The website was updated with some new perks and worker settings.

Here are the changes:

• API perk cost cut in half
• New perks added for high work submits per minute mining (low difficulty), low hashrate notification emails, creating more than 5 workers (some users created several hundred workers which can be a strain on some operations), and a "pro minter" perk that gives you all the perks at a reduced price (you still need to activate them)
• Added "config" buttons for each worker under "my account" -> "workers" with various settings
• Worker setting "default worker" allows you to choose a worker that should be used in case you don't set a worker name in the client or you set one that doesn't exist
• Worker setting "require password" allows you to disable the need for worker passwords (any password is accepted)
• Worker setting "work submits per minute" allows you affect the difficulty the server chooses for you. 20 is default. Set lower if you want higher difficulty to save bandwidth. With the "easy mode" perk you can also set a higher value than 20 (up to max 40).
• Worker setting "low hashrate warning" will email you if your worker goes below the chosen threshold.
• Worker setting "stratum extranonce2" is a bit technical - really only needed for sub-pools
• Worker setting "merged mining stale flush" can be turned on if you don't want the server to tell your client to flush all work when there is a namecoin block change. Not much point turning this off if you are mining with Stratum + it will cause more namecoin work rejects. But could save some bandwidth with gbt and getwork.
• New users now automatically get a default worker with password disabled. The signup page now only takes a user name, plus optional email address
• New workers are now created with password disabled. You can click "config" and set a password afterwards if you want one.

TL;DR: Have a look under "my account" -> "donations & perks" and "my account" -> "workers" in the website menu. Let me know if you have any questions or problems.

Update: note that changes made on the website can take 10-15 minutes to take effect on the mining server

Put simply, don't use it.

Normally you can set submits per minute from 1 to 20. With the easy mode perk settings from 1 to 40 are allowed.

Lower values give your client higher difficulty. This means lower bandwidth usage for you, less server load for BitMinter, but higher variance in your daily mining income.

Higher values give you a lower difficulty. This means less variance in your daily mining income, but also causes more bandwidth usage for you and more work to do for BitMinter servers.

8 proofs of work at difficulty 1 are worth the same as 1 proof of work at difficulty 8. Both show as 8 proofs of work at the website. So the pay is the same, on average. Over time it evens out and it doesn't matter which setting you use (income-wise), but in the short run higher difficulty causes more variance in your daily mining income.

Organofcorti has crunched the numbers on this. You can read about it here: https://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2012/10/71-variable-pool-difficulty.html

I think the default setting at 20 is good. But some users have expressed concern that it still uses too much bandwidth for their taste. So now if you have an extremely slow internet connection you can reduce bandwidth usage even further than before. Other users have expressed concern that their mining difficulty causes too much daily variance in their mining income. Now they can get a lower difficulty and decrease their variance. But the easy mode perk is required for this because low difficulty mining is much harder on the server.

Thank you for the clarification!

looking to buy these newer sticks


https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/291456.0


  I wanted to know if they will plug n play on bitminter.  I run the asic miner sticks now.  

I have hubs so this would be an easy upgrade .   I could bring my hash from 33gh to 198gh on the hubs I already have.

 If these are plug n play i would sell off all my am sticks in the next 2 weeks. and use that coin to buy these sticks.

Try:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/6482.0

Here's offering tech support for most computer problems and last logged in on the 10th Sept.

Wicked! Go Doc!

8% in total.....

For prepay of both BTC and NMC plus the easy mode perk you need 2% BTC and 2% NMC donation - much cheaper than 4% of your total income, as the NMC is only a small part of it. Also, at that point you are at 2% donation so you could activate all perks through the "pro minter" perk.

Easy mode doesn't raise your income. It allows you to set a higher submits-per-minute setting for your workers, which will reduce your daily variance a bit. Read this where I explained how it works:

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/27062.msg3142713#msg3142713

Especially interesting is Organofcorti's analysis on how high/low difficulty mining affects your variance.