Hello
I mined ETC in this interval of time:
31/07 09:53:49 (UTC) - 31/07 12:49:33 (UTC)
From my count on the home page where shows when the last block was found it found ... more than 10 block and the site posted 3 block?
no orphan
Can you make me understand how is it possibile.
I use NiceHash and Mining Rig Rental sooo after 2 hours of mining whit 2.5- 3 Gh/s ( 0.02 BTC) and i get 1.3 ETC ( the equivalent of 0.003 BTC) when the counter of the blocks it reseted more then 10 times, so the blocks were found.
Sorry for late reply.
I'm afraid that you got less than expected.
You mined less than 3 hours so it is hard to say about block finding luck.
ETC pool was quite small at that time, reward fluctuated much.
Here's detailed block info about your mining period.
https://ethereum-classic.miningpoolhub.com/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks&height=1981259&next=11982892 Confirmed anonymous 31/07 12:49:33 (UTC) 6,745,685,955,616.00 5.001260 467,528 878,692 134,789 28.83
1982879 Confirmed anonymous 31/07 12:46:14 (UTC) 6,755,594,623,216.00 5.000000 468,215 995,145 509,101 108.73
1982804 Confirmed anonymous 31/07 12:29:22 (UTC) 6,745,819,303,354.00 5.000420 467,537 1,163,949 1,141,525 244.16
1982636 Confirmed anonymous 31/07 11:50:34 (UTC) 6,719,760,926,365.00 5.157090 465,731 1,761,991 3,569,786 766.49
1982108 Confirmed anonymous 31/07 09:53:49 (UTC) 6,574,158,873,068.00 5.156250 455,640 479,705 653,708 143.47
Pool found 5 blocks during that period.
Last column is the percentage, about block finding luck thing.
You would see 766%, 244%, 143% which are quite bad. (Less than 100% is good, higher number means bad, unlucky)
The block finding count you mentioned seems like from the main homepage view. It is realtime raw data that is updated from pool backend software, not validated from main blockchain.
This works well usually, but ETC had some weird issue which made block sync stuck time to time.
This is already well known issue at ethereum dev community.
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/2857You would have already heard about replay attack.
Similarly, ETH and ETC shares same protocol between each blockchain, and it stop to process new block when some wrong data is transferred from other blockchain.
So, geth (ethereum wallet) had to be restarted, recovered at that time.
I think new block message was coming from that stuck situation.
So, new block is found but it was useless because of sync error.
Good thing is that, the issue is resolved from pool and there would be no similar issue any more. I couldn't see this kind of issue from yesterday.
So, you mined less than 3 hours which were very unlucky period and got less than expected.
I would recommend you to mine longer period, with smaller hashrate. 3 hours of mining was very short time period for small pool.
Now ETC pool grew a bit, but still our hashrate share is about 2~4% of total. It's quite small as you know.
Sorry for inconvenience.