Martin, I've recently spoken with the folks at Minersource, and they tell me that for the rest of the orders that they have with you, that you will be shipping directly to the Minersource customers, rather than to Minersource. It is their belief that you have our information (Minersource order numbers, customer names, shipping addresses, etc.), and that you could sort out, based on my Minersource order number (Either #2554 or more than likely #2418A), and possibly provide me with any progress that may have been made on my order. Granted, it is a "small potatoes" order, but I'm desperately interested, none the less. Any such information would be greatly appreciated. I'm thankful that by your indication in the above quoted post, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Just a few days ago, I also sent you a message regarding this request via the "contact us" link on your website. I'm curious with regards for your 2HEX4M's also. Thank you for any information you may be able to provide with regards to this matter.   

My first guess would be that your mining contract expired at some point before that block was resolved and that at that point you went back to your regular mining pace. when the reward was computed on the massive loss of your mining power that those shares were not considered, and that the reward that you would have recieved (if the block had not gone invalid) was based on your lesser hashing rate that would have been brought back online when your contract expired. But this is only my opinion, and there are many more experienced miners on this thread that will surely chime in to correct me if necessary.

Hope you would further realize the difficulty in getting that 0.01 BTC (approx $5.93 USD today) converted to "cash" when the typical minimum Conversion amount is 0.1 BTC (approx $59.30 USD). Your $1.83 isn't gonna make Slush break a sweat. He already get 2% of every block resolved (roughly $300 USD) so he smiles everyday on average 6 times per day, and breaks out into serious laughter when the "luck" is running high. But then of course he does have operating expenses that I wouldn't even want to ponder............... so, eh!

And/or maybe the sudden decrease is due to the fact that the "testing" of newly manufactured mining equipment has come to an end, that the equipment is being packaged up and shipped to the end user/customer that has been patiently waiting for his/her pre-order device to show up at their doorstep such that they can then place it back on the Bitcoin Network attached to the pool of their choice.

When I spoke to you on the phone, you said to E-MAIL you my request to have my order for 3ea BA X-1's converted to chips, and that my order #2554 would be converted to chips and sent on to Marto at Technobit. I've not received confirmation and when I E-MAIL minersource, Thomas sends me a link to this Forum Topic which is fine if I was wanting to make the move today, but I'm hoping my "move" was made 3 weeks ago and I'm about to hear happy news from you and provide my CC info to finish off the deal. Can you give an "old fart" a little more support? On the phone I thought we had everything worked out and priced to fit my budget. Help? Please? This Forum stuff all seems to impersonal, but you've suspended telephone support?

Chris

Please explain where my stupidity is misguided. My impression was that if the pool hashrate did not change, but the difficulty went up (due to the target number of blocks "found" occured earlier than the target time) that your "reward" per block would not change, but the number of blocks the pool would resolve would be lower due to the increased difficulty, thereby reducing your "daily reward". That being said, the reason that the Cryptocurrency miner would have to continually increase their hashrate (buy more equipment or OC their current stock) would be to increase the pool hashrate such that the number of blocks "found" by the pool would increase to the point where the "Number of blocks found" x "the reduced reward$" would equal the previously established "Daily reward", thereby maintaining the status quo. Further detailed explaination is anticipated with great eagerness!

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Other than it would be approx $6 or less, and that there are no exchanges that will convert it to cash unless you had 10X of them, No, I couldn't think of any.................... OH yeah, maybe patience!

     Fortunately it took less than 4 hours for the next round to result in a resolved block, so you got off easy on this one. Just think of it as a 24 hr block resolution and move forward. The likelihood of you having a power outage at just the wrong moment is miniscule. It just as easily could have been that your power was also restored in just enough time for you to have benefitted from a short call on the block.

Maybe we should just be able to E-MAIL Slush and let them know that it was a power outtage and that we weren't "hopping", and he'll just "fix it". Or maybe that would just get too much abuse. I'll just live with it the way it is...................

That question is the intrigue of The Great and Mighty SLUSH POOL. Since Slush is not the biggest fish in the sea, there is no "average day" and therefore, no "average earning / day". On the rare day, we may feel lucky to get 1 block resolved, and then on another we may be so blessed as to get 10 or more blocks resolved. These past few days have been wonderful, and that is why I mine SLUSH. I find it boring to sit back knowing that every hour, we would find a block and that being part of a "super sized" pool, each and every participant would receive his tiny share of the reward, but the consistency would be there at at the end of the month or the end of the three month cycle I would find "X" bitcoin in my wallet. With SLUSH, we may have a slow day with 1 block, and the next day we may have a very exciting rush of blocks. Ultimately, and "on average", at the end of the month I would find that same number of Bitcoin in my wallet, but the "roller coaster ride" made it all worth the drama and excitement of mining with SLUSH. Typically any of the Bitcoin Calculators will tell you what to "expect" to earn in a given month. If you work with a "super sized" pool, you'll find that estimation to be fairly close. If you work with a less than "super sized" pool, you'll find that estimation to be fairly close. The way that I look at it is, do I want to be bored while waiting for my Bitcocin bank to build, or do I want DRAMA, and Excitement, and a bit of misery along the path to the bank, and every time, I choose SLUSH. Ride the roller coaster!

