Weekly pool and network statistics

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January 11th 2015 Network Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-11th-2014-network-statistics.html

January 11th 2015 Mining Pool Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-11th-2015-mining-pool-statistics.html

January 11th 2015 Block Maker Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.ru/

"Massive increase in hashrate around the new year?" - Likely Bitmain S5 tested new hardware

[organofcorti]

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January 11th 2015 Network Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-11th-2014-network-statistics.html

January 11th 2015 Mining Pool Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-11th-2015-mining-pool-statistics.html

January 11th 2015 Block Maker Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.ru/

Ha! Thanks. Just lacking time lately.

"Massive increase in hashrate around the new year?" - Likely Bitmain S5 tested new hardware

Interesting. So you'd assume that once the current batch is sold it will be at least that size?

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January 11th 2015 Network Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-11th-2014-network-statistics.html

January 11th 2015 Mining Pool Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-11th-2015-mining-pool-statistics.html

January 11th 2015 Block Maker Statistics
http://organofcorti.blogspot.ru/

Ha! Thanks. Just lacking time lately.

"Massive increase in hashrate around the new year?" - Likely Bitmain S5 tested new hardware

Interesting. So you'd assume that once the current batch is sold it will be at least that size?

I think it's possible.
1) Bitmain announced new batches in the first weeks of Bitmain - the same time as hashrate increasing
2) They change miners in their datacenter from S4->S5. Of course they are interested in testing miners before changing.
But now we can see even hashrate decreasing with current BTC price, non-effective miners will off.

Is AM's own hashrate in Discus? I think we will see an increasing of AM's hashrate in March, shareholders wrote about it.

[organofcorti]

Is AM's own hashrate in Discus? I think we will see an increasing of AM's hashrate in March, shareholders wrote about it.

They're getting at least some of their income from BTC Guild, eg:
https://blockchain.info/tx/3cdb5647417fa1fc42cbf545491b7663382c2c839e93e80bc34ca5b8d91d4dfd

I couldn't find any significant income from other pools.

[windpath]

Is AM's own hashrate in Discus? I think we will see an increasing of AM's hashrate in March, shareholders wrote about it.

They're getting at least some of their income from BTC Guild, eg:
https://blockchain.info/tx/3cdb5647417fa1fc42cbf545491b7663382c2c839e93e80bc34ca5b8d91d4dfd

I couldn't find any significant income from other pools.

They run AntPool, and also talked about joining P2Pool to promote decentralization (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855548.0) with some of their hashrate, although we have not seen anything yet...

[organofcorti]

Is AM's own hashrate in Discus? I think we will see an increasing of AM's hashrate in March, shareholders wrote about it.

They're getting at least some of their income from BTC Guild, eg:
https://blockchain.info/tx/3cdb5647417fa1fc42cbf545491b7663382c2c839e93e80bc34ca5b8d91d4dfd

I couldn't find any significant income from other pools.

They run AntPool, and also talked about joining P2Pool to promote decentralization (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855548.0) with some of their hashrate, although we have not seen anything yet...

ASICMiner runs AntPool?

[kano]

Is AM's own hashrate in Discus? I think we will see an increasing of AM's hashrate in March, shareholders wrote about it.

They're getting at least some of their income from BTC Guild, eg:
https://blockchain.info/tx/3cdb5647417fa1fc42cbf545491b7663382c2c839e93e80bc34ca5b8d91d4dfd

I couldn't find any significant income from other pools.

They run AntPool, and also talked about joining P2Pool to promote decentralization (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855548.0) with some of their hashrate, although we have not seen anything yet...

No that thread's name is incorrect.
It's still just a centralised modified standalone p2pool used as a normal pool, not as a peer to peer pool (and not connected to p2pool)

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Is AM's own hashrate in Discus? I think we will see an increasing of AM's hashrate in March, shareholders wrote about it.

They're getting at least some of their income from BTC Guild, eg:
https://blockchain.info/tx/3cdb5647417fa1fc42cbf545491b7663382c2c839e93e80bc34ca5b8d91d4dfd

I couldn't find any significant income from other pools.

They run AntPool, and also talked about joining P2Pool to promote decentralization (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855548.0) with some of their hashrate, although we have not seen anything yet...

