Interesting, thanks for the tip. This is why i ask questions. Do you know why P2pool doesnt work well with avalons?
P2Pool mines against your local Bitcoind and that doesn't supply work to an Avalon fast enough. My local Bitcoin-QT client doesn't even supply work to a Block Erupter fast enough. You need faster disks. I'm running 61 USB block erupters (equivalent chips to 2 BE blades) on p2pool with getblocktemplate latencies below 0.1 seconds and an overall efficiency of 111% (I earn 11% more because my node is faster than other nodes). How fast of a disk do I need? I have a 1TB SATA drive. I think you put your finger on it for me though, your using GBT and I'm using getwork to my client so that probably makes a huge difference. Sam So you're not using p2pool, yet running around making claims it won't work?  The guide I linked above recommends SSD drives. Personally, I'm using a RAID 10 array of 7200 RPM disks. The size of the disk doesn't have much to do with it's speed. What matters for this application is the RPMs since you need very fast seek times (which is why SSDs work well, they never have seek delays). |
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Right, if it takes 1 terrahash to find the right nonce, as far as the bitcoin network is concerned, 1 terrahash - 1 hash of that work can be thrown away. However, the pools track a lower difficulty "share" and use those shares to calculate a payout when a pool member finds a block.
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What about Eligius? Claims to be 0% fee and with 'shelved' shares approached zero fee PPS.
I hear people dont like PPS no more. You need faster disks.
What are disks? Hard drives. To run a p2pool node (or any bitcoind based mining setup), you need either a SSD drive or a RAID array if you want to stick with spinning disks. Check out this guide if you are interested in a positive p2pool experience: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232.0 |
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I notice they don't mention that the withdrawal freeze is over and has been for 7 days before they published the article. |
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Interesting, thanks for the tip. This is why i ask questions. Do you know why P2pool doesnt work well with avalons?
P2Pool mines against your local Bitcoind and that doesn't supply work to an Avalon fast enough. My local Bitcoin-QT client doesn't even supply work to a Block Erupter fast enough. You need faster disks. I'm running 61 USB block erupters (equivalent chips to 2 BE blades) on p2pool with getblocktemplate latencies below 0.1 seconds and an overall efficiency of 111% (I earn 11% more because my node is faster than other nodes). |
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We see a very high dead cat bounce right now. Its just a question of time to drop off. BTW you can win my avalon for only 1 BTC  (raffle)! I really doubt you'll find 250 people who are willing to gamble that much.... but this is bitcoin. Honestly, I'm surprised you have 9 already. |
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Just renaming things doesn't change the executable, AFAIK, in a release build. So I would globally, with a careful global search and replace, acknowledging each replacement, names that are obviously too terse, obscure or no longer even representative of what they are, with more meaningful names.
Is there software tools for verifying equivalence ? I propose that style of renaming, rearranging, etc. that leaves the executable, byte for byte identical. That would do it. However, presumably, object code would have variable names. Is the linker deterministic, I wonder. Hash maps could end up in a different state if different keys are used (assuming the compiler sometimes iterates). You can easily strip debugging symbols and just leave offsets/pointers. The linker should be deterministic as long as you don't update any libraries in between. It really depends on your compiler and language. I know there are C compilers that will produce identical binaries regardless of var name, but I'm less sure about C++. |
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Interesting, thanks for the tip. This is why i ask questions. Do you know why P2pool doesnt work well with avalons?
It is the short share time combined with the high latency of that particular hardware. The new version will extend the share time from 10 to 30 seconds, which should make Avalons (and other ASICs) perform decently. But before the change can happen, we need to have 95% of the hashing power on the new codebase. At that point, the share chain will hardfork and p2pool will be ASIC heaven. Could be today, could be 2 weeks. It all depends on people upgrading or new users joining up with the latest version. |
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Oh, and my parents are fools when it comes to money.
Did they buy Bitcoin?  They don't get it, and they've been burnt too many times in the "real" economy to trust anything with a hint of risk. |
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Yes. I was 13 in 1999. I had earned and saved $1000 and my parents took me to their stock broker. She had me put half in CSCO and half in ORCL. What a fucking waste of money. Oh well, it was a good lesson to learn at that age. Fuck brokers, they try to sell their firm's bad positions off to you. Oh, and my parents are fools when it comes to money. |
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western civilization is also a bubble.
How can I short it? 1. Borrow Europeans and North Americans. 2. Sell them. |
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Doesn't look so bad from higher up:  |
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Sorry, I should have mentioned USB variation.
Asicminer block errupter USB.
2.5 W You would still need a panel larger than the USB, but a smallish panel could power it. Roughly 1/10 of a roof panel. |
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ASICMINER BE, has enough area, if covered with solar panel, to power itself? Just curious..  No. It uses 10A@12V or 120W, which would require full sun on half of an entire standard roof panel. |
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Such an epic bull trap.  uhhh.... you mean bear trap? I dont think you know what a trap means. He thinks it's still a bear market and this rally is a trap. |
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A bit of a Medusa at the moment, but I'll clean it up later:  61 AM USB hashing away at roughly 23 GH/s |
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Yes, there was 12k volume in the last 30 minutes, but it was in no way a 12k "dump". Most of the volume occurred on the upswing. Just because the candle temporarily falls below the open doesn't mean the entire candle's volume was a dump. |
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They really should look into p2pool. |
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Indeed... it had 175 BTC total output. As in all of the transactions in the block. |
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Daily Goomboos: Prepare your fiat!
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