I am enjoying my weekend, thank you very much. I had 3 days off of work in the month of december, including weekends, so 4 days off in a row I almost didn't know what to do with myself...
The unnamed asics are gridseed g-blades, I have 3 units, 2 stock, and 1 overclocked, each unit has 2 separate mining blades. The stock units are supposed to run at 800mhz, and a single gridseed g-blade with both blades running 800mhz will do 5.2 mh/s, and easily overclock a bit, but like different amounts of overclocking. Typically they like 837 mhz, but I have one that likes 850 mhz, and one that only likes 825 mhz, averaging that out each g-blade is good for about 5.6 mh/s.. The overclocked one is supposed to run at 975 mhz, but one blade likes 962, the other one likes 987 so that works out to about 6.6 mh/s. So that makes 6 blades, that need to be set at 4 different operating speeds, and called out by serial numbers to get assigned the proper speed. All total, that works out to 18.15 mh/s, but I had a power cable fail so I only put 5 blades or about 15 mh's toward cat for 2 days.
I have been running these since may, so I know them pretty well. They are not without their quirks, and the USB drivers are finicky. But they seem to like the BFG mining software, as I have been using it since shortly after it was released and it was a real improvement over the modded CGminer that was the recommended and having to restart the computer nearly every time I wanted to switch mining.
In that time, I have successfully solo mined (this is a partial list, because I've deleted the wallets of several coins that I've mined and sold off, with no intention of picking them up again):
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All of them successfully, with these very asics, with this same software and this same GUI, and the wallets on the same (different) machine that the cat wallet is on.
This very same rig is also running 5 280x or better GPU's. (which are no longer pointed as scrypt)
I have even run this puny 18 mh/s and gotten several Syscoin blocks in 2 days up against nearly a gigahash. Yet, after all that, somehow my 15 mh/s against 45 mh/s in 2 days can't manage to get a single block, and it's in my setup?
And you imply that I want to mine Cat to get rich quick?
You are a funny man..
That's a nice bunch of words. Unfortunately, you've commented about a lot of cool-sounding stuff, but nothing relevent to your problem. I've said that a number of times, but you haven't gotten it yet.
Sit down and listen to the old guy for a couple of minutes...
You are still ASSUMING you know the network hash rate, and thus estimating how many blocks you SHOULD receive based on that. Block counts are based entirely on CHANCE. Chance, by definition, is RANDOM. Nobody - regardless of how many shiny toys they use - can get around chance - especially in only two days. That's the first problem with your expectation.
The second is that a miner is a businessperson, and a smart business owner does her research. Let's start with a tool that the Cat devs provide that most other coins do not:
We can see from this block-time chart that this coin currently is NOT generating regular 10 minute blocks. It IS, however, generating a 10 minute block AVERAGE which is all that a coin is SUPPOSED TO TO - 10 minute blocks are a TARGET and a long-term average. No, i'm not suggesting this is a normal looking chart - clearly it's not and I'll say yet again since repetition can sometimes be useful - we know it's not right and we're pounding changes on testnet.
As I explained last message - and you apparently ignored - during the slow blocks the network hash rate is very low - and frankly, my 30MH/s is most of it. Even with that, look at the block history on Geekhash - our last known pool and note who's getting the slow blocks:
http://geekhash.org/?q=block_historySlimepuppy and Blaksmith. That's right - the dev team is mining the slow blocks - we've got our machines connected 24/7 supporting this coin. (ZeroDrama would be in that mix as well, but his 30MH/s Zeus boxes melted the PSUs a couple of weeks back.) Even with that, however, we're not snagging the low diff blocks - because that's when larger pools come in and snag those ~10 blocks. That's when you would have the best chance to get fast blocks if the network hash rate stayed down - but it isn't - that's when the network hash rate spikes, because that's when the other quick-switching miners jump in.
Now that we've done your due diligence, I think we also have to observe that you are not being forced to mine this coin - clearly there's some value for you. If you want the coins, you have to mine. and the absolute worst way to run an ASIC is to jump them around. My Gridseeds, GAW Fury, and Black Widows take about 20 minutes just to get up to full speed; and my Antminers don't like pool switching much at all either. Neither did my GPU rigs when I ran those.
So...my recommendation is to pick a coin you want to support and get on-board - and get rid of the front-end code that makes it easy to switch. Jumping around - whether in currencies, coins, stocks, or bonds is a fool's errand. They are mostly random and chaotic systems. Gamblers always think they know better, but the folks that run the casinos are not gamblers, they're businessmen...
You probably won't like all that I've said, but it comes from the heart and is as honest as humanly possible.
Good Hunting.
Andy
May be we need to have a more optimized miner.
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Great work Dev and continue showing the nay sayers what you are doing and continue with the good work 
