About time 

That's exactly what it was doing. And the reason not to always run with cheatmode, well... Can you imagine the complaints from other pools if they knew we are hacking instead of hashing?

They are pool hoppers. If they have no "hoppable" pool to hop to, they have been sending their hashes to us lately.

I know but somehow it seems like they are connected. Just wondering why they come to us almost at the same time.

Most hoppers are using the same database of pools, same algorithms, and same software.

When the code tells one hopper there is no pool which can be exploited and to fall back to the "fair value pool" the same situation is occurring for all hoppers at the same time.

There is some variation because hoppers might be using slightly different algorithms or have slightly different sets of pools but generally speaking when hoppers are falling back to us all the hoppers are falling back to all of their backups pools all across the network.  It means for that period of time that they are here, no victim pool presents >1.0 share value (efficiency).  As soon as the code identifies a pool to exploit they go there and keep jumping to the most exploitable pool until no pool is exploitable and then they come back here.

Oh you wanted the lucky blocks? Let's try that again.. 


This looks nice. I will think about some changes for the future.

I've added a bot to the chat (IRC) that announces new blocks as they are generated:

I know exactly how you feel, and I even pointed one of my machines to another pool for a while. But then I thought it through.. the bad luck already happened. Switching to a bigger pool now just solidifies that bad luck with no chance of reversing it,  as you'll miss out when the luck changes.  It would be smarter to switch to a larger pool after we had a lucky streak.

If the variance in two pools is the same, then switching between them or staying in the same one makes no difference luck-wise. They both offer the same chances for future payouts. The exception is when you can know something about future payouts, as is the case with proportional pools.

I can understand some users switching to pools with higher hashrate (and therefore lower variance), or PPS pools. Variance is a pain in a small pool when it's having bad luck. It is also very difficult to grow a pool up to a decent size. People leave because there aren't enough people. It's a catch-22.

Copying Wikipedia A personal appeal from the operator of the BitMinter pool: If you like this pool then please keep mining here so it can grow.

In other news, a new beta release over in the miner thread: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/31163.msg640162#msg640162