Looks like the person deleted the post already.  But just to clarify:  BTC Guild continues to mine NMC, paid out to PPLNS users only.

Unconfirmed Rewards = Rewards you've earned from blocks without full confirmation.  Depending on how long it's been since the pool last had a block, how many blocks have been found on the network since, and how long the pool leaves them in "unconfirmed", this number can in fact be 0.  Just based off what "Unconfirmed Rewards" have meant for every other pool I've seen it on over the last 3 years.

40 is on the top, and one of the metal pins says 32V.

USB Hub Fuses

Well, I screwed up.  In the 2nd box of hubs, I found a plastic bag of fuses.  Now going back into the first box of hubs (where I never found any), I found another bag of fuses, UNDER the bottom cardboard flap.  Fuses are being sent out to all orders that have already been shipped.

Header and speed chart now updated to TH/s .

Waiting a little longer before updating the topic.  Still ~5 TH/s short on the 24-hour average.  Really amazing to think of how far the network has come in the last 10 months.

PPLNS is *3%*, not 2%.  But it does pay orphaned blocks, which is something you don't get from most other pools (without paying above their stated fee).  And the 103% is not since the difficulty change.  For the last 5 weeks roughly, the Pool Luck chart has displayed the average luck since the chart was implemented.  So we're ~3% positive for the last 5 weeks.

I doubt it affects any other pool.  Based on their post, I'm guessing 50BTC in their infinite lack of wisdom did not invalidate previous jobs, or did not set the difficulty (payout rate) on a per-job basis when a miner changed their difficulty.  This would allow a miner to store up high diff shares (not submit them), then regularly alter their difficulty on the pool interface, and submit them for more credit at a higher difficulty.  It's a completely obvious exploit, but the description points to this scenario.

Fun fact:  I did the math on how much extra payout you'd get on a pool with such an exploit.  I think 50BTC's limit was diff=512, in jumps of powers of 2.  So 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512, 10 different levels.  The formula for how much extra you'd expect to be paid on a power-of-2 difficulty adjustment system is:  (# of difficulty settings + 1) / 2.  So in this case, a person exploiting a manual difficulty adjustment with 10 different levels would be making 5.5x more than they should at a given hash rate.


The luck part isn't a mystery.  40% and 120% days aren't even close to unusual.  I think they were too used to controlling a massive portion of the network, so when they became a relatively small part, they were caught off guard by how much daily variance you see.

I don't get any paperwork with them.  They're just given to me to sell.  I really hate this part of it, because I have little/no knowledge of electrical stuff, only the basics (Amps * Volts = Watts, and the permutations of that).

It is not an estimate.  It is using real data.  The last 24 hours worth of closed shifts in the case of PPLNS, the last 24 hours worth of share submissions for PPS.  The only part that doesn't work is right after a difficulty change, the PPS 24-hour earnings reflects the *current* difficulty, so when diff changes, the 24-hour earnings takes a nose dive immediately rather than slowly declining over 24 hours.

I'll likely take private orders on hubs soon.  Most the other sellers are only giving the hubs to orders of 50+, so they're guaranteed to have leftovers for people who don't order multiples of 50 (since they get 1 per 50 erupters).  I'm offering it for orders of 40+ because I figure that will likely exhaust the majority of hubs I receive since there will always be quite a few small orders that don't get hubs.

I probably won't sell them directly on the website as individual items, just due to the extremely limited supply of hubs at this time.

Your stats must be wrong.  What pool smaller than slush (which is already fairly small) has found seventeen blocks in the last 24 hours?

You can scroll up/down on the list with the arrow keys.  Learned that one back when I (foolishly) thought I could test each unit before shipping to avoid DoAs.

My understanding is these hubs will be a standard part of ASICMINER USBs giong forward, so when Gen3 comes around you'll easily be able to get a hub along with your order.  But yes, it's obviously a plot to make you buy more BEs.  It's also a plot to make *me* buy more BEs.  I can't order hubs separately last I heard from friedcat, only 1 hub per 50 BEs .

Update from friedcat:  The power supply must supply the current from the 5v rail.  This means your PSU must provide at *least* 0.5A @ 5v per erupter you plan to run.  Planning at 0.55A per erupter is recommended just to be safe.

Minor Pool Update
The difficulty has recently changed.  As a result, the luck charts have stopped updating as new shifts end.  This will be corrected shortly.


Update:  Luck graphs are now updated to reflect the interim shifts which are partially at old diff and partially at new diff.  The 'N' value has also been increased by 30% in order to bring shifts back to the 40-50 minute range.  This has no affect on your earnings, it only changes how much variance you'll experience per-shift.

I've not received confirmation yet.  At this time, it is safe to *assume* it uses all 5v rail and get a power supply that supports 25A+ at 5v (26+ would be nice to have more than a 0.5A buffer).  If it also uses 12v, then at least you were safe (pretty much any PSU supplies enough watts over 12v to power 49 erupters).

Working fine here.  934 TH/s implies it's working well for others too...

Right now I'm not able to order hubs separately from ASICMINER, they are sold together with erupters.  As a result, I don't want to sell them separately until I've sold enough of the erupters in smaller batches to guarantee anybody ordering a large quantity has had a chance to get a hub.

Once the first burst of orders dies down, I will eventually update the checkout to offer hubs at a large base price, but with a discount for each erupter ordered with it.

As of right now, the hubs are available in the store.  I have slightly modified it to be available for orders of 40 Erupters, since it's a bit mean to include a 49-port hub for 50 miners .  I figure there should be enough orders that either don't order enough for a hub, or pass on the hub, to make up for the fact that I only receive 1 hub per 50 units.