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Re: NVIDIA GTX 560 (1GB) vs ATI 6950 (1GB) - which is best for mining?
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Raptorblaze
on 28/10/2011, 00:33:39 UTC
You can look it up in the chart here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
It won't load for me at the moment. But in all honesty comparing ATI cards to NVIDIA cards in terms of bitcoin performance is like comparing a GPU to a CPU.
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Re: Bitcoin Half-Life is About 6 Weeks
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Raptorblaze
on 12/10/2011, 03:52:08 UTC
Actually at that rate it'll be an incredibly small decimal. How you got a negative is beyond me.
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Re: New mining calculator
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Raptorblaze
on 15/09/2011, 01:37:32 UTC
May want to fix "Brake even" to "Break even" Other than that nice calc.
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Re: Client pegs my CPU
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Raptorblaze
on 15/09/2011, 01:09:09 UTC
You could change the config file so it doesn't automatically start generating coins every time you start...CPU mining is virtually pointless now anyway
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 11/03/2011, 15:12:05 UTC
I joined this pool this morning at around 9am PST.  My machine is a crossfire setup with 4800's doing 150 Mh/s

Since joining I have "earned" an estimated 1 btc and two rounds have already been completed, however my bitcoin client shows no payments received.

I admit I am new to this, however, I am using the custom miner with the correct flags and the stats page on www.bitcoinpool.com shows that my miners are submitting shares correctly.

Why no payment? Sad

Sincerely,
Hopeful but dissapointed n00b miner

p.s. My username here is the same as my username on the pool stats page.

p.p.s My address is 19vg91RrXPMdWydgxv4R6TRfMjruVgoG6o (donations of 0.01 or less would be greatly appreciated Cheesy)  I got 5 btcents from the faucet! Yay!

Also is it true that the bitcoin client does not report balances of less than 0.01?  If so, how do I check my balances?

Great... I feel like an idiot now because I think I just figured it out... When at least 120 other clients confirm the result then the unconfirmed earnings get sent to me. Correct?

Please make this clearer on your site for n00bs like me.  Also thanks for hosting a such an awesome and efficient pool.  As an engineer I approve all deferments of inevitable entropy universe death!  Keep up the WINNING.

It takes 120 blocks following the block that the pool solved in order to "confirm" it, payment is then distributed when the server next checks. One block is generated on average every 600 seconds, or 10 minutes. 1200 minutes is 20 hours. So it takes about 20 hours after the solution of a block in order for payment to be distributed. The status of each solved block can be viewed at the bottom of the stats page, currently we have 2 solved but unconfirmed blocks in the list.
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 11/03/2011, 03:48:11 UTC
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Anytime, just keeping you on your toes with the bug reports Wink hooray third block in <8 hours!

Yeah! We're really happy with how well this is taking off...

Also, you saw we added support for Ufasoft's CPU Miner?
I'm using my GPU for it atm, but that is good to know. Like I said earlier though my birthday is next week so i'm hoping to upgrade and increase my mining speed...

Also incase anyone doesn't feel like looking up the guide for setting up a GPU miner, heres basically how my batch file is written:
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start /DC:\bitcoin\Miner poclbm-mod.exe --host=www.bitcoinpool.com --port=8334 --user=(Username) --pass=(Password) --device=0
Just change the path right after start to whatever folder you put the files into.
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 11/03/2011, 03:26:04 UTC
Another block was solved a few minutes ago, is the round duration correct? I guess i'm unsure if a round is from the previous block's generation -> the next block or if it is a set amount of time. It says the round lasted 2 days.

I fixed the issue. Thanks. Smiley

Anytime, just keeping you on your toes with the bug reports Wink hooray third block in <8 hours!
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 10/03/2011, 19:35:48 UTC
Another block was solved a few minutes ago, is the round duration correct? I guess i'm unsure if a round is from the previous block's generation -> the next block or if it is a set amount of time. It says the round lasted 2 days.
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 10/03/2011, 03:21:30 UTC
Also, hooray for solved block? Cheesy

YES, we found another block.  Found by user "xxx" (which seems to have a lot of GPU power...thank you xxx).
We're just waiting for the block to be confirmed 120 times, then we'll be paying people on the 121st confirmation (which also shows the block as being "Confirmed" on the stats page).

We're still a few hours away from that though...
Should average around 20 hours until payment once the block is solved. There also seems to be something weird going on with the statistics list, it says 0, 50, and next 100. But there isn't 50 in each list segment (there were 19 in the first segment when i checked)
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 10/03/2011, 03:10:09 UTC
Also, hooray for solved block? Cheesy
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 09/03/2011, 19:10:30 UTC
hey slush ... perhaps if you spent more time working on your own pool it might re-open for registration sooner
This

Also, I'm in favor of an idea that doesn't limit the number of participants as much as yours with little disadvantages to the user themself, which this seems to do.
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 09/03/2011, 18:42:00 UTC
oh and guys, you can use the normal poclbm with this pool so if that is suppose to give you better performance, why can't we just use that?

The modified poclbm does not give you better performance -- more hashes per second -- nor does it find more shares than the unmodified.


Let me check to make sure I'm understanding this right:
Both clients do approximately the same in terms of mining
The modified client significantly reduces the load on the server
A reduced load on the server allows more users to join the pool
More users in the pool allows the pool as a whole to find blocks more quickly

I'm not seeing the disadvantage here....
Edit:Sorry for the double post!
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 09/03/2011, 17:48:54 UTC
oh and guys, you can use the normal poclbm with this pool so if that is suppose to give you better performance, why can't we just use that?

The average person isn't that creative Smiley My efficiency on the stats page is low because i was having trouble getting their miner to work at first. Totally forgot the .exe name was poclbm-mod, not just poclbm in the batch file....*facepalm*  Hope they send me my payments soon, i've been running for almost 13 hours now and haven't seen anything. More information on the payment system would be appreciated.

We haven't found a block yet so we don't get paid yet... and the difficulty increased so we have even less chance to get a block now >.>

Yeah I was just perusing the Block solved history, I'm hoping to upgrade my miner with birthday money (No criticism, I'm turning 19 and still get birthday money) next week on Thursday.
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Re: [NEW POOL & NEW MINER] - BitcoinPool.com - Jump In!
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Raptorblaze
on 09/03/2011, 17:41:27 UTC
oh and guys, you can use the normal poclbm with this pool so if that is suppose to give you better performance, why can't we just use that?

The average person isn't that creative Smiley My efficiency on the stats page is low because i was having trouble getting their miner to work at first. Totally forgot the .exe name was poclbm-mod, not just poclbm in the batch file....*facepalm*  Hope they send me my payments soon, i've been running for almost 13 hours now and haven't seen anything. More information on the payment system would be appreciated.
Edit: Just to clarify, I recall reading something about slush's pool requiring more confirmations for each block than actually necessary. The number for default confirmations (i believe...) was 120? which would put it at ~20 hours per confirmation. So I'm not getting impatient at this point.
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Re: Cooperative mining (>20Ghash/s, join us!)
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Raptorblaze
on 24/02/2011, 01:10:46 UTC
*Trying* to be patient and wait for push so me (and a couple friends) can join in on the pool, just kind burns me that there are people in the pool (who I shall not name) who are complaining over nothing, when they are at least members.
GPU: ~78 Mhashes/s solo mining right now...