Not forgetting their block withholding on a regular basis in an effort to increase their profits they claim not to be making......  Is there any discussion and proof of this somewhere ? Something just feels "off" mining there over the last little while. Logically, I would just like to write it off to bad luck and DDoS, but I've seen these withholding rumors enough that it's gotten me thinking there might be some substance to the allegations. EG: Ghash.io has considerably more hash rate than BTCGuild, yet BTCguild is solving more blocks, according to https://blockchain.info/pools - Just bad luck ? thats what I'm saying. Even with btcguild fee, you make more money and that just doesn't seem logical. I think this is why so many miners have left this pool. |
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At least one node is down, and I think the preferences on the Geo server have been changed. So you might see your miners on unusual nodes. Hopefully the changes make sense and reduce your invalids. On another note, multi-output payments are a reality now. This puts the fees more in line with other pools. So nothing to worry about there any longer, thank goodness  I did notice my miners mining on some nodes in some places they never have before and once I even seen overseas. Yesterday 2 miners did drop from the pool for a very short time but were back on in less than 5-10 mins. What is "multi-output payments"? I take it that it is where you can set a coin amount instead of a time frame for payments? If so is that set by the miner or the pool? |
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On a better note I guess one of my miners found the last block on this pool... Last Found Blocks Height Finder Time Difficulty Amount Expected Shares Actual Shares Percentage 347865 Aurel57 03/16/2015 13:42:39 47,427,554,950.6483 25.00 47,427,554,951 101,823,477,146 214.69 Edit: just checked and it was one of my S3 miners (490 Gh/s) that I had just moved back to the pool less than 5 hours earlier.  and in a twist of faith it was one of 3 miners I named after ....Really?  congrats.....so since you found one....what, if anything, do you get extra?? just bragging rights.. But it was nice just being a S3 snagged it. My only other block 2 years ago was done with a USB miner hashing at 333Mh/s |
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@aurel57, much better. I was wondering what that last word was Glad to have something to compare my S3 with, wondering the day I'll be so lucky. ----- You would think with everyone on different nodes than usual, this thread would be buzzing. But hopefully everyone can take advantage of the geo or private pools. Hoping things will get back to normal, or better than normal LOL I am wondering if ...Really? could read it or if he is just being a good sport about it. My other 2 miners that I named after him are ...well not as nice..  |
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Yep that's a better screenshot. Your little AntMiner earned back its ROI!
Its been just over 2 years since I found my first block on Slush's pool. I have been wondering if a S3 could find one as the day is coming to turn it out to pasture on CK's solo pool. |
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@aurel57, Thanks for the screenshot, going a bit blind trying to read it, but that's ok. I guess that one has newer firmware than mine. My BestShare never propagates, it's overclocked, and I hate messing around with the default setting for no DHCP, to even consider a flash.
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Miners are still all over, so I have no real idea if the attack continues.
No kidding I will see about redoing it as I have a hard time reading it also. But that S5 is a batch 8 with newer firmware, so its really a S5+ |
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We hit 70 today here in Northern Indiana and I hear my S5's fans cycling up and down in the basement.... The wife is not going to like this.. |
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Thank you - I'm honoured  I think everyone who mines on BAN should do that actually - the truth will find you blocks @ s0br: Stop being a chicken sh*t & answer the questions like you keep saying you will, or stay the proven scammer you are.Thank you for the laugh! |
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Here is the screenshot of the block I found today with one of my miners which I named after a person on these forums and this thread....  image hosting 10mb limit |
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Threw some rental hash back at p2pool last night about 1 hour before that block was found.... wish I had done it earlier but can hope the pool finds another fast couple.
Fail again...  LOL... I've refrained... the wound is still too fresh from the last time I rented Nice drop in hash rate brings a block in....... I had to brush the dust off the wallet to see it for myself... A block... Haven't seen one of those in a while And that block paid back more than half of my rental spent...just one more fast one and I will be ahead! |
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So, this isn't a self serving question, just curiosity.
What's going to get you to 25 BTC faster, mining or dedication to a signature campaign with a high rank (Sr Member or Hero)?
Maybe the better question is how long does it take for a miner to get their first block reward (of 25 BTC)? I can figure out the breakeven on the sig campaigns.
