Topic: [ANN] The First Litecoin PPS Pool (litecoinpool.org) (Read 228113 times)

stop experiments with power cables, remember that your miner run 24/7 and u not everytime at home.
Just pull 1-2 new 220V cable from the junction box.
If your boiler/water-heater has already 220V, then the junc.box is already prepared for 220V....
so just set two new MB16's for each 220V cable one MB16' device,  then u have all safe and one cable as reserve for the l7 or l9's if buy those.
Use minimum 2mm² cables better 2,5mm², because they dont get hot easy.  Dont use the same MB16/Mountpoint as your 220V Boiler/Heater
because it has probably enough KW/h if its an electric ones.


u can snooze the L3's with two additional 100mm or 150mm pipefan's and two DUCT's (3d printer) from 120mm to 100mm/150mm.
keep just an eye on the m³/h airblow!

https://www.ebay.de/itm/354876403200?_skw=rohrventilatoren&itmmeta=01JFNRJTP7EP3X9PFG178ST64J&hash=item52a0482e00:g:bDkAAOSwUbJkmp4L&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKnggZU2IPGO0gtaO8quzrRJWjJwKBKcfFzJKKBcfsJl3A%2B27DiAPdrfzDxFSW2rnxJwgIOCywPnB9uxJ2j43Tj%2BFCGCJ09deJUpEm%2FlF0RXdT4QpaN8qK5bMTNQ%2FjfcTXnBut9FuD9phYb6I7d4APddVz7vvF23l85VN%2B2P5gDMLQavjla6SS17%2B1IJKRLDgmHuW%2BAyP0xmjld0rDCY7%2Fupk3Aru4mfAJi2rsKNLH9JAAseBbU1d%2BKMC2QdYu3WCP8%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7Cry7j9ZA


https://www.ebay.de/itm/Kanal-Rohrventilator-Rohreinschub-Abluft-Lufter-Ventilator-Leise-100mm-150mm-/315971906787


this both are fine for L3's , just take one 100mm of the first link for BLOW-SIDE and one of the second link for the SUCTION-SIDE per one L3+/+ Miner. the cheaper one for the front/suction side both need 220V they are more than 50% quiet then the original FANs.  


u can also use some little  glass tanks or a building containing tanks for keeping fish and other water animals filled with Shell DIALA MINERAL OIL for immersion cooling a pump, two cooling devices for water cooling system and three 6" FANs per watercolling device to cooldown the oil, u need to dismount the FANs of the L3 or just cutting one cable per FAN then u dont need a extra cable wich fakes the FAN because the L3 dont has a immersion mode to bypass the fans for immersion cooling.


u can also use those pipefans for cooling the L7 and L9 but then in 150mm or maybe 200mm.
this pipefans are just 28/31 or 30/35 dB loud :-)



with blissz take 425MHZ and 13 (default) on Volting for significant Hashrate boost on the L3's (probably disable reboot on high asic failures, if ur mining on pps it does no matter.... just reboot the miner manualy every 24h because after 20-24hours the HW are uprising.



have fun  

To answer one of your questions:     https://www.akminer.com/, https://www.419mining.com/ or https://www.parallelminer.com/
I've bought from 419 & parallel in the past. Ak just come recommended by others but I have never used. There is also aliexpress but there is obvious risks there.
You might find better help for your questions on https://voskcointalk.com/.

Just to make sure I'm doing everything right, am I not getting any replies to this because nobody really has the answers or advice, because this is the wrong place to ask for said advice, because it was in a huge wall of text that nobody wants to deal with reading through, or something else?

No, there are currently no such plans.

any plans to payout in more options than just ltc and doge?
i would like to see bells or luckycoin as an option

I love this pool as well for some of the same reasons. The gui is simple, lightweight, and effective. Hasn't had a major update in years because there's not really anything new to add to it that would make it better. Meanwhile lots of pools (and websites in general) have re-vamped their UI to have fancy animated effects, dynamic backgrounds, multiple layers that slide over each other, etc, etc. It's visually noisy, more resource intensive, and frankly just doesn't look very good. A nice, (mostly) static page is a plus for me.

Hey @pooler,

Love the pool and about to launch my 5th L7, and looking to get an L9 started as well.

