If this was the case, and I'm not saying it isn't or is, then why have we not seen this until right now?  We had a large increase in network hash power about 3-4 weeks ago, and we didn't see the orphans we are seeing now.  As I speak, the difficulty is at about 68.  Far from the 150 we had earlier today/yesterday, but even at the lower difficulty(read lower network hash rate) we're still seeing orphans.

If the orphan rate we're seeing is an acceptable norm, so be it.  I just want to make sure I do my due diligence in investigating if there is anything that can be done to limit the amount of orphans we're seeing on the pools.

-Fuse

These orphans are starting to piss me off.

We are seeing quite a few of these, as is botbool.  It's not as pronounced on the smaller pools, but it's still happening across the board.  I just wish I knew what the issue was so I could address it.  Like if it was something that needs to change on the pool, I'd like to just change it and move on.

If anyone sees or reads anything, please let me know.

-Fuse

This is continuing to happen.  Does anyone have any information as to why this is going on?

Mark, any ideas?

-Fuse

Verified.  Cards will ship tomorrow.

Thanks,

Fuse

I don't know if Mark would be receptive to the idea.  BTC-E trading would mean massive pumps and dumps, and an upswing in price.  It wouldn't be a stable price like he's been banking on for retailers.  Also, it would almost entirely eliminate the need for an internal exchange, which needs to happen for his business model to succeed.  Essentially Taggers/retailers need to be able to swap currencies on the fly.  BTC-E can't do that.

But BTC-E trading would be nice for a weekend of trading

Well, shite...  I'll keep that in mind next time.  Well, every 1st week of the month I will need to sell a little to cover server fees.  Other than that, I'll be putting up a little every week just to feed the exchange.

Nice to see a little liveliness in the prices of crypto.  Too bad the difficulty of TAG went so damn high along with it.

-Fuse

There was absolutely no movement on it for hours, so I took it down.  I needed to cash out for server fees, so I needed to sell it quick.  I'll be putting more up next Saturday.  I won't need the quick cash out, so it will stay up until it is sold.

-Fuse

I did a F43 flash on the Gigabyte 7950s I had.  Easy peasy.  Just make a bootable usb, put the ATIflash utility and the bios bin file on it and run the command.  IMO the F43 bios is stellar on those WF3 Rev.2 cards.

The WF3 have a little switch by the crossfire ports... you'd never know it was there unless you looked.  You can run two bios versions on those cards.  Flip the switch, flash the bios, and you've got a backup of the old bios if needed on switch position 1.

-Fuse

Received my 5 today.  All in working order, well package, and just what I needed.

I have updated trust for ssateneth.

Thanks again, mate!

-Fuse

I posted up the question in the main coin thread... it's happening on all the pools.  I'm a bit confused about it, as it only really started in the last week.  We did have an orphan about a week and a half ago, but it was one.

I restarted all the services and checked the cronjobs thinking it was just the pool, but then I started checking other pools.

If I had to put money on it, I'd say we're going to see a wallet patch coming out soon.

-Fuse

That sucks, Vesper.  Almost sounds like what was going on with Johndec not too long ago.

I'm surprised no one has found a way to modify industrial power supplies to drive mining equipment.

Question...

Anyone know why we're seeing so many orphans network wide right now?  It's only started happening this last week or so.  I've checked, and most pools have shown an increase in orphans.  In fact Tagmining has had 9 in the last 7 days.

Any ideas what's going on with the network right now?

-Fuse

I just posted 70TAG on the tagbond exchange for 0.00096BTC each.  Cryptsy price ATM is 0.001BTC.

Have at it.

-Fuse

I just posted 70TAG on the tagbond exchange for 0.00096BTC each.  Cryptsy price ATM is 0.001BTC.

Have at it.

-Fuse

4th Jackpot

Alrighty folks, here's the info:

There were 358 total rounds for the week.  To be eligible for this jackpot, you would have needed to submit shares to 75% of those rounds, equaling 268 rounds.  There were 19 people, my 2 accounts, who qualified for the jackpot.  This was out of 156 miners who mined on the pool this week.  The qualifying miners are as follows:

ahczbhht1989
anchous
Andrewgaven
Bodamn
clxy
Eukaluis
flywin
FusesDad  (excluded from jackpots)
johndec
kubur
ny2cafuse  (excluded from jackpots)
Sergik
TagCoinDaddy
vantaggg
vesperwillow  (previous week win - excluded)
weatherman12
wgs520
xmwxw
zybqe177


This week's and last week's total fees and donations equal roughly 240TAG, about the same as last week.  So half of that, the total jackpot purse, is 120TAG.

This week's winners are as follows:

1st place -  Eukaluis              60TAG  -TXID 0273a9b79a8ed5bd4c4e69130e8ec755a646a6b875738df540a78161a046f7d0
2nd place - Andrewgaven   36TAG  -TXID 6abbaaaf1203a22a743d964da5d5bd86b0301c74f93314734ed5122a9548dbee
3rd place -  wgs520             24TAG  -TXID 7b7273b491bfb143e3a91467a9c601a0efb178ccdf63840c65edaf2a9d9b07a0


Payments will be sent shortly, and TXID numbers will be posted above.

Congratulations, miners!  Good luck to everyone next week!

-Fuse

That first block was painful lol... the worst luck ever.

I have a question for you guys... do any of you mine enough to be able to quit working if you wanted to.  I don't make a whole hell of a lot at work, and I did the math to figure out that I could make more mining at about 8MH a month.  I'm not much of a mine and sell kind of guy, but that's really tempting.

Any input from anyone?

-Fuse

Just to let you guys know...

Since it has been open, the pool has generated over

50,000TAG!!!

Keep up the good work, miners!

Now if I could only generate 50,000TAG for myself lol........

-Fuse

PM sent

LMAO... I should take a trip out to Colorado and try to sell the new recreational marijuana shops on using TAG rewards lol.  It would make the news instantly.

-Fuse

Then post a screenshot of the completed transaction, with a generous purchase amount, to show how charitable you were.  I'm sure that's about how much someone is willing to pay you instead of just using Bitcoin to buy it themselves on Humble Bundle.

For those of you that didn't know... you can buy Humble Bundle games, including the ones in the store, with Bitcoin.  There is no need to buy it for $5 from someone who probably paid $.99 for it.  Just go buy it for $.99 yourself.

-Fuse