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Bitcoin Discussion Thread Part 2

Stiletto said:
Deepbit being stupid for anyone else?
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Yes this is BS. I finally switched over all my miners from btc guild to deepbit after I decided to just wait for them to come back online when they lied and said they would be back up in a few hours.

I got a whole 12 hours of mining done in the past few days QQ
 
Im pretty on the ball about switching mine.. Have the email alerts after more than 20 minute outage and il teamview into my PC with my phone and switch my miners between Deepbit, BTCGuild, and BitClockers.

I really need to figure out how to do the auto failover, but I cant really narrow down how to add more than one pool to the failover.. I wanna mine between 3..

That, or I can just do what I had been doing.. Having it mine all 3 at the same time, if 1 fails the power divides to the 2 remaining.. and in this case, 2/3 have failed, so now they are just workin on BitClockers.

Not really stable, but prevents downtime.
 
ya ive been too lazy to setup much. I guess i should start treating it like real money and do it right.

Have you had any problems with teamviewer? I was using remote desktop but once i log in it causes my miners to stop working right.
 
Teamviewer works fine....logmein works fine too, if you prefer that.
 
I think Deepbit is down atm. BTCGuild seems to be working for me

Also using Teamviewer
 
deepbit seems to be back up. Glad it didn't take days like btcguild.

Edit: Spoke too soon, down again.
 
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Kardonxt said:
deepbit seems to be back up. Glad it didn't take days like btcguild.

Edit: Spoke too soon, down again.
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Yup. Deepbit and BTC under DOS now. Not sure if any others are since these are the only ones I'm on. Guess I'm going to end up moving my miners somewhere else again. Hope they can get their shit together soon. (Nothing against the pools, I know it's hard work and a PITA sometimes).

Guess I should ask, any other good pools working? May as well move my miners before I head out to lunch. ...sigh
 
ARSBitcoin! I tried BTCGuild, it was ok, but not reliable. I dont know why everyone wants to join these big pools with fees. Why anyone mines Deepbit with at 7% fee is beyond me. 0% fee pools is where it is at!
 
Deepbit is only 3% unless you use pay per share.

"We pay a competitive price:

Pay per share: 0.00002877132165184 BTC per every submitted share

Proportional: your part of every solved block less 3% fee"

Using are large tracker means you get more consistent payouts than you would with a pool like ARS. Deepbit (and btc with 2.5% donation) also gives you instant payouts and pays for invalid blocks which is nice.
 
sethmo said:
ARSBitcoin! I tried BTCGuild, it was ok, but not reliable. I dont know why everyone wants to join these big pools with fees. Why anyone mines Deepbit with at 7% fee is beyond me. 0% fee pools is where it is at!
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BTC Guild was great until the DDoS attack. The fee is an optional donation.
 
Exactly, the bigger pools are more likely to get DDos attacked, especially deepbit as they are close to the "50%" global bitcoin hashrate.


Kardonxt said:
Deepbit is only 3% unless you use pay per share.

"We pay a competitive price:

Pay per share: 0.00002877132165184 BTC per every submitted share

Proportional: your part of every solved block less 3% fee"

Using are large tracker means you get more consistent payouts than you would with a pool like ARS. Deepbit (and btc with 2.5% donation) also gives you instant payouts and pays for invalid blocks which is nice.
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ARSBitcoin has PPS now for no extra fee. It should be the same as any other PPS pool, no? They just don't have instant payouts.
 
I'm having issues with solo mining. I have 3 machines going. Two of them just don't find any hashes, even after running for 30minutes. The only one that finds anything is my 1.1Ghash system.
 
I just recently started using BitClockers and I really like their site, but not one of the pools quite has all the Data I want. Bitclockers is nice because its has graphical charts, not just a bunch of text/numbers..

I wish BTCGuild+Deepbit+BitClockers would get together and figure out how to make one good site, with a side of MtGOX to get linked up to trade/sell/buy accounts.
 
