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Topic: More blocks found at night? (Read 1334 times)

legendary
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newbie
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June 03, 2011, 02:01:18 PM
#8
This is because the Russians DDOS the pools at night so they can increase their bitcoin mining while everyone sleeps.
full member
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June 03, 2011, 01:45:35 PM
#7
bitcoin usage appears to be heavily slanted to north america and western europe.  there's few users in asia, and plus you've got the big pacific ocean with practically no one.

hey... what happened to satoshi?

didn't he used to be somewhere out in the middle of the atlantic ocean?
legendary
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June 03, 2011, 01:26:28 PM
#6
Damn...a lot of dots. I remember back when that map was almost bare. We have grown quite a lot!
hero member
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June 03, 2011, 01:22:39 PM
#5
bitcoin usage appears to be heavily slanted to north america and western europe.  there's few users in asia, and plus you've got the big pacific ocean with practically no one.
member
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June 03, 2011, 01:18:28 PM
#4
I think it's very europe centric and morst of the mining goes on in the evening.
sr. member
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June 03, 2011, 01:09:22 PM
#3
It might be night somewhere at all times, but apparently Bitcoin is very America-centric and more mining happens at night (Or, it's very Asia-centric and most mining happens during the day).

You can't say it's all a wash, or there would be steady mining figures 24 hours a day.
full member
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June 03, 2011, 12:59:34 PM
#2
First bitcoin is global and it is always night somewhere. Secondly most places power is cheaper at night and cooling is easier.
sr. member
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June 03, 2011, 12:53:06 PM
#1
Last night the blocks/h rate was 9.08

Now it's 7.74.

You'd think it would be the opposite -- more hashing going on during the day.

Maybe it's lower because some people using their main machine for a mining rig, and some GPU/CPU is taken during the day for "actual work" -- plus some gamers reluctantly click the red "X" on their mining app so they can play games for an hour or two...
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