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What do you guys think these new ASIC devices will use in downloads and uploads?

I've seen this kind of question before :)

With the type of getwork that just gets one blockheader the asic has to search 2^32 nonces and finds on average 1 nonce worth a share.
The getwork uses about 1kB data. Sending the nonce back to the pool uses less iirc, about 1/4kB.

For 1500 GHash/s this gives 1500G / 2^32 is about 350kB/s pool->client and 90kB/s client->pool.

For getwork there is already rollntime that tells the client it can change the time part in the blockheader.
So with a rollntime with value 10 the clients has 10 times more work so the 350kB/s pool-client is reduced to 35kB/s.

If the client->pool data gets to much, it is possible to change the difficulty 1 for a valid share to something bigger.
That way the client finds less shares, but the shares are worth more so on average it is still the same.

There are at least 2 new protocol proposals, but I can't remember their names so I can't find them right now.
One of them lets the client calculate the header itself iirc and has some higher difficulty for shares and something better than the current longpoll the prevent stales.
The other I haven't read the text but I think it has something just like that.

With the new stratum mining protocol and variable difficulty targets, the network bandwidth will be about 1K/minute regardless of your hashrate.

I've been using Stratum on BTCGuild and can back that up. It's pretty sweet.

It actually loads my GPU's more heavily because it's taking a much shorter break between shares and blocks, and it's more bandwidth efficient too.

One thing to point out though, is that the Total is 1Kb/s per session.

So if you are using 10 instances of cgminer (or whatever) with built-in Stratum support it will consume 10Kb/s as each miner has it's difficulty adjusted individually to match the submission rate goal.

There is a Stratum Proxy available that you can put multiple miners behind, collectively adjust difficulty for the miners using the proxy, and constrain the entire pool of miners to 1Kb/s. You just have to  be ready to see low share submission rates on a per-miner basis if you use the proxy because it limits the whole population. The good news is that you still get the same income rate in the long run, even if each miner is doing 1 share per minute (at a massive difficulty multiple so you still make the same amount.)

Yeah, you can mine with Stratum over your mobile connection without any significant loss of BTC due to network lag. You also won't run up an overage with your wireless carrier because the bandwidth is so small.

This is amazing, so 50MB per month is the most you would need.

Just wait until you can fit the entire blockchain on a 4 dollar flash drive (after pruning, hashing, whatever is being proposed these days).

You can imagine the conversations we're going to be having 10 years from now with newcomers.

"So what's this bitcoin deal...?"

"Here, I'll show you.  It is a digital commodity, very valuable these days.  Let me see your phone....  There... I just downloaded every Bitcoin transaction that has ever taken place to your phone.  Took up less room than your Facebook app.  You can use it to securely send these digital commodities, in any amount, to anyone on Earth (or in orbit, or on Mars) for a fee of a United States nickel.  You have more security and financial freedom in your phone right now than even the richest man or bank 20 years ago.  If I were to send you $20 in BTC, .003 BTC, it could never be seized, frozen, taxed, lost, stolen from you, or linked to you.  Want some?"

Fun to dream right?

1K/s sounds pretty good.  I'm using about 1.5GB a month with 8 GH/s. That sound about right?



Would that mean a BFL SC at 60GH/s would use about 11GB a month?

I wonder if some of the purchasers with small download limits would be affected by this...

Or 1K/s with Stratum.

I hope there's at least a few people out there with dialup modems mining on BFL's.

I'm seriously considering hauling mine along on my next trip hooked up to a 3g modem.

I will for sure with my Jally.

Is this accurate? If so, WOW!

Well, they would be for 4 hours until they have to redial :P