(finished) Mint Race #4: great prizes from CloudHashing.com !

[DrHaribo]

To celebrate CloudHashing.com starting up and BitMinter turning 2 (launch date 2011.06.26), we are holding another mint race. And CloudHashing has some really awesome prizes for the winners! The race takes place at the BitMinter mining pool. All you need to do is mine. The rules are like for previous mint races (#1, #2, #3) but the race will last a full week.

Start: sunday 2013.06.23 at 20:00 UTC
Finish: sunday 2013.06.30 at 20:00 UTC

The prizes are discounts at CloudHashing.com:

1st place: $1000 off when you spend $1500
2nd place: $500 off when you spend $949.95
3rd place: $250 off when you spend $949.95
4-10th place: $100 off when you spend $495

So if you win first prize you can pay $500 for $1500 worth of mining contracts.

Terms:
Discount codes are transferable if you want to give it away or sell it, rather than spend it yourself.
Discount codes valid for 2 months.

Rules:

• Just like your hash must beat the difficulty to produce a block, it must beat the other miners to win. The best (lowest) hashes during the race will win.
• As long as your work is accepted by the server it is valid for the race, even if it ends up "stale" or "orphaned" in the block list.
• Each person can only compete with one (their best) hash.
• If a winner cannot be reached within 1 week, the prize will go to the next on the list. You may want to make sure that the "account details" page at bitminter.com has an email address listed for you so that you are easy to reach.
• Any block by CloudHashing or DrHaribo will not count in the race.

Verifiability:
Hopefully your mining software will show if you have created a block (BitMinter client does). Your block will show with your user name in the block list at http://bitminter.com/blocks. You can click the height number for the block (leftmost column) to see details. There is a link there to blockchain.info where you can see the hash value of the block both on the page and in the URL. The lowest hash value wins. Hash values are shown in hexadecimal. 0-9 is lower than A-F. A is lower than B. Pretty simple.

FINAL RESULTS:

Place	Name	Hash (lower is better)
1	primaxbits	00000000000000048AA4BE0AD0E6DFAD13C87720A505F6EC21904F25C28F2E65
2	Fefox	000000000000000940BD68E51A7768FA9F100DD73C88BA43D73F1CE59BD588ED
3	micheletegon	0000000000000015D22104F993AB6DCCA74A303A7B9CC787588B6A56F0828909
4	hellerstern66	0000000000000021483F78F4B3BAF6819E4D931CE62EFB389AF3A0447E5CB1EB
5	SilentSonicBoom	0000000000000024881EE805A0486982230F8845FF650C39E7C5B61E7740A03A
6	bithog	0000000000000025CBDDB9D80DDFC85C8624315CAEFF7C134358027670D31863
7	fpga1	0000000000000027FAB86E15AB9F7F3C68238176EF04935772F4804174FC326E
8	Boomz	000000000000002A82BAC06017210722D698619988AB04F7229DA0E4292A9849
9	drradkin	000000000000002F6EBD798AE0F9AE0807AB96005F0B11A3B3BBF936527DA21B
10	forrestv	000000000000003B77F4DF781FFADF7333AC7144B04032FEE06C05FCE784020C
---	---	--- no prizes below this point ---
11	MarcelM	00000000000000403D54CF421DDF94E7DCE837CEA322AC17A607F49BF7A6286E
12	1849dreams	0000000000000042E3C97EFCECF4790CA709ADFCC2A1D95E95A9C79C365DA52D
13	F90kX	0000000000000054C5C03DF20528247CF7F6C55F6A15C9C6EA43C4F7C6808FFE
14	xkrikl	0000000000000057CBC7CDEFB640F62110A49D2326A454F80F8DA6CB5FB3410E
15	Dagger75	0000000000000067D269F814A031903ACCF2540BE1CA14A46BBCAB9CA26E4AF3
16	Xollo	000000000000006DAFA677D6FD820721DC25619FF09367E9428FB8D67642CB90
17	hrofat	000000000000007053C8715CF241D43FE561CEFB43CB1B08F20EEE3799AA66C8
18	jocampo	00000000000000717FC845F9A933BD30A71243BD062EF8E8BFEAF2DF0A02A51C
19	fpgabtc	00000000000000736A1CCF23F2C8F6E944DC054D2D123BCD8771461636AD2FE3
20	greenminer01	0000000000000074E01E4905E6674C7B54DA3BC1230537658FB5035765B5FD56
21	lancsq	000000000000007902C84D31FB5EF67CF583832ECF6701D37D9655F30E6496F6
22	farfie	000000000000007FBAAEA0205C25B629F71885D221ECDC0C8CABD029FFC7CF26
23	solari	0000000000000080B1F4C4F141443DC8D2F98E4B3CC7028EEF80FB8CC2A14283
24	harkoner	0000000000000087CD471CFD392EABE17B691BF2EE233B2B117A6683E828FAB1
25	AmiralPsiko	000000000000008AF231C6BE417EFA785F3BC2FCCCBD1C500073897AE0952E67
26	jerrylittlemars	000000000000008E2C84951A6AAA736113BD7B5E987F9B057CC7D282B6516501
28	daryl001	000000000000009736CA5C5076282E2AA934EEA809096E0F952562B16F948F88
27	forrestv	00000000000000A153C32E46A76951881F18B31161FBCD99355FC64AC0878679
29	rbatista204	00000000000000A176408B2E08154FB59BB6D46150CF264D62C94B0CA2E3787A
30	griffingoodwest	00000000000000AA87CB058B0E89365A86A260E3F587BBA97F95AC28AE88C5DF
31	pszalwinski	00000000000000AC5C759191E4552FC066FCA215043FF103FB80212B200DDE7C
32	streblo	00000000000000B6E84F108291CBD5A915EC1E1F03667A1BFB5CE147753D14ED
33	Gadmaster	00000000000000B705F93D9561F551D24CF711C412322D296EB87177E68740BE
34	akotevski	00000000000000C80DD61E74E069ED72282995E01462216C7AAF9B613D880B5B
---	BTC target	00000000000000C94E0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Updated 2013.06.30, 20:13 UTC

