Thanks, sjc!!!

I will be ordering one as soon as I have enough BTC earned from my current S3's in operation.  I'm more than half way there. 

I started with 10 S3's.  Now that I have 16 S3's going, I should achieve the BTC needed to purchase the S4 sooner.

I'm satisfied with their solution to ship out new S4's with the updated PSU's.  They are also including 10 days worth of BTC mined by 2 TH's of hashing power.  However, what that amount is, I'm not sure.

I believe they will have the updated firmware in the controller installed as well.  If not, it's no big deal.  Even Slush now will allow "difficulty setting." I'm at 2.06 BTC earned since the 22nd of September.  Those earnings are with several interruptions with my internet connection. 

I NOW have a business account with a static IP that also ensures I'm up and running within 4 hours of an outage.  They installed a business modem two days ago (Monday).  Charter Communications slowest speed the offered was 30 Mbps.  Now it is 60 Mbps.  They were not quite done with the upgrades in all areas [My area being one of them] before implementation.  The outages I've had [off and on] over a 10 day period caused me to miss out on approximately 0.21 BTC ($80.00 US at this date and time of writing). 

Also, my serving pedestal is a 4 Port 11 Value.  The Forward signal (down stream) and Return signal (up stream)  are coming out of the pedestal at too hot of a level.  They have not adjusted the levels down to acceptable levels.  I've had to "pad it down" with a splitter that inserts -7dB of loss to ensure a "stable" connection.  I'm fine with this.  If something should happen in the outside plant to reduce the levels arriving at the serving pedestal, I will simply remove my splitter in front of the modem.

Thanks again for the info.  I'm still going to purchase an S4 the very moment I have enough BTC in my wallet to get one.  I will get it working as soon as it arrives to make it possible to get another S4 even faster than the previous one.  So on and so forth.  I'm paying for the electricity out of my own pocket without converting BTC to US until I have approximately all 8 S4's I'm wanting.  Then I will begin converting the BTC needed to pay for electricity.

Thanks again for your update, sjc!!!

The Dark Side has switched to 10 MINUTE BLOCKS now that we are down to 55 Ph/s total hashing power, which see:

90727   2014-10-15 07:12:56   10 minutes   55.76 Ph/s   7.44 Th/s   35002482026   1001200   0.013%   0 (0.00%)   7500000642
90726   2014-10-15 07:03:19   10 minutes   55.25 Ph/s   7.59 Th/s   35002482026   1030800   0.014%   1400 (0.14%)   7500000161
90725   2014-10-15 06:53:35   10 minutes   55.69 Ph/s   7.50 Th/s   35002482026   1010440   0.013%   480 (0.05%)   7500000229
90724   2014-10-15 06:43:57   10 minutes   55.31 Ph/s   7.40 Th/s   35002482026   1003040   0.013%   440 (0.04%)   7500013023
90723   2014-10-15 06:34:15   10 minutes   55.67 Ph/s   7.54 Th/s   35002482026   1015880   0.014%   0 (0.00%)   7500000380
90722   2014-10-15 06:24:36   10 minutes   55.42 Ph/s   7.56 Th/s   35002482026   1023520   0.014%   0 (0.00%)   7500000905
90721   2014-10-15 06:14:55   10 minutes   54.87 Ph/s   7.33 Th/s   35002482026   1002040   0.013%   0 (0.00%)   7500511759
90720   2014-10-15 06:05:08   10 minutes   53.64 Ph/s   7.25 Th/s   35002482026   1013880   0.014%   960 (0.09%)   7500000019
90719   2014-10-15 05:55:07   10 minutes   55.25 Ph/s   7.30 Th/s   35002482026    991160    0.013%   0 (0.00%)   7500000908
90718   2014-10-15 05:45:24   10 minutes   55.23 Ph/s   7.60 Th/s   35002482026   1032360   0.014%   1880 (0.18%)   7500001174

Understandable!

We hit 42 blocks on The Dark Side yesterday (10/14/2014).  At x .00319281 average payout = 0.13409802 BTC for 10/14/2014.  I have not had all 16 of my S3's on Slush yet to get an idea of the average payout at a given number of hashing power; such as 8 Ph/s.  However, I do know The payouts are nice on Slush WHEN it is running lucky.

My first day at mining was on Slush (September 22, 2014).  We hit 13 blocks that day, which was GREAT!  I had an average payout of .0174 BTC on each block.  That totaled up to .2262 BTC.  THAT was a great day!  We had a decent day on October 6, 2014 as well.  However, it's been rough the last 2 days.

