where are dem Namecoins

[Nesetalis]

Am I just bashing my head ineffectually against the wall here? I've been going at it for hours.. with 25Mhash/s (not the fastest miner, but i figure with such a low difficulty i should be able to get something... right?)

what timeframe should I expect to get a coin?

-edit-
Alright, i gave up, staring at the khash/s message for hours got to me... maybe i'm doing it wrong, i dunno, probably just dont have fast enough gear to successfully mine namecoins.

[khal]

I'm mining at 5Mh/s since 5 days, and still nothing...

The current difficulty is 290 :
http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php

[Nesetalis]

ew... yea.. probably better bet for me to buy them from others with BTC i'm mining in a pool.

[khal]

Bitcoin difficulty : 157426
Namecoin difficulty : 290 (change the difficulty value in the calculator)

It is much easier to getnamecoins than bitcoins (500 times).
You can buy 200NC for 1BTC, so NC are 2,5 times cheaper.

[Nesetalis]

sure, but in a pool, at my rate, i spent some 12 hours mining for namecoins.. didnt find one, nor any response to show that it was doing anything (which is rather disenheartening come to think of it :p come back after 10 hours, see the blank black window as if it had been doing nothing!)
anyway, in the rest of the time, ive made just under a bitcoin.
its all about percieved progress.

[mikkl]

If I did get lucky and generate some NC, where would I be able to see this? "namecoind.exe listaccounts"?

[khal]

To view immature blocks :

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namecoind.exe listtransactions

To view your total balance :

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namecoind.exe getbalance

[Dhomochevsky]

Quick question:

Does miners' hashing strength accumulate when solo mining? Or does each one get a block to solve?

I have 2 rigs with three miners each, plus my computer, which also acts as a server. I started the server, pointed my graphics card to localhost and started mining, then pointed each miner from the 2 rigs to the server through LAN and started mining with them too. My hashing power should net me one block at 7 hrs on average. It's been more than nine hours and still no block - of course, this is probably just variance, but I'm wondering, is the hashing power divided or unified? Will I get 1 block at smaller time intervals or 7 blocks (the number of miners I have) at greater time intervals?

[bitlackey]

Quick question:

Does miners' hashing strength accumulate when solo mining? Or does each one get a block to solve?

I have 2 rigs with three miners each, plus my computer, which also acts as a server. I started the server, pointed my graphics card to localhost and started mining, then pointed each miner from the 2 rigs to the server through LAN and started mining with them too. My hashing power should net me one block at 7 hrs on average. It's been more than nine hours and still no block - of course, this is probably just variance, but I'm wondering, is the hashing power divided or unified? Will I get 1 block at smaller time intervals or 7 blocks (the number of miners I have) at greater time intervals?

Hang in there, I tried mining solo last night when the bitparking pool went down and hit nothing that night.
I switched back to the pool and it seemed like it was spitting out blocks slower, tonight I switched back to solo and hit 2 blocks within an few hours of starting.
I'm running at 1200mh/s which should average a block every 15hours.

[Clockmaker]

i did the same thing, about 10 minutes before I woke up I got a block, if i had woken up 10 minutes earlier I would have lost that 50 coin

the only pool atm is constantly being dogged by problems best to avoid while you can afford to do so