🐙 THE RITUAL RENEWED — THE FERVOR TIER IS OPENOfferings to Cthulhu (OFF) · Cycle I · 15,600 OFF remains · Finale at block 1,141,666Sixteen of the twenty-seven answers have been given. Eleven remain, and they are the large ones.
The Ritual has kept its schedule exactly. It woke without appetite at 1,101,346 and answered nothing for two days, as it said it would. It answered a single OFF at 1,104,226 on the twenty-seventh of August. It has not missed a block since. At 1,124,386 it answered
one hundred for the first time, and the tier that opened there does not close until 1,133,026.
WHAT IS LEFT days out first block last block per block the rite
-------- ----------- ----------- ---------- -------------------
10 → 6 1,127,266 1,133,026 100 OFF fervor
5 → 1 1,134,466 1,140,226 1,000 OFF the Tharanak shagg
0 1,141,666 1,141,666 10,000 OFF THE FINALE
Every one of them falls inside the next eleven days. Nothing carries over. What is not taken before the equinox is not taken at all, and the ledger forgets for 263,000 blocks.
ONE ADDRESS, OR MANY HANDSThe announcement of this cycle said the bounty goes entirely to the miner who finds the block — not split, not shared, one.
That is true of the chain, and it is worth being precise about what it means, because two people have now asked.
The chain pays the bounty to a single coinbase, on top of the locked 1.5 OFF base. It does not divide it. It does not know how to. The Conclave Treasury's one-eighth is computed on the base alone and takes nothing from the rite. One block, one address, the whole sum.
What that address does next is a choice you make before you ever start hashing.Mine alone and the address is yours. When you find 1,141,666 you take ten thousand OFF entire, and you take nothing at all on every day you do not find it. That is the older bargain and it has not changed.
Mine with others and the address is the pool's, and the pool divides what it receives among everyone who was working when it landed — by work done, not by who happened to hold the winning hash. You trade the whole sum for a share of it, and you trade a small chance for a steady one. Nobody has to find anything for you to be owed.
Neither is the correct answer. The Deep does not care which you choose. It only cares that the block is found.
IF YOU CHOOSE MANY HANDSstratum+tcp://pool.23skidoo.info:3040
Username is your OFF address, optionally followed by a dot and a worker name. Password is ignored — send anything.
algorithm quark
scheme PPLNS (paid by work done, not by who finds it)
fee 0.03%
minimum payout 0.1 OFF
starting diff 0.001, floor 0.0001, retargets to ~15 s per share
The difficulty floor is deliberately low.
A CPU can hold a share rate on this pool — quark was chosen for that, and the chain is small enough that it still means something. You do not need a farm. You need to be there when the block lands.
Use a standard quark miner — cpuminer-opt, sgminer, or whatever you already trust.
Or use the wallet itself.
The corrected Bloated Squid build is up — 11 September, on the downloads page:
https://23skidoo.info/downloads/
Every earlier one screened its own shares against a looser bound than other miners use. The pool accepted them — its rule is that loose — but cpuminer and sgminer submit against the plain difficulty they are handed, so the wallet lodged hundreds of shares where they lodge one, for the same work. Payment here is by share weight, so a wallet miner was credited far beyond its share, and every coin of that came out of whoever mined beside it.
Measured on our own two machines before anyone else was on the pool: a wallet doing 95 kH/s took 98% of the reward against a GPU doing 236 kH/s. After the correction the same pair split 33/67 against a work split of roughly 30/70. Nobody outside was affected, because nobody outside was there — and we would rather you heard it from us than worked it out from your own balance later.
Solo mining from the wallet was never affected. Verify the checksum on the downloads page before you run it, as with anything else here.
⚠ STILL MANDATORY — THE NODENS LINERepeated because the equinox is close and this does not announce itself when it goes wrong.
Every binary older than v2.1.2 rejects the first minimum-difficulty block the emergency valve emits. A node that rejects it does not crash, does not warn, and does not tell you anything is wrong. It sits on a dead tip in good health, and you find out weeks later, when your balance is from a world that ended.
Check with
getinfo and read
version. Do not check with
strings — the released builds are stripped and it will tell you a comfortable lie.
https://23skidoo.info/downloads/
The current release there is
v2.1.3-Nodens — Linux daemon, Linux Qt and Windows 64-bit, all with SHA256SUMS. Anything at v2.1.2 or later is safe from the fault above; take v2.1.3 unless you have a reason not to.
Verify the checksum. Stop the daemon cleanly before replacing the binary, and back up your wallet.dat tonight regardless.
WHERE THE CHAIN STANDS height 1,126,559
difficulty 2.04
network ~647 kH/s
block time 61.3 s (target 60 s)
to the finale 15,107 blocks — about 10.7 days
Compare that to the figures posted when this cycle opened: difficulty 14.06, network about 4.0 MH/s.
The chain is on time. It is louder than it was a day ago — three miners now, where there was one — and still small enough that another pair of hands moves the arithmetic.
