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[opentoe]

What happened to my 24 hour earnings number?

Also thanks to the users that took the time to explain some things to me. Of course I'm still confused, but I'll eventually get there and understand more and more. I just wish I had more time to learn. Everything is moving too fast. I have the opportunity to buy more hashing modules for my miner, but I'm making so little as it is in the pool, so I may just wind down until nothing comes out.

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[BrandonMcPherson]

Hey opentoe,

My guess is that the 24-hour data had a momentary glitch. Your screenshot shows that you're getting rewards for each block found (as you should be). That, plus your total rewards actually increasing are what's important. Are your total rewards increasing?

[eleuthria]

Were you mining on the pool for the past 32 hours?  One thing to remember is that PPLNS is a time-delay reward method.  When you submit a share, it starts getting paid once the next shift completes, then continues getting paid over the course of about 8 hours.  Since counting the payments during that time would always lead to understated 24-hour earnings, the 24-hour earnings stat uses the last 24 hours of *closed* shifts.  In a very poor ASCII text format:

Code:

     Hours 0-8                           Hours 9-32
[===Open Shifts===][====================Closed Shifts====================]

The 24-hour earnings stat uses only Hours 9-32, since that is the most recent 24-hour period that has been *fully* paid.


Based on the screenshot, that's my guess, since I can see your shift contributions average ~0.21%, but your most recent block rewards are 0.09-0.15%, implying you don't have shares in all the open shifts.

[jojo69]

any way to turn total PPLNS earnings back on?

[Mattster28]

My shares per shift keep dropping is that normal? My hash rate reported by bfgminer has not dropped. I have two BFL 60gh singles that were doing around 84k shares per shift and now their doing aroung 72k shares per shift. Actually my shares per shift have kind of been all over the place. Bad unit? Any help would be appreciated.

[eleuthria]

My shares per shift keep dropping is that normal? My hash rate reported by bfgminer has not dropped. I have two BFL 60gh singles that were doing around 84k shares per shift and now their doing aroung 72k shares per shift. Actually my shares per shift have kind of been all over the place. Bad unit? Any help would be appreciated.

Shares per shift (and your % of each shift) will drop as the pool speed grows.  The pool speed has increased ~15% since the bad luck the other day.  Here's generally how shares per shift/% of each shift will change over time:


1) While the pool is growing (which is almost every day), your shares per shift will drop as your speed vs pool speed shrinks.  Your % of each shift will also shrink.
2) This does NOT affect your earnings, because the shifts will complete faster as a result of higher pool speed.
3) When shifts get too fast (~30 minutes), the 'N' value is increased to bring shifts back to the sweet spot (40-60 minutes).  When this happens, your shares per shift will increase.  Your % of each shift will NOT change, since your % of each shift is purely based on [Your Speed] vs [Pool Speed].

[eleuthria]

Small reminder (I've gotten a few emails/PMs):  Tomorrow is a holiday in the US (Veteran's Day), and there won't be any mail processed, which is why some orders placed Friday do not have tracking yet, even though it says "Ships Within 2 Days".  No point in packing the current orders on Sunday when they can't be shipped until Tuesday.

[mdopro1]

Small reminder (I've gotten a few emails/PMs):  Tomorrow is a holiday in the US (Veteran's Day), and there won't be any mail processed, which is why some orders placed Friday do not have tracking yet, even though it says "Ships Within 2 Days".  No point in packing the current orders on Sunday when they can't be shipped until Tuesday.

I never see you off the forums so you must be an android. Androids take a day off too?

[HellDiverUK]

I never see you off the forums so you must be an android. Androids take a day off too?

They need some time to dream of electric sheep...

[neutralist]

Time to cash out some NMC perhaps?

[guytechie]

Time to cash out some NMC perhaps?

Geez, what is your hashrate that's netting you 171k shares per round!??

I spent so much on a backplane full of Erupter Blades and almost maxing out my power outlet to get 107 GH/s and that's netting me 72k/round (.09 BTC a day).

[os2sam]

Just never get tired of that screen shot.

[eleuthria]

Small reminder (I've gotten a few emails/PMs):  Tomorrow is a holiday in the US (Veteran's Day), and there won't be any mail processed, which is why some orders placed Friday do not have tracking yet, even though it says "Ships Within 2 Days".  No point in packing the current orders on Sunday when they can't be shipped until Tuesday.

I never see you off the forums so you must be an android. Androids take a day off too?

I do sleep, but it tends to shift by +/- 2 hours as to when I actually go to bed each day, so it can create the illusion of never disappearing .  Then you've got the remaining 16 hours/day where I can make my appearance as needed.

[Sparks]

Geez, what is your hashrate that's netting you 171k shares per round!??

