The headline got me excited there for a moment. I thought it was about a token that shoots laser beams.

I quickly checked Block Erupter eBay listings. It appears that none of the currently active ones are from repeat [Block Erupter] sellers.

Does eBay ban people for listing mining equipment?

In the last downs we learned that even though mining goes down for the majority of clients, there are still some that continue mining (according to the stats page).

The hashing power of those miners still standing is comparatively low, so it is improbable thy will find a block. If they do, the longer the mining is down for everybody else, the larger is the proportion of the reward the still active miners will get.

You can see your personal “Estimated reward” on your “My account” page. You estimated reward goes down the more time it passes since your last submitted share.

Not again. 

ASICMiner did.

For free? A brother hood of miners. LOL

Went up to 40.506 Ghash/s

I wonder who are the 39.780 Ghash/s still standing? VIPs?

I mean, there has to be a new block to include the transactions in.

Interesting. My btc balance at Slush cleared out just now. How can that be with no new blocks solved?

Hoping it is just Slush updating things. Would he give a heads up though?

That’s funny. I have been actually reading Bertrand Meyer at the time, and pushing the F5 on occasion to see how the pool is doing.

Looks like one of the server’s unloaded the pent-up data all it once.

I wonder what would have happened if a block was solved right at that time. I would have gotten an insanely high payout, I think. LOL

The 'last share at' went like this:

15 minutes
9 minutes
5 minutes
0 minutes

All in less than a minute; and the worker’s score is about a million times higher than what it should be.

The minutes and score are jumping up and down.

Wow

Same issue right here. A worker is submitting shares, the shares get accepted, but the web page statistics shows that the worker has not submitted any new shares in 13 minutes now.

No need to even calculate anything, there is "Current shares CDF" right on the stats page. Jump to the pool when that number is high enough for your liking.

Just kidding. LOL

No problem with that. Nice talking to you.

Cool, thank you.

Last question: where is the algorithm for converting a pass phrase to the master seed?

I appreciate your help.