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
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.