[∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved!

[-ck]

That is an awesome job ck.
I'm sure it'll be ok if you are adding more fees to it, personally....i'd be fine in giving you more than current fee when i found a block....just an opinion.
Regards.

Thanks. I've considered this numerous times but there's something quite nice and personal with the user chosen donations once a block is found that feels quite rare in today's bitcoin mining world and I'd almost hate to give that up.

[Nthused]

I just chucked on a 5TH rental for 8 hours while I'm at work and also have 1 of my U3's going along with it, Hope I get lucky.... Come on Bitcoin Gods

[philipma1957]

Why so few blocks lately? Has the recent difficulty increases really made this much difference?

I notice there's 935TH mining at the moment.

well that is about 1/800 of the whole network   so every 800 blocks should be solo  which is every 5.5 days.

our little stick pool is about 1/100 of  this so our chance  is about 1 block every 550 days.

[madmartyk]

We had a good run before DIFF went up!!!

[o_solo_miner]

Don't worry, we will find again a Block for shure!
Diff 

Now with the shiny new Server there has to come one...

@philipma 1957: you are so realistic, i love that!

[ezeminer]

Don't worry, we will find again a Block for shure!
Diff 

Now with the shiny new Server there has to come one...

@philipma 1957: you are so realistic, i love that!

He's got the numbers you always need
Hopefully we crack more blocks, this difficulty is going insane now. The network has almost doubled since November.

And we are looking at a difficulty increase to roughly 111B now.

Dec 31 2015   103,880,340,815   11.16%   743,604,444 GH/s
Nov 11 2015   65,848,255,180   5.77%   471,360,171 GH/s

[hedgy73]

Why so few blocks lately? Has the recent difficulty increases really made this much difference?

I notice there's 935TH mining at the moment.

well that is about 1/800 of the whole network   so every 800 blocks should be solo  which is every 5.5 days.

our little stick pool is about 1/100 of  this so our chance  is about 1 block every 550 days.

Yes you've summed it up well. God only knows what the diff will be in 550 days time required by the stick pool club .

[philipma1957]

Why so few blocks lately? Has the recent difficulty increases really made this much difference?

I notice there's 935TH mining at the moment.

well that is about 1/800 of the whole network   so every 800 blocks should be solo  which is every 5.5 days.

our little stick pool is about 1/100 of  this so our chance  is about 1 block every 550 days.

Yes you've summed it up well. God only knows what the diff will be in 550 days time required by the stick pool club .

well maybe the ½ ing will cut it back a lot.

[hedgy73]

Why so few blocks lately? Has the recent difficulty increases really made this much difference?

I notice there's 935TH mining at the moment.

well that is about 1/800 of the whole network   so every 800 blocks should be solo  which is every 5.5 days.

our little stick pool is about 1/100 of  this so our chance  is about 1 block every 550 days.

Yes you've summed it up well. God only knows what the diff will be in 550 days time required by the stick pool club .

well maybe the ½ ing will cut it back a lot.

Yep that'll be a nightmare for most people still mining either with their own gear or using rentals. In the UK its been cheaper to rent than mine at home for a while now especially if you factor in hardware costs.

Thinking about it though I wonder whether diff will actually drop when halving happens as people and non profitable mines shut their equipment down? I bet there'll be an influx of second hand gear hitting the market just before and around halving thats for sure.

I suppose all this will depend on BTC price at the time.

[CornishPixie]

can't reach the DE pool again? tried 3333 & 3334   switched to USA not a prob just to a flag up

[hedgy73]

can't reach the DE pool again? tried 3333 & 3334   switched to USA not a prob just to a flag up

Mine seems to failover to desolo.ckpool.org automatically from de pool.

[-ck]

De pool is fine as far as I can see, with no sign of any problems though there's no port 3334 any more nor is there any need for one.

[hedgy73]

Out of interest who's finding recent blocks? Is there any way to see?

[hodedowe]

Out of interest who's finding recent blocks? Is there any way to see?

https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/pool/solockpool

and

https://blockchain.info/en/blocks

But don't look. It'll just make you angry with half of China. 

[hedgy73]

Out of interest who's finding recent blocks? Is there any way to see?

https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/pool/solockpool

and

https://blockchain.info/en/blocks

But don't look. It'll just make you angry with half of China. 

Thanks you . Chinese dont often do things wrong .

So what do China know that we dont? Is BTC set for big price explosion?

[armadora]

long time pool users could not find a block, does pool total hash rate reduced? or reason only pool unlucky these days? can we look total hash amount of pool from anywhere?

[-ck]

long time pool users could not find a block, does pool total hash rate reduced? or reason only pool unlucky these days? can we look total hash amount of pool from anywhere?

Why so few blocks lately? Has the recent difficulty increases really made this much difference?

I notice there's 935TH mining at the moment.

Because diff + luck

[nwfella]

long time pool users could not find a block, does pool total hash rate reduced? or reason only pool unlucky these days? can we look total hash amount of pool from anywhere?

Why so few blocks lately? Has the recent difficulty increases really made this much difference?

I notice there's 935TH mining at the moment.

Because diff + luck

Have no fear!!  I just brought an old BFL jalapeno sprinkled with Gypsy water online and pointed it exclusively at this pool!!  It cost me $400 bucks but the Gypsy lady swore it would and it came with a 100% money back guarantee so I figured what the heck!!  She told me to run it for 7 days straight and that if no block is hit within that time I can call her pager and she'll make arrangements for me to give it back in return for my cash!

I wonder just how long it will take the pool to adjust my worker's difficulty down to a low enough level to actually land that magical share now

http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1BS6uHhJuZEWLtQ8inJrSSv8UrCTch1nt4

[o_solo_miner]

LONG WAIT!

Now it is there:

Congrats to 1LjZmRdMV7Mk88bx7oMMWgKWaFF8yG1qtp for the Block solve!
 

[willi9974]

Congrats After Long 10 days.

We Start a new BTC Lotto Run in the german forum section, if any wont to join --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1311999.msg13425214#msg13425214