Topic: KanoPool kano.is lowest 0.9% fee 🐈 since 2014 - Worldwide - 2432 blocks - page 2054. (Read 5352086 times)

Only thing I can think of is if the /overlay/ got corrupted due to the power failure and now there's a problem starting.
But my update makes no difference to that problem.

What do you mean by "fail to restart"
Does it boot and you can see the web but cgminer wont start?
Does it not boot at all?

I power off my S3s every day with the power switch on my PSU and then switch them on again the same way - never had one of them fail to start up when doing that.

it happens to me at least twice today.
miners appear with a hashrate like if the pool have a restart.

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There's been a few restarts dealing with the block change times on that crappy slow getblocktemplate command that some phailure wrote that's in bitcoind ...
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a power failure has caused all s3 with latest update to fail to restart???

My best share reset a little bit ago.  The pool doesn't say it found a block.  Did the pool restart?

Just coincidence, yes.  Personally, I would rather the luck/variance roll past quicker.  If bad luck must happen (and it must) I would rather get past it quickly than wait more than a week for a block.  Thus, I prefer a higher hash rate.

The only time I get nervous about high pool hash rate is when a lot of it is rented hash.  I'm going to qualify this by saying that I see no evidence of what I'm about to mention happening in the real world (our long term luck says that it isn't).  That said, rented hash does come with the possibility of reducing luck since the actual rig owner no longer has a stake in the pool payout (only the renter does).  Using the West/NiceHash as an example (only because I'm most familiar with them - not because of anything specific to them), the rig owner selling hash to West/Nice has no incentive to actually submit block solves since they are being paid PPS.  They could withhold block solving shares without penalty.  In fact, they have incentive to not submit solves since it helps keeps difficulty lower and indirectly their PPS rate higher!  The renter, who has the actual stake in the pool, has no way of knowing a block was withheld and pays for the broken hash.  It is a risk that has kept me away from renting hash every time I've considered it.

So, there is one real possible way that higher hash rate could be a bad thing, but as far as I know I've never seen it in action.

2. Bad luck lasts longer
Another reason that makes us mis-judge mining luck is that when we mine, we mostly experience bad luck. In fact if you go to the trouble of working it out, your hours of mining will be about one-quarter good luck and three quarters bad luck. Why? Bad luck takes longer, good luck rounds take much less time.

3. Assessing luck over time instead of blocks
Another mistake made by novice miners is to assume that the extremes of luck will be the same for all pool over any time frame. This is wrong for two related reasons:

    The more blocks are solved the closer luck approaches 100%
    Because the timeframe for luck to to approach 100% varies depending on number of blocks solved, comparing various pools' luck over the same time period is invalid. Instead we need to compare luck over similar number of blocks.

I've put yet another updated AntS3 update archive in my binaries git hub of latest 4.9.2 cgminer.
For details and installing: https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

It's another (minor) update to the previous AntS3 release I did:


Tested and running on my pool of course

If you are already running the 2015-Jul-7 version (the previous update)

not sure how you are calculating the daily TH avg.
i have just over 1T (S5) on this pool and my actual payout numbers are lower then yours.

I am going to de-activating a bunch of accounts on ckpoolmonitor.zachmonroe.com that have been in-active for more than a month. Anyone can go into their account settings and re-activate if they wish. Just trying to lessen the load and speed up processing time. No point in calling the api results for people that are not using it.

... and a thread I created on the subject ...
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pps-block-withholding-and-rentals-1002086

PPLNS doesn't care if you were there 100% of the block, it pays out based on share submissions over a specific time period (or in most cases, specific number of pool-wide share submissions).  The payout range on this pool is 5x network difficulty.  So your average speed over the last 247 billion share submissions (5x network difficulty) was 2.6 Th/s, because you probably have only been mining for the last ~150 billion shares (as of the last rewarded block).

FYI:  If you were to stop mining *right now*, you'd continue to get paid for your previous share submissions until 247 billion new shares have been submitted to the pool by the other users, even if 30 blocks are found before that happened.  You have a period of time required to build up your percentage of the last N shares which you were/are in.  Similarly if you stop mining, you still have a percentage of shares left in the Last N shares for a period of time.  Don't fall into the misconception that PPLNS is short-changing you when you first start.  It builds up your reward slowly, but it has a symmetrical period where you continue getting paid after stopping, the result being it doesn't matter what your mining patterns are, the expected payment for each share submission is never penalized/increased based on prior/future activity.

That said, rented hash does come with the possibility of reducing luck since the actual rig owner no longer has a stake in the pool payout (only the renter does).  Using the West/NiceHash as an example (only because I'm most familiar with them - not because of anything specific to them), the rig owner selling hash to West/Nice has no incentive to actually submit block solves since they are being paid PPS.  They could withhold block solving shares without penalty.  In fact, they have incentive to not submit solves since it helps keeps difficulty lower and indirectly their PPS rate higher!  The renter, who has the actual stake in the pool, has no way of knowing a block was withheld and pays for the broken hash.  It is a risk that has kept me away from renting hash every time I've considered it.