I did the math and found I needed to hit 34.5 blocks  in one day at the Dark Side to have 100@ luck and 4.5 blocks in one day on Slush to equal 100% luck.  At 42 blocks, the Dark Side had a lucky day.  I'm sure "luck" changes back and forth between pools.  I just needed some consistency to get a little over 3.0 BTC to get a new Bitmain Antminer S4.  I was getting rather anxious for an S4.  So, I switched over to the Dark Side to get there as soon as possible.

Well, we had a WALL at $400.00 that has finally been chewed into.  NOW, the wall is around $425.00.  Not a big wall, but a wall none the less.  It will take about two days to chew down that wall.  Just a matter of time before we get to $510.00 by Thanksgiving.  Just a matter of time.

The "Green" side is like a wave.  Ride the wave, Dude's!  Ride the wave!  If you don't get on now, you're gonna miss it!  If you are "buying" BTC, that is!  Not sure if any of you are buying on any exchange to accumulate more coin.  That's what time it is!  It's all up hill from here on out; at least to $650.00.  I can see us hitting $650.00 between January and February.

Yes, we will have a few days along the way to $650.00 where it will go back a little, but nothing too serious.  It's all up hill for the most part from here on out.

David

Well, my "1 Day" average has come very close to even with my "5m," "15m" and "1 hr." averages.  May payouts have come close to max I'm gonna get now.  I have noticed the total pool hash rate has gone down from 62 Ph/s to around 55 to 57 Ph/s lately.  I don't know why?  The number of solved blocks has slowed down a bit as well because of it.

5m:    7.21 Th/s
15m:  7.26 Th/s
1h:     7.34 Th/s
1d:     7.17 Th/s

19599   2014-10-15 05:13:57   325389   25.0590   8/120   26 minutes   55.48 Ph/s   9882680/75000008223   0.01%   20007236544   0.00330200
19598   2014-10-15 04:48:09   325386   25.1419   11/120   an hour   56.01 Ph/s   9881160/75000011428   0.01%   38121412677   0.00331241
19597   2014-10-15 03:59:25   325381   25.0363   16/120   an hour   55.50 Ph/s   9897080/75000043316   0.01%   64850907973   0.00330381
19596   2014-10-15 02:35:46   325371   25.0242   26/120   26 minutes   57.18 Ph/s   9691800/75000006178   0.01%   20916728009   0.00323372
19595   2014-10-15 02:09:36   325368   25.0168   29/120   34 minutes   57.32 Ph/s   9601400/75000264336   0.01%   27387503755   0.00320260
19594   2014-10-15 01:35:24   325362   25.0504   35/120   an hour   57.74 Ph/s   9613920/75000263225   0.01%   63716928858   0.00321108
19593   2014-10-15 00:16:24   325352   25.3525   45/120   an hour   58.43 Ph/s   9504480/75000005501   0.01%   40577926052   0.00321282
19592   2014-10-14 23:26:41   325351   25.0719   46/120   25 minutes   57.92 Ph/s   9433280/75000021231   0.01%   20525203248   0.00315347
19591   2014-10-14 23:01:19   325349   25.2394   48/120   13 minutes   58.28 Ph/s   9532560/75000024802   0.01%   10462744315   0.00320794
19590   2014-10-14 22:48:28   325348   25.1942   49/120   42 minutes   58.59 Ph/s   9559920/75000023986   0.01%   34282482547   0.00321139
19589   2014-10-14 22:06:35   325347   25.1091   50/120   13 minutes   57.74 Ph/s   9476560/75000009874   0.01%   10526200496   0.00317264
19588   2014-10-14 21:53:32   325345   25.1527   52/120   15 minutes   58.25 Ph/s   9501480/75000007054   0.01%   11798511520   0.00318650
19587   2014-10-14 21:39:02   325344   25.0135   53/120   5 minutes   57.42 Ph/s   9494160/75000007800   0.01%   4104269501   0.00316643
19586   2014-10-14 21:33:55   325342   25.1163   55/120   an hour   58.17 Ph/s   9456920/75000004291   0.01%   36773717683   0.00316697
19585   2014-10-14 20:48:40   325334   25.1554   63/120   21 minutes   59.08 Ph/s   9278080/75000005295   0.01%   17511352630   0.00311191
19584   2014-10-14 20:27:27   325333   25.0179   64/120   2 minutes   56.02 Ph/s   9158520/75000006275   0.01%   1212989575   0.00305502
19583   2014-10-14 20:25:54   325332   25.0076   65/120   a few seconds   49.10 Ph/s   9158520/75000006275   0.01%   228656795   0.00305377
19582   2014-10-14 20:25:34   325331   25.1247   66/120   2 hours   59.35 Ph/s   9158520/75000006275   0.01%   77964936677   0.00306806

Agreed!

