Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 286. (Read 4382675 times)

I know it is tempting to jump ship but hang in there it will pick back up. Usually after a run like this we have a couple of really good rounds.

It is just taking a long time to find and complete a block.

I started here last week

I am far from an expert but luck as well as total hashing power does have a part in it. We are coming off of a 30 day run or so of really good luck so I really can't complain too much. Larger pools do usually find more blocks but your share will be a lot smaller so it does average out. Here is a link to weekly pool stats and luck: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/weekly-pool-and-network-statistics-77000

I've been mining for a while and I still don't quite understand this long block business either. !

Bob

I know its not because of computing power, so what exactly is it ?

I have a question as a newbie to this entire crypto coin thing...  Are these long periods due to the pool not finding a block or that the pool doesn't have enough processing power to decipher the block?

Lel 12Hours ?
Let see this today round !
https://i.imgur.com/NEEaae9.png

This is ridiculous!

15+, this isn't funny anymore.

Yes.

Bitcoin Wiki

Looks like we may break the record for longest round!

Don't worry it will be an invalid again 
With the pool size back up to 5.7 Peta looks like we are all gluttons for punishment.

looks like another 12 hour duration, 4th in 3 days, 

Hey Everyone
Hey Slush

Hope your all well.

When I first started mining, many moons ago, I was mining with Slush's pool...& never really had any problems, thanks very much.

I can't exactly remember what made me switch pools, but I have been mining with BTCGuild currently.
I have wanted to move back to Slush's pool, but the thing thats holding me back is Namecoin merged mining... I never mined them originally with Slush, and now I wish I had.

I have mined a few through BTCGuild, but what with all this talk of regulation in US and such like, if BTCGuild does shutdown completely, will you, Slush, be re-implementing merged Namecoin mining again?

I hope so !!! Otherwise, I have no idea which direction to head in next - without Namecoin mining, there is basically no Namecoin network, right? Unless your talking solo merged mining or something, right?

Any input is welcome - I hope to make new friends here, and perhaps bump into friends from BA's forum originally, or from here originally that I have now met on BA's forum... hope that makes sense...

For the record, I only mine small scale - I used to GPU mine mainly with 1 x Asus 6870, & 2 x Asus 7970's.
Now I am mining with 1 x BE, 2 x BFL 7gh's, 1 x BFL 25gh's, & 1 x BA Prospero X1 ( rpi version ) mostly running around 100-120gh's unless its crashed - you may have seen my vids on youtube - please
search under my name on here on there

I hope merged Namecoin mining makes a return to Slush's Pool !!!

Thanks everyone, & again, thanks Slush for all your time & effort in the past & into the future !!!

Can only tell you from the last 42 days (Includes the "orphans")

 Days    Average Block Time   No. of Blocks    Blocks/day
  42               3:53:36                        257           6.119047619

Very true, can the "expected" daily return (blocks found) be calculated?  Still trying to figure out what pool luck means is it the probability of hitting?  thanks

Newbie here;
Invalid block == orphaned block?

slush pool is the same, less than 0.01% from pool lifetime

You could do a probability on pool luck based on all the previous rounds, but solving a block comes down to luck > hash power, not very accurate unlike with counting cards which has a set amount of variables each hand, vardiff is suppose to stop pool hopping, I reckon there would be people out there jumping onto pools at near end of round, to make that work it would be a full time job. There really is no predictable end to a round.