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OK, so earlier tonight I was just watching the crypto market meltdown coverage like everybody else today on youtube.
So, decided to cheer myself up by checking the mining stats on my rig using my ios app, when lo and behold my app shows "0.00000 ETH Unpaid Balance." Now this of course, typically means that a payout has occured. Just one problem with that I quickly remind myself (dun dun duhhhh! shudder)... my payout is set to .5 increments and i haven't crossed that threshold again yet.
Hmmm. Egads. What now? Havn't the crypto gods been appeased with enough virgin coin being tossed into the volcano today? Havn't enough crypto noobs' Lambo dreams been tossed into the junkyard crusher of reality this week?!?
Have I been hacked? Has my meager mining rig blown up? As panic starts to momentarily creep in at the base of the spine, I decide before full on neurosis invades to go straight to the source: Ethermine.org
I check stats and... hey, everything seems ok. ETH still trickling in with enough there to buy baby a new pair o shoes! Or... maybe some laces. In a few days.
So what is the meaning of this afront to my peace & dignity? This momentary shattering of my otherwise Zen like status on an otherwise emotional day on the CryptoCoinMarket charts? A quick search of google (insert swooshing noise here) yields:
Ethermine quietly tweeted a link to a new API update, story on medium:
https://medium.com/@bitfly/new-statistics-module-for-ethermine-org-2ad1c8a74864
So, before you freak when checking your app hashing results on Android & Iphone/Ipad today - if anything seems amiss I'd first go direct to the source, at https://ethermine.org and input your wallet ID & check the status there.
Well... there ya go brave miners deep in the Ether mines of the great indoors. Hope this helped keep a few of you off the ledge today - Or at least brought a smile to your face before you packed up the ole mule and headed on down to to the creek with your crypto coin pan.
Best o luck out there!