For eleven more days it is an arithmetic problem posted in public, and the numbers above are not hidden from anyone.
Sink into the deep. The equinox is on the twenty-second. 🐙
— SubGenius.Finance
🐙 THE RITUAL RENEWED — THE FERVOR TIER IS OPENOfferings to Cthulhu (OFF) · Cycle I · 15,600 OFF remains · Finale at block 1,141,666Fifteen of the twenty-seven answers have been given. Twelve remain, and they are the large ones.
The Ritual has kept its schedule exactly. It woke without appetite at 1,101,346 and answered nothing for two days, as it said it would. It answered a single OFF at 1,104,226 on the twenty-seventh of August. It has not missed a block since. At 1,124,386 it answered
one hundred for the first time, and the tier that opened there does not close until 1,133,026.
WHAT IS LEFT days out first block last block per block the rite
-------- ----------- ----------- ---------- -------------------
11 → 6 1,125,826 1,133,026 100 OFF fervor
5 → 1 1,134,466 1,140,226 1,000 OFF the Tharanak shagg
0 1,141,666 1,141,666 10,000 OFF THE FINALE
Every one of them falls inside the next twelve days. Nothing carries over. What is not taken before the equinox is not taken at all, and the ledger forgets for 263,000 blocks.
ONE ADDRESS, OR MANY HANDSThe announcement of this cycle said the bounty goes entirely to the miner who finds the block — not split, not shared, one.
That is true of the chain, and it is worth being precise about what it means, because two people have now asked.
The chain pays the bounty to a single coinbase, on top of the locked 1.5 OFF base. It does not divide it. It does not know how to. The Conclave Treasury's one-eighth is computed on the base alone and takes nothing from the rite. One block, one address, the whole sum.
What that address does next is a choice you make before you ever start hashing.Mine alone and the address is yours. When you find 1,141,666 you take ten thousand OFF entire, and you take nothing at all on every day you do not find it. That is the older bargain and it has not changed.
Mine with others and the address is the pool's, and the pool divides what it receives among everyone who was working when it landed — by work done, not by who happened to hold the winning hash. You trade the whole sum for a share of it, and you trade a small chance for a steady one. Nobody has to find anything for you to be owed.
Neither is the correct answer. The Deep does not care which you choose. It only cares that the block is found.
IF YOU CHOOSE MANY HANDSstratum+tcp://pool.23skidoo.info:3040
Username is your OFF address, optionally followed by a dot and a worker name. Password is ignored — send anything.
algorithm quark
scheme PPLNS (paid by work done, not by who finds it)
fee 0.03%
minimum payout 0.1 OFF
starting diff 0.001, floor 0.0001, retargets to ~15 s per share
The difficulty floor is deliberately low.
A CPU can hold a share rate on this pool — quark was chosen for that, and the chain is small enough that it still means something. You do not need a farm. You need to be there when the block lands.
Use a standard quark miner — cpuminer-opt, sgminer, or whatever you already trust. Or use the wallet itself: the
Bloated Squid build carries a Mining tab that points at a pool over stratum, and it is on the downloads page beside the ordinary release.
If you took a Bloated Squid build before 9 September, replace it. Every earlier one screened its own shares against the wrong bound and submitted roughly one for every 256 it should have — so it was paid a fraction of what it earned while its own display went on reporting the full hashrate. Nothing was stolen and nothing was lost; the work simply never arrived. It is fixed in the 9 September build, and the fix is why that build exists.
⚠ STILL MANDATORY — THE NODENS LINERepeated because the equinox is close and this does not announce itself when it goes wrong.
Every binary older than v2.1.2 rejects the first minimum-difficulty block the emergency valve emits. A node that rejects it does not crash, does not warn, and does not tell you anything is wrong. It sits on a dead tip in good health, and you find out weeks later, when your balance is from a world that ended.
Check with
getinfo and read
version. Do not check with
strings — the released builds are stripped and it will tell you a comfortable lie.
https://23skidoo.info/downloads/
The current release there is
v2.1.3-Nodens — Linux daemon, Linux Qt and Windows 64-bit, all with SHA256SUMS. Anything at v2.1.2 or later is safe from the fault above; take v2.1.3 unless you have a reason not to.
Verify the checksum. Stop the daemon cleanly before replacing the binary, and back up your wallet.dat tonight regardless.
WHERE THE CHAIN STANDS height 1,124,764
difficulty 0.75
network ~206 kH/s
block time 60.6 s (target 60 s)
to the finale 16,902 blocks — about 11.9 days
Compare that to the figures posted when this cycle opened: difficulty 14.06, network about 4.0 MH/s.
The chain is on time and it is quieter than it has ever been during a Ritual. The hashrate is still one pair of hands.
That is not a complaint. For twelve days it is an arithmetic problem posted in public, and the numbers above are not hidden from anyone.
Sink into the deep. The equinox is on the twenty-second. 🐙
— SubGenius.Finance
