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Title: Bitcoin in -server moce - do blocks timeout or expire in some manner? Post by: xanadu on May 10, 2011, 03:41:07 PM I have been solo mining for a couple of months now.
A few weeks ago the machine that was hosting bitcoin running in -server mode on my network had a hardware failure, so I just started up bitcoin on a different machine and redirected all of the clients to that one. It just occurred to me that the original machine had been crunching on a block for a couple of days and should have been quite near completion! I've resolved the hardware issue and have it back online, if I redirect my clients back to the older server will it continue where things left off, or has that block expired or timed out in some manner at this point? Thanks, -X Title: Re: Bitcoin in -server moce - do blocks timeout or expire in some manner? Post by: dust on May 10, 2011, 03:49:43 PM Generating a block is more like playing a lottery millions of times per second than working on a solution over time. You can stop and start miners anytime you want and you won't be missing out on lost "progress".
Title: Re: Bitcoin in -server moce - do blocks timeout or expire in some manner? Post by: BitterTea on May 10, 2011, 03:50:27 PM Nope. Think of each hash as playing a lottery ticket with a (difficulty * 2^48 / 0xffff) chance of winning.
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