I think we'll be moving away from weekly donation distributions soon in favor of real time distributions.
Personally, I would prefer a daily or weekly distribution to a real time one. Many small transactions don't do the blockchain any good and I don't see any benefits for the club members to doing it real time. Perhaps we can start a poll for this?
Quoted for emphasis / Agreed!!!
Question; is this dividend a fair representation of the coming weekly dividends? Or was there much time lost reconfiguring different pools and the new version of CGMiner?
I think we'll be moving away from weekly donation distributions soon in favor of real time distributions. That being said, NASTY MINING is currently mining around 1BTC per day with the FPGA setup. It will be a much different story when ASICs arrive.
DISCLAIMER: I didn't actually do any maths on this.
Wouldn't that eat much more transactions fees?
Simply put, yes... Sending such small amounts is difficult, and spending them is even harder:
Transaction fees (bitcoin wiki)FWIW, all pools have been experiencing higher stales and orphaned blocks due to the excessive transaction volume lately resulting from SatoshiDice abusing the blockchain (there are much cleaner ways to do the same thing). After our second set of 3 orphans in a row, I'm a bit on the annoyed end. For now, I am blocking transactions to 1dice* addresses and limiting our blocks to 32 transactions until we've caught up on the extra credit or at least have a viable alternative solution. I really hate to do this, as Eligius has traditionally been one of the most accepting mining pools, so any suggestions on other possibilities would be most welcome.
While SatoshiDice does force its users/victims to pay a transaction fee, those fees despite their high volume still don't add up to anywhere near the 300+ BTC we've lost by mining their transactions - so it's not like we can just "make up for" the orphans by throwing transaction fees into the pot.
Note that this is really a global Bitcoin scalability problem, but wasn't an immediate issue because up until recently the transaction volume growth was accompanied by an equivalent influx of more people using Bitcoin. SatoshiDice's abuse breaks that balance, so the developer and mining communities need to find a solution faster than previously anticipated.
... and a public IRC realtime chat discussion on the subject of transactions / mining / fees / filtering / etc.
29.10.12 14:05:20 Smoovious: the whole point of mining is processing transactions... so if you're not doing that? you don't get rewarded for it
29.10.12 14:05:53 kfrog: I would mine all day long just for transaction fees
29.10.12 14:05:59 kfrog:
29.10.12 14:06:15 laSeek: Do some pools create new blocks without transactions - or do they skim off the transaction value for themselves and pay miners only for the raw block?
29.10.12 14:06:23 kfrog: whats up guys
29.10.12 14:06:31 laSeek: Wotcha kf
29.10.12 14:06:40 Smoovious: yeah... the reward is supposed to just be a subsidy... it isn't supposed to be the whole point of it
29.10.12 14:06:55 laSeek: aye
29.10.12 14:07:26 Smoovious: laSeek: some pools don't include transactions... individuals too... others, filter out transactions (like satoshi dice ones), for whatever reason
29.10.12 14:08:00 laSeek: Although I was thinking of transactions the other day - in theory you could push transactions to an alt block off minted blocks
29.10.12 14:08:01 Smoovious: I'm cool with picking and choosing transactions based on the fee and stuff... as long as they are including transactions to begin with
29.10.12 14:08:28 Smoovious: but to just go 'fuck transactions' and not process them at all? that's messed up
29.10.12 14:08:44 kfrog: +1
29.10.12 14:08:51 laSeek: Which would mean you could have a transaction block with only the value of transactions
29.10.12 14:09:35 Smoovious: I had this argument with luke-jr and a couple other guys about satoshi dice's transactions... far as I'm concerned, if they are including the proper fee, how are they an 'attack'? just process the transactions
29.10.12 14:09:49 laSeek: if you rate the diff of the alt chain based on the mined main block (something like 1/4) - you could have transaction processing nodes
29.10.12 14:10:43 laSeek: Some of the devs are worried about block size I think - their worry is about the script attached to blocks for the trans
29.10.12 14:10:45 Smoovious: if you're mining, you're a transaction processing node... far as I'm concerned
29.10.12 14:10:57 efx: agreed
29.10.12 14:11:56 Smoovious: well, they can either do something to accomodate the amount of transactions now, or later... but if the network grows like they keep saying they want it to? I don't know they expect that to happen without lots of transactions increasing the block size
29.10.12 14:12:00 laSeek: aye Smoov - you are currently. The problem I have is that the transaction conf time currently is based off the block creation time
29.10.12 14:12:46 Smoovious: satoshi dice is doing them a favor with a real-world scenario, early enough to work on something usable, at a time where it is still early enough
29.10.12 14:12:53 laSeek: aye - there's been some talk about how to manage transactions - although most of the current focus is based around some kind of pruning to manage the startup time of the daemon
29.10.12 14:12:59 laSeek: aye
29.10.12 14:13:18 Smoovious: if ya put it off to deal with until later, ya could end up handling it badly and rushed, and drive people away
29.10.12 14:13:51 laSeek: Luke isn't the person for this type of discussion - Gavin is probably a better sounding board
29.10.12 14:14:21 Smoovious: well, I forget who else was involved in the discussion... (less of a discussion, more of a fight, really)
29.10.12 14:14:48 laSeek: heh - devs aren't always easy to have a blue sky discussion with