The runtime number has not changed in hours.  It's frozen.

Longest I've ever seen it down was maybe 1 minute, and that was years ago.  Maybe this one is upstream a hop.

Thanks - that's good to know.

I have been running a mining pool at home for a while now (MiningCore - LOVE it), and it's used only for home mining (only in-house mining) and I'm interested in trying another pool software.  We mine for fun and we chose in-house for learning, etc.    If money were no object - what would be the very best pool to install and run?  I would need a fully supported pool so it stays updated as new releases come out.  Regardless of all the reasons why NOT to run a pool at home, what is available to purchase?  It seems that finding commercially-available pool software is very elusive and difficult to find.  Current coins we mine for are BTC, BCH, ZEC, DOGE.   Any suggestions? 

Not that this is happening anywhere, but i have always been curious if a pool could change the miners BTC address when a block is found. So the reward goes somewhere other than to the miner that found it.

Mainly curious if this =could= be done and if yes, how could I spot it happening.  It may be impossible but I wanted to know.

Thanks

Thank you.  THAT definitely helps.
I will search for that next.

That's exactly what I have done.  I have two 20TB external drives which I've imaged everything onto in their own image files (Disk Drill is fantastic for that).

The issue I'm running into is I see pieces and references to electrum but I'm wondering if there are any beginning-of-file bits or common hex strings that I can search for which would show me the beginning of a wallet file.

The paths are gone because I am sure when I gave up with BTC I just deleted the install.  But i know the data is still there.  The drives have been untouched for all these years.  Just sitting in a box.  I've also used unerasing tools to no avail. That's why i'm down to using the lowest level type of search - hex editor/search tools.

Thanks

I have been on a quest for the past 2 years to find some old wallets I used back in 2012 and up.  I lost interest in the whole BTC stuff in 2015 and now realize my wallet(s) may have quite a bit of BTC sitting idle.  Problem is i've replaced hard drives over the years and have overwritten a lot of stuff, etc.   I have 26 old drives in a shoebox but there are no typical c:/User/me/AppData/Roaming/Electrum/...  type of paths which would make my life easy.

Is there a string I can look for that would tell me when I've found my electrum wallet?  I want to see if any of them are still viable/in-one-piece.  Or any string that would put me "close" to my wallet where I can sift through the data on the drive to see if I can find it?

Thanks

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Name: jbrogan
My stake: 0.005 BTC for 50ph run and for 007+
My TXID: 3aee3841f7b235185097422273a76f7cf782a03470b36de634abcc6c1c000e34
My payout address: bc1qqsnxxuhgqfyy8xt5gp8de3s8narqut0d2q4qan
My comment: 50ph special run and 5ph normal run
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Would it make any difference instead of buying 25ph for 24 hours, buy 100ph for 6 hours or 120ph for 4 hours (or something like that). ?     I noticed that when I run 80ph for a short time i get 4,255 miners running vs. 20ph when I get about 1910 miners.  I tried 100ph for 1 hour and found 5,450 miners running.   Didn't have success but noticed getting into the trillions faster.   Does it help having significantly more miners running alltogether or does that not matter?

I am not sure about "the" server but I have some of my own servers parked in a virginia data center and it's about $1720/month excluding the cost of the servers. That's for dual redundant power,  crossovers, 1gb dedicated pipe, the rack and other security items.  The servers are where you can spend some serious $.  My newest Dell server was $21,000 so that's where the costs get crazy.

This is lucky number 21    we will get it this time.

Is there any positive or negative impact on mining if I manually set the "suggest-diff" value higher than what the pool is currently feeding my miners?   

I have some old dusty S7's that are running around 4.4k diff and the utility is 17.  Was wondering if it hurts or helps anything setting diff to 10k or even higher. Last time I tried it the utility dropped to 5 but was getting much higher bestshare. Just wondering if tweaking that setting has any benefit.

I think it finally worked out to around $1280.  The problem I kept finding was the minimum bid kept going up so I had to keep increasing my bid.  Started at. 0048 and wound up at 0054 which wasnt a big deal but it was strange to keep getting pushed for other jobs so many times.

Best of luck!  Just finished a 4 day 1.3ph run.   Will try again in a week

I can have a continuous S19j Pro 104 in CKpool, I currently have it running in Ckpool....

With all you know about SHA256, how long would I have it trying to solve a block.....

My idea is to leave one alone in CKpool for a long time but there are times that I think about it and in a year is a lot of money that I will not earn, if it is true that you can find one and earn much more, but the latter is only if you find it, if you do not find it I have nothing....
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I really don't know that much about mining.  What I do know is to be hopeful, but......don't get your hopes up too high because mining is a marathon not a sprint.  You could go years without solving one, or maybe solve it in a day, week or month, etc.  It's impossible to know because luck is just that - luck.  I have a rag-tag bunch of old dusty miners running in a garage that I never visit.  Maybe once every month I will visit to make sure a racoon hasn't eaten into the wires or a fan died, etc. 

I've written some scripts that text me when I get a new bestshare so it's fun to see when it arrives.  The other night when all of my bestshares reset I knew someone was lucky.  Wish it was me, but maybe next time.  I'm also renting 1.3ph for a week to see what that can do.

The reason I love CK's pool is that it runs without problems.  I don't have to think about it because it just runs and runs.

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Ufffff, how complicated.

So in the Antiminer panel that indicates, Diff, Prioritiy, Accepted, Diffa, DiffR, Rejected, Stale, LSDiff, LSTime, it is of no use.

I understand that with a 104Th S19J pro it is very difficult to find a block, isn't it?

I have seen that the last miner who found a block with CKpool had only been mining in Ckpool.... for 1 week.


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I spent the past 2 months documenting bestshare numbers on a variety of devices and services.  My broken S5 hit 9 trillion on a bestshare and a good working S7 can't get out of the 300 billion bestshare.

Then I used Nicehash to rent 1ph for 24 hours (129 miners) and had a 1T bestshare and then did 5ph (702+ miners) for 24 hours and only got to 800B. Then did crazy runs at 45ph (3400+ miners) for 90mins and got only 334B.  Then did 65PH.for 90mins (5300+ miners) and got 119B.  And on and on.

It's so clear that it's just luck.  Yes the Hash rate matters but it takes just one good Hash and you are there. The moment that some company brings in quantum computing into the mining will be the day I throw my equipment away.  They will get almost all blocks, especially when working in parallel univs. It's coming.  But until then...MINE ON! (With the awesome solo pool by CK)

Why not use Nicehash.com and rent a little bit of extra hashpower?  It's not too pricey.