do bit coin faucets actually work? or not ?

Again 3 days. Incredible. People leaving 

It's a coincidence that there were changes in the website and suddenly 2 blocks of 3 days? Argggg

I'm liking how my score is going up, a couple more reds and then a nice flow of greens and i'll make some good BTC with my wimpy miners. Except this streak of reds seems to be following a $/BTC downward trend as well. Could be my fault for buying that whole pack of blue underwear. Sorry guys . Of course I just got a 20port hub and a power brick to molex connector for extra cooling too. Cheers to everyone sticking with bitminter though.  Hopefully loyalty will have its rewards.

I chucked everything I had on it,

I powered up my Jally to help, I know such a beast of a unit I should be solo mining. 

We are not going anywhere.   This and BTCGuild are the best two pools.   Diversify, but stick with quality.

Why would it take weeks to get your BTC out on BitMinter? Did it take weeks last time you mined here?


Pool's aren't magic; they need attention and hardware, neither of which is free. If you're not paying a fee, you're paying for the service some other way.

Few days back I mined on Minter for 25 hours.  I saw the payout/block increasing but no blocks being hit.  So I had done complete shifts and watched to see what happens.

after nothing coming back at the end of that 25 hours I thought I would try ghash.  Actually I had a split of miners some on ghash and some on minter to start.  The ghash ones were paying in hours.  and based on my calcs I was  getting a good amount for the hash I was submitting.  On minter i was watching the number climb and still no block.

So I moved them all to ghash and they payout every ~12 mins on block from less than an hour ago.  The pool says it is zero fee and I don't see them taking anything other then when i transfer out they took .0001 for fee.  Then bitminter hit a block and I got .03btc of the equal .128 btc i got from ghash.  so ghash has be making the same.128/day since and the bitminter hit another block and I got 0.00008200 with future of 0.03795709 at a current rate of 0.00008259/block and droppping.

I have 5.5thash I would gladly bring back if I could see actually getting BTC here in the near future.  But if the hash rates keep dropping then it will only get slower to make.

Don't get me wrong.  Bitminter is cool and I would bring my stuff here.  I just wish i could see returns at the same pace as I see on the other pool.  Without an increase in phashers that can't happen.

I have been told it will all work out the same if you stick with it.  But when I can have the btc in my wallet now for todays work or in a few weeks then I think it is an easy choice.

Fahlcor

I posted this before but I will again.
When difficulty changes, figure out what your expected number of bitcoins should be for that period for the amount you are hashing.   Do this for each pool you have miners pointed at.  Then at the end of the difficulty period see how close you are to your expectation.   Do not try and do this on a daily or weekly basis.   It is far simpler to use an entire period.
I can tell you what you will find (and I have enough money at risk to REALLY care about this answer).   BitMinter and BTCGuild will be the closest to expectation that you will find.   There is nothing free in this world, if you believe someone is giving you something for free you likely are still waiting for Josh at BFL to tell you how to invest your money.

EDIT:  and I should add that my kids' miners are pointed at only ONE pool.  Bitminter    caromei, they still have not solved a block, but it will be at bitminter when they do.