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Re: [ANN] StarTrek insipred coins =) and mining links (Low Diff) Nice Bounties!
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scificoin
on 07/10/2013, 18:00:58 UTC
i haven't visited this page in a week, so i didn't have the new wallets when this happened, but the other day i lost 256 ked.  and GPL is running soooo much slower than before.


the difficulty is the same, so why am i mining less than i was all the sudden?? i mined 6 gpl last night and i had been getting 30+ in a night! it started doing this Thursday night(latest wallet)

im guessing that losing 256 ked fri night was the result of a fork?(i also lost what i was mining. i may have mined with the wallet not in server mode, all icons were"?")

If you are solo mining then, then it's all down to luck and latency to the network nodes also have an effect.  for example whe we started off mining GPL we used a 4 core i7 at 4ghz,  we mined about 250 blocks in a row and then nothing, and not a single block since. this is likely due to being on the peripheries of the network with a ping of over 200 - 300ms to the US where the majority of the nodes are.   The only way to stop this is to mine in a pool and then latencies do not matter as much.  If you are worried about a fork and losing coins as a result this is another reason to use a pool or at the very least detect blocks via stratum by adding the pool as your second  "fail over" pool in cgminer / scrypt-jane_GPU miner.  

Also added dreamwatchers pool nodes as an addnode in your conf file.  

Also don't forget GPU mining drops efficiency over time with scyrpt-jane coins.  From what i have witnessed it's about 40% drop at present in efficiency of GPUs.  A miner may be able to answer this question better, as I am not sure if the settings need to change over time.