How many leading zeros did I have?

[MarkSierra]

Hey guys,

my miner reports that the difficulty of my best share was 16M. How many leading zeros did it have and what difficulty would be needed right now to find a valid block?

Thanks in advance 

[BitMaxz]

What do you mean by leading zeros?
Are you solo mining with a USB miner stick?

The difficulty keeps increasing I don't know what you want to achieve but I think you are talking about this -suggest-diff 128?
If that setting you talking about then you can play with that setting and increase it by x2 increments until you found much stable settings. And if your purpose is to hit blocks then it won't actually help you need a large mining farm to be able to find valid blocks and mine.

[MarkSierra]

Thanks for the answer.

Yes I'm solo mining. I just thought that by the achieved difficulty of the share there was a way to find out how many leading zeros the hash created had. Just out of curiosity.

Share difficulty setting is on auto and adjusts to 1 since it's not a powerful device 
Still it sometimes happens that the share has a difficulty of 500/1 or apparently one time even 16 million.

[BitMaxz]

Thanks for the answer.

Yes I'm solo mining. I just thought that by the achieved difficulty of the share there was a way to find out how many leading zeros the hash created had. Just out of curiosity.

Share difficulty setting is on auto and adjusts to 1 since it's not a powerful device  
Still it sometimes happens that the share has a difficulty of 500/1 or apparently one time even 16 million.

So you mean that it's a chances of finding blocks the leading zeros might be " fail finding blocks"?
The chances of finding blocks on solo mining is pretty small that is why most of solo mining only mine for lottery.
If you have a big farm you have a big chance to find blocks to mine. The time or leading zeroes is depends in your hashrate and difficulty to find a valid block.

Here's the formula from wiki

time = difficulty * 2**32 / hashrate where 'difficulty' is the current cryptocurrency difficulty level of BTC difficulty network and 'hashrate' is the amount of hashes a miner finds per second.

Source: https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Difficulty_in_Mining

[philipma1957]

Hey guys,

my miner reports that the difficulty of my best share was 16M. How many leading zeros did it have and what difficulty would be needed right now to find a valid block?

Thanks in advance 

well

16,000,000

is way less then

31,360,548,173,144.85  the current number needed

new number coming in 3 days will be over

35,000,000,000,000.00

https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimator