Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed!

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: Last of the V8s on July 31, 2017, 02:14:13 PM

Bitcoin Difficulty:    860,221,984,436
Estimated Next Difficulty:    917,287,697,771 (+6.63%)
Adjust time:    After 1361 Blocks, About 9.3 days
Hashrate(?):    6,450,431,265 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.8 minutes
3 blocks: 29.5 minutes
6 blocks: 59.0 minutes

Updated:    20:5 (8.4 minutes ago)

The calm before the storm?

Maybe it is much to do about nothing.

I will open a thread to pick tomorrow should be fun or not.

new thread

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.20523218

Last of the V8s

legendary

Activity: 1652

Merit: 4392

Be a bank

Bitcoin Difficulty:    860,221,984,436
Estimated Next Difficulty:    917,287,697,771 (+6.63%)
Adjust time:    After 1361 Blocks, About 9.3 days
Hashrate(?):    6,450,431,265 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.8 minutes
3 blocks: 29.5 minutes
6 blocks: 59.0 minutes

Updated:    20:5 (8.4 minutes ago)

The calm before the storm?

cakir

legendary

Activity: 1274

Merit: 1000

★ BitClave ICO: 15/09/17 ★

Too bad I couln't get either... I'm gonna guess next time negative. Because of the 1 august shit & BitcoinCash shit.
Some of the miners will point their haspower into BCC...

edonkey

legendary

Activity: 1150

Merit: 1004

Did you guys see the analysis of changes to the BCC difficulty rules that will allow large pools to manipulate the difficulty backwards, without waiting for the next adjustment period?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6q3joc/a_voice_of_reason_in_the_mining_community/

Assuming this is true, is this vulnerability an honest mistake of the devs who perhaps wanted mining to be effective during their first period as miners bail for the main BTC chain? Because if hash power follows BTC, the block rate for the first adjustment period of BCC would approach infinity, given the original rules.

Or was it intentionally designed to be exploitable by large pools like Antpool to maximize their acquisition of BCC block rewards during the initial pump and dump?

This change to the rules might make it interesting to have a thread to guess the difficulty of BCC. Not that I think it's a good idea to legitimize BCC, but wouldn't it be interesting to watch the difficulty go backwards during an adjustment period?

Regardless, the adjustment period for both chains after August 1st will likely be very interesting...

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: fr4nkthetank on July 28, 2017, 10:57:22 PM

no winner again lol. Hey anybody has ideas on difficulty after the fork ? I mean...depending on BCC price, a bunch of hashrate will cross over...difficulty will be uncertain at the re-adjust, and could cause problems mining blocks, potentially crippling bitcoin if a lot of hashrate leaves ?

Well if a lot leave and 1 fork is 75 percent and the other 25 percent.

It would add Say 5 days to the big fork

And 20 days to the small fork

fr4nkthetank

legendary

Activity: 2294

Merit: 1182

Now the money is free, and so the people will be

no winner again lol. Hey anybody has ideas on difficulty after the fork ? I mean...depending on BCC price, a bunch of hashrate will cross over...difficulty will be uncertain at the re-adjust, and could cause problems mining blocks, potentially crippling bitcoin if a lot of hashrate leaves ?

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

We got close but no cigar
6.92%

Difficulty History

Date   Difficulty   Change   Hash Rate

Jul 27 2017   860,221,984,436   6.92%   6,157,708,817 GH/s

Jul 14 2017   804,525,194,568   13.53%   5,759,015,666 GH/s
My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s
5.4 = tomintx
5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname under 6.92 by a little .22

7.0 = isoneguy over 6.92 by less .08

8.0 = vapourminer
8.4 = bigsky
8.8 = eDonkey
9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

10.2 = HagssFIN

10.5 = Alh

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

13.3 = pusttiu

Picks ended at 516

Bigsky was added as the last player

I will set up a new contest later today.

alh

legendary

Activity: 1846

Merit: 1052

Looks to me like another miss. I guessed way too high, along with several others.....

Bitcoin Difficulty:    804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:    864,794,106,436 (+7.49%)
Adjust time:    After 18 Blocks, About 2.7 hours
Hashrate(?):    6,227,075,973 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.0 minutes
3 blocks: 27.1 minutes
6 blocks: 54.2 minutes

Updated:    2:50 (15.4 minutes ago)

Crazy business indeed!

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 24, 2017, 03:57:12 PM

My gut tells my that by AUG 9th my wedding anniversary will we be over 3000usd a coin.

You got married on my sister's birthday.

8-O

VRobb

hero member

Activity: 1610

Merit: 538

I'm in BTC XTC

Ha ha! Just like the old days! No f'in idea where diff will go with all the roller-coaster ups and downs!! Cheesy

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

with 7.53% and 52 blocks to go isoneguy 7.0 and vapourminer 8.0

have a chance

isoneguy gets 7.0 to 7.099999999xxx

vapourminer gets 8.0 to 8.099999999xxx

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

S7 (and S5/SP20) units aren't much of the total network hashrate any more, they were STILL profitable even during the "close to $2000" dip.
The price doesn't matter during the intervals when there are no miners to buy.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

The key is price of the coin.

