Sure but can you tell me just how small the small miner is?
26.5 TH/s
That's very close to what I run. I have been averaging ~0.6 BTC/mo figured over the last 45 days. All that said, it can vary significantly. That's before power cost.
That looks like about .1 higher than Antpool. Are the "significant" variations outside .1 range? Ever had a point when you couldn't pay the electric due to these unexpected variants?
Thanks!
In this pool the transaction fees are included in the miner reward minus pool fee of 0.9% of the total value of the block. The antpool does not include the transaction fees. That is the difference in the payouts you get here. As always you can reasonably expect 100% everywhere you can point your miners but most places do not give you those transactions fees. On top of that, PPS pools charge around 4% so your expected earnings drop to ~96% maximum. Variance can be high here sometimes because of our small size but it is usually measured in days and not over longer time spans so it has never affected my operating costs (electricity, hosting fees, etc). I've been at the Kano pool for the past 1354 blocks and I have been able to grow my hash from about 20TH to 120TH along the way.
One other note, we do not get daily payouts and most new folks can't seem to wrap their heads around that issue. We get paid by the block hit based on this explaination found on the Help/Payouts page:
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The block 'Status' must first reach '+101 Confirms' on the Blocks page, and then is flagged as 'Matured' before the reward is distributed.
The block reward transaction is created manually before the block matures, and sent out automatically a minute after the block matures.
The payout uses a zero fee transaction, so we will confirm it with the next block we find after the transaction is sent out.
The block reward transaction is created manually before the block matures, and sent out automatically a minute after the block matures.
The payout uses a zero fee transaction, so we will confirm it with the next block we find after the transaction is sent out.
We have 3 blocks in the queue waiting to be paid out. As soon as we hit our next block, we will receive all three payouts.
Edit: corrected grammar usage...
Over last 3 months our average reward (after pool fees) has been 13 BTC per block, and 12.9 BTC since the halving. That's an extra ~4% in the pockets of everyone mining here. It may not seem like much, but over the last 1000 blocks (42.5 weeks) it added 1 full BTC extra in my pocket. Pools like Antpool keep that for themselves. Yes the blocks are more frequent there, but the reward is far less. So, if you are in it for the long term, this is the place to be.
I know we just passed 120.27 %
