Quote from: MakerAZ on December 07, 2024, 11:28:45 PM

Quote from: aurel57 on December 07, 2024, 07:24:20 PM

When Apollo shows 13B Best Shares, does it mean that I managed to pull 13B winning tickets, that I managed to FIND a Valid Block at the current network difficulty level BUT did it too late?
NO its more like you matched 13 Billion of the 103 Trillion numbers needed to win. Tongue

So the number of Best Shares that Apollo shows contains only the Best Shares for my latest attempt (last 10 min) or ALL historical Best Shares since I started mining?
All historical

I truely appreciate all the responses I get from the members, but I feel myself completely dumb as I cannot understand this Best Share, Accepted Share and Rejected Share terms.

Mining BTC is a LOTTERY.
It doesn't matter if I mine with 200 EH/s speed mining farm or 5TH/s home Apollo miner. In BOTH cases, mining BTC is a LOTTERY. As such I either WIN or LOSE roughly every 10 min.

Of course as higher my hashrate as bigger my chances to find a valid block within 10 min, I do understand that.

Now, what Apollo's or ANY miner's Dashboard would show me to be informative and meaningful?
1) Hardware health status: CPU and Miner Temp, Fan Speed, Power Consumption
2) Software health status: Errors, Issues, Bugs, Latest version, Updates, etc.
3) Hashrate speed and its Fluctuations over time.

As for assessing a performance of any miner it should come down to: What is the MOST DIFFICULT Hash found by the miner, i.e. the biggest number of leading zero's and the comparison of that number to the network's current difficulty requirements.

To my understanding EVERY SINGLE HASH irrespective of the number of leading zeros, i.e. its difficulty, is a Proof of Work. It means EVERY SINGLE HASH is the Accepted Share. Rejected Share could be hashes that simply failed validation.

This may be a topic for a separate discussion, but mentioning it here might help my understanding. I honestly get confused when the network's difficulty number increases. How come? Harder difficulty would mean there are LESSER valid hashes within the range of 2^256-1.

Please shed some light on this.

That is correct for the bitcoin network difficulty.
But each pool has its own smaller difficulty for each miner because it is neither possible nor necessary for the pool to check every single hash.
For solo mining the Apollo runs a "mini pool" in the background.

The network difficulty increases as more/faster miners find valid hashes.