I had a bitcoin I bought earlier today burning a hole in my pocket, so I rented some hashpower, within a few minutes I had a share over 1G, a few minutes later another share over 3G, a few minutes later my best share was lower meaning someone found a block, surely it wasn't me after only mining with my rentals for 20 minutes. I couldn't believe it when I saw my new address as the payout. I picked it because it had 7's in it and hashesez, I liked to think it was my lucky address because it "hashes easy" lol

Man this is addicting and I'm finally out of the red!

The force is strong in this one.

Will that do?

Wow, gotta say, totally awesome.

Bitmain of course dropped the ball on this and have given up on anyone who bought their S1/S2/S3 saying they don't care.

However, someone (who wants to remain anonymous) has sent me 10BTC and asked me to do the S1/S2/S3 work.

Guess I'll be spending the time on this over the next 2 weeks that I was asking to do and get the S1/S2 updated and sort out some p2pool issues, and also merge a working S3 into cgminer master
(and of course dust off my old S1/S2 and get them working again)

The kano.is pool problems (and a backend ckdb change I've been working on) have been taking a lot of my (and of course -ck's) time, but I think I can handle both (if I ignore everything else )

Good news

Seeing 3 ~400% blocks on the blocks page is indeed evil
I wonder if there is some magic chant to stop that from happening ever again ...
Seems I need to go back to making sacrifices to the Block Gods
Well the shift name of this one and the last one were the same: Yuno
Maybe she could help with making the sacrifices
http://static.zerochan.net/Gasai.Yuno.full.1582590.jpg

We should have seen them on network I would guess.  I would think they did a burn in test at least with them.  There was a jump one day on antpool last week, I'm curious if it happened to be the S4+'s.

only +6%? we, the small guys, we don't know but... it can also be +15% this time!
hopefully not!

the sea is very calm at the moment....

Yes it does mean that. That's the correlation between diff and shares. Each 1 diff share has 1 in 47billion chance of finding a block.

S4+ is coming out within a week.

https://www.bitmaintech.com/product.htm

https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020150420021310934XOpI8PEw0689

Ok..true story..now my co-workers think I'm nuts (just stood up in cubicle-ville and yelled holy f-in shit!  )

This is crazy!!

https://i.imgur.com/1pnetSTl.png?1

So, I'm driving into work today and my phone goes off and I see this:



I literally freak out in traffic  . I've been mining off and on here since CK started the pool. Came real close to hitting a block a few weeks back and about 3 days ago I decided that I would spend a few coins and rent some hash (around 100 - 150T everyday). I knew it was a long shot and tbh I was about to give up renting today. I've only mined one other block (269489) with a Block Erupter USB stick back on Slush's pool in Nov 2013 and that's what started my obsession with Bitcoin mining. It's true that life does throw you a bone once in a while  Thanks to CK for this pool, when this block matures, I'll send a tip your way.

Since you are a farmer on a farm you should be able to take part in the IRS tax cuts for farmers!!! 

Sounds great!!!

What are your electricity costs per kWH?

200Amps of miners will be crazy hot , i have only 60Amps and the heat is insane , my 2nd floor gets to 89 degress when its only 50-70outside

Thank you Cyper_BLC.

Mine can't handle anymore either until I get my power upgraded.  I found my limit when I added six (6) S5's to what you see in the picture.  The main breaker tripped after I turned on the 5th S5 with the AC going, 2 eyes on the stove top going, the oven going and the dryer going.  So, I'm not running the stove top and oven at the same time as the dryer or at the same time as the dish washer at the moment.  I turned off some S3's to have all S5's going.

I'm looking forward to upgrading the power.  I'm doubling the amps.  That means my income tax return will be gone once I get back - lol.  It's kind of expensive to upgrade power.  I'm not sure if I'm bumping up to 400 amps or 500 amps.  I suppose it depends on what my present "feeder" (service) cable can handle.  If it can handle 600 amps, I'll go ahead and upgrade to 600 amps.  It may be good for only 400 or 500 though.  It should be done by the end of May or first part of June.  There's a chance I might wait on spending that money upgrading power here to spend it on power at my next location.  I haven't decided yet.  Still doing the math.

30A 2 pole breaker, 10-2 wire, L6-30 R, 240V 30A PDU, C19-C20 cables for connecting PSUs to PDU. Best way to do it.

Every time I wanted to quit my pursuit to solomine a block I would look at the photo above my miners with a quoute from Eleanor Roosevelt that reads "THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BEAUTY OF THEIR DREAMS."

I have been solo-mining for much of 2014 on my own node with 230GH/s and with no luck.

In December 2014 I picked up three antminer s1's and two antminer c1's but could not figure out how to solo-mine on my own node with the antminer c1's so I have been exclusively solo-mining between three different solo-mining pools with those miners, although I shut off a few of the s1's about a month ago due to the heat.

Also last month, I rented 1.5PH's for a few hours with no luck either, and also 120THs for about a day and a half.

At times you just want to throw in the towel and give up, And then when you least expect it life may just throw you a bone.

Although I am still in the hole a little bit, this has almost brought me back to even, and I must say that the sense of accomplishment was worth it. I can now say that I have found a block!

So don't give up, and don't throw your life savings renting hashpower, because in this game there are no guarantees and 2TH's can win just the same as 1.5PH

Good luck to you all, may the next block be yours!