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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: sosad on December 20, 2011, 04:27:55 AM



Title: BitCoin Vs Namecoin
Post by: sosad on December 20, 2011, 04:27:55 AM
I've been puzzled on trying to  figure out why the namecoins  are only getting solve when a bitcoin block is solved ?

About three weeks ago I was getting about 10 namecoin to 1 bitcoin.

Now It is10 Namecoins to every 3 bitcoins .

Any answer to why or how this changed ? :(


Title: Re: BitCoin Vs Namecoin
Post by: paraipan on December 20, 2011, 04:30:42 AM
yep, read on merged mining (http://dot-bit.org/Merged_Mining), implemented not long ago in namecoin


Title: Re: BitCoin Vs Namecoin
Post by: sosad on December 20, 2011, 01:22:09 PM
Thanks...


Title: Re: BitCoin Vs Namecoin
Post by: deepceleron on December 22, 2011, 08:13:17 AM
Simple answer why you might not be earning as many Namecoins:

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff99/qubez1/namecoinDifficulty.png