this is the official announcement for our Primecoin mining pool ypool.net
As of writing this we are the only Primecoin pool available currently. (Edit: Not the case any longer)
Some stats:
[ul][li]One of the largest pools world wide[/li]
[li]3% fee[/li]
[li]1000 confirmations per block[/li]
[li]Custom miner software & low latency protocol[/li]
[li]Already well established - More than 3000 people actively mining each day (over 35000 connected workers in average)[/li]
[li]High performance - Very low percentage (<0.5%) of rejected shares or miner downtime[/li]
[li]Active in development - New features coming every few days[/li]
[li]Very helpful and active community[/li][/ul]
Just wanted to say excellent job o the pool I would not be able to get any XPM if it was not for all your hard work really appreciated and nice to see you and your other dev here in the forum
I know there have been nay-sayers in the past about the pool, but you guys have really been doing a bang up job of staying interactive with the community and interested in development.
Will you be making a mac version available in the future?
By the way, I’ll be adding my i7 3770k to the pool too!
Probably not in the near future, since I don’t have a mac available. However, seeing that several people from the community are starting to improve our miner there is a chance that somebody else will do it before us.
yup same here but my miners are still hashing… not sure if they sending shares that are being received… probably an update or DDOS… hopefully the former…
yup same here but my miners are still hashing… not sure if they sending shares that are being received… probably an update or DDOS… hopefully the former…[/quote]
Yeah, more than likely the webserver is just down (port 80) and the primecoind is running on the mining port, of course, and still working. Had a couple invalid shares about the time I noticed the site down, but otherwise, still humming along.
EDIT: and just as I post this, site is back up, great way to be on top of things, ypool guys!
Just wondering if you guys have any idea the PPS your pool is getting?? to try and give solo miners a perspective of what is a good PPS these days?
Many thanks
FuzzyBear[/quote]
I don’t really like the pps measurement. If you modify the sieve size (using the -s parameter) you can easily double your pps rate without actually getting more shares. pps is only good if you want to compare two computers that use the exact same software and configuration (e.g. jhPrimeminer v0.32 32bit with default sieve size 800.000)
That being said, if we assume everyone uses the most recent official version of jhPrimeminer, our pool receives 12.74 shares per second, a miner with 5500 pps gets 24 shares per hour in average (0.00666 per second). So we can estimate the pool to about 10.500.000 pps. It’s a nice number that doesn’t mean much.
If you want to compare your miner speeds use the shares per hour. It’s still not accurate due to the high random factor, but it’s better than pps.
I like the recent update you guys made to make payment based on probability of share solving the block, sort of a share difficulty based payment.
I saw your post earlier about the -s option for sieve size, is there documentation for the parameters somewhere? I seem to be striking out on my search so far
Am I the only one who is stuck on the “share system update” page when I login? It will not let me view the stats page or anything except for that message. I’ve cleared browser data out, used three browsers, and tried on two different computers… lol :
Yeah just you, everything fine my end looking at the pool webpage… not sure what to suggest… maybe try turning your monitor off and back on again… shake the monitor… maybe the pixels have got stuck?? but seriously maybe try on friends PC and see if you have issue there, or is it your account that has bug in it?
There is a big blue ‘Continue’ (or something similar) button at the bottom of the message.[/quote]
Yeah I see that now… I can’t even express how dumb I feel. Too stupid for words with that one. I can see everything after clicking the very obvious button
On ypool when a share is found, the same share value will be paid for 80 blocks. After the share is found, if there are orphaned blocks, are the orphans subtracted from the 80 blocks or not? I.e. if in the next 80-1 blocks there are 3 orphans, will the miner be paid 77 times in the end, or still 80 times, the last block being 83-1 blocks.
After some counting it seems that if orphans happen during the 80, the share value are not paid. I think this is not fair. The miners, together with the pool, have already suffered by the orphan rate – all miners have equal probablility to have their shares found in a orphaned block and lose the share. The miners shouldn’t be taxed by the orphan rate a second time when their shares are already found in a successful block.
At the current high rate of orphan, this loss is not trivial.
[quote=“mhps, post:19, topic:284”]On ypool when a share is found, the same share value will be paid for 80 blocks. After the share is found, if there are orphaned blocks, are the orphans subtracted from the 80 blocks or not? I.e. if in the next 80-1 blocks there are 3 orphans, will the miner be paid 77 times in the end, or still 80 times, the last block being 83-1 blocks.
After some counting it seems that if orphans happen during the 80, the share value are not paid. I think this is not fair. The miners, together with the pool, have already suffered by the orphan rate – all miners have equal probablility to have their shares found in a orphaned block and lose the share. The miners shouldn’t be taxed by the orphan rate a second time when their shares are already found in a successful block.
At the current high rate of orphan, this loss is not trivial.[/quote]
It’s an known issue that we plan to fix with one of the next updates. However, it shouldn’t matter that much anymore since we were able to fix the high orphan rate bug.
Edit: Just in case anyone thinks this is still an issue. This has been fixed for some time now. Orphans are ignored within the 80 block range, no share value goes to waste anymore.
I would not be able to get any XPM if it was not for all your hard work 
thank you