[4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 340.

mstrongbow

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3D Printed!

Quote from: alh on April 18, 2014, 05:06:52 PM

One thing I am curious about is the "anti pool hopping" part of Slush's
Pool. Is it based by the individual worker within my account, or is it
for my account as a whole?

In my case, at different times I have 2-3 different platforms, and I
have assigned them each a separate worker. I am wondering now if
it might not make more sense for them all to share the same worker_id.
If I have to take one down to work on the platform, then I don't "lose"
the effort already done by thet platform, just what it doesn't do while
it's down. I can see benefits to having multiple worker_id's, but I want
to know it's drawbacks as well.

Any wisdom out there on this?

That is a very good question and I might want to do the same IF by chance it is messing with how much I make when a miner happens to go offline

alh

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One thing I am curious about is the "anti pool hopping" part of Slush's
Pool. Is it based by the individual worker within my account, or is it
for my account as a whole?

In my case, at different times I have 2-3 different platforms, and I
have assigned them each a separate worker. I am wondering now if
it might not make more sense for them all to share the same worker_id.
If I have to take one down to work on the platform, then I don't "lose"
the effort already done by thet platform, just what it doesn't do while
it's down. I can see benefits to having multiple worker_id's, but I want
to know it's drawbacks as well.

Any wisdom out there on this?

Mudbankkeith

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Quote from: Franklin16422 on April 18, 2014, 12:17:08 PM

So then, the new block notification I'm receiving is basically slush's pool saying (dump what you've been doing and start work on a new one," right?

Not completely "dump" ... the shares from your work are carried forward, on a reducing value, until slush finds a block and pays out.

kkurtmann

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basically, yes

Franklin16422

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So then, the new block notification I'm receiving is basically slush's pool saying (dump what you've been doing and start work on a new one," right?

Mudbankkeith

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Quote from: Franklin16422 on April 18, 2014, 11:30:27 AM

That's why I asked the question. Would BFGMiner be showing blocks found by other pools? That doesn't make sense.

Each time the network finds a block, then we all start looking for the next one.

Slush has not found a block for 20+ hours.

All the shares in slush continue to accumulate until slush's pool finds a block. Then slush pays out.

Franklin16422

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That's why I asked the question. Would BFGMiner be showing blocks found by other pools? That doesn't make sense.

macsheadroom

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Computer Service Tech

Quote from: Franklin16422 on April 18, 2014, 10:45:02 AM

BFGMiner just showed on my console 4 new blocks found within 3 minutes of each other. Does that mean 4 BTCs were found?

Unfortunately we are still working on a 20+ hour block, see our stats page (https://mining.bitcoin.cz/stats/). If we did find those blocks the pool would have earned 100 BTC.

It just got a bit harder to find those blocks too, difficulty is 6,978,842,650 now Cry

Franklin16422

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BFGMiner just showed on my console 4 new blocks found within 3 minutes of each other. Does that mean 4 BTCs were found?

markneill

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Quote from: necro_nemesis on April 17, 2014, 12:54:17 PM

Your on Slush because you like drama. If you want sit back and watch the sausage factory go on one of the big PPLNS pools. At the end of the month you could be up or down depending on which pool happened to have better luck that month. You can spend hours analyzing why it works that way if you want something to occupy your time but in the end there's no way to beat the odds.

http://crow202.org/wordpress/wp-content/images/horse-mechanic.jpg

necro_nemesis

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Your on Slush because you like drama. If you want sit back and watch the sausage factory go on one of the big PPLNS pools. At the end of the month you could be up or down depending on which pool happened to have better luck that month. You can spend hours analyzing why it works that way if you want something to occupy your time but in the end there's no way to beat the odds.

markneill

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Quote from: finbad2 on April 17, 2014, 07:54:15 AM

I have a question

does the monthly luck ever have a chance of going 113%

seems to me the monthly should be pretty close to 100%.

Correct - statistically, Luck should converge on 100% at 30 days.

