No, we haven't implemented your idea.  We just look to blockchain.info when our own heuristic doesn't determine the miner.  That's what you see on the above URLs.

Very cool.  Thanks for sharing.

Here are the last two blocks which blockchain.info marked as having been mined by P2Pool:

http://whomined.com/#360437
http://whomined.com/#360204

Thank you, sir.  We'll add them and start checking for them.

I'll ask someone to PM you a couple coupons to our gaming site -- http://block777.com.

360777 is going to be big.

It's not like the blockchain isn't a public ledger.  Besides, I think most (all?) mining pools are outside of US jurisdiction.

Any specific suggestions?

Thanks!

Right now we're starting to market our games.  If they manage to even cover their hosting cost, we'll look at a serious re-design of http://whomined.com.

Right now, we don't want to invent too much time or any money.  But we're happy to hear specific suggestions.  Proposed CSS revisions are welcome too.  Though all we'll give you is our gratitude (and perhaps a bunch of coupons for http://block777.com).

I suppose it can help.  But realize that there is no way to absolutely determine the miner of a block.  (See our discussion: http://whomined.com/#how-it-works)

I think the unique thing we do is make the clues we use to determine the miner public.  So everyone can easily see the receiving BTC address, the coinbase in which some mining pools "sign" their block.

The receiving BTC address of the first transaction in the block is probably the strongest clue.  I can't imagine anyone having incentive to fake it.

Side note:

We can probably get even better by scrubbing more of the mining pool website for their self-reporting (we only do some of them now), but it's a lot of work because each one needs an individual script to parse it, and their websites sometimes change rendering our scripts useless.  We don't have time to do this.  Right now, we're trying to get our games to cover the hosting costs -- and we're still a long way off.  :-)

I'm tracking which miners made which blocks for a game that we built.  We decided to put the results of our block-watching on its own website and to provide an API.  Not sure if it's useful to anyone, but please check it out:

http://whomined.com

API:

http://api.whomined.com - return last 144 blocks (excluding most recent three)
http://api.whomined.com/#blocknum  - return 144 blocks from blocknum
http://api.whomined.com/miners - return miners statistic and misc info
http://api.whomined.com/miner//  returns last 144 blocks mined by miner staring with blocknum

Feedback welcome.  :-)

Not sure if this will reach anyone (since this is an old thread), but we've made a lot of improvements to http://whomined.com.

For developers --

API:

http://api.whomined.com - return JSON whith last 144 blocks
http://api.whomined.com/#blocknum  - return JSON with 144 blocks from blocknum
http://api.whomined.com/miners - return miners statistic and short info
http://api.whomined.com/miner//  returns last 144 blocks mined by miner staring with

You can bet on every 10th block (hour and a half) at http://bettingblocks.com.

Bitcoin

Thank you, sir!  Worked like a charm.  What a cool little feature.

Your gratuity has been sent.  I'm also going to PM you a few coupons for block777.com.

I would be deeply grateful if someone would offer me a python script for my situation:

I have an electrum wallet with balances on three different private keys.

I'd like to take the balance from just one private key and send it elsewhere.  This is made easier, perhaps, because that entire balance arrived in just one transaction.

Please help?

If it works, I'll offer a small token of gratitude -- 0.02 btc.

Really?  Right now with so few players, I think it's easy to play with a positive expected values.

Which miners have a good chance of finding the block vs how much has been bet on them?

Which miners are quickly increasing in success, and are likely to be stronger than past performance would indicate?

Thanks.  In the interest of building trust, we also have a real-time log of events which we make available to users: http://api.bettingblocks.com/log .


On our original website (http://bettingblocks.com/), there's a game that happens approx every hour and a half.  Please check it out.

Right now, we have very few users.  So you'll be playing against the bets of our bot.  But our bot makes bad bets occasionally.  So right now, if you're careful, you can probably play with a positive expected value.

Honestly, we totally screwed up the marketing.  We're good programmers and designers, but we don't know a damn thing about advertising.  We're hoping to do some promotion this month.

Oh, boy.  The miner of block # 342777 was undetected.

#343777 might become our biggest prize ever.

Elaborate, please. 

Congrats!   If you manage to win 41.9x your original bet you'll make it onto the leader board. 

$7 up for grabs.