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Litecoin difficulty is very low!
I'm getting around 4 shares a minute (mining at 100Mh/s but I don't mind that much because the number of shares is what actually matters, right?) and since LTC/USD is 2 and it pays 50 LTC for every ...
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Mining pool hashrate effect on a miner's income
Newbie miners have many misconceptions about how the hashrate of the pool they mine in will affect their mining income.
If a big miner joins the pool there are some unhappy miners who think that now ...
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Hashrate falls by factor of 1000x when now block is found?
Very often my mining hashrate falls from the usual ~550 Mhash/s to about 400-500 khash/s, and I have noticed direct correlation in time with messages like these:
btcguild.com:8332 25/04/2013 ...
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Is it more efficient to use multiple computers when I have multiple GPUs?
I have 4 video cards: 2x 7970 & 2x 6970.
This is a question of efficiency regarding MH/s. Simply, I would like to know which is better:
~1900 MH/s on one machine
~1200 MH/s and ~700 MH/s on ...
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How long does it take to go from 51% hash power to 100% hash power?
Once an attacker has acquired 51% hash power, is it possible to quickly get to 100% hash power by simply refusing to build on blocks created by other mining nodes and therefore discouraging mining ...
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Solo mining requirement to win a block everyday?
What's the hash power requirements to solo mine and win at least one block a day?
Two cases (with 10% luck, means mining requires to iterate 90% of unsuccessful hashes),
Mine 24 hours a day and ...
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Feasibility of a “High horsepower” attack (based on difficulty -4x adjustments)
This is really Part 3 of this earlier question.
Given that the QT client is hard coded to never adjust difficulty more (or less than) a factor of 4...
What realistic scenario would cause the ...
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Are there numbers on how many pre-orders (or total GH/s) ButterflyLabs already received?
The whole Bitcoin world is waiting for ButterflyLabs' entree in the mining scene.
Their promised products are quite revolutionary and so they can cause great fluctuations in the BTC price when they ...
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Is the minimum amount of money required to purchase >50% hash power equal to max worth of all existing bitcoins?
20 BFL Bitforce Mini Rigs (each, $30k) will give about 30THash/Sec hash power for $600k. That's way above 60% of hash power of then total 51THash/Sec.
10.694M total Bitcoin * $18.5 current mtgox best ...
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Bitcoin inflation in 9/12 doesn't seem to have been corrected. Why not and will it be fixed?
I'm looking at the Total Bitcoins in Circulation graph and don't understand why there is a spike of coins being generated in Sept '12. What caused this to happen?
Also, since there is a fixed ...
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Tracking Hash/sec of major pools and individual (solo) miners
I'd like to get a list of the hash power of the major pools, solo miners, and if applicable undocumented hash networks. How can I obtain this information?
If this information already exists, how did ...
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(litecoin) High hashrate but low amount of submitted shares in solo
I'm playing around with litecoin mining and have been mining at a pool but decided to mine solo using cgminer.
When I mine at pools the amount of shares submitted to the pool sinks dramatically when ...
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If the computer calculation rate becomes 100x faster, would the value of bitcoin drop to 1% of the previous value?
This is my main concern, but are there any other design flaws with Bitcoin?
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Does variability of block solution time change as difficulty increases?
We know that the expected average time to solve a block from any given point in time is 10 minutes when the network hash rate matches the current difficulty.
However, as difficulty increases are we ...
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How do mining pools figure out the hashing speed of the connected miners?
How do mining pools figure out the hashing speed of the miners connected to it?
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What can a pool operator do with their miners' hashpower?
This issue came up in this question - Are the miners concerned with what the pool operators do with their hashpower?. What can a pool operator do with their miners' hashpower?
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What happens if hash rate decreases rapidly?
Since difficulty is only adjusted every 2016 blocks, what would happen if hash rate was to decrease rapidly? Wouldn't this cause blocks to be created less frequently and also making the time until ...