My gut tells my that by AUG 9th my wedding anniversary will we be over 3000usd a coin.

If so the game will see more jumps of 5-10% .

As the s-7's all stay alive for mining.

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

Not sure why we're seeing the current increase, the Bitmain "July" batch looked like it was all shipped out the first 2 weeks or so of the month.
Perhaps Bitfury finally got some chips shipped to a large farm?

leowonderful

legendary

Activity: 1624

Merit: 1130

Bitcoin FTW!

This is going to be damn near 10% if nothing changes. currently estimating about +11% but if blocks keep coming in slow (no blocks in 2+ hrs atm) we may go back to 9-10. These constant difficulty rises are a bit concerning though, my S7 may be coming to its EOL quicker than expected.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s
5.4 = tomintx
5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer
8.4 = bigsky
8.8 = eDonkey
9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

10.2 = HagssFIN

10.5 = Alh

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

13.3 = pusttiu

Picks ended at 516

Bigsky was added as the last player

good luck to all

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568

Estimated Next Difficulty:   884,786,146,085 (+9.98%)
Adjust time:   After 444 Blocks, About 2.8 days

Hashrate(?):   6,543,426,191 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 8.9 minutes
3 blocks: 26.8 minutes
6 blocks: 53.5 minutes
Updated:   8:50 (5.0 minutes ago)

Bigsky

jr. member

Activity: 57

Merit: 10

Thanks for the thoughts philipma1957

If its not too late, what about 8.4,and if I win
you can donate it to a worthy cause

cheers mate

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

I am going to give a pick to Bigsky

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.20337121

as he made a large error in the thread above.

Not sure if he is online but if it goes past the 516 deadline and he misses the picking I am assigning him one. As I do not like people getting hurt with an honest mistake.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 23, 2017, 04:35:34 AM

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s
5.4 = tomintx
5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer

8.8 = eDonkey
9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

10.2 = HagssFIN

10.5 = Alh

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

13.3 = pusttiu

Picks will end at 516

alh

legendary

Activity: 1846

Merit: 1052

+10.5 = alh

BTC price currently $2773.

Bitcoin Difficulty:    804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:    887,140,925,788 (+10.27%)
Adjust time:    After 562 Blocks, About 3.5 days
Hashrate(?):    6,436,675,884 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.0 minutes
3 blocks: 26.9 minutes
6 blocks: 53.8 minutes

Updated:    15:5 (7.0 minutes ago)

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s
5.4 = tomintx
5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer

8.8 = eDonkey
9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

10.2 = HagssFIN

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

13.3 = pusttiu

Picks will end at 516

Tomintx

member

Activity: 69

Merit: 10

5.4 = tomintx

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer

8.8 = eDonkey

9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

10.2 = HagssFIN

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

13.3 = pusttiu

Picks will end at 516

pusttiu

full member

Activity: 260

Merit: 101

+13.3 = pusttiu

HagssFIN

legendary

Activity: 2464

Merit: 1710

Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.

My sister's two cats say: ( Cheesy

)
+10.2 = HagssFIN

edonkey

legendary

Activity: 1150

Merit: 1004

Our girl cat says:

8.8 = eDonkey

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer

9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

Psi

legendary

Activity: 1022

Merit: 1000

[center][table][tr][td][url=https://trustdice.win/

+9.8 = Psi

alh

legendary

Activity: 1846

Merit: 1052

As quickly as the BTC price dropped from $2600 --> $1900, it has now gone back up to about $2800. This is all within the span of a single difficulty period.

Big time roller-coaster.....

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer

9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

10.0 = leowonderful

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

Flying Hellfish

legendary

Activity: 1764

Merit: 1756

Verified Bernie Bro - Feel The Bern!

+11.2 = Flying Hellfish

Thanks Phil

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

coinbase = 2775 usd!

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer

9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

10.0 = leowonderful

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

fr4nkthetank

legendary

Activity: 2294

Merit: 1182

Now the money is free, and so the people will be

I feel someone is going to win this time, most likely wont be me though. Go btc price go, the latest rally was insane, reminds you that there is no limit to the speed of increasing price.

vh

hero member

Activity: 699

Merit: 666

12.5 = vh

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   864,312,295,494 (+7.43%)
Adjust time:   After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days
Hashrate(?):   6,392,376,751 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.9 minutes
6 blocks: 57.7 minutes

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

coinbase = 2775 usd!

