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Tippfehler und Prinzip missverstanden... aber sonst noch recht in Ordnung.

10 am EST = 3 pm GMT (they might have DST in EST though for example which I'm not 100% aware of - this is why you should use UTC!)

Edit:
Oh yes, and the Captcha is a joke!

Utility seems to me more like an internal scoring method which pool is good to jump into than some "useful" value to caluculate with for people who don't know the inner algorithm.

Is the 1% fee on all income or on the 50 BTC only?
Do you distribute transaction fees amongst miners?
Which payout distribution model do you use? (Proportional, Pay per share, Scored with holy-fire's method or other)

Also: What does this strange graph with dates at the end of September mean on your main page?

Why would you mine with 5-10% "built-in" bad luck using a method that is easily exploitable by a known method?

To decrease variance you can just mine in several pools (even at once) and if they're score based you'd also get the expected rate (if they are prop. you can hop and get even more )

Reading doesn't seem to be a strength of yours, hm?

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6819.0

Ein paar Leute behaupten schon, ASICs in Auftrag gegeben zu haben (FPGAs hat eh "jeder" daheim rumliegen [der will])... solange ich da aber keine Bilder etc. sehe, glaube ich da nicht so wirklich dran.

Chipfertigung braucht aber so seine Zeit, wenn dann kommt mal im Herbst was raus, sollte der Bericht stimmen.

(50-0.0000541647*877226.66666667)*2 = 4.97056154%

I thought deepbit charges 10% for PPS? This would mean this pool only offers 5% better rates - while not(?) paying for stale shares. In the long run this is not really desirable as a miner imho as you earn 5% less than expected. For pool operators it's also not desirable as miners can be easily patched to "leech" PPS pools (aka "not submitting winning shares attack") and such a pool can be killed by any rivalling bigger pool with just the missing 5% covered out of own pockets.

Based on Meni's algorithm?

Could be done in a few lines on Arch Linux - however a few more infos would be needed... like which "Linux" (= which distribution) are you even using?!

Also why poclbm AND hashkill?

Anyways, Arch has poclbm and phoenix-miner in AUR as well as hashkill (you'd still need the bitcoin plugin for the latter though)... the full script would require more than 1 hour of work though probably and also mean I'd take my miner offline --> not gonna happen, my time is worth more than 17 USD/hour!

"Batch files" are shellscript files in Linux.

You don't need afterburner to have a temperature logger, I think I saw a few scripts using RRDtool or similar stuff in the Mining section of this forum.
Overclocking can be also done via the ATI driver.
I don't get however why the GPU should suddenly get hotter than usual, if everything else (room temperature, mining program(s), clock rate...) stays constant.

I personally use arch linux, as it has already phoenix-miner in it's user repository, but I guess it doesn't really matter.


Why did you even stop using Windows? You have a license anyways (I guess/hope) and mining is not faster on Linux as far as I've experienced. If you're used to and comfortable with Windows and also rely on tools there, like afterburner, why switch and invest the work for practically 0 gain output-wise?

I would then either have a long "tail" of payouts (if you average hash rate on long timers) this making everyone pay for past miners for some time or (if it's shorter than it takes the pool on the current difficulty) still enable hopping.

A working + proven scoring method has been published. Use it!

What's your payout algorithm? Proportional or hopping-proof?
Also who gets transaction fees and who (and how) finances the server(s)?

Kinda the standard questions I think...

Nennt sich FPGA, hier ist z.B. eine Sendung was das jetzt genau ist: http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre117.html

Wenn man dann ein ganz tolles FPGA "Programm" geschrieben hat, kann man das auch direkt als Chip erzeugen lassen, das nennt sich dann ASIC.

Mit den beiden Suchwörtern solltest du hier im Forum einiges finden.

Der Journalist der einen 1-Post Poster Thread als News nimmt, riskiert auch so einiges...

Blockexplorer or didn't happen!  

Ehrlich, gib mal Links zu den Transaktionen! Wieso hattest du überhaupt 3 verschiedene Wallets?

Because most of them are tiny and might rather get DOSed from a massive hopping pool like this I guess.

Also reducing variance is one of the reasons here, and this is best accomplished by having as many pools as possible. The pool hopping still gives you better results than average.

Step 6 is broken easily by the NOT indefinite amount of Bitcoins in the system.
The maximum amount of Bitcoins the lottery could hold are "total current Bitcoins - my Bitcoins", assuming that the lottery also runs the entire bitcoin system.

The worst chances of winning therefore are "My bitcoins/total bitcoins".

As soon as "My bitcoins" grows large enough, the lottery cannot any longer outbid me 1000-fold (or whatever is considered "virtually certain"). Assuming Satshi has 10% of all Bitcoins in posession and breach of trust (just taking the money and running away) is not cheating, but a different "attack", the maximum amount the lottery could bid against him would be 90% of all Bitcoins.

Long story short:
It is not possible for the lottery owner for arbitrary amounts to gain "virtual certainty" of winning. This means, he must impose maximum amounts that players are allowed to play each round to make sure he is always _able_ to overbid. Also just 1:100 or 1:1000 might not be enough, depending on the intended lifespan of such an endeavour, plus it would give less interest the better chances you want to have (if you overbid by 1000 each time, you just have 0.1% interest each round)

How is this possible outside of the USA?

Here as well, I got 2 rounds at btcmine that are rewarded with 0 out of 5 rounds that are not pending any more - and interestingly they are in between rounds with payouts:
131504   Fri Jun 17 22:35:06 2011   145   179.681   0.00000000   0.000   0.00000000
131499   Fri Jun 17 22:01:12 2011   622   626.707   0.01991538   0.562   0.00000000
131469   Fri Jun 17 19:02:33 2011   93   108.445   0.00000000   0.000   0.00000000
Hope this helps in squashing bugs!