I spent so much on a backplane full of Erupter Blades and almost maxing out my power outlet to get 107 GH/s and that's netting me 72k/round (.09 BTC a day).

It must be a KNC Saturn (I have almost the same shares per round with mine).

[Zelek Uther]

Sorry if this is a noob question, but all of a sudden my miners have switched from BTCGuild to my first backup pool.  I have two miners: a Jupiter and a Raspberry Pi minepeon (running 4 Block Erupters) pointed at BTCGuild - and both of them independently report that http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 is "dead".  Please help I want a rock solid connection to BTCGuild.

Jupiter
 cgminer version 3.6.6 - Started: [2013-11-08 21:59:34]
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 (5s):551.7G (avg):557.8Gh/s | A:31263081  R:190757  HW:1129256  WU:7636.3/m
 ST: 2  SS: 22  NB: 484  LW: 33163581  GF: 3  RF: 2
 Connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st diff 127 with stratum as user YYY_jupiter
 Block: 000681398471ddf1...  Diff:511M  Started: [18:00:19]  Best share: 77.2M
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 [P]ool management (S)ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 KnC 0:                | 571.3G/557.8Gh/s | A:31263462 R:190757 HW:1129275 WU:7636.3/m
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0: Enabled Dead Quota 1 Prio 0: http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333  User:XXX_jupiter
1: Enabled Alive Quota 1 Prio 1: http://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334  User:YYY_jupiter
2: Enabled Alive Quota 1 Prio 2: http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333  User:ZZZ.jupiter

Minepeon
 cgminer version 3.3.4 - Started: [2013-11-10 23:05:38]
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 (5s):1.843G (avg):1.342Gh/s | A:20425  R:38  HW:199  WU:18.7/m
 ST: 2  SS: 16  NB: 161  LW: 40213  GF: 1  RF: 1
 Connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st diff 1 with stratum as user YYY_home1
 Block: 00047e5291a3f0f2...  Diff:511M  Started: [18:29:00]  Best share: 15.7K
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 [P]ool management (S)ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 AMU 0:                | 335.6M/335.5Mh/s | A:5103 R:12 HW:49 WU:  4.6/m
 AMU 1:                | 335.6M/335.7Mh/s | A:5012 R:10 HW:59 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU 2:                | 335.7M/335.5Mh/s | A:5041 R: 8 HW:40 WU:  4.7/m
 AMU 3:                | 335.6M/335.6Mh/s | A:5269 R: 8 HW:51 WU:  4.8/m
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0: Enabled Dead Priority 0: http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333  User:XXX_1
1: Enabled Alive Priority 1: http://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334  User:YYY_home1
2: Enabled Alive Priority 2: http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333  User:ZZZ.home1

BTC Guild status

[eleuthria]

I can't really help with the above, other than suggesting you add eu-stratum.btcguild.com as your 2nd pool.  The US server is online and running solid (as noted by the unchanged pool speed), which means the connection issue is local, not on the server side.

[mdude77]

I can't really help with the above, other than suggesting you add eu-stratum.btcguild.com as your 2nd pool.  The US server is online and running solid (as noted by the unchanged pool speed), which means the connection issue is local, not on the server side.

Is gigaforce down?  I thought I had something wrong, but the credentials that work on stratum and eu-strautum do not work on gigaforce.

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[eleuthria]

I really am curious why everybody calls it "gigaforce".  But no, gigaforge still works just fine, it's the exact same server as what you get redirected to on stratum.btcguild.com, it just skips the validation server.

[BrandonMcPherson]

I noticed that block 269054 paid out about 70% more than the blocks surrounding it, and I'm curious how that's possible.

This was a few hours ago.

I assume it's because the transaction fees on that particular block were particularly high. But, the block only shows some 200 transactions. Was it a stunningly large transaction or a stunningly large transaction fee? If there's some way to determine this from all the reports that our out there, feel free to teach me how to fish, rather than giving me the fish.

[Tigggger]

I noticed that block 269054 paid out about 70% more than the blocks surrounding it, and I'm curious how that's possible.

This was a few hours ago.

I assume it's because the transaction fees on that particular block were particularly high. But, the block only shows some 200 transactions. Was it a stunningly large transaction or a stunningly large transaction fee? If there's some way to determine this from all the reports that our out there, feel free to teach me how to fish, rather than giving me the fish.

https://blockchain.info/block-height/269054

Transaction Fees   18.82943281 BTC

Click the hash link to view all the included transactions

https://blockchain.info/block-index/439225/0000000000000004b99b244953c6ae9d3905181e140a47ba9434407d0832a7eb

And from there find the generous transaction

https://blockchain.info/tx/cd754c46f1bd3a43c4e07a8ce2ad9728b4dfffde69293125612baaa33a9af1c5