Wow, a welcome wagon eh, that's great! XD
Been reading on the OrganoOfCorti blog, good stats, I came down to the same conclusion as most did.
My thing about mining though is I like predictability and stability, even if it sacrifices profit and AntPool has been a good partner in that aspect but other activities keep me from looking at stats all the time.
Right now I got time to screw around and I am doing some upgrades in my mine, this week and next week I had scheduled to work on my mine because the new miner arriving.
I'm just a little miner but all my coin is 100% profit, I've no power bill.
Don't matter anyways, I'm still going to buy miners from Bitmain because, well, no one else is selling anything better for less coin.
I am not leaving because the pool sucks, I am leaving because the empty blocks are a burden to the network and I don't support that activity.
Not a lot of pools have been as stable as AntPool and the graphs are a testament to this fact.
Bitmain shot itself in the foot for BTC.com, this came to me out of nowhere, that's how I found out.
I only have about 13TH.s right now, I almost stopped mining after I lost my S4 and C1 within a week... but who'm I kidding; I'm not giver-upper, mining's in my blood.
There's an S7 on its way too though and I have room for two more.
Been mining non-stop, other than the month my modem died and needed a new ISP... since the S1 era and I still mine them right now; for heat... they make amazing backup/reserve miners too.
As much as I want to shut them off entirely, they seem to always make their ways back into my mine or office; miners die.
Right now I have... well, take a look for yourselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2O0iayRhHk,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2O0iayRhHk (Older)... Your ad viewership is appreciated.
There is a pair of S5's and a pair of S7's in there, so the right side is 4-5 times more powerful than the left side.... 2.2Th.s vs. 9.5TH.s (One was downclocked to adapt for a health device)
Terrible sound and video, I know but I like watching this at night
I'll make more videos like this once conditions are favorable and I get a new mic (on its way)
I also have 3 S3's, a pair of S1's still and 1 FrankenMiner... ie: 1 S3 blade + 1 S5 blade on same frame for around 800gh.s. (This is badass, will make a vid before taking it down and how to build one)
The S3's are in my office for heat and because they are rather silent compared to the new generation of ants... boy are they ever XD
My mine is evergreen, I always keep up with the new miners and liquidate the older ones, it's a lot of work but it's how I stay on top.