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname
7.0 = isoneguy
8.0 = vapourminer

9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

10.0 = leowonderful

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

coins jumped over 2900 briefly!

isoneguy

hero member

Activity: 518

Merit: 501

7.0 = isoneguy Sad

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: QuintLeo on July 21, 2017, 02:55:41 PM

Coin jump over 2900 was VERY brief, but the recovery from around 2000ish as a low to the current 2500ish in the last few days is looking good.

yep and I actually managed to sell some at 2930 Grin

not much 200 usd worth

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

Coin jump over 2900 was VERY brief, but the recovery from around 2000ish as a low to the current 2500ish in the last few days is looking good.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   864,312,295,494 (+7.43%)
Adjust time:   After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days
Hashrate(?):   6,392,376,751 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.9 minutes
6 blocks: 57.7 minutes

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

coinbase = 2775 usd!

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

8.0 = vapourminer

9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

10.0 = leowonderful

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

coins jumped over 2900 briefly!

Landy1264

member

Activity: 115

Merit: 10

Tip: 1JBSwRgm7iMzc7uyhnJdxH7hSECdJkdMoj

9.2 = Landy1264

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 06:28:45 PM

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   864,312,295,494 (+7.43%)
Adjust time:   After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days
Hashrate(?):   6,392,376,751 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.9 minutes
6 blocks: 57.7 minutes

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

coinbase = 2775 usd!

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

8.0 = vapourminer

9.5 = CardShare

10.0 = leowonderful

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

coins jumped over 2900 briefly!

actmyname

copper member

Activity: 2562

Merit: 2510

Spear the bees

6.7 = actmyname

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   864,312,295,494 (+7.43%)
Adjust time:   After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days
Hashrate(?):   6,392,376,751 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.9 minutes
6 blocks: 57.7 minutes

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

coinbase = 2775 usd!

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

8.0 = vapourminer

9.5 = CardShare

10.0 = leowonderful

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

coins jumped over 2900 briefly!

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

2.0 = QuintLeo

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 05:03:38 PM

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   864,312,295,494 (+7.43%)
Adjust time:   After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days
Hashrate(?):   6,392,376,751 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.9 minutes
6 blocks: 57.7 minutes

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

coinbase = 2775 usd!

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

8.0 = vapourminer

9.5 = CardShare

10.0 = leowonderful

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

leowonderful

legendary

Activity: 1624

Merit: 1130

Bitcoin FTW!

+10

Huge and, in my opinion, unnecessarily big reward this round, but I would also love to see more picks in the future! I smell a big pump in diff this round.

philipma1957

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Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   864,312,295,494 (+7.43%)
Adjust time:   After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days
Hashrate(?):   6,392,376,751 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.9 minutes
6 blocks: 57.7 minutes

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

coinbase = 2775 usd!

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

8.0 = vapourminer

9.5 = CardShare

13.0 = VRobb

Picks will end at 516

cakir

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★ BitClave ICO: 15/09/17 ★

Quote from: cakir on July 20, 2017, 10:22:15 AM

Hi, It has been long time, You've been giving 0.1 btc back then...
I would like to select +6.1 please. Thanks a lot!

(As I said earlier, It has been long and I've forgot how to pick, I didn't want to edit, so I quoted, I'm not changing it.)

+6.1 = cakir

VRobb

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I'm in BTC XTC

+13.0 = VRobb

And thanks again to philip for being such an enabler to all us degenerates! Cheesy

vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

8.0 = vapourminer

cakir

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★ BitClave ICO: 15/09/17 ★

Hi, It has been long time, You've been giving 0.1 btc back then...
I would like to select +6.1 please. Thanks a lot!

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:
[/quote]

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always

-1.1 = philipma1957

5.0 = Last of The V8s

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

9.5 = CardShare

fr4nkthetank

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Now the money is free, and so the people will be

5.8 = fr4nkthetank

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 07:27:14 AM

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always

-1.1 = philipma1957

5.0 = Last of The V8s

9.5 = CardShare

CardShare

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Could I make a pick of

+9.5

Was unsure what else has already been picked

Last of the V8s

legendary

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Be a bank

+5.0 = Last of the V8s

pls & ty

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   867,748,412,219 (+7.86%)
Adjust time:   After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days
Hashrate(?):   6,397,519,414 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.6 minutes
3 blocks: 28.8 minutes
6 blocks: 57.6 minutes
Updated:
[/quote]

and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always

-1.1 = philipma1957

QuintLeo

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Quote from: fr4nkthetank on July 19, 2017, 01:56:36 PM

Innosilicon is coming out with a x11 miner also....cheaper than bitmain I think and more powerful. everything is a pre-sale though, including bitmain.

No price announced yet.

Only preliminary stats - and after the A4 I'm inclined to wait for an actual PRODUCTION unit before I believe posted stats.

The S9 ALREADY HAD ISSUES when Bitmain tried to run it at too low a voltage in the early batches. That's WHY you don't see them pushing "14+ Gh/s" batches any more.

They'd have to drop the hashrate a TON to get noticeably under the current efficiency level - and they're probably call it the "S9 lite" or "S9+" not the S11 if they did do something like that.

