Going to test their withdrawal, see if it disappears into the void on the way to my wallet.  I've got some questions and a proposal based on what I've observed over the last few days...

There is one drive-by hasher (MonkeyPaw) with a big rig, 20Mh/s or so, who rolls through the pool once in a while.  Interesting... he just jumped on there now and is showing 700Kh/s or so, but his "expected" is showing 26,000 BSY a day.  Now that, if we can trust the numbers, is about four times what we see at peak.   If we can trust the numbers!

This is where my poor borderline functional autistic math brain starts to go into melt-down, because I've found that I can't trust any of the numbers I'm seeing at all!  For instance, when I see in the wallet, numbers like I posted last night, then I add my 600Kh/s to it, I don't see a change at all.  I'll see the wallet report two radically different numbers for the difficulty at the same time, one while hovering over the green check mark (right now 0.00024654) and a different value from 'getmininginfo' (1.1816654).  

while numbers = fuckedup call headdesk();

Question... Who's hashing with what where?

Proposal:  Ditch pools for now, everyone hashes through wallets and we distribute things as much as possible until we straighten things out, gain some stability.

Edit: Pool just went into "investigating issues in the backend." mode.

Gotta get some more miners online, this is getting ridiculous.

"blocks" : 323926,
"genproclimit" : 7,
"hashespersec" : 17647,
"networkhashps" : 112561,

Edit:  No, not ridiculous, positively surreal.

"hashespersec" : 23453,
"networkhashps" : 11021,

And hoorah for that!  I was mining Phoenixcoin for a wee bit there until I looked into this huge spike they had in their hash-rate.  Seems someone jumped in and mined Five Million coins in a couple of days.  Of what use is a fair algo if someone can come in and steam-roll you with 1000+ rented cores?  The whole concept of cryptocurrency relies on it being distributed.  This isn't "redistribution of wealth", it's leveling the playing field.

Last node suggestion was adding...

addnode=188.226.187.182:36274

Worked for me.

And thar she be!

{
"blocks" : 321849,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01987761,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 7,
"hashespersec" : 59204,
"networkhashps" : 2535824,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

Now with cgminer feeding the wallet at around 500Kh/s right now it looks like I'm a major percentage of the network.  Blocks coming in every couple of minutes and I've got a feeling of unbridled power that's... intoxicating!

Mwahaha!

Excellent!

Proof of Evil -  "The business in bismuth was brisk on the isthmus."  I have just tied your tongues.  Now kneel!

Could someone with the proper totally straight-up honest blockchain post some info, numbers?  Not sure if I'm sliding off onto some netherworld here (serves me right for using a Klein bottle for a water reservoir).  I've added nodes I saw listed earlier and have connection on 188.226.187.182:36274.  Currently at around block 195,000 but it's showing estimated total blocks as 160,836.  Would be nice to know for certain if things are synched proper once this is done.  Thanks!

Me too.  St13runtime error 22, Can't open database file blkindex.dat

Thanks.  VERY tired right now and unashamedly asking for stuff I could dig for.  Ah well, download we must.

Edit:  Oh balls. Gets that error now without the -rescan.  Reinstalling, trying again.

Ah.... yeah....

{
"blocks" : 321294,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01386661,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 7,
"hashespersec" : 36843,
"networkhashps" : 589864,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

My 7050 gets about that sooo.... how do I get the wallet to re-do things past say, block 320,000 or so?  Looked at command line options and didn't see enough specifics.

Ditto.  Just wanna double-check before I turn on the hash machine.

{
"blocks" : 321286,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.04027500,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : 7,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 1732685,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

So like, we cool?  

Yeah, I'll take this weak excuse to post a pic of my baby, machine that is.

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu53/acatphoto/Tech/BadGirl02.jpg

Wow!  You got birthday presents?  Awesome!

Ah, I never bother to set the time-zones on these forums.  I'm from Mantoba where we've had to import our own (look up Red-River floodway).  Great place to do some serous overclocking.

Oh those drive-by multi-pools, their shordurpursavs are short indeed (and their salvation is so fleeting).

Wait...

Blockchain forked...

Are you certain that we're on the blockchain of the good "Bob" and not the bad one?

Did you conduct any rituals to find out for sure?