Something is fishy and I don't like it!!!

That's why I've been on the Dark Side the last 36 hours.

I'm unsure about getting on someone else's node in P2Pool.  I don't know if I can trust their performance or not.

Also, do you prefer P2Pool over Slush and/or is P2Pool considered the same league as BTC and Dark Side?

So, you like BTC Guild more than Dark Side and/or have you tried the dark side for at least 2 days to determine if you like its payouts or not compared to BTC Guild?

Thanks for the link comparison.

That's the way I was looking at it.

The main reason i brought this up is because I made some comparisons between pools with "earnings" numbers that were not accurate.  The Dark Side ends up being a little more profitable than I previously anticipated after one allows for their "1 Day" hash rate total to peek to the same average as the 15 minute total.

You are VERY welcome!

36 Blocks at the Dark Side, now, and still have 3 hours 23 minutes to go!

EDIT:

Apparently, one's number of shares (profits) increase the longer you stay on the pool until your "1 Day" hash rate has peaked out!  I can tell my shares increase as my "1 Day Hash rate" increases.  This is with the Pools TOTAL hash rate remaining approximately the same.  See below:

Earlier in the day with a lower "1 Day" total hash rate:

19565   2014-10-14 10:12:44   325269   25.0187   81/120   2 minutes   58.67 Ph/s   9088400/75000013988   0.01%   1502519970   0.00303173
19564   2014-10-14 10:10:54   325268   25.1600   82/120   an hour   60.51 Ph/s   9088400/75000013988   0.01%   73513221895   0.00304884
19563   2014-10-14 08:43:56   325262   25.1185   88/120   31 minutes   58.43 Ph/s   9216480/75000280180   0.01%   25414106259   0.00308670
19562   2014-10-14 08:12:48   325260   25.0471   90/120   7 minutes   56.64 Ph/s   9180280/75000253595   0.01%   5815434138   0.00306584
19561   2014-10-14 08:05:27   325259   25.1094   91/120   2 hours   59.89 Ph/s   9092560/75000253218   0.01%   81055867614   0.00304411


Later in the day as my "1 Day" hash rate total increased:


19591   2014-10-14 23:01:19   325349   25.2394   1/120   13 minutes   58.28 Ph/s   9532560/75000024802   0.01%   10462744315   0.00320794
19590   2014-10-14 22:48:28   325348   25.1942   2/120   42 minutes   58.59 Ph/s   9559920/75000023986   0.01%   34282482547   0.00321139
19589   2014-10-14 22:06:35   325347   25.1091   3/120   13 minutes   57.74 Ph/s   9476560/75000009874   0.01%   10526200496   0.00317264
19588   2014-10-14 21:53:32   325345   25.1527   5/120   15 minutes   58.25 Ph/s   9501480/75000007054   0.01%   11798511520   0.00318650
19587   2014-10-14 21:39:02   325344   25.0135   6/120   5 minutes   57.42 Ph/s   9494160/75000007800   0.01%   4104269501   0.00316643
19586   2014-10-14 21:33:55   325342   25.1163   8/120   an hour   58.17 Ph/s   9456920/75000004291   0.01%   36773717683   0.00316697
19585   2014-10-14 20:48:40   325334   25.1554   16/120   21 minutes   59.08 Ph/s   9278080/75000005295   0.01%   17511352630   0.00311191
19584   2014-10-14 20:27:27   325333   25.0179   17/120   2 minutes   56.02 Ph/s   9158520/75000006275   0.01%   1212989575   0.00305502

Hash Rate:


