So I have a very basic question I would like to verify. Say I am Mining EtherGem solo through Geth. That coin Difficulty goes up and down and right now it goes from 700 MH to about 1.2 GH Difficulty. When I login to my miners and see a miner that has been for like 5 days and it stats the highest difficulty level for found block and it states something like 120 GH, why does it have a result that is some 120 x more difficult then what is needed to win the block?
And is that what that does mean, I found something in the 5 day period at 120 GH?! If so that is pretty awesome, if that si what it means. Thank you.
Dev, if you could answer this real quick on your next post I would appreciate it, just one sentence if you can. The other thing I did today is I grabbed about 200 MB of log files and threw all of that data into Excel, some 900k+ lines, I dont think Excel would even let me use al of the data I grabbed, and needless to say Excel did not like it. So I sorted all of my found shares and block found difficulties for the past couple of weeks. My highest find was 455 TH, so half of a PH, or 1/6 of the way to finding an Etheruem block at current Difficulty.
While fighting Excel through this exercise, aside from making a macro I can run to truncate, sort and filter of all the logs, would it be possible on your end, as I have no idea, to display the highest Difficulty at the end of each round? Not just shares or blocks found. But once a new block arrives a snap shot of the highest reached difficulty is shown. I guess that would never be higher then the coin's current difficulty as you would have found the block, but still if working on a high difficulty coin it be nice to see how high you got for each block. But then that raises the question, OK after the end of block X, I get to say 1.2 PH, thats great and then the block ended and a new block arrives, if on a pool this would have almost guaranteed resulted in a share right, but you would have shoot through the share difficulty and still been going up to the block difficulty, so the block end highest difficulty is still valid.
But for those of us who only solo mine 99% of the time, we don't have pesky shares to deal with and then if at the end of each block we can see how high we did get or even a this is your block height and this is the current block difficulty...You achieved 32% of the block. (actual difficulty/current difficulty).
Just thinking about this, I have no idea if you are even able to capture then end of block highest GPU difficulty achieved, but that data would be real awesome to see and look through. See how close we get to hitting an Ethereum block. Calcs tell me my own rig(s) is 72 days, even made my own calculator, all tweaked out and it says same, but to watch the progress as it works would be awesome! Anyways, just some thoughts. Great miner btw thanks a ton.