Edit: Ooops - I forgot to post here last week. If you want to have a look, last weeks update was at http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2013/04/31st-march-2013-weekly-pool-and-network.html
7th April 2013 weekly pool and network statisticsWelcome, miners.
Changelog:
Figure 3 (top 10 hashrate history) is back to using a base 10 logarithmic y axis since some pools which once had a very high proportion of the network have a much lower proportion and visa versa. The only way to show a comparison is by using a log y axis.
Pools missing from results:
None
"ASIC ready" pools:
BTCGuild
50BTC.com
Slush's pool
Ozcoin
HHTT
Bitminter
EclipseMC
Eligius
Bitparking
Itzod
Triplemining
Pool hopping:
Slush's pool - was being hopped for about 5 days during the week. Still not much though, and I doubt it's having a significant impact on fulltime miner earnings.
The weekly average network hashrate increased by ~ 6 Thps this week. BTCGuild's hashrate only increased by another 2Thps, with 38% of the network blocks for this week. Pool op eleuthria has decided on a number of proposals to limit BTCGuild's influence over the network, including increasing the pool fee if the pool's proportion of the network exceeds 40%. This is a move I applaud, and is a good indicator of eleuthria's commitment to bitcoin and not just profits.
"Unknown" is down to 5% of the network. There are a few pools of which I know that I can't yet include in the weekly stats, and between them they account for about 2% of the netwrok - so there's still 3% completely unknown. So still no indication that any significant number of ASICs are going solo.
HHTT lost 90% of their hashrate in the past few days, in the wake of concerns about pool bankruptcy - an ever present possibility for a PPS only pool. Pool op fireduck is busy changing the payout method to PPLNS and has assured all miners that all owed earnings will be paid. Since fireduck also works for SatoshiDice, I'd have to guess he can make good on that commitment.
ecki, previously small pool ( run by a German fellow permanently work-vacationing on Koh Samui , and of whom I'm rather jealous ) just increased their hashrate by 1000% with the addition of someone with about 7 Avalon's worth of hashrate. Unfortunately I can't yet include them in the network stats since their page is a bit hard to scrape, but I hope to include them soon.
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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