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Also you can check the info page for the old address. It should give you an estimate of when it will be paid based on being idle.

Except for looks I'm about as hot as a Sports Illustrated cover model. Get it?

Suggestion: Display a luck calculation for 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days.  We're spending a lot of our mining time now trying to get big (profitable) dogecoin blocks, which is great, but since we haven't hit any our luck is probably negative. Showing the luck will help reassure miners when rewards are low due to randomness.

EDIT: Also, can we add MEOW. Seems to be the hot coin now and a good fit for this pool. (Assuming coinedup is supported as an exchange.)

Do they have an order queue or something? Any way to find out when ours will ship?

Suggestion show approximate BTC value on the blocks found.

Mining. I was in the process of writing my own per-block reward switcher but at 1% I'll just use yours. Well done. I was wondering how many other people had noticed that opportunity.

Most of the rigs hitting the street are already mining. (You think the manufacturers don't "test" them before they ship? ROFL.) There won't be any dramatic difficulty reset from any new miners shipping at this point. The jump from the first ASICs where we saw superexponential growth for a while was the only big jump that will ever happen, absent a massive move upward in price.

To answer the original question blades and cubes are not "obsolete" in the sense of no longer worth using. They make a lot more than their electricity cost, so at the right price they still have useful value. That will continue for a while (during which time they will continue to depreciate to scrap value, but nowhere near that now).

If you want the latest and greatest, they are far from that.

You have to ask yourself why, if the most successful and second most successful crypto coins both have long term mining schedules, almost every single altcoin has a very short mining schedule. I doubt it is because they are trying to be successful. To do that you take what already works and build on it.

I think it is foolish to hold any of these coins beyond short term speculation.

Bitcoin and possibly Litecoin. The rest are on a short or long trip to zero.

Not really, the best CPU miner is competitive with GPU mining. But none of them are very profitable since the price has dropped so much. If you want to mine (whether GPU or CPU) you better be doing it as a hobby or as some kind of botnet where you aren't paying for either the equipment or the electricity. I'd include in the general concept of "botnet" say running a miner on a bunch of computers where you work.

None, with the possible exception of non-mined coins like Ripple and the colored coins (using that as a generic term).

I'm not one of these "all altcoins are pump-and-dump scams" guys but I do think that Bitcoin and possibly Litecoin will just win on the basis of network effects and first mover advantage. I don't see any of the altcoins having a compelling advantage that would allow it to overtake BTC. Confirmation time is not a compelling advantage because it just requires more confirms to get a safe and stable block chain. For that matter, the hash rates on these coins are so low that they don't secure their block chains well enough even with many confirms. So compared to BTC (and perhaps LTC) none of them are very secure, which gives them a compelling disadvantage. Not a good thing when you are trying to overtake an established leader.

I don't understand Ripple and colored coins well enough to comment on those, which is why I exclude them.

People will get bored with the altcoins as they each stumble and fall to (basically) zero, and that will be the end of that. As far as timing, I don't know. You can't underestimate the willingness of people to jump on the next DOGE. It will take a lot of coin flops before they stop.

Just use a USB light or something.

A big part of what is going on is there is one huge miner in the pool. When their payouts hit the queue, that can be multiple blocks, and if you're behind that, you will have to wait. For example, the most recent payout to the big miner is 118 BTC -- more than 4 blocks worth. I guess that must have been done manually to clear the queue since that's more than one block, although I don't quite understand how that works in the CPPSRB system. Their typical payments are around a full block, which means no one else gets paid (much) for that block, and the queue backs up a bit. On the other hand, when they don't have a payout in the front of the queue, their hash power will help find blocks faster and speed up everyone else's payments.

So with those huge payments going into the queue, things get more irregular, sometimes faster, sometimes slower.

Predicting the future difficulty is pure speculation.

Anybody know why our pool doesn't show up on this list?

http://p2pool-nodes.info/

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Not a bad idea but a better plan is to alternate between a large pool (for consistent regular payouts) and (your own node on) p2pool (to support decentralization).  P2pool will not pay out as consistently as the big pool but much more regularly than solo mining, with the same benefits of decentralization.

Anything up to 3-4 times the expected interval is pretty normal.

You will also get multiple shares in a day sometimes.

It averages out. 

This assumes of course that your miners are working correctly.