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BTC trinkets (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120686) (Isokivi @ bitminter and bitcointalk) is kindly offering some very nice trinkets for a third Mint Race on BitMinter. It will be similar to the first (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83429.0) and second (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104189.0) mint races. The finest quality minting work (lowest hash value) will win.

Start: friday 2012.11.02 at 20:00 UTC
Finish: sunday 2012.11.04 at 20:00 UTC

Prizes:
1st place: Bitcoin cufflink pair + 5 BTC
2nd place: Bitcoin tiepin + 3 BTC
3rd place: Bitcoin lapel pin + 2 BTC

Currently cufflinks are selling for 3.25 BTC, a tiepin for 2.5 BTC and the lapel pins for 2 BTC. You can see pictures here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120686

If you don't win you can of course still buy the items you want. See the link above for more information.

Rules:

• Just like your hash must beat the difficulty to produce a block, it must beat the other miners to win. The best (lowest) hashes during the race will win.
• As long as your work is accepted by the server it is valid for the race, even if it ends up "stale" or "orphaned" in the block list.
• Each person can only compete with one (their best) hash.
• If a winner cannot be reached within 1 week, the prize will go to the next on the list. You may want to make sure that the "account details" page at bitminter.com has an email address listed for you so that you are easy to reach.
• Any block by Isokivi or DrHaribo will not count in the race.

Verifiability:
Hopefully your mining software will show if you have created a block (BitMinter client does). Your block will show with your user name in the block list at http://bitminter.com/blocks. You can click the height number for the block (leftmost column) to see details. There is a link there to blockchain.info where you can see the hash value of the block both on the page and in the URL. The lowest hash value wins. Hash values are shown in hexadecimal. 0-9 is lower than A-F. A is lower than B. Pretty simple.

FINAL STANDINGS:

Place	Name	Hash (lower is better)
1	Digigami	0000000000000024f7e67508287d9d7c39d2c9f3fc5309368f66c4f4d5f76376 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/0000000000000024f7e67508287d9d7c39d2c9f3fc5309368f66c4f4d5f76376)
2	narousberg	000000000000002929f0d3efbc15c32dda3d76936b7c7a837cbf749474f5c441 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000002929f0d3efbc15c32dda3d76936b7c7a837cbf749474f5c441)
3	MashRinx	00000000000000386926366f2f0a3777171eff1ac39e32817f08f8ec06c7c328 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000000386926366f2f0a3777171eff1ac39e32817f08f8ec06c7c328)
---	---	--- no prizes below this point ---
4	nats989	000000000000004055b1ca47e8ec80ac275db29142d5edf1e65a680f03dfee37 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000004055b1ca47e8ec80ac275db29142d5edf1e65a680f03dfee37)
5	Zubilica	0000000000000063d7749dc1b01b55bb3c59c41f6d5093d8ae1c36c268fcdf35 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/0000000000000063d7749dc1b01b55bb3c59c41f6d5093d8ae1c36c268fcdf35)
6	darkice	00000000000000f3bab41e5119676da24346f740480dd01d9eb811dc4667d31b (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000000f3bab41e5119676da24346f740480dd01d9eb811dc4667d31b)
7	amazingrando	000000000000010ffca22c51f7742225ff50d3d4bc12b26841ff1f26b5d7f23d (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000010ffca22c51f7742225ff50d3d4bc12b26841ff1f26b5d7f23d)
8	micheletegon	000000000000012e75d835d232050cf42f7a250846cd544fbd97d4d6b1079f9a (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000012e75d835d232050cf42f7a250846cd544fbd97d4d6b1079f9a)
9	WhitePhantom	0000000000000237dcd683185c3511876b1b110b4e84d9c995bc2e1563ab42ea (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/0000000000000237dcd683185c3511876b1b110b4e84d9c995bc2e1563ab42ea)
10	Ferdinand	000000000000026f0cb6808bc6206e8d5c59bb12064e586ccba3bf9e713212f9 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000026f0cb6808bc6206e8d5c59bb12064e586ccba3bf9e713212f9)
11	solari	000000000000028cdf816e497e86bceddfc5a4c41041e49f70497722d7c69885 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000028cdf816e497e86bceddfc5a4c41041e49f70497722d7c69885)
12	deBaer	00000000000002bf9cad2d0ff8369366ee0a9ac6d665c3a979f39ef6014c14ef (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000002bf9cad2d0ff8369366ee0a9ac6d665c3a979f39ef6014c14ef)
13	jddebug	0000000000000310bd3fc594915eceb8d630f170e70d97a54d0839aa022333ee (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/0000000000000310bd3fc594915eceb8d630f170e70d97a54d0839aa022333ee)
14	dynasty	0000000000000317b8d87c959c565ba6e2f6b7e5fbac0b05b039249915faeba0 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/0000000000000317b8d87c959c565ba6e2f6b7e5fbac0b05b039249915faeba0)
15	cdb000	000000000000038138455e723ca97d2d8623b0beadccd56408a6ef08be0b82cb (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000038138455e723ca97d2d8623b0beadccd56408a6ef08be0b82cb)
16	xxx	00000000000003bfe6f173d231d8acabd3ea8b39485b654349cc9ec6eacb933a (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000003bfe6f173d231d8acabd3ea8b39485b654349cc9ec6eacb933a)
17	duckquack	000000000000041285fb08076fee59f783497efb3b7e9d4eed1b412c5bd6099a (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000041285fb08076fee59f783497efb3b7e9d4eed1b412c5bd6099a)
18	jddebug	000000000000044f4bd38d48f8f1a2ad42430157bce97e3e48dec8b8aca00715 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/000000000000044f4bd38d48f8f1a2ad42430157bce97e3e48dec8b8aca00715)
19	Fefox	00000000000004551a25d8f102471164fbef3b0c5c51802f105f31d4a5096cd7 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000004551a25d8f102471164fbef3b0c5c51802f105f31d4a5096cd7)
20	wickedxxl	00000000000004bac759b520ced9a51a85cd798e7f7e3a9a56f0f10e2ae761b0 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000004bac759b520ced9a51a85cd798e7f7e3a9a56f0f10e2ae761b0)
21	thph	00000000000004bdf624297fb99d49d3231a370ccad042b5a4d0d789a1237f79 (http://bitminter.com/block/btc/00000000000004bdf624297fb99d49d3231a370ccad042b5a4d0d789a1237f79)
---	BTC target	0000000000000513c50000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Updated 2012.11.04, 17:00 UTC