The reason I've stayed with Litecoinpool the longest and want to continue supporting the pools hash rate compared to your competitors is strictly because of the data and the gui you've provided, it's engaging to feel like you're competing for positions on a leaderboard.

I love seeing total amounts of hash rate contributed over the lifetime of a machine and seeing all the blocks my specific miners have found.

On that note it would be super cool to see the amount of Doge blocks our miners have found to appear on another cell in the layout. Not sure how much work it would be but I celebrate every time I find an LTC block. Could be cool to see it for Doge as well, I'm sure we would see them pop up more frequently.

The second point I wanted to bring up is some mining re-salers are offering commission based incentives. If you buy a miner with the reseller, and use one of their affiliated pools, you get credit with the reseller overtime. Could be a good incentive to get more miners on board.

https://bt-miners.com/products/fluminer-l1-litecoin-dogecoin-miner-5-3gh-s-bt-miners/


If you scroll down on this link, you'll see the commission based incentives.

Cheers,
 
Keep up the good work!

I've been mulling over upgrading my miner recently and wanted to get some thoughts from real people who actually have some idea of what they're doing.

I first joined the pool in March of 2015 playing around with CPU and GPU mining mostly for fun. I eventually got a pair of those 5 chip LTC+BTC dual miners (orb something, I'd have to dig them out to see what they were called. One of them actually found a LTC block which was super cool!) My current setup consists of 2 L3's running Blissz 1.0.2. I got the first one in April of 2021 and the second in March of 2022. Neither one has been running nonstop since then, but they've both gotten a pretty decent amount of use. (In retrospect I shouldn't have gotten the second one however) I considered getting an L7 when they came out after the crypto bubble burst around that time and used miner prices dropped, but between the amount of power they draw, the excessive noise, the requirement for 220V, and the much higher upfront cost, I didn't end up getting one.


At this point I'm once again considering upgrading, but now things are even more complicated with the L9 being in the picture. Ultimately it has many of the same issues, ie noise, high power draw, 220V requirement, and still more expensive than an L7. As far as I can tell, the L7 is still profitable with a rather healthy margin, but obviously over time that will probably drop, and sooner than the L9.

I've been thinking about how I would address some of the barriers and would love if someone(s) could give me some feedback on it.

The noise is one of the biggest concerns I have. I run my L3's in the garage in the winter and that keeps them very comfortably quiet. (at the moment one is running ~2100 rpm and the other is ~2000 rpm) (I only tried installing Blissz on them last winter and immediately wish I had done it a loooong time ago, I'm amazed at how much quieter and more efficient I've been able to get them with it!) Anyway, I'm guessing that both the L7 and L9 would probably be substantially louder if for no other reason than they have 4 120 mm fans and 3 smaller ones for the built in PSU. However I think any noise issue could be solved by using a water cooling setup. From what I've seen, the L7 has a bunch of small heatsinks on the back of each board held on with some kind of permanent thermal adhesive/epoxy much like the L3 has on each individual ASIC, but the chips themselves are cooled with a single BIG heatsink that uses thermal compound and spring-loaded screws to keep it in good thermal contact, much like a regular computer CPU. If this *is* actually how it is configured, it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to buy or even make an easy-to-install water cooling system. (I'm almost certain I have all the tools needed to make my own water blocks, but it may or may not be easier to just buy them)

