Topic: (finished) Mint Race Weekend #3, win BTC trinkets! - page 2. (Read 4801 times)
Yup
mint race jinxed our luck 
Gonna have some fun with some HashPower runs... gotta enjoy a good gamble every now and then 
And they're off!
darkice and amazingrando are elbowing for pole position with roughly 130 GH/s each. That's a pretty massive hashrate. But we have seen before how surprises can come from small miners. At the moment this is anyone's race.
darkice and amazingrando are elbowing for pole position with roughly 130 GH/s each. That's a pretty massive hashrate. But we have seen before how surprises can come from small miners. At the moment this is anyone's race.
... and we are GO??
T -60 Minutes \(oO)/
6 hours 10 minutes till start. Time for a last equipment check. Make sure those overclocks are stable. 
Cufflinks
Tie pin
Lapel pin
BTC trinkets (Isokivi @ bitminter and bitcointalk) is kindly offering some very nice trinkets for a third Mint Race on BitMinter. It will be similar to the first and second mint races. The finest quality minting work (lowest hash value) will win.
Start: friday 2012.11.02 at 20:00 UTC
Finish: sunday 2012.11.04 at 20:00 UTC
Prizes:
1st place: Bitcoin cufflink pair + 5 BTC
2nd place: Bitcoin tiepin + 3 BTC
3rd place: Bitcoin lapel pin + 2 BTC
Currently cufflinks are selling for 3.25 BTC, a tiepin for 2.5 BTC and the lapel pins for 2 BTC. You can see pictures here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/btc-trinkets-btc-tiepins-cufflinks-lapel-pins-keychain-money-clip-120686
If you don't win you can of course still buy the items you want. See the link above for more information.
Rules:
Verifiability:
Hopefully your mining software will show if you have created a block (BitMinter client 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 (leftmost column) to see details. There is a link there to blockchain.info 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.
FINAL STANDINGS:
Updated 2012.11.04, 17:00 UTC
Start: friday 2012.11.02 at 20:00 UTC
Finish: sunday 2012.11.04 at 20:00 UTC
Prizes:
1st place: Bitcoin cufflink pair + 5 BTC
2nd place: Bitcoin tiepin + 3 BTC
3rd place: Bitcoin lapel pin + 2 BTC
Currently cufflinks are selling for 3.25 BTC, a tiepin for 2.5 BTC and the lapel pins for 2 BTC. You can see pictures here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/btc-trinkets-btc-tiepins-cufflinks-lapel-pins-keychain-money-clip-120686
If you don't win you can of course still buy the items you want. See the link above for more information.
Rules:
- Just like your hash must beat the difficulty to produce a block, it must beat the other miners to win. The best (lowest) 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.
- Each person can only compete with one (their best) hash.
- If a winner cannot be reached within 1 week, the prize will go to the next on the list. You may want to make sure that the "account details" page at bitminter.com has an email address listed for you so that you are easy to reach.
- Any block by Isokivi or DrHaribo will not count in the race.
Verifiability:
Hopefully your mining software will show if you have created a block (BitMinter client 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 (leftmost column) to see details. There is a link there to blockchain.info 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.
FINAL STANDINGS:
Updated 2012.11.04, 17:00 UTC
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