear - never have this luck when solo-mining
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November 03, 2012, 11:34:03 AM |
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And another yesterday... 8 blocks found thus far - only 200 BTC to show for it Hoping the pool luck gets better at FD can stay closer to even...
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November 21, 2012, 11:16:20 AM |
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After lowering the requested difficulty from 128 to 64 my stale rate went up from ~0.5% to ~1%. Does this make any sense? The stales are always "prevhash-stale". Are those stales payed? I'm wondering because paying stales would almost eat up my fee (1.5%).
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November 21, 2012, 11:54:47 AM |
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After lowering the requested difficulty from 128 to 64 my stale rate went up from ~0.5% to ~1%. Does this make any sense? Halving the requested difficulty you find and submit twice the shares in the same time. So if you submitted X shares in the "stale time", now you're submitting 2X shares in the "stale time" (of course X and 2X aren't exact values: we're speaking of averages). But now every share is worth (about) a half too. The stales are always "prevhash-stale". Are those stales payed? Sure. You can see it in your account page (please click on your bitcoin address in the main page), looking at the btc column: even if a share is prevhash-stale, nonetheless it is payed. Obviously other types of rejected shares (for example duplicated shares) aren't paid - and you'd see 0.000000 in the btc column. I'm wondering because paying stales would almost eat up my fee (1.5%). Don't worry. The lower is your requested difficulty, the higher is the fee. So: if you lower the difficulty, the pool gains more, no matter what.
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ShadesOfMarble
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November 21, 2012, 12:10:56 PM |
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Yes, but (1.5 nominal fee - 1.1 stales)% = 0.4% fee doesn't sound like it's sustainable for the pool.
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November 21, 2012, 12:33:53 PM |
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Sorry, I see now that I didn't clearly answer your main question.
If you have just switched the difficulty, you can see a higher stale rate for a while: now you're submitting twice the shares (and so twice the stales) with regard to your history. Stales is a little number that can go up quickly, while total is a big number. So you can see your stale rate jump for a little while, but after a little time you should get back to your standard value (0.5%).
Example: my stale rate is 0.5%, give by stales/total: 50/10000. Now I go from 128 to 64 difficulty, and five blocks are found very quickly. My stale rate is now (50+10+10+10+10+10)/(10000+500+300+400+300+500)=100/12000. But it won't last long.
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