The only concern I have with resetting one's best share with each block solve is that I will never know if luck is a true thing.
If my sticks never solve anything ever for years, yea I know, come on what are you expecting, if I saw a best share of mine that was even in the ballpark I would hope that you would share my excitement.

Unbelievable. Someone pm'd me this morning offering to buy my account. WTF. I guess I better go back to low visibility mode.
I told him no, not interested. But I did say that if it was worth 4 bitcoins I'd think about it.

I'm smiling right now.  Thanks.

I get much more of it now, but you scare me with the longest chain part. Unless some 'developer' forces a side chain, I assume there's only one chain, the blockchain. Of course we can't allow the blockchain to be corrupted. So, are these 'shorter' chains just temporary to weed out the phony, faulty, or Orphaned transactions and the valid remainder of the short chain gets absorbed into the blockchain?  I can't imagine that all transactions in the short chains are bad ones. It would probably help me if you told me these short chains are created thousands of times every day and that they work themselves out and that I shouldn't worry about it.

Funny, I seem to be able to obfuscate even good answers to my questions.

I'm saying plug in two 6 pin power connectors on only one side of the box. You need two boxes. I think it only works on the right side,  to the right of the ethernet port when you're looking at it, I think) It's sort of like one side is a master and the other a slave. Only one fan will turn but you can overcome that if you think necessary.

This is just a wild*** thought and adventure on my part for the winter. It's been moons since I did what I claim above, but I swear it worked. Currently inhabiting a smaller space, and not with regrets, I almost think I could substantially heat with this arrangement, Oh and yes there's the Gigahashs too.

I do like the gentle heat that an S3 provides.
Does everyone but me know that you can plug in just half of an S3  and get half the output, this way you can put half an S3 in the 'kitchen' and another half in the 'bedroom'. (you need two un or underused' S3's to do this.) This of course all depends on how and where you live. I'm going to try it for a while this winter.
I've spent more time removing heat from my space than I've spent adding to it.  It's a bit different now. There is something though about steady and continuous heat, that's what I want to explore.

Back to the interest in a club with greater hash power than sticks, I have (dare) to say that this thread is about sticks.
Also, though I'm not keeping up properly with Sidehack/Novac, these guys are not asleep at the wheel and I think there's bound to be interesting things to come.

In the end I'm welcome to a winter S3 club but I won't be the one to add it to phils to do list.
 

OK, this thread has been been alive for a long time.

WHY?

Thank you to all. I just wish 'search' worked better for me. (don't yell at me please, the answer obviously is that I haven't done enough work).

This quote I added is almost heart wrenching for me, all in good humor please.

I have a corner of a room 'piled, OK I stacked them' with  3 S2's, about 9 S3's, 4 S1 to S3 upgrades, a box of 63 give or take Block  
Erupters, 2 black widows what ever they are (scrypt), around 8 'really sweet' 7970's and a few of whatever the next generation ones were called (R9? and a single original off the line Drillbit systems fury thumb V1.2.

I run 2 Sidehack sticks for a total of about 27 Ghs.  My question about mining is simply because I don't know the answer and I'd like to.

Thank you kiyoshi for you're inspiring comment

Isn't there some sort of search function available to the more clever of us that would spit that sort of thing out?

Just a thank you to all. When I first came here, ck taught me how to mine. I was a slow learner, probably took me two weeks to get my first 7970 to actually generate shares.  So much for the past.
This and here and now is an equally excellent adventure and I feel the same sort of enthusiasm I had at the start. So, thank you to anyone and everyone who shares their thoughts and ideas.

I'm thinking of opening a new account under the screen name "village idiot" (if it hasn't already been claimed).
The premise is that even folks with elevating rankings don't have all the answers they need, I'm what, a full member, and I don't know squat.
I swear I've seen senior or hero members asking essentially how to use a power supply cable . There's topsy and there's turvy.

I envision a 'thread' where no ones identity is revealed, yes your ranking would be useful to tailor the responses a bit. I personally wouldn't be giving any answers unless I felt competent to do so. Anyone who responds to a question would be ethically responsible, and obviously we're not going to ask for your trading secrets.

I'm thinking about 'stupid stuff ', the things you're embarrassed to ask.

e.g. when mining if I get a share greater than the network difficulty, does that automatically mean I found, won, solved, a block?.  Do I get the coins?  And now that I got the coins, the question remains..did I find it, win it, or solve it.

On the other hand, there may be questions like 'will my 12 volt power supply be enough to run my 5 volt usb hub'.
 
So there you can see, there are those of us in the 'middle'.

I can't answer the first question but I know the answer to the second (you need a 5v PS with as many amps as you can afford to run what you're dreaming of).

Just a thought, pretty much the only one I've had today.

Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno. My initial reaction to having two clubs is not good. Of course if I manage or finagle to get one stick in each club I guess I'd have nothing to say.

Individual sticks on kano.is can only generate dust which amounts to no pay. Imagine if the 'smaller' donations were sent to kano under an umbrella account, under phil's control, so that the combined effort could reap  some incoming coin. Larger doners could of course maintain their visibility on the club roster. It's fun to mine, but it's also fun to receive a little bitty payout once in a while.

I know this doesn't matter but still I'm curious.
For 3 days my best share was 3.5 million, today its 800 thousand and I've been running continuously.
I'm guessing  a pool restart might cause this but these's no mention of a restart on ck's thread. Any idea's?

* I just checked  a few others best share and these look low too

Flash hash s-7 power!!!   Sweet.

While things are fermenting.
I've got 2 sticks running side by side with an arctic fan. 225MHZ, 24G,
13.5 watts on my killawatt meter not including the router that would run
anyway, and the pi that can't be using much. My feeling is that if you
have a usb miner or miners (63 BE's) that actually run, don't touch and
don't change anything. Don't fiddle with a connection, don't swap a hub
or port out. Cast the thing in lexan.
None of that is my interest today.
Last night I turned the leds toward the wall but the reflection was
maybe worse than a direct hit.
Today I searched the junk drawer for green vinyl electrical tape, which
I had but couldn't find. All I found was red. A few inches, double
layered, slit lengthwise. Wrapped around the two side by side miners.  
Aside from a little blue leakage above and below, all you see flashing
is red.
What is the rule? Something red absorbs red and reflects other colors?
I would never have chosen red tape but right now I'm liking it. I Think
I'll try adding add a third layer.

Yeah, I spoke out of school about the stats.

Bad info I gave. You can get your stats before being on the list. I'm using a Plugable USB2-HUB-AG7 hub without problem. I'm running only one or two sticks and the hub is rated at 3 amps, so plenty of juice. Amazon has it.

Out of the box, I plugged them into cgminer/win 7 and cgminer reported them as 225 Mhz.  I didn't set anything. Mine was one of the last ones shipped and I think novac may have  upped the frequency. Also the voltage screw was already set at 1:00 o' clock.

I'll try lowering the frequency or tweaking the voltage but they came out of the box set at 225 and ran without errors on a win7 box using the same 3 amp hub. So if it's the pi/minera, yeah I got some figuring to do.