I rarely post on any forums, mostly lurk, but as a BFL customer patiently awaiting his small-fry order (compared to this) I just had to log in and post that this is by far the coolest thing I've seen on these forums probably ever. Bravo BFL, and happy hashing to Gigavps.

Woot! Grats! We needed that one

Looks like somebody's cards came in

Yep all fixed. Thanks SC.

SC - my stats haven't updated at all since this morning. I can't tell if all my miners are still hashing, etc.

DING! 


SC- if this sucker matures, please roll my bonus on to the next round

I'm fine either way. The math is easy to do if you want to see the pure proportional estimate
Pure proportional estimate = (your current shares / rounds's shares) * 49.5

So as long as you have a calculator or are really good with an abacus, you can have it both ways.

They are way off.
SC - maybe change that calculation to the basic (current shares/round shares) * 49.5 = est. earnings. With a disclaimer that this is only an estimate and may be off by a bit since it's cheat-proof scoring.
That way people don't get freaked out.

Right, that's pretty much what I was implying. Proportional is good for pool hoppers. Cheat-proof is good for everybody else. If you're mining 24/7 you need to either be a hopper or be in a non-proportional pool (since you'll lose money due to the hoppers over the long run in a proportional pool).

Do you really think being a proportional pool would add a lot of hashing power SC (at least at the beginning of rounds)? Maybe I'm underestimating the number of hoppers...

I like the cheat-proof scoring we're using now.

Also, you aren't actively mining at this pool, so why would it matter to you? Do you think proportional scoring is so much better that you'd mine here if this pool used that payout scheme? Just curious...

We should be confirmed by now. Block 136583 +120 confirms = Block 136703
The current block is 136738.

That's good news, the site stats being incorrect might have something to do with it linking to the wrong block, but that's just a wild guess.

Let's get us another one!   

So what's the official word? Was it invalid?

Woot! Grats Sirky!

Just what we needed

OK, donation sent.

Also, if I'm the one who solves the block I will roll the bounty to the next block plus add an additional 1BTC

Alright, I'll point all my miners back at this pool for the weekend, see if we can get a snowball effect rolling.

As I've mentioned before, I really like this pool and want to see it succeed. So for that reason, I will personally put up a 2BTC bounty for this current block. I'll donate it to SC, and he can dish it out to the lucky winner.

Hopefully a block bounty will bring in some extra hashers!

SC - think you could advertise this on the front page of this thread? Maybe put it in the thread title or maybe start a new thread? That way people can see it easily. I'll PM you the exact amount I'm donating so you know it's from me 

CURRENT BLOCK BOUNTY - 2BTC

-cb

I'm throwing everything I got at you SC! We will get this block soon, and once we do I'll punch it in the esophagus. Y'know, just to make it an example for other feisty blocks that think about getting uppity.

That sounds pretty sweet, a 5830 would be a great prize. Also, thanks for letting me be king of the hashrates there for a second. Felt good to be king, if only for a second.

Don't motivate me to buy more cards, even though that damn crown just looks so good on me 

I noticed your hashrate go up, hopefully that other card comes in for you today.

I wish this pool had the following it did before you had to take it offline. I definitely prefer the smaller pools to the bigger ones, makes it more exciting when you find a block, plus there's a sense of community. This pool should definitely be bigger than it is, you've put a lot of work into it, made it open source, plus it's just good.

Maybe you could make a simplecoin.us relaunch thread? Or start a thread in the newbies section? (not sure if that's frowned upon)
What about doing a promotion where some extra bitcoins get handed out. Maybe to the people that find a block, or maybe a random drawing of miners that were mining when the next few blocks are found. Something to bring some miners in to a point where we're finding a block every few days or so (or better ).

I'd be willing to put up a few bitcoins to help out with that if you're interested.

  I'm glad this pool is back up and running. I like the new graphs, and good work on the site, it looks great. Let's get a block!