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Topic: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It - page 953. (Read 3917568 times)

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legendary
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Hey all,

Since the price has stabilized some I am pleased to announce I am once again buying ASICMiner puts.  Smiley
~90 day exp, strike of 1.95BTC, and premium of 0.14BTC. BTCT please.


You can either throw 'em up on the market, or PM me first. Looking for up to 18 more contracts.
Still interested in those ones from a few days back?

Well, that's not exactly 90 days anymore. I can offer 0.13 if that's OK

No probs puts them up have fun  Wink
Rounded to the perfect satoshi amount
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♫ the AM bear who cares ♫
Hey all,

Since the price has stabilized some I am pleased to announce I am once again buying ASICMiner puts.  Smiley
~90 day exp, strike of 1.95BTC, and premium of 0.14BTC. BTCT please.


You can either throw 'em up on the market, or PM me first. Looking for up to 18 more contracts.
Still interested in those ones from a few days back?

Well, that's not exactly 90 days anymore. I can offer 0.13 if that's OK
legendary
Activity: 1834
Merit: 1094
Learning the troll avoidance button :)
Hey all,

Since the price has stabilized some I am pleased to announce I am once again buying ASICMiner puts.  Smiley
~90 day exp, strike of 1.95BTC, and premium of 0.14BTC. BTCT please.


You can either throw 'em up on the market, or PM me first. Looking for up to 18 more contracts.
Still interested in those ones from a few days back?
sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 250
♫ the AM bear who cares ♫
Hey all,

Since the price has stabilized some I am pleased to announce I am once again buying ASICMiner puts.  Smiley
~90 day exp, strike of 1.95BTC, and premium of 0.14BTC. BTCT please.


You can either throw 'em up on the market, or PM me first. Looking for up to 18 more contracts.
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You can't kill math.
Any thoughts as to why it started dropping at the moment BTCGuild mining went to zero?

I have thoughts relating to timing, but am turning over a new leaf and won't air them here.

It's a struggle for me so I've come up with a daily affirmation:

It is for me to decide which companies to invest in.  It is for those that run them to decide how to do so.  Friedcat has proven himself to be above suspicion so I will choose to trust in his ability to safeguard my investment.  And darnit, I'm a good person.



Good dhenson, good Smiley
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Ad maiora!
Any thoughts as to why it started dropping at the moment BTCGuild mining went to zero?

I have thoughts relating to timing, but am turning over a new leaf and won't air them here.

It's a struggle for me so I've come up with a daily affirmation:

It is for me to decide which companies to invest in.  It is for those that run them to decide how to do so.  Friedcat has proven himself to be above suspicion so I will choose to trust in his ability to safeguard my investment.  And darnit, I'm a good person.


yeah! listen to ol' Liberace there!
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I expect friedcat will be posting soon to update us. It is nice to see the hash rate recovering. I would only ask that in the future updates be made more frequently as a matter of company policy in the event of an outage to avoid harming the share price.

So far so good. ASICMINER has exceeded all expectations and I am eager to see what they have in store for us next.
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I haven't looked into this too closely, but all/most of the recent blocks awarded to ASICMINER have a much lower transaction count than those awarded to other miners/pools. Is that a coincidence, is it a consequence of the hardware design, is it somehow indicative of the recent drop in hashrate?

Coincidence. I saw one earlier with 600+ transactions.

Regardless, there is no mechanism in BTC to selectively mine blocks. I.e., you can't mine a 100 transaction block more easily than you can mine a 1,000 transaction block with a given difficulty. This cannot be done by adjusting hashrate either. At a given difficulty, your probability for mining a block is fixed to a certain hashrate over a period of time. A lower hashrate will have a lower probability, and a higher hashrate will have a higher probability.

In short, hashrate and difficulty have nothing to do with the size of the block you mine.

Ian

Hashrate and difficulty are unrelated to number of transactions, but a poorly connected node may show low number of transactions - which may also be a problem when broadcasting blocks! I.e. if two miners find a block almost at the same time, the well-connected node wins the block because it is broadcast more widely.

Not saying that's the case, but a low transaction number could be a signal of a poorly connected node, which could be a disadvantage in a race.

So... the drop in effective hashrate could actually be the result of a DDOS on the ASICMINER node(s)?

It did conveniently stop after the dividend payout - it could be someone trying to manipulate the price, or one of the other pool operators.

It may possibly suggest network issues, but it's a bit of a leap to say DDOS...
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I haven't looked into this too closely, but all/most of the recent blocks awarded to ASICMINER have a much lower transaction count than those awarded to other miners/pools. Is that a coincidence, is it a consequence of the hardware design, is it somehow indicative of the recent drop in hashrate?