90682   2014-10-15 00:03:14   9 minutes   58.36 Ph/s   7.55 Th/s   35002482026   970600   0.013%   0 (0%)   7500000280
90681   2014-10-14 23:54:02   9 minutes   58.67 Ph/s   7.43 Th/s   35002482026   949120   0.013%   0 (0%)   7500000879
90680   2014-10-14 23:44:53   9 minutes   58.36 Ph/s   7.45 Th/s   35002482026   957680   0.013%   0 (0%)   7500001021
90679   2014-10-14 23:35:41   9 minutes   58.25 Ph/s   7.48 Th/s   35002482026   963160   0.013%   960 (0.10%)   7500000018
90678   2014-10-14 23:26:28   9 minutes   58.25 Ph/s   7.24 Th/s   35002482026   931560   0.012%   2840 (0.30%)   7500000510
90677   2014-10-14 23:17:15   9 minutes   58.04 Ph/s   7.32 Th/s   35002482026   945960   0.013%   0 (0%)   7500000144
90676   2014-10-14 23:08:00   9 minutes   57.83 Ph/s   7.08 Th/s   35002482026   917760   0.012%   2880 (0.31%)   7500000202
90675   2014-10-14 22:58:43   9 minutes   58.67 Ph/s   7.60 Th/s   35002482026   971360   0.013%   0 (0%)   7500000780
90674   2014-10-14 22:49:34   9 minutes   57.72 Ph/s   7.31 Th/s   35002482026   949320   0.013%   1440 (0.15%)   7500001184
90673   2014-10-14 22:40:16   9 minutes   58.02 Ph/s   7.67 Th/s   35002482026   991840   0.013%   480 (0.05%)   7500011488

LOL


You make a great point!

I guess I may come to the DARK SIDE!

We are already at 35 blocks [Only needed 34.5 to be 100% Luck for the day and have the same pay out as Slush]!

Yes, Slush does have better payouts.  However, The Dark Side is more consistent!

If anyone was to mine Slush and the Dark Side, it would be more expedient to do 80% Dark Side and 20% Slush; so as not to have all your eggs in one basket.

It's a free world.  It's also a "business decision."  Just happened to make a good decision for the last couple of days.

LOL

I'm telling you, majority of my time is with Slush.  Seriously.  The last couple of days pissed me off.  Had me paranoid.  So, I switched for a bit before coming back.  I'm not a hopper!

You can call me a "Jumper," that's fine.  At least I made a good luck decision.

Yes, you are right about your shares being higher WHEN a block is found.

I didn't want to post all of them on here.  This was just to show you the pay outs for 10/14/2014 thus far today.  I did not post all of them to save space, but it's enough for you to get the drift.  I've been getting these payouts since noon yesterday.  Yesterday they found 41 blocks.  Today, they have already found at least 30.  That is close to the 34.5 needed to be equivalent to Slush's payout if we found 4.5 blocks.

I'm just staying here till midnight Evil Empire's time then switching back over to Slush to start a new day.  IF I miss out on a lot of blocks found at Slush, so be it.

