un GUIminer there is also the -s flag, not sure if it works for CPUs aswell but if you use a GPU you can do -s x.xx where X is the amount of time the GPU should idle before the next cycle, for example with my old 4850 i used -s 0.11 otherwise the fan would go crazy

any idea when the first block will be solved?

mh yea didnt realize CPU also use quite alot of Watts when in use..

no problems with stales here running GUIminer
2828 accpepted/4 stale

already got one person on my minipool, keep comming guys!

my est. reward went down from yesterday, I guess thats because there are more miners and a higher network hashrate now?

so when can miners expect their first payout, after the first share has been solved?

my est. reward is 0.27378544599001 atm, but balance is still 0

sure i get that but why would anybody join my minipool?

may I aks how much?

most pool allow for pay per share or proportional payouts, which payout method is better for a miner with a small hashrate like 310Mhs?
as far as I understand proportional is worse, but PPS also gets worse the bigger the pools hashrate is?

why, people leave their computers on anyway? if I let my miner run CPU mining i can still work without problems but generate almost 3Mhs while doing so. why cant 1000 people do this?

yes it does, or lets say ppl favour "attractive" ppl - there are plenty of studies to prove this

do you guys think it would be a good idea if the bitcoin community developed a set of "acceptable uses" for bitcoin trading, for instance banning illegal goods or certain kind of services? So basically should the bitcoin community self-police the use of bc around the net, before goverments start doing it?

maybe something like a code of honor of sorts...

is it only me or does the whole system of bitcoin mining favor those that have the ressources to buy alot of hash-power? the harder mining gets, the more miners are being sidelined because their mining efforts are not paying off anymore, leaving only the people that have invested massive amounts for multi-g-hasrates.. isnt that sorta like buildung a monopoly or a classic case of the rich become richer?

disclamimer: i use the term botnet to define a network of computers, i dont mean zombie pcs! nothing illegal here!
 

imagine a botnet of sorts or a couple thousand or even tens of thousands of pcs running a bitcoin miner in a pooled mode, each only using their cpus - lets say you could get 1Mh/s from most CPUs, how many "bots" would you need to have a decent hashrate? for example 1Ghs would require 1000 miner bots.

wouldnt that be much more effective then using expensive GPUs that use alot of power? basicalyl any recent CPU should be able to get 1Mhs easily.. you could even configure the mingers to only mine in idle mode.

I could imagine larger NGOs doing that, havng their supporters run the "mining bot" on their PCs to support a NGO or charity for instance

i have to admit the sudden raise in diff shocked me a little.. i thought i could at least mine for a few onths with my 6950 with decent results.. now its only peanuts :/ oh well gotta be patient i guess

sometimes windows shuts down itself to install urgent updates, win7 likes to do that - also you could try looking in the event log if there are any errors prior to the shutdown, just check the timestamps

my 6950 has lost around 60Mh/s when i installed the most recent catalyst drivers, so maybe thats also an issue with your card? after rverting to the old driver version I gotthe 60mhs back!

but does a miner that joins a minipool somehow benefit, even if hes the lowest level?

joined.
if anybody would like to join my pool:

https://eos666.triplemining.com/register

so i reverted back to my prevoius driver version and the hasrate is back at 310mhs - must be something with the new drivers