who is BCMonster? And how does AntPool constantly win the empty blocks. Is there nothing the network can do about that? So frustrating to see those empty blocks getting solved.

Okey pokey, I'll have to have a look see why my miners haven't connected back.

I see krisgt30 is back and hashing like a man possessed.

I hope all is well now with the server.

 

Well, that's a few pages of 'interesting' comments

I was just gonna do a quick click though all these pages since 'last night' since I'm working on the next 4 payouts that are overdue, but then decided I better post some more details rather than wait until after I finish processing the payouts.

Yes I've sent out (and all but one person) has received the payouts for blocks 402342 and 402347
We confirmed the 2 payouts

Over the last 2 days I've been doing a lot of work on the share tracking to determine if miners are doing the wrong thing
(intentionally or unintentionally)
This is of course related to the stuff organofcorti mentioned and I posted about his comments here also.
I've found a few miners, 2 are pretty much certain, and the rest very likely, using hardware that doesn't mine properly.
They all started mining in January, their total payouts since then have been less than 1 block.
These are miners that have the same problem as that 'other' pool.
I wonder if they just moved their hardware here, from there?
The pool logs ALL sorts of information that I will go through later to see if there is any correlation between them all
(and any other miners) Then I'll contact them some time after that ...

At this point I'm going to stop all their payouts, so they end up in their 'dust', until they find blocks.
Also, the block finding luck will need to be better than 100%, since they need to cover the pool's loss of their payouts they've received.
i.e. they have about a 2/3 chance of finding a block in time to cover their ... actions.

See, I see it as: if I ask for the BTC back, that they've been paid, I doubt anyone would give it back and blame their choice of hardware on ... well no idea ... but blaming it on the pool is not gonna work for me.
If they run away, then the dust building up in their accounts will eventually be redistributed based on the payout it should have been in, back to everyone else as 'adjustments' later once that is possible.
It's not a lot of BTC, single digits on each account, and total is, as I said, less than a block.

This is also now the next code change I've got to do, a way to simply flag an account to be in this state of no 'auto' payout so I don't have to manually intervene with these accounts during the payout process.

I'll post more details at some later time, but yeah I better get back to these 4 payouts overdue since last night.

pool looks to be down....

I got 450 on it for a few hours, not much but better than nothing.

I just put a 500 TH/s Rental online for 2 days 10 hours.

So I was able to rent around 5-10 Th/s for about 12 hours yesterday.  That upped the amount of shares I produced, which is what is important, right?  Even if I were to rent for 6 hours... it's better than not renting at all because I'm producing more shares during that 6 hour time period and it won't be wasted.  As opposed to renting 6 hours on Slush's Pool where if no block is found in that 6 hour period I wasted the rental.  Do I have that correct?

So can someone help me understand how this works?  I'm looking at "My round reward"... this is how much BTC I would get right now if we found a block... yes?  And the more people that mine with a higher hash rate than me will drive down the amount of BTC I get.  Do I have that right?