[~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More

[eleuthria]

Looking at the block details, I'm seeing nothing wrong with the block you identified.  The number of users credited with shares that round is within the expected range of users for a round of that length.  In case of a sync error, assuming the failsafe didn't catch it, you'd see roughly half as many people getting rewards, and getting twice their expected average (ie: One of the two servers didn't sync up).

[PcChip]

His cable modem probably just disconnected for parts of the previous round and all of that round.

[Xephan]

Anyone else lose all shares out of our round 1869?

Mine's normal for 1869, pretty much consistent with past rounds with my usual +/- 0.001 BTC rewarded range.

[jjiimm_64]

alright already with these 3 hour blocks...  is this the difficulty kickin in or we just not 'lucky' enough?

edit:  just picked up 2 'vapor x 5870' from ebay.  I hope they work as well as my other ebay 5870 purchases

[Druas]

I think we are just getting some shitty luck. Other big pools are doing very well luck-wise right now. Our day will come!

[irishmick]

Thank you all for the responses. I agree it must have been my internet connection. ;o)

[jjiimm_64]

I think we are just getting some shitty luck. Other big pools are doing very well luck-wise right now. Our day will come!

I cant believe that I have not found one block yet.....  I have logged 2006803  shares.  I am very glad I am in a pool and not solo.

speaking of finding a block,  shouldn't the lucky bastard that finds the block get some kindof bonus?  whouldn't that bring more Mhash to the pool if that is advertised?

[Duffman]

speaking of finding a block,  shouldn't the lucky bastard that finds the block get some kindof bonus?  whouldn't that bring more Mhash to the pool if that is advertised?

nah, I hate those kinds of things.  everyone was putting in work, its not like the last share is a boss of shares.

[hugolp]

The bad luck is getting ridiculous. I dont know why, but we always get bad luck after changing servers. Maybe we should sacrifice some young virgin to the gods before eleuthria changes a server.

I cant believe that I have not found one block yet.....  I have logged 2006803  shares.  I am very glad I am in a pool and not solo.

speaking of finding a block,  shouldn't the lucky bastard that finds the block get some kindof bonus?  whouldn't that bring more Mhash to the pool if that is advertised?

Ive found two, and I would have made double by going alone than mining in a pool. But its all theoretical, because the murphy law states that if I had gone alone I would not have found any. Maybe if you would have gone alone, you would have found some.

[fcmatt]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

sooo.. i am just sticking with btcguild. one or two bad days we have had.. are just evening out
the last 4-5 days where I was making a bit more then estimated.

sure switching to deepbit is always an option but for every approx 3 blocks they find all i need is 1 at
btcguild due to the speed difference of the pools. It looks like slush's pool has had better luck the
past 24 hours and our turn is sure to come shortly.

i guess i gave up trying to always get that exact estimated amount day after day. essentially
manual pool hopping.

[hugolp]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

Go away now! Its an order.

[fcmatt]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

Go away now! Its an order.

what is even more ironic.. is that btcguild has slowly been getting more and more power.. from around
2100 gh/s to 2400+ gh/s and it is not helping solve more blocks in a shorter amount of time. it just
cut our payout per block :-(

[Xephan]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

Eleuthria, can we petition for a ban?
j/k

[Xephan]

what is even more ironic.. is that btcguild has slowly been getting more and more power.. from around
2100 gh/s to 2400+ gh/s and it is not helping solve more blocks in a shorter amount of time. it just
cut our payout per block :-(

I think it's because that's offset by the increase in difficulty?

[hugolp]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

Go away now! Its an order.

what is even more ironic.. is that btcguild has slowly been getting more and more power.. from around
2100 gh/s to 2400+ gh/s and it is not helping solve more blocks in a shorter amount of time. it just
cut our payout per block :-(

I know. My 24 hours rewards its almost at half what it should be. -50% luck in the last 24 hours its a lot of variance for such a big pool.

EDIT: Its oficial. My 24hours earnings are less than half of what they should be theoretically. <50+% bad luck in the last 24 hours. Not bad...

[fcmatt]

what is even more ironic.. is that btcguild has slowly been getting more and more power.. from around
2100 gh/s to 2400+ gh/s and it is not helping solve more blocks in a shorter amount of time. it just
cut our payout per block :-(

I think it's because that's offset by the increase in difficulty?

good point.. i have no idea how much more processing power a pool needs to keep finding the
same amount of blocks in 24 hours as diff keeps stepping up.

[jjiimm_64]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

I'm thinkin you should act like your switching...  switch a couple of workers and try and fool the bitcoin god...

[fcmatt]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

I'm thinkin you should act like your switching...  switch a couple of workers and try and fool the bitcoin god...

ok. i will take one for the team. at 1PM eastern time i just switched to deepbit. prepare for massive luck in
the next several hours. and now deepbit's average block time will promptly start being about 1 every 30 minutes.

[hugolp]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

I'm thinkin you should act like your switching...  switch a couple of workers and try and fool the bitcoin god...

ok. i will take one for the team. at 1PM eastern time i just switched to deepbit. prepare for massive luck in
the next several hours. and now deepbit's average block time will promptly start being about 1 every 30 minutes.

When you die you will receive 50 virgins.

[Xephan]

back when i first started mining i would switch to a different pool when some bad luck
appeared. and half the time i would just switch to more bad luck while the pool I was on
would start getting good luck. so as soon as I leave.. we would get several blocks under
45 minutes.

I'm thinkin you should act like your switching...  switch a couple of workers and try and fool the bitcoin god...

ok. i will take one for the team. at 1PM eastern time i just switched to deepbit. prepare for massive luck in
the next several hours. and now deepbit's average block time will promptly start being about 1 every 30 minutes.

Thanks dude, we just had a 9 minute round...
My 24hr estimate is now 0.1192

If that hits 0.3x like it did previously in the next 12hrs, I'll donate 10% (0.03) to you!