Based on your timing guess, how much equipment investment is required?
The answer to your question above in bold is mining. |
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Just usual trolling guys to keep you in perspective, analyzing block after block or even day after day has no value. This is not like checking factory output where any change has its reason, finding blocks is random process within some rules. There maybe absolutely no hashrate change behind +/-2% difficulty change, it's just the blocks finding probability.
I read this a second time and lets say it is all variance . (+/-) 1 or 2 percent. Even better info then you realize we can now spec is it variance or is it ddos or is simple btc price to diff ratio. or is it s-3's still make money at low power locations and people are shifting gear rather then buying gear. In the s-3 case I live in Northern Cali. power is 25 cents. I ship 20 s-3's to a guy in washington state. I give 12 to him for free. And he hosts my other 8 for free. He makes money since his power is 3-4 cents. I make out since my s-3 's were worth zip in northern cali. there is 50ph in s-3's they are tanks and they are keeping growth down as they more to low cost power spots and are done in a barter move like I describe above. Phil I am right with you. I was trying to find someone up in WA area to give miners to and split profit with but had no luck finding anyone I could trust. LOL you're not Dave Carlson Right (joking) What hardware are you running? I know a diff. guy in your exact same situation with a full facility but NO capacity for other hardware that he has sitting on shelf. I rather have shipped my S1's to someone than selling them on Craigslist at $50 a piece when I did. Then I would have even maybe sent some of my S3's as I had to sell to make room for the S5's in the basement. Even now thinking of getting rid of more before summer gets here and things get to hot. |
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thank god for that xD
so with the new updated price will i see any profit do you think?
You will see a profit if you mine now and then BitCoin price gors up a lot. In that case you will be making a bigger profit if you simply buy BitCoins now. It is also a lot less work. I would not promise that. With "electricity cost: £16.82 KWh" and less than 250 GHz of gear it will be hard. Chances are you will be lucky to pay off the gear even at that electricity price and miners you mentioned. Hard? Check out my post above showing the numbers. Even not factoring in initial hardware costs at current BTC->GBP conversions OP is losing money every day by turning those miners on. Even if BTC went up to £350 OP would barely be covering the electricity to run the miners - and that's given the current difficulty, which is going to change in less than a week's time. Maybe I was not clear. But I was not referring to your post. I was referring to the post i quoted. I meant it is hard for BTC to go up and make this profitable. This is because of the amount of money being lost mining each day, it would take a drastic change in price.And if it's going to take for a price increase in BTC to make this profitable then a person would be much better off to just buy the coins in the first place. |
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Just usual trolling guys to keep you in perspective, analyzing block after block or even day after day has no value. This is not like checking factory output where any change has its reason, finding blocks is random process within some rules. There maybe absolutely no hashrate change behind +/-2% difficulty change, it's just the blocks finding probability.
I read this a second time and lets say it is all variance . (+/-) 1 or 2 percent. Even better info then you realize we can now spec is it variance or is it ddos or is simple btc price to diff ratio. or is it s-3's still make money at low power locations and people are shifting gear rather then buying gear. In the s-3 case I live in Northern Cali. power is 25 cents. I ship 20 s-3's to a guy in washington state. I give 12 to him for free. And he hosts my other 8 for free. He makes money since his power is 3-4 cents. I make out since my s-3 's were worth zip in northern cali. there is 50ph in s-3's they are tanks and they are keeping growth down as they more to low cost power spots and are done in a barter move like I describe above. Phil I am right with you. I was trying to find someone up in WA area to give miners to and split profit with but had no luck finding anyone I could trust. |
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That's great. Congratulations!!!
Thanks Just got an on time payment from the pool. |
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I use Team Viewer and it works great. You need to leave your computer on while away and if your afraid of power outages then use a laptop so the battery will give a couple hours of backup for short outages. But I used to even reboot my computers with Team Viewer and it worked great.
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I agree it looks good. Which pool are you mining on?
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I had the sme problem when I ran those singles and was using ez miner also. But only had that problem on my desktop and once I switch them over to my laptop I no longer had a problem. I always wondered if I had some sort of RAM problem on that desktop? I solved all BFL problems when I sold them! |
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