I found a block !!!

[DarkRavenGamer]

Unfortunately I was pool mining...

Note that I did not receive anything extra for finding it!

But still! One of my Antminer S3+ found a block shortly after I restarted them.

Has anyone else found one?

https://i.imgur.com/GV4PThB.png


EDIT: I've switch to eligius.st pool.

[cinnamon_carter]

congratulations 

[goozman96]

That's great! I don't think I've ever found one myself yet. Your problems with Ghash are not uncommon. Switch to a better pool. I use Eligius.

[AJRGale]

... if you're one of them people that are going to cry "omg i shoulda been mining solo!" you'd never get that block like that, it was a block within that pool, you were the lucky one to give the right share

its like you a half dozen people walking down the road, you'd be the lucky one to trip on a rock.
go by yourself, you never follow that same path to randomly trip on that rock.

on the other hand, congrats on the find

[Seketsuna]

congrats for winning a block lottery 

[Hazir]

Rare find indeed. Congratulations. It is good to see non industrial miners in the era of huge scale mining farms and cloud mining.

[wlefever]

Still awesome even if pool mining. Congrats!

[cassimares]

Unfortunately I was pool mining...
But still! One of my Antminer S3+ found a block shortly after I restarted them.

Has anyone else found one?

https://i.imgur.com/GV4PThB.png


EDIT: I've noticed that ghash.io isn't paying as much as the calculators are saying I should get. I will give it a few more days to get it confirmed, but, any pool recommendations?

Awersome, just if you are solo mining.

[C0ins_R_U5]

i want to find a block!  cool even though you were in pool

[MrGreenHat]

... if you're one of them people that are going to cry "omg i shoulda been mining solo!" you'd never get that block like that, it was a block within that pool, you were the lucky one to give the right share

Can you explain this in further detail? Maybe using a different metaphor? I'm not doubting that you are right, but I have often wondered about this myself, as I once found a block on BTCGuild, and of course, who isn't going to have that thought of "Man, if I had been solo mining"? I'll admit I've never even looked at the source code of a pool, maybe I should, but I thought that the shares i submit to a pool would be the same ones that my miner would submit if I were "mining solo", so to speak (of course, unless the pool sets your miner to only submit shares of a certain difficulty, which I suppose the majority of them do). I'm sure I'm missing some technical detail.

[-ck]

... if you're one of them people that are going to cry "omg i shoulda been mining solo!" you'd never get that block like that, it was a block within that pool, you were the lucky one to give the right share

Can you explain this in further detail? Maybe using a different metaphor? I'm not doubting that you are right, but I have often wondered about this myself, as I once found a block on BTCGuild, and of course, who isn't going to have that thought of "Man, if I had been solo mining"? I'll admit I've never even looked at the source code of a pool, maybe I should, but I thought that the shares i submit to a pool would be the same ones that my miner would submit if I were "mining solo", so to speak (of course, unless the pool sets your miner to only submit shares of a certain difficulty, which I suppose the majority of them do). I'm sure I'm missing some technical detail.

You're mining totally different data depending on where you're mining.

[MrGreenHat]

... if you're one of them people that are going to cry "omg i shoulda been mining solo!" you'd never get that block like that, it was a block within that pool, you were the lucky one to give the right share

Can you explain this in further detail? Maybe using a different metaphor? I'm not doubting that you are right, but I have often wondered about this myself, as I once found a block on BTCGuild, and of course, who isn't going to have that thought of "Man, if I had been solo mining"? I'll admit I've never even looked at the source code of a pool, maybe I should, but I thought that the shares i submit to a pool would be the same ones that my miner would submit if I were "mining solo", so to speak (of course, unless the pool sets your miner to only submit shares of a certain difficulty, which I suppose the majority of them do). I'm sure I'm missing some technical detail.

You're mining totally different data depending on where you're mining.

Thanks for the clarification, CK!

[Prelude]

Too bad you weren't mining on P2Pool, you would've gotten a nice 0.125BTC reward for finding a block! (assuming you would have found it there also..)

Congrats on finding a block in any event!

[zetaray]

Congrats, it's it close to a miracle considering it's from an Antminer. You don't need to switch pools, finding another block wouldn't be any time soon 

[BTCXE]

congrats ! judging by OP's screenshot though, a much bigger achievement was finding the chrome tab that had your mining stats

[07Ghost]

This would inspire others to try solo mining.

[beegatewood]

Congrat, now you can show off your page

[bitbaby]

I have never mined but this must have been exciting, like finding treasure, how much did you made exactly?

[farrukh]

Congrats for finding the block.

[Gerhald]

Good job! U're my Hero!