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    March 07, 2013, 11:08:33 PM
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    What is the "Suggested difficulty" for the miners .... ?
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    March 07, 2013, 11:14:48 PM
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    Quote from: Bitcoin.Greece on March 07, 2013, 11:08:33 PM
    What is the "Suggested difficulty" for the miners .... ?

    It gives a possibility to slow down submission rate for fast mining rigs (in terms of GHashes or more). It improves network efficiency, lower communication overhead and lower pool load.

    It's still just an option on website, it's not working yet. I'm working on release right now and I'll do full announcement soon...
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    March 08, 2013, 05:31:34 PM
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    Slush, great job introducing "your_shares" column in the statistics. When will this field be included in Json files?
    Thx.

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    March 08, 2013, 06:26:35 PM
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    Quote from: qbits on March 08, 2013, 05:31:34 PM
    Slush, great job introducing "your_shares" column in the statistics. When will this field be included in Json files?
    Thx.

    Actually I just forget to update json format Wink. Very soon...
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    March 08, 2013, 07:03:36 PM
    Last edit: March 08, 2013, 07:35:18 PM by slush
     #5845
    User-defined (choosable) difficulty released!

    I just made probably the biggest update of Stratum pool since stratum mining has been introduced. Now all Stratum miners can define their own difficulty for each worker. Until now, miners were generating difficulty-1 shares and they had been credited by one share in pool database. Now miners can work on higher difficulty, say 5, which means that it is 5x harder to find a share, but pool will credit the worker for five shares in database for every share submission.

    This feature is aimed to ASIC miners and big mining operations, because it drastically optimized communication overhead. You can have 1Thash/s miner connected to the pool and network communication will consume less than 10kB/minute...

    Downside of this feature is that it slightly increases variance in share submissions, which may increase variance in block rewards. However, it definitely doesn't affect overall mining income in longer timeframe like one day. It is still important to don't set the difficulty too high. Thanks to my calculations, having 10-20 share submissions per minute will give you very low variance.

    How to change worker difficulty:
    There's a new option on worker edit form (web profile -> edit worker). You have two options. First is to put difficulty to input box manually. This is aimed mostly to advanced users, who want fine-tune their settings. For most of others there's simple dropdown list. Just select hashrate range which fits your mining rig and pool automatically converts your selection to appropriate difficulty number. Once you change the settings, pool will apply this difficulty in two minutes even on existing stratum connections (no need of miner restart).

    If you're using more miners behind stratum mining proxy, then all miners will use the highest difficulty of connected workers. It's not a bug, it's a feature :-). Please consider model case of one very slow (difficulty 1) and one very fast (difficulty 10) miner behind the proxy: the difficulty will be set to 10, which means that the slow one will need quite a long time to generate share. But when it happen (it happen with 10x lower probability than on difficulty 1), the submission will be still credited for 10 shares! For getting stable block reward, the important is the rate of submissions, not *which* miner generated it. Actually I encourage users to use stratum mining proxies if they have more miners on the same location, because it help optimize network overhead (because all miners re-use the single connection).

    I'm also sorry that introducing such important feature took me too much time, but I'm currently busy with more Bitcoin projects (like Trezor). I'm still happy that I finished the project before #1 batch of Avalon ASIC miners come to their owners...

    P.S. During the update I also changed block size limits on stratum servers (as Gavin and Mike asked me). Pool now creates blocks up to 500kB instead of previous limit of 250kB to help the network with increased traffic.
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    March 08, 2013, 09:35:05 PM
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    Slush I am having a problem with the pool with 1 of my cards:

