also, the 10 minutes per block is the target. Due to the constant increase in hashing power, block generation is usually less than 10 minutes.

Actually, although you may feel that you have a right to know who, you don't and naming him could open Eleuthria to libel charges. The only right you have is to choose to use, or not use, this pool. All this person did, in reality, was distort the Luck figures and receive some compensation that in hindsight might not have been deserved. but playing a loop hole, if it was intentional, is not illegal. Most likely this person wasn't aware of the problem.

What if it turns out that USB Block Erupters are the problem? do you think people running them will stop? individually, they are undetectable, too small. but, there are enough people running them to have an impact. Think, how many of them there are in the world. All we can do is sit back and let the pool operaters do their thing and hopefully they will give us some insight as to what hardware is the problem and how to fix it.

We should all remember, when pool luck is down we all lose. Eleuthria loses too. If there was anything he could think of to fix this he would do it. He is probably pulling his hair out like the rest of us. he is also very good at his job and most likely understands this stuff better than we do.

This is not to say that people shouldn't keep coming up with ideas. Personally, i liked the underperforming hardware idea. a lot of the miners have controllers on their boards that may have a problem with numbers that are too large. There is always the possibility that one of us may come up with something that no one else thought of. Brainstorming is good.

But just yelling that the system is broke and to fix it will not accomplish anything. Even if we did determine that some evil organization is interfering or cheating in some way, it is quite likely that nothing could be done about it.

I understand the randomness of Luck and that it is what it is, but i too "feel" that there has to be something causing this but, untill someone can prove their theory we just have to accept things the way they are. nobody complained when btcguild luck was over 100% for months on end. now it has swung the other way. At least until someone can prove otherwise.

actually, our luck is being pretty consistent. BTCguild's is about the same as ours.

size doesn't matter.

I think Bitcoin needs an open source/free Vendor's program that is easy for Brick & Mortar stores to use. It may exist already, but i haven't found it and i've been looking so how would others find it. I saw a video of somone making a sale using those square data transfer things(not sure what they are called). I'd guess you'd also need to be able to email an address to someone as well for those with laptops. Many store transactions are small enough that just seeing them in the transaction que is good enough. If some one rips you off for $30 or less, ya just don't sell to them again.

I wonder why Slush felt the need to bring the hashrate out to 8 decimal places. 

Oh, i thought he meant solopool.net. This is why people need to be clear about what they are asking. We can't read minds.

If you are talking about the solo pool set up by Ozcoin, They are legit.

The faucet pays it. They group a bunch of small transactions together and pay one fee for the over all transaction.

Where you get killed is that using all those small transactions in your wallet will cost you more than the Bitcoin Dust is worth.

The number of stupid/redundant posts will grow expoentially.

Good luck with that.

If that is sitting on the carpet, i'd put something between that carpet and the miner. even card board would be ok. anything to insulate it from the carpet. Potential for static discharge is great.

So, you want them to give you another date that they can miss? I'll tell you what, expect delivery about 4 weeks from today +- 1 week. That is about as real as you are going to get and since i said it, not them, there is no one to get mad at or complain about.

Why should they comment on schedule? At this point it would be their guess versus your guess. They posted their progress and what they are expecting near term. It will be delivered when it is done, regardless of what they predict. All commenting on delivery date does is piss people off if they are wrong and feed the fire storm.

It is obviously happening(if their posts are true) and i would guess that they are doing everything that they can to get it done as quick as they can.

It has pretty much been known in these forums for a long time that CPU /GPU mining was a losing proposition. You just can't make a significant impact. The Pool operater provides a service. The onus is not on them to educate potential users. Sadly, what is a lot to some people isn't much to others. Lots of people get, what they consider to be, big mega computers and think that is all they need to mine bitcoin because there is still some old software around that will let them. They are qute disappointed when the learn that it really requires specialized hardware to mine and not big computers. Then they look at the hardware available and ask if the cheapest hardware is worth it. They don't like hearing  "no, not anymore". Basically, today there are two types of miners. Those with the financial resources to constantly persue the bigest and best new hardware. And the rest, who are pretty much hobbyist, mining because it is fun for them and a learning experience.

I feel bad for you because you didn't know what you were getting into. Also, the pool operator does not read this forum. We all here are just fellow miners.

Not bait at all. Pools were created to solve a problem. The problem being that if everyone solo-mined very many would get no reward for their efforts. Sure, kill the pools, and then watch the number of miners dwindle as well because the big miners would be the only ones finding any coins regularly. Saying that pools have 51% attack potential is one thing. Saying that the potential goes away with the death of pools is quite another.

I mean really imagine a world where your 2Th/s machine only gets income maybe once a year(no i didn't do the math). How many would stay with it? If people were really concerned about the pools being bad, they would stop using them.

Mining Pools are not bad and do not need to be prevented.

yeah, I don't know where these people think economies of scale are coming from.

I love how people undermine their seemingly logical arguements by using terms like ROI incorrectly. they clearly don't know what the term means.

no, i meant that i could not find them in that list where i expected them to be. They appear when the list is sorted by other parameters.