Topic: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved! - page 199. (Read 1514767 times)

The drought breaks!


https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/000000000000000002a69e37884b02aa1a57f556e3d48ed78693091f09c205b0


Congrats! My address is in my forum profile, thanks!

Congrats

Maybe the bad luck is finally over? 

Is nice when Kano is the one to relay 

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Solo block by 1JmnazCaLCnCSw3BZjo9NWhQGoMnp2BxPn
https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/000000000000000002a69e37884b02aa1a57f556e3d48ed78693091f09c205b0
~1.8PHs
That's the first block for 1JmnazCaLCnCSw3BZjo9NWhQGoMnp2BxPn

Equipment I owned is hooked up and running fine.

999 times out of 1000 if someone can't mine on this pool it's because they're not using a valid bitcoin address as their username.

I use NiceHash, I've tried both ports with no luck

"...If you use an incompatible rental service that refuses to work on port 3333 try port 3334..."

Refer to 1st post in this thread -- all the information you need for solo mining here.

This is the most concise, informative post I've read on the subject.  Maybe you wouldn't mind explaining to me how the stratum protocol works. When I mine on a pool that uses stratum does my miner receive the same exact work as all other miners? 

All miners receive the same work, produce a hash and then increment a random number called the nonce in an attempt to get a share above network difficulty, which solves the block. Is that correct?

Also, congrats on your extraordinary luck lately.

I use rentals from time to time on kano.is can't get it to work here any suggestions?

throwing 50th at it atm 1st ever rental with nicehash lets hope we havent  for a while

I threw my 800TH at it for 1/2 a day. Nothing.. 

Nice!!  When I hit my one and only block last Dec. I had 50T rented.  Crossing fingers and toes!!!

I had some extra BTC from yesterday's Kano's 11 blocks party... and I have 3 hours left from 111TH rental, just touched 13B... hoping for Juvia magic in a few hours...

Yeah, I think i never pulled a better share then 6G with a few rentals. Even my Antfurnace pulled a 20G a longtime ago

6 hours left in my 150T rental.  I keep hoping to see the number change to 172 blocks found and my popup open!!  So far I haven't even gotten by my last high of 2B... 

Yes, it's all about the statistical average time expected.  You could find a block one second from now, or you could find it 10 years from now.  It's not only in solo mining, it's any mining.

I think I have a better view now!
But when we say "an S7 would expect to take 1869.92565289690729 days to find a block" , I suppose it is an average ? in solo mining, it could be in a minute or never , right?

No problem, and you've got it.  Either the S3 or the S7 can find a block at any time.  Statistically, the S7 will find a block in 10x less time than the S3.

If you're using the lottery analogy, your S3 checks 440,000,000,000 times a second to see if it's found a winner.  The S7 checks 4,750,000,000,000 times a second.  When talking about pools and "shares", we are referring to a baseline called a "difficulty 1 share".  We use the large numbers because it's frankly easier for the human mind to comprehend something being more "difficult" if it's perceived as a large number.  The reality is that the share is actually a very small number (lots of leading zeroes).

At any rate, you can use math to figure out how long you would expect it to take to find that baseline share (diff 1).  The formula for doing so can be simplified to:

Applying that formula, you can easily calculate that your S7 expects to find a diff 1 share every 0.00090420364126 seconds.  Inverting that gives you how many diff 1 shares per second your S7 should find: 1105.94555735974321.

Now that you have this, and you know the current network difficulty, you can figure out the expected time to solve a block:

Again, using the S7 as an example, at the current difficulty, you would expect to find a block after hashing for 161561576.41029279010546 seconds.  Convert that into days and you'll see an S7 would expect to take 1869.92565289690729 days to find a block.

Given this information, you can then figure out what your expected daily earnings are for an S7 because you know the current block reward is 25BTC.  Simply take 25 and divide it by the number of days to solve a block and you'll get 0.01336952BTC a day.

Putting all that together into a single formula:

If you want the more advanced version of that formula (one that doesn't approximate a diff 1 share to 2^32), here it is:

Thanks chiguireitor and jonnybravo,
Just to be sure I have a good understanding could you confirm that :
If we compare a S3 and a 10x better S7, in fact the block won't be find in 10x less time because it can be find by the S7 as well as by the S3 in a minute (for example), depending on the luck.
Probabilities are just 10x better for the S7 because it is exactly like using 10 S3 ? (like playing lotterie with 10 tickets instead of 1 ?)
Sorry if it sounds stupid, english is not my mother language so details are sometimes hard to get !
Thanks again.