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Good job Bitmain! Your last 3 blocks were empty and there are well over 25k unconfirmed transactions.
Please, people. Stop mining here. There are so many other good pool choices, where operators actually care about the future of Bitcoin.
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Well, my rental didn't crack the block... but there's still 2.5 days or so to go until the diff adjustment.
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Are you absolutely stuck on the idea of using Windows?
I'm not sure about Dragon... but Ubuntu has a lot of accessibility features.
If not, then I'd say the easiest way to get up and running is to install a Linux distribution, install bitcoind on it, install ckpool on it and set things up. Then point your miners to your instance of ckpool.
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How does activity effect rank ?? I mean how do i know how long and how well i must post for in order to reach a certain rank ? Thank you.
This is explained here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0The short of it is you can earn a max of 14 points every 2 weeks. There is no magic method of ranking up quickly (short of buying somebody's account). It takes time and posts. The way they explain it doesn't make sense to me, time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration activity = min(time * 14, posts) Number of two week periods ?? Would that mean 2 weeks it 1 ? so 6 weeks is 3 ? Since registration ? So the older the better ? To me it sounds like time= Account age in weeks / 2   I've been posting here the last 4 days consistently and stayed at 140 activity. I have to take into consideration the fact that I have been offline for the last 8 months a while ago, but still, I haven't moved up any activity yet. Don't get me wrong, i'm perfectly fine with being full member, its just that I feel like the activity calculator is slightly off. btw I created this acc in January 2015 when I discovered bitcoin. Found mining was pointless, quit, found bitcoin again and became what I am today.  Surprising thing was, I went from junior member to member in just a few post. That's how easy and exploitable the activity system is nowadays... The easiest way to think about it is this: if you make 1 post a day every day, you will get 14 activity added every 2 weeks. It doesn't matter if you make 100 posts a day, you will still get 14 activity added every 2 weeks. The only exception to that rule is if you created an account a long time ago and haven't posted in a while. You have "banked" your potential activity points. Thus, you could potentially see a jump in status and more than 14 activity added to your account. However, you can never go beyond the potential earned activity. So, let's say you create an account today. If you make at least 14 posts every 2 weeks: Jr Member takes a bit over a month Member takes about 2.25 months Full Member takes about 4.25 months Senior Member takes about 8.5 months Hero Member takes about 17.25 months That's it. There are no shortcuts. There is no gaming the system. |
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Expected earnings are based upon your hashrate and the current network difficulty. As of right now, your 60GH/s would expect to earn 0.0001846BTC per day. At current BTC -> USD conversion rate, that's just about $0.08 per day.
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LOL... yes, if the trend continues we will see a negative difficulty adjustment, which will increase the percentage of shares found against expectations.
So, let's find a block before that happens!
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The transaction itself is still unconfirmed and has been broadcast. Take a look at it. Do you see your wallet address in it? If yes, then when it confirms, the balance will appear in your wallet. The question is whether or not slush continues to broadcast that transaction, or if he stopped. If he stopped, then it is typically 72 hours before the network forgets about it. If that happens, slush will have to resend the transaction (hopefully with higher fees).
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It's not less reward. 25BTC is generated regardless of whether you solved the block solo or solved it in a pool. The difference is your the portion of those coins you as a miner receive. Solve that block solo and you get all the coins to yourself. Solve it as part of a pool and everyone mining on the pool gets a cut, depending on the payout scheme of the pool.
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Rejected from blockchain.info doesn't mean anything. Look at that same transaction here: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/f4af45f69d6ab6bbf8943e8e242e466c6b351f4521ced77fda22e302c3dd78c1As for the unconfirmed status of the two... well, that's because there weren't enough fees to entice miners to include the transactions in blocks. In "normal" situations, the fee he supplied is fine at 0.0001 per kb. However, the mempool is currently flooded with over 30k transactions, so the ones getting confirmed are the ones with higher fees. If only pools would stop mining empty blocks... looks at AntPool. |
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I'm pretty sure p2pool.org is maintained by windpath. However, you can see they've got a github repo. You could always fork it, fix it and make a pull request . |
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It continues on until the block is found, or we cross 200% of expected shares. Since we're only at 81%, it'll be a while |
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Is your transaction already broadcast to the network? If so, then it's a matter of time until a pool includes it in its work. I think Eligius used to offer a way to manually push a transaction - not sure if that's still available. At any rate, you need for the pool including your transaction to solve a block. The network just went well over 40 minutes without anyone finding a block so no matter how much you wanted your transaction to confirm it wouldn't have.
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We definitely want to hit a block right now... over 1BTC in fees and 2500 transactions.
EDIT: of course as soon as I post, a block was solved... still a nice fat block for us to hit, though. Now almost 0.6BTC in fees and nearly 2900 transactions.
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How does activity effect rank ?? I mean how do i know how long and how well i must post for in order to reach a certain rank ? Thank you.
This is explained here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0The short of it is you can earn a max of 14 points every 2 weeks. There is no magic method of ranking up quickly (short of buying somebody's account). It takes time and posts. |
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Ah ok
I'm mining ghash at the min.
I thought I missed out on payouts as my mine was not active when the block was complete.
Is this not correct
No. You don't have to be mining when a block is found... you just have to have accepted shares in the pool's payout calculations. Missing payments - that's on the pool. You should ask them why you weren't paid for your time mining. |
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LOL... pretty sure we all remember a certain PPS pool that offered completely unsustainable payouts and ended up hundreds of BTC in the hole |
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It's random when blocks are found regardless of the payout mechanism of the pool  . Any pool using PPLNS or PPS would work just fine for you. Just realize that your expected earnings need to be adjusted for the fact that you're only mining 7 hours a day. |
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Have you been able to get tor working with 0.12? I can get it working fine if I use HashedControlPassword and pass the -torpassword parameter (or put it in bitcoin.conf). However, I cannot get it to properly authenticate using CookieAuthentication (which is enabled by default when you install tor). I keep getting errors thrown at me about not being able to read the cookie file. Of course, it makes sense since the cookie file (again default installation of tor) gets dropped into /var/run/tor/control.authcookie and file permissions are 640 with owner/group as debian-tor. The bitcoin core process can't read from there. I mean I could change the defaults file to be my bitcoin user, change the location of the cookie file to one the core process can read, etc... or I could just turn off authentication altogether, which should work just fine Thanks for the inputs |
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The more the merrier! Good luck |
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BTC finally confirmed... 227TH/s fixed order for the next couple days or so.
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