My .stick address hash rate is going to drop by half for a little bit, I have to swap out its Y-cable and the new one isn't here yet.

All pools must update to produce v4 blocks by a certain time, but it doesn't have any affect on miners - as long as the pool is updated in time.   

Click "nightly" on the app updates part of the options page, the save settings and it should prompt to update again, v2.1.0.28 is the most current version.

Get an S3+, it will do 450-500GH/s (depending on clock settings) rock solid for ever and you won't have to do anything for it.  They are right in that price range, including the psu (I have one for sale for an S3 if you need one).

If you want to stay with usb miners then get like 4 compac sticks and run them 15-20GH/s each.  They are great little miners.

Very nice!  Much more useful than the columns that you replaced.

Any chance of getting this in future release versions?  Code scares me, even when it's just a simple copy/paste exercise.

+9.9   = mikestang

Please and thank you.

We kept thinking S7 hash would hit for like 3 adjustments, but we didn't really see anything until this last one.  Do you really think batch 7 will makes its presence known right away?  I think we might not see it for an adjustment or 3.

There is no minimum for the lower interest rate account, I've been using that account now since they announced it and while the earnings aren't stellar, at least my bitcoin is growing on its own and I feel I can trust where it is.

The high-yield accounts have a 10btc minimum I think.

Regardless of the strategy, I do not like reading about a "$100 investment" that is no more of an investment that buying 100 lotto tickets.  Does no one know what an investment is anymore?  Gambling is not an investment, renting hash is not an investment, buying hashing gear is not an investment, these are all expenditures - no investment involved.

Once they zombie out I think they are harmless.  Although I have had two molex plugs melted by a U3 and it wasn't even overclocked very high...

Mine have also been accurate with the red led, it always shuts off when they zombie.

Welcome to the U3, this is how they operate.  You'll be lucky if you can get more than 1 to work at once, also, good luck!

I think it needs a hard connection to your modem or other router and then it can broadcast a wifi signal, but I do not believe it can receive a wifi signal and the repeat it out again like a signal booster (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

I started mining less than a year ago and difficulty was in the 30G range, amazing how fast it is rising.  And still we mine on.

Wow, congrats!  That must be a record for any compac stick, I've had a few million shares (2.9M best ever) but only on my S3+ have I seen over 1G.  Is it the same stick that won high share in the OC contest?  Lucky stick!

I hope you can grasp the idea as it has been pointed out a few times already that you are wrong on just about everything you stated.  Your points are a great summary of the common misconceptions almost all people have about how solving a block works.

First, instead of "Edition" you mean to use "Edit" or "Addition" (as in additional information), otherwise your English is very good.

When you first connect to the pool it is set so that you mine at 1042 difficulty.  This means only shares with a value of 1042 or greater will be accepted by the pool (it takes a share more than the network difficulty, ~72,700,000,000 right now, to successfully solve a block).

If you do nothing the pool with automatically adjust your difficulty to an appropriate value, based on your hash rate, so that you submit about 18 shares every minute.

The pool will never adjust your difficulty below 42, and likewise if you use a command line command to tell the pool what difficulty you want it cannot be lower than 42 or the pool will just use 42 as a minimum.

Essentially you can just ignore all of this because it ultimately has no effect on your mining or your ability to solve a block and the pool code will adjust your difficulty for you without you having to do anything.

There are plenty of people that gamble professionally and are able to make a living at it, but there are way, way more that end up losing - losing it all or losing enough to know that professional gambling isn't for them.  Even the successful professionals are only on the winning side like 56% of the time, so even being a winning professional gambler you still lose about 40% of the time.

Dang, that would have solved a block earlier this year!  How much hash power are you running and what type of machine pulled that share?

Weather has finally cooled down here where I don't need my AC everyday, and with the strong btc price right now I have turned back on my solo mining machines.  Despite the fact that difficulty is 20G higher than when I shut my miners off at the start of the hot season I am still hopeful that I might get lucky some day.

I also finally got an R1 with CrazyGuy's custom firmware (to run my U3) and plan to have it's massive 5GH/s pointed here instead of at bitmain's pool like they come from the factory.

And they work right out of the box, or someone new can learn and apply as they go to overclock it and stuff and really get something out of a little usb stick.  The U3 was one of my first miners and what a mistake that was, I wish I could have started with a compac.  I have 4 compacs right now running about 54GH/s total, so about the same hash rate as the U3 but with no head aches, only fun.

You're right, I should have said they wouldn't see any payments until you implemented said code.  Hopefully by then bitcoin will be worth a lot more and make it worth the effort. 

Very nice use of your basement, how many TH do you have running?  I like the duct work, does it exhaust the heat up to the outside, or ?

Probably heats your floor up nice in the winter, too.