Why do you pick on nextgencoin for using logic to determine that logic can't determine anything, while at the same time you are bigoted against only certain kinds of bigots?

If there is a significant rise by hashrate of some pool, wouldn't that have also some short-term impact on the relative number of blocks that this pool solves?  The difficulty drives the complexity of finding a solution, and if there was only a single miner, this would dictate the rate of blocks solved by that miner.  If there are 2 miners, there is some competition between them, as each block can be solved only once, so some of the work expended by one of the miners would be lost if the other miner solves that particular block.  Intuitively it is expected that the instantaneous relative hash rate would have some impact on the rate of individual solutions - why is that incorrect?

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It's not 'short term', but a long term trend.  Right now Antpool reports 57.77 PH/s.  Your chart at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.0 shows that DiscusFish and Antpool found about 27% of blocks between Feb 8 and Feb 14. Isn't this simply a case of smaller pools like Slush having a smaller fraction of the overall hash rate?

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Antpool jumped to 56.30 PH/s  (https://www.antpool.com/home.htm), which could be one of the reasons for poor performance at the smaller pools.

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We don't really die since all the atoms that constitute us stay on earth but they are used to make something else.

Cross-post from the Spondoolies thread, more relevant here:


I was thinking about this the other day, actually, and I think I got a good solution to the problem.

p2pool uses a share chain much like the block chain for its reward allocation. This means that if you're mining on a share that isn't the most recent, your work is wasted. The blockchain was designed to solve the timestamping problem for creating a distributed ledger system for transactions, which is why the blockchain has to be serialized. With p2pool, there is no such requirement for timestamping and serializing the shares, so the shares do not necessarily need to be arranged in a chain. The fact that they are was probably mostly just a programming convenience in being able to reuse the bitcoin blockchain data structures. I think a better structure for p3pool shares would be a share tree, where each share references at least one parent share instead of exactly one parent share. That way, work done on shares that would end up marked as stale on the current p2pool (i.e. branching shares) could still be incorporated into the p3pool share tree. Add in a small reward to the miner who found the share for each parent share that's referenced for the first time, and everybody's shares should get incorporated as long as the share is based on the most recent block.

Since miners no longer would need to abandon work immediately when someone on p3pool finds a share, p3pool could target much higher share frequencies, such as 1 per second or faster. This would decrease share variance and allow for small miners to use p2pool effectively, and it would also allow p3pool to grow larger while keeping individual share targets reasonable.

Can he create a stone that he can't lift? 

I actually was going to say prophesied, I kind of thought someone might pull me up on using prediction. They are two very very different things.  

Ok so you might be happier about Hell for Pedofiles or mass murderers? Firstly Hell is debated by believers but generally you might want to avoid it even if it is just eternal separation from God and knowing you could of been with him.

No as a Believer all men have fallen from the perfection of God. So gays, pedofiles, murderers are all welcome in Heaven if they repent and believe. No sin I believe will condem you but also even believers will be judged for the good they did. Trust me God is way more gracious than humans ever could be. We are the first to bay for blood when we are wronged. God came as a man to earth, I think that shows his compassion and desire to bring all men to himself.

Seriously name another religion that predicted something would happen hundreds of years later and it did.

Hell and Heaven are defining points. It's impossible to have a scale with one point only.

Also, there is such thing as apocatastasis. It's another proof that we will all be in Heaven, even Satan.

I have been an atheist for the better part of my adult life, but there is a rather new religion that seems to answer all these questions for me. http://englishrussia.com/2010/02/17/russian-gadget-hackwrench-religion/

If clerics say the truth then we shouldn't worry about Judgement day. We'll all go to Heaven because God loves us.

Are you on crack? Seriously we are debating the origins of the Universe and you are comparing the originator or the BigBang as in the same realm as the source of Lightening. Seriously if you want a debate lay off the dumbjuice.

The Babylonians predated the Abrahamic God? Seriously? More crack. You are saying the origins of something are dated from the time we have recorded sources. Shit. So I guess Oxygen which was only 'discovered' and recorded was when Oxygen was started. Before we all simply died within a few minutes. In the words of Homer Simpson Dohhh!

Anymore embarrassing statements and you are dismissed from this adult debate.

Well I simply had an opinion based on what I personally believe I didn't ask anyone to changs their view for me. Now I'm being challenged because someone thinks they KNOW 100% even though they are limited in knowledge based on their brain that they had no part in designing.

So please show me your 100% fact there is no God that simply the whole world can say ah ok yo're right there is no God. You atheists are a bunch of pseudo intellectuals wearing long black coats and matrix glasses thinking the whole world doesent get what they get. If you can't be intellectally honest enough to accept being an atheist needs as much faith as believing in God, agnostics I think are worth having a conversation with Atheists have nothing but other people to point at and say see they think this, it must be true. Intelletually moronic.

Organofcorti, great work that you do here - thanks for all the reports. 

On page 1 where you list the p2pool proxy mining pools the last two are down: p2poolserver.com and thash.pl.

Also, where you provide a source for p2pool nodes there is also nodes.p2pool.co.  Could that be added?

Lastly, what exactly is a p2pool proxy server - is that just p2pool merged mining?

There's simply not enough information to soundly conclude that God must necessarily exist because you likened the Universe to a watch.  Plausible?  Sure.  Sound?  No.  That's about as clear as it gets.

Fair enough. Please feel free to add me to your ignore list if it will help with your disregarding.

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can you add to the list in first post then who have proxy mining

If it's something virginal that's required then BFL gear is out if this thread is anything to go by: BFL fucked us over again