As long as foundry space is booked MONTHS AHEAD on the very few 14/16nm production lines, and those lines are running flat out, chips won't get "throw away cheap" on those nodes.
That doesn't look likely to change 'till the NEXT generation techs are in production.

There is the question of how many of the current 14/16nm fabs will stay on that process, and for how long, vs the possibility of one or more of them moving to a new process.
I'd bet the current lines stay put for a while though - more likely lines making ancient process will get rebuilt for the brand new process, or new lines built for it instead.

Cost to produce a chip won't drop for quite a while though, only the AVAILABILITY will increase when some stuff starts moving to new process node(s).

philipma1957

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Quote from: fr4nkthetank on July 19, 2017, 01:56:36 PM

Innosilicon is coming out with a x11 miner also....cheaper than bitmain I think and more powerful. everything is a pre-sale though, including bitmain.

Simply shows that asic builders have no loyalty to any asic coin..
As Donald would say:

" sad so sad"

fr4nkthetank

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Now the money is free, and so the people will be

Innosilicon is coming out with a x11 miner also....cheaper than bitmain I think and more powerful. everything is a pre-sale though, including bitmain.

philipma1957

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@ vapourminer you have a good point. I have seen the bitfury chip demo working at 0.06 watts.

So if chips become throw away cheap.. the s-11 with s-9 chips could be developed. Change clocks and volts dropping the .11 - .13 power to .07-.09

@QuintLeo

if the s-7 become 101% cost for 30 days they will power it off and I think you could buy it.

right now it is 55% cost to run it.

My feelings are if an s-7 dies they put in an s-9 and sell the hash at s-7 prices.

No one audits this and the only way that get caught is every s-7 hash owner says send me my s-7.

Here is another interesting thing they will be doing.

https://www.hashnest.com/notifications/18?ticket=ST-9388557-VfsU1HCA1GbWxczqPjVy-passport.bitmain.com

All users on hashnest, please be advised below. To avoid risk of the possible bitcoin fork, hashnest decide to stop all the services for bitcoin wallet , hashrate market and PACMIC contracts payback during 2017/07/31 8:00-2017/08/03 8:00 beijing time.

Back to the game:

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we start at block # 1116

vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

Quote from: QuintLeo on July 19, 2017, 01:04:41 AM

Given that both IBM and Intel have already stated that Silicon has reached "the end of the road" at 7-10 nm (IBM's 7nm experimental work uses a HYBRID Silicon/Germanium wafer not the pure Silicon wafers most semiconductors have been made on for the last 30 years or so), it seems VERY likely that Moore's Law is finally about to break and it's going to be quite a bit longer between generations after folks get to 7nm.

might be interesting once the fabs move to a new process entirely (hybrid or whatever, ie not silicon based any more) as that will leave the current state of the art silicon fabs with lots of exess capacity. i cant see all those old tech fabs shutting down (or converting as that would mean basically all new equipment for the new process, so new fabs may be built instead, or existing ones being expanded, leave most old tech in place as its still useful) as lots of mainstream chips will still use them for run of the mill parts that dont need the extreme speed/power savings that the new process will offer. but those run of the mill chips wont take much capacity.

some asic makers will move to the new process but they will again be competing with the big boys and their cost will be substantial, amounting to what we more or less have now.. small runs, high price, low availability.. although they will be faster and more power efficient. so not a lot will be made at 1st.

so current fabs that have 90%+ of their capacity currently used by apple/amd/samsung/arm whatever will now be able to offer large runs of custom wafers at much cheaper prices. this may let asic makers (perhaps new ones as well at the few we have now) churn out "old tech" asic chips at much lower cost and much higher volume, as right now asic makers are competing for fab capacity. at the transition to a new process apple/samsung etc will move to those, leaving old fabs with excess capacity.

this may drive the prices of asics down to the point where asic miners are much more affordable and available. power efficiency will not be much better but the absurd cost of the chips will be lower, allowing new players into the the asic party.

this would mean lots more asics on the network. difficulty would start to climb again just from the sheer numbers of new machines based on silicon, which should still be competitive if the price is right..

current farms are mainly limited by price per unit and power capacity. lower the price per unit and those who are not hugely power limited (small farms/home/hobby miners) can start to build out bigger farms. for example i have extra power capacity (125 spare amps with no upgrades) but cost of asics (mainly), plus somewhat limited availability prevents me from buying.

after all what keeps most asic miners in check besides power? price and availability. fix those and watch out.

just me guessing out loud, love to hear of any other thoughts on this.

QuintLeo

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I suspect they aren't bothering to replace dying S7 units as such, just let them die and convert the "slot" into a S9 slot - and modify the available totals accordingly.

Isn't there an option when your "Hashnest S7" becomes unprofitable for long enough that they shut it and your contract down and give you the option to buy the machine?

