whoa, I wouldn't trust a floppy drive!!!
Yeah, the last few batches of name brand floppy disks I bought had the majority defective out of the box. Many that were good at purchase ended up unreadable a year later. |
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The people that ordered BFL are NOT in the same boat. Their boat is sinking quick with bricks making it go down faster.
Lulz, no, BFL orders are not in the same boat. When BFL actually says they have shipped them, you'll get them soon after  Note that Kano recently visited them in person. |
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Now that the 94.7% 8-hour block is out of the way (thanks Keled), let's have twenty <50% blocks in a row. Who's with me?!
Did you already know that the probability of the former is approximately equal to the probability of the latter? Or was is just a wild guess? Heh, I see that (vaguely, without doing the math) now that you point it out, but at the time I was just being silly. |
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Now that the 94.7% 8-hour block is out of the way (thanks Keled), let's have twenty <50% blocks in a row. Who's with me?!
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If you want to earn as many bitcoins as possible over time, go with a pool like BitMinter which pays out income from transaction fees and namecoins, and is also without mandatory fees.
If you worry about payments varying from day to day, you may feel that it is worth paying fees, and losing namecoin and transaction fee income, so that you know in advance what you will get every day. You will get less in the long run. But if you are on a tight budget and need those coins to pay the bills every month, you may need PPS to stay safe. As they say, "it's expensive to be poor."
After you leave the pool you are also still getting paid for a while until there is none of your work in the eligible shares/shifts.
In other words, if you already left, be sure to check back in case we found some more blocks before your shares dropped off the last 10 shifts. IMO, BitMinter is the best pool to mine at for maximum BTC for your hash power over time, but the variance of non-PPS also tends to be like an emotional roller coaster. Some days suck beyond measure, some days are about average like PPS, and some days are absolutely amazing. |
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In general I don't want to be some kind of mediator or investigator for every failed or possibly failing business deal that involved bitcoins.
After having a while to think about it, I not only support Doc's decision here, but completely agree with it. This is a pool, not a police station. |
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It has come to my attention that bitbond is mining at this pool You do know he has stolen 95000 shares of 2mh since the first week of october (something like 6,000 btc) from users?? See this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140945.0After reading I'll be interested in if he is allowed to continue mining at your pool Wow... Doc, my personal thoughts are that if it is possible (that's a big if, I assume), amazingrando should be booted from the pool. BitMinter has too great of a reputation to willingly allow an admitted scammer to continue as its biggest miner. However, I will also support you if you decide that it is not the place of a pool operator to police the mining community. That's a very valid argument. Sure, amazingrando makes it sound like he's well-intentioned and unlucky rather than a scammer, but he did breach their contract. It sounds like the only people who didn't get screwed were the ones who had a physical, notarized contract. When my dad went in on BFL gear with me, I told him up front that we may very well both lose money and that there were no guarantees. It appears that amazingrando was not so wise when he tried to attract investors. |
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No fee? How do you pay for the servers? Independently wealthy?
Sounds Fishy...
I'm pretty sure Doc is a multi-trillionaire. In all seriousness, though, it's worth the 2% donation to get instant payouts. |
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salcox, thank you for rescuing us from that 20mil proof of work, 16-hour monster!
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I personally believe that there is a greater than 80% chance that Avalon will become the next failed Bitcion ASIC producer.
I assume you're a heavily invested BFL customer? |
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working now - was a short break
Yup, I made a whole 4 bitcents on my backup at BTC Guild. |
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CPU mining available? Sigh ...
Troll This pool is great. He can't do everything at once. There are many things I'd rather see Doc work on than remove CPU mining from the client. |
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I got a Tenga Egg Silky instead of the Spider that was advertised in the Bitmit listing. I don't know the difference, so it's fine with me. Thanks! |
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Yes, when is the DDoS attack scheduled to be finished? Their lack of customer service in keeping us apprised may be cause for us to look elsewhere for our DDoS needs.
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I'm not too concerned about merged mining as namecoin is useless.
Last I checked namecoins give about 3% extra income. Namecoins and transaction fees are much more important now after the reward halving. I agree. +1 M I will be very sad the day we have to let go of merged mining. NMC income is well worth it, IMO. |
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NEED help with getting a backup pool. can some one explain to me what to do to get one.
Suppose you wanted to set BitMinter as your primary pool and BTC Guild as your secondary. If you were mining with 4 BFL Singles on COM3, COM4, COM5, and COM6, you could run a command like the following to accomplish your goal using CGMiner. cgminer-fpgaonly.exe -o http://mint.bitminter.com:8332 -u YourUsername_WorkerName -p WorkerPassword -o mergedmining.btcguild.com:8332 -u YourUsername_WorkerName -p -1 -S \\.\COM3 -S \\.\COM4 -S \\.\COM5 -S \\.\COM6 The "-p -1" where the worker password is supposed to be on the secondary pool is to denote a null password, as I couldn't find any way to create worker passwords on BTC Guild. If you need help using video cards, I'm sure there are others on the forum who can assist, but I've never use CGMiner with anything BFL products. Good luck! WP |
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Is it still down for everybody else or is it just me?
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Sorry to revive a dead thread, but just in case anybody was interested, I got my laser today (same merchant as OP). It seems about as bright as one I got about a year ago for $12. That means it's among the brightest lasers I've ever seen, but I've never seen an expensive one. Here's a pic of the warning label.  |
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Doc, are we accidentally still being paid based on a 50 BTC block reward?
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