Pool- Luckpool.org: Solo Mining Block Rewards

hi @voxelot , sorry for the off topic question…

Are you guys still working on zogminer?

BTW, great job on zogpool!

Hey @guizmo thanks!.

Not so much on zogminer but I would like to work on silent army now. I have not had much time to put into improving SA but that is something I think is greatly needed in the absence of a stable linux miner.

I have heard of someone else picking up on Marc’s work while he is away. But I’m not sure how far they got.

The other guys I was working on zogminer with have gone back to their day jobs / graduate studies so I don’t have as much help as before to get miner / pool software written. If anyone else out there would like to collab with me feel free to drop a line. I also work for Storj atm and plan to spend most of my time there balanced with zcash things. (writing a web based interface for zcash encrypted messaging right now, in between keeping the pool from crashing hah)

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We are expecting a release of silentArmy very soon with speeds compared to Claymore reading from silentArmy bitcoin forum, work is Finnish and debugging at moment so we are all waiting

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I think you and @anon47418038 might make a good team. I guess you’re both kind of around everywhere and generally helpful. Seeing @voxelot out helping other pools is particularly cool, just like seeing @zooko and other zcash company devs being helpful and friendly to zcash forks is. It’s a nice ethic. Not sure I’ve specifically seen radix helping ostensible competitors, but he seems like the type that would.

What do I know? But just a suggestion for you both.

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I’m not a ZcashCo employee, and I’m not sure who my competitor would BE! :slight_smile:

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oh I AM very interested in zmsg, I have “write a gui for it” somewhere on my todo list

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ok wait now that I’ve had coffee and thought about it, I DO have competitors in various niches of the Zcash ecosystem that I’m actively doing dev work in, but that’s very narrow, as most of my projects are open source (and none of them are miners, the most cut-throat sector for any cryptocurrency, as I"m sure you all know)

What’s up with my wallet t1PpRNU41hRw1CYpaVYbv4jHe2AQk49rJuk? I can’t see the stats. It says that “Account not found” but there are a lot of shares accepted by this luckpool.

I’m not sure. Querying the database with the api against your address yields the same results as the frontend

http://luckpool.org/api/zec/clientStats?userId=t1PpRNU41hRw1CYpaVYbv4jHe2AQk49rJuk

Can you check the address of your miners?

Please check now. I pointed one CPU, I see it with that api link, but don’t see in the frontend.

I see it in the frontend and api. Looks like you are connected. The front end queries for new stats every minute but you can refresh the page to force an api request

Cheers

Hmmm. Still can’t see my worker in the frontend (both in SRW Iron and IE browsers)…

Very strange. This is what I see. Perhaps there are some issues with requests being sent. But then again if the api is working for you then that is probably not the case.

My ping is actually between 172 and 200ms. I notice it takes a while for the power stats to catch up. No big deal. Thanks!

How far back do you count the shares on zogpool? Would be interesting to know if let say i mine for a day or two then left because the pool doesnt find a block then after a day the pool found 1. Should i still get reward for the previous share although did not contribute to the actual work that found the block?

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Shares are not cleared from the database until a block is found. Called a round. So your shares will not be lost if you mine for a few days and happen to lose connections during some shorter period when a block is found. This seems to be in contrast to other PPLNS pools that will pay for the last 8k rounds or so. I might look into that more and see if it is a better approach.

If you read through the comments that follow here you can get a gist of what happens.

Each share is assigned a score based upon how close it is to the target. If you are hitting lower hash targets you will be rewarded more when a block is found.

lower hash targets? ah the pool has a very long round. Is it fair?

A lower target hash is a higher value share yes. Since the hash was closer to the target diff.

The rounds are calculated as shown in the code base. Round = Block. And it pays over last N rounds. There is a low hash rate on the pool and the difficulty is high so it is taking a really long time to find a block so it seems like the round time is really long.

To me this seems fair as you could consider the pool a single miner and it should all be rewarded for its effort throughout the entirety of looking for a block.

If you would like less socialist rewards there is always luckpool

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Today I actually witnessed the following twice.
Claymore miner switches to flypool for Dev fee, mines for 72 seconds then results in 10 min fail over (No Work), then switches back to Zogpool.
I changed the fail over setting to 2 mins. I did see the miner intermittently switching pools a few times. Perhaps while voxelot works on pool there is an occasional 2 mins of fail over causing the miner to connect to flypool?

If anyone else has experienced this and has an easy solution please respond.

I like the performance of Claymore, but would be nice to just let the miner run on Zogpool. Im not one to complain about Dev fee, but the additional 10 mins kind of chaps my hide, lol.

I think that helpfulness early on in this community will help make this community and cryptocurrency stand out when compared to other crypto communities which have less favorable relationships. Not going to name names…

The way we work together makes us better and sets a positive precedent.

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