So now that we crossed the 500% percent mark, I think that means shares will be dropping off on the back end, so only the last 500% when a block is hit will be paid, correct?

So here we are, just about 450% and 229B shares submitted. Interesting that Slush is over 24hours and 272B shares submitted. Looking at todays blocks, only a couple are from the non Chinese pools. Thats pretty interesting considering at 25% or more of the network is from outside China. Hmmmm

Just reading up on the analytics, hope we don't fall into the records books

Having a blockhash much larger than difficulty can't earn you any extra bitcoins, so it's a pointless type of "luck". But it's fun and interesting to see that some block makers have found block hashes at a difficulty of almost three hundred thousand times larger than the mining difficulty at the time, and that this is independent of the network mining difficulty.

So, guys at solo.ckpool.com: As I write this, your pool has solved 62 blocks. That means the 95% confidence interval of the largest multiple of difficulty blockhash you could expect is between 1/(1 - q0) and 1/(1-q1), where q0 and q1 are the 2.5% and 97.5% beta quantile for beta( 62, 1), or between 17 and 2450 x difficulty.

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-tiniest-blockhashes.html

In the 281 block history, how many over 300%? If I could see at least the last 100 block history on the blocks page, then I might not ask

And 10x10 is 100. Not sure I get the 6x7 reference

Would it be possible display the last 100 blocks on the Blocks page? right now onl the last 42 are displayed. Maybe there is a reason 42 are displayed.

Thanks,

So whats the odds of keeping the luck at over 200% for the next 10 block with such a good luck streak over the last 10 block, or 25 and 50 for that matter.......

Looks like Bitclub moved to Eligius. They gained about 2ph about the same time we lost it. That pool was at 10ph on June 30th and over 18 today. Why are so many going to a fixed PPS pool that is capped? And based on Kano's comments also is slow on moving to the current block. Just seams odd

Having issues connecting to pool, miners say its alive by work requests a failing and miners are switching to backup pools. I have them in 4 different networks and ISP's and all acting the same. Maybe a bigger DDOS or internal issue.

What country are you in? I may have a mac I can ship you, just wanted to check on shipping costs. Its a few years old but its a 2 proc, dual core, 32GB RAM and 2 200GB SSD and 2 X500GB SATA. Assuming you have a keyboard, mouse and monitor and would just need the tower.

Let me know

Thanks,

Thanks for the info, do you have it available for iOS?

Kano, wanted to see how hard it would be to setup an email notification when a block is found, or shortly after that includes something like Ghash does. Would be nice to see so your not checking the stats page several times a day. Example below

Hello Miner

We have solved the block #354533 (25.2432 BTC) in 12 hours at 13783.91 Th/s and done 140637624683 total work.
Your shares: 86401760/25000048254 (0.35%)
Payout: 0.08724205 BTC

On that note, how about also getting an email when a worker has not submitted shares for say 5 or 10 minutes, that would be nice to get alerted from the pool. Not sure how much coding this would be but just wanted to put it out there. Maybe have a place to enter an alert email address which is different then your account email, so one can enter a SMS email address to get txt vs emails.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, that helps a lot. I'll have to experiment a bit and see if its worth it, I suspect if you can get the hash for .0095 to .0098 and the poll is at least around 100% luck during that time then yes.

Just curious, does it make sense to rent hash on a PPLNS pool? I know you get paid for every share as long as its under 500%, but your getting paid based on 100% luck which is currently .0101, I think. That said you would have to rent the hash at lower then that and probably by a few points like .0098 or lower for this to be profitable. Does that make sense?

I've rented hash many times and pointed to Slush because of their reward system and if I think a block will break at 87-90% CDF, again just a guess then rent about a hour before that time and you would be paid at your scored hash rate when it hits. Sometimes you win and sometimes you loose. Guess it's like rolling the dice at that point. I understand that scenario very well, but not sure I get the impact of renting on a PPLNS share.

I think Ghash pays for the shifts you contribute shares for a particular block, so if you rent and contribute to all shifts in a protocolar block and that block is under better then 100% luck, and your paying below .0101 for the hash, then you make coin, again my simple interpretation of the way it would work.

Feel free to comments if you have done this and how it would work on a PPLNS system.

Thanks,

I just started mining your pool on the 10th, so far I like the way its run and looks like you have a lot of loyal miners. I do hope this pool can get to around 4Ph with BTC closing. I started mining about 3 months ago since I had access to data center space and cheap power, i'm around 38Th and hope to grow to about 50 in the next couple months. Learned a lot along the way and much more to learn, I've tried them all and so far I think Slush and westhash have provided the best return. I must say slush has the best GUI, monitoring tools and analytics available to miners. But I can see you put in a lot in to the backend, reliability and mining functionality which is what matters in the end. Since the 500% payout is about 12-13 days, I've yet to see a payout at my full hash and want to see what a full month or 2 look like in return. So generally just saying Hi to all the loyal miners that have been here from the start and hope to stay a long time myself. Today I rented 2Ph for about 30 min to see if we can break this block and move on, no dice. Maybe I'll put another 2Ph in for an hour later and see if that helps.

If you have time, maybe you can comment on the below questions, just want to get your thoughts.

1. network almost 400Ph, looks like another 4-5% increase coming, you think the growth is all china farms or new tech in chips and appliances coming online that smoke existing hardware? I'm running mostly S4, S5 and 2 SP31's.
2.  do you think transaction fees will make up the 12.5 BTC loss in reward next summer? Again assuming diff keeps at current pace, cost of power stay constant then I think many small miners will be out due to costs and rewards only 12.5
3. What do you think of Trezor? I can't really find anything more secure or hack proof for storing keys, any thoughts?

Finally, just wanted to share an email I got form Marek "slush" Palatinus a few days ago, anyone else get one? Slush lost half the hash in the last few weeks and can't find anyone to explain this, I guess he's trying to find out also.

Hello,

I've found that you've been mining on my pool, but you disconnected
miners from the pool recently. Can I kindly ask you for any details
about your decision? As far as I know there were not any technical or
connection issues and everything is working smoothly, so any feedback
will be highly appreciated. Also please let me know if you're missing
any important feature on the service. I highly appreciate any feedback
from such experienced and well established client like you.

Best regards,
Marek "slush" Palatinus
Owner of Slush Pool