Thanks for the recognition.  I enjoy helping others... but on occasion I enjoy a bit of trolling too    You caught me on a good day.

 6) I would say that's exactly it!

 7) The pool decides what transactions will be included in the block it attempts to mine.  Pools will generally select the transactions they want to include in the block based on the fees paid.  Usually there is a large number of unconfirmed transactions on the network to select from so these blocks will be different for each pool.  Even if they were to select exactly the same transactions using the same timestamp, the block will still be different because the first transaction in every block called the coinbase transaction is generated by the pool (or the miner in general) which collects and spends the block reward plus transaction fees.  This transaction will be unique to the pool and generally the coins will go to an address controlled by the pool.  This also prevents pool members from capturing the "winning" result for their own gain.

 From the perspective of the pool, I believe each member of the pool is assigned a different extranonce value (which is part of the coinbase transaction) to prevent duplication of work among pool members.  It's a little more complicated than that because as miners got faster, it was possible to hash the block with all 2³² nonce values in milliseconds.  I believe this is why Slush developed the Stratum mining protocol.

 Allow me to clarify.  The guy was working with an empty spreadsheet.  That being the case, the ctrl + down arrow will take you to the last row of the spreadsheet.  I tested this with Excel 2013 on Windows 7.  Maybe I'll post a video 

 The probability of mining a block is 1/(2³²*D) for each hash.  (D is Bitcoin difficulty) so the amount of time is dependent on the hash rate and luck.  Difficulty is currently 336899932796.  Let's invert the equation to see how many hashes are required (on average) to mine a block.

 #hashes = 2³²*336899932796
 #hashes = 1,446,974,193,383,417,839,616

Let's use Slush's pool.  Their stated hash rate is 154.9 Ph/s so,

 time to block = 1,446,974,193,383,417,839,616/154.9X10¹⁵Ph/s
 time to block = 9341.3 seconds (or about 2 hours 35 minutes and 41.3 seconds)

 Now look at a screen capture of Slush's public statistics:



 Compare the actual time taken to find a block (under the reading glasses) with the calculated time of 2:35:41.3 and then check out the associated luck (under the sunglasses).  As you can see, if blocks take longer than determined based on probability to find, the percentage luck is <100% and when the block is found sooner, luck is >100% in the long run though based on the Law of large numbers,  the average time to find a block should be very close to the calculated value.

 If a pool is consistently below 100%, one would consider it unlucky and if it is consistently above 100%, one would consider it lucky.  This can happen for periods of time when a pool has only a small percentage of the total network's hash rate but as I said, in the long run, it should even out.

 1) mining is probabilistic in nature, if you find a block earlier than you statistically should on average you are lucky if it takes longer, you are unlucky
 2) not possible to ELI5 - Cumulative Distribution Function requires advanced mathematics
 3) nothing as it is random and unpredictable - though if it is continually unlucky perhaps you should avoid the pool

 You make a good point.  He's a handsome guy too - maybe with all those YouTube views he'll get noticed by an ad agency and end up making some money doing Superbowl half-time ads.

NB. OU still sucks :p

 
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 Sounds like a scary proposition but maybe it's just me.  I live a relatively sheltered existence.

What a meathead!  He could have accomplished that task with the ctrl + cursor down key-press combination in half the time... maybe even less. 

 

OU still sucks

 Perhaps we could add a sub-question:
 "Is it more than likely that Bitcointalk forum women are better at grammar than Bitcointalk forum men?"
Then it might be a little more interesting than such a simple m/f poll.

 Sorry lolxxxx but I can't find any pinout diagram for the Antec.  It seems that all the hcg modular models share the same cables but that doesn't help because Antec doesn't supply the pin assignments in any diagram for any of those models.  If you can find one, here is the diagram of the enermax for comparison:

 I'm not home right now or I would look for the pin out diagrams and see if you're okay between supplies.  I might have a chance tonight to check it out.

There is no standard for modular PSU cables and while they may be interchangeable between models from the same manufacturer, I wouldn't bet on it.  Definitely not advisable to try this between manufacturers!

 I've been at it for a while and have used Bitcoin for a few things - coffee beans, necklaces, IPTV service, VPN service, gift cards and even a few sheets of virtually indestructible paper called Revlar.  Coincards.ca is a great place for gift cards.  If you wanted to cash out some coin without going through an exchange and had something in mind you wanted to buy, they probably have a gift card for it (virtual and physical cards).

 Less than $5 worth (in 2011) bought you a computer in 2016?!  That's awesome.  When I first looked into Bitcoin, it was worth around $50 each and I wasted time and money with BFL trying to buy and have a couple of their miners delivered.  I wish I had simply bought the coin at the time and sat on it.  

 I know that dell accepts Bitcoin and I think they take care to do a nice build but I'm I feel I can build a more powerful machine for less money.  

 This is slightly tangential but I am also reminded that Air Lot (the Polish international airline) accepts Bitcoin too.  Last year we flew to Europe and I was tempted to use Air Lot but the departure and arrival schedules in Romania didn't meet with our liking.

Your web site says that you will host my miner for 70% of it's BTC production.  If you host an Antminer S4 it will produce 0.0015 BTC per day so you would take 0.00105 leaving me with 0.00045 BTC per day with no other cost to me?  Am I correctly understanding your offer?

 I haven't really kept track but I would imagine I do this every couple of months.  Occasionally I use a voucher that my wife has purchased since I can't get her onto the Bitcoin bandwagon.

 I can get BTC any time with PayPal but in order to charge my phone with fiat, it entails leaving the house and finding a place that sells top-up vouchers for my provider.  There are none on my way to work so Bitcoin is much, much easier and faster plus I can do it 24/7 so I'm not constrained by retail store hours.  That's important for a shift worker and I'm saving the planet by not using more gas to drive to the store

I wouldn't expect any discussions about Bitcoin in the Whitehouse.  Donald Trump has recently said: “I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s going on.”
That being the case, I would imagine any discussion with him about Bitcoin would be unlikely or at best, fruitless.

 One of the few things I will spend my Bitcoin on (though I usually replace them shortly thereafter) is for recharging my phone service.  There is a service called Bitrefill that allows you to top up your phone quickly with Bitcoins.  You could probably load up anyone's phone as long as you know their phone number and it is fast.  I have no affiliation with Bitrefill at all, I just love the service.  This way I don't have to leave a credit card on file with the phone company which gives me one less thing to worry about.

 Dr. Suess never said anything of the sort so I assume you are saying we can simply make up the quotes and their attributions?!  If you are looking for some quotes to attribute to Theodore Geisel, he did in fact say this (which is germane to the gambling thread):

 "I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you."

 A while ago, OGNasty told us about https://lifeboat.com/oclvanitygen which will run with the latest radeon drivers.
Perhaps you could try that version instead.