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How many ETH Shares for .15 ETH payout??

thix 6 years ago updated by happyserendipity 6 years ago 17

Any news on whether this mining pool has found a block for ETH?
Did the sync with Nicehash work out so this issue about no payout due to not finding a block is resolved?

If so, how many shares, on average, for ETH are required for .15 ETH payout?

Thanks for the help.

We have not found a block yet as far as the data on the site goes. The rest I leave up to the pool operator to answer.

how can I check on my miners progress

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The issue with not finding ETH blocks concerns me as well. So much that I've spent significant time to make sure that there's not an issue with the pool code itself. I've been in contact with other operators using our software and they do find blocks. 


RBTData: There's no progress with mining. Just luck. The luck factor can be reduced with more hashpower. Which we don't have yet.

I was speaking to a random miner on reddit and dropped a suggestion to join this pool. Quoting his response below:


Definitely interested. Main concern would be around trust, affirming PPLNS is observed- I mean, block hits are unlikely but I'd like to be absolutely certain at any given time that the unlikely event hasn't occurred. Is there some incorruptible means for me to verify that the pool definitely hasn't hit won a block?

Can you help me out in answering? To be honest, I became curious as well how we could verify you, although I generally think of you as being genuinely honest.

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I was suspecting that legitimate questions like this would come up if the bad luck streak would continue as it did. Under normal circumstances where the pool would find blocks from time to time, answering this would be easy since the pool's address 0x6eb231d41a8f33df4bce885c5b450655d5390ce8 would be traceable on the blockchain and altering it would be highly suspicous. But since that hasn't happened so far, the only possible way to prove it would be to run a script against etherscan.io's API checking the "miner" field of every single block that was mined during the past weeks. I'll try to provide something like that as it could be also useful for other pool ops.


This is how parity is launched for the Ethereum pool:


/usr/bin/parity --chain mainnet --base-path "/data2/ethd1" --mode "active" --no-ui --no-dapps --jsonrpc-interface "127.0.0.1" --jsonrpc-threads 4 --no-discovery --jsonrpc-apis "eth,net,web3,personal,parity,parity_pubsub,rpc" --ipc-path "/data2/ethd1/geth.ipc" --author 0x6eb231d41a8f33df4bce885c5b450655d5390ce8 --cache-size 512 --logging "info" --no-ws


.. and the Ethereum Classic Pool:


/usr/bin/parity --chain classic --base-path "/data2/etcd1" --mode "active" --no-ui --no-dapps --jsonrpc-interface "127.0.0.1" --jsonrpc-threads 4 --no-discovery --jsonrpc-apis "eth,net,web3,personal,parity,parity_pubsub,rpc" --ipc-path "/data2/etcd1/geth.ipc" --author 0x4d441a184ba7a22551292b8af3506956901a705e --cache-size 512 --logging "info" --jsonrpc-port 8546 --port 30304 --no-ws


This of course proves nothing as I could make this up if I had ill intents. If there was a way to incorporate the wallet address the pool is using into the stratum mining protocol, I would implement it in a heartbeat. 

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I did some additional testing today to validate that everything is working as intended code-wise. This is the page of the Ropsten-Testnet account: https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0x0942e9144606ad43f2e61a7ee332fe9914424712#mine


So, it's lucks turn now. :)

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I'm beginning to seriously hate luck or lack thereof. I feel bad about letting you guys down. 

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Don't, it's variance and we all know it's part of the game. Let's focus on growing the pool, getting more people in here and being supportive, the block will come!

+10 happyserendipity!  Luck will come, let's try growing this great supported pool! 

Some stats, there were 14 miners that mined only a single block over the past 24hours, of which 12 had a hash rate of around 16.6GH (estimated). That's just for reference on how far we are from the luck given our current hash rate of around 0.5GH. Of course we can mine a block even with the current hash rate, but the odds are very slim. So don't beat yourself operator, we just really need to grow the pool, that's all. :)


source: https://etherchain.org/statistics/miners

I'm not working on Ethereum, but on ZCash, and I can see we're also on the same boat. Guess I need to fetch another GPU! (when I've the cash)

Hijacking this post again instead of creating a new one. Noticed the ETH hash rate jumped significantly today (>1GH), can you confirm that this is what you are seeing on your end as the operator?


What concerns me is that the graphs still seem to be off. We were at around 600MH earlier today or the day before, but not according to the updated graphs. Are you sure you don't have a bug in them?

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Spent pretty much the last 48h doing nothing but promotion. Could be the result of that. I hope so.

Increase of hash rate - great! But the graph is still off as it doesn't seem to reflect history correctly. We didn't have this hash rate in the morning or yesterday as the graph suggests.

....So? No answer to the main question here, just hijack the thread?..xD

On average, how many ETH shares to .15 ETH???


I would say this depends also on the difficulty your shares have since this pool has vardiff as well as on the overall block difficulty and variance. I would say it's nearly impossible to answer your question without knowing the above and this early in the pool's lifetime.