Coincidence. I saw one earlier with 600+ transactions.

Regardless, there is no mechanism in BTC to selectively mine blocks. I.e., you can't mine a 100 transaction block more easily than you can mine a 1,000 transaction block with a given difficulty. This cannot be done by adjusting hashrate either. At a given difficulty, your probability for mining a block is fixed to a certain hashrate over a period of time. A lower hashrate will have a lower probability, and a higher hashrate will have a higher probability.

In short, hashrate and difficulty have nothing to do with the size of the block you mine.

Ian

Hashrate and difficulty are unrelated to number of transactions, but a poorly connected node may show low number of transactions - which may also be a problem when broadcasting blocks! I.e. if two miners find a block almost at the same time, the well-connected node wins the block because it is broadcast more widely.

Not saying that's the case, but a low transaction number could be a signal of a poorly connected node, which could be a disadvantage in a race.

So... the drop in effective hashrate could actually be the result of a DDOS on the ASICMINER node(s)?

It did conveniently stop after the dividend payout - it could be someone trying to manipulate the price, or one of the other pool operators.
legendary
Activity: 994
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Any thoughts as to why it started dropping at the moment BTCGuild mining went to zero?

I have thoughts relating to timing, but am turning over a new leaf and won't air them here.

It's a struggle for me so I've come up with a daily affirmation:

It is for me to decide which companies to invest in.  It is for those that run them to decide how to do so.  Friedcat has proven himself to be above suspicion so I will choose to trust in his ability to safeguard my investment.  And darnit, I'm a good person.

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No, it's on the way back up.

Any thoughts as to why it started dropping at the moment BTCGuild mining went to zero?

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Is anyone else seeing this or is it just me?



Yep! Pump it up!!
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Is anyone else seeing this or is it just me?

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I haven't looked into this too closely, but all/most of the recent blocks awarded to ASICMINER have a much lower transaction count than those awarded to other miners/pools. Is that a coincidence, is it a consequence of the hardware design, is it somehow indicative of the recent drop in hashrate?

Coincidence. I saw one earlier with 600+ transactions.

Regardless, there is no mechanism in BTC to selectively mine blocks. I.e., you can't mine a 100 transaction block more easily than you can mine a 1,000 transaction block with a given difficulty. This cannot be done by adjusting hashrate either. At a given difficulty, your probability for mining a block is fixed to a certain hashrate over a period of time. A lower hashrate will have a lower probability, and a higher hashrate will have a higher probability.

In short, hashrate and difficulty have nothing to do with the size of the block you mine.

Ian

Hashrate and difficulty are unrelated to number of transactions, but a poorly connected node may show low number of transactions - which may also be a problem when broadcasting blocks! I.e. if two miners find a block almost at the same time, the well-connected node wins the block because it is broadcast more widely.

Not saying that's the case, but a low transaction number could be a signal of a poorly connected node, which could be a disadvantage in a race.
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I haven't looked into this too closely, but all/most of the recent blocks awarded to ASICMINER have a much lower transaction count than those awarded to other miners/pools. Is that a coincidence, is it a consequence of the hardware design, is it somehow indicative of the recent drop in hashrate?

Coincidence. I saw one earlier with 600+ transactions.

Regardless, there is no mechanism in BTC to selectively mine blocks. I.e., you can't mine a 100 transaction block more easily than you can mine a 1,000 transaction block with a given difficulty. This cannot be done by adjusting hashrate either. At a given difficulty, your probability for mining a block is fixed to a certain hashrate over a period of time. A lower hashrate will have a lower probability, and a higher hashrate will have a higher probability.

In short, hashrate and difficulty have nothing to do with the size of the block you mine.

Ian
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I haven't looked into this too closely, but all/most of the recent blocks awarded to ASICMINER have a much lower transaction count than those awarded to other miners/pools. Is that a coincidence, is it a consequence of the hardware design, is it somehow indicative of the recent drop in hashrate?

I noticed too. I just imagined that the node they are running is not terribly well connected...
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I haven't looked into this too closely, but all/most of the recent blocks awarded to ASICMINER have a much lower transaction count than those awarded to other miners/pools. Is that a coincidence, is it a consequence of the hardware design, is it somehow indicative of the recent drop in hashrate?
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That's just what it looked like at the time I took the screenshot. No shenanigans I promise!



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That's just what it looked like at the time I took the screenshot. No shenanigans I promise!
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