There are several pools in between BTCguild and Slush pool as far as hashrates go. why does everyone dump on Slush pool since it is just one of the little guys?

nothing stopping you from posting important things in the newbe forum. you may get a better response there because the people watching it are a bit more understanding about answering the same questions over and over.

Okay, this is how it works... sorta.

Starting with a found block. we start looking for the next block. The next block isn't one specific block but any of a number of solutions that meet the difficulty criteria. There are several inputs that go into finding the next block including the solution to the previous block. some of them are the Coinbase which is where the various pools label themselves among other things. and the transactions to be included. When you request work, the pool puts together a unique input for you to hash. So, even though we are all looking for a next block, we are not all looking for the exact same solution.

If another pool or solo miner finds a qualifying block before we do, the pool tells us to stop working with what we have and start working with new inputs partly based on the new block that was found. If others keep finding blocks before we do, the time duration of out round goes up. yeah, a 12 hour round sucks, but it gets averaged out by short rounds eventually.

Now, about the worker hashrate displayed. It has been my observation that the hash displayed for a worker will be wrong if you start in the middle of a round. it will be too low. The longer the round, the bigger the error. You get the most accurate estimate if your worker is already running when the round starts.

But Bitcoins is money!

They know who is in charge. 

No! the ASICminer block erupters are USB. the Blades use ethernet. they connect to your LAN. You host a Stratum Proxy on your computer, hence why he has the ubuntu computer. Definitely not plug & play. there are other threads covering making these work.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205369.0;topicseen

Is anyone besides me worried that they may not make any more H boards for the v1-2 MBs?

you don't cover the fee. that is taken off the top.

yes, i get 8.7 amps at 5.5 volts that should power 16 devices. Don't for get that you probably want some cooling.

These are slotted, so which version MB do they require?

so, if we are already running ASICminer Blades we can just aim these at the same Proxy. I wonder how much throughput the Slush Proxy has.
I'm really getting tired of machines without their own power supplies. Also i hate web based miners. How many spare ethernet ports do most people have? Just another hidden cost.
EDIT: i just saw more pictures in the "pictures of your rigs" thread. it has a USB interfae too? that i'm OK with.

Last vent. I wish you'd accept US$ payments. When i look at the current value of the BTCs i've spent on hardware I want to cry.

yeah, in a few weeks this thread will be gone and we get to go through this all over again. Even if this thread is still alive someone will bring this up again in another thread just because it is easier to ask than to look.

hmmmm simple answer. if your hashrate is constant, every week you will earn less Bitcoin than the previous week. This is because of new hardware coming on line. How much less you will make depends on how much hardware comes online how quickly. Bitcoin is designed to try and create no more than one block every 10 minutes. Adding hash power causes bitcoins to be made faster. the dificulty is adjusted to compensate for the increased speed. Every time someone does something to make themsleves more bitcoins you make less.

The pools aren't taking more than their advertised share. It is just that there is a lot of competition to get a bigger share of a finite number of coins.

I had performance issues pointing mine at Slush pool, BTCguild has been working perfectly.

I believe that if you close your acount, it will cash out the remainder.

Thanks, that gives me an idea of the degree of difficulty. I wouldn't expect you to mod your software for something like this. I thought maybe it was just a matter of changing the value in a field somewhere.

I didn't think CGminer would support this. Is there support for this in bitcoin-QT? If not, could CGminer be hacked/patched to do this?

Thanks for your response ckolivas.

Ok, assuming that i'm solo mining by pointing cgminer at bitcoin-QT in server mode. what do i have to modify, or how do i add a text identifier in a found block like the pools do. Like a pool name.

BTW, don't bother with the "it is a waste" "don't do it" comments. They are falling on deaf ears. I don't care for you opinion. If you don't have an answer to the question, don't waste the electrons.

By mentioning room, they are answering a non Pi related question that you didn't ask. They are saying that they don't think that there is enough room between each port to plug a Block erupter into each one.

As for whether or not it will work with the Pi, you might look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253749.0

Or, i'm told there is a list of working hubs in the Pi forums.

Did you ever get an answer to this? is it something that the mining software might be modified to do?