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[NomadGroup]

Would be awesome if we got like a 5 block Friday or Saturday so that our statistics even out before the end of the month and get us little closer to 100% luck!  .  Let's cross our fingers fellas!   

Crypto Gods have heard my prayers!!!    Thanks for all of the crossed fingers guys! 

[philipma1957]

There is something going on in the world of btc  being done at big levels.

I see btc diff dropping more then 20%  

hashrate  is about 6,700,000,000  for the current diff of close to 886,000,000,000

I can do longer find current diff numbers live time

and current hash rate according to viabtc is at 4,700,000,000
Why are the live time diff trackers off line?




https://i.imgur.com/7XccPFZ.png

[mdude77]

There is something going on in the world of btc  being done at big levels.

I see btc diff dropping more then 20%  

hashrate  is about 6,700,000,000  for the current diff of close to 886,000,000,000

I can do longer find current diff numbers live time

and current hash rate according to viabtc is at 4,700,000,000
Why are the live time diff trackers off line?

I would guess one of two things is happening:

1 - Some big pools are having problems with SegWit.
2 - Someone moved a whole lot of hashrate to BCC.

Right now, according to my calculations, next change will be 30% decrease on 9/12.  Of course it's far too early in the difficulty cycle to accurately predict this...

If it is #1, presumably they will fix their issue soon, or their miners will move elsewhere. 

M

[cre8ive]

There is something going on in the world of btc  being done at big levels.
I see btc diff dropping more then 20%  
hashrate  is about 6,700,000,000  for the current diff of close to 886,000,000,000
I can do longer find current diff numbers live time
and current hash rate according to viabtc is at 4,700,000,000
Why are the live time diff trackers off line?

My guess is people are switching to mine bitcoin cash due to low difficulty - read https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-cash-returns-profitability-amid-mining-adjustments/

[kano]

Kano, any issues with setting our payout address to a SegWit address?

If you mean the buggy P2SH addresses that start with '3'?
They've been around for a long time and I paid one from the very first pool block

Yes the P2SH Addresses, I feel like it would be better when consolidating mining rewards. Could you elaborate more on your opinion of the P2SH address?

P2SH was, basically, core's change to Bitcoin that they showed how they really are NOT anyone's gift to coding.
They do that regularly with the getblocktemplate code, but no one (including core) really gives a crap about that anyway (yeah it keeps getting slower ...)

Original Bitcoin had another reasonably simple malleability 'issue' that's really a non-event, and was removed with a commit hiding in segwit.
P2SH and segwit, on the other hand, well that's a different story.
What's segwit? Segregated witness, or in simple terms, moving a bit of data, that's part of the transaction hash, to not being part of the transaction hash.
Why? Coz P2SH didn't get it right. The malleability in P2SH leads to clear 'issues' with some of the P2SH transaction types they designed ... badly.

The standard, non-segwit, transaction change for malleability, is really just a minor thing ... sorta like a side note, or an addendum, tacked on.
I can't even find it searching the recent docs of the releases - yeah it's in there somewhere in the tl;dr; sections

So core decided to pretend that segwit can only be done how they are doing it and with all the 'other' changes in there ... and the 4x cost for non 'P2SH segwit' transactions ... and throw in a magical 'soft' to the fork definition (that they came up with) even though anyone who doesn't upgrade is royally screwed, and wow lets screw things up even more.
There's been a lot of patches and changes to fix up all the problems that keep being found in P2SH, segwit being yet another of those, so thus my opinion of P2SH.

[kano]

There is something going on in the world of btc  being done at big levels.
I see btc diff dropping more then 20%  
hashrate  is about 6,700,000,000  for the current diff of close to 886,000,000,000
I can do longer find current diff numbers live time
and current hash rate according to viabtc is at 4,700,000,000
Why are the live time diff trackers off line?

My guess is people are switching to mine bitcoin cash due to low difficulty - read https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-cash-returns-profitability-amid-mining-adjustments/

Well, the difficulty would have to be WAY lower and the price would have to not be dropping.

... you'd have to actually check the numbers, rather than believe anything written about it by who knows who, who happened to pick one specific point in time and pretend that the rest of eternity will be the same

It's like that dumb alt-coin hopping that looks at the price now and decides based on that ... lulz when the price drops badly after you stop mining but before you sell the shitcoins (that's expected to happen ...)

[clgrissom3]

Good job guys! We are on our 3rd of BLOCK FRIDAY!

[fusion0389]

Seems to be a problem at a large hosting site in Canada

Fibre is down for all of Labrador. Hence a bit of a droop in the hashrate all over I think

Yup, its affected me...

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Rather surprised the hosting site does not have a sat link as backup for just this thing...

[kano]

Rather surprised the hosting site does not have a sat link as backup for just this thing...

That's why they have probably the best price around

[citronick]

Rather surprised the hosting site does not have a sat link as backup for just this thing...

