The ONLY competition comes where 2 miners solve the current block at around the same time.
I will add for clarity - 2 miners solve the current block at different pools at around the same time. 
Topic: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved! - page 323. (Read 1514786 times)
October 07, 2015, 05:10:15 PM
October 07, 2015, 05:09:29 PM
Just got a message a few minutes ago on bitcoin-qt, v0.8.6-beta "warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required"
Currently mining here on this pool, if I find a block now will I not receive it? Wondering if I need to cancel my rentals until I upgrade the client.
Thanks
You'll never lose anything that arrives in the wallet. Bitcoin is sent to a wallet address and your wallet has the private key to unlock it. The version of bitcoin-qt you're running will have no effect on the wallet which you keep across upgrades. Just make sure to back your wallet up before upgrading in case of problems. Your bitcoin-qt doesn't even need to be running as the network is what knows where the money is and you unlock access to the money with your wallet.Currently mining here on this pool, if I find a block now will I not receive it? Wondering if I need to cancel my rentals until I upgrade the client.
Thanks
Short version - no you don't need to cancel your rentals.
October 07, 2015, 05:07:34 PM
Just got a message a few minutes ago on bitcoin-qt, v0.8.6-beta "warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required"
Currently mining here on this pool, if I find a block now will I not receive it? Wondering if I need to cancel my rentals until I upgrade the client.
Thanks
Currently mining here on this pool, if I find a block now will I not receive it? Wondering if I need to cancel my rentals until I upgrade the client.
Thanks
I'm not very familiar with bitcoin-qt but regardless, your priv key is your priv key, the public address that it control is yours forever. Unless you lose your privkey/wallet.dat, it does not matter if you upgrade/downgrade the wallet.
You might even be able to get the privkey and import it to another wallet. Though the best thing to do is just to send the whole balance to a new wallet.
Any blocks found here would be safe. Keep a backup of your wallet.dat. Thats how you secure your BTC in any situation.
October 07, 2015, 04:32:33 PM
Just got a message a few minutes ago on bitcoin-qt, v0.8.6-beta "warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required"
Currently mining here on this pool, if I find a block now will I not receive it? Wondering if I need to cancel my rentals until I upgrade the client.
Thanks
Currently mining here on this pool, if I find a block now will I not receive it? Wondering if I need to cancel my rentals until I upgrade the client.
Thanks
October 07, 2015, 04:20:20 PM
how does a miner get the work for eg every miner gets a block to solve or do all miner get the same block to solve ?
and if every miner gets a block to solve and it stops working and after 1 hour it starts again does it continue with the same block or does it start with a new block to solve ?
sorry for the stupid questions as you can see on the left NEWBIE , i'm just a welder with a big intrest in pc hardware and i don't know anything about programming
You've been around nearly a year... you've had a few posts talking about pump and dumps, seem to understand how to play with cryptsy, etc. Not sure how much I believe the claims above and if every miner gets a block to solve and it stops working and after 1 hour it starts again does it continue with the same block or does it start with a new block to solve ?
sorry for the stupid questions as you can see on the left NEWBIE , i'm just a welder with a big intrest in pc hardware and i don't know anything about programming
.So... the exceedingly simplified answer is that if you shut down your miner for an hour, when you start it back up it will not be working on the same stuff it was when you shut it down.
you can buy and sell welded pipes , but that doesn't mean you know how to weld them
anyway thanks for the reply now i understand it and i can throw away an idea i was thinking about
October 07, 2015, 03:55:10 PM
Or in miner terms 
Every 30s you get new work to add to what you are doing - that you switch to for all new hashing you do.
Every network block change you get new work that invalidates all work you are currently doing, that you switch to immediately.
Each new work item is unique per miner instance - which of course it must be otherwise people would be duplicating hashes.
i.e. everyone on the internet is effectively always trying to solve a different block header - they just happen to have the same previous block hash and the same block number.
The ONLY competition comes where 2 miners solve the current block at around the same time.
