Yes, but not near as many shares.  That block was while Triplemining was fairly new and 50 GHash/s wasn't typical (much less 130 GHash/s for the first several hours).  However, this is in no way Triplemining's fault, it's just luck, I've seen blocks with over 8 million shares and heard of blocks with over 10 million shares.  OTOH, I've seen blocks with less than 25 thousand shares at this difficulty.  It's supposed to all average out on the end, and TripleMining had some fairly good luck not too long ago.

I'm not sure on the answer to that.  It is interesting, though.  I think this block started during the jackpot day, so GHash/s jumped up to like 133, then slowy trickled down to its 40 GHash/s.  Those still mining are increasing their portion of the total number of shares, but those who left might be getting the benefits pool hoppers get (though presumably those benefits dwindle in a case like this).  However, at the end of the day it's still only 50 BTC to go around to everyone involved in the 120+ hours so far, whereas if three blocks were solved in 24 hours, that would be 150 BTC to go around.  That said, if everyone quit mining, the block would never be solved, so the longer (more shares) you have mined, the more you would have to lose by quitting.  When they go to PPLNS, this all changes, and only those mining within 60 minutes of the solution get anything, which would be hugely beneficial to those solely mining at triple on the rare monster block like this one (unless the timing of a problem screwed them over).

damn the current block is taking ages....

I guess i can try that later... I don't have physical access to my machine right now.
If anyone else has gotten poclbm to work, help would be much appreciated

Look at what block number the transactions are in blockexplorer and then look back at the number your bitcoin client shows.  As long as your bitcoin client shows a smaller number, it doesn't know about the transactions yet.

Welcome to bitcoin!

What is the block count showing in your bitcoin client?

True. 0% is always desired.

The thing I don't get is, if you kept BTC in your local laptop offline and tried to pay out, it asks "0.0005 transactions fees". And there is no guarantee that BTCGuild will process it, so might end up in a pool that charges. So does a transaction cost by default for all trades at the moment?

LOL! I hope you see those blocks being re-generated by now and in 1/2 hour or so you should see your payment.

You want to delete everything there to force the client to rebuild the blockchain database so it can find your payment.

1) copy your wallet.dat to a safe place (it appears you have done this to your usb)

2) Delete *everything* in the bitcoin folder, most especially the two files that begin with blk

3) *copy* your wallet dat file back into the bitcoin folder and run the bitcoin client again.

4) watch the blocks be rebuilt, don't fiddle with it during this process, just leave it alone


BTW I notice you did not confirm that you triple checked that you entered the address perfectly in slush's website.

I guess i can try that later... I don't have physical access to my machine right now.
If anyone else has gotten poclbm to work, help would be much appreciated

When i do that i get

"No more backup pools left. Using primary and starting over."