Working now

Edit: bestever was at zero, and best share was 30 million

After restart new best share was around 54 million and Bestever was the same.

Now best share is 361 million and Bestever hasn't changed and still shows 54 million

Best ever no longer working after update.

It all started for me back in April of 2014.

The following year my girlfriend and I had broken up for a few months because I had become so obsessed with reading about bitcoin and was being neglectful to her needs.

I had promised her that I wouldn't constantly be on my phone reading all the news related to bitcoin and watching the price fluctuations and on July 16th 2014 I asked her to marry me.

I kept my promises to her for a while. Until April 2015 when my miners that I used for solo mining actually found a block.

It was my first time finding one after over a year of trying and seeing 25 coins in my wallet worth almost $6,000.00 was so exhilarating and I felt like I was on cloud 9

I told my fiance about it and for the first time she was happy i had gotten involved into mining bitcoin.

I made a promise never to touch them until we we ready to retire.

A few days later I purchased 1 bitcoin and rented some hashpower and tried my luck at solo mining again.

Before I had spent even 1/4 of that bitcoin I found another block.

Woo hoo! This is easy I told myself.

Of course I told her about it and again she was very pleased.

This time I promised I would only use five coins to try and solo mine another block.

Well I lost the five.

Then more, then more and more and more until I had lost it all.

I couldn't tell her what I had done, couldn't admit that I had turned into a compulsive gambler and threw it all away.

So what did I decide to do?

I took out a home equity loan and borrowed $30,000.00 so I could purchase about 75 coins at the time.

I just knewI had figured out a system and with that many coins I would be able to get back what I had lost and repay my home equity loan.

So from April 2015 until mid December 2015 I tried every method I could come up with to try and outsmart the system.

At times I would spend an average of 1 bitcoin per day assuming it would take me no longer than 25 days to find a block and if I found one earlier then that then obviously I had come out ahead and I would pick a different address to solo mine to. It had to work, how couldn't it. At other times I would rent enough hashpower that I should have found a block within 12 hours.

Well it was quiet a roller coaster. From April of 2015 until mid December of 2015 I would estimate I found at least ten blocks probably more.

But I never could get back to where i started. I would get to the point where I was about to lose it all then I'd find a block.

Then I'd use that one to try and find more. When I was about to lose it all again, I'd find another one.

This process of losing almost everything and then gaining back a little, rinse wash and repeat continued for 8 months.

It was the most stressful time of my life.

All I could think about was getting back what I had lost so I wouldn't have to tell my fiance what I had done.

She felt neglected because I was always swiping my phone to see my new "best share" and to see how close I was to finding another block and a dark cloud followed me everywhere I went.

My negativity and despair showed on my face and she didn't understand why because I couldn't be honest about what I was doing because I was so ashamed.

Every day she would complain how I was always on my phone and not paying any attention to her, and I wanted so bad to just get back what I had lost and give her the attention she wanted and needed.

Long story short. She left me and I lost it all.

The moral of my story is dont let bitcoin take ahold of you like it did me, relationships are what matter and once you lose them you can't get them back.

She's already moved on and found a man that is giving her the attention she needs and I'm lonely, broken hearted and in more debt than I've ever been in, in my life.

If the network forgets about it then how will the coins return if my wallet says that I spent them. Don't I need to somehow erase the transaction from my bitcoin-qt and then let the network forget about it. And if so how do I delete it from my bitcoin-qt so that it appears it never happened and let the network forget about it?

So something strange happened the other day, all of a sudden it appeared I had many more bitcoins in my wallet than I should have had. Also I believe I was under the malleability attack because every time I sent coins it appeared twice on my wallet although only one would confirm.

Trying to see if I really had the coins it said I had I sent them to myself.

That didn't confirm either.

Then I tried spending what I new I should have in the wallet for sure. And of course it didn't confirm either with a fee of .0001

Question, if I sent coins I actually had combined with coins I didn't have to myself, then tried to send coins I actually had but now they were from a transaction that will never clear becasue they were mixed with coins that didn't exist... Arghh

How can i erase all the ones that haven't confirmed and get my actual coins back?

With the tremendous expected increase in difficulty coming up is it a waste of money to rent hashpower now? Would it be better to wait until the difficulty rises and you get more hashpower for your money or does it matter?

Just got a message a few minutes ago on bitcoin-qt, v0.8.6-beta "warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required"

Currently mining here on this pool, if I find a block now will I not receive it? Wondering if I need to cancel my rentals until I upgrade the client.

Thanks

Ahh, now I see, I was mining without being a registered user.

Now I can see it.

Thanks

For some reason I can't seem to find it on that page.

No problem, was hoping there was a way to tell but no worries.

Thanks for answering so quickly

Thanks for the reply.

I guess what I meant by which address found it, was which user/btc address submitted the winning share.

I'm new to this pool, but the way I understand it is that after a block is found and has matured after 101 confirmations then payments are made for that block.

So my question is how did he already received a payment for the last block?

Am I missing something?

Also, is there any way to find out which address found the block?

Thanks

Just noticed I've been mining with port 3334 for a few days now.

Solo.ckpook.org:3334

It looked like it was mining though. Was I wasting my time?

Thanks for the update.

.

That's good. Its still down for me.

I wonder if the stress test that was performed on the network had anything to do with the pool crashing?

You guys are on a roll! Damn!! Congrats!

Congratulations to the solo club for their first block!

Amazing luck... Should have taken around seven years to get a share that high after the one you had yesterday. Err unless my math is wrong, at any rate Congratulations!

Congratulations to the latest block finder and good luck to the pool club.