If I mine on a smaller pool that may not find as many blocks are the rewards really large enough to make up for the times when the pool is not finding the blocks? I'm just a little guy right now with 1 Antminer S9 and 3 more on the way. I'm learning a lot from everyone and think the kano pool and miners are dedicated, loyal and they stay for a reason so is this the case?
An example for my current pool...
We get a block that's 19.35259244 BTC. Took 00:34:59 to process it and my take was 0.00016099 BTC.
I am in the same position as you with 1 S9. I was with another pool and if you are discussing block 500861, then it is the one you are at. I have details of every block that one has found since it began.
So for block 500861 - there have been 4 more since this one so far. Someday soon I hope to get real time BTC per Day Per Th/s over the past 30 days. Dont have that coded up yet. Obviously with the smaller pool, luck can get unlucky and you'll see a bigger hit on your monthly proceeds. But it also can go the other way and you'll get one or two extra blocks in a month. In any case, in our pool, the 19.35 BTC block would have been somewhere near .01 BTC payout. We just hit one that was 22.67465393 BTC and my take was .01128094. So as you can tell, it is almost 100 times the payout so that does help for the slow times.
Thanks for the feedback... Truly? My S9 (13.5 Th/s), if fully ramped up could have pulled