[philipma1957]

I have already purchased a contract from cloudhashing.com

 I paid in full about 700 usd then tack on fees  of 17 and 21 or 738 usd.

  I will ask if I were to win a prize do I get to count my early contract?   

[Isokivi]

Cloudhashings site is missing relevant information and I cant be bothered to register.. What payment options do they accept ?

[DrHaribo]

With less than 21 hours left before the race we see many users arriving and getting their rigs ready for the race. I don't think I've ever seen more users mining at BitMinter. Interestingly most of them are small or medium miners. Big miners that would have a 5-10% chance of winning the first prize, at 1000 US dollar value, are nowhere to be seen. Big "warehouse size" mining operations are slower to turn around, and the mint race was announced only 2 days before start. This could be just what the smaller miners need to have a real shot at the prizes.

Questions about CloudHashing will be answered soon. I don't want to give any wrong answers.

Finally, a request to all participants: go easy on the overclocking (and have a fire extinguisher ready). We don't want to see any burned out rigs like we did in a previous race.

[DrHaribo]

I will ask if I were to win a prize do I get to count my early contract?   

The discounts are for new purchases.

Note that it is possible to sell the discount code to someone else if you don't want to buy more mining contracts yourself. You won't get 1000 USD for a 1000 USD discount code, but I'm sure you could sell it for a bit less. We could hold on to the discount code and give it directly to the buyer, and I could do (bitcoin) escrow if that helps.

Cloudhashings site is missing relevant information and I cant be bothered to register.. What payment options do they accept ?

Their site has the "bitcoin accepted here" and "google wallet accepted" logos. Those are the two payment options. You can use credit cards through Google Wallet.

If there are any other questions, ask away.

[philipma1957]

I will ask if I were to win a prize do I get to count my early contract?   

The discounts are for new purchases.

Note that it is possible to sell the discount code to someone else if you don't want to buy more mining contracts yourself. You won't get 1000 USD for a 1000 USD discount code, but I'm sure you could sell it for a bit less. We could hold on to the discount code and give it directly to the buyer, and I could do (bitcoin) escrow if that helps.

Cloudhashings site is missing relevant information and I cant be bothered to register.. What payment options do they accept ?

