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

[eoakland]

This current block round has a lot to live up to; I am not impressed with current time of nearly two hours.  The last block round lasted damn near 12 ...in yo face #21625 !

[flipNstack]

PPS or PPLNS from BTC Guild, which is better considering their fees?

[flipNstack]

its gonna be another long one folks...

[BuhTuglia]

So, who's getting all the blocks now? It sure ain't us. Is it public or private pool(s)?

[Professoruss]

I just wrote an app that will monitor the slush api and tells you when the pool finds a block.
It can optionally send push notifications to iOS/android via https://pushover.net

https://github.com/professoruss/blockfound

Let me know if you have any feedback or can find a cheaper push app (pushover is $4.99)

output looks like this:
Found new block!! Elapsed: 11:52:20 Hashrate: 879340.212GH/s

[HLF]

It looks like the difficulty went up today... am I wrong?

[Random42]

Completely new to this so if my question is stupid I will say I am sorry now.  I have setup cgminer and configured a batch file to run it.  I was not able to get the batch file in the knowledgebase to work but I have gotten it launched with this

I:\CGMiner\cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u XXXX.worker1 -p MyPassword

However, when I turn on verbose logging I see this...

(5s):0.00 (avg): 0.000h/s |A:0 R:0 HW:0 WV:0.0/m

This makes me suspect its not actually working. So here are my questions:

Is it working and there is simply nothing to work on now?
Is it not working and there is an issue with my batch file? 
Is it not working and likely a firewall type issue?
Is there a way to tell how many MHash/s I am running?

Any help would be appreciated.  I do see other messages besides the above such as work update received and but my numbers continue to be 0

[adnx2h]

It looks like the difficulty went up today... am I wrong?

you are right HLF, check this https://blockchain.info/charts/difficulty?timespan=30days&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

Went from 2,193,847,870 to 2,621,404,453

Difficulty is a skyrocket nowadays.

[HLF]

dang... thats almost 20% increase. better get my new equipment ASAP

[eoakland]

ONE block in 20 hours.  This is what I call taking one for the team.  I hope all the other pools are appreciating our sacrifice.  Is Slush not paying his monthly dues, is there collusion against Slush  ?   Slush, point your server at BtcGuild...LoL

[BuhTuglia]

ONE block in 20 hours.  This is what I call taking one for the team.  I hope all the other pools are appreciating our sacrifice.  Is Slush not paying his monthly dues, is there collusion against Slush  ?   Slush, point your server at BtcGuild...LoL

And our hashrate is still almost 900 gigas... I'm surprised people aren't jumping ship, i don't remember things ever sucking this badly... Surely somebody out there compiles a list of pools, their payout per megahash, and their hit ratio... who is getting all the blocks, I wanna know...

[eoakland]

ONE block in 20 hours.  This is what I call taking one for the team.  I hope all the other pools are appreciating our sacrifice.  Is Slush not paying his monthly dues, is there collusion against Slush  ?   Slush, point your server at BtcGuild...LoL

And our hashrate is still almost 900 gigas... I'm surprised people aren't jumping ship, i don't remember things ever sucking this badly... Surely somebody out there compiles a list of pools, their payout per megahash, and their hit ratio... who is getting all the blocks, I wanna know...

don't say I never did anything for you...."who is getting all the blocks, I wanna know"

https://blockchain.info/search/   will indicate who is getting what

http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/chart.php  will show you the chart of pools & size, so you can see how the little tiny pools are even dominating us.

http://goo.gl/QMET   indicates the most important data that's crucial to finding blocks

I am pretty stubborn, so I am going to let it ride with Slush till the wheels fall off.

[J_Dubbs]

I've been busy working on assignments and had a bad stomach bug a few days ago, haven't watched the mining much this week, clearly not much action, yikes! This "luck" is crazy. Glad I was too busy to look because I'd have been going insane watching these blocks. Hang in there gang, hopefully we can make it rain...

[J_Dubbs]

I just wrote an app that will monitor the slush api and tells you when the pool finds a block.
It can optionally send push notifications to iOS/android via https://pushover.net

https://github.com/professoruss/blockfound

Let me know if you have any feedback or can find a cheaper push app (pushover is $4.99)

output looks like this:
Found new block!! Elapsed: 11:52:20 Hashrate: 879340.212GH/s

I've been asking the app maker on a monitor I have to add block notifications, might have to check this out!

[manubar82]

12h 40min right now.

i am not even mad, i am struggling to get my new miner going. with those long rounds i am not missing out much

[Trefdraeth]

13 hours, and I plugged in a 60Gh Butterfly Labs yesterday. That's not good Karma 

[Searing]

well this is interesting

11:52:20 last block done

13:03:03 current block not done

and did not difficulty go up today or thereabouts?

sheesh....i'm gonna be NEGATIVE mining here soon

*hmmm elec costs/heat maybe i am?"

Searing

[Searing]

13 hours, and I plugged in a 60Gh Butterfly Labs yesterday. That's not good Karma 

can you even get ROI on that beast anymore?

and yeah......it probably will RMA as soon as slush corrects itself upwards....

(not a big fan of BFL mention Searing to Josh at an expo if you don't believe me.....take a pic too"

Searing

[Trefdraeth]

ROI isn't an issue, it cost very little. Purchased as broke and fixed. It's a hobby as much as a money making exercise, I guess.
I like the modularity of the BFL's though I also have block errupters and Ant miners. So variety is the spice...
All running from a little Pi with minepeon at 5Watts
I am now going to pray to various gods, watch the Block rate start too shoot up

[necro_nemesis]

can you even get ROI on that beast anymore?

Likely but it will take the mining equipment manufacturers awhile to put their equipment prices back in line with the realities of what people are getting in return per hash at rising difficulty levels. Someone is gaining right now but it doesn't appear to be the miners. It will always be an arms race but when the price to buy arms is too high the cold war will cool and weapons manufacturers will sit idle until they lower the ratio of cost to reward.

People just need to stop overpaying for their hardware and the market forces will soon see to that. If interest in mining coin subsides then the sense of the currency having value may diminish as it could appear less desirable. This could have a cascading negative effect on the manufacturers as the price of hardware correlates to the value of the currency. So you will either have your hit and run artists making gains in the short term gold rush or you will have others that look at manufacturing as a sustainable business by offering value.