The power requirements are the other big concern. The biggest issue is needing 220V power. Living in the USA, most of the outlets in my house are 120V. We do have 220V power in our garage for a heater we rarely use, but it would require at least a little bit of re-wiring as it is hard wired directly into the junction box. Additionally, it happens to be on the opposite side of the garage from where I keep the miners, and running an L7 or L9 where the junction box would be less than ideal. (The L3's are located on the far side because none of the walls directly directly border any walls with the interior of the house, so it makes them totally silent from inside the house. There's also a lot more extra space over there, which would be especially nice if I added a water cooling system) We also have a pair of 220V circuits in a workshop I could use, but that isn't at our house. (My dad owns a business and he also loves tools, etc so he had a mini "warehouse" space added to the building when it was built, and a decent portion of it is a little machine shop) This comes with it's own disadvantages, as if it was going to live there it would definitely need to be fairly quiet so it doesn't interfere with the actual office part of the building. (nobody wants a distant hum/whine while they're trying to work) I also would have to ask our tech guy to make sure I could remotely access it securely, and I don't want to bother him too much if I can avoid it. I also wouldn't want to risk it interfering with their system in any other way either. The third option might be the easiest but to me also feels more sketchy than the other options. I'm reasonably sure there are at least 2 separate 120V circuits in our garage, and in theory I should be able to buy or DIY a cable that plugs into both of them in such a way as to put the two hot lines in series, giving me 240V. Basically I have 2 male connectors leading into 1 female connector. Obviously I would double and triple check that every part of the system, ie the breakers, the wiring in the walls, and any cables/connectors used could handle the current and voltage, but again in theory this should work. (On a semi-related note: I'm assuming that those heavy cables that split into 2 standard AC computer PSU cables are safe to use, and I don't need 2 separate cables coming from 2 separate 220V outlets?)

Another thing that might be worth asking is where a good place to buy one of these things is these days? Every miner I've owned has been bought used on ebay and I've never gotten scammed or had negative experiences with that, but I don't know if there are places where you can get them a bit cheaper without sacrificing the assurance that comes with buying something on ebay.

Finally, there's just the unanswerable question of "Should I even pursue this at all?" I miss the old days of low power, low noise, low cost miners that can comfortably live in your house. I feel like long term I don't need to worry about the upfront investment either way, but it's still a lot of money and its still resource intensive, single purpose hardware. I have a feeling that crypto in general is probably going to go up in the next few years, and that would probably mean now is the time to buy a new machine if I'm going to do it. (let's not get into politics, but with certain people in certain positions who have certain attitudes towards certain coins/chains, I think it's reasonably safe to say a catastrophic price drop in the near future is unlikely, and I wouldn't be surprised to see an increase either)


Anyway, sorry for the huge post that probably has more details and tangents than is strictly necessary, but this seemed as good a place as any to try and get some feedback from people who know at least as much as me and probably a LOT more. (I'm more knowledgeable than a your average random person walking down the street, but certainly far from an expert) I'd appreciate any thoughts, comments, critiques, ideas, etc anybody has!

this is from 2 days ago, actual results: https://i.ibb.co/gZn20vT/image.png

My bad, I didn't account for the fact that JKC's difficulty is still low because it only adjusts every 1440 blocks. With all scrypt miners on it, it would have a factor of about 7x to catch up to, and get there in about a week's time. (We're currently looking into this among other things.)

Still, the figures you quote must be for the luckier side of proportional-type results. The ideal-world (100% PPS) output from DOGE is currently about $58 a day at 16 GH/s.

On mining-dutch, a Bitmain L9 16G in one day makes $69.79 worth of DOGE, and $16.91 worth of JKC (Junkcoin)

We are looking into it, but don't expect it to make a huge difference. At its current profitability level, it would affect the PPS ratio by less than 1%.

Junkcoin is adding a significant amount of profit to pools that mine it such as Mining-Dutch. Can this be added to the merge-mined coins here?

We don't maintain a public list, but right now we are merge-mining: Bells, Canada eCoin, Dingocoin, Dogecoin, Luckycoin, Myriad, Pepecoin, Viacoin, Worldcoin.

The recent jump in PPS rate was mostly due to the rise in price of LKY.

Is there a list of all blockchains/coins currently being merge-mined? I feel like that would be interesting to look at.

On a (possibly) related note: Does anybody know what the recent jump in pps rate was caused by?

I have expensive electricity and a consumption limit. Therefore, I reduced the voltage of the power supply from 12 to 8.5 volts. It turned out to be 1.03 W / MH, 30% more economical than at 12 volts.

cryptori, flash blissz firmware to your L3's, set frequency to 425 and voltage to 13 (bitmain default).

then they make 580 MH/s each if all chains are good

ähhm, why your L3+'s are so damn slow? and mine so fast? reconfigure it...



got 4 of them make 2.2 gh up to 2.5

As said, I would let the pool work out your best diff.
If you insist to set it manually I think it has to be added to the password (see https://www.litecoinpool.org/help#share-difficulty for syntax).

Thank you, and what format should I set manually in the miner?