This is from the bitbar thread: Ok - simply put, a fork in the blockchain (the long ledger of transactions) can happen when two mining pools (as an example) find a bock at the same time.
Each block in the chain is made up of part of the previous block plus the batch of transactions.
for instance, the current block being 'mined' is #13550. this current block or records has three transactions in it. Let's say pool A and Pool B both find it to be a bonus block at the same time:
Pool 'A' takes some information from that block (#13550) and adds the new transaction it just made - for finding a bonus block - smashes it together to make a new block - we will call that block #13551
At the same time, Pool 'B' does the same thing - some stuff from block #13550 plus the transaction it just made for the block it found - smashes it together and puts it out as block #13551
these new blocks have to be verified (confirmed) several times. That's what the miners do, the crunch the numbers, make sure it all adds up - plus record checking stuff - then passes it along.
So far, pool A being on the west coast doesn't know about transaction from pool B (maybe it's on the east coast?) and we now have two chains.
more in the next post
need 120 confirmation pool is down last submitted share was 5:52an |
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part 2 from the bitbar thread: This happens from time to time, but generally it gets fixed down the line in a block or two. the blocks in the chain get passed around like a 'hot - new mp3 of your favorite group" and eventually get handed to a mining rig to work on.
This is where I am still a little fuzzy on how the mining rigs find out about both transactions - but they do, and in most cases, the early bird get the worm, so to speak, and the looser becomes an orphan - if you have done any mining - you have undoubtedly ran into these.
On rare occasions, pool A sticks with it's fork, and pool B sticks with it's fork, and they just keep going until a transfer fails and all heck breaks loose.
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The is another instance in which a blockchain becomes forked, and that's referred to as a 51% attack (although I don't think it always happens on purpose)
if pool A has 49% of the total hashing power, and pool B has 51%, pool B will, on average find more blocks - hence create more blocks, and pool A will simply fall behind.
I'm sure there are other circumstances that can cause a fork in the road, but once you have a punctured tire - who cares about the cause at the moment ? that's for the dev team to work on so it doesn't happen again Wink
now it's time for questions and corrections, feel free to add both!
thanks for the info |
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Now Diff up to: 8-32784 Happy mining
how many confirms before litebar gets listed as confirmed on your pool. some blocks are 6hrs old and still not confirmed? |
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now that I have some coins I through 50k dots on the vote. its not much but its what I mined while I couldn't mine litebar
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so I don't understand how forks happen or what causes them can someone inform me. or a link to a good read on it.
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Now Diff up to: 8-32784 Happy mining
thanks awesome the pool is working great thanks again |
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thank you a working pool now I can get some litebars. the pool is working fast but it seems to adjust to diff slow its taking my titan forever to spool up |
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Good job guys!  Its Biil not Bill lol Hopefully the next add will be the real add! Fake account.Orginal is @bittrex-bill (Bill Shihara) FAKE ACCOUNT is @bittrex-biil (bill kill) aka looposhi@gmail.comVOTING STARTING TONIGHT BUT NOT STARTED YETthey are voting again why? and when? |
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Good job guys! that was you. not bittrex |
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who has a hosting account that is willing to host a banner for des that we can share for advertising.
I can help you for this, got multiple hosting accounts with Godaddy and Bigrock. hello I have sent you a pm and am waiting your response. |
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I do not know witch wallets are bittrex and yobit. but I would think that if I have 10k sitting on yobit or bittrex it would show in there wallet.
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What shit is that. How can I see last blocks. How can I search with block number or wallet address. Is that rich list correct, the 10th richest person is only having 25.34 DES? yes rich list is correct most big wallets are on yobit and bittrex. |
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ya there was a mineblocks pool but no matter what coin I mine there they get massive accepts then after 5 min they get rejected. man I sound like a noobie. I don't have problems with other scrypt pools
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maybe my luck was so bad that at 45-50mhs i still didn't hit a block in 48hrs. who knows
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can someone post a copy of there working solo conf I don't know what I am doing wrong. this is not my first time solo mining a coin but I am having some trouble this time.
here is mine: addnode=mineblocks.no-ip.org:9065 addnode=65.102.140.115 rpcuser=user rpcpassword=pass rpcallowip=192.168.1.2 rpcport=9051 daemon=1 server=1 gen=0 but also, I am using CGminer. I never had success using BFGMiner for solo. Either way, you need the "rpcallowip=" in the .conf so the wallet will allow your miner to connect to it. If the wallet is on a different computer than the miner, then the ip you input into CGminer/BFGminer needs to be that computers ip address. ok I have tried cgminer with no luck cgminer does not even see the wallet. I have the ip right its on the same rig. what is the name of your conf file litebar.conf right. it seems that the wallet is not going in to server mode or something yes litebar.conf If the software saw the wallet's IP address you WOULD be solo mining right now. Something isn't right, either the port or ip and port. I can't think of another reason why it wouldn't work. i think I'm stumped on this one.. I was going to say that you need the -server flag but I checked my shortcut and I apparently didn't put it in and it's still solo mining. So maybe it's not needed but you could try that. What I do is use a shortcut to start my wallets because I have all the blockchains on NAT but run the clients on my local computer. So in the properties of the shortcut you would see in my case: Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Litebar\litebar-qt.exe" -datadir=S:\Litebar try adding -server where i have put -datadir=S:\litebar on your shortcut or in the cmd prompt when you go to start the wallet. That should put it into server mode or not...like i said it seems I didn't have to do this for it to work for me. I always thought you had to put it in the .conf and put the flag for it but I dunno. Good luck. This might get me to unbox the widow and try to solo mine with it. I really should put it up on ebay...I've been procrastinating. yes so I gave up. cgminer would see the wallet so would bgfminer it would show when new blocks were found and diff changes. I resynced the wallet and nothing I added -server nothing I am lost on this one so I moved on. and its not just a widow its a thunder too. i don't know what i did wrong. |
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have you made a new img on raspbiran jesse as the wheezy img only worked with Ethernet and not my wifi adaptor. I tried to install on jesse but it never worked right.
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I bought a miner from eBay and I am struggling to get it to work on the Raspberry Pi 2. It appears under CPUMiner, but the hash is always 0. Any other configuration doesn't get detected.
Has anyone tried this miner before? It's from lketc.com and the specs are:
Brand : YuDianHuiXin
Model : Litecoin Miner 8G
Type : USB Block Erupter
Processing Speed (GH/s) : 144K/S-280K/S
Power Use (W) : 5
Compatible Currency : Litecoin
Brand : Unbranded
MPN : Does not apply
UPC/EAN/ISBN : Does not apply
Any suggestions?
Thank you in advance.
you need to use a powered hub aswell or it will not work once it gets hot and draws to much power. |
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we need more votes we are not winning. go vote go now
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nuc would be a great fit on bittrex |
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