Their site has the "bitcoin accepted here" and "google wallet accepted" logos. Those are the two payment options. You can use credit cards through Google Wallet.

If there are any other questions, ask away.

I paid with google wallet. Most likely I won't win but is was a bit annoying to find out supporting a company early did not help me very much. So far I am not that impressed with them but time will tell. My contract is a 1 year July contract my gut feeling is I won't be collecting any coin in July. So much for the early bird gets the worm.

[DrHaribo]

The race is on!

May the best minter win.

[Flashman]

Well I has no clue exactly how I could win, but I'm in anyway.

So much for the early bird gets the worm.

Maybe you forgot that also the early worm gets the bird... or worse.

[philipma1957]

Well I has no clue exactly how I could win, but I'm in anyway.

So much for the early bird gets the worm.

Maybe you forgot that also the early worm gets the bird... or worse.

 Flashman you first need to make a block.

 so right now farfie has the lead since he is the only one to make a block so far. since starting time.


 farfie has a hash of 61gh.

 my hash is 6gh  so he is more likely to win then myself.   the whole pool of bitminter is 4700gh. 


 so my chances are about 6 of 4700.

  all blocks have numbers lowest number wins.

 so far 1 block so it must be in first place.  I have been mining for about 10.5 months I have made 4 or 5 blocks.

 I don't expect to win a prize.  but we are both in it so maybe one of use will win a prize.

[DrHaribo]

After a slow start, farfie gets the first block. Whether this will keep him in the top 10 remains to be seen. With almost a week left of the race, anything can happen.

[Adriano]

I was checking cloudhashing website... They mention about a free trial contract but I couldn't find any further information regarding it. Can you please get more information about it ?


Many Thanks.


Adriano

[usualsuspect]

i dont want to come off as ungrateful because i understand what this promo is all about, i.e. bring in higher hashrates for the pool and in turn making us more profitable...... but maybe there could be another prize like a raffle for all us little miners in the pool because theres now way ill mint a coin on my mining rig ( currently only mining on a 6970 and a 650ti: total hash around 500-575 mhs). im just throwing it out there

[zvs]

i think everyone that participates should receive 100 devcoins

[wheatrich]

my odds are ridiculously low but in to win

[SgtMoth]

I have 14 g stuck in customs...

[cloudhasher]

I was checking cloudhashing website... They mention about a free trial contract but I couldn't find any further information regarding it. Can you please get more information about it ?


Many Thanks.


Adriano

Hi Adriano,

The free contracts went online a few weeks back and were fully subscribed without 24 hours.

Thanks

[vince120]

And the winner is (i guess) : https://bitminter.com/block/btc/0000000000000021483f78f4b3baf6819e4d931ce62efb389af3a0447e5cb1eb

less than a minute (~10 secs) !

[not.you]

And the winner is (i guess) : https://bitminter.com/block/btc/0000000000000021483f78f4b3baf6819e4d931ce62efb389af3a0447e5cb1eb

less than a minute (~10 secs) !

Ahh but that is not the determining factor.  It is a matter of how low the hash value is.  MicheleTegon is winning.  See the first post in the thread where Doc is listing them.

[DrHaribo]

SgtMoth's new equipment is stuck in customs and there is a rumor that Fefox is lacking his best rig. The timing could not be worse.

Meanwhile micheletegon pushes up near the top of the top50 list and grabs a block that easily places him in first position. More surprisingly, hellerstern66, who is not even on the top 50 list lands a block good enough for second position so far. Clearly someone minting above their weight.

The finish line is still a long way off though.

i think everyone that participates should receive 100 devcoins

Sounds like another prize donor has arrived!

[Flashman]

farfie has a hash of 61gh.

 my hash is 6gh  so he is more likely to win then myself.   the whole pool of bitminter is 4700gh. 

 so my chances are about 6 of 4700.

Thanks, I'm at about 1 in 10,000 to make a block I guess, until my BFL stuff arrives. Then I guess we're hoping for around 40 blocks in a week? So chance of winning 1/400,000 ish... hmmmm, maybe I should pull some hash, to make it an exact million to one shot... because of the Discworld theory that exact million to one shots come up nine times out of ten.