A general answer to your general question, pools that are coded to optimize block changes and get new work faster have better chances of having their solved blocks confirmed and not become an orphan.

Something like that could also include the "shares" field that Ck added to the pool reporting.  Not really applicable for the beta period, but after the 11th I believe the shares submitted will be the easiest way to divy up a potential block reward.

I have 3 instances of cgminer running, each controlling different usb miners.  This allows me to reset just one miner (typically my U3) without affecting my gekko sticks or my nanofury sticks.  There's posts in this thread, I believe, that help you how to do it.  I use the --usb command to specify a certain number of devices for each cgminer instance, but there are other ways of doing it as well.

If I knew anything about programming I would write something up that clicks the links, grabs data, and puts it into a table for easy digestion.  It sounds to me like a simple enough task, but I know nothing about scripts and such.

It has to do with the pool code, if it's optimized to get solved blocks and work out quickly, block change time, internet connectivity/latency of their mining operation.

Kano and Ck have done a lot of work on their pool code to avoid orphans and empty blocks, you could always try mining on a pool run by people who actually care about the bitcoin network:

No, the answer is it's not for general consumption.  They don't plan to resell them, they're going to stock their new data center with them, and maybe send a few pallets to select customers.

Well done, that looks really good.  Did you put it together for fun, or is it for resale?  Seems like it would add a bit to shipping costs, especially on multiple stick orders.

Does the case provide static discharge protection?  I guess that it would since plastic doesn't conduct, but I'm no EE.

I would guess the "stupid idea" votes are from folks that either don't know how much fun playing with the compac sticks is, or are looking at this from a purely "roi" frame of mind.

I have 2 S1 boards I'd gladly donate toward the cost of a pod miner.  These little usb miners are fun to mess around with, I still play with one U3 despite all of its headaches.

Oh wow, a 0.8% block, is that a record for this pool?

Someone show me the odds of the same miner solving two blocks in such quick succession, that's simply amazing.

See, it must have been all that talk about chickens and restarts that did it!  

Thanks, Phil.  I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say that if we do hit a block in the next couple days you'll be getting a cut of my share, and so will Novak and Sidehack.

Well, I guess you could call it confused if you mean I read what someone wrote and then applied what they wrote and determined they were wrong.  

So yes, now I see that Phil's post was in error with the "%" mention, that clears it up, carry on.  

Gotcha, so your post was two parts.  I misread your second HW error issue as what you were referring to.

Unplug them stick by stick until the one with HW errors is the one you unplugged.

Well derp on me, I didn't even think to look at the fields and figure out what I was lacking.  Seems to be I'm missing Weekly Ave. Latency, which is odd since my node has been up and running for many months and I have a value for Weekly Uptime index of 0.9.  Hopefully it will self-correct.

From looking at your node it appears that pruned mode results in a Service Index of nil.  What does this service index value mean in lay man's terms?  

I noticed that since 21.co took over bitnodes my PIX is no longer over 8.0; it had been consistently ~8.3.  Did something change that I'm not aware of?  You have to actively do something to run in pruned mode, right?  My PIX is only 7.6 right now and no clue why.

That's not the same problem and it isn't a bfgminer issue; it's the stick.  You need to turn up the voltage a tad, check out the compac support thread.

My problem is that it doesn't matter what freq I specify, the sticks only run at 225 (stock) on bfgminer.

There's a name for this in psychology, where you associate one action with another and draw a connection between them.  I forget what it is called or the specifics of it, but I remember one point of discussion was that while one tends to notice that (it appears) if A happens then B happens, the human brain is very good at keeping track of this.  For example, "Every time I drive down street X all the traffic lights are red."  What the human brain doesn't keep track of, however, is all the times that A did not happen, but B happened any way.  In reality you drive down street X all the time and the lights are green, but your brain only makes a point of when they are red.

It would be interesting to see how many blocks are solved immediately following a restart vs. no restart.  Of course there's no causation here, but it would still be interesting to see the numbers just for the sake of discussion.

Or maybe it's not the restart that appears to affect the pool, maybe it's just Kano posting that he restarted the pool that does it...  

My deposits always have shown up in my account before receiving any confirmations.  Thus far once my deposit tx is broadcast to a few nodes on the network the funds show up in my HaoBTC account.

6 numbers, no letters or punctuation.  They are supposed to work on better English translations on the web site.

You're adding an extra step or two to make 55% work, no need to mess around with 1000MHz = 1GH/s conversion like you did..  If you look at the list Phil posted earlier, which I've quoted and editted below, you take the frequency and multiply by 0.055 (5.5%) you get the hash in GH/s.


It's not showing that high of a share because it reset at some point, probably after a solo solve yesterday?  But if ck says worker best share does not reset then I don't know how else to explain the discrepancy.

Hmm, at that price I'm tempted to get one new (rather than wait for a used one like I initially planned) just to see if it makes my U3 work any better.  Probably not, but messing with electronics is part of the fun of bitcoin.  And I just sold off my last spare U3 for about what the R1 costs, so I could look at is as a trade of sorts.