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Title: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: AnnihilaT on June 12, 2011, 12:24:44 PM My intention is not to stir anything up here but I'm really curious what's going on with the network.
http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ Graphs show a steadily enlarging "Other" group of mining capacity over the last week and a quickly climbing overall hash rate. Given the shortage of decent GPU's at the moment I'm really wondering who is bringing such amounts of capacity to the network. Anyone care to speculate? Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: Lightspeed on June 12, 2011, 12:27:07 PM non-english pools ?
Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: rezin777 on June 12, 2011, 12:36:11 PM Sometimes a pool makes changes or their front end goes down which affects their hash rate reporting to the website that hosts this graph. At the time of your posting BTC Guild, which accounts for 1,478.82 GH/s of the network hash rate, is not being shown on the graph. The way the graph works, other will "increase" when one of the pools reporting is missing.
Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: AntiVigilante on June 12, 2011, 12:45:24 PM My intention is not to stir anything up here but I'm really curious what's going on with the network. http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ Graphs show a steadily enlarging "Other" group of mining capacity over the last week and a quickly climbing overall hash rate. Given the shortage of decent GPU's at the moment I'm really wondering who is bringing such amounts of capacity to the network. Anyone care to speculate? individuals? Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: bcpokey on June 12, 2011, 12:53:15 PM Satoshi is trying to bring bitcoin back to its original concept of lots of individuals doin lots of individual stuff by DDoSing the concentrated points (pools).
Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: AnnihilaT on June 12, 2011, 01:01:01 PM Ahh yes... I completely missed that btcguild down/missing from the graph.
Even taking that into consideration the amount of the network specified as "other" has been growing quickly over the last week. Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: rezin777 on June 12, 2011, 01:05:31 PM Even taking that into consideration the amount of the network specified as "other" has been growing quickly over the last week. And rapidly shrinking over the last two months. Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: AnnihilaT on June 12, 2011, 07:28:57 PM Even taking that into consideration the amount of the network specified as "other" has been growing quickly over the last week. And rapidly shrinking over the last two months. Ahh ok.... thats a vantage point i dont have since i have just gotten on the BTC boat in the last 2 weeks :) Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: kiwiasian on June 12, 2011, 08:24:39 PM The Other piece of the pie looks pretty small to me. What is interesting is the size of deepbit has shrunk pretty significantly
Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: saadtariq30 on June 12, 2011, 08:49:04 PM what about the retarded increase in network hashrate JUST before the last difficulty..and then the decrease?
Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: V2-V3 on June 12, 2011, 10:35:47 PM That list does not include BitClockers ~50Ghash
maybe that is to be added to the "Other" Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: rezin777 on June 12, 2011, 10:41:21 PM what about the retarded increase in network hashrate JUST before the last difficulty..and then the decrease? Hash rate calculation error due to changing difficulty? Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: 1bitc0inplz on June 12, 2011, 10:46:28 PM Nothing to see here, that large jump in "other" was simply us switching on our pool @ http://pool.bitp.it ;D
Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: Capitan on June 13, 2011, 02:23:47 AM My intention is not to stir anything up here but I'm really curious what's going on with the network. http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ Graphs show a steadily enlarging "Other" group of mining capacity over the last week and a quickly climbing overall hash rate. Given the shortage of decent GPU's at the moment I'm really wondering who is bringing such amounts of capacity to the network. Anyone care to speculate? The hashrate for "other" on that page you linked to changes a LOT from hour to hour. My guess is that as pools have problems (server issues, code issues, DDOS attacks, etc) people switch their clients to solo mining. Later, when the pools are back up again the people switch back to the pools. Total network hashrate is stay at or under 7Thash/s, so there isn't a ton of new mining capacity coming online into the "other" category. Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: Basiley on June 13, 2011, 02:44:33 AM Indian ninja miners, i guess.
and/or CIA farmers :P Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: 1bitc0inplz on June 13, 2011, 02:48:25 AM Indian ninja miners, i guess. and/or CIA farmers :P Or CIA Ninja Miners from space! ;D Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: Basiley on June 13, 2011, 02:54:30 AM Indian ninja miners, i guess. and/or CIA farmers :P Or CIA Ninja Miners from space! ;D duck and hide ! or better ruuuuuun !! or ninja space alien cia bitcoin farmers will get you ! :P Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: Dayofswords on June 13, 2011, 06:23:44 AM slush's pool is missing from the graph, site seems to be having issue with that for a few days.
/thread Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: snoopytime on June 13, 2011, 06:24:53 AM ZOMG! Its all the poeple who checked 'OTHER" under "Race" on their drivers license!
Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: Cluster2k on June 13, 2011, 08:35:24 AM slush's pool is missing from the graph, site seems to be having issue with that for a few days. I've been on slush's pool since starting mining but I think I'll move elsewhere. Its been down for most of today and actively costing money by losing mining time. Every now and then my miners can connect, so I assume it's a DDoS. Title: Re: Anyone have an explanation for the growing "anonymous" pool of miners? Post by: Dayofswords on June 14, 2011, 12:39:40 AM slush's pool is missing from the graph, site seems to be having issue with that for a few days. I've been on slush's pool since starting mining but I think I'll move elsewhere. Its been down for most of today and actively costing money by losing mining time. Every now and then my miners can connect, so I assume it's a DDoS. Not what I meant. bitcoinwatch.com has been having trouble having slush's pool at it's own slice. |