Getting a pool together would be great
Its been 48 hours and still no block.
Im waiting to see if this actually works before getting ahold of several harddrives.
Same here. It is cheaper to buy a bunch of hdd's compared to gpu cards, but results have to be worth it first. I haven't found a block since I started 60 hours ago on a 500gb drive. But I keep seeing people with smaller drives find blocks and/or find block within 6 hours of starting mining on a hdd. Luck or have people found the optimal setting to mine with?
You did start the wallet and the miner - right?
Got all 3 bats working(run,generate and wallet), I am technically inclined and Cisco CCNA certified. I just barely got the plot to finish a couple minutes ago. I did a 400GB plot on the 500gb drive.
My guess is that you should avg at least one block per day, no sure way to tell without knowing the diff though -.-
Solo mining is highly luck base compare to pool mining. Plus, there is no way to know the diff or whatever is like a diff for this coin. So, there is no way to calculate block per day.
Sure, you take your own hashrate (plotsize) and avg the blocks per day, break it down -> avg blocks per day.
Doesn't really work though because the net is in its main growing stage and my hashrate is expending too, i can post some numbers after the weekend though, i'll be done with plot generation tomorrow, running 4700GB
Getting a pool together would be great
Its been 48 hours and still no block.
Im waiting to see if this actually works before getting ahold of several harddrives.
Same here. It is cheaper to buy a bunch of hdd's compared to gpu cards, but results have to be worth it first. I haven't found a block since I started 60 hours ago on a 500gb drive. But I keep seeing people with smaller drives find blocks and/or find block within 6 hours of starting mining on a hdd. Luck or have people found the optimal setting to mine with?
You did start the wallet and the miner - right?
Got all 3 bats working(run,generate and wallet), I am technically inclined and Cisco CCNA certified. I just barely got the plot to finish a couple minutes ago. I did a 400GB plot on the 500gb drive.
My guess is that you should avg at least one block per day, no sure way to tell without knowing the diff though -.-
Solo mining is highly luck base compare to pool mining. Plus, there is no way to know the diff or whatever is like a diff for this coin. So, there is no way to calculate block per day.
Sure, you take your own hashrate (plotsize) and avg the blocks per day, break it down -> avg blocks per day.
Doesn't really work though because the net is in its main growing stage and my hashrate is expending too, i can post some numbers after the weekend though, i'll be done with plot generation tomorrow, running 4700GB
That average will work for a week, then it will change next week because all the big miners will have there storage servers mining. That will surely make mining difficulty for the smaller miner. Gpu mining all over again...LOL
I do plan to do a RAID 5 with 4 drives, once I see I can get a couple of blocks with my current setup.
We need to get together one big chart of settings so we can optimize our setup for the most efficient performance according to how big and many harddrive(s) we have.
That is a very good idea, maybe put up a Google docs spreadsheet that can be linked to the OP.
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Solo mining is highly luck base compare to pool mining. Plus, there is no way to know the diff or whatever is like a diff for this coin. So, there is no way to calculate block per day.
/burst?requestType=getBlockchainStatus (GET) Thu Aug 14 2014 13:35:28 GMT+0200
{
"lastBlock": "1014125104951407132",
"lastBlockchainFeederHeight": 1201,
"time": 293728,
"lastBlockchainFeeder": "109.195.211.62",
"numberOfBlocks": 1201,
"isScanning": false,
"cumulativeDifficulty": "67567251495709",
"version": "1.0.0"
}
What about this 'cumulativeDifficulty' ... thought this is the diff?!
No sure if it definitive like gpu/cpu mining. It might be, but it hasn't been exactly elaborated on.
