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Bitcoin => Mining => Topic started by: Gareth Nelson on May 21, 2011, 02:14:39 AM



Title: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: Gareth Nelson on May 21, 2011, 02:14:39 AM
I thought new blocks were meant to generate 50BTC?

What's this in my client?
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Title: Re: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: fpgaminer on May 21, 2011, 02:15:43 AM
Are you part of a pool? Some pools send their payouts with the block that gets generated, so it shows up in everyone's client as Generated.


Title: Re: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: Gareth Nelson on May 21, 2011, 02:18:38 AM
I'm in slush's pool and deepbit, but both of them usually send to an address and I have a bunch of received transactions from them - never had this before.


Title: Re: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: willaien on May 21, 2011, 04:27:11 AM
I'm in slush's pool and deepbit, but both of them usually send to an address and I have a bunch of received transactions from them - never had this before.

It may have been some transaction fees.


Title: Re: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: Gareth Nelson on May 21, 2011, 04:28:55 AM
I'm in slush's pool and deepbit, but both of them usually send to an address and I have a bunch of received transactions from them - never had this before.

It may have been some transaction fees.

Shouldn't that only come alongside an actual 50BTC block?


Title: Re: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: redicarus on May 21, 2011, 04:34:00 AM
This is pretty strange. Maybe this thread should be moved from the mining section, since it looks like a glitch in Bitcoin.


Title: Re: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: willaien on May 21, 2011, 04:36:15 AM
They can be assigned by the pool operator, but I think that'd show up as a normal bit sent to you...


Title: Re: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: grndzero on May 21, 2011, 05:27:23 AM
Did you ever connect to Eliguis (Luke-Jr's) pool. It doesn't usually distribute payments < 1 BTC unless you haven't connected in which case it will payout whatever is left in your account.

Other than that it could be someone transposed a character in their bitcoin address and it happens to match yours.

Or it could be a bitcoin address clash even though the possibility is statistically minute.

EDIT: Doesn't distribute payments < 1 BTC unless you haven't connected for a week or more.


Title: Re: Generated a tiny amount?
Post by: Gareth Nelson on May 21, 2011, 05:28:54 AM
Did you ever connect to Eliguis (Luke-Jr's) pool. It doesn't usually distribute payments unless you haven't connected in which case it will payout whatever is left in your account.

Other than that it could be someone transposed a character in their bitcoin address and it happens to match yours.

Or it could be a bitcoin address clash even though the possibility is statistically minute.

I've connected once to Eliguis, found that the balance on coin-explorer was actually going backwards so didn't bother with it any further - that's probably what happened. Thanks.