There is NO new tech available for Bitmain to "do R&D on a new chip" WITH, that is going to provide a significant improvement in performance.

They're AT the current semiconductor state-of-the-art so it's going to be a year or two AT LEAST before such a new process node is AVAILABLE to design for.

People need to understand that the days of "a new generation in a year or less of miner" CAN'T HAPPEN any more, the only reason that was possible for so long was that miners weren't using the state-of-the-art prior to the S9 (and the same-gen Bitfury chip and some others since then) so they had room TO improve a lot more rapidly.

At this point, a new generation every 3-5 years is going to be the norm, and expecting anything different is a pipe dream with no basis in reality.

Given that both IBM and Intel have already stated that Silicon has reached "the end of the road" at 7-10 nm (IBM's 7nm experimental work uses a HYBRID Silicon/Germanium wafer not the pure Silicon wafers most semiconductors have been made on for the last 30 years or so), it seems VERY likely that Moore's Law is finally about to break and it's going to be quite a bit longer between generations after folks get to 7nm.

It's not so much that Bitmain isn't interested in developing a "S11" model, it's that they CAN'T for a while longer.

philipma1957

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Quote from: TheYankeesWin! on July 18, 2017, 06:53:19 PM

So phil you think they are mining s-9's and have no s-7's at all?

No I think they replace the dead s-7s with s-9's and sell the hash as s-7 which make them more money.

I think no one can prove it.

But I think they do this.

So they have zero reason to develop the s-11 at this moment.

TheYankeesWin!

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So phil you think they are mining s-9's and have no s-7's at all?

philipma1957

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Quote from: isoneguy on July 18, 2017, 03:44:25 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 10:48:12 AM

Quote from: isoneguy on July 18, 2017, 08:59:25 AM

oh man leo, I need one of those for every one of my rigs.

you sold it to me 4 or 5 months ago!

I know, I regret every moment of that...but I try to be a man of my word. If you ever want to sell it back...just let me know :p

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 14, 2017, 10:47:24 PM

Quote from: QuintLeo on July 14, 2017, 08:32:45 PM

How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability?

On the s-9. The third line the password line

.42

Would be the setting

As .33 is the correct rate

If no one is paying .42 it drops to second choice

If you get paid the .42 it is like 135 percent.

FFS someone needs to write a book about this stuff. Also, thanks for being such a wealth of knowledge...and sharing the wealth. Shocked

They are making a fortune on hashnest s-7.

look what they charge for an s-7 for power

look what they charge for the x-9

leowonderful

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Bitcoin FTW!

Back on topic, hashrate seems to be going up again and we may well see another +10% rise in difficulty. As difficulty continues to rise I'm wondering whether Bitmain is doing R&D on a new chip or if they plan on continuing S9 production as they are more focused on alts.

isoneguy

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Quote from: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 10:48:12 AM

Quote from: isoneguy on July 18, 2017, 08:59:25 AM

oh man leo, I need one of those for every one of my rigs.

you sold it to me 4 or 5 months ago!

I know, I regret every moment of that...but I try to be a man of my word. If you ever want to sell it back...just let me know :p

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 14, 2017, 10:47:24 PM

Quote from: QuintLeo on July 14, 2017, 08:32:45 PM

How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability?

On the s-9. The third line the password line

.42

Would be the setting

As .33 is the correct rate

If no one is paying .42 it drops to second choice

If you get paid the .42 it is like 135 percent.

FFS someone needs to write a book about this stuff. Also, thanks for being such a wealth of knowledge...and sharing the wealth. Shocked

philipma1957

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Quote from: Last of the V8s on July 18, 2017, 01:14:17 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 11:34:47 AM

Quote from: leowonderful on July 18, 2017, 11:28:22 AM

On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to

profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G.

I will toss it in as a prize here on the next round.

problem is the prizes are too small since we don't get many picking for free shot at sidehack compac and 2 ltc.

that would be cool

but i reckon the prizes are fine

maybe if it's not as popular as in its heyday, allow us to pick more of a range - wasn't it like that at one point?

if someone is seen to win a prize, the contest may become more popular again...

yeah we had a bigger range like .2 vs .1

Last of the V8s

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Be a bank

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 11:34:47 AM

Quote from: leowonderful on July 18, 2017, 11:28:22 AM

On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to

profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G.

I will toss it in as a prize here on the next round.

problem is the prizes are too small since we don't get many picking for free shot at sidehack compac and 2 ltc.

that would be cool

but i reckon the prizes are fine

maybe if it's not as popular as in its heyday, allow us to pick more of a range - wasn't it like that at one point?

if someone is seen to win a prize, the contest may become more popular again...

vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 11:34:47 AM

problem is the prizes are too small since we don't get many picking for free shot at sidehack compac and 2 ltc.

thats a shame. old thread was mainly for fun even with the prize. lots of chatter etc.

hope this ones goes in that direction too.

philipma1957

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Quote from: leowonderful on July 18, 2017, 11:28:22 AM

On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to

profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G.

