I finally have one of my rigs mining but whats the chance of hitting a block now
Looks like only adaseb in this thread knows the magic how to calc that chance, but he does not want to share it with us. I asked three times. May be it is obvious for everyone here, but I just don't get it.
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First, somehow he gets a strange number from current target ("right now the target is 000000000000A"), which does NOT corresponds to current target's first bytes, or I convert it the wrong way... so I don't know how to get that number and where to start.
Update: tried another miner (Volksholk) and finally found where that number come from. It's "target_pow" in the proxy window.
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Second, again, "somehow" he converts those zeroes to a number of hashes needed to find the block ("so 281474976710656 hashes to find a block").
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And third is easy: divide that hashes number by your hashrate to know how many seconds (approximately) you'll need to find a block.
Practical example of current situation: I'm running a small GPU farm, have about 40+GH on Pascal, and got only two blocks in last 12 hours.
May be something's wrong with v0.2 miner, I don't know. May be I should have tried Vorksholk's miner... but setting up one command line window per each GPU when you have 100 of them is kind of nightmare
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how many block it takes before a mined block matures? or spendable? anyone?
Don't know about blocks, but it is many hours. Minimum that I got was 4, but it could take 6 or more.
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By the way, congratulations to all early adopters, believers, miners and holders of this coin. You are rich now.