Still solo mining.
24 hours now WITHOUT a single coin though, 36 hours with just 1 (one machine that's never had even one), and that after getting off to a nice start that met with expectations.
The overall diff picture hasn't changed in that time (roughly the same as 3 days ago while trending ever so slightly higher).
What has changed was the mention of "secret" private pools.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6552787
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=580725.msg6550578;topicseen#msg6550578
If they're big, then that puts the little solo miner out of business. But is that really true? Statistically speaking, my miners should have the same probabilities of solving a block (as in BLOCK!) regardless of whether the entire network were all one huge pool except for little old me, or the entire network were nothing but solo miners with me included, correct?
24 hours with zilch is really stacking the odds though.
Something smells fishy. Anyone else experiencing something similar?
24 hours now WITHOUT a single coin though, 36 hours with just 1 (one machine that's never had even one), and that after getting off to a nice start that met with expectations.
The overall diff picture hasn't changed in that time (roughly the same as 3 days ago while trending ever so slightly higher).
What has changed was the mention of "secret" private pools.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6552787
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=580725.msg6550578;topicseen#msg6550578
If they're big, then that puts the little solo miner out of business. But is that really true? Statistically speaking, my miners should have the same probabilities of solving a block (as in BLOCK!) regardless of whether the entire network were all one huge pool except for little old me, or the entire network were nothing but solo miners with me included, correct?
1 big pool + little old me = same probabilities = all solo miners with little old me included, correct?
The so called "lottery ticket" is exactly the same for little old me, and it's completely independent
of the make-up of the rest of that particular statistical universe, correct?
The so called "lottery ticket" is exactly the same for little old me, and it's completely independent
of the make-up of the rest of that particular statistical universe, correct?
24 hours with zilch is really stacking the odds though.
Something smells fishy. Anyone else experiencing something similar?
Got up in the middle of the night to take a piss, and it came to me, it's called:
LATENCY
and I then proceded to think to myself, "you idiot"!
If it's taking forever to submit, you're not going to get
anything, even if your theoretical odds are 1 in 75 to
1 in 125 (depending on the diff at any given moment).
anything, even if your theoretical odds are 1 in 75 to
1 in 125 (depending on the diff at any given moment).
And that's not to mention what would be happening
if huge concentrated hashrates (secret pools)
are right next to active nodes.
if huge concentrated hashrates (secret pools)
are right next to active nodes.
Out of curiosity, I pinged the nodes in the original launch post https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6507800 and they all timed out.
I'd post further findings, but since nobody else has had similar problems, why bother?
I'm going back to bed. I've got a long, long hard day tomorrow. Good luck to the other two or three of you who are troubleshooting.
Im on a solid connection in Northern Europe.