    2013-03-08 15:58:56: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 15:58:56, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 854ebb5a)
    2013-03-08 16:01:13: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:01:13, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 3183ec2b)
    2013-03-08 16:02:30: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:02:30, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 47e5dd77)
    2013-03-08 16:04:40: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:04:40, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 4fd58290)
    2013-03-08 16:08:56: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:08:56, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 2c2c4891)
    2013-03-08 16:10:15: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:10:15, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, d203069d)
    2013-03-08 16:10:26: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:10:26, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, f78cf4f2)
    2013-03-08 16:11:19: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:11:19, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, f7073cc2)
    2013-03-08 16:13:01: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:13:01, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, c935d101)
    2013-03-08 16:13:36: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:13:36, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, ca7ae314)
    2013-03-08 16:15:14: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:15:14, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, a14357d9)
    2013-03-08 16:16:40: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:16:40, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, ea73bd8d)
    2013-03-08 16:16:49: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:16:49, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, ea42a3fc)
    2013-03-08 16:16:59: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:16:59, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, f9a0ee29)
    2013-03-08 16:18:05: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:18:05, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 937d93ee)
    2013-03-08 16:18:12: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:18:12, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, c4b25d79)
    2013-03-08 16:18:39: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:18:39, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 1ca834b8)
    2013-03-08 16:19:25: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:19:25, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, b7ebc3f0)
    2013-03-08 16:21:35: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:21:35, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 3fdaf310)
    2013-03-08 16:21:52: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:21:52, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 16865cc7)
    2013-03-08 16:25:18: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:25:18, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, b80e1f9e)
    2013-03-08 16:25:26: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:25:26, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, d19a1157)
    2013-03-08 16:26:59: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:26:59, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 83ecf93a)
    2013-03-08 16:28:58: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:28:58, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 6ef74650)
    2013-03-08 16:30:16: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:30:16, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 9d343a7e)
    2013-03-08 16:30:31: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:30:31, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, a32b1614)
    2013-03-08 16:31:09: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:31:09, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 0c633d11)
    2013-03-08 16:31:48: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:31:48, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 05e3be0a)
    2013-03-08 16:31:49: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:31:49, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 83a7e1c6)

    What is this?
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    March 08, 2013, 10:03:28 PM
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    Quote from: Evan on March 08, 2013, 09:35:05 PM
    Slush I am having a problem with the pool with 1 of my cards:

    2013-03-08 15:58:56: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 15:58:56, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 854ebb5a)
    2013-03-08 16:01:13: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 08/03/2013 16:01:13, Verification failed, check hardware! (0:0:Redwood, 3183ec2b)

    This is not related to the pool, it usually indicates some hardware error, because gpu generates invalid shares. Or it may be a bug in GPU drivers. Is it overclocked? Is temperature OK? Did you tried to restart your machine?
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    March 08, 2013, 10:05:51 PM
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    Mine was shut down too. I had to kill the proxy, and use guiminer to get it back online

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    March 08, 2013, 10:14:22 PM
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    Quote from: laughingbear on March 08, 2013, 10:05:51 PM
    Mine was shut down too. I had to kill the proxy, and use guiminer to get it back online

    This is known problem of GUIminers, they sometimes don't reconnect on pool server restart Sad. But that "check hardware" errors are (to 99.9%) unrelated to pool restart.
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    March 08, 2013, 10:20:51 PM
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    Proxy problem - it's working very slow.

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    March 08, 2013, 10:30:36 PM
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    Quote from: Panda Mouse on March 08, 2013, 10:20:51 PM
    Proxy problem - it's working very slow.

    What means "very slow"? I probably rise your difficulty (I did it for some users and I changed them to very conservative levels). What difficulty do you see in your miner?
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    March 08, 2013, 10:32:04 PM
    Last edit: March 08, 2013, 11:12:01 PM by Panda Mouse
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    krzys13, diff 37..168/32 (cgminer), stratum say diff 32.
    I worked a months without the problems. Please restore it :-)
    cgminer api (localhost) is working inproperly!

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    March 08, 2013, 11:22:45 PM
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    Quote from: Panda Mouse on March 08, 2013, 10:32:04 PM
    krzys13, diff 37..168/32 (cgminer), stratum say diff 32.
    I worked a months without the problems. Please restore it :-)

    It is fine, cgminer also see 32 (168/32). So far everything is working good. You have less submissions, but every is credited for 32 shares. That's the point of user-defined difficulty. Your mining income isn't affected, but network resource usage is much lower.

    If you want higher submission rate, please change it on pool profile (Edit worker). Especially for your hashrate, 32 is quite optimal. But if you really-really want, you may change it to something around 20...