I will toss it in as a prize here on the next round.

problem is the prizes are too small since we don't get many picking for free shot at sidehack compac and 2 ltc.

leowonderful

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Bitcoin FTW!

On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to

profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G.

philipma1957

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Quote from: isoneguy on July 18, 2017, 08:59:25 AM

oh man leo, I need one of those for every one of my rigs.

you sold it to me 4 or 5 months ago!

they turned out okay

running it with other miners it makes 10-15 cents a day

isoneguy

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oh man leo, I need one of those for every one of my rigs.

leowonderful

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I recall buying one of the PinIdea USB miners for about fifty bucks this year and then forgetting about it and eventually losing it. They sure are quiet and reliable, and the only X11 machines I ever got at a decent price. Perhaps I'll find it this week Grin

philipma1957

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Quote from: QuintLeo on July 17, 2017, 06:35:32 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 17, 2017, 07:29:18 AM

I have a tiny little x-11 miner with 5mh that uses 12 watts or so

Pinaldea (sp?) USB-based thing where the fan is about as big as the actual miner?

yeah shaped like a cube makes money I mine it next to the compac sticks and I mine cpu mining for hodl or cryptonight along with 1 gpu for zcash.

The rig has 4 separate things going Grin

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Quote from: philipma1957 on July 17, 2017, 07:29:18 AM

I have a tiny little x-11 miner with 5mh that uses 12 watts or so

Pinaldea (sp?) USB-based thing where the fan is about as big as the actual miner?

philipma1957

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Quote from: QuintLeo on July 17, 2017, 04:34:41 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 16, 2017, 05:02:12 PM

Quote from: alh on July 16, 2017, 03:04:58 PM

A few hours later, on price.bitcoin.com: $1880.

Pretty much a straight line down from $2600 on July 5th. (excluding small and brief "rallies").

I am happy I sold four for 9550

I'm happy I moved almost everything off Nicehash - though only had a couple old low-level rigs and my Scrypt stuff pointed there.

Litecoin is doing quite well compared to Bitcoin the last couple weeks, still only down 20% more or less on $ terms from it's peak 3ish weeks back and seems inclined to climb to a higher level vs. Bitcoin than it's seen in years.

right now my mining has been reduced I sold a lot of gear.

I now have 56th for BTC down from 70th
I have 4-5k sol for ZEC down from 13k sol
I have 150 mh for Nist5
I have a tiny little x-11 miner with 5mh that uses 12 watts or so

I am holding a lot of cash more then anything else.

If everything crashes I can buy cheap gpus or avalon 741's or cheap btc.

If everything rallies I can earn with the gear I have.

QuintLeo

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Quote from: philipma1957 on July 16, 2017, 05:02:12 PM

Quote from: alh on July 16, 2017, 03:04:58 PM

A few hours later, on price.bitcoin.com: $1880.

Pretty much a straight line down from $2600 on July 5th. (excluding small and brief "rallies").

I am happy I sold four for 9550

I'm happy I moved almost everything off Nicehash - though only had a couple old low-level rigs and my Scrypt stuff pointed there.

Litecoin is doing quite well compared to Bitcoin the last couple weeks, still only down 20% more or less on $ terms from it's peak 3ish weeks back and seems inclined to climb to a higher level vs. Bitcoin than it's seen in years.

philipma1957

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Quote from: alh on July 16, 2017, 03:04:58 PM

A few hours later, on price.bitcoin.com: $1880.

Pretty much a straight line down from $2600 on July 5th. (excluding small and brief "rallies").

I am happy I sold four for 9550

alh

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A few hours later, on price.bitcoin.com: $1880.

Pretty much a straight line down from $2600 on July 5th. (excluding small and brief "rallies").

philipma1957

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Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:   897,679,492,842 (+11.58%)

Adjust time:   After 1738 Blocks, About 11.8 days >>>> WE START AT 1116

Hashrate(?):   5,567,284,095 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.8 minutes
3 blocks: 29.3 minutes
6 blocks: 58.6 minutes
Updated:

and price is dropping like a rock 1935 at coinbase. Angry

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Quote from: QuintLeo on July 14, 2017, 08:32:45 PM

How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability?

Is that SHA256 specific, or does it apply to all of their ASIC-based pools (I seem to have missed it in the Scrypt instructions).

Phil already answered, but just to clarify this is a pool specific setting. For Nicehash it's the "p" option in the password field.

For example, here's how I currently have Nicehash set up as my first pool (with a different receive address):

Code:

stratum+tcp://sha256.usa.nicehash.com:3334#xnsub
18wQtEDmhur2xAd3oE8qgrZbpCDeuMsdQW
p=0.3282

The above 0.3282 number works out to about 5% over the current SHA256 earnings. If Nicehash falls below that, it appears as dead to the miner and the miner switches to the next pool.

