Thank you very much!

I've created a Windows only program that monitors the BitMinter pool and workers if you have the perk set to get an API also it has Bitcoin Network Hash rate and Block Information.
I'm looking for people to be beta testers of it. Anyone who wants to download it and use it is fine. It's just a work in progress that I'm slowly adding other pools to while I'm learning more about Bitcoin and also programming in general. I've created the program really for myself to learn programming with. I've always been told to practice with writing small programs but I really can't do a bunch of hangman games and figure this would be better for me in my learning.

I started it's own Topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=567282.0

Here is a link to the website where it can be downloaded.

http://betadays.com/apps/bitchecker-beta/

I've slowly been adding things to it but as I've said it still in beta. You can use the Topic link above to leave questions / suggestions / ask for help etc. As long as I don't get to overwhelmed with all this I plan on working on it as I have time.

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It's not open source. That is why there is no source code. Anyone can decompile it since I'm not stopping that from happening.

I've created a Windows only desktop program that people may be interested in. Right now it shows the Global Hash Rate of the Bitcoin Network and also if you setup the BitMinter Pool APIs that pools miner information. More pools will be added as time goes on.

I consider it a beta version since no one but me has used it, so far. I've setup a small website on one of my websites and for anyone to download it to try out.

Note I'm not sure if some of the items that I list make any sense or not.

I hope you find it of interest.

http://betadays.com/apps/bitchecker-beta/


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http://betadays.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/blockchain01.jpg

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A little about the program. It's written for the 3.5 dot net framework so it should work on a lot of Windows versions, although I've tested it on Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, and Windows 8 Pro 64-bit.

When you download the file and unzip it run the BitChecker.exe file and it will take you to the Setup Screen where you can fill out your BitMinter Pool's API and a few other things. Once that is done the program should be ready to go.

If you have any questions or if you have problems leave note on the forum.

Enjoy.

Morlock

On the short list to be added,  in no particular order, the following Pools: Eclips, BTCGuild, OzCoin, Slush. If there is any pool that you think I should add leave a message on the forum.
Other items: Pricing and anything else I can find APIs for.

I myself is a BitMinter Pool person so any beta testing anyone does would be appreciated.

I guess your looking at the block at:

277398   2013-12-28 11:55   3m   23,108,483   1,180,923,195   1.9%   501.3   BTC   cbcoins   confirmed

I know it's at 501 but I think the Doc ups the number in the subject when the pool sustains the rate for a while.

I also agree. I've worked with hardware companies where they send me their hardware for a few weeks for free to make it work with my software. In return I promote their equipment and my users know for a fact that what they buy will work with my software since my company personally has used the exact device. Other times I've worked deals with some hardware companies so they sale it to me at a discount since it's only for testing, I even take their demo or "floor model" that they no longer use. They know that when I'm talking to my customers I'll be mentioning their company as one we work with and it provides confidance in the equipment. 

It's a win win for my company and with the free advertising for the their company.

I deal with end users all the time and that is the thing everyone needs to understand. You may have equipment to sale but you need people willing to buy. How do you do that with the least amount of money and effort going into advertising and proving your value to the community expecially since the bad taste some companys have put into us mininer's mouths when buying equipment.

Expecially in the case of new USB stick getting some well known names using and to be able to test their equipment is in their best intrest and in effect the ROI to that selling company is much higher. Everyone likes to do the ROI for equipment so lets do a little here: New unknown and unproven company gives out, we will say, 5 sticks to various well known celebrities of the BTC community that cost only production cost. Those people in turn will be doing advertising to a wide range of people on their blogs and sites they control the sites that people trust. ROI of the monetary amount of the physical device is negative but the ROI by the sales because of this should be in the positive.

Now that you mention it. My miners went off line this morning during the change. I'll have to remember to note it if it happens again.  Since who knows if that is a trend or not. But I think I recall they went off line during the last change also.

Also who knows if there has been any ddoss on any mining pools before this change happens that could be a reason also.

Or even some company just happens to be testing there devices for a few days to burn them in before shipping.

It's an intresting thought.

You brought back some fond memories. Thank you.

Thank you.

I have a question. Does it really matter how far from the actual pool you are? I mean I'm in the USA and joined a pool who is in Europe. Would that affect any of my share submission or anything like that? I'm just thinking about all those download sites that give you options on diffrent mirror sites to download something because of speed.

Hi everyone. I just started up with this bitcoin stuff, using bitminter with my video card AMD Radeon HD 7770 and was getting 202MH/s (220 overclocked) and thought that was great since the price of a low end BLF (and the fact of the back orders) were out of my pricing. So after lurking around a bit and reading about ASCIMiners I figured why not? So I was able to pick up 2 of them and even though I'm small potatoes I just get a kick knowing that so much processing power (660MH/s) is happening not only in front of me but when I look at the total processing power of everyone added together it's amazing.

And I think I'm hooked expecially since the prices of the ASCIMiners are coming down so I may pick up a few more as the months go on, and with the dificulty rate going up looks like for me to stay even (as uneven as I am right now) I may have to pickup more.

This is just just amazing on so many levels.

I'm still trying to figure out a lot of the stuff like the diffrent pay outs and luck and the difficulty level and how that all ties together.

Well that's it for now.

Morlock