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Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 564. (Read 4382797 times)

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If I'd delete my account in pool, will I be payed off automatically?
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Great run until that six hour iceberg hit. Well, can't have everything.

russell
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Just curious, why does this happen?


19854   2013-09-01 15:26:31   0:09:01   5753209   none   none   255501   25.18890280    99 confirmations left


Never mind, it updated a few moments later.
sr. member
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190% luck! Incredible.

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Pool luck (1 day, 7 days, 30 days):   190%, 100%, 101%
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Looks like blockchain.info is undergoing maintenance currently. Perhaps that is why blocks are showing up invalid? If Slush is using blockchain.info for verification (as it appears he might be), then this could be causing our invalid block issues.

actually, the first 2 were invalid at a time when blockchain.info was still up.

I wonder what mechanism they are using to pull the data from blockchain.info. If only part of the site was down, say the mechanism that feeds out block information, then it is possible this could have caused an error on the pool. Could also just be Slush's pool having some issues as well. I am very glad this is now fixed though.

Actually, I am rather surprised to see those blocks valid on blockchain.info, then after an outage as orphaned, then later as valid again. What I saw there made me draw premature conclusions...
I would not take if for granted that the pool uses blockchain.info services to decide if a block is valid (on the main chain, not orphaned) or not... AFAIK any bitcoin client can give you that information.



This is very true. I imagine that someone with Slush's knowledge would not be relying on an external service. Good call.
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Looks like blockchain.info is undergoing maintenance currently. Perhaps that is why blocks are showing up invalid? If Slush is using blockchain.info for verification (as it appears he might be), then this could be causing our invalid block issues.

actually, the first 2 were invalid at a time when blockchain.info was still up.

I wonder what mechanism they are using to pull the data from blockchain.info. If only part of the site was down, say the mechanism that feeds out block information, then it is possible this could have caused an error on the pool. Could also just be Slush's pool having some issues as well. I am very glad this is now fixed though.

Actually, I am rather surprised to see those blocks valid on blockchain.info, then after an outage as orphaned, then later as valid again. What I saw there made me draw premature conclusions...
I would not take if for granted that the pool uses blockchain.info services to decide if a block is valid (on the main chain, not orphaned) or not... AFAIK any bitcoin client can give you that information.
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Not a bad run so far...


Yeah! I want to go on record and blame this good luck on the DIFF.
so keep that in mind when we have bad luck it cant be the diff.

*apology* I am new to this whole thing and even though I've been trying to read as much as I can the last few weeks, it's a lot to absorb. Please forgive this possibly stupid question.*/apology*

What is DIFF?


(I was being sarcastic)

Current Bitcoin block, difficulty:   255299, 65750060
http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php

simple terms how hard it is to find a block. next GUESS increase is .... 89 516 328  +24million wow its getting crazy up in here!


Everytime we have a run of bad luck people blame it on the difficulty, which isn't likely. so he was being funny.
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Yeah! I want to go on record and blame this good luck on the DIFF.
so keep that in mind when we have bad luck it cant be the diff.

+1  Smiley
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Not a bad run so far...


Yeah! I want to go on record and blame this good luck on the DIFF.
so keep that in mind when we have bad luck it cant be the diff.

*apology* I am new to this whole thing and even though I've been trying to read as much as I can the last few weeks, it's a lot to absorb. Please forgive this possibly stupid question.*/apology*

What is DIFF?



It refers to difficulty, it an automatic thing which makes mining bitcoin more difficult the faster they are found, basically its to keep the bitcoin law true "coins can only be found once every 10 minutes (on average)".

That the jist of it, I am also a newb so might have forgotten something :-)

 
hero member
Activity: 569
Merit: 500

Not a bad run so far...


Yeah! I want to go on record and blame this good luck on the DIFF.
so keep that in mind when we have bad luck it cant be the diff.

*apology* I am new to this whole thing and even though I've been trying to read as much as I can the last few weeks, it's a lot to absorb. Please forgive this possibly stupid question.*/apology*

What is DIFF?


(I was being sarcastic)

Current Bitcoin block, difficulty:   255299, 65750060
http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php

simple terms how hard it is to find a block. next GUESS increase is .... 89 516 328  +24million wow its getting crazy up in here!
newbie
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Not a bad run so far...


Yeah! I want to go on record and blame this good luck on the DIFF.
so keep that in mind when we have bad luck it cant be the diff.

*apology* I am new to this whole thing and even though I've been trying to read as much as I can the last few weeks, it's a lot to absorb. Please forgive this possibly stupid question.*/apology*

What is DIFF?
hero member
Activity: 569
Merit: 500

Not a bad run so far...


Yeah! I want to go on record and blame this good luck on the DIFF.
so keep that in mind when we have bad luck it cant be the diff.
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
Looks like blockchain.info is undergoing maintenance currently. Perhaps that is why blocks are showing up invalid? If Slush is using blockchain.info for verification (as it appears he might be), then this could be causing our invalid block issues.

actually, the first 2 were invalid at a time when blockchain.info was still up.

I wonder what mechanism they are using to pull the data from blockchain.info. If only part of the site was down, say the mechanism that feeds out block information, then it is possible this could have caused an error on the pool. Could also just be Slush's pool having some issues as well. I am very glad this is now fixed though.
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According to blockexplorer.com, valid Slush block #255116 paid out to address: 1AqTMY7kmHZxBuLUR5wJjPFUvqGs23sesr

http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000002d82d1dba4a81329a57a6572be936ff0f4debc09b2d93ff92b

Blocks #255153, #255157 and #255177 also paid out the same address making them valid Slush blocks.

255153 http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000003f0e0aa2097d5d965b489adf21fb7a27edb8da688af31c5562
255157 http://blockexplorer.com/block/00000000000000077381a7848fa5059ee5c038e0f8083696d61f8d253fc0b130
255177 http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000fbcaf090fec56f5834891663e133104f7b9e241d3bbf2905e

Someone correct me if I am wrong here.

Edit: #255153 appears to be valid again according to the stats page.
Edit 2: All blocks valid again and 255177 has correct pay out value.
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Make that three invalid blocks in a row.

I would guess this is a sign of work being done in the background. I believe these blocks are not invalid but marked as such on the pool level (so they do not interfere with rewards), so the operator has some headroom to fix things. We can confirm this once blockchain.info gets back up again.

Bockchain.info is back. My assumption was wrong, these blocks seem to be orphaned indeed. All 3.
member
Activity: 83
Merit: 10
Looks like blockchain.info is undergoing maintenance currently. Perhaps that is why blocks are showing up invalid? If Slush is using blockchain.info for verification (as it appears he might be), then this could be causing our invalid block issues.

actually, the first 2 were invalid at a time when blockchain.info was still up.
member
Activity: 83
Merit: 10
Make that three invalid blocks in a row.

I would guess this is a sign of work being done in the background. I believe these blocks are not invalid but marked as such on the pool level (so they do not interfere with rewards), so the operator has some headroom to fix things. We can confirm this once blockchain.info gets back up again.
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
Looks like blockchain.info is undergoing maintenance currently. Perhaps that is why blocks are showing up invalid? If Slush is using blockchain.info for verification (as it appears he might be), then this could be causing our invalid block issues.
legendary
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Make that three invalid blocks in a row.

Edit:  What the kcuf is going on?
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