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Quite a few people have posted now saying that they seem to find blocks in quick succession. I've noticed the same thing, but even to the point where different VPS's (same provider) have all found blocks within a minute of each other but nothing for hours either side. In the last 4 hours I found 9 blocks all at the same time across 6 VPS's (around 30 mins ago), and then nothing for the 3 hours before that. I have seen the same kind of patterns over the last few days too (though no normally 9 at the same time!). Has anyone got any theories as to why this might be?

I have seen exactly this

once one block was found, on one instance....then a whole load more were found quickly by that isnatnce

another that found none never found any

I think findinf say 12 blocks with one instance an zero with an identical instance is very unlikely.....

somethings going on...

I have a few theories
and one is really out there....

This is the nature of randomness and is the reason why so many people spend hours sitting in front of slot machines and vlt's. Randomness is random, looking for patterns is pointless.

Humans also focus on 'special' events. Imagine if we got posts like 'omg my blocks are coming in spaced apart' whenever that happened, those posts would outnumber the 'blocks coming in together at once' posts many times over. It's just that blocks coming in spaced apart is the expected event on average and not noteworthy. There's a scientific name for this in fields of study.

My blocks are not coming in at all....they are being taken by miners with more resources.

I need a block for crying out loud

Don't know what's worse

No more beer in the fridge or not finding a block in 20+ hours