Yes you have a slight chance in hell. All blocks found lately have been S9s or Avalon7s or older hardware... there is no other hardware available...

Yes if you find a block you'll get a mined entry straight into your wallet as soon as the block is found.

Maybe not but I'm sick of seeing the same names with empty entries in threads because I have them on ignore. It'd be nice if someone else got a chance to post instead of this whole section being their personal troll flood wall.

It looks like r/btc is using the term "being attacked again" as their explanation although it's just another out of memory bug to do with their x-thin implementation 

I don't see any major crashes there, as the thread title stipulates...

I count 5 major crashes by now, no?

I don't know what this one is yet, but no doubt it's more of their crappy code crashing, and of course they'll blame core somehow... 

This is sigspam nonsense. There is more than enough mining hardware around. What isn't enough of in mining is enough spread of the hashrate. More people buying hardware won't fix that when the economies of scale and cheap electricity means most hardware is clustered in a small number of huge farms owned by very few people.

Now work out how many satoshi per person and try again. Then factor in a hard fork in the future with twice as many decimal places giving us .0000000000000001 BTC as the smallest denomination and try again.

I know exactly how you feel. The FUD is strong with this one, and some morons - like Bitmain's whatshisname - will be unable to switch to segwit without losing a lot of face so he may be so stubborn that even if everyone else switches he'll stick with it in the face of all logic and reason.

Excellent, welcome But be patient while our hashrate is still low.

Well, someone's renting something and it appears to be hashrate now that we're at 1PH. Hopefully it will stay up there and attract some actual long term miners.

They're not shares, they're discarded unworked on work which has no effect on your hashing. Ignore it.

This is great because litecoin is finally doing what altcoins were originally incarnated for - as a playground for experimental features that eventually may or may not be used in bitcoin; not as another attempt at getting rich by being first in with the new coin (though people have all forgotten that.) Ironically this time they're providing a testing ground for a bitcoin feature and not trying out something new. Testing segwit on testnet apparently had no value with some entities... well I guess those bigger miners against segwit actually have significant litecoin investment and have seen the publicity/social effect segwit has had on it. There's no doubt gmax is willing to work on litecoin because he acknowledges the social effect of it working on litecoin adds overwhelming pressure to bitcoin.

Just keep an eye on which pools are mining what and that's how you can gauge the real support. Unless a pool starts or stops signalling one or the other, the actual support level hasn't changed. In that regard graphs showing trends based on block solves are actually wrong and misleading. Graphs should show support by showing pool support * pool size. Only when support is overwhelming is block graph charting meaningful - as a gauge for when activation will occur.

Well the pool has had quite a few users come and try it out but it sure is hard to get sustained hashrate up when starting out 

We know what that reason is - they report to bitmain with that security hole they left in there that was originally meant to be for remote management that never happened and ended up being left unintentionally as a backdoor to the devices including a kill switch.

To answer the opening poster's question - ckproxy will do what you need, but can't fix your ultimate uplink quality at all.

Well I think that's what he IS actually arguing and he's not the only one; that bitcoin is a miner controlled system.

No problem, was worried you might have abandoned bitcoin; we still need you here Interesting to hear about your alternate life/real world interests/involvements. The mathematics behind the reward is something we all discussed at length when PoT first came out and I just removed the dangerous  PPS element from it.

No winners yet since no blocks found yet

Well they did say "for now" and backtracking on what they have said would involve some degree of embarrassment to admit they were wrong about their decision. The world is full of people ploughing on with a bad decision long after it is brutally obvious that they made a bad decision so it's normal for them to hold their position for now. It took f2pool a while to settle on what their final stance would be too, but they didn't make as bold statements as viabtc did against segwit so they had no need for a big backtrack. Naturally it will take viabtc longer but I suspect they will switch positions. The real key, then, is what will happen with Bitmain since they have the most hard line position against segwit and will lose the most face from changing their minds. Their leader is so stubborn he could just persist indefinitely flying in the face of all logic and reason that tells him he's headed the wrong way. Money and the reality he'll lose out by doing this is the only thing that might swing him back.

The results of the poll, and then hopefully VIA's response, will speak for themselves... though of course they'll claim they were rigged blah blah blah etc etc etc... Never seen those arguments before 

DE pool migrated to new hardware and is back up and running.

While it's hard to know with certainty without any context what the purpose of this poll was - be it that they expected their followers to confirm they don't want segwit or they genuinely are reconsidering it - the response should be enough for them to consider it regardless. The effect it had on the floundering litecoin economy should have been an eye opener for them, especially since they also run ViaLTC and helped activate it. My take on it is they are actually realising going against it for dubious political reasons is bad for bitcoin. They even said on their feed "The main reason to refuse SegWit is because the Roadmap of bitcoin core, not the technical detail." While they have lashed out with a few attacks on segwit themselves, they have not done so to the extent that Bitmain did, where changing your mind and backtracking would make them lose face on a grand level. Naturally voting against segwit will be seen as implying one would be voting for them continuing their BIP100+BU support, so hopefully they interpret any vote for segwit as against those too.