My miners are currently unable to connect to BTCguild.   Anyone else having the same problem?

What could cause this to happen and how could it be prevented?

I don't know a lot about this kind of thing myself, but unless eligius promotes bot-net use, you should be able to contact the pool owner and tell him to ban the miner from his pool.

P.S. This is just a temporary fix until you can't figure out how to get rid of it.  This fix will only render the miner useless until some changes the setting so it can mine again.

In response to post ten:

Before I answer the question I'd like to point out this was a general remark and may not be true in every instance(just like all those scientific laws which keep being proved to be not always true).  This is why I supported my case before stating the remark.

Now to answer your question; Yes until you or your body(in other words YOU again) decide to, it will be impossible.

And don't say what if some or something else made me because the post says impossible for YOURSELF.

The impossible just happened!  Someone looked into the future and saw that the flaw that cannot be fixed is fixed!

Jokes aside there are many ways for this to be "fixed", one way it may happen is technological advances will render the growing block-chain to be a trivial amount of data(and thus not a problem),
another way is there could possible be some people who will act as central nodes which contain the full block chain while other people just hold the last 200,000 blocks or so(I know this will some what centralize bitcoin but the number who have the whole block chain cannot be limited by the government and there's nothing to prevent the common BTC user from ordering a few extra hard-drives and storing the whole block-chain.)

My point is nothing is impossible unless you make it impossible for yourself.

If bitcoin doesn't fail then it will go to great heights, but even if it does fail, it's probably a good idea to put some of you money in something besides a fiat currency.

So my advice would be to keep at least a few of the BTC you have and invest in silver as well as possibly in gold.

I first read your post and had no idea what you meant.  Then I noticed about four grammatical errors, but once I finally deciphered you meaning I though it was good advice.  Until I realized that anyone who wants to be anonymous will already be using tor and anyone who doesn't care won't.

 

Have a nice day.

Hey Matoking and BCDuke, have you been paid?  I suspect we saw this thread too late, oh well, at least I found out about this great idea.

To kano:
I know my shares will vary.   My speed was pulled from the website, not my miner, so the 1.86GH/s is calculated FROM the number of shares submitted.

To eleuthria:
I had no unusual connection issues.  My mining rigs are dedicated.  I got my speed from the my performance page which as you know is the 24h average, so my average speed for both days are the same and my average speed should be based upon average share submission.  Thus my average share submission should be VERY close.  The Update answers my question, and I understand what happened now.  Thanks!

P.S. If someone happens to feel like it, could they please crunch the numbers to see if this is possible?  I'm not sure how to do it.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll see what I can do on my end.

I noticed something odd on the performance charts page.  On the 30th the pool speed was 1917GH/s and the BTC earned was 900BTC and on the 31st the pool speed was 1912GH/s and the BTC earned was 900BTC also.  So if I had the same number of GH/s both days(In this case 1.86GH/s), then I should either get the same amount on both days or maybe slightly more on the 31st.  What I actually was rewarded was 0.88764BTC on the 30th and 0.83512BTC on the 31st.

I'm not accusing the pool of cheating me and I say this with much respect to all the work eleuthria has gone through, I just can't figure out what could have caused this and my only plausible theory is the pool is cheating me.

Each miner uses about ~36MB per day.

I know my I'm in a very unique situation.  I'm not whining, complaining, or otherwise pitifully begging, I'm just asking if eleuthria ever plans on implementing difficulty 2 or >2 shares.

Thanks for letting me know, I guess I'll have to figure something else out.

P.S. It's not a cell phone plan I'm just in a place where it's really hard to get a decent internet connection.

P.P.S. Do you know if it is possible to set up my miners to run through a central computer to your pool or if that would even decrease MB consumption?

I think you are misunderstanding my situation.  I am limited to ~200MB per 24h or my connection will be grounded to a near halt.(This limit is not just on my miners and includes normal data consumption)

I mean what miner are you running through gui-miner?  Gui-miner is just a handy interface for a bunch of different types of miners.

I guess it could, but I do it every half hour to my miners and haven't had any trouble so far.

1) Yes if I understand what you mean, Once a block is solved and a mining node sees it then it will update the work it's doing to not include transactions which have already been sent.

2) I believe most miners only allow a certain number of transaction in a block to prevent it from getting to large. The bitcoin client will then chose which transactions to chose based on their priority you can see the priority of the current unconfirmed transactions here: http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/
I don't believe the amount of transactions is a very large factor in how long it takes to find a block.  It mainly has to do with the current difficulty and the luck of the miner.

What miner are you using? Have you tried opening task-manager(right click on taskbar and select) and ending the process tree of your miner?

You are misunderstanding my motive for difficulty 2 or >2 shares.  I desire to have this feature so it will lower MY bandwidth usage.(I'm running on limited bandwidth per 24 section )  If eleuthria will implement difficulty 2 or >2 shares, then I can run more computers on his pool without having to worry about my internet being ground to a near halt.

Are you planning on implementing difficulty 2 or >2 shares soon?  I was really looking forward to that feature when you first announced it.

P.S. Thanks for the great pool.(soon to be absolutely amazing once the pool's luck improves )

I believe the exact number is 2016 blocks.

Can you provide a like as to where you got this information?  I would like to know what's wrong, how this works, and why it works.

Thanks,
BookLover

I don't do skype or msn.

I just meant a small sample not the whole thing.

I mainly do C# but from what I've seen and head javascript is a whole lot more forgiving.

P.S. I really only expected to be PMed with request to help code a section of your game or search for bugs(assuming you did want my help)

P.P.S I hate to sound picky, lazy, or obnoxious.   I want to be as helpful as possible(I'm in it for the fun not any possible payments for my services) I'm just restrained because I don't want to offer something and end up not really helping and becoming a bother.

Can't wait to see how this turns out whether I'm part of it or just a spectator.