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/8124813116_a236dbe179_m.jpg
Cufflinks

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8183/8124793339_a5d744df36.jpg
Tie pin

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8334/8124812820_e2c3cc80f1.jpg
Lapel pin

6 hours 10 minutes till start. Time for a last equipment check. Make sure those overclocks are stable. :D

T -60 Minutes \(oO)/

... and we are GO??

And they're off!

darkice and amazingrando are elbowing for pole position with roughly 130 GH/s each. That's a pretty massive hashrate. But we have seen before how surprises can come from small miners. At the moment this is anyone's race.

Gonna have some fun with some HashPower runs... gotta enjoy a good gamble every now and then :)

mint race jinxed our luck  :P

Yup :(

Despite several leases from hashpower.com the race takes a while to get going.

2 hours 37 minutes into the race amazingrando finally breaks the bad luck hex and gets the first BTC block.

The pool is unlucky with several long blocks. But darkice finds his own luck, slamming a block into first place, pushing amazingrando down to second, while WhitePhantom moves into third.

A 90% CDF block is finally finished by solari after more than 4 hours of mining. But WhitePhantom's luck holds for now, solari's block taking fourth place.

Judging by earlier mint races, WhitePhantom's position is very precarious. It is unlikely that this block will hold third place for long. We may even see all the blocks found so far get pushed out of the top three positions. In other words, this isn't over yet.

micheletegon squeezes into third place, pushing out WhitePhantom. But it only lasts 10 minutes before narousberg nonchalantly tosses a block into first place.


This new block from narousberg looks pretty solid. It may be able to hang on to first place till the race is over. But at the same time we see the pool hashrate rising, with the hashpower leases being almost constant. The competition obviously wants to give him a run for his money. Or trinkets, as the case may be. ;)

(The first post has been updated with the current standings)

The mint race appears to have really jinxed our luck... really bad day today!

mint harder! :-D

Minting as hard as I can... only got 1.1Ghps here :(

1.85Ghps here mate.... :-D

Every little helps :D

narousberg and darkice make new blocks that are not better than the ones they have already. xxx and wickedxxl make blocks that end up 8th and 9th.

Looks like it could be an easy win for the minters currently in the lead unless the minting improves.

That's more like it, many new blocks coming. cdb000, deBaer, duckquack, Ferdinand, thph, jddebug, dynasty all get blocks, but none of them can touch the three leaders. Ferdinand is closest of the new ones with 6th place.

The top blocks are difficult to beat, but with 11.5 hours left of the race it can still happen.

I added the current BTC target to the standings so you can also see what value the hashes have to be below to create a bitcoin block.

Zubilica sails into second position. Getting into the top three is looking more difficult by the minute. darkice and xxx got new blocks, but they were not better than their previous ones.

Fefox was having some issues at the beginning. For some reason something always goes wrong for him when there is a mint race. But he is up to his full hashrate and did get a block. It only gets him 16th place so far, though.

We see darkice and amazingdarko falling back to 100-110 GH/s. Meanwhile jddebug keeps going at 160+ GH/s, as he has been for some time now. His block so far has him in 10th place, but with that kind of hashrate this could quickly change. At the same time yet another hashpower lease is starting up, this time from the user HashPower.

The race now has 8 hours 25 minutes to go.

MashRinx gets a very lucky block that earns him a solid looking second place.

With less than 4 hours to go, we are approaching the end of the race. Now's the time to get that backup mining rig out of the garage and get it mining.  :D

MashRinx (5.2 GH/s) gets a good block, landing him right after narousberg in the current standings.

Then from out of nowhere comes a block from Digigami. One of the earliest miners in the pool, running with 2 GH/s. He catches the bigger miners by surprise and positions himself first.

nats989 (3 GH/s) then gets a very quick block, moving into 4th.

The smaller miners appear to be on fire.

The race is over!

Congratulations to the winners: Digigami, narousberg and MashRinx. Bitcoin prizes will be deposited in your BitMinter account in a moment. You will be contacted by email about the BTC trinkets.

Thanks to Isokivi and BTC trinkets for sponsoring the race !

Bitcoin prizes have been paid out and winners contacted about the BTC trinkets.

If you didn't win you can still buy BTC trinkets. More info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120686

Congratulations to the winners, your items will be shipped out once i have names and adresses and deliverytime will depend on your geographical location.

To all non-winrars remember I have the same items for sale also:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120686.0

Thanks for prize! Will increase my donation))))

Amazing! I hadn't even realized I had minted a block over the weekend until DrH got a hold of me!

Thank you DrHaribo for running such an awesome pool, and putting on these contests!

Also a big thank you to Isokivi for being so generous!

+1

I was so close :)  :P