THIS IS WITH 7.2 Th/s


19584   2014-10-14 20:27:27   325333   25.0179   1/120   2 minutes   56.02 Ph/s   9158520/75000006275   0.01%   1212989575   0.00305502
19583   2014-10-14 20:25:54   325332   25.0076   2/120   a few seconds   49.10 Ph/s   9158520/75000006275   0.01%   228656795   0.00305377
19582   2014-10-14 20:25:34   325331   25.1247   3/120   2 hours   59.35 Ph/s   9158520/75000006275   0.01%   77964936677   0.00306806
19581   2014-10-14 18:51:31   325323   25.2007   11/120   an hour   61.26 Ph/s   8950440/75000113215   0.01%   70178574251   0.00300742
19580   2014-10-14 17:29:32   325317   25.0386   17/120   2 minutes   62.16 Ph/s   8835440/75000121364   0.01%   1736619921   0.00294969
19579   2014-10-14 17:27:32   325316   25.0370   18/120   2 minutes   60.11 Ph/s   8835440/75000121364   0.01%   1651529125   0.00294950
19578   2014-10-14 17:25:34   325315   25.0097   19/120   a minute   56.87 Ph/s   8835440/75000121364   0.01%   675297105   0.00294628
19577   2014-10-14 17:24:43   325314   25.1730   20/120   an hour   61.46 Ph/s   8835440/75000121364   0.01%   49385974447   0.00296552
19576   2014-10-14 16:27:12   325308   25.1063   26/120   10 minutes   61.73 Ph/s   8883840/75000007376   0.01%   8622925930   0.00297387
19575   2014-10-14 16:17:11   325307   25.2349   27/120   an hour   61.36 Ph/s   8896480/75000005407   0.01%   42055942069   0.00299335
19574   2014-10-14 15:28:07   325301   25.1558   33/120   an hour   60.91 Ph/s   8819600/75000013412   0.01%   51933959067   0.00295819
19573   2014-10-14 14:27:06   325294   25.0695   40/120   37 minutes   62.03 Ph/s   8984800/75000075156   0.01%   32121815218   0.00300325
19572   2014-10-14 13:50:02   325292   25.0354   42/120   29 minutes   61.08 Ph/s   9082760/75000019905   0.01%   24404305938   0.00303186
19571   2014-10-14 13:21:25   325287   25.0500   47/120   4 minutes   60.22 Ph/s   9095720/75000018541   0.01%   3112473374   0.00303796
19570   2014-10-14 13:17:44   325286   25.0971   48/120   an hour   60.60 Ph/s   9119520/75000017877   0.01%   50387024044   0.00305164
19569   2014-10-14 12:18:13   325282   25.0152   52/120   an hour   60.60 Ph/s   9027760/75000021436   0.01%   50692138160   0.00301107
19568   2014-10-14 11:18:21   325275   25.1403   59/120   13 minutes   60.26 Ph/s   8971680/75000034644   0.01%   10648678498   0.00300733
19567   2014-10-14 11:05:42   325274   25.1537   60/120   19 minutes   61.06 Ph/s   9015120/75000023242   0.01%   16278096885   0.00302351
19566   2014-10-14 10:46:37   325273   25.1017   61/120   34 minutes   60.69 Ph/s   9032600/75000022784   0.01%   28728673508   0.00302310
19565   2014-10-14 10:12:44   325269   25.0187   65/120   2 minutes   58.67 Ph/s   9088400/75000013988   0.01%   1502519970   0.00303173
19564   2014-10-14 10:10:54   325268   25.1600   66/120   an hour   60.51 Ph/s   9088400/75000013988   0.01%   73513221895   0.00304884
19563   2014-10-14 08:43:56   325262   25.1185   72/120   31 minutes   58.43 Ph/s   9216480/75000280180   0.01%   25414106259   0.00308670
19562   2014-10-14 08:12:48   325260   25.0471   74/120   7 minutes   56.64 Ph/s   9180280/75000253595   0.01%   5815434138   0.00306584
19561   2014-10-14 08:05:27   325259   25.1094   75/120   2 hours   59.89 Ph/s   9092560/75000253218   0.01%   81055867614   0.00304411

I suppose I only made a good LUCK decision to move over to the Evil Empire yesterday.  Found 41 Blocks.  They need to find 34.5 blocks to equal the 4.5 blocks in each day for my payouts to be the same.  Since it was 6.5 blocks more than the 34.5, its as if I was on Slush and found 5 blocks [Close to it], as far as the payout goes.

Again, I suppose I made a good LUCK decision.  I'm staying at the Evil Empire till midnight THEIR time before switching back to 80% Slush and 20% Evil Empire.

May be...

Let's just say until this luck thing works out.

I'm still not coming over till I know things are worked out.

I got to thinking about this website change and other changes they are doing at Slush.  I was NOT willing to risk my electricity consumption on a "what if." I decided to go to another pool yesterday at noon till they get things worked out.  I'm seriously wondering if it's something they are doing on the backend or SOMETHING that is affecting this.  It could be just bad luck.  Not sure.

Since I'm "not sure" I'm staying away till changes are implemented with no more interruptions.  It ended up being a good decision to move yesterday.  Just lucky I presume.  Who knows?

I will come back to 80% Slush and 20% others after Slush gets things ironed out.  I still believe it's something they are doing on the backend.  Could be bad luck.  According to the odds of a block at our hashing power and present difficulty, we should find a block every 5 hours and 43 minutes [Approximately].  So, either something went wrong on the backend or we are having TERRIBLE bad luck.

Thanks for the props!  The following is a great article that answers your question in relation to gold.

https://cdn.panteracapital.com/wp-content/uploads/Bitcoin-vs-Gold.pdf

 The annual cost of mining gold is $105 billion vs. $0.79 billion for Bitcoin.
 Gold mining uses 475 million gigajoules of energy versus 3.6 million for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Difficulty:   35,002,482,026
Estimated Next Difficulty:   36,215,327,001 (+3.47%)
Adjust time:   After 1340 Blocks, About 9.2 days
Hashrate(?):   254,263,859 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 9.9 minutes
3 blocks: 29.8 minutes
6 blocks: 59.5 minutes
Updated:   1:44 (25.9 minutes ago)

BTC at $411.43 at the moment...

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet    

I can see $510.00 by Thanksgiving.  Certainly can!!!