Topic: KanoPool kano.is lowest 0.9% fee 🐈 since 2014 - Worldwide - 2432 blocks - page 1791. (Read 5352322 times)

Thanks, Kano. Very clear.

The luck sure has been good lately!  My decision to keep mining at full instead of following the voltage reduction that I calculated has sure paid off this time!

It looks like I'll be running my four SP20s at full speed for at least a few more weeks.  A week ago I moved them out of the garage and into the house.  More specifically, they are now right inside the HVAC return and the HVAC fan is set to always be on.  Based on the usage numbers I'm seeing on the power company web site, I'm getting between 50kWh/day and 70kWh/day savings from the heat they provide versus having them in the garage.  Once the percentage of heat they provide is factored in it makes the effective power rate 0.029 to 0.046 (way better than I expected!).  That means I'm plenty profitable at full speed through a couple more diff changes if the price doesn't drop too far.

The noise of four SP20s with 90% fan in the house is annoying, but with all of the extra airflow across them I can turn the fans down to 10% and only get a 5% reduction in hash rate with little noise!  I'm usually running the fans higher than that though since I don't like running the miner temps so borderline.  Actually, with the humidity difference inside, I'm getting better hash rates in the house with 25C intake than I was getting in the garage at 14C intake.

Unfortunately, it is almost certain these will no longer be profitable when spring arrives.  The diff has gone up too much!  I'm considering my options for that.

One is the 5minute value, the other is the 1hour value. 5min/1hr
1hr value is only shown after you've been mining for 1 hour
The 5min value has high variance and takes about 15min to get close to your hash rate.
The 1hour value has lower variance (but that depends on the miner) and takes about 3 hours to get reasonably accurate.

All rewards are based on submitted shares, not estimated hash rates - see Shifts

There's no special change in "Bitcoin" variance since bitcoin adjusts the difficulty based on the (previous) 2015 blocks every 2016 blocks.

It is perfectly clear to bitcoind, but since the calculation is using very large numbers, any conversion process can have inaccuracies,
ckpool checks any share that is within 99.9% of being a block (it used to be 99%)
They will show up as "Unworthy" if they weren't a block.
ckdb shows every attempt at submitting a block to the bitcoind

We're setting the bars so high at Kano pool that I start to get antsy when I see no blocks after 50%.  Haha

Not my time to give one, I already did it 2 days ago! Who's giving the next one?

BTW, folks...the inventory's getting a bit low. Someone go to the Block Store, please... 

The numbers are normal for an S2 (I run one). What you see is the detected hash rate for the machine, and the "scoring" hash rate, which will gradually increase over a couple of days as your 5nd is reached. Dunno how long the S2 has been running on Kano uninterrupted, but these are numbers I would be seeing if the S2 was offline for more than a minute or two, and had to "recapture" its scoring rate, and it had been maybe 24-48 hrs (at least in my instance). Hope that's helpful.

See Kanos Answer

I'm REALLY new to this world..  Just got my hands on a Antminer S2,  and the person I got it from said this was the best pool to be with,  so here I am...  Just wondering why the site is showing two very different numbers for hashing speed:

Hash Rate:942.20/548.78GHs

Thanks,

Haha, love the CRUDE analogy.  It's a money loser until Crude prices are 200-300% rate like Kanos.  Haha

Been there. Done that. I run an S2 (my first machine) and, at present, 6 S3's. I don't pay for power. I'm getting around 3.8T. I ran month-long comparisons between Slush and here. You have to look at the per-block reward when making that kind of comparison, or you're comparing apples and oranges. My per-block rewards here, once I reach 5nd, are more than double those of Slush. That (reaching maximum score rate) can take a couple of days here, and it definitely takes a couple of days at Slush. S3s are "pumping my crude" right now, and will until I can move them up to S7s.

Stay here, IMHO. 

Yeah, s3 is only worth if you get free heat from it while earning the higher pay at this current pool luck.  They are quiet and make nice space heaters and at this pay rate, still worth it if you already have them.  Not worth to buy now.

I'm happy with kano for a home hobby miner.   I tried egligius and what a dump that was. I'm doing better than 2x here compared to that pool. Once I plug my other two S3 in I will try slush and do a side by side comparison.  If someone out there has a small setup like a S1-S5 try kano.

On the other hand the other guy talking about ebay has some bad advice. You would be foolish to buy a S3 off ebay for $100. After shipping, after power supply, after miner and after power costs you stand very little chance of making anything but noise.  S3 as Jan / 2016 is only worth a bit more than a power supply.

No issues connected.  Still hashing away

No issues, I'm still connected to it.

I've tested the connection from 2 different locations, so, it was really a website failure, but everything's fine now

None of my miners failed over here, but the web was down for about 25 minutes.

All mine are still at kano.is.   We should probably start adding which pool location your miners have lost connection to since kano has multiple pool server locations.