[Race is over!] Mint Race #5: Win a KnC Jupiter 550 GH/s ASIC device!

[Mattster28]

Nice contest you have going here. Would be nice to see a little guy win this.

[Walter Rothbard]

Nice contest you have going here. Would be nice to see a little guy win this.

Keep rooting for me, then!

Unfortunately I've had to turn most of my hashing power off for the rest of the day; hoping to bring it back online after a few hours.

I guess that makes me even more of an underdog!

[DrHaribo]

Things are heating up on the top 50 fastest miners list. First mmt caught up with Ayrat at the top of the list. But now we see soniq push fast them into a solid first place hashrate-wise.

In the race rankings, though, we only see some changes among positions 7-8-9. subseaguru's hash is proving hard to beat. With only 16-17 GH/s he was very lucky to get a hash that good. But can the luck last another 17 days to the end of the race?

[DrHaribo]

It's time for the mid-race analysis.

Early on we saw bitmeme take the lead with his tried and true strategy "mine fast". At first this seemed like a good strategy, and mining at 4+ TH/s got him quickly into first place.

The problems started for bitmeme when a duo of small miners arrived. KPR120 and subseaguru quickly deployed their strategy "be incredibly lucky". Mining at a sneaky 30 and 16 GH/s their strategy proved superior. We first saw KPR120 move into first place, and later subseaguru.

The luck strategy has proven resilient, although we did see nicetime get a good block yesterday. It was close but only got him fourth place. Other than that the last few days have been quiet, not even a single one of Fefox's rigs catching on fire.

On the top50 fastest users list we have seen a few users improve their hashrate and a couple new users arriving. But there are not that many changes. Rather than fast miners, we see big masses of slow miners joining up. We can only attribute this to the result of the recent duel between the "mine fast" and "be incredibly lucky" strategies. Miners are learning and adapting.

So, with half the race remaining, which of the many possible strategies should miners go for? Being lucky seems like the winning choice so far.

[Walter Rothbard]

Definitely the most exciting race I've ever seen!  I'm certainly working on that "being lucky" strategy, but haven't got it right quite yet...

[CYPER]

Talking about luck: I mined a block the 1st day, even hours of my miners started hashing at the pool and since then nothing 

[Walter Rothbard]

Teach me your secrets, CYPER - I would be happy to get a block at all!

[Flashman]

Woohoo, KNC upped the ante, apparently November units will hash at 650GH+ !! w00t. They do however have a production delay due to a component delivery issue, but probably won't affect the winner here much, since the contest won't be decided until the end of the month.

[DrHaribo]

Whoa! subseaguru was looking so secure holding the lead for so long. But ScandyAndy jumps into first place with an even better hash.

Still, we have almost half the race left.

Will someone luck out and take over the lead?

[DrHaribo]

kj nonchalantly tosses in an extremely low hash.

We have almost 11 days left of the race, but this will be a tough one to beat.

He can almost taste the KnC Jupiter. It tastes like metal.

Rankings at https://bitminter.com/mintrace

[Flashman]

Shit's getting serious....

time to fire up...

The 9600GT

bom bom bommmmm

20 Mighty Megahashes of Block Busting Ball Breaking Bravado in a nifty single slot wide package.... and you can play the Sims on it.

You're all DOOMED

Muhuhahahahaaaaaaa

Y'all are in trouble now, this is actually hashing on the pool again... fer serious... mainly because I wanted to piss around with bfgminer in a "non-production" environment, but still.

[zvs]

He can almost taste the KnC Jupiter. It tastes like metal.

tastes like metal, with a bit of some gritty paper tasting objects thrown in

[Aggrophobia]

can anyone tell me the difficulty of this hash

000000000000000001480bf37765db8beb84651395cc36e76e2c4e36fbb51026

[DeckardLain]

can anyone tell me the difficulty of this hash

000000000000000001480bf37765db8beb84651395cc36e76e2c4e36fbb51026

I'm curious, too.  I figured there'd be a calculator/converter somewhere, but I couldn't find one.

[-ck]

can anyone tell me the difficulty of this hash

000000000000000001480bf37765db8beb84651395cc36e76e2c4e36fbb51026

About 858,000,000,000

[Flashman]

Thanks, dat's a big number, in more familiar units to help grasp it, how many furlongs would that be if that many blue whales were laid end to end?

j/k

But scuse the n00b genuine question, is that the result of the share difficulty shown in cgminer multiplied by current difficulty?

[DrHaribo]

Barely over a day left till the finish. Will noone challenge kj's block?

[Flashman]

I'm trying Doc I'm trying, pressure gauge is on the stop for the last week and I bent my throttle valve from forcing it open...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTIcOmqH1Pg

[DrHaribo]

That's some hard core mining. Keep the pressure up!

[chalkyuk]

good luck to all..
As a recent newbie to this stuff   i could only dream of owning that monster