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    What do you mean? I'm not a specialist to cgminer, but if there's some bug, please report it to cgminer thread...
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    March 09, 2013, 07:45:41 AM
    Last edit: March 10, 2013, 12:51:32 AM by Panda Mouse
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    Quote from: slush on March 08, 2013, 11:22:45 PM
    Quote from: Panda Mouse on March 08, 2013, 10:32:04 PM
    krzys13, diff 37..168/32 (cgminer), stratum say diff 32.
    I worked a months without the problems. Please restore it :-)

    It is fine, cgminer also see 32 (168/32). So far everything is working good. You have less submissions, but every is credited for 32 shares. That's the point of user-defined difficulty. Your mining income isn't affected, but network resource usage is much lower.

    If you want higher submission rate, please change it on pool profile (Edit worker). Especially for your hashrate, 32 is quite optimal. But if you really-really want, you may change it to something around 20...

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    cgminer api (localhost) is working inproperly!

    What do you mean? I'm not a specialist to cgminer, but if there's some bug, please report it to cgminer thread...

    Thank you. Works perfect.

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    March 10, 2013, 07:17:20 AM
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    Logo became bigger, so there is less useful space on right side and in statistics table each row takes 3 lines
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    The site design was not great before the logo size change and now it became worse :-(

    Thanks for the previous site updates, though, but navigation is still can be done much better. For example, btcguild have "24h earnings" value is accessible with no clicks whatsoever and it's placed on the most visible place. On the mining.bitcoin.cz you have to click at least twice and scroll one page to get approximately the same info (that miners are working fine and everything is okay)

    Thanks for the pool and your support anyway. It's the best even with the ui.

    ps my screen res is 1280x800

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    March 10, 2013, 08:07:30 AM
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    Quote from: Valle on March 10, 2013, 07:17:20 AM
    Logo became bigger

    Please set your zoom in browser back to 100% ;-). Logo has same size for at least one and half year.

    However I agree that site design isn't ideal.
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    March 10, 2013, 12:26:38 PM
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    FWIW stats page looks good from here (Opera Browser, 100% Zoom, 1920 x 1200 res screen, Win 7 x64 w SP1).

    Thanks for the great work Slush from a late Bitcoin miner (though I may try my hand in Litecoin mining once I earn 1 BTC from your pool).  Smiley
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    March 10, 2013, 11:51:46 PM
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     Slush, I have noticed that at times I have trouble getting work from api. I have started to use port 3333 I will tell you if it does any better. I am using cgminer with stratum support. I have noticed the difficulty, I am not making much with my little 800 mhas setup. I have still managed to mine some coins though. Keep up the good work. I have also used eletrum wallet. I like the design of it. A smart person will not lose their wallet. Good thinking on that one. User difined thing you have going on is great thing if you are fast miner. I set mine higher than 1 and I get no share. Got any idea of why? Can I set it to 2 and get 2 shares? Will it hurt my income with my slow hash rate?

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    March 11, 2013, 09:57:57 AM
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    Quote from: bwstacker on March 10, 2013, 11:51:46 PM
    Slush, I have noticed that at times I have trouble getting work from api.

    Old getwork pool (api.bitcoin.cz) isn't maintained too much and there's quite high stale rate. Obviously owners of ~500 Ghash/s hashpower don't care too much. I'm writing them emails, displaying red warnings on website, no way.

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    I have started to use port 3333. I will tell you if it does any better. I am using cgminer with stratum support.

    Well, I'm sure this will be much better Smiley.

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    I have noticed the difficulty, I am not making much with my little 800 mhas setup.

    For 800MHash/s setup, the difficulty 1 is fine and I don't recommend you to rise it up.

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    I set mine higher than 1 and I get no share. Got any idea of why? Can I set it to 2 and get 2 shares? Will it hurt my income with my slow hash rate?

    With higher difficulty, you have lower chance to find the share. So  with 800MHash/s the basic difficulty is quite fine.
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    March 11, 2013, 10:38:51 AM
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    Today I blocked few hundreds of IPs on Getwork pool running old, unmaintained miners even without long polling support. Their owners has been contacted by emails (without any response). If you're affected (=you can access website, but you miners cannot reach api.bitcoin.cz/api2.bitcoin.cz) and you want to fix your miners, install some newer miner and point it to stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333.
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