It's normal, very short rounds (10 seconds - 2 minutes) are pure luck. If you are among the first to get shares you get paid a lot.
If you are among the last you get no reward.

I've had even 3 minute rounds where I recieved "none" (6.5ghash on slush total). The longer a round lasts the more chances you have to get paid.

In over 99% of cases you get paid for every round. Even at very high hashrate, the chance to find a block within a few seconds is far under 1%.
Those rounds are statistically abnormal, but by no means impossible (pure variance), just as a royal flush in a game of poker.

Probably not, according to the UN there will be about 9 to 14 billion people alive by then, the vast majority living in poor countries. Population growth will be severely limited by resources in 2050-2080 as well so it wont grow exponentially.

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf

Even in the extreme scenario (14-15 billion by 2140) that'd mean half of the world's population would have internet connection or use bitcoin.

Now the population is at about 6.9 billion, and the most popular web service has only 500m users (~7% of world population). That means 93% of people in the world have no idea what Facebook is or haven't used it.

I like your pool because it has all the features of deepbit (except PPS) with no fees.
Added a few miners today. If the server stays stable I'll move more from other pools to this.

Can't see any problems now besides relatively high variance, due to low hashrate.

Tell me of another pool with high hash rate (= low variance), pay-per-share, instant payout (no 120 blocks to confirm b.s.), long polling
 
I gladly pay 7% for that. In fact my earnings on DB are consistently higher than on slush despite the 5% difference in fees.

& I don't have to wait 16-24+ hours for "confirmed".

I spread out on 4 pools and all are affected by this shit.

Some lonely gentleman has decided to DoS pools, blockexplorer and even bitcoin.org.

Goddamnit. Every pool is crapping out in the last 48 hours.
First slush, guild and now deepbit. Even the bitcoin.org forum slows down now and then.

Got to try new ones like Eligius and Eclipse for now.

That estimate is ridiculous. There will never be 7 billion people using any single internet service.

In fact only 2 billion people, or 28% of the world's population even has access to the internet (and only ~1.2 billion through home connections).

Facebook is the largest online community/service ever and it has about 500 million users. Paypal is the largest payment processor and it only has about 20-40 million active users.

Green dogs with rabies are invading Milwaukee any day now.

Just a heads up.

The price goes progressively up, displays as such on the charts & live feed, and you can buy from yourself to make the price appear to have risen quickly.
Since the transaction amounts are so small, the Gox fees don't effect you in anyway.

I must admit I've used this a few times to create a couple-dollar rallies. But not with a bot, just manually.
Mt. Gox allows unlimited transactions per day at any specified amount of BTC so that's what's making it possible.

There is no risk of failure either, because you buy the small bids yourself, driving the price up a bit every time.

That's $1600 at Mt. Gox rate.

Hell, even if BTC cost 10 bucks each that would still be $800. New 6990 costs less than that in a store.

My asus p8p67 only boots multi-card setups if I go into BIOS and set pci-e mode to x1 so that every lane is running at that speed. Otherwise certain lanes are disabled while others run at x4, x8 or x16. Only x1 allows running all of them.

It's not quite what I was looking for, but I found it great. There is apparently an entire meme built around it. I sent you 0.05BTC.


It's not funny, although I do like jazz.

It has to be funny, so I can listen to it while watching Mt. Gox jump up and down during my trading hours.

Benny Hill theme doesn't count because I already discovered that one.

Not a troll thread, include your bitcoin address for payment. Thanks.

Guy registered yesterday and has no refs.

Why send him (or that could be you) 20BTC blind?

wow. I didn't notice that.

Must absolutely be a bug, no way it dropped down to 200k by this attack.
In fact it should be 850k tomorrow.

I have a 4.05 BTC withdrawal in limbo from deepbit. It hasn't moved for hours.

Fuck everyone who DDoS'es pools. Really, your chances of finding blocks don't even go up unless the difficulty level drops down. It has zero effect.
Not to mention the sites will just keep coming up.

It doesn't do jack. Even the effect on BTC price is negligible at best. All you're doing is griefing miners.
I'd understand if there was some financial motive. But there isn't any.

These attacks are simply vandalism which makes it bizarre.
Or an attempt to make people switch pools

Check statistics, more than 60% of miners left for other pools. I suspect much more long rounds now that capacity is down from 1500ghash/s to 500-650ghash.

Earnings have been down for a while and the DDoS earlier today just making it worse.

If you take paypal I'm sure someone would be glad to offer $8,000 for it.

It could be 19.17 today. Bet on it.