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Topic: (finished) Mint Race Weekend #3, win BTC trinkets! (Read 4708 times)

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I was so close Smiley  Tongue
legendary
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Amazing! I hadn't even realized I had minted a block over the weekend until DrH got a hold of me!

Thank you DrHaribo for running such an awesome pool, and putting on these contests!

Also a big thank you to Isokivi for being so generous!
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sr. member
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Amazing! I hadn't even realized I had minted a block over the weekend until DrH got a hold of me!

Thank you DrHaribo for running such an awesome pool, and putting on these contests!

Also a big thank you to Isokivi for being so generous!
legendary
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Thanks for prize! Will increase my donation))))
hero member
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Items flashing here available at btctrinkets.com
Congratulations to the winners, your items will be shipped out once i have names and adresses and deliverytime will depend on your geographical location.

To all non-winrars remember I have the same items for sale also:  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/btc-trinkets-btc-tiepins-cufflinks-lapel-pins-keychain-money-clip-120686
legendary
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Bitcoin prizes have been paid out and winners contacted about the BTC trinkets.

If you didn't win you can still buy BTC trinkets. More info here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/btc-trinkets-btc-tiepins-cufflinks-lapel-pins-keychain-money-clip-120686
legendary
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The race is over!

Congratulations to the winners: Digigami, narousberg and MashRinx. Bitcoin prizes will be deposited in your BitMinter account in a moment. You will be contacted by email about the BTC trinkets.

Thanks to Isokivi and BTC trinkets for sponsoring the race !
legendary
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MashRinx (5.2 GH/s) gets a good block, landing him right after narousberg in the current standings.

Then from out of nowhere comes a block from Digigami. One of the earliest miners in the pool, running with 2 GH/s. He catches the bigger miners by surprise and positions himself first.

nats989 (3 GH/s) then gets a very quick block, moving into 4th.

The smaller miners appear to be on fire.
legendary
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MashRinx gets a very lucky block that earns him a solid looking second place.

With less than 4 hours to go, we are approaching the end of the race. Now's the time to get that backup mining rig out of the garage and get it mining.  Cheesy
legendary
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Zubilica sails into second position. Getting into the top three is looking more difficult by the minute. darkice and xxx got new blocks, but they were not better than their previous ones.

Fefox was having some issues at the beginning. For some reason something always goes wrong for him when there is a mint race. But he is up to his full hashrate and did get a block. It only gets him 16th place so far, though.

We see darkice and amazingdarko falling back to 100-110 GH/s. Meanwhile jddebug keeps going at 160+ GH/s, as he has been for some time now. His block so far has him in 10th place, but with that kind of hashrate this could quickly change. At the same time yet another hashpower lease is starting up, this time from the user HashPower.

The race now has 8 hours 25 minutes to go.
legendary
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That's more like it, many new blocks coming. cdb000, deBaer, duckquack, Ferdinand, thph, jddebug, dynasty all get blocks, but none of them can touch the three leaders. Ferdinand is closest of the new ones with 6th place.

The top blocks are difficult to beat, but with 11.5 hours left of the race it can still happen.

I added the current BTC target to the standings so you can also see what value the hashes have to be below to create a bitcoin block.
legendary
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narousberg and darkice make new blocks that are not better than the ones they have already. xxx and wickedxxl make blocks that end up 8th and 9th.

Looks like it could be an easy win for the minters currently in the lead unless the minting improves.
sr. member
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Every little helps Cheesy
full member
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Minting as hard as I can... only got 1.1Ghps here Sad

1.85Ghps here mate.... :-D
sr. member
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Minting as hard as I can... only got 1.1Ghps here Sad
full member
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The mint race appears to have really jinxed our luck... really bad day today!

mint harder! :-D
sr. member
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The mint race appears to have really jinxed our luck... really bad day today!
legendary
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micheletegon squeezes into third place, pushing out WhitePhantom. But it only lasts 10 minutes before narousberg nonchalantly tosses a block into first place.

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<+MintBot> Bullseye! narousberg hurries out another BTC block (height
           206254, income 50.12900001 BTC, 10 minutes, CDF 8.83%)

This new block from narousberg looks pretty solid. It may be able to hang on to first place till the race is over. But at the same time we see the pool hashrate rising, with the hashpower leases being almost constant. The competition obviously wants to give him a run for his money. Or trinkets, as the case may be. Wink

(The first post has been updated with the current standings)
legendary
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The pool is unlucky with several long blocks. But darkice finds his own luck, slamming a block into first place, pushing amazingrando down to second, while WhitePhantom moves into third.

A 90% CDF block is finally finished by solari after more than 4 hours of mining. But WhitePhantom's luck holds for now, solari's block taking fourth place.

Judging by earlier mint races, WhitePhantom's position is very precarious. It is unlikely that this block will hold third place for long. We may even see all the blocks found so far get pushed out of the top three positions. In other words, this isn't over yet.
legendary
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Despite several leases from hashpower.com the race takes a while to get going.

2 hours 37 minutes into the race amazingrando finally breaks the bad luck hex and gets the first BTC block.
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