EMC mining a block for 6 days 117,834,421,879 shares biggest ever?

[Cheeseater]

Is this the most shares anybody's ever seen or have there been larger?

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[DrG]

Is this the most shares anybody's ever seen or have there been larger?

It may be the biggest ever but that is kind of meaningless is the difficulty is expecting to keep increasing for the next year.  It may very well be near 100 billion next year and the solve you noted would be commonplace.  The question is how many times difficulty did it peak.  I think I have seen some blocks that were nearly 11x difficulty before last year back when we were still in the millions.

[-ck]

I'm pretty sure from memory that deepbit once had a block that was 18x difficulty. By today's standards that would have taken ~335 billion shares.

[organofcorti]

Longest rounds of which I have a record:

      time height   difficulty    d1Shares       Pool Percentage of difficulty
1367715657 234559   10076292.9   118804825     Ozcoin 1179.0529
1388874416 278626 1418481395.3 14035657031   GHash.IO 989.4847
1350495993 203721    3072321.7    30298811    DeepBit 986.1861
1312067691 138856    1690895.8    16180592    DeepBit 956.9243
1383824482 268397  510929738.0  4794448042    Eligius   938.3772


Shortest rounds of which I have a record:

      time height   difficulty   d1Shares      Pool Percentage of difficulty
1389123527 279163 1.418481e+09    718.000 BitMinter 5.061751e-05
1334195271 175309 1.626553e+06     26.000   DeepBit 1.598472e-03
1316882164 146724 1.755425e+06     41.000   DeepBit 2.335616e-03
1384619731 269959 5.109297e+08  28153.106 EclipseMC  5.510172e-03
1332828390 173074 1.498294e+06     96.000     Itzod 6.407286e-03


(Note: all data is that which was reported by the pool on its website or API.)

[macbook-air]

Discus Fish mining block 310671 (2014-07-14 07:47:15) for 6 hours, 53 minutes 119,801,513,216 shares, bigger than this. http://www.f2pool.com/bitcoin-blocks

[eleuthria]

Slush is up to 115,748,910,176 and counting in their current round.  Won't be much longer to pass the amounts mentioned in this thread for EMC and Discus Fish.

[Cheeseater]

Final number 141,270,728,704 shares post a bigger one if it happens 

[DrG]

Longest rounds of which I have a record:

      time height   difficulty    d1Shares       Pool Percentage of difficulty
1367715657 234559   10076292.9   118804825     Ozcoin 1179.0529
1388874416 278626 1418481395.3 14035657031   GHash.IO 989.4847
1350495993 203721    3072321.7    30298811    DeepBit 986.1861
1312067691 138856    1690895.8    16180592    DeepBit 956.9243
1383824482 268397  510929738.0  4794448042    Eligius   938.3772


Shortest rounds of which I have a record:

      time height   difficulty   d1Shares      Pool Percentage of difficulty
1389123527 279163 1.418481e+09    718.000 BitMinter 5.061751e-05
1334195271 175309 1.626553e+06     26.000   DeepBit 1.598472e-03
1316882164 146724 1.755425e+06     41.000   DeepBit 2.335616e-03
1384619731 269959 5.109297e+08  28153.106 EclipseMC  5.510172e-03
1332828390 173074 1.498294e+06     96.000     Itzod 6.407286e-03


(Note: all data is that which was reported by the pool on its website or API.)

Yep, that's the one I'm talking about on Ozcoin.  11.79 times difficulty.  A lot of users ran away from Ozcoin when that happened because of the hack and another nasty block a day earlier.  People will do irrational things out of fear sometimes (as if you can escape bad luck).

if Deepbit had an 18x block, that would be pretty darn painful.  It's before my time (2011).