Shit, not again!


 

slush to be honest i will give deepbit a 48 hour try and compare averages

one thing i think that makes deepbit attractive to *me* is some of it's feature i think your pool would benifit greatly in a facelift

some things i think would be awesome if even possible is the following
most of it is copys from deep bit

the ability to add more then one worker account at once or at the very least when submiting a new worker have it refresh back to the my account clicking back is annoying as fuck when adding 20 some accounts

some of the features i like on deepbit are the share and share % in the account view

the ability to see your average hashrate (and what would be cool is to see worker hash rate) i also like that the account name changes color if active or not makes it easyer to sort thru

i like tha bility to have a signature pic to brag bout hash rate

long polling and instant payout are AWESOME features i hate having to wait if it's a buy or sell kind of market

and the reward estimation feature is nice not super accurate but still good

and some things i like about your pool are the graphing

if we could bundle this all up into one

duh
winning

plus like i said the front end could certainly use a facelift

What a drama! 

If you have decent gh/s rig just go solo ...

Slush i've decided to give your pool a try and with my workers they're not reporting correct stats on the score, my 5830 is somehow beating my 5870 and 6870 in score for each round. Any idea what the issue may be?

With the hashrate slush's pool had before the big crash, the pool was mining ~50 blocks per day, of which slush got 1 BTC each. That's 50 BTC * 3 USD/BTC (at that time) = 150 USD per day, or 4500 USD per month. That's starting to be a serious amount of money, and would definately warrant for hiring someone to watch the servers while slush is on a holiday other leave.

I was lucky to notice the crash, and was able to move my miners as soon as things went really bad, but I do feel the pain of the previous posters, losing 30-40 BTC is no fun :/

All in all, at least I won't be moving my miners back before adequate measures are taken to ensure that long (4h+) service outages don't happen; with the current USD/BTC rate, the pool can afford it - that's what the fees are for...

And, to dafishman - I agree that having options is good, however, that shouldn't come at the cost of the miners. Once a failproof mechanism is in place, I will consider moving my miners back. Implementing a software solution just won't cut it, I'm afraid, since as we can see, software can and will fail. Paying someone 100 USD/day to watch over the servers (= check that they work once in 3 hours) while slush is on a holiday would not make a big dent in his wallet with the current fee income

one thing I would like to remind everyone is the longer you stay connected to slush's pool the better the payout


I made a decision that I was going to stay with slush with my 375+m/hash (and growing) and im sticking to it
how much more do you really think deepbit is going to net you? and with what cost
the market is still unstable, it jumps up and down 1.00+ usd every day, we need to work together and mine mine mine....
since poor slush went on a vacation and his server crashed (which probably was an attack IMO) everyone has been running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Wheres your loyalty? Slush has a better payout system and a fairer fee, and he works very hard for this thing which we are all very fortunate to be a part of. IMO, we need to band together and make slush's pool better together ive mined with deepbit and over there you feel like just another number. It's much more personal here.

keep up the good work slush
and dont get discouraged
im here with ya bro.

-iMMUNE
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A lot of miners moved to deepbit when the crashed happen.  That sudden surge made Deepbit even more reliable in terms of very steady payouts (higher % of total network hash = likely to make more blocks per day), so some people haven't gone back to slush's pool.

This kind of situation is part of why I've gone the route of starting another pool.  The odds of passing great pools like slush or Deepbit are stacked against me, but that's not my goal.  Splitting the network into smaller pools is a way to help the network respond to pool crashes. 

With the percentage of miners in Deepbit, if it went down transactions across the network would see a large increase in time to be processed until the miners either switched pools or Deepbit came back online.  Compared to the overall network speed right now, I think Slush's pool is at a good size.  It's impact on the network is reasonable, but not crippling in the event of another crash.

I think the point that was trying to be made was that in 48 hours you might get unlucky and get a poor payout. With slush running at 180GHs that possible unluckiness is going to be exacerbated compared to deepbit. The longer you stay on slush (or any pool), the closer to the average probable payout you will get. (It's also possible that in 48 hours you get lucky, and then the longer you stay in the pool the less the payout).

Deepbit running at 560GHs is going to get you to a more stable payout quicker than slush. But it's going to cost you 3% versus slush's 2%. So, you'll always earn more in the long run on slush than deepbit. 

All things being equal, slush has some great features that deepbit doesn't, which is why competition is great. I really like a lot of slush's stats and graphs, and I also like that slush has a self signed SSL cert that I can use when accessing my account.

Downtime always occurs. Amazon EC2 was out for 24 hours recently, and they have gobs of people and resources. It'll happen to deepbit eventually, so it's no reason to jump ship.

Actually i see opposite.
When i mine in deepbit, i get less than i mine in slush.
I started mining slush only first then as the network grow, i became to get less (also calculated with difficulty.)
So, i started moving around pools testing, At least in 2-3 days i must have mined in all the pools available. But just mine 3-4 hours then go back to deepbit.
But when slush pool failed, deepbit increased size & i felt i am getting low.
So, after slush came online i am on him & i feel i get more than deepbit.