The question then is who's network distribution of their block solution is the best to give the best chance of their block being confirmed by the NEXT block.
Or in 'pool' terms: does the pool you are mining to handle block changes fast or does it suck in terms of block change handling ...
Every 30s you get new work to add to what you are doing - that you switch to for all new hashing you do.
Every network block change you get new work that invalidates all work you are currently doing, that you switch to immediately.
Each new work item is unique per miner instance - which of course it must be otherwise people would be duplicating hashes.
i.e. everyone on the internet is effectively always trying to solve a different block header - they just happen to have the same previous block hash and the same block number.
The ONLY competition comes where 2 miners solve the current block at around the same time.
The question then is who's network distribution of their block solution is the best to give the best chance of their block being confirmed by the NEXT block.
Or in 'pool' terms: does the pool you are mining to handle block changes fast or does it suck in terms of block change handling ...
October 07, 2015, 02:47:20 PM
how does a miner get the work for eg every miner gets a block to solve or do all miner get the same block to solve ?
and if every miner gets a block to solve and it stops working and after 1 hour it starts again does it continue with the same block or does it start with a new block to solve ?
sorry for the stupid questions as you can see on the left NEWBIE , i'm just a welder with a big intrest in pc hardware and i don't know anything about programming
You've been around nearly a year... you've had a few posts talking about pump and dumps, seem to understand how to play with cryptsy, etc. Not sure how much I believe the claims above and if every miner gets a block to solve and it stops working and after 1 hour it starts again does it continue with the same block or does it start with a new block to solve ?
sorry for the stupid questions as you can see on the left NEWBIE , i'm just a welder with a big intrest in pc hardware and i don't know anything about programming
.So... the exceedingly simplified answer is that if you shut down your miner for an hour, when you start it back up it will not be working on the same stuff it was when you shut it down.
October 07, 2015, 01:27:26 PM
how does a miner get the work for eg every miner gets a block to solve or do all miner get the same block to solve ?
and if every miner gets a block to solve and it stops working and after 1 hour it starts again does it continue with the same block or does it start with a new block to solve ?
sorry for the stupid questions as you can see on the left NEWBIE , i'm just a welder with a big intrest in pc hardware and i don't know anything about programming
and if every miner gets a block to solve and it stops working and after 1 hour it starts again does it continue with the same block or does it start with a new block to solve ?
sorry for the stupid questions as you can see on the left NEWBIE , i'm just a welder with a big intrest in pc hardware and i don't know anything about programming
October 07, 2015, 02:21:52 AM
But ignoring leap seconds as though they didn't happen.
I leave that to the experts.If I look in the quote line I can see also the date=xxxxxxxx (so it is the linux format, I did not realy recognise
that before).
Nice learning for me, as I never touched the date nor looking deeper in to it.
October 06, 2015, 04:45:14 PM
Code:
[2015-10-06 11:30:13.409] Possible block solve diff 992749219033.481201 !
[2015-10-06 11:30:13.688] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2015-10-06 11:30:13.691] Solved and confirmed block 377713 by 18c8qUL7AHY7HASHSEz9a8pYd9V4uugtUr
377713 solved by ckpoolCongrat to the winner!
18c8qUL7AHY7HASHSEz9a8pYd9V4uugtUr
PS: Live view, but not mine...
https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/0000000000000000011b86c6be2f233ca34dcefff1f0255f7388a5460a5565f6
Congrats to the solo solver! That address starts out so close to my solo mining address I got excited for a split second.
October 06, 2015, 03:23:11 PM
something is wrong with user stats it shows 4 worker and i only have 2
If you have a disconnection and then reconnect it can take a while for the pool to know the first connections are dead before deleting their entries in its database, and it caches old connections for up to 10 minutes to support stratum session resume as well. October 06, 2015, 02:02:01 PM
now my user stats are back to 2 workers
October 06, 2015, 01:44:44 PM
something is wrong with user stats it shows 4 worker and i only have 2
October 06, 2015, 11:00:13 AM
ty DanielRo,
I am developing in Linux, the Conversion Page you linked just display the result but not explaining how it calculate it.
