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What modification of the proof of work algorithm will speed up confirmations as the network hashrate increases? [duplicate]
From my observations of the BitCoin network, the increase in overall network hashrate does not seem to improve the network in any way other than to make an attack more difficult.
I was wondering ...
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Sudden Drop in Hash Rate GeForce 650 GPU Card
I'm running on a 15" Retina MBP and have just been playing around with mining on it a little bit. I realize GPU mining is almost dead at the moment, but bear with me.
Overnight last night I was ...
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Understanding speed vs. fees on various wallets, esp. Instawallet and original client
The Bitcoin Wiki don't say much about fees, more precisely if you have a choice between speed vs. fees (pay more, deliver faster).
In fact, I don't yet even have a clue how fast are bitcoin ...
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Over-reporting miner?
I'm running the puddinpop rpcminer-opencl.exe that came with Guiminer. I'm running it with crazy settings -gpugrid=128 -gputhreads=256 -aggression=14 on a FirePro 2270 workstation card, and it's ...
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Why does merely having Windows Media Player open double my GPU hashrate?
I'm using poclbm to mine under Windows... processor is an AMD A6-3400M with integrated Radeon HD 6250G GPU. When Windows Media Player is closed, I get a rate of 16 megahashes/second, but when it is ...
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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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Miner speed conversion
What is the exact ratio one would use to convert Miner speed from Hashes per second to Shares per second, assuming Difficulty 1 shares?
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How fast is the Bitcoin (mining) network?
How fast is the Bitcoin mining network compared to other distributed computing networks? ;)