That's why they have probably the best price around

My group use 2 ISPs in Labrador.

The smaller privately owned one... stays up because they have decent backup links.

However...

The so called larger commercial one ... until now is still down.

Note: the fiber links breakdown is at Quebec... looks like someone/something has "cut thru" the line.

[VRobb]

Wow, as the old proverb goes, "may you live in interesting times."   
Good to see you citronick, juvia just punched one out recently, with some other guy tho... two timer!! 

[philipma1957]

I found more current diff info

so  the best we have is this  link:



Try this: http://bitcointicker.co/networkstats/

I also pulled a screen shot from a different pool as it claims to have current ph for BTC and for BCC/BCH

would be nice to see current diff number

Diff is @ 888,171,856,257.32

So how do I track current diff?  any one have a link to a current diff tracker?

Try this: http://bitcointicker.co/networkstats/

good it works and we are looking at a 20% drop in the diff!  but switching  is easy look at the hash on viabtc

6600p is close to the baseline  or a 0% change

at 4300 for btc
at 3800 for bcc/bch

a drop from 6600p to 4300p =  more then 33% drop.

if  btc  goes lower hash then  bcc/bch  we will no long have alt coins  since every coin will be an alt coin.  we would just have cryptocoins  just definitions  as I see it.

[Newko]

Just finished catching up on reading about 20 pages of posts (it's summer here at the "Joisey Shore" so I've been playing outside a lot).

1. Hello to my fellow miners - nice job cracking blocks as we are almost back to 100%. Thank you  

2. All that "discussion" about dust! Sheesh! (and please don't start up again)

3. I now know the correct pronunciation of Kano's name: "Kah-no". Gonna take me a while to re-train my brain on that. Still trying to pronounce bialy correctly and it's been 10 years. It's "bee-ahly", not "buy-ahly".

This is the best pool AND the best community! Love it!

Mine on!  

[citronick]

Wow, as the old proverb goes, "may you live in interesting times."   
Good to see you citronick, juvia just punched one out recently, with some other guy tho... two timer!! 

LOL.... both are the same but 2 different BTC addresses but all Juvia's minions all the same (155 x A721s)

[firetreeactual]

Wow, as the old proverb goes, "may you live in interesting times."   
Good to see you citronick, juvia just punched one out recently, with some other guy tho... two timer!! 

LOL.... both are the same but 2 different BTC addresses but all Juvia's minions all the same (155 x A721s)

Good to hear from you, my friend. Looks like Alan's got his waterfowl aligned...only one of my machines went down, and not for very long. Either the link got repaired quickly, or he's got a backup.

[overcon]

Man I got my payments in my core wallet and used the lowest fee I could on the slider bar and it orphaned my transfer. I had to use the free accelerator to boost it. First time I have had that happen. I didn't think that occurred other than using a custom fee and trying to get it to low.

[bronder]

OMG! If you want a REALLY good reason to not mine on AntPoo?

So we got block 481954 at 08:22:34 UTC
It's just been confirmed an hour later with block 481955 by AntPoo

I was watching/waiting for the confirm very closely - I even switched up our main bitcoind block size to 998,888 while waiting for this block (it used to be 988,888)
The reason? By the time it was an hour waiting for a 481955, our work size was over 17.75BTC

OK all good, then what happened?
AntPoo gets block 481955, confirming our block 481954 ... but their block is ...... EMPTY!?!?! WTF?!?

Who the hell is the retard at AntPoo who runs the pool?
That's just unbelievable that they could do anything that stupid

So we're now awaiting whoever is gonna find 481956 - which would be good if it was us since our work is now ... 17.92BTC and still growing

Edit: At 09:35:46 still waiting, and now over 18BTC!

Edit2: ah well, someone else got 481956, and it was an 18.34 BTC block

https://cointelegraph.com/news/antpool-asicboost-share-blame-for-bitcoin-network-delays

[philipma1957]

Man I got my payments in my core wallet and used the lowest fee I could on the slider bar and it orphaned my transfer. I had to use the free accelerator to boost it. First time I have had that happen. I didn't think that occurred other than using a custom fee and trying to get it to low.

don't go too low.

 I do 25-50 sats a byte  and use the accelerator  it is  more work but saves money.

[citronick]

Wow, as the old proverb goes, "may you live in interesting times."   
Good to see you citronick, juvia just punched one out recently, with some other guy tho... two timer!! 

LOL.... both are the same but 2 different BTC addresses but all Juvia's minions all the same (155 x A721s)

Good to hear from you, my friend. Looks like Alan's got his waterfowl aligned...only one of my machines went down, and not for very long. Either the link got repaired quickly, or he's got a backup.

They explained to me that they have several backup links including cellular if needed. Thumbs up to them!

I cant say the same for the other ISP in that area though.... :-(