Well played sir!    touche

     If the cost of electricity is your issue, maybe you need to look at more efficient mining equipment. Without the pool hopping protection, we'd have more and more pool jumpers hoping to link in to the luck and with the knowledge that they wouldn't lose the effort they put in just prior to jumping off the site. Maybe we need to start a major union of miners who at specific times of the day would jump to a given pool so that all the networks hashing power would be on that pool causing then to find three blocks in a row in the great numerical blockchain of events, and then all simultaneoulsly jump back to our regular pools until the next pre-programmed scheduled "enmass jump". That would surely block the option of network dominance since no single pool would be able to tell when their group would have "take over rights" of the entire Bitcoin Network hashing power, but they would have it for the 5 to 10 minutes that it took to complete the 3 block jump. just hypothicating. and I'm sure I'll be shot out of the water quickly for offering the option.

And I'll be dang if I can figure out how to submit a ticket with regards to this matter. Could one of the more learned members be so kind? Thanks for the efforts fellow miners!

OK so here goes the "Newby Question of the Day": On my stats page there is a category for "Blocks Found", and of course with the minimal number of hashes I'm contributing, I would not expect that number to change from the "0" (zero) that is currently. Does something "special" happen if for some strange reason my equipment might stumble upon a "block"? Does my "reward" change? Do I suddlenly get rich? Or do I merely get the recognition of having "found 1"? And by "found", does that actually mean "resolved", because I can't actually count the number of times my mining software has reported that "a new block has been detected"? Just posing these teasers to hopefully, eventually, get me out of, and beyond the "Newby" status that I know I justly deserve. Thanks, and I look forward to all of your educated responses.

From one "newbie" to another, how long have you had the devices connected to, and operating on the pool? It took "Several" hours for my system to register the "software reported" numbers somewhat closely matched the Pool reported. I believe in the past, it may have taken up to 10 "new blocks found (resolved and confirmed) before everything looked right.

THanks for trying to help me out guys, but i just joined the pool a few hour ago the the average hash rate in last 10 rounds is blank. and the column that says   Mhash/s keeps increasing every tie i refresh currently showing  3074141.745 , and as i stated i have no where close to that power.
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Eagerminer,  Hopefully, this explaination might help you out a bit.

     On your "Account" page near the bottom under the heading "Workers" you will see the "Average hashrate in the last 10 rounds:". That information will be blank until you have been "mining" for at least 10 rounds (read "the pool has resolved 10 Blocks"). If you've just joined the pool in the past few hours, you haven't been here long enough to have been part of the "last 10 rounds".

     In the area just below, you will find your "worker's" reportable efforts, including "Current shares" which is what your "reward" is based on, as a percentage of all the shares contributed to the effort of resolving a specific "block" (please note that this number will "reset" to 0 each time that the pool resolves a block, so don't fret when that happens. It's keeping track of your effort with regards to the current "block" the pool is working.) A bit to the right of this you will see "Mhash/s*". That is where you will find "your hashrate". Please note that this hashrate most likely will start out quite low with regards to what may be reported by your "mining software package" but it will grow as your mining continues until such time that it "approaches" the figure that is either reported by your "mining software package" or the "magic number" that you expect to see based on the type and strength of mining hardware you have connected to the system. Note that it will most likely NOT match your expectation exactly because of many factors, but most important is that it is near your expected figure. The "pool" figures this hashrate out based on the number of "shares" that your mining software is submitting, as well as the number of "shares" that are "accepted" or "rejected" and may also be affected by the number of hardware HW errors that your equipment is experiencing, so all these factors bear effects on the "reported hashrate" and are a true reflection of your equipment/mining software package performance.

     If the numbers you ultimately see closely reflect the numbers you expected, then you have nothing to fret about. If they don't match up like you expect, then you need to be questioning the equipment, or the mining software package, or the manner in which you configured the combination.

If you are looking at your "Total reward:", remember that it is a combination of your "Confirmed reward" (that which has already been confirmed) and your "Unconfirmed reward" (that which is yet to be confirmed). If a block is "Orphaned" in the process of getting all its confirmations, then it is no longer considered a part of the "Unconfirmed reward" and is then not considered in the "Total reward", so yes, it is subtracted from the "Total reward". Effectively, the "Total reward" is what you will bank if each of the pending blocks is "confirmed". The only money that you actually have in the bank is the "Confirmed reward" and that value doesn't change if a pending block is determined invalid.

     Is anyone else out there noticing a radical drop in individual hashing rate? BFGminer is reporting that I'm hashing the tail off of my tiny little ANTminer U1's and ASICminer 336MH/s devices typically total output of 6GH/s to 6.5GH/s and Slush is only reporting 3.5GH/s on current round and my 10 round avg is dropping as rounds cook off. Just noticed this as we broke the PH/s for the Pool, and don't understand the relevance? As an undesireable side effect, my payouts are similarly lower (nearly 50% lower), and I can relate that with higher Pool Hash rates, my tiny share is lower proportionally, but not by the nearly 50% as I'm seeing. I'm seeing fewer than .1% rejected shares, and lower than .3% HW errors, so I can't attribute it to anything on my end of the equation. Can anyone please enlighten me?

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Late update. Not a pool related issue, but a power starved Antminer U1. Replaced power adapter for USB Hub and all is well in the household once again. Sorry if alarm bells went off for anyone. Once again, it's the newby not properly checking out his own side of the setup thoroughly. But then again, that's how newbies gain experience. Thanks to all for allowing me to resolve issue on my own.