CHN coin difficulty??!!

[pizza]

Hey guys when I mined it a few minutes ago on my laptop it showed 8 now on my desktop it shows 526k what is the difficulty supposed to be?

At 526k it's higher than feathercoin!

[pizza]

confirmed still showing 8 on my laptop

[pizza]

it says localhost 256k
and next to the block on the bottom it shows 8k

can someone explain the difference?

[phorensic]

Are you looking at cgminer?  If so:

Q: Why do the scrypt diffs not match with the current difficulty target?
A: The current scrypt block difficulty is expressed in terms of how many
multiples of the BTC difficulty it currently is (eg 28) whereas the shares of
"difficulty 1" are actually 65536 times smaller than the BTC ones. The diff
expressed by cgminer is as multiples of difficulty 1 shares.


e.g. 8.02356428 x 65536 = ~526K

[Joerii]

Aha I was wondering this too.

Does it pay to mine solo with 1.85Mhash at this difficulty ? How can I tell if anything positive is happening ? CGminer keeps detecting new blocks and I have a super high hashrate but I don't see any feedback that Im making progress.

[Extornia]

Aha I was wondering this too.

Does it pay to mine solo with 1.85Mhash at this difficulty ? How can I tell if anything positive is happening ? CGminer keeps detecting new blocks and I have a super high hashrate but I don't see any feedback that Im making progress.

http://cnc.strament.com/calculator.php

[Joerii]

Aha I was wondering this too.

Does it pay to mine solo with 1.85Mhash at this difficulty ? How can I tell if anything positive is happening ? CGminer keeps detecting new blocks and I have a super high hashrate but I don't see any feedback that Im making progress.

http://cnc.strament.com/calculator.php

Awesome man ! Thanks ! I guess now I have to be lucky too.

[thaile4ever]

Aha I was wondering this too.

Does it pay to mine solo with 1.85Mhash at this difficulty ? How can I tell if anything positive is happening ? CGminer keeps detecting new blocks and I have a super high hashrate but I don't see any feedback that Im making progress.

Solo mining at this point?  With 1.8Mhash your chances of finding a block are like 0.1% It's not like pool mining where you get shares, solo you either find a block or not. CGminer keeps detecting new blocks, because someone else found the block you where looking for so it has to restart on a new block.

[phorensic]

Difficulty is already way too high to solo mine without something like 10Mh/s.  Use pools right now.  Set up multiple pools in cgminer to fall back on.  Make your last pool solo mining on your localhost CHN client.  I "accidently" mined a block today when both my pools were down.  Jackpot!  $30 USD in one shot.

[Joerii]

Why is it to high ? The calc says that it will take an avarage of 5 hours, meaning that I'd make an avarage of 420 coins per day.
Is there another factor I'm not considering then ?

[pizza]

Why is it to high ? The calc says that it will take an avarage of 5 hours, meaning that I'd make an avarage of 420 coins per day.
Is there another factor I'm not considering then ?

yeah I'm wondering this also, My first machine already found 2 blocks, the other 2 have found nothing even though the calculator says a block every 1.3hours or so, should I mine on the same username for all 3 machines?

[Extornia]

Why is it to high ? The calc says that it will take an avarage of 5 hours, meaning that I'd make an avarage of 420 coins per day.
Is there another factor I'm not considering then ?

yeah I'm wondering this also, My first machine already found 2 blocks, the other 2 have found nothing even though the calculator says a block every 1.3hours or so

The calculator estimates it. The rest is upon look. Alot of times, someone finds the same block before you. Therefore the one you worked on gets orphaned/rejected.

[thaile4ever]

Why is it to high ? The calc says that it will take an avarage of 5 hours, meaning that I'd make an avarage of 420 coins per day.
Is there another factor I'm not considering then ?

Luck.

look at this post to understand what mining is.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195207.80

[Petr1fied]

A pool is definitely the best way to go now. You'll get regular payments instead of having to rely on entirely on luck to hit the 88 CNC jackpot. I've been mining on blastbob's pool for about 5 hours @ 1.2 Mhash/s and received 30.33 CNC to date.

Sure it's possible that I could have found a block by myself in that timeframe but it's equally as possible I could have found nothing because it all comes down to who submits the block first. There's no prizes for coming second. The calculator doesn't take into account the blocks you find that are orphaned and worth nothing to you.

If I take that 30.33 as an average, that works out at 145.56 CNC for 24 hours and selling that at bter.com for BTC and then turning it into fiat at BTC-e would net a nice healthy $45 and that's if I didn't hold out for favourable prices.

You have an extra 600 khash/s so you would potentially earn 33% more than that on a pool. Those kind of profits are definitely worth sacrificing the potential of hitting the jackpot which will definitely be few and far between at this stage.

[pizza]

A pool is definitely the best way to go now. You'll get regular payments instead of having to rely on entirely on luck to hit the 88 CNC jackpot. I've been mining on blastbob's pool for about 5 hours @ 1.2 Mhash/s and received 30.33 CNC to date.

Sure it's possible that I could have found a block by myself in that timeframe but it's equally as possible I could have found nothing because it all comes down to who submits the block first. There's no prizes for coming second. The calculator doesn't take into account the blocks you find that are orphaned and worth nothing to you.

If I take that 30.33 as an average, that works out at 145.56 CNC for 24 hours and selling that at bter.com for BTC and then turning it into fiat at BTC-e would net a nice healthy $45 and that's if I didn't hold out for favourable prices.

You have an extra 600 khash/s so you would potentially earn 33% more than that on a pool. Those kind of profits are definitely worth sacrificing the potential of hitting the jackpot which will definitely be few and far between at this stage.

I want to pool mine it seems they all getting ddos. Are p2pools susceptible to ddos attacks?

[hendo420]

I have 5 pools in my cgminer and when they were getting ddosed earlier it was jumping from pool to pool like a frog. Atleast my gpu never went idle, always making coin.

[Joerii]

A pool is definitely the best way to go now. You'll get regular payments instead of having to rely on entirely on luck to hit the 88 CNC jackpot. I've been mining on blastbob's pool for about 5 hours @ 1.2 Mhash/s and received 30.33 CNC to date.

Sure it's possible that I could have found a block by myself in that timeframe but it's equally as possible I could have found nothing because it all comes down to who submits the block first. There's no prizes for coming second. The calculator doesn't take into account the blocks you find that are orphaned and worth nothing to you.

If I take that 30.33 as an average, that works out at 145.56 CNC for 24 hours and selling that at bter.com for BTC and then turning it into fiat at BTC-e would net a nice healthy $45 and that's if I didn't hold out for favourable prices.

You have an extra 600 khash/s so you would potentially earn 33% more than that on a pool. Those kind of profits are definitely worth sacrificing the potential of hitting the jackpot which will definitely be few and far between at this stage.

Thanks for clearing that up mate/

[pizza]

do I need my chn-qt open to use p2pools? or it doesn't matter?

[Petr1fied]

I want to pool mine it seems they all getting ddos. Are p2pools susceptible to ddos attacks?

I think it's more likely they are botnet miners rather than a typical DDoS attack. This is essentially the same thing as a DDoS attack because the owner could potentially have thousands of zombie computers mining for them, all hitting a server at the same time. Think of it as a way to monetise a DDoS attack.

do I need my chn-qt open to use p2pools? or it doesn't matter?

You could close it but it's nicer to see the payments come in.

[pizza]

is it normal to keep seeing stratum from pool 0 requested worker restart?? on a p2pool?