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Title: Did I really find a block?
Post by: anw on October 20, 2011, 07:05:40 PM
When mining, I just noticed following line on console : eu.eclipsemc.com:8337 20/10/2011 09:47:21, block [...], accepted
Did I really find this block? How can I make sure about it?
Thanks


Title: Re: Did I really find a block?
Post by: Anillos on October 20, 2011, 07:33:19 PM
When mining, I just noticed following line on console : eu.eclipsemc.com:8337 20/10/2011 09:47:21, block [...], accepted
Did I really find this block? How can I make sure about it?
Thanks
Its only a part of a block, not the entire block, but... It's something. You will earn the proportional part. :)


Title: Re: Did I really find a block?
Post by: nmat on October 20, 2011, 08:18:40 PM
I believe that eclipsemc keeps a list of people who found blocks at their website. Check there


Title: Re: Did I really find a block?
Post by: anw on October 22, 2011, 02:31:50 PM
yea, looks like I found this one, just on first mining day. Luck of beginner ;-)


Title: Re: Did I really find a block?
Post by: netrin on October 22, 2011, 02:47:30 PM
bet you you wish you were Solo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/HanSolo.jpg/220px-HanSolo.jpg


Title: Re: Did I really find a block?
Post by: kiyote on October 22, 2011, 03:44:14 PM
Heh, way to go, mate!  ^_^


Title: Re: Did I really find a block?
Post by: anw on October 22, 2011, 10:26:54 PM
hehe yea I admit that 0.3BTC earnings were disappointing for this round, but that's the game ^^


Title: Re: Did I really find a block?
Post by: deepceleron on October 22, 2011, 11:11:15 PM
Pool mining needs a way to track how much work people are doing. To do so, the pool requests that miners find a difficulty 1 hash of the current block. This low-difficulty submission is called a share. The pool then checks the difficulty 1 submission to see if it also meets the full difficulty problem. The full difficulty is ~1.5m, so it typically takes 1-2 million shares from miners before a block solve hash is submitted that is also a full difficulty solution.

When a full-difficulty solution is found and a block with 50BTC is generated, the amount of work done by miners and their reward is calculated from shares submitted.

The "accepted" message is likely that you submitted a share. A high-end GPU will find a share about every 10 seconds.