Lorien said:
Yeah, it's all about finding what works for your particular card. Mine tops out at this using a completely different AGGRESSION value:
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But it isn't really that stable:
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So I tweak things down a bit to get a stable ~460MH/s


http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?board=42.0
The stickies have all the info you're looking for.
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Can you upload your kernel please?
 
My solo mining says connecting...my console just states that Phoenix 1.50 started.

Before It was failng to connect until I figured out to start bitcoin.exe with a -server command.

Is it normal to do nothing? Or does it take a while when you first start solo mining?
 
I've been using Slush's pool since I started in the middle of June and the only downtime I'm aware of was ~6-8 hours on June 13. Since then it's been great. He charges a 2% fee.
 
Damn those are way overpriced. Stupid Newegg, they denied spendbitcoins' affiliate application and you can't buy gift cards through them anymore. On a related note, Ebay also denied their affiliate application but that was expected since they own blood sucking scum, err I mean Paypal.
 
How does slush's handle payouts? I notice the sendout threshold for sends but no 'cashout' option. I mean if I have threshold set for like 5.0BTC, what happens to my remainder when I leave the pool if I'm not at the threshold. Maybe it's just as easy as setting to 0BTC send threshold. =)
 
I can't get solo mining to work. Just says connecting. I followed the guide exactly.

Edit: Updated to latest version of bitcoin and now it works.
 
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I feel like even though BTC Guild is operating at a high hash rate we're not getting a lot of shares accumulated. Anyone else trying them again?
 
Dallows said:
I feel like even though BTC Guild is operating at a high hash rate we're not getting a lot of shares accumulated. Anyone else trying them again?
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It's not just BTC guild, I had a 15 hour period of time between payments from Slush's Pool, and I hash at 865 mhash/sec 24/7, and my payments are set to only 0.15
 
Just wondering, does anyone know what the breakdown for is in guiminer under accepted? There are two numbers e.g. 1000 (300).
 
Thanks you rock! I was trying to figure out why those numbers diverged over time.
 
Anxiously awaiting the surge of cheap 5830\50\70 | 6950\70s in the FS/FT after this..
 
if we are going negative in growth then people would need to be falling out..
Unless the growth is calculated by a trend meaning just less people than expected are hopping on board.
 
Umm, I don't think you understand. It is perfectly possible to have a difficulty drop without having a single person stop mining.
 
Lorien said:
Umm, I don't think you understand. It is perfectly possible to have a difficulty drop without having a single person stop mining.
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Then apparently I dont understand.. I was under the impression that it was based on total hashrate.. I guess im kind of assuming that everyone runs a miner for each card so they can set certain alarms to know when one fails.

If growth is negative, im assuming people are mining with fewer cards or falling out completely.
 
I would assume that the latest drop in production (and potential subsequent drop in difficulty) has been from Deepbit and BTC Guild getting DDoS'ed for a significant period of time yesterday. Deepbit seems to be back to business as usual, but BTC is still running at less than half the GH than they were just a couple days ago....
 
Evil Juggalo said:
I was under the impression that it was based on total hashrate..
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Basically right, but you are forgetting one key part; Difficulty changes from one period to the next are calculated based on how long it took the network to solve the previous 2016 blocks of coins. This will never change, every 2016 blocks there will be a difficulty adjustment. If the network solves blocks faster than 6 per hour on average then difficulty for the next period increases, if we solve less than 6 per hour on average then difficulty drops.

If growth is negative, im assuming people are mining with fewer cards or falling out completely.
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Yes, that is one scenario. The other scenario is that the network hash rate is flat and the difficulty increased. That results in the network solving less than 6 blocks per hour so difficulty drops for the next period.
The truth is probably a combination of both things. Miners already stopped mining at the end of this last difficulty period plus the difficulty increase of this period slowed down how fast the network solves blocks even further.
 
If we experience a difficulty decrease, does it fall back to the previous difficulty, or does it dynamically change based on the speed of blocks solved.

for example... if everyone stopped mining for 2 weeks would the difficulty drop drastically to almost the start.. Or would it just fall back a certain % or roll back to a previous difficulty
 
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