ASICMiner runs AntPool?

Maybe ASICMiner is Unknown?
Unknown group - very interesting guys, they change address every month, so it's somebody very secretive

[windpath]

May be my mix up of the acronym "AM" ASICMiner vs. AntMiner....

[organofcorti]

May be my mix up of the acronym "AM" ASICMiner vs. AntMiner....

 AFAIK AntPool == Bitmain

[organofcorti]

Maybe ASICMiner is Unknown?
Unknown group - very interesting guys, they change address every month, so it's somebody very secretive

I haven't seen any evidence of this, and I can't find any large bitcoin income for ASICMiner from blocks solved by unknown sources.

[RealMalatesta]

Maybe ASICMiner is Unknown?
Unknown group - very interesting guys, they change address every month, so it's somebody very secretive

I haven't seen any evidence of this, and I can't find any large bitcoin income for ASICMiner from blocks solved by unknown sources.

What astonished me is that "Megabigpower" only appeares with one block at Blockchain, however, 27 blocks were found by "unknown" - which is Megabigpower. nWith 27 blocks, MBP is definitively one of the biggest players on the market at the moment.

[DrHaribo]

Yesterday I saw over 100 cars on the road that I didn't recognize. I think it's safe to say that it was the same guy driving all of them and that his name is "Unknown". He must be very rich to have so many cars. 

[RealMalatesta]

Yesterday I saw over 100 cars on the road that I didn't recognize. I think it's safe to say that it was the same guy driving all of them and that his name is "Unknown". He must be very rich to have so many cars. 

Not sure if you refer to my posting. However, the 27 blocks from "Unknown" were mined by the company which is financing MBP, so I assume they are the same... not excluding, though, that I'm totally wrong.

[Newar]

Yesterday I saw over 100 cars on the road that I didn't recognize. I think it's safe to say that it was the same guy driving all of them and that his name is "Unknown". He must be very rich to have so many cars. 

Not sure if you refer to my posting. However, the 27 blocks from "Unknown" were mined by the company which is financing MBP, so I assume they are the same... not excluding, though, that I'm totally wrong.

How do you know?

Got an example block?

[DrHaribo]

I was just kidding. Didn't know if you guys were joking or not.

[RealMalatesta]

Yesterday I saw over 100 cars on the road that I didn't recognize. I think it's safe to say that it was the same guy driving all of them and that his name is "Unknown". He must be very rich to have so many cars. 

Not sure if you refer to my posting. However, the 27 blocks from "Unknown" were mined by the company which is financing MBP, so I assume they are the same... not excluding, though, that I'm totally wrong.

How do you know?

Got an example block?

Block #339515, for example. As I said, I could be totally wrong, but the block was relayed by IP 212.126.14.122 which belongs to BIOINFOBANK Sp. z.o.o. in Poland. And Arstechnica mentions Bioinfobank in one story as follows:

Carlson's company, MegaBigPower, does the biggest portion of its mining on behalf of its primary investor, the BioInfoBank Institute in Poland.

[kano]

"Relayed by IP" is notoriously unreliable (and even blockchain makes comment about it somewhere ...)

[RealMalatesta]

"Relayed by IP" is notoriously unreliable (and even blockchain makes comment about it somewhere ...)

That's the response I was afraid of :-)

I've read about the use of the -connect flag but was wondering if this would make sense in this case.

[organofcorti]

Yesterday I saw over 100 cars on the road that I didn't recognize. I think it's safe to say that it was the same guy driving all of them and that his name is "Unknown". He must be very rich to have so many cars. 

Not sure if you refer to my posting. However, the 27 blocks from "Unknown" were mined by the company which is financing MBP, so I assume they are the same... not excluding, though, that I'm totally wrong.

I'm basing my results on many different generation addresses that MBP uses, not just coinbase signature, and I update my list regularly. I don't think Blockchain has updated their MBP addresses for a while.

I don't look for 'relayed by' since for that to be accurate your client would need to be connected to every pool client. Unless you know all the pool client IP addresses, you'll actually need to be connected to all clients. Today blockchain.info is only connecting to 1600 nodes, and that's only about a fifth of all possible nodes, so "Relayed by" will only be approximate.