In reality, well, there's a reason it's called "Luck" and not "Standard Deviation" or "Block solve/find rate" or something equally untrue. Like they say: Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics

markneill

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Quote from: rainfall on April 17, 2014, 06:40:49 AM

Quote from: EasyQuest on April 17, 2014, 06:29:06 AM

Quote from: necro_nemesis on April 17, 2014, 06:20:50 AM

Quote from: rainfall on April 17, 2014, 06:15:35 AM

any comment about slush pool??? is it a good pool?

Wouldn't know, everyone on this slush pool forum mines elsewhere. Roll Eyes

I mine on Slush it has been very stable, it is just people cannot handle the score system. Because when bad luck hits you do not get any reward but when you hit a very good luck then you earn lots.

So, Slush is on PPLNS??

No, Slush is score based. Shares contributed later in a given block are scored higher than shares contributed in the early portions; this is meant to discourage miners who join for the first, lesser difficulty portion of a block, then jump out to somewhere else when the CDF crosses whatever threshhold they've determined is "too hard too long" for them (See also: Raulo's attack, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.44357 ). The block is then scored as a whole, and rewards are based on the portion of the score of the block that you accumulated.

finbad2

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I have a question

does the monthly luck ever have a chance of going 113%

seems to me the monthly should be pretty close to 100%.

rainfall

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Quote from: EasyQuest on April 17, 2014, 06:29:06 AM

Quote from: necro_nemesis on April 17, 2014, 06:20:50 AM

Quote from: rainfall on April 17, 2014, 06:15:35 AM

any comment about slush pool??? is it a good pool?

Wouldn't know, everyone on this slush pool forum mines elsewhere. Roll Eyes

I mine on Slush it has been very stable, it is just people cannot handle the score system. Because when bad luck hits you do not get any reward but when you hit a very good luck then you earn lots.

So, Slush is on PPLNS??

EasyQuest

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Quote from: necro_nemesis on April 17, 2014, 06:20:50 AM

Quote from: rainfall on April 17, 2014, 06:15:35 AM

any comment about slush pool??? is it a good pool?

Wouldn't know, everyone on this slush pool forum mines elsewhere. Roll Eyes

I mine on Slush it has been very stable, it is just people cannot handle the score system. Because when bad luck hits you do not get any reward but when you hit a very good luck then you earn lots.

necro_nemesis

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Quote from: rainfall on April 17, 2014, 06:15:35 AM

any comment about slush pool??? is it a good pool?

Wouldn't know, everyone on this slush pool forum mines elsewhere. Roll Eyes

rainfall

newbie

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any comment about slush pool??? is it a good pool?

kkurtmann

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Merit: 250

Quote from: bebooba11 on April 16, 2014, 06:45:36 AM

Quote from: markneill on April 15, 2014, 08:54:42 PM

Quote from: bebooba11 on April 15, 2014, 08:09:42 PM

Quote from: bebooba11 on April 15, 2014, 07:44:08 PM

I just logged into my Wallet. I have the wallet hosted locally on my computer.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/9cfa54d0a5537e18e4e89a64da1c5c85981cd90b5a5aeeec002bca4fffbe7f8a

I got robbed? Can someone explain or help? Huh

?

OMG this is crappy.

Just lost 1.3 btc...miners for sale. anyone interested?

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♦ The same bug also affected the forum. Changing your forum password is recommended.

See also: The top of every page in the forum

Some people have said that MultiBit wouldn't have been affected by Heartbleed. Either way, its been a rough last 24 hours. Super bummer. Miners are off so I can at least stop wasting money on electricity. I hope to just sell my miners and get something back out of this.

twelve bux final offer

necro_nemesis

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Pool percentage is irrelevant. Personal percentage to the entire network is the metric of performance. The only useful information from pool percentages IMHO is to have an appreciation for the type of mining being added and whether individuals are being disadvantaged by data centers and manufacturers to the point of being uncompetitive. Even this is difficult since you may not know the composition of the pool in all instances.

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