If you like playing the market, follow Phil and buy a little coin, set it aside until the price climbs back up, and sell it off.  Otherwise, unless you run your miners on a tight budget that is dependent on btc market value, nothing to do but keep on mining.  Enough of these hacks have happened that the market reaction can be predicted, generally, and I expect it will bounce back shortly.

Wow, nice job, congrats to the BCMonster crew!  Glad to see the little guys pulling in a block, especially on someone's native hardware, even cooler. 

If you can arrange something with the weather so that it stops being 105*F every day, I'll happily point my 5TH back here. 

Wow, you mined for a whole week?  Well that clearly shows your understanding of how to determine profitability and identify a proper time frame within witch to evaluate pool performance.  

Did you even read this thread?

Looks like a little upturn in network hash power, possible some of this drop really was old gear coming off line and we'll see a bit of the new gear start to come back in and take its place.  Although it would be nice to see a few periods of negative adjustment while maintaining a strong btc price.

By "custom" he meant the antpoo fork of cgminer, which is notorious for incorrectly reporting the best share, among other things.

In your command line or batch file that you use to launch cgminer you need to put your own btc address (or user name) in for the user, and your password if the pool requires one.  If you post up your batch file we can show you exactly what needs to change.

Then that's a perfect time for them to do a little reading and *gasp* maybe actually learn something new!  God forbid people actually try to learn and become bigger people and figure out what they are spending their time doing.

When I was in high school I scooped ice cream and I used to take the big foam panels that the cones came in and staple them to the wall of the sound room my friend and I built to play music in.  If you want to deaden the sound then you need to cover every square inch of the walls, maybe ceiling too.  But if you are just playing with room acoustics then a few well placed sound absorbers can work wonders.

Why give (false?) impressions and try to lure people with bells and whistles?  You even admitted, once you learned you moved to kano, so will the other newbies.  I don't think he cares to attract people (or waste his coding time) with fluff and no substance when that effort could be put into making the pool actually run better, not just look different.

Please revise your guess into the proper format for Phil's ease of use.


Wow look at that diff drop!  Go go go go down down down, just don't let the price follow please.

Mikestang = -7.7

No, it would be a terrible idea to put your miners in a box.  But if you were to put them in a proper rack enclosure with the right ventilation then they should run at a good temp. and noise may be reduced depending on how it is vented and cooled.

44M is a very respectable share for the R1, nice one.  So far this run my R1 is beating my gekko stick for best share, funny how that can work some times.

Wow, I was out of town away from a computer all weekend and look at that drop off!  Definitely gear being shut off around the globe.  Whether it's temporary because of summer heat and electricity bills, or a sign of things to come I'm not complaining.  Let's go big!  Big negative. 

Do we know how these sites calculate (estimate would be a more accurate word) network hash rate?  If we know their method we might be able to figure out why.

Been solo mining at this pool for over a year, label me however it makes you happy.

So much hate, and totally off topic.

You are correct, I misplaced that label (need to work on my reading comprehension, as you noted) and you have my apology.

If you feel it's necessary, please do, I try not to fan the flames.

My only experience is with NiceHash and I've always been happy with the service they provide.  Although renting hash is basically gambling and I've never had any luck gambling, so I don't rent often.

There's bugs in the bitmain fork of cgminer that causes many of their miners to not display a best share in the gui, but I couldn't explain why a best share would be reported on one pool but not another unless it's something germane to the pool code.

So it has me wondering, were the "spikes" we were seeing on the bitcoinwisdom graphs for all these adjustments fake spikes?  Did the number of solved blocks during those spikes correspond with the rise and fall of network hash rate?  I honestly didn't pay that close of attention, but now it brings to question many months of data tracking.

You guys are silly, y'all sure read a lot into my post.  Thanks for all the love, I had no idea I had so many followers.

Stalker much?  Work on your reading comprehension.

I'm definitely not a "veteran", but I've been mining for over a year so I guess I'm not a newbie either.  Personally, I've kept every satoshi I have mined, which isn't that much because I only have a few pieces of gear.  I've spent more in electricity than I got back in coin, but I do this for a fun hobby, and for the good of the network (I run a full node and only mine places that do not spv mine or produce empty blocks).  I've used btc to purchase things, but I always just buy that coin outright, then use it for the purchase.  I am hoping that btc will be worth significantly more than it is today (I've see coin around $130/coin, and at over $600 now we're going the right direction), and so all I've wanted it to have some coin in a wallet that someday might be worth more than I put into making it.