I will read a bit more on the formats.
Unix time stamp 0 means Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTI am developing in Linux, the Conversion Page you linked just display the result but not explaining how it calculate it.
I will read a bit more on the formats.
Starting from that time you will add one second for every second passed.
The current time is the sum of all seconds that passed starting 01.01.1970 00:00:00 GMT.
. October 06, 2015, 09:54:32 AM
ty DanielRo,
I am developing in Linux, the Conversion Page you linked just display the result but not explaining how it calculate it.
I will read a bit more on the formats.
Unix time stamp 0 means Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTI am developing in Linux, the Conversion Page you linked just display the result but not explaining how it calculate it.
I will read a bit more on the formats.
Starting from that time you will add one second for every second passed.
The current time is the sum of all seconds that passed starting 01.01.1970 00:00:00 GMT.
October 06, 2015, 09:39:39 AM
Thank you!That is what mixed me up in my calculation!
Now I understand that value, I have to add an offset.
October 06, 2015, 09:31:10 AM
ty DanielRo,
I am developing in Linux, the Conversion Page you linked just display the result but not explaining how it calculate it.
I will read a bit more on the formats.
Unix time stamp 0 means Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMTI am developing in Linux, the Conversion Page you linked just display the result but not explaining how it calculate it.
I will read a bit more on the formats.
Starting from that time you will add one second for every second passed.
The current time is the sum of all seconds that passed starting 01.01.1970 00:00:00 GMT.
October 06, 2015, 09:08:37 AM
ty DanielRo,
I am developing in Linux, the Conversion Page you linked just display the result but not explaining how it calculate it.
I will read a bit more on the formats.
I am developing in Linux, the Conversion Page you linked just display the result but not explaining how it calculate it.
I will read a bit more on the formats.
October 06, 2015, 08:59:02 AM
Ck, I got a question about the Status Information of the pool:
{
"runtime": 112205,
"lastupdate": 1444135303,
"Users": 260,
"Workers": 782,
"Idle": 214,
"Disconnected": 66
}
The runtime is calculated by seconds I think, so it will be /60 /60 /24 to get the Day's and so on.
What is that value for (i.e. I thought it is the time since last solving of a block, but its not)
"lastupdate" stand for ? and how can I visualize it in D/H/M/S (like the runtime)?
I hope I don't bother you ck.{
"runtime": 112205,
"lastupdate": 1444135303,
"Users": 260,
"Workers": 782,
"Idle": 214,
"Disconnected": 66
}
The runtime is calculated by seconds I think, so it will be /60 /60 /24 to get the Day's and so on.
What is that value for (i.e. I thought it is the time since last solving of a block, but its not)
"lastupdate" stand for ? and how can I visualize it in D/H/M/S (like the runtime)?
Last update time is in unix time format. ck is a linux based software developer not a visual studio one.
You can use this site http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm to convert to normal time.
October 06, 2015, 07:50:31 AM
Ck, I got a question about the Status Information of the pool:
{
"runtime": 112205,
"lastupdate": 1444135303,
"Users": 260,
"Workers": 782,
"Idle": 214,
"Disconnected": 66
}
The runtime is calculated by seconds I think, so it will be /60 /60 /24 to get the Day's and so on.
What is that value for (i.e. I thought it is the time since last solving of a block, but its not)
"lastupdate" stand for ? and how can I visualize it in D/H/M/S (like the runtime)?
{
"runtime": 112205,
"lastupdate": 1444135303,
"Users": 260,
"Workers": 782,
"Idle": 214,
"Disconnected": 66
}
The runtime is calculated by seconds I think, so it will be /60 /60 /24 to get the Day's and so on.
What is that value for (i.e. I thought it is the time since last solving of a block, but its not)
"lastupdate" stand for ? and how can I visualize it in D/H/M/S (like the runtime)?
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