I am going to enter my 2gh Moped! WREEee.. 
Your Moped gets 2gh? Is it a vespa? And what kind of gh would you get with a motorcycle?
Good luck for your weekend DrHaribo
Topic: (finished) Mint Race Weekend (16 BTC prizes) - page 2. (Read 3688 times)
Your Moped gets 2gh? Is it a vespa? And what kind of gh would you get with a motorcycle?
Good luck for your weekend DrHaribo
I am going to enter my 2gh Moped! WREEee..
Your Moped gets 2gh? Is it a vespa? And what kind of gh would you get with a motorcycle?
I am going to enter my 2gh Moped! WREEee..
I'll be there !
Digging it! I have almost a 2% chance of winning 1st place, but hey, it COULD happen!
Of course, knowing my luck, I won't be even close... the only block I've found for BitMinter was orphaned!
Of course, knowing my luck, I won't be even close... the only block I've found for BitMinter was orphaned!
Yeah, if no block is found I'll have to write a little program to go through all the proofs of work and find the best 3.
I don't think that matters. As long as it beats all other miners, it wins, It doesn't have to be less than difficulty.
What happens if no block is found?
BitMinter arranged a mint race for the weekend. The finest quality minting work (best hash) will win.
Start: friday 25.05.2012 at 20:00 UTC
Finish: sunday 27.05.2012 at 20:00 UTC
Prizes:
1st place: 10 BTC
2nd place: 4 BTC
3rd place: 2 BTC
You will also get a gold/silver/bronze medal in the upcoming achievement system, similar to Stack Overflow and various gaming systems.
Win conditions:
Just like your hash must beat the difficulty to produce a block, it must beat the other miners to win. The best (lowest) 3 hashes during the race will win.
As long as your work is accepted by the server it is valid for the race, even if it ends up "stale" or "orphaned" in the block list.
Verifiability:
Hopefully your mining software will show if you have created a block (the BitMinter miner does). Your block will show with your user name in the block list at http://bitminter.com/blocks. You can click the height number for the block (left most column) to see details. There is a link there to block explorer where you can see the hash value of the block both on the page and in the URL. The lowest hash value wins. Hash values are shown in hexadecimal. 0-9 is lower than A-F. A is lower than B. Pretty simple.
If this is popular we will have more mint races later and a page showing current standings in the race.
Final results: (updated 27.05.2012 at 20:03 UTC)
Start: friday 25.05.2012 at 20:00 UTC
Finish: sunday 27.05.2012 at 20:00 UTC
Prizes:
1st place: 10 BTC
2nd place: 4 BTC
3rd place: 2 BTC
You will also get a gold/silver/bronze medal in the upcoming achievement system, similar to Stack Overflow and various gaming systems.
Win conditions:
Just like your hash must beat the difficulty to produce a block, it must beat the other miners to win. The best (lowest) 3 hashes during the race will win.
As long as your work is accepted by the server it is valid for the race, even if it ends up "stale" or "orphaned" in the block list.
Verifiability:
Hopefully your mining software will show if you have created a block (the BitMinter miner does). Your block will show with your user name in the block list at http://bitminter.com/blocks. You can click the height number for the block (left most column) to see details. There is a link there to block explorer where you can see the hash value of the block both on the page and in the URL. The lowest hash value wins. Hash values are shown in hexadecimal. 0-9 is lower than A-F. A is lower than B. Pretty simple.
If this is popular we will have more mint races later and a page showing current standings in the race.
Final results: (updated 27.05.2012 at 20:03 UTC)
| Place | Name | Hash (lower is better) |
| 1, 10BTC | malavita26 | 000000000000062B2F28D5AA47F9C7EE05DCA83AD9EC16C5D72DA2DCF4D79ACE |
| 2, 4BTC | zerogravity | 00000000000007BE233BD1BEA218B02FBBECA9A07EF7C3DF08F5D34C411F3776 |
| 3, 2BTC | jeffklause | 00000000000008F37FB201315AD4061ECC1034D5E662C7425A15EE51945B47BB |
| 4 | jakob | 0000000000000A9015D5057863097B4E1AB7902B83690A1E35B9FE76161301ED |
| 5 | dextryn | 0000000000000C0D835681B6D4B92B12757440A34C40E28F4BC115A2AAC96483 |
| 6 | Fefox | 0000000000000CC2560351C6724BF13B4E69AE4750246E61B741C1CC16F72EAB |
| 7 | hartmining | 0000000000000E7EE05945C12801A6CC13A897C3575CB33C02E07DD6D4674019 |
| 8 | jeffklause | 0000000000000F753C5D5F175C085BBC7762627E9522FA534570DBFB89D246BA |
| 9 | dobo79 | 00000000000013B28A0894EF93EF8D28FE8D7461B4B049B1A7D4C40829C815E4 |
| 10 | mqpickens | 0000000000001643957EC35EE0115B24F5363CAF12695EA0A442A6DCEDC22DC3 |
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