It happens because very smart boy - dstm hardcoded fee pool in this miner. When pool (flypool) is down miner is out of work. So I lost more than hour on my farms it is much more than fee. Now I switched to EWBF - it is less vulnerable to such a treats.
Bye bye dstm..
Same here, 8 Hours offline with 30 x 1080 GPUs because of this problem.
not anymore.
I'll go back to EWBF
it connected instantly, 0 problems.
I lost a lot of money today.
sorry dstm but i can't afford problems like this, my profit marging is too thin right now to be offfline 8 hours for such a stupid issue.
That's perfectly valid ofc, no doubt - sry for the downtime.
I'm currently in contact with different pool owners, to be able to distribute pools across different networks.
I'm still not really happy about the failover draft, it has some corner cases that I don't like - like local network issues - more difficulties for people which have to tunnel all their traffic through a proxy - but I'm working on it.
Comments:
1) To these miners: it's not DSTM's fault that you lost money, it's your fault. Your greed got you in trouble.:
a) What business expects operational perfection in forecasting profit? So if you owned a trucking business, all the trucks would work perfectly? What would happen if a squirrel shorted out a breaker at the local power distribution station? There are some particular power distribution transformers that could take a week+ to replace because they are not stock items. Where I live, count on small animals, car crashes and lighting power outages.
b) You are stupid and greedy if you immediately deployed DSTM's miner across all your miners and then dumped on DSTM for any flaws. What was wrong with just running it on one mining setup? Even those bastions of software excellence, Microsoft and AMD, deploy updates that have problems/flaws. Why are you newbies dumping on one guy?
You guys need to come up with some sort of procedure for software deployment given all the noise you are making about how serious you are.
My procedure(not for everyone).
I'm conservative. I typically run at least 1 to 2 months behind any improved mining software. If the improvement is only a few %, I won't bite because crash free operation is worth a few per cent. If it's a few % hash increase plus a few per cent decrease in power consumption, this gets on my radar. I will wait several more weeks until people on the board I trust vouch for it. I then run this "new" software on one miner. Every crash adds a day of evaluation after a "corrective" homemade or goggle tweak. I have no expertise in determining whether there is bad stuff hidden in any software, this is my major concern. Yet another reason to treat this board's reliable software coders with respect and stop whining about their cut.