It means you are the one who found the solution to that block.

Just want to inform the pool of unsolicited wallet change requests. If you are using a simple password (like I was, doh!) I would suggest changing it since the Mt. Gox incident. People who are smart enough to use different logins for everything should be fine. I am very glad there are email verifications of wallet address changes, luckily my email password is a lot stronger than the one I had picked for Deepbit. I'm currently changing my passwords for pretty much everything, even differently named accounts. I figured now is as good of a time as any; they have been the same for quite a while. It's just good net practice to change passwords periodically, I just fell into a rut of laziness. The last thing I need is for my bank account to be compromised; I barely have enough to get by as it is, a run on it would not be good for my livelihood.

So, I urge everyone who uses the same username for multiple things to change their passwords before it's too late.

I seem to be submitting a whole lot less stale/invalid shares lately. It could be that I upgraded phoenix, but I thought I would share, [Tycho], since you had asked if anyone's experience had changed recently.

Proportional has a nominal fee of 3%

PPS has a nominal fee of 10%

By nominal, I mean if the pool's luck factor is right on, meaning the same as the current difficulty. If you look at the difficulty history, there have been times in the past where the pool took, on average, 11% more time to mint a block. Under those circumstances, the miners who are using PPS are coming out ahead. More often than not, however, deepbit does a little better than average, so PPS would be doing a little worse. The rule of thumb generally is that if you are going to be mining 24/7, proportional is the wiser choice. If you are going to be mining on and off, or gaming while mining, you may never get a share in during a round, or perhaps only get a couple of shares; this is where it is wiser to use PPS.

Just to sum it up; with PPS, no matter how well or how poorly the pool is doing, you get a fixed rate, but come out at about 10% less than you would solo-mining. With proportional, things should equate to about 3% lower than if you were solo-mining.

At your 105MH/s, the difficulty would probably change many times before even finding a block on your own, so that is where joining a pool is beneficial; you get stable micro-payouts.

For anyone else who wants to verify their myB.TC nickname: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12141

I claim http://myB.TC/VastLite (code=76889)

Something is very wrong. You are either on proportional, or you are mining at an inexplicably slow rate. 1Mh/s is roughly equal to 1 share an hour, so to miss submitting a share during a 44 minute block, you would have to be mining at less than 730Kh/s.

I would have a good look at your client to see if it is properly optimized, or even working for that matter. More info about your setup would be useful too, as I would be glad to help diagnose this peculiar phenomenon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue

Holy crap it's Google... 2.9 Million square feet of Google.

Maybe the defrag was cpu-intensive? Honestly I haven't payed attention to them since switching to windows 7 so I have no idea how they are anymore; I don't even know if I have mine scheduled for all drives...

Paypal just sent me an email this morning stating that from today forward, any funds received will be held for 21 days before they are made available to me. This is supposedly because I am a "High-risk seller," even though I have never had a chargeback.

I trade on #Bitcoin-OTC and regularly have 2-3 BTC a day to sell. What I would like is for the community to help me put together a list of members who use Dwolla, a far superior alternative to Paypal, with the caveat that it is US only.

So, if you are on #Bitcoin-OTC, and have a Dwolla account, please respond in this thread and I will keep a list of user-names with your current GPG rating, (As up to date as I can.)

I know there are at least a couple people, but I would love to compile a complete list for those of us fed up with the evil internet entity known as Paypal.

Edit: Okay, so far the list is:

proudhon - http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=proudhon

bearbones - http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=bearbones

yrral86 - http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=yrral86

toffoo - http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=toffoo (I can personally vouch for toffoo; very nice to deal with.)

T3mpn4me - http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=T3mpn4me (Aliases: BTC_Bear, BTC_Bull - make sure to always use ;;ident for anyone you trade with just as a good rule of thumb - I can also vouch for T3mpn4me; very smooth dealings.)

I would be interested in buying it for 5 BTC if it included shipping to California. PM me if the deal with JackRabiit falls through and if my offer is acceptable. (Sorry I don't check threads very consistently.)

Or if you're very cheap, you can fit 4x dual-slot cards in the Antec 100.

http://edge.imgur.com/MAQ4R.png

Due to tiered pricing (god I hate Edison) April was twice as much as March. About $400 USD versus $200.

I barely broke even mining. This month is turning out much better!

The "mystery case" sounds a lot like my Rosewill CHALLENGER. I find it to be a very nice case, in fact I have two of them. Others recommend cases such as the Antec 100 or one of the CoolerMaster HAF flavors, but for me (I'm only using single cards) the CHALLENGER is a very nice case. I've modded one of mine and mounted two 8w fans to the outside. They won't fit on the inside because they are industrial; they are full metal body and about twice as thick as a normal plastic 120mm fan. I'm not quite sure of the CF/M, but they are loud as hell and keep my card very cool, even when heavily overclocked. This is why I did not go with the cheapest CoolerMaster HAF, because it only have one 120mm side mount.

As far as the Antec 100 recommendation, it was from Diablo-D3, and the more I researched it, the more it makes sense for 3-4 card setups. It can fit two PSUs and has 2 or 3 120mm front intake fans (can't remember off hand.) - It is quite cheap, and I don't just mean in price; the metal looks like an extremely thin gauge and also very sharp. The shipping also kind of kills it, on Newegg it's about $12 to ship it, where-as the CHALLENGER is free and so is the HAF iirc.

Just my two cents; congrats on the builds and I definitely wish you luck in FPGA R&D. I would love to buy an add-in card specifically designed to run Bitcoin that got 30MH/w

I've somehow found 9, "Number of blocks found by you: 9" which would have equaled 450 BTC when in actuality I've only gained 230 BTC. I know that this is a pool and that we are *pooling* our luck, and that I would have made the 230 BTC regardless of how many blocks I found, it's just interesting to know that my luck is above average. It makes me wonder how I would have fared solo-mining. However, I greatly prefer consistent payouts.

Cheers to all the BTC we've made so far!

But we got paid, just as [Tycho] Promised

Is there some issue with payout verification? I clicked instant payout at :23 past the hour and in 25 minutes I have not gotten one confirmation, but in that time, three blocks were found by deepbit. Anyone else having payout issues or does anyone know what's going on?

I'm not Tycho either, but: If you set your payout threshold to say, 3BTC, and it auto-pays you, it will auto-pay you again in 24 hours if you have 3BTC on deepbit. If not, it will auto-pay you as soon as you reach 3BTC and the 24-hour cycle begins again. This is from my experience, so if anyone can add more info, or if my information needs correcting, feel free.

So the new expected difficulty seems to be 92k, hopefully we get our luck meter back soon? 

Okay, it's nice to know the service isn't going anywhere. Sorry for the PM, I practically sent it at the same time you answered my question; I had been refreshing the thread every few hours and noticed two new posts within a few minutes.