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

[PostMixer]

(pushes eoakland to the side}

Nice job, organofcorti.   Much appreciated.

@chopsticks, i seriously doubt you have ever pushed anyone.  you have more than likely been on the receiving end of one too many pushes and pelvic thrusts bottom boy.

@eokland, What's up with the trust warnings on your profile? Not trying to be an ass, I just have never seen that before. Extreme Caution sounds serious?

[eoakland]

(pushes eoakland to the side}

Nice job, organofcorti.   Much appreciated.

@chopsticks, i seriously doubt you have ever pushed anyone.  you have more than likely been on the receiving end of one too many pushes and pelvic thrusts bottom boy.

@eokland, What's up with the trust warnings on your profile? Not trying to be an ass, I just have never seen that before. Extreme Caution sounds serious?

that's funny you ask bro, click on the trust section.  i sold/fronted without payment something to someone, double-checked that they were sure, they confirmed, i shipped, next thing i know the dude refused it, and instead of sending back 2 day priority....my miner is stuck in USPS return limbo for 21 days.....the buyer did not keep his word one too many times.  so i finally left him negative feedback and he returned the favor.  

if you click on my feedback you can see the story and reference link.  

[PostMixer]

(pushes eoakland to the side}

Nice job, organofcorti.   Much appreciated.

@chopsticks, i seriously doubt you have ever pushed anyone.  you have more than likely been on the receiving end of one too many pushes and pelvic thrusts bottom boy.

@eokland, What's up with the trust warnings on your profile? Not trying to be an ass, I just have never seen that before. Extreme Caution sounds serious?

that's funny you ask bro, click on the trust section.  i sold/fronted without payment something to someone, double-checked that they were sure, they confirmed, i shipped, next thing i know the dude refused it, and instead of sending back 2 day priority....my miner is stuck in USPS return limbo for 21 days.....the buyer did not keep his word one too many times.  so i finally left him negative feedback and he returned the favor.  



if you click on my feedback you can see the story and reference link.  

Got It. I never new you could click on that trust (feedback ) link. Sounds like you got a bad rap on that one. Hope things work out for you.

[organofcorti]

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Thanks for the Formula's and explanation. I for one will try this. Probably not until the weekend, But I will get back to you with my results.

I'll be interested to see how you go. Keep us posted?

[bebooba11]

Sorry Slush. Had to hop out. I'll be back

[chopsticks]

(pushes eoakland to the side}

Nice job, organofcorti.   Much appreciated.

@chopsticks, i seriously doubt you have ever pushed anyone.  you have more than likely been on the receiving end of one too many pushes and pelvic thrusts bottom boy.

{screams YIPPEEE-KAI-YAY motherfucker and slams eoakland upside the head with a TRUST, not thrust, of his his pelvis}

Overly sensitive today?
You may have gotten a bad rap on the trust rating but you sure are a sensitive monkey.

Sure,  I'm the one person on the planet who has never pushed anyone.

But you.

{push}

[eoakland]

(pushes eoakland to the side}

Nice job, organofcorti.   Much appreciated.

@chopsticks, i seriously doubt you have ever pushed anyone.  you have more than likely been on the receiving end of one too many pushes and pelvic thrusts bottom boy.

{screams YIPPEEE-KAI-YAY motherfucker and slams eoakland upside the head with a TRUST, not thrust, of his his pelvis}

Overly sensitive today?
You may have gotten a bad rap on the trust rating but you sure are a sensitive monkey.

Sure,  I'm the one person on the planet who has never pushed anyone.

But you.

{push}

@chopsticks, ok...now that one was funny.  i can see the humor in your last post.  =)   

perhaps a good cup of café and statistical climb in pool luck have helped.  have a good day chopsticks

[bspurloc]

So 37% day luck np happens, 70% week luck yeah hmm.... and 91% month.... we sure something isn't wrong?  Might have to switch soonish myself but rather support spreading out hash power.

I'm never sure, but then people jump on me and say I'm a conspiracy theorist. I dunno, my opinion is our luck will improve once the database issues are resolved, just like last time it choked when we were getting close to 900TH/S. BUT, nobody wants to even consider the possibility that it's an issue backstage on the pool, which honestly is what appears to be happening. I love that "IT guy" mentality where anyone exploring potential explanations for what looks to be a pattern of "luck" is labeled as an idiot.