The pain in the ass part is that they don't allow me to specify a percentage. It's only a fixed number. So when there's a difficulty change, I recompute the profitability number and restart my miners with it.

I got tired of computing the profitability number by hand (using a mining calculator) so I now do it automatically using some Javascript in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. If anyone is interested, here's the GitHub page with the scripts:

https://github.com/edonkeycoin/gsbitcoinutils

I'm a little unhappy with the performance of blockr.io though (which I used for the scripts). I might switch APIs if I get pissed off enough.

philipma1957

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Quote from: alh on July 15, 2017, 03:58:41 AM

For what it's worth, BTC price has declined now to $2051. I would think that if that persists, that the increase in hashrate will slow. There's quite a lag in hashrate changes, BTC price can literally "turn on a dime". Maybe a decline in BTC price coupled with good sized difficulty jump will bring things back closer to where they were back in the first 2 months of the year.

Just my $.02.

I cashed 4 coins at about 9550.
I could buy them back at 8300.

this chart shows a drop the gray line is clearly under the line. which means negative.

I would not mind a further price drop.
say 1600 a coin.

alh

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For what it's worth, BTC price has declined now to $2051. I would think that if that persists, that the increase in hashrate will slow. There's quite a lag in hashrate changes, BTC price can literally "turn on a dime". Maybe a decline in BTC price coupled with good sized difficulty jump will bring things back closer to where they were back in the first 2 months of the year.

Just my $.02.

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Quote from: QuintLeo on July 14, 2017, 08:32:45 PM

How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability?

Is that SHA256 specific, or does it apply to all of their ASIC-based pools (I seem to have missed it in the Scrypt instructions).

On the s-9. The third line the password line

.42

Would be the setting

As .33 is the correct rate

If no one is paying .42 it drops to second choice

If you get paid the .42 it is like 135 percent.

QuintLeo

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How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability?

Is that SHA256 specific, or does it apply to all of their ASIC-based pools (I seem to have missed it in the Scrypt instructions).

edonkey

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I have my SHA256 miners on NiceHash with a profitability value. That last difficulty increase was so high that my miners switched away to a backup pool.

It's days like this that I wish NiceHash had listed to my request to optionally specify the profitability as a delta percentage rather than a fixed value.

Let's all hope the next jump goes easier on us...

philipma1957

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Activity: 4256

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'The right to privacy matters'

Rules

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14964950

I am checking this list of rules from older thread

1)you must have been on this site since April 1st 2017 you must have at least 30 posts. --

2)I will check you out if you are new and decide if you can play.
3)you get one play per adjustment. which must be yours alone, in proper format and can not be changed.
4)Do not pick someone else's number If you do I will assign a number and that will not be changed
5) picks start at:

Bitcoin Difficulty:
Estimated Next Difficulty:

Adjust time: Block 1116

Hashrate(?):
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block:
3 blocks:
6 blocks:
Updated:

6) picks end at

Bitcoin Difficulty:
Estimated Next Difficulty:

Adjust time: 516

Hashrate(?):
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block:
3 blocks:
6 blocks:
Updated:

7) since this is a free contest I make all decisions if there are any issues or problems.

8 ) note the change picks start later and end late in the hope of helping a person to pick a winner.

9) format is below and this is the contest picks from 2016 in code

as low as you want

-1.0
-0.9
-0.8
-0.7
-0.6
-0.5
-0.4
-0.3
-0.2
-0.1
0.0
+0.1
+0.2
+0.3
+0.4
+0.5
+0.6
+0.7
+0.8
+0.9
+1.0

to as high as you want

Code:

-1.2 = philipma1957  >>>>  I always pick this number


-0.5 = Erumara        
  0.0 = adaseb
+0.7 = adib
+0.8 = ingiltere
+0.9 = usenet
+1.0 = NeuroticFish
+1.4 = ahmedjamal1998 
+1.5 = lolxxxx
+1.7 = ezeminer
+2.2 = Valkir
+2.3 = fr4nkthetank
+2.7 = blindminer
+3.0 = topiOleg
+3.1 = tlhIlwI
+3.2 = Psi
+3.3 = HagssFIN     
+3.4 = HerbPean
+3.5 = Veves1
+3.6 = Cuidler

+3.7  ! Thank you!    @ Roadstress  Pleaz try to do it right >    +3.7 = Roadstress

+3.9 = flikflak
+4.0 = pusttiu
+4.1 = Amph
+4.2 = VirosaGITS
+4.5 = redhack
+4.6 = talks_cheep
+4.7 = Ankara
+4.8  = indiemax
+4.9 = ATguy
+5.0 = alh
+5.1 = FruitsBasket
+5.2 = VRobb
+5.3 = Dexter770221
+5.4 = gnaoui
+5.5 = vapourminer

