your unconfirmed rewards have to be confirmed 120 times before they become confirmed.

we have lift off...

crash landing...

I certainly will offer it up for review before I publish it, I certainly do not want to spread mis information but I think you will find it quite interesting. I am a network administrator with 20 years experience and a bachelors in c.s.

I may not be an expert in bitcoin (yet) but I have a lot to offer and I think I may be onto something

in any case I will send it to you personally and anyone else that wants to review it for editing prior to publication

and let me just say that I very well could be wrong, I have to compare a lot of data at different lengths of time, 24 hours, 1 week, one month and see how everything matches up (which I have not finished yet) so this could just be a fluke but I am seeing a correlation so we will see what happens.

thanks!

another thing I am interested in and maybe one of you guys could shed some light on this

theres a real trend where on super short rounds like < 1 min , my reward is significantly higher than a more average time round

do you guys have an idea about that?

im not putting down slushs pool, It is the best choice for me right now, I have significantly mined on the top pools recently and have been studying this very subject. I love Slush's pool but I tell you I loved it more 100 g/hash ago.

I know that theoretically the round times and the rewards per share should all equal out, I understand that but the reality is because of the luck involved in finding blocks, they just dont.

Its a combination of luck/difficulty and user/speed ratios

DeepBit's average round time is the shortest anywhere, and because of all the competition the rewards are very very small, however they still get nailed with 90 min rounds every now and then... plus the fees kill you

if you go to the smaller guys like BTCMine or BTC Guild you get much bigger rewards per round, but those guys are still seeing 4, 5 hour rounds

in theory yes it all equals out in the end but I have really been studying this to some depth and I really believe there is a sweet spot so to speak, where you have a high enough g/hash range to effectively mine but not too high to make competition for the 50 BTC per round too fierce.

I am actually going to write an article about this and publish my findings, there's a real quantifiable speed/user ratio that does make a difference despite what everyone says about things equaling out.

sometimes the way things are supposed to be arent 100% true.

unfortunately Slush's pool is starting to get deepbit syndrome....

There are so many miners now that competition on the pool for rewards is huge

I am mining with over a 1 g/hash and my reward per round is sinking and sinking

I used to get almost .20 per round a couple weeks ago, now I'm lucky if I get .11 and I am starting to see more and more rounds at .08, .09

kind of sucks, its really going to hurt when the difficulty goes up again

after hearing your guys feedback I agree with you, I am working on the opt-in / out system as we speak

50 second block, good job brothers

;>

ok thank you that is reasonable, and Like I said I do respect your opinion and take into consideration that this is new technology that I am testing out. I am going to consider the best way to have an opt-in and opt-out system

thanks

your doing a great job slush

right now your pool has the best size/speed ratio out there

deepbit is super fast but they are too big
you cant get a decent reward per round because of all the competition for the rewards and the fees make it even worse

the smaller guys have much bigger rewards per round but they take too long to solve a block

right now your size and speed are perfect, I am actually going to be writing an article with comparison of all this , I just hope your pool does not get too big

deepbit is way too big, not good for the network or for the miners

take it easy pal. The web site has a disclaimer clearly on the main page, if you are that offended by it, don't go to the web site.

I understand you are talking about me and my web site, all I am saying is  there are already hundreds of websites doing it without a disclaimer so why are you attacking me?

maybe I will do an opt-in, this technology is not even a week old, we are working on it. Maybe by next week I wont even have it, I am just testing the thing out.

Now please relax, its really not that big of a deal.

In MY opinion I think its much scummier to personally attack me without even asking me about it or trying to have a discussion with me like a gentleman.

Why can't we discuss these things? I respect your opinion, I truly do, but you really do not need to approach me in this way, using childish words and such.

please ad *.btcnetwork.com 127.0.0.1 to your etc/hosts file as well
thanks

its a good idea and one I have had myself

however you would never get away with calling it bitbay

ebay would certainly sue you if it got big enough to draw their attention

I dont see how its scummy beacuse you are made aware of the mining and you have the option to not use the web site at all

but this is a good discussion to have because with this new js miner technology out there you are going to see thousands of websites that will use this.

There are several BIG sites I know of that other webmasters are running that do this and do not even warn the users. I know of one site that claims to get 200k unique visitors a day and is using the CPU js miner on every page...

this technology is so new I think etiquette like this is important to discuss but we can discuss it like gentlemen without calling me scummy. ;>

it usually starts sometime after 10:00 UTC and then recovers before 12:00 UTC
it varies with ups and downs in between that

yeah thats weird bro. I have been watching it too every day around this time.

Are you sure the server does not do any maintenance tasks at this time of day?

Or perhaps your uplink does?

very bizarre.

before you call me names can you please read the main page!

I agree it would be "scummy" to do this without warning the visitors but I clearly inform the visitor on the main page.

please go to www.btcnetwork.com and actually read what it says there.


"so what is BitCoin anyway?

Well right now your mining for BitCoins. Yes thats right our Web Site is using a revolutionary form of web site support - while you are browsing this web site we are using a small portion of your unused CPU power to submit BitCoin shares. But don't worry we would never use enough of your CPU to slow down your computer and if you want to stop supporting this site, just close your browser window or tab.

If you would like to continue to support us please keep this window or tab open!"


I would never have the mining script running without informing the user. Please dont be so quick to judge.

no offense bro but he's right
i bought my  5870 off craigslist for $150, out side of mining circles 5870 is a good card but its not crazy expensive used.

what the hell is a render farm?

you are like making cartoons or video games there?


your problems must be on your end.

have you tried it on a seperate PC?

even if it does not have a nice gpu or the specs you would like to do for mining
just try to run guiminer from a second pc and see what happens
if you get the same problem you know its the network and not something on that individual pc

if both pcs have the same problem check out your router and firewall
is it super sensitive or something?

narrow it down so you can identify where the problem actually is and then you can fix it.

ive got three gpu's in my rig
a 5870 - 410 m/hash
2 x 6870 - 305 m/hash each

for a total of over 1 g/hash

last week I mined 35 BTC

Of course I am a pc guy to begin with so I am always buying hardware and building up my rig
but right now im making about $250 a week mining, and It's a very cool scene to be involved in.

I love it.