Topic: ckpool.org CLOSED - page 153. (Read 162561 times)

Restart complete. The thread topic now represents the new ZERO FEE status of this pool and you can see the current fee in the pool work. Happy mining everyone.

I will only review the zero fee status of this pool if it ever gets significantly larger.

Yeah but there is a second issue if I rent on some pools.

Which does not apply to this pool.

Having spent more at nh mining my alts than I'd ever put out to the public, I can say that I've never had any "dishonesty" issues (I'm assuming you're talking about rumors of withholding blocks/large shares?).

BTC price  hurts the pool a lot.

If I rent:

1)here
2)mmpool
3)jonny bravos pool
4) ck's solo pool

say .01  btc minimum  so 4x = .04  that is 133 bucks

Nicehash  wants .01  and sells you 50th



so phil or anyone   just mine on 1 pool  it is still  .01 = 33 bucks

and that .01  gives me a .01/12.5 shot of hitting that is about 1250 to one.

 worse yet    I am betting  at 1250 to 1 odds  I don't collect 1250 x 33 = 41000

  like I would if I bet  ck's solo pool.

so the only way to play here is  5 guys put up .05 total of .25  and do a bigger rental

but but but should not they  just play ck's solo pool  answer is yes.

I did a lot of looking at this   from  view point of gameplay  and teams to attack a block

and I have drawn the conclusion  that at the high prices of btc  3000 plus tiny pools are bad.  solo pools are good

any pool  that is under 5ph  can go really long  for a block.

Unless we could convince  nicehase to rent us .01 btc at 10 or 15th  these little pools will die out.

if you could rent 15th  for .01 for a day it would make this pool better to play.

I have played the four pools  I mention for years.  I just can not afford  to play even if rental price is close to real  I just can't afford to lay down  33 bucks for 8 hours

as .01 for 50th lasts 8 hours.

Math only favors  ck's Solo pool not the other 3.


look at my nicehash wallet:

much of it at ck solo and mmpool
some here
 some at jonny-bravo
and some on eth


most of the 106 coins in rental  were under 1000
now  it is over 3000

so a cold streak on a small pool is very hard to keep renting

especially since i am not sure how honest nicehash is with renting in the first place.

I reached the point that I stopped renting as I can't justify fighting the variance.

Sadly, you're not alone in that boat. For multiple reasons I can't contribute any more to this block (other than failover), but I assure you I'm not gone for good.


One of the many reasons you are loved and respected in the community.

Incentives have failed to attract miners on other small pools and I've already dumped more money into this pool than I'd like to admit.

Alright, I've thought about it and decided to get rid of the fee entirely. As a tiny pool it is completely unprofitable and I don't really need the pitiful reward it would provide me to cover its costs. I will turn it into a service for the mining community instead, and will only revisit fee if the hashrate gets very large. Perhaps make the fee .001% of the network hashrate the pool is; i.e. if the pool is 10% of the network hashrate, the fee is 1%. But for now the fee will be completely ZERO. Give me a chance to rework the code and I'll announce here when I'm restarting the pool and update the pool thread accordingly.

Throw a spanner in Kanos cogs and watch them flock over to here  




Only kidding  ....would some sort of incentive be worth a shot?

Well I'd like to see that too but asides from the early code failures, and the raw interface, I suspect it's the simple lack of block finding and the way too small hashrate that stops miners from coming here at all. I'm actually wondering if I shouldn't just make this pool 0% fee and hope for donations instead... At 0.5% fee with exceedingly rare blocks, it's not like it's going to make any profit. Let me think about it...

I just join a couple of days ago and I'm excited to be part of a pool waiting for its first block.

Im still hashing here, never been much for conversation but look in from time to time. Only a pathetically small (3xGekkos) on a little raspi setup, and barely in the payout section  but still ticking over.

The whole little system only draws 75w so just leave her plugged into a 6pin connector alongside my gpu rig on a server supply.

Sure is lonely in here   (Yes I do understand why any decent sized hashers have gone but it still doesn't change the fact it IS lonely in here.)

Welcome aboard, and be aware, our base hashrate amounts to a VERY small pool still at the moment so it may be a very long time before you see any payout since we haven't even solved a block yet and payouts only happen with each block solve.

ic now i understsng little bit t..already point my miner to you pool ck ...

what happend if get competing with another user