[4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool

[Trongersoll]

gonna try btc guild call me greedy,  I want to see btc dust sprinkling often,  the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

Good luck with that.

[nottm28]

gonna try btc guild call me greedy,  I want to see btc dust sprinkling often,  the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

I think most regulars on slush have tried nearly every pool there is. Personally, BTC guild would be my third choice - it's nice that they NMC but they have pretty hefty fees - the pplns rate 'feels' ridiculously low and a small run of bad luck makes you think sod this. Ghashio would be my second choice but again the fees are quite high. Although I do like the website for ghash better than btc - for me, both of the big players offer a 'boring' mining experience. Alas, my main pool is here - where the luck runs high and low and fast and furious. I do miss the days when slush had 15% of the entire network though. 3% is too low and I've been hoping for a website refresh for a while now... Others have been waiting a lot longer than I...

[eleuthria]

gonna try btc guild call me greedy,  I want to see btc dust sprinkling often,  the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

I think most regulars on slush have tried nearly every pool there is. Personally, BTC guild would be my third choice - it's nice that they NMC but they have pretty hefty fees - the pplns rate 'feels' ridiculously low and a small run of bad luck makes you think sod this.

I like how you're mentioning hefty fees while mining on a pool with the same fee (and no merged mining).

[nottm28]

gonna try btc guild call me greedy,  I want to see btc dust sprinkling often,  the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

I think most regulars on slush have tried nearly every pool there is. Personally, BTC guild would be my third choice - it's nice that they NMC but they have pretty hefty fees - the pplns rate 'feels' ridiculously low and a small run of bad luck makes you think sod this.

I like how you're mentioning hefty fees while mining on a pool with the same fee (and no merged mining).

Actually good point - I didn't notice when slush moved to 2% - when was that?

[eleuthria]

gonna try btc guild call me greedy,  I want to see btc dust sprinkling often,  the monthly here indicates more than luck is in play.

I think most regulars on slush have tried nearly every pool there is. Personally, BTC guild would be my third choice - it's nice that they NMC but they have pretty hefty fees - the pplns rate 'feels' ridiculously low and a small run of bad luck makes you think sod this.

I like how you're mentioning hefty fees while mining on a pool with the same fee (and no merged mining).

Actually good point - I didn't notice when slush moved to 2% - when was that?

Slush has been 2% since at least April...of 2011.  I don't think it has ever been any different.  When I first started mining before starting BTC Guild, the options were Deepbit (3% prop with paid orphans) and Slush (2% score without paid orphans), basically identical payments (orphan rate ~= 1% historically).

EDIT:  He had a single day at 0% fee celebrating the pool's third anniversary.  As far as I can tell, that is the only time in Slush's history that the fee was not 2%.

[kkurtmann]

Yes, it was the day we found 1 block.

[necro_nemesis]

Actually good point - I didn't notice when slush moved to 2% - when was that?

2%. That's pretty good. I knew my mother was wrong about spending too much time on the computer. Now I have to buy my mining equipment.

[bspurloc]

where is all the drama?

did everyone jump to another pool from the long blocks? OMG!

why havent we had an orphan or an invalid in awhile! something must be wrong! slush is causing this!

[KNK]

Yeah everything is all right for so long and we had 5 rounds for today allready ... there should be something wrong hmmm

[The Avenger]

where is all the drama?

did everyone jump to another pool from the long blocks? OMG!

why havent we had an orphan or an invalid in awhile! something must be wrong! slush is causing this!

6+ hour block, thanks! I totally blame this on bspurloc

[necro_nemesis]

Anyone care to speculate why this is reflecting a sharp dip? Seems unprecedented.
https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

The downside is it appeared to recover.  

[EasyQuest]

Anyone care to speculate why this is reflecting a sharp dip? Seems unprecedented.
https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

The downside is it appeared to recover.  

Website glitch probably, I saw a couple months back there were many dips like the one you saw but those are fixed now.

[kkurtmann]

blockchain.info has been having issues today

[Gabr1el]

   I've been mining for a month now with 3 usb erupters at around 1 Gh/s
and I can recommend slush pool to everyone as this is is the most honest
pool I found so far.
   "Luck" is not really a term I would use for describing anything that has
any computer generated numbers behind it , luck is when you throw a coin
in the air and it falls on head or tails or when you roll a dice but slush is
generally making sure to the best of his (theirs?) abilities to make sure that
everyone gets a fair share of that "generated" luck.
   I tried 50BTC BTCGuild , mining PPC etc etc and this is only pool not hiding
anything from you as all other pools are hiding the blocks you found and confusing you with steady income that is less and less in time to the point of nonsense.
   Also , Bitcoins , in my opinion , ARE NOT MONEY , they are just a big pile of
nothing that people believe is worth 500 $ per unit at the time of this post.
   Nobody knows for sure where this goes from here but as I upgrade my gear
slowly I will keep on using slush pool if it survives as it's the only honest deal
out there I found , also , mining is not work and it doesn't take anything from
my regular computer experience.
   On slush pool at least I know everyone is looking for blocks and solving them
and sharing the profit fairly according to their speed.
   Never forget , pool owner is THE OWNER OF BITCOINS MINED so trust that
the pool owner is an honest guy(s) is the most important thing for me and this
is the only pool I trust so far.Way to go slush !    

P.S. Sorry for misspelling , not a native english speaker

[kkurtmann]

Glad you found a pool you like Gabr1el. 1GH/s is pretty puny by todays difficulty, even 1TH/s is small comparatively these days.

[kkurtmann]

woohoo! keep them blocks rolling in, finally making up for the last 3 crappy weeks.

[Sir Alan]

Since the recent brief site downtime for maintenance, I see that the average hash rate is now calculated over the last 60 minutes rather than the last ten rounds.  This is a good change, giving far more useful information.

[Franklin16422]

AM I reading the stats correctly that we've found 15 blocks in the last two days?!!

[TrytoHex]

Like a train today....wish my new Ants were Here already....

[Benjy_Bronk]

Since the recent brief site downtime for maintenance, I see that the average hash rate is now calculated over the last 60 minutes rather than the last ten rounds.  This is a good change, giving far more useful information.

Slush just put up a post on the Facebook page showing what is coming soon. Great info.

https://www.facebook.com/MiningBitcoinCz