Congrats on hitting another one, 727miner . 

Just for fun... you said you had that S4 going for the past 2 months: 

• An S4 would have expected to make 1.21252809BTC in the past two months.
• On 6/12 an S4 would expect to take 1182.59 days to find a block.
• On 8/12 an S4 would expect to take 1309.59 days to find a block.

It's because the block was found by an orphaned or dead share.  When that happens, the UI doesn't show it because it relies upon the shares in the share chain.  Windpath's node shows them because he scrapes the blockchain for p2pool blocks .

+2.26 to +2.50 if you please

Received and confirmed.  Thanks!

There is no such thing as "solve an entire block from scratch" vs "finding the winning hash".  They are one and the same.  If you find the winning hash that satisfies the network difficulty, then your block solution is broadcast to the network and, if not orphaned, is added to the blockchain.

Figured the one in my profile was the one used by default.  OK... here's the address: 1DevLdogN52pHdjZnsgi4HzreFDB4ZHVre

Thanks again!

Well... a lousy week for p2pool - only finding 2 blocks and having 55.38% luck overall.  Neither of my miners made anywhere near expected payouts as a result.  NastyPoP did manage to do better than standard p2pool, though.  Here are the numbers:

7/31 - 8/7
NastyPoP: 0.01487946BTC
NastyP2P: 0.01145337BTC
Expected: 0.02962897BTC
Luck - 55.38%

OP updated.

When I first saw a reference to that thing posted the other day, I thought it was a joke.  Talk about Frankenstein's Monster.  While it might be possible to drive that beast with 3 EVGA 1300s, and for it to run on standard US residential power at 120V, good luck.  You'd have to find a location that could access 3 separate circuits, or run some extension cords all over the place.  I suppose it would fit right into the Frankenstein's Monster theme, though

Holy crap, I won!  I'd like to thank the members of the Academy, my Director, and my crew because without them, none of this would have been possible... oh wait... wrong event

In reality, thanks to suchmoon for providing the contest funds and Phil for managing it.  Also, thanks to notlist3d for starting up the thread this time while Phil was on vacation.

I reported it as such.  Hopefully it'll be gone shortly.

Mining process is simply finding a hash that satisfies the network difficulty.  All over the world machines are hashing away trying to find that elusive solution.  The network adjusts itself every 2016 blocks, and there have been times where the difficulty has gone down.  This network difficulty adjustment is in place to keep the average time between blocks at 10 minutes.  So... just because the blockchain is getting longer, that does not necessarily correspond to finding a block taking more time.

You've had hardware mining for a year and haven't yet figured out which pool works the best for your needs?  Where have you mined up to this point, and why are you looking to make a change?

You log into the S3 web interface, click on the Miner Configuration tab, and put the values in.  BTC address = worker.  Anything you want = password.

This is in the wrong place as well.  You might want to move the post to the pool's thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.0

Something akin to this?

So... here's the chart of the current data set (from 12/26 - 7/31):



I've updated the OP to include it as well.  Also, I have some errors in my data on the OP... math errors mostly because I'm an idiot and did everything by hand previously, but have now dumped it all into an Excel spreadsheet .  I'll fix the OP eventually, but as of now, here's the correct data:



Here's the spreadsheet if anyone wants it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vv7r7ejq2pquynl/pop_vs_p2p.xlsx?dl=0

Besides joining a signature campaign, you can also sell goods and services.  You can take a look at the Marketplace to see things that people are looking to buy.

The biggest reason why is that you don't control your private keys by using an online wallet like blockchain.info.  Bitcoin Core is a pretty significant investment in terms of CPU usage, disk space, etc, and unless you are planning to support the network and run a full node, it probably isn't for you.

According to his edit on the reddit post he did nothing, it fixed itself.

That's because multibit doesn't allow you to import a wallet.dat file.  Why not just send the funds from your old wallet to your new address in MultiBit?

By the way, MultiBit has its own subforum which you should use

S1 is 180GH/s at 360W.

Expects to earn 31p a day.  Will cost you 99p a day to operate.

Right now, the most efficient miner out there is the S5 from Bitmain.  In your case, the numbers are that it would expect to make £1.97 a day and cost you £1.62 a day to run.... so if you happened to get an S5 for free, you'd make a net profit of 35p a day.