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

[bobsav2121]

Slush just posted this:

Dear miners, the recent mining days showed some bad luck. The difficulty has risen again a few days ago, too. I am posting this as we have been receiving questions regarding the 3 invalid blocks and the extremely bad luck. There is no issue with the mining infrastructure. The luck will recover soon. Keep mining. Your slushpool team

Where was this posted? Why don't they ever post here anymore?

Yes I would like to know where this was posted, or did someone just make it up.
After the last few days you'd think the owners of the pool would have some comments.

Slush called me on his satellite phone from his yacht in the Bahamas.
OK I lied, it was here https://www.facebook.com/MiningBitcoinCz

Whats "facebook" ?
I'm old and retired and need slush to supplement my income.
Bob

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[JPoet]

Slush just posted this:

Dear miners, the recent mining days showed some bad luck. The difficulty has risen again a few days ago, too. I am posting this as we have been receiving questions regarding the 3 invalid blocks and the extremely bad luck. There is no issue with the mining infrastructure. The luck will recover soon. Keep mining. Your slushpool team

Where was this posted? Why don't they ever post here anymore?

Yes I would like to know where this was posted, or did someone just make it up.
After the last few days you'd think the owners of the pool would have some comments.

Slush called me on his satellite phone from his yacht in the Bahamas.
OK I lied, it was here https://www.facebook.com/MiningBitcoinCz

Whats "facebook" ?
I'm old and retired and need slush to supplement my income.
Bob

I take the fifth.

[Omarko]

Can someone explain, my reward seems to be about the same for each block. Is that right how it works? Even if I have lets say 5THs miner setup and it takes a week to find a block, I will get same reward ? And then its also possible on other hand to find 10 blocks in one day and get reward for each one within that time period?

[mstrongbow]

Ugh, I am getting ZERO Bitcointalk.org forums notifications for thread subscriptions.
Not sure why nothing is being pushed but I figure I will try and contact support or something.

[Billbags]

Can someone explain, my reward seems to be about the same for each block. Is that right how it works? Even if I have lets say 5THs miner setup and it takes a week to find a block, I will get same reward ? And then its also possible on other hand to find 10 blocks in one day and get reward for each one within that time period?
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http://support.bitcoin.cz/Knowledgebase/Article/View/32/1/score-based-reward-

Slush's Pool is a score based system. One block is only one block, no matter how long it is. Your payout is for your score of accepted shares during that block. Your payout depends on your hashtate, the pools hash rate and the difficulty at the time.

[JPoet]

Can someone explain, my reward seems to be about the same for each block. Is that right how it works? Even if I have lets say 5THs miner setup and it takes a week to find a block, I will get same reward ? And then its also possible on other hand to find 10 blocks in one day and get reward for each one within that time period?

That is correct.  You get a share of the pot and assuming all players are in it the whole time, your share will be constant.

[xstr8guy]

...to find out where something was posted these days....


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Dear miners, the recent mining days showed some bad luck. The difficulty has risen again a few days ago, too. I am posting this as we have been receiving ...

Also, we had like 3 orphaned blocks within 2 days...yes, that sux, but NONE during the last couple of weeks if I am not mistaken, and on average 1-2% of blocks are orphaned so nothing really weird here.

OK? We all done soiling our panties now?

PS You want to see sustained bad luck? Check out BTC Guild. They have looooong stretches of bad luck. Jun 21-Jul 10 for example....!

BTCGuild's supposed "bad" luck...

Approximate Pool Luck* (24H / 3D / 1W / 2W / 1M / 3M / All Time):
142.754% / 114.748% / 101.713% / 95.748% / 93.343% / 93.686% / 98.172%

[kkurtmann]

looks like they have had a pretty unlucky 3 months or more minus the last week.

that's like us in reverse

[Blazarius]

Slush is my first try for a pool..

But after reading a bit left and right...

I'm moving towards Eligius...

We'll see how it goes!


Anyone knows anything about a rumor about decrease of difficulty in the next 2 weeks?

[syrota]

Do not consider me a traitor, but I'm leaving. I counted how many I pissed away money and was horrified! Good luck to everyone!

[JPoet]

I haven't gotten a payout from Slush in over 2 days anyone seeing an issue besides me? 

[sjc1490]

I haven't gotten a payout from Slush in over 2 days anyone seeing an issue besides me? 

Here is the link to create a support ticket:
http://support.bitcoin.cz/Core/Default/Index

[bozo333]

In theory you could switch from one 'unlucky' pool to another only to have another stretch of bad luck and then you switch one more time and same thing. This all assuming it is just bad luck and not something else. Dividing your mining power among several pools is one approach that might help and it might not, as one pool is not 'aware' of your bad luck at another and thus 'thinks' it has to make something up to you.

[bozo333]

Slush is my first try for a pool..

But after reading a bit left and right...

I'm moving towards Eligius...

We'll see how it goes!


Anyone knows anything about a rumor about decrease of difficulty in the next 2 weeks?

I bet you will not like the way Eligius handles their payouts (waiting in a que, possibly for days) as you have been spoiled by Slush ;-)

[JPoet]

I haven't gotten a payout from Slush in over 2 days anyone seeing an issue besides me? 

Here is the link to create a support ticket:
http://support.bitcoin.cz/Core/Default/Index

Thanks

[bmoscato]

seems like everyone is jumping ship, right now we are at 4067693.594 Ghash/s for the server, we were over 51 this morning and closer to 56 yesterday...

[Skydaddy]

seems like everyone is jumping ship, right now we are at 4067693.594 Ghash/s for the server, we were over 51 this morning and closer to 56 yesterday...

And/or maybe the sudden decrease is due to the fact that the "testing" of newly manufactured mining equipment has come to an end, that the equipment is being packaged up and shipped to the end user/customer that has been patiently waiting for his/her pre-order device to show up at their doorstep such that they can then place it back on the Bitcoin Network attached to the pool of their choice.

[Melb]

seems like everyone is jumping ship, right now we are at 4067693.594 Ghash/s for the server, we were over 51 this morning and closer to 56 yesterday...

Good thats more for me  !

Seriously though - in this game you have to take the rough with the smooth! There will be times like this when blocks are few and far between and there will be other times when they are plentiful... The long term figure is the important one...

[bobsav2121]

seems like everyone is jumping ship, right now we are at 4067693.594 Ghash/s for the server, we were over 51 this morning and closer to 56 yesterday...

Good thats more for me  !

Seriously though - in this game you have to take the rough with the smooth! There will be times like this when blocks are few and far between and there will be other times when they are plentiful... The long term figure is the important one...

That doesn't help me, I'm an old man eating stewed tomatoes out of a can.
I need my blocks !!

[bozo333]

Glad I have a couple larger script miners too going after DogeCoins