210000 block found

[Rassah]

13.56 transaction fee, why so high?

Celebratory sharing!

Or a preview of things to come 

[Frequency]

I like the fireworks @blockchain..congrats everyone  

[Rassah]

Everyone was trying to get their transaction in. People paid A LOT. I only paid 0.005BTC fee for mine, and it didn't get included.

Funny. I paid 0.001 and had the transaction included.

Age of coins maybe? Mine were almost virgins  (mined them myself)

[scrybe]

Does luckyshare have a forum account? Or the miner at BTC Guild who solved 209999? I was going to give them special forum titles.

Sadly I don't keep track of who solved which block, only a counter of how many block solves somebody has .

Go look at your database transaction logs to see who incremented their counter at the right time?

Just a thought.

(also to repeat it form the previous page, his name is luckybear laughingbear, there was a typo earlier (Edit: here too))

[Gabi]

Congratulations!

[scrybe]

Everyone was trying to get their transaction in. People paid A LOT. I only paid 0.005BTC fee for mine, and it didn't get included.

Funny. I paid 0.001 and had the transaction included.

Age of coins maybe? Mine were almost virgins  (mined them myself)

You guys are assuming that the pool pays attention to TX fees and optimizes the block makeup.

I'm not so sure it does looking at the number of .0005 fee transactions in there. But there don't appear to be any "leftovers" in 210001, so maybe it was just coin age.

Can anyone confirm if Slush's Pool optimizes for TX fee or if this was just FIFO?

[Serenata]

Cute fireworks

Cheers to miners and users for bringing Bitcoin forward! ^_^ More nice times to come....

[Gabi]

If it was mined on p2pool, then the miners would have received the transaction fees. Instead, on slush pool, the pool fee for that block was 13.5BTC. Pretty high in my opinion 

[slush]

Can anyone confirm if Slush's Pool optimizes for TX fee or if this was just FIFO?

I'm using standard algorithm included in 0.7.0, so transactions are ordered by the fees.

[slush]

If it was mined on p2pool, then the miners would have received the transaction fees. Instead, on slush pool, the pool fee for that block was 13.5BTC. Pretty high in my opinion  

I'm giving transaction fees to (Stratum) miners...

[deeplink]

The user from slush pool who found the block is: luckyshare luckybear.

according to slush he's pretty new on the pool and is mining with average gpu.

congrats, luckybear.

lol, he is actually called laughingbear

laughingbear

Oh, correct.

[molecular]

Does luckyshare have a forum account? Or the miner at BTC Guild who solved 209999? I was going to give them special forum titles.

slush corrected. it's laughingbear. account by that name: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=73718

I hope that's not a bad omen

[koin]

The user from slush pool who found the block is: luckyshare luckybear laughingbear.

from btc-e chat:

[laughingbear]

posted this in the newby section earlier, reposting here now that I have been given access. 

I am very new to mining, and have been at it less than a week.  This was the first block I have ever found.  I decided to become involved in Bitcoins, because I feel that it could be the answer to all the evils of government controlled currency.  This isn't a "get rich quick scheme" for me. I believe that what we are doing can change the world.  I am incredibly honored to be a part of Crypto-Currency history. 

Thanks to Slush's pool for letting me join, if any new miners are out there looking for a great pool  https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ 

In case this post somehow goes down in history, I just want to say....   FUCK The Federal Reserve System.

Donations gladly accepted at :   
17wnLRDGD9xSzxBTte8poWJzqXqkzr7Q9G

[molecular]

posted this in the newby section earlier, reposting here now that I have been given access.  

I am very new to mining, and have been at it less than a week.  This was the first block I have ever found.  I decided to become involved in Bitcoins, because I feel that it could be the answer to all the evils of government controlled currency.  This isn't a "get rich quick scheme" for me. I believe that what we are doing can change the world.  I am incredibly honored to be a part of Crypto-Currency history.  

Thanks to Slush's pool for letting me join, if any new miners are out there looking for a great pool  https://mining.bitcoin.cz/  

In case this post somehow goes down in history, I just want to say....   FUCK The Federal Reserve System.

Donations gladly accepted at :  
17wnLRDGD9xSzxBTte8poWJzqXqkzr7Q9G

Hey laughingbear, congrats on finding this milestone block! What are the chances?

It's great to see you joined Bitcoin for the right reasons (in my mind).

This might very well be the first and the last block you find, so enjoy it

[kokojie]

The user from slush pool who found the block is: luckyshare luckybear.

according to slush he's pretty new on the pool and is mining with average gpu.

congrats, luckybear.

lol, he is actually called laughingbear

laughingbear

Oh, correct.

How the fuck did you people screw up his name from LaughingBear to LuckyShare.

[slush]

lol, laughingbear -> luckybear was my mistake, luckybear -> luckyshare was molecular's job ;-).

[kibblesnbits]

posted this in the newby section earlier, reposting here now that I have been given access. 

I am very new to mining, and have been at it less than a week.  This was the first block I have ever found.  I decided to become involved in Bitcoins, because I feel that it could be the answer to all the evils of government controlled currency.  This isn't a "get rich quick scheme" for me. I believe that what we are doing can change the world.  I am incredibly honored to be a part of Crypto-Currency history. 

Thanks to Slush's pool for letting me join, if any new miners are out there looking for a great pool  https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ 

In case this post somehow goes down in history, I just want to say....   FUCK The Federal Reserve System.

Donations gladly accepted at :   
17wnLRDGD9xSzxBTte8poWJzqXqkzr7Q9G

Dude, with that kind of luck you should buy just one Powerball ticket.  Congrats!

[molecular]

The user from slush pool who found the block is: luckyshare luckybear.

according to slush he's pretty new on the pool and is mining with average gpu.

congrats, luckybear.

lol, he is actually called laughingbear

laughingbear

Oh, correct.

How the fuck did you people screw up his name from LaughingBear to LuckyShare.

I have played a great part of this. Multiple people screwed up, though:

• slush told me "luckybear" at first
• I wrote "luckyshare" instead of "luckybear" (my mistake)
• On reddit, I wrote "luckystrike" (my mistake again)
• Someone else seems to have rescrambled that to "luckyshare"

It's pretty funny when you think of it: "so what happened on your great bitcoin halving day", "well, we had big discussion about the name of the guy who found block 210,000". haha.

[molecular]

what I like about the fact that fees were so enourmous: That's exactly how satoshi planned it: tx fees will take over as mining incentive while block reward is decreased.

Of course until such fees are the norm, we'll have to wait a little bit longer.