[∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved! - page 423.

os2sam

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Quote from: thedreamer on March 08, 2015, 11:29:39 PM

Question before I fire up an S3 for this:

When I mine solo on this pool, and shut the miner on and off , so it's not running 24/7, when it gets turned back on, does it start a new block from scratch, or continue where she left off?

There is no notion of progress/starting from scratch in finding a block. Each hash your hardware finds has an equal chance of meeting or exceeding the current difficulty.

thedreamer

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Go Big or Go Home.....

Just for testing this I'm using my PC, so GPU.

I got it working though, using MultiMiner instead. Getting a bit under 800Mh/s. but using 200+Watts extra from my PS for the Video Card.

Question before I fire up an S3 for this:

When I mine solo on this pool, and shut the miner on and off , so it's not running 24/7, when it gets turned back on, does it start a new block from scratch, or continue where she left off?

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: thedreamer on March 08, 2015, 11:01:28 PM

Quote from: -ck on March 08, 2015, 10:48:49 PM

Quote from: thedreamer on March 08, 2015, 10:46:01 PM

I just tried setting it up on a test system, using GUIMiner.

First, do you have ipv6 set up on your machine? Second: does guiminer even support ipv6? I'm not even sure why anyone tries to do anything with it any more since it's been unmaintained for years now. Why not actually use real mining software... it works fine with cgminer.

Test your ipv6 connectivity here:
http://test-ipv6.com/

I'm using GUIMiner because it's simple and works with everyone else.
I wasn't aware it was outdated as I only use it for testing and I've only been into mining for a bit over a week.

I'll check out cgminer.

Do you have mining hardware or are you using a GPU?

thedreamer

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Go Big or Go Home.....

Quote from: -ck on March 08, 2015, 10:48:49 PM

Quote from: thedreamer on March 08, 2015, 10:46:01 PM

I just tried setting it up on a test system, using GUIMiner.

First, do you have ipv6 set up on your machine? Second: does guiminer even support ipv6? I'm not even sure why anyone tries to do anything with it any more since it's been unmaintained for years now. Why not actually use real mining software... it works fine with cgminer.

Test your ipv6 connectivity here:
http://test-ipv6.com/

I'm using GUIMiner because it's simple and works with everyone else.
I wasn't aware it was outdated as I only use it for testing and I've only been into mining for a bit over a week.

I'll check out cgminer.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: thedreamer on March 08, 2015, 10:46:01 PM

I just tried setting it up on a test system, using GUIMiner.

First, do you have ipv6 set up on your machine? Second: does guiminer even support ipv6? I'm not even sure why anyone tries to do anything with it any more since it's been unmaintained for years now. Why not actually use real mining software... it works fine with cgminer.

Test your ipv6 connectivity here:
http://test-ipv6.com/

thedreamer

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Go Big or Go Home.....

I just tried setting it up on a test system, using GUIMiner.

host : solo6.ckpool.org
Port : 3333
Username : A Wallet address
password : *Blank*

I get the error :

solo6.ckpool.org:3333 08/03/2015 23:43:30, [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed.

Any ideas?

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: daddyfatsax on March 08, 2015, 07:46:32 PM

Well since you are staff, you can at least screw with his account or find his IP.

he most likely did the account with tor or hide my ass

daddyfatsax

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Well since you are staff, you can at least screw with his account or find his IP.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

It seems there was an hour long DDoS on this pool for an hour up to about 90 minutes ago. It wasn't particularly intense since pretty much nothing was affected as far as I can tell except for a huge burst in traffic. I suspect it's the same extortionist attacking all the pools, and he probably meant to aim it at kano's pool which he also did as per here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10705723

The offending user on the forums sends PMs via the forum, this is him:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/d-d-4-b-c-411920

I didn't receive any demands so perhaps he thought it might not be such a great idea to extort someone who's staff on the forum he's using for messaging and decided to move to someone else...

-ck

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Ruu \o/

After relatively prolonged scheduled downtime, the pool is back online and I note miners returned pretty much immediately.

Since the pool was restarting I used this as an opportunity to add IPV6 support. You can now also connect via IPV6 to solo6.ckpool.org:3333 and solo6.ckpool.org:443

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: brianbrian on March 07, 2015, 04:39:03 PM

Long time lurker since late 2010... I'm 1LjJJS3rbo91FEdbY6o7YoVEEwkEtb7WZh. Thanks for running this pool folks. (And yes, that was rented hash power).

very nice the lurker gets a block!

brianbrian

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Long time lurker since late 2010... I'm 1LjJJS3rbo91FEdbY6o7YoVEEwkEtb7WZh. Thanks for running this pool folks. (And yes, that was rented hash power).

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: daddyfatsax on March 07, 2015, 10:58:10 AM

You gotta time the pool is going down today?

A reminder the pool will be down from 05:00 UTC for a period long enough to warrant people set a backup.

daddyfatsax

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You gotta time the pool is going down today?

RoadStress

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Quote from: organofcorti on March 06, 2015, 06:11:31 PM

Quote from: hedgy73 on March 06, 2015, 05:36:15 PM

How long does it take to solve a block on average?

Approximately ten minutes. Depends on whether the network is increasing or decreasing in size.

Nice reply Grin

organofcorti

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Poor impulse control.

Quote from: hedgy73 on March 06, 2015, 06:37:56 PM

Quote from: organofcorti on March 06, 2015, 06:11:31 PM

Quote from: hedgy73 on March 06, 2015, 05:36:15 PM

How long does it take to solve a block on average?

Approximately ten minutes. Depends on whether the network is increasing or decreasing in size.

Thankyou

I should probably have written "On average approximately 10 minutes, depending on whether the network is increasing or decreasing in size.", because the variance in time take for a block to be solved is very large. It could take hours or seconds, but on average around ten minutes - less if the network is increasing in hashrate, more if the network is decreasing in hashrate.

kano

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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4

Quote from: dirtbikerr450 on March 06, 2015, 09:02:34 PM

So if I rent on WestHash I should just choose to not limit the hashing power because it doesn't make a difference in the chance i solve a block. due to the same amount of hashes?

The 'number' of hashes determines the chance of finding a block.

If you run 10TH/s for 1 hour - that = 10TH x 3600 seconds or a total of 36PH
If you run 360TH/s for 10 seconds - that = 360TH x 10 seconds or a total of 3.6PH

The expected average Diff to find a block is currently 46684376316.86029053
1 Diff = 2^32 Hashes or ~4.3GH

So currently the expected average number of Hashes to find a block is ~2.0x10^20H or ~201EH = ~201000PH

Note above where I have said "GH" or "TH" or "PH" that is a total number of Hashes
Where as "TH/s" is a number of Hashes per second

dirtbikerr450

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So if I rent on WestHash I should just choose to not limit the hashing power because it doesn't make a difference in the chance i solve a block. due to the same amount of hashes?

hedgy73

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