Topic: [CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers - page 78. (Read 903150 times)

And another small update to make sure the luck recording doesn't clip a shift with a block pending confirmation.  It probably hasn't happened before, but would've just now.  The entire network hasn't found a block in 50 minutes, and we solved our last block right before a shift close.

Well it seems our luck is picking up a bit, look at blocks found yesterday and blocks found so far today...

If you read the history here, you'll see I barked up when things went low, luck was down and rewards were low. It just kept getting worse and this was by the months and months. Hey, I was only making 0.03 every 24 hours. So I switched over to another pool, that
s has no fee and even though it takes me a while to figure out what my return is, I'm pulling in 0.06 now. It's just a small tiny rig I have, it isn't important to the big guys who have T's of power and look at us like we're green moss on the ground. Don't ask the same questions twice, or hurt anyone's feelings at all. If you do that, you'll have a tough time with the "entitlement" type attitude towards you pretty thick.

They do the same thing with car fuel prices in America here. One day it was $1.50/gallon, then it shot straight up to like $4.00/gallon and stayed that way a long time. A couple of years at least. Bouncing up and down a little of course the people just acted like robots and took it in. And we (the normal car fuel buyer) were all told it would eventually go back to our previous prices.  This is course never happened, there still is PLENTY of crude oil in the ground to sustain the globe for thousands of years. Manufacturing has even gotten more efficient, so the price "should" go down. But it won't. Now when you see $3.15 or $3.29 at the pump we all jump and are happy on how low it is and go fuel up before it goes back up to $3.75 or whatever it was. We've been suckered big time by the oil industry and soon as those hybrid cars started coming out the oil industry had to do something to keep the billionaire wallets filled to the top.

 

Very minor cosmetic update to the PPLNS Stats page.  The graph will now always use either the 2nd or 3rd most recently closed shift as the end point.  Ever since it was changed from hourly plot points to 3-hour average plot points, it was tending to be 4-5 hours behind the most recently closed shift.  It won't end on the most recently closed shift just in case there is a block pending confirmation that has not yet been credited to the shift (since the luck chart does not include orphans).

Gotta keep this short sweet and simple but for anyone interested in a stats signature that shows off alot of details for your BTCG account, please check out this post !

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4814132

The last reply today contains some very cool info IMO !!!

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PPLNS is a time-delayed method.  Whenever a block is solved, the payment is applied to the 10 open shifts.  A shift takes ~1 hour to complete, so this means each block is split based on the mining activity of users over the last 10 hours.  So while your machines were offline, you were continuing to get paid for most of that time (though it shrank as new shifts completed where you had no shares).

When you first started up again, you wouldn't have any shares in the open shifts.  It takes a while to rebuild shares in all shifts.  This is the "charge up" period, and when you stop mining it's the "wind down" period.  They're symmetrical, meaning you aren't making more or less depending on frequency of mining.  Each share's payout is completely independent of future and past mining activity.  This is explained in the Support/How Am I Rewarded section.

I'm pretty new to this and just had my first experience with a significant outage impacting my miners.

I've got two Antminer S1s chugging away non-stop (usually) on Slush's Pool. I don't hop, etc. Best case for me is for the machines to just do their thing.

Last night though, my internet connection crapped-out and I was out for 14 hours. Now that I'm back up, my statistics show four blocks that my miners worked on, that now show "none" for Your Shares and Your Reward. There are confirmations being churned-out, but nothing for me.

Is this part of the pool hopping policy?

Being someone that doesn't hop (I dedicate miners to Slush and BTC Guild), seems like BS that I'm being dinged like this.

Thanks, Dan

Why, that would just cost you more in fees.

I wouldnt mind seeing an option to bypass auto withdrawls though and just have one payment triggered per day at a user specified time that cashes out your full balance minus change / last 6 digits.

Could we have a lower auto withdrawl amount? Even if it can only trigger once every 24 hours?

I used this site for a long time, overall, a very good site experience, thank you for your great work.

This type of regulation is one of the things Bitcoin in supposed to free us from.  Bitcoin needs to succeed or fail on its own merits, this type of socialistic meddling is bad for everyone.

Isn't this BTC Guilds thread?

Bitcoins: A game or not a game, switching off old unefficient hardware. Is this an solution, I think no. On august will be all now availiable miners on the market unefficient. We create bitcoins at minimum for that, that we enable to share our input of electicity (converted into bitcoins) to buy things for the real life or something to have fun.

Paying for fun it´s ok, but when I loose so much money inhalf a very short time, without the chance to buy somthing with 0,0001 bitcoins, then
is something wrong. What we need is an fixed minimum price for the Bitcoins. Also an timeframe where we can dispose this old hardware.

Ok OK OK, there are so many other sha256 coins to create, but all depends on the bitcoins.

Is there any evidence that some previous unknown pool-hopping scheme has been devised? The fluctuations in reported hashing power in the public pools seems pretty extreme. I don't have good data but anecdotally for BTCGuild it does seem to move with luck.

Looks like we just made up for that lousy block.

Such is the fun of bitcoin mining.

We didn't luckily.  The N value is currently at just under 9x diff.  I can only recall 2 blocks in the last 3 years that were worse than that on BTC Guild, 1 block on Slush, and 1 block on Deepbit.

Ya with the block before that being 8.5hrs ago ;-/

Height   Age   Transactions   Total Sent   Relayed By   Size (kB)
299768   2 minutes   382   1,978.28 BTC   BTC Guild   207.37


Looks like it's finally over

Have we ever had a closed shift with zero blocks?  Are we about to?

Then I stand corrected