Why is it that slush's pool doesn't do merged mining?  I saw the explanation about stratum, but other pools seem to use stratum and merged mining.  Different daemon or something?

Probably not, just hopeful.

Or it's final death throes.

Am I the only one that is not able to connect to the pool right now? On minepeon, it says that its is currently unavailable/dead.

Wha? Poll Diiff or network?
Where's the estimate network Diff rise spreadsheet.......?

Looks like the stats page just threw up

I have a bunch of block erupters (on BFGMiner), that I point at Slush's pool, which works fine.

I also have an blade erupter running against BtcGuild using mining_proxy.exe. This also works fine.


I would like to move the blade erupter over to Slush's pool.

HOWEVER, when I try to point the blade's mining_proxy.exe at Slush's pool, the blade starts functioning erratically. Generally my blade get days and days of uptime, but on Slush it crashes every few minutes, or worse, hangs until I reboot it. It's overclocked to 13gh/s, but ventilation is via a wind tunnel in a cold room, so can't imagine it's that.

Switching the blade back to BtcGuild fixes it. Switching back to Slush, and I have issues again. Tried rebooting it a bunch of times etc.


Any idea what's going on?

try pointing it at a direct IP, change IP to a different if it happens

Name:    stratum.bitcoin.cz
Addresses:  192.198.107.178
          95.211.52.40
          54.215.3.101
         54.225.116.174

around 2 hours ago all my GPU miners halted with that IDNA error again. this started happening like a 1.5 months ago occurring biweekly it seems. a friends also did this. so per usual blame my network, blame my setup... would be nice to know why this started happening to peoples gpu miners.

Luckily I noticed it as it happened and reset them all.