I dunno, seems very funky.  just look at when everything is going smooth how quickly the confirmations for blocks found go....but when there is a glitch, the blocks take forever to get confirmations.  one block lasts 23 hours to confirm.  how many "website under service" messages have we seen today ?  all points to issues behind the scenes.  I think during bad luck collective hashing power should be pointed to BTCGuild ...LoL.  those guys find blocks left and right...never a sad 30% dry spell for so many days.  in the past  7 days or so our month luck dropped big time.  What the feezy ?

I'm not sure who you talk to, but if you look at the BTCguild thread, You'll see that they are all commenting on a bad luck streak as well.

30% worth i think not.   don't get me wrong...like slush pool...just hate this "bad luck" streak.  i paid too much to get jalapeno paydays.

just mentioning u bought a jalapeno means you paid too much. 5-7gh/s price when a cube for the same price does 30-38gh/s?

[bspurloc]

Wow! My miner found a block. Number 285163. A first for me.

Mine found 2 a couple days ago throughout a single day and my rig is microscopic in comparison to what I see out there. Is that equivalent lightning striking twice?

yes very odd.. a friends 60gh/s rig found 2 blocks last week. essentially an impossible feat in comparison. but luck is luck, or someone is manipulating the data

[manubar82]

Wow! My miner found a block. Number 285163. A first for me.

Mine found 2 a couple days ago throughout a single day and my rig is microscopic in comparison to what I see out there. Is that equivalent lightning striking twice?

yes very odd.. a friends 60gh/s rig found 2 blocks last week. essentially an impossible feat in comparison. but luck is luck, or someone is manipulating the data

I have to ask: do you get any kind of "Bonus" when your hardware finds a Block? Or the usual reward you would get for participating?

[Trongersoll]

Wow! My miner found a block. Number 285163. A first for me.

Mine found 2 a couple days ago throughout a single day and my rig is microscopic in comparison to what I see out there. Is that equivalent lightning striking twice?

yes very odd.. a friends 60gh/s rig found 2 blocks last week. essentially an impossible feat in comparison. but luck is luck, or someone is manipulating the data

I have to ask: do you get any kind of "Bonus" when your hardware finds a Block? Or the usual reward you would get for participating?

usual reward, no bonus

[cr1776]

Wow! My miner found a block. Number 285163. A first for me.

Mine found 2 a couple days ago throughout a single day and my rig is microscopic in comparison to what I see out there. Is that equivalent lightning striking twice?

yes very odd.. a friends 60gh/s rig found 2 blocks last week. essentially an impossible feat in comparison. but luck is luck, or someone is manipulating the data

I have to ask: do you get any kind of "Bonus" when your hardware finds a Block? Or the usual reward you would get for participating?

It depends on the pool. With Slush, no bonus.  Other pools have different rules - p2pool pays a 0.5% bonus to the person who finds the block.

[PostMixer]

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Thanks for the Formula's and explanation. I for one will try this. Probably not until the weekend, But I will get back to you with my results.

I'll be interested to see how you go. Keep us posted?

OK so here is what I got:

Round 21628 Thru 21657 = 30 Rounds

Total Shares = 78149042396

All blocks solved at Difficulty - 2,621,404,453.06

2,621,404,453.06 * 30 = 78,642,133,591.8

So Total Shares - 78149042396/78,642,133,591.8 (Difficulty * 30) = x

x = .993729936189684

k=30, lambda=30, x=.993729936189684

RESULT = .5105800139110

OK! Now it's up to you to tell me/us what this number means  

Thanks

[Benjy_Bronk]

...........

Thanks for the Formula's and explanation. I for one will try this. Probably not until the weekend, But I will get back to you with my results.

I'll be interested to see how you go. Keep us posted?

OK so here is what I got:

Round 21628 Thru 21657 = 30 Rounds

Total Shares = 78149042396

All blocks solved at Difficulty - 2,621,404,453.06

2,621,404,453.06 * 30 = 78,642,133,591.8

So Total Shares - 78149042396/78,642,133,591.8 (Difficulty * 30) = x

x = .993729936189684

k=30, lambda=30, x=.993729936189684

RESULT = .5105800139110

OK! Now it's up to you to tell me/us what this number means  

Thanks

If you convert the numbers to letters it spells out,,,,,,

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

[organofcorti]

...........

