How Long For Solo Mined Coins To Get To Balance?

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  1. semajjames

    semajjames New Member

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    How long is it taking for solo mined coins to get to the wallet balance ?

    cheers
     
  2. davecgh

    davecgh Hero Member
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    The coinbase maturity is 256 blocks. That means the coins won't show up as spendable for that many blocks.
     
  3. semajjames

    semajjames New Member

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    cheers

    so how do I find which block I mined
     
  4. Toplel

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    i want to ask also how to check if i'm mining? a command to see the hashrate
     
  5. semajjames

    semajjames New Member

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    your mining software should show your hash rate ,,, what miner are you using ?
     
  6. Toplel

    Toplel New Member

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    1.7.4 for nvidia, it show the hash but how to check if i'm really mining?
     
  7. semajjames

    semajjames New Member

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    if you solo mining then you cant
    if you pool mining look on the pool website
     
  8. davecgh

    davecgh Hero Member
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    There will be an entry in the dcrd log that looks something like:

    Accepted block 000.... via getwork.
     
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  9. semajjames

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    thanks
    I also found it using my address on the block explorer,,,

    so why is one of the blocks only 15 DCR ?
    and what is the other DCR address above mine with each block transaction ?
     
  10. kaida

    kaida New Member

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    The block reward is dependant on PoS voters submitting their vote. You must receive 3 out of 5 votes to have your block included in the chain. Every vote is worth 20% of the ~18.35 DCR reward.

    Odds are you only received 4 out of 5 votes for that particular block you mined.
     
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  11. semajjames

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    does "block height" = block number?
     
  12. davecgh

    davecgh Hero Member
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    Yes. The genesis block is block height 0 (block number 0). Every block after that increases by 1.
     

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