Topic: KanoPool kano.is lowest 0.9% fee 🐈 since 2014 - Worldwide - 2432 blocks - page 498. (Read 5352367 times)

Look at those blocks though, almost ZERO transactions in them.

I looked through the threads on withholding blocks, and I see that you cannot "steal" a block, because its not useful anywhere else, but I still can't understand why it is advantageous for anyone to withhold a block.  

What about the miners and the firmware version?  Could that have an effect on finding a block?

Is there a test pool that you can point your miner too that has ridiculous low difficulty just to make sure it is capable of generating blocks?  

Slush support thread here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/4-eh-slush-pool-slushpoolcom-overt-asicboost-world-first-mining-pool-1976
GFY otherwise.   

Small and large miners find blocks - see the last 88 ...

What it does is increase variance, which I'm pretty certain no one wants.
It also gives the option for small miners to come in, get lucky, take that extra reward, and leave.

I'm not interested in rewarding 'lucky' miners, by taking rewards from everyone else, I'm interested in rewarding everyone fairly.
You cannot control the luck of your miners.

Luck isn't expected to rebound.
It's expected to approach the expected value - 100% (less orphans) - from whichever side of it, it is on.

No idea what you are talking about here.

The only thing that matters with PPLNS is that long term luck is close to the expected 100%
Long term luck is not time based, it's block based.

We had two exceptionally high difficulty blocks in October ... and yet the longer term luck e.g. 500 blocks that includes those 2 blocks - is still above 100% luck

I went and reprocessed, with brand new code witten by me from scratch in KanoDB, all the shares from the start of October for a few months of data, to make sure there wasn't some other new bug in ckpool, and found no blocks missing from the known ones in the data.
Thus, unless someone was withholding, it would appear that October was simply just bad luck.
However, to ensure that continues to be the case, I removed the largest miner that was part of that 200PHs - rental - from the pool, since for rental, withholding blocks is to their financial advantage. As I've mentioned before, most people don't mind being involved in altcoin scams, so why would rental people mind doing something scammy?

Given time, it will always even out.

Should even out in the end though
Over a 1000 blocks or so 

Ok thanks, yes this block is one of those "bitches".  

The funny thing is that I made a significant investment (7 S9's) and went from one R4 at 8.7Th, to now hashing at just over 105Th.   I have 5 more S9's coming, so I'll be up around 172Th.  Trying not to be a bitch myself, but this is the rude reality of mining. Ugh.  I realize this is not the norm.  
I've been talking to my machines....lol.  

Good LUCK to all   MINE ON.

We had an average pool hash rate of 133.27PHs for block 491121.  I don't remember exactly but the peak pool hash rate may have been over 200PHs right around there.

Highest is still double what we're currently at...had two bitches of blocks back in October.

Gamblers fallacy.

Mining misses don't bring a block..  and wouldn't large miners like getting a bit more since they are the main ones getting blocks?  It would only hurt big miners that are unlucky (or withholding, etc) since small miners don't really have a chance in hell on doing anything alone so it would almost be all of the small miners as the ones paying more in fees without getting it back.

And it would only be a smallish fee reward.. you act like I mentioned giving the whole block to the one who finds it

Anyway, do you want to comment on how math doesn't even out very well in small doses which is what this pool has per diff cycle now?
And how after each diff cycle the odds & rewards change so luck doesn't rebound evenly as it does in other static examples?

Like, do the added rewards of the good luck in Jan cure the weak rewards from the bad luck during last Aug?
Of course it doesn't, which is why this pool is turning into a casino even if you don't want it to

What is the highest hashrate Kano pool has had in the past... or are we at the highest now? 

Mining is the process of trying to find a random number, that, when concatenated other non-random numbers and hashed twice, has a specific pattern.

By submitting a share, your machine is sending its attempts to find that combination. It just found it yet, nor have any of the other machines in the pool.

When one of the machines in the pool finds it, we all get paid relative the amount of work our machines did over the last 10 trillion shares.

The odds of the next block are not impacted by the previous ones at all.

We've had a couple of 900% blocks before...patience!

Hi to all. Im  only start mining 23 jan with a s9 13.5. I see few people talk about shift on the page bit i cannot see my worker on the list.  Its normal? Can you help . Tnks

Thanks for the quick reply and the confirmation.

Shift info is not available via the API
Currently it's only your workers current state and the pool current state.

Where is the facepalm emoji?

Hi Everyone, I'm new to the pool, started mining a couple weeks ago here.
I really like all the stats we get on the shifts page, and the possibility of modifying our minimum difficulty.
Thank you Kano for the great work, very useful.

I have started exploring the API and was wondering if it were possible to get access to our Shifts details history using the API key?

Thanks