Thanks for the Formula's and explanation. I for one will try this. Probably not until the weekend, But I will get back to you with my results.

I'll be interested to see how you go. Keep us posted?

OK so here is what I got:

Round 21628 Thru 21657 = 30 Rounds

Total Shares = 78149042396

All blocks solved at Difficulty - 2,621,404,453.06

2,621,404,453.06 * 30 = 78,642,133,591.8

So Total Shares - 78149042396/78,642,133,591.8 (Difficulty * 30) = x

x = .993729936189684

k=30, lambda=30, x=.993729936189684

RESULT = .5105800139110

OK! Now it's up to you to tell me/us what this number means  

Thanks

The "RESULT" is the Erlang distribution cumulative distribution function p-value. From Wikipedia, the CDF "is the probability of observing a test statistic at least as extreme as the one observed".

In this case results refer to the lower tail probability, so given a value of 0.5105 this means that there is a probability of 0.5105 of observing actual shares/expected shares of 0.9937 or less.

In other words: If you did the same thing for one hundred other group of 30 blocks, you'd get better luck 51.05% of the time (and worse luck 49.95% of the time).

So the 30 blocks that you tested were very close to perfectly neutral luck.

[PostMixer]

...........

Thanks for the Formula's and explanation. I for one will try this. Probably not until the weekend, But I will get back to you with my results.

I'll be interested to see how you go. Keep us posted?

OK so here is what I got:

Round 21628 Thru 21657 = 30 Rounds

Total Shares = 78149042396

All blocks solved at Difficulty - 2,621,404,453.06

2,621,404,453.06 * 30 = 78,642,133,591.8

So Total Shares - 78149042396/78,642,133,591.8 (Difficulty * 30) = x

x = .993729936189684

k=30, lambda=30, x=.993729936189684

RESULT = .5105800139110

OK! Now it's up to you to tell me/us what this number means  

Thanks

The RESULT is the Erlang distribution cumulative distribution function. From Wikipedia, the CDF "is the probability of observing a test statistic at least as extreme as the one observed".

In this case results refer to the lower tail probability, so given a value of 0.5105 this means that there is a probability of 0.5105 of observing actual shares/expected shares of 0.9937 or less.

In other words: If you did the same thing for one hundred other group of 30 blocks, you'd get better luck 51.05% of the time (and worse luck 49.95% of the time).

So the 30 blocks that you tested were very very close to perfectly neutral luck.

Well again Organofcorti, thank you for that! It's the most tangible explanation I have seen to date regarding the pool "luck". I hope others grasp this as well and realize that things seem pretty neutral. I know it sucks to have these LONG blocks, but I do think it's right in line with the "luck"  of this pool overtime. Translation, I don't think there is any monkey business going on behind the curtain 

[adnx2h]

Running 30Ghs with this long blocks. bad luck brian

[Grix]

91% 30-day luck.. That's pretty awful

[gourmet]

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

(5s) and (avg) are your average hashrates for the last 5 seconds and from the program start respectively.
(You can find this information in the CGminer README file.)
So you're running zero MHash/s. So: It's not working.
The other messages can help you in finding the reason.

[bobsmoke]

...........

Thanks for the Formula's and explanation. I for one will try this. Probably not until the weekend, But I will get back to you with my results.

I'll be interested to see how you go. Keep us posted?

OK so here is what I got:

Round 21628 Thru 21657 = 30 Rounds

Total Shares = 78149042396

All blocks solved at Difficulty - 2,621,404,453.06

2,621,404,453.06 * 30 = 78,642,133,591.8

So Total Shares - 78149042396/78,642,133,591.8 (Difficulty * 30) = x

x = .993729936189684

k=30, lambda=30, x=.993729936189684

RESULT = .5105800139110

OK! Now it's up to you to tell me/us what this number means  

Thanks

I went trough the same drill and got the same numbers just to corroborate the effort of PostMixer!