Yes, if two blocks are solved basically simultaneously and broadcast to the network then there will exist, for a brief period of time (usually no more than a couple more block solves) two block chains as different nodes build on the different solved blocks.  The shorter chain isn't bad, it's just shorter, all it's transactions are valid and once the longest chain is established any tx from the orphan chain are rebroadcast and get picked up again in the longest chain.  At that time the blocks that were solved on the smaller chain become what are called "stale blocks" and they block reward those solvers received is no longer spendable (actually the block reward isn't spendable until your solved block receives 100 confirmations, and the longest chain is typically sorted out after 1-3 confirmations, so no worries there).  There's other people who can describe it much better, but that's basically how it works.  Orphan blocks happen all the time, not thousands per day, but this is an aspect of the bitcoin network that Satoshi anticipated and discussed in the white paper (which you should read if you haven't already: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) and is nothing to worry about.  You can do a bit of googling about orphan blocks and stale blocks and main chain and stuff and find more technical and accurate descriptions, I'm new to bitcoin and only have a rudimentary understanding myself.

Many, many Sr. and Hero account have been sold to people for signature campaigns (as evidenced by most of the replies here that really don't say anything).  Often you can tell because someone is asking a question that, had they come up through the ranks here, they would have had to of been exposed to the answer many, many times.  Sometimes I'll look at these people's post histories and you can see that in the beginning they were an active user, then there's a period of low/no use, then suddenly a rash of signature campaign applications followed by a bunch of new posts written in a completely different tone from their post history.


If your share is greater than the network difficulty and you transmit your solution out to the network first and the longest chain gets built off your solution then you have successfully solved a block.  You get the coins after your block solution has received 100 confirmations, i.e. 100 more blocks have been solved on top of your solution.  The correct terminology is "solve", it is a very complex math problem and there is more than one solution, but the first miner to transmit that solution and have the longest chain built on it "wins".

If your share is greater than network difficulty and you transmit your solution out to the network but somebody beats you to it and the longest chain gets built on their solved block, then your solution becomes what is called an orphan block - it's a valid solution but since it wasn't transmitted first and the longest chain was not built on it you do not get the block reward.

Just browsing google image search, found these as well, there may be more out there:

Last time prices hit these marks we went all the way to $300!  Then we saw some sell off and the XT thing brought it down again, but yea, it's nice to see the price start to climb back up.  Of course that also means that higher difficulty be profitable, thus more miners will turn on, and around and around we go.

Yes, it will be interesting to see if there is any effect once their holiday is over.  Seems like they have several holidays that last for more than a week, sign me up!

Usually the talk doesn't start until a block is getting long in the solve, in which case the pool is due to solve one anyway.  Doesn't hurt to talk about it, but I think it's more a case of correlation rather than causation. 

So someone get a chicken to restart the pool already!

I think you mean 5.5% of frequency?  Checking the math it comes out to 5.5 at least.

You need to use some real wires and size them appropriately.  Nothing should be so hot that you cannot touch it.  Something red hot is way way way into the danger zone, you'll end up burning down your neighborhood.

Received as well, and I left you both + trust last week.  Hopefully this campaign runs a while, it's well managed and the signatures aren't over the top in your face annoying. 

You do not need the "-S compac:all" if you are using the production sticks, that command was only necessary for the engineering samples (and why the command does not appear in the first post of this thread).

Congrats to the solo solver!  That address starts out so close to my solo mining address I got excited for a split second.

That's not secure enough, you need to be able to do an api call from the ip address that the node is run from.  I was in your shoes months ago, but two pages back you'll see that instructions were provided to me that are easy to follow for folk like me that don't use Linux (yet) or program or anything.  I successfully registered my node on a windows machine and haven't had issues since.  I don't leave my webserver (see link for how to set one up on your machine) running all the time for security reasons, but I redo the api call weekly to keep the btc address registered with my node.  Install Cygwin and curl support to enter the command line stuff.

You have a static ip address, right?  If not then you cannot register your node.

It would cost me about $86 a month to run an S3 at my house during the summer, that's a lot to spend on lottery tickets!  I can justify it in the winter when I need the heat, but even the S3 is pretty expensive to run just as a solo machine if you pay high rates like I do.

Save yourself the hassle and don't bother.  If you dig through this thread, or maybe the compac support thread, you'll find that after I contacted cool gear I learned that their usb2.0 hubs are not designed to be run at or near capacity for extended periods of time due to the voltage regulator inside.  I purchased a Etekcity hub off amazon and am using it for my sticks, it is rated to provide 1.0A to each usb port.

The hologram reflection idea is a bit different than simulation theory, but they are both mind boggling once you get into reading about them.

From this point forward all my guesses to these thread shall be formatted that way!  Do you have a boiler plate first post for these threads that you copy paste?  Maybe consider putting a request there to format guess like that and we can all save you some time.

And thank you for these threads, they are fun and mostly the reason I participate on this forum (beside all the general good info).

You don't need to reset it, it's purely cosmetic and just lets you know that your miner is doing its job. 

Yup, on my laptop I can only run the sticks at 125 freq.  Funny thing is one of the ports on my lap top provides a bit more voltage than the other (0.02V) at the same amperage, so have a stick plugged into that port.  I need to get a couple Y cables, too, so I can push the ones on my hub a bit more.  I can run them at 262.5 freq for 14.4GH/s, had to turn up the voltage a hair to zero out the HW errors which were still less than 0.1%, even at that freq with no voltage adjustments.

Are you familiar with simulation theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

Who's to say we're not living like this already?

I can get bfgminer to see the sticks, but regardless of what I put into the 'clock' field the sticks run at "default" 225 freq.  I also get comms errors {CBM 0: Comms error (werr=1)} with bfg that I do not get with cgminer.

Yes, bfg will work.  The club is not client specific, but rather miner specific (sort of), i.e. you have to have a gekko stick to join.  Since you have one, just point bfg to ck's solo pool and use the club address and your worker name and you're good to go!

Edit - Phillip replied while I was typing and gave you the specifics.