+5.6 = mavericklm     I changed your pick to   +5.6 as vapourminer had +5.5

+5.7 = wlefever
+5.8 = Notlist3d
+5.9 = Chris!
+6.5 = wpt1wpt1
+6.6 = edonkey
+6.7 = zebedee
+6.8 = AM4Bitcoin
+6.9% = Mikestang
+7.6 = RichBC

Code:

Difficulty History

Date _______Difficulty_____________ Change___   Hash Rate



Jun 17 2017   711,697,198,174  .......... 4.85%.....   5,094,526,985 GH/s



May 24 2016   199,312,067,531   2.60%   1,426,731,353 GH/s
May 11 2016   194,254,820,283   8.73%   1,390,530,167 GH/s
Apr 28 2016   178,659,257,773   -0.01%   1,278,892,782 GH/s
Apr 14 2016   178,678,307,672   7.09%   1,279,029,147 GH/s
Apr 01 2016   166,851,513,283   0.82%   1,194,369,655 GH/s
Mar 18 2016   165,496,835,118   4.46%   1,184,672,491 GH/s
Mar 04 2016   158,427,203,767   -3.10%   1,134,066,098 GH/s
Feb 19 2016   163,491,654,909   13.44%   1,170,318,852 GH/s
Feb 07 2016   144,116,447,847   20.06%   1,031,625,717 GH/s
Jan 26 2016   120,033,340,651   5.89%   859,232,121 GH/s
Jan 13 2016   113,354,299,801   9.12%   811,421,684 GH/s
Dec 31 2015   103,880,340,815   11.16%   743,604,444 GH/s
Dec 18 2015   93,448,670,796           18.14%   668,931,642 GH/s
Dec 06 2015   79,102,380,900           8.77%   566,236,898 GH/s
Nov 24 2015   72,722,780,643          10.44%   520,569,941 GH/s
Nov 11 2015   65,848,255,180   5.77%   471,360,171 GH/s
Oct 29 2015   62,253,982,450   2.25%   445,631,364 GH/s
Oct 15 2015   60,883,825,480   0.12%   435,823,399 GH/s
Oct 01 2015   60,813,224,039   2.49%   435,318,014 GH/s
Sep 17 2015   59,335,351,234   4.17%   424,738,988 GH/s
Sep 04 2015   56,957,648,455   4.98%   407,718,729 GH/s
Aug 22 2015   54,256,630,328   2.95%   388,384,088 GH/s
Aug 08 2015   52,699,842,409   0.81%   377,240,166 GH/s
Jul 25 2015   52,278,304,846   2.35%   374,222,683 GH/s
Jul 11 2015   51,076,366,303   3.39%   365,618,871 GH/s
Jun 28 2015   49,402,014,931   -0.58%   353,633,397 GH/s
Jun 14 2015   49,692,386,355   4.42%   355,711,957 GH/s
May 31 2015   47,589,591,154   -2.50%   340,659,563 GH/s
May 17 2015   48,807,487,245   2.44%   349,377,603 GH/s
May 03 2015   47,643,398,018   0.07%   341,044,727 GH/s
Apr 19 2015   47,610,564,513   -3.71%   340,809,696 GH/s
Apr 05 2015   49,446,390,688   5.84%   353,951,052 GH/s
Mar 22 2015   46,717,549,645   -1.50%   334,417,246 GH/s
Mar 08 2015   47,427,554,951   1.59%   339,499,662 GH/s
Feb 22 2015   46,684,376,317   5.01%   334,179,783 GH/s
Feb 09 2015   44,455,415,962   7.71%   318,224,263 GH/s
Jan 27 2015   41,272,873,895   -6.14%   295,442,739 GH/s
Jan 12 2015   43,971,662,056   8.20%   314,761,417 GH/s
Dec 30 2014   40,640,955,017   3.00%   290,919,288 GH/s
Dec 17 2014   39,457,671,307   -1.37%   282,449,013 GH/s
Dec 02 2014   40,007,470,271   -0.73%   286,384,627 GH/s
Nov 18 2014   40,300,030,328   1.76%   288,478,854 GH/s
Nov 05 2014   39,603,666,252   10.05%   283,494,086 GH/s
Oct 23 2014   35,985,640,265   2.81%   257,595,247 GH/s
Oct 09 2014   35,002,482,026   0.98%   250,557,526 GH/s
Sep 25 2014   34,661,425,924   16.20%   248,116,151 GH/s
Sep 13 2014   29,829,733,124   8.75%   213,529,547 GH/s
Aug 31 2014   27,428,630,902   15.03%   196,341,788 GH/s
Aug 19 2014   23,844,670,039   20.86%   170,686,797 GH/s
Aug 08 2014   19,729,645,941   5.30%   141,230,307 GH/s
© 2013-2014 BitcoinWisdom.com

10) Finally If I missed anything I will be the sole decider as to what is fair.

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

philipma1957

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