Two weeks. 

It takes a while for the stats on ETHOS to show on the main page. Also when you use 'show miner' in the terminal it also reports correctly. There was an issue with my miner (which may not be related as I use nVidia GPUs) on ETHOS 1.2.4 where I had to inject the flags in the ETHOS config in this manner:

globalminer ccminer
# for pool use:
stratumproxy enabled
# for Nicehash use:
# stratumproxy nicehash
ccminer-flags -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://[pool server]:[pool port] -u [ETN address]
# proxypool [pool server]:[pool port]
# proxywallet [ETN address]

This was because on Nicehash ccminer would report that it tried to connect to Niceash and then the connection was rejected and on other pools ccminer would report that the address used was invalid. Injecting the flags as above got around this issue albeit in a hacky kind of way.

I made some modifications to ETHOS 1.2.4 so I didn't want to lose them by upgrading to 1.2.5. I still have to add support for ccminer mods with better hashing performance. In the future I won't be using any proprietary software for hashing. EWBF is the only proprietary miner I have used and I'm still looking for an alternative for Equihash. For now though, ccminer appears to be hashing OK on CryptoNight. I may get better performance on CryptoNight by incorporating the ccminer mods but I'm in no rush.

Someone hasn't done their homework here. The pool offer a Miner page to mine directly from the browser without downloading and configuring any mining software. Simply providing an Electroneum address is supposed to pay any pool earnings to that wallet. You are most likely reacting to your anti-virus software alerts rather than responding to them appropriately.  If you look you'll see that the malware you speak of is not malware at all but just a miner that the site operators have provided for ease of use.

It doesn't help when all I do is ask for clarification of how to get the Burst wallet service working in Windows and then the lead developer bans me from their Discord for simply asking tecnical configuration questions, then follows me back into the old Burst Discord for yet another volley of abuse, telling me that I can't expect to be "spoon fed". I was patronised directly by the OP suggesting in the Discord that they should consider tolerating "users of that level" , essentially offering that I was somehow not an equal but rather, inferior. All I was asking for was info on hard pathing Java after the CMD file for the wallet service failed to find Java even before loading any config. Everyone else was helpful but the OP here decided to beat his chest and swing his ban hammer in a fit of intolerance and impatience. Maybe you're totally right UnZane.  We will see I suppose.

Maybe go over to the Discord and try to resolve your issue with a legitimate paying pool before you start spreading FUD?  There's plenty of payouts on this pool, with very little issues.

Post your wallet address?

Send an email?

The help is there. Maybe you could have resolved your issues before assuming the worst and branding a fledgling beta pool as a scam.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2vrvioo.png

Scooby is also in beta so why not talk with the pool owners before fearing the worst?

I seem to be having issues that a lot of people running the latest wallet on page one of this thread are having. Surely there's a fix for this that someone is just not sharing right now?

Blocks remaining this morning after running the wallet for a few days non-stop:
440383

Blocks left approximately 30 minutes ago:
202553

Current last block received:
Sat May 20 18:13:27 2017

Current number of blocks:
37257

Estimated total number of blocks:
239810

I have populated the peers list with peers from a friend's peers file and he says it works fine for him and it is correctly synchronised with the block chain.

The wallet has been completely removed from my workstation along with the local user application data folder that is automatically created and I've also tried to re-synchronise from the genesis block on a fresh virgin copy of the wallet to no avail. It's also been installed on a separate virgin server, again to no avail.

Windows Firewall rules have been checked and they allow all access to the wallet. UPNP is on and the ports are accessible.  There is no firewall interference. There are currently 21 active connections to the Sweepstake network.

I did however notice on both the workstation and server that the Sweepstake wallet has a high amount of banned peers. Is this normal?

So I'm left scratching my head as to why this works for some but not others. There are zero network restrictions in place, this is the first thing I checked with my ISP and my router, firewall hardware and Windows firewall software.

Any help would be much appreciated.

EDIT: There are now apparently 213814 blocks remaining. The number is increasing! This is ridiculous.

Crypto Play Radio sure is the place to be if you are into any crypto related stuff. Been there since the beginning and there's always something interesting being talked about. Pretty cool place :-)

Ah,  thanks for that.  I guess I'm reading the numbers in the pop up info box wrong too? I've never used ghash.io before. Just out of interest, what difficulty should be set for S3 use on ghash.io? My ghash.io account defaulted to 1024 initially but I thought this to be too high, so set it to 256 like it was with vardiff on Eligius.

Well it does seem like an extremely high proportion of stale and duplicate work. I know this isn't related to hardware errors but there is one miner which seems to be producing a relatively high percentage of HW errors also.  I didn't screenshot that as it's only about 1.6%.

This is from 4 S3 Antminers.  So what's wrong here?  

http://i58.tinypic.com/34sgcp3.png

http://i61.tinypic.com/20uweox.png

Help please!

You don't need to have a UPS account to see that info do you? Surely the sender (Bitmain) just provide a tracking number that one can use anonymously on the UPS website to track delivery progress?

So what should Bitmain customers in the UK use for shipping? EMS,  UPS or DHL? Which one is best for customs and delivery times? Which one delivers direct? Which one holds packages the longest / shortest? Which one doesn't add stupid admin charges before delivery?

What's that all about and where exactly was that screenshot taken from? What website?

I'm having the same problem as you.  I contacted both via pre-sale and after sales with a similar question,  asking when my order would be shipped first and then asking why others appear to have been shipped ahead of my order of four units when their orders were made days later than mine. I have yet to receive any response on the Bitmain website messaging system.

When did you order yours? I asked some else but as of yet have no reply.  Where are you based?

What shipping company did you use and when did you complete payment for the order? I'm just curious as I have 4 from batch 5 ordered and I'd like some idea as to when they are likely to arrive here in the UK.

Spam deleteed. I've not been active for many months. It was wrong of me not to look into the so called competition.  Do I really receive forgiveness? Do I get edited off the shitlist?