Well darn...
Taking too long to get things going..
I will jump in.


1. ailikun   0.015 btc
2. huxley23 0.015 btc
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4. mentorbh 0.015 btc
5. Katun 0.015 btc
6. Wire Overload 0.015 btc
7. VRobb          0.015 BTC   PAID
8. Wire Overload 0.015 btc
9. Jimjam123
10.

I will add my own hashrate then...

1. ailikun   0.015 btc
2. Jimjam123 0.015 BTC PAID
3. rotem8866 0.015 btc PAID
4. VRobb   0.015 BTC   PAID
5. Jimjam123 0.015 BTC PAID
6. page14 0.015 BTC
7. hiaxis 0.015 BTC
8. Wire Overload 0.015 BTC
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10. chillfactr 0.015 BTC

I'll have another go.

1. ailikun   0.015 btc
2. VRobb   0.015BTC
3. rotem8866 0.015 btc
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Good call and nice work!

We must have some funds left? The rentals have been running slower than 25 PH for 2.5 days. Philip, what's the status?

Hey Bros, a question?
Why SoloPool with 10.9 PH daily average rate, just find even 1 block per 6 months?

yeah  I also was not so keen on starting rental fully this year.



I will be moving some coin from the fools pool wallet today to nicehash.

Right now the order is using my donated coin.

http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1MVzxXXtYuvmzGBT2ZiyrxXiEpUJ6Ttr1u

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MVzxXXtYuvmzGBT2ZiyrxXiEpUJ6Ttr1u


I just sent the first 0.400 btc to nice hash



https://btc5.trezor.io/tx/433fdbf2b9e8faf8773f454d8cd21a1bc8e0adc23e3dee1eb3ba2f941942352a


as always the send shifts more then the 0.400 sent  a fee of 0.00003385 btc

and trezor moves some to a second address in the same wallet

if you look here the wallet has .85xxxx btc which is correct as I moved .4 btc to nicehash

https://i.imgur.com/PuqUppa.png


when it confirms I will create some more rentals

I really always effort getting close to the right price  which is around 0.0195 - 0.0200


Spending the rental may take some time.

With the 10 of us scattered around a lot of time zones

I don't want to collect out of turn as I really want to be sure each person gets proper credit for their payment.
Plus gives me a refund/winner btc address

I am not going to start rental til Jan 1 so I think it is okay to still do 1 at a time in order.


we are waiting for

 5) ZB to pay it is to be handled by hiaxis

  that will get us to 0.6125 btc


Yeah It sucks to do it one at a time but I  think it is the best way to be sure each and every one gets proper credit for paying in.

In the meantime watch and enjoy this


http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1MVzxXXtYuvmzGBT2ZiyrxXiEpUJ6Ttr1u

"bestshare": 1934532016.200088,
 "bestever": 1934532016,


we need a  much  higher share

Current Difficulty: >>>  12,948,593,420,946.38
            our best:  >>>  >>>  1,934,532,016.200088

3 down 7 to go.



1. philipma1957   0.125 btc    paid in  0.12658084
2. hiaxis              0.125 btc    paid in  0.12500127  please give me a payout refund/winner  btc address.
3. chillfactr          0.125BTC    paid in  0.12500000  32SpDCTXkE7b59JpKn94mrk2JYG8BqtFfh
4. rotem8866     0.125 btc    paid in 0.12500099 bc1qkdhx2h7hy2ud4hcyaerqkxw9mjcgzunl26kwul
5. ZB (via hiaxis) 0.125 btc
6. ClaytonBigsby 0.125 BTC
7. MadMartyk      0.125 BTC
8. VRobb            0.125 BTC
9. Wire Overload   0.125BTC
10.Emkoo             0.125btc
  



https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MVzxXXtYuvmzGBT2ZiyrxXiEpUJ6Ttr1u


http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1MVzxXXtYuvmzGBT2ZiyrxXiEpUJ6Ttr1u


note I need payment address from hiaxis

note chillfactr forgot the pay  the tag on number I asked for 0.12500125      to other players it is very helpful to me that you remember that tag on number.  It helps if there are payment disputes. etc.

we are up to number 4) rotem8866   I will pm you  please pay  0.12500099

only rotem8866 to pay

also please give me a payout address.

pm sent waiting on rotem8866

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he will be 4th to pay and we will be  a little over .5 btc

We did it years ago 5 btc was kicked in and we hit two blocks of 25 coins each.

so 5 btc became 50 btc

I rented 1 ph for 25 hours.  the diff was 67,000,000,000 vs 12,900,000,000,000

so it is now 200x harder to do then it was back then.

I got the rental at very close to real cost.   that meant a 5/25 chance for use to hit a block.

and a 25/625 chance to hit two blocks.


ten people were in and we all paid .5 btc to get 5 btc.

i think btc was only 200-250 a coin.

To do this now we would need 2.5 btc. or .25btc a piece. 10 players and if we hit we would one block get 1.2 btc with a tip to ck.

I am not sure I want to handle 7200usd x 2.5 = 18000usd input

and 7200 x 12.5 = 90000 output

If we got  lucky and hit one i would be holding 90k
If we got really lucky and hir two I would be holding 180k

Not so sure I want to have much responsibility.

The pool itself has submitted 46.6% of the shares require to reach 100%, which is 12.95 Billion shares.

C'mon you Christmas block.

i need a present.  i know we barely at diff": 46.6  but c'mon lady luck

Just playing with the numbers for bitcoin

Today the hashrate is 94.38 EH/s  Difficulty is 12.97T

Switching to engineering notation and digging out my sliderule.

94.38e18 hash rate gets us a hit every 10 minutes or 600 seconds.

94.38e18 * 600 = 56.6e21 hashs needed on average to hit solution

For those that do like to play the lottery, the odds of hitting the megamillions lottery is about 175 million to one.  So to get the same odds of hitting a block as hitting the lottery, you need:

56.6e21 / 175e06 = 323e12 hashes needed to get the same odds as buying one lottery ticket.

I have an old Gridseed 5 chip dual miner. I am running it very slow for various thermal issues, but I get about 3.5GH/s or 3.5e9 hashs per second.

323e12 / 3.5e9 = 92.3e3 seconds or 1.07 days.

So running the miner is the same as getting a lottery ticket every day.  

How long would I need to run on average to hit a block?

56.6e21 / 3.5e9 = 16.2e12 seconds or 512,000 years.

It shows the odds of hitting a lottery are really that bad.

Yes, I know hitting the lottery for millions of dollars is way more than hitting a block. Just looking at the odds of getting lucky.

I still buy lottery tickets on occasion.