Re: Continuum Mining Pool: No fees; Client uptime monitoring via twitter and email

Quote from: tschaboo on June 22, 2011, 11:23:32 PM

Hello all,

I'm a very new miner. Depending on which computers are currently running, I'm having 110 - 630 MH/s. I decided to use this pool as my primary pool because this seems to be the only one that uses Meni's scoring system. I don't get it, but I'm very confident he got the math right. Martok also seems to be trustworthy.

Welcome to the pool.

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One thing bothers me though ... I made the following calculation:
The expected number of hashes to find a block is EH=3766548342687541 (http://blockexplorer.com/q/hashestowin), the hashrate of the pool right now is HR=11825476621 (http://www.continuumpool.com/hashrate.php).

If I calculate EH/HR/3600/24 I get 3.7 days to finish a block in average.

But http://www.continuumpool.com/roundstart.php says that the last block was found 2011-05-30 14:20:23.526037-07. That's about 24 days!!! So, what's wrong here?

Well fortunately I'm we found a block very soon after you posted this so we're standing on the other side of a very long round. It's worth noting though that the pool's hashrate was not constant throughout that time. The round is being dumped and the entire history will be up soon at http://www.continuumpool.com/history/