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Bitcoin => Pools => Topic started by: temen on April 13, 2014, 06:59:21 PM



Title: Blocks by unknown
Post by: temen on April 13, 2014, 06:59:21 PM
It looks like unknown blocks are about 45% of network. This seems quite high as if there are some commercial miners shouldnt they automaticly announce what ips are theirs etc?


Title: Re: Blocks by unknown
Post by: eleuthria on April 13, 2014, 07:54:34 PM
organofcorti's weekly posts include a graph of actual hashrate distribution.  Don't use blockchain.info for your  source, they're lazy and inaccurate.  The actual unknown % of the network is only ~10%.


Title: Re: Blocks by unknown
Post by: temen on April 13, 2014, 08:10:37 PM
Ok... But then wouldnt it be their advantage to show more precise figures? As now people are aware what 51 % attack is and this kind of graph could just add to overall negative news to bitcoin.

From where organofcorti gets his data ?!=)


Title: Re: Blocks by unknown
Post by: eleuthria on April 13, 2014, 08:16:24 PM
Ok... But then wouldnt it be their advantage to show more precise figures? As now people are aware what 51 % attack is and this kind of graph could just add to overall negative news to bitcoin.

From where organofcorti gets his data ?!=)

blockchain.info has lots of graphs.  Most of them have incomplete/inaccurate information.  They have no interested in showing precise figures because the data they're generally showing is just noise, it's not meaningful.  Their distribution graphs for example only go to *at most* 4 days.  That's an extremely small time frame, and due to the random nature of solving blocks, those graphs move drastically even though the actual hash rate distribution is fairly static.

Most pools sign their blocks in the coinbase.  Blockchain.info doesn't seem to reliably use that information, contributing to lots of unknown.  Some private companies always mine to the same address which is publicly known, but blockchain.info doesn't care.

Previous attempts by pool owners to get them to correct their information have always been met with silence.  Some pools (BitMinter is a common one) constantly have blockchain.info showing that pool mining a block they didn't actually mine, causing miners to think the pool is cheating them.


Title: Re: Blocks by unknown
Post by: ujka on April 13, 2014, 09:14:52 PM
IP 162.243.2.142 first came in yesterday, and as of now has 26 blocks ??
Every block reward goes to different address ??


Title: Re: Blocks by unknown
Post by: paradigmflux on April 14, 2014, 03:46:04 PM
IP 162.243.2.142 first came in yesterday, and as of now has 26 blocks ??
Every block reward goes to different address ??
Yeah that is super wierd how many new IPs there have been lately