Ah fuck it, I'll surf that bitch.

I have got to learn more about blockchain construction, what's in it, how to interpret it.  For instance, I just had a quick look through the block explorer in the wallet.  Noticed that there's very erratic hashrates shown there from block to block.  However, when I jump back to say block 200,000 or so I see the same thing.  This scene and it's sparse tool-set has definitely brought out the old coder geek in me but let's just say that the last compiler I used was Borland C++ ... on my 386 (first one was Apple ][ Pascal!)  Not really looking forwards to it but I'm also not looking forwards to being put out on the ice-floe this winter.  S'true, they still do that up here.

I was going to put up some pictures today but found I had to head into the city for a bit.  If you'd like to peruse the gallery though, mine that is...

http://s633.photobucket.com/user/acatphoto/library/Site?sort=4&page=1

Bugger!  FYI the last block I received (or possibly generated) was 320667.  Question, how does a fork develop?  Is it more likely to happen when one is solo-mining?  Still learning the mathematics of this, not my field. 

*sigh*  This is why the financial markets are so fucked up. 

Which of these "coins" can you actually buy something with?  There are only three coins out there that are actually being used somewhat as money, you know which they are.  Further reality checks... Crypto-world looks pretty big on the inside, but from the outside you can't even see it.  In this city of a million for instance, there are only about 20 places where Bitcoin is used.  Mass adoption?  I wish, you wish, we all wish.  Truth is though that most coins have such low trading volumes that they can't even be said to exist, even as speculative vehicles. 

Volume: 0.015 btc or something.  I've boosted Dobbscoin by 300% for shits 'n' giggles and to show how easy it is with these low volumes.

I'd definitely need a few good trusted recommendations.  I've had nightmare situations with "the best" print shop in Winnipeg.  Used em twice, never again.  The first print they did for me was, coincidentally, that second picture of the ice crystals.  That first one, easy, nothing but blinding yellow, but it took me ages to balance the color in that second one and I couldn't believe how off they got it.  Totally green-hued, made my skin crawl and my eye twitch, very expensive, too late to change before entering it in a competition (which I won with my second entry, hoorah!)  Still, I gave them a second chance.  This time they printed it SIX TIMES too large.  Whawhawhat?  Found that the best prints in town were from London Drugs of all places.  I'll have to see if they ship internationally, don't see why not.

There's nothing like an agent though.  Someone who can get your stuff in a few windows on the right streets, or on the right walls in the right restaurants. 

Ya want art?  I'll give ya art!  Here's something that's fairly signature of my style.  I like to paint with light.  I love it when the viewer says they know it's real but they don't know what or how.  I like to push through extremes and see what comes out on the other side.  You shouldn't do this with a camera, point a 500mm lens straight into blinding sunlight.  Just so WRONG! 



And now for a quick <rant>.

Bloody bloody bloody elitist crap!  I had to put up with this shit in high-school when I was learning 6502 machine language.  "Do you know how to..."  "Don't bother me, figure it out yourself."  That was over 30 years ago.  My last programming job was an Autocad Lisp application back in 1997, Acad-12, first Windows 3.1 version.  I'm tired, I hurt, and I do NOT feel the need to learn all the background and related whatever just to install a javascript plugin off of Github just to post post to a forum.  Sorry Bitcointa.lk, suck it.  *sigh*  This scene is absolutely terrible with documentation.

</rant>

I need an agent.  I'm stuck up in the northlands of Manitoba where my work/subjects are.  I don't have access to a good print shop and know nothing about the market.  Oh I've got the pictures, tons of them, award winners and one in the provincial archives, but that's where it ends.  I just don't have the access or resources to make a real go of it.  Artists are rarely the type of people needed to sell their work anyways, we only talk like this...

{
"blocks" : 309350,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.00028080,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 7,
"hashespersec" : 3473,
"networkhashps" : 4104,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

So like... is my solo CPU mining supporting the entire network?  Awesome!  Who needs pools?  I'm gonna point CGminer at myself and pull the trigger, see what happens.

Edit:  Well this happened without CGminer.  Ok, could someone interpret this for me?

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"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.00036192,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 7,
"hashespersec" : 9299,
"networkhashps" : 5520,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}