thats always a risk with mining... but its accepted IMHO.  Halving the "value" of a block will a solve the hashrate growth problem for sure;  but the raise in value of BTC will keep it in check I think....  not right away;  but a short time after halving it will pick back up and normalize. (depending on how the value stabilizes or raises in the future)


I have hopes that my little Antminer U3 will hit a block;  if you see "1Q8H...KHQM" than know that a simple 63Gh machine just earned its keep.... lol.  I tried for months to get it to connect to and use a local bitcoind daemon, but for some reason it wouldn't generate any shares...   It was hooked to a PI with Minera... but for some reason after being online for a month straight;  Minera started rebooting the PI randomly, and then started acting like a mining device wasn't even plugged into USB no matter what I tried.   I knew this was happening because that same Pi was my VPN gateway as well.

I'm on the bandwagon for the 'mining' long haul.  I get free electricity;  so I have been slowly massing good mining equipment and hooking it up here and there =)

Thats Me!!!   Thank you!   I have a total of 34 Th usually mining at antpool or nicehash.  They were supposedly mining at Nicehash when one hit the block.  I set ckpool as the secondary pool on all  23 of my miners.

Mr Kolivas,

My pleasure Sir, and thank you for creating this pool which gets no orphans (knock on wood, 8 more confirmations needed until spendable).    I think a tip is well deserved.  forgive me if this is posted elsewhere, what  BTC address should I send a donation to?

This feels really nice.  Makes paying those electric bills seem worthwhile again.

i didn't know until I logged into my blockchain wallet and WOW, my balance was up 25 BTC!  Maybe i will buy a couple new antminers...

Nice for a rollover to hit.

@ Con  what's your phd in?

And pardon me for guessing it is a phd. Just an assumption on my part.

I'm a medical doctor - a specialist in anaesthesia.

Think of a share as a roll of magical dice.

So the roll can be as low as 0 or one. And the roll can be really big more then 100,000,000,000


61,000,000,000 or higher is a winner

As to bigger machines rolling higher no any machine can roll a winner but a faste more hash machine rolls more often in a small hash machine

current diff is around 61,000,000,000 to win you need higher then that.

this site   https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty



Bitcoin Difficulty:   60,883,825,480 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< This number is the one to beat



Estimated Next Difficulty:   61,895,633,425 (+1.66%)
Adjust time:   After 1413 Blocks, About 9.5 days
Hashrate(?):   441,622,616 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 9.7 minutes
3 blocks: 28.9 minutes
6 blocks: 57.9 minutes
Updated:   9:15 (2.3 minutes ago)

The number changes every 2 weeks or so.

Congrats to FATSAX! and his 3rd block!    

How much the quality of internet is matter for solo mining in this pool ? like ping,speed, distance and ...
I live in middle of Asia. how much my chance is lower than someone who lives is USA for mining in this pool ?
Thanks,