Topic: KanoPool kano.is lowest 0.9% fee 🐈 since 2014 - Worldwide - 2432 blocks - page 1996. (Read 5352140 times)

To expand on the reply already given

The characters to the left of the shift name are a base 32 encoding of (the number of seconds since 2-Jan-2014) / 16
The name on the right is an incrementing a-z name for each consecutive shift.

The "Your Diff" is the total share Difficulty you submitted in that shift
The "Inv Diff" is the total rejected share Difficulty you submitted in that shift

The PPS% is how much each share has been rewarded compared to 100% PPS
Shifts above the red line may be rewarded again (they are expected, on average, when pool luck is 100%, to be rewarded 5 times)
Shifts below the red line will not be rewarded again and their final PPS% value won't increase.
The BTC marker shows each block found and thus the PPS% will change (go up) at that point, reading down the page.
When a difficulty change occurs, you will notice that the shift PPS% is also affected.
Shifts (as of recently) also end on the network block before a difficulty change.

tl;dr of the shift name follows:
The shift 'code' makes for a small but readable code that (as you may notice) increases with each shift
However, the first 5 characters are not guaranteed to be unique, since more than one shift could start/end within 16 seconds, so I added a single character 'a' to 'z' on the end, since it's not possible to have 26 shifts end in 16 seconds.
Thus I had a small and simple to read (currently 5+1 character) code rather than a long number
Then I had the idea of instead using a name for each letter since it was more interesting
You will notice that the a-z character added on the end is always sequential, so for any sequence of 26 shifts, that's unique, so it's easy to identify a shift by name (e.g. kosaki) without having to remember the full 5 character code and not confuse which one, if you refer to the approximate time also. A shift a-z name can usually only occur at most twice a day.

My observation, for what it is worth, is that actually Kano trolls the eligius thread.  My further observation is that it is readily apparent why nobody can get along with Luke Jr because he posts like someone who is mentally incapable of understanding that other people have valid points of view that differ from his own.  He speaks from the assumption that he is already 100% correct. I have always found wizkid to be reasonable although to the most recent issue, why he wouldn't think that it was worthwhile to prevent people throwing away their hashrate if they incorrectly enter an address I do not know.  Maybe just because Kano showed up to troll about it.  I can understand taking a position just because someone who bugged me tried to force me to take another.  Also just for the record @kano, no I don't think you are simply a troll and I find you a pretty reasonable voice in general but there is no doubt that your posts in the eligius thread are trolling in nature, as I said, just an observation.  You seem to have an axe to grind and every so often you stop by there to grind it.

I have been mining on eligius for a couple years, I have also mined here in the past, and have mined on bitminter for over a year (and most of the other smaller pools at some point).  Organofcorti made a recommendation to me a long time ago which I have tried to follow as to spreading hashrate on multiple pools to decrease variance, and I have always tried to support smaller pools to help reduce centralization.  I did move half of my eligius hashrate back over here after this latest little dust up though.  I thought Luke's "lol" response to someone mining with more then a Petahash on a misconfigured address was more over the top a-hole than even he usually manages.  But wizkid gave a reasonable response in that he would work with the miner if they asked to make sure they were compensated.  Even so, luck there has been horrible lately so I was contemplating moving anyway.

The names are not random, they are alphabetical: akatsuki, belldandy, charlotte
Yes, they are used to identify the shift. Kano said they are female anime character names.

You don't need to be mining the whole shift to be "in", all shares submitted are counted and will be rewarded as long as they are within 500% of the next block found.

I'm not sure about how to explain the "your diff" and "inv diff", I'll let someone else answer those.

PPS% is the PPS equivalent for what we have been credited so far for that shift. Notice the ones that are 19.87% have rewards 1, meaning that those shifts have been counted in 1 block so far, then scroll down and see 39.69% have rewards 2, they have been counted in two blocks.

Why cant I cut or copy from paint and paste here?
No, that's not the question.
I'm on the shifts page.
The names to the left appear really random and multi-national. Are they randomly generated to help identify the shift?
Shifts appear to be around 45 minutes so I guess that if you're mining for more than that, you're 'in' for that shift.
The 'your diff' column says 60/63 but I'm mining at diff 80.
What's the 'inv diff'. It's either 0 or 80 as I read it. Why the difference?
Why to the right is the PPS%? It's either 0 or if I scroll down it jumps to 19 or so%. Why does this matter.

If you want to make mountains out of molehills I can help.

Love this quote:


The same could be said for a few other forum members on BCT I think  

Well at this point I can only suggest running it without the update - since I'd expect it to have the same problem.

Note that unless you can reproduce the problem over a specific time range, you may find that switching between versions will have the expected random effect of "who knows when the problem will happen again"

One thing to look at with my cgminer version would be the stats output - e.g. temperature and usb errors.
The usb errors in the S3 aren't true usb errors, but rather show problems talking to the fpga that runs the chips.
If you have another computer you could periodically (every 5 minutes?) run and log an API summary+devs+estats and look for a pattern in that leading up to when it happens.

I did get someone with hundreds of S3s to test it and they are still using it, so I would have expected some response if it was failing after a period of time, thus I'd expect it to not be a cgminer issue.

I noticed it was down on the website. It said the last share was submitted 4 days ago by worker 3. I will leave it a few days and try reinstalling the update. Is there anything i can show you or give to you if it happens again to diagnose the fault? If so i'm happy to help.

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And he's still the only person on my ignore list. Unfortunately in that time the landscape has changed so much and so many people have moved on and newcomers replaced them that the reason for the argument is not known by many of the current people in the bitcoin world - most people think it's a simple matter of "why don't you just make up and be friends?". But search enough and the history on the internet doesn't lie about where source code came from, who wrote it first, what claims were made, and how ridiculous he was, is and will continue to be. Then one can understand why that is not a solution. The biggest continuing problem is I try to remain out of the arguments, but in this world if you don't defend yourself, then people just end up believing the person who shouts loudest and longest and silence is assumed as guilt through being unable to defend oneself. Kano enjoys such fights and I have him to thank for defending when the trolling resurfaces (as it often does). I have no time for them...

Although you may think it wise to mine with a single account and no backup, most miners have realised for MANY years that is a foolish thing to do.

If one pool/account is rejected or fails when mining, cgminer (used by the vast majority of BTC miners on the planet) switches over to the secondary or later accounts it has been provided with.

Well ... a few years ago a guy walking through a centre about 30m ahead of me dropped a small amount of paper.

When I got to it I noticed it contained cash.
I picked it up and it included over $100 ...

Though you may consider that a bad thing to do, I chased after him and gave it to him.
He hadn't even realised he'd dropped it.