20th October 2013 weekly pool and network statisticsWelcome, miners.
Changelog:
Pools that don't find a block or for which I can't get data are not included in the weekly statistics and charts.
Usual pools missing from results:
GHash.IO - can access the API at them moment.
Errors:
Nil
Pools with coinbase signature:
ASICMiner: "Mined By ASICMiner"
Alydian5335: "Alydian5335"
Bitparking: "bitparking"
BitMinter: "BitMinter"
BTCGuild : "Mined by BTC Guild", "BTC Guild DE", "BTC Guild 2", "BTC Guild US2", plus a new signature, "BTC Guild GW"
CoinLab: "CoinLab"
Discus Fish: "七彩神仙鱼" and "Made in China"
EclipseMC: "EMC"
Eligius: "Eligius"
50BTC.com: "Hi from 50BTC.com" and "50BTC.com"
GHash.IO: "ghash.io" (not current)
HHTT: "HHTT"
Megabigpower "megabigpower.com"
175btc.com": "Mined By 175btc.com"
Ozcoin: "ozcoin"
Pierce and Paul: "For Pierce and Paul"
Triplemining: "Triplemining.com"
Slush's pool: "slush"
Recent coinbase messages:
258692 "To my honey, by bitfish."
259575 259622 259625 "EMC: Organofcorti lives!"
263952 "btcpoolman"
Pool hopping:
Nil.
1. Network solves 1523 blocks this week: 9th highest block solve rate ever.
With the addition of KNC miners starting to arrive over the last two weeks, the hashrate has increased significantly, difficulty increased by almost 50%. Even so this week is only the 9th highest number of blocks solved in a single week - more than twice that many were solved in the heady days just after the opening of MTGOX.
Top weekly block solves in the past:
1 2010-07-18 3403
2 2011-05-29 1690
3 2011-05-22 1655
4 2011-02-27 1600
5 2010-11-14 1562
6 2011-06-19 1539
7 2010-08-15 1534
8 2010-10-31 1530
2. Unknown this week
The very large percentage of unknown this week is mostly due to GHash.io. I was unable to access the pools' API this week, and they're not signing the coinbase of solved blocks, so my backups didn't work either. Hopefully it will all be sort out by next week.
3. Dirty pictures - again
(see figure 4) Poor BTCGuild is again the victim of user 215613, whoever it is. It seems that they just want to make BTCGuild's hashrate look like a rude picture rather than contribute to the pool full-time. Or am I the only one seeing this? Maybe it says more about me than them.
4. Eligius is up
Since July Eligius has been a solidly performing middle ranked pool. This week however their hashrate increased significantly, and with the absence of GHash.IO are in second place behind BTCGuild.
5. Eclipse has ups and downs
(see figure 4) Check out the bouncing hashrate at Eclipse this week - it's up and down like a bride's nightie. Someone testing there? Maybe user 215613? Odd though, same thing happend last week too.
6. 50BTC is down
Once they were heirs to BTCGuild's crown - but since July they just haven't been able to keep up with the network's increase in hashrate. They are offering ASICs for sale so I hope this helps increase their hashrate.
As usual, please post comments if there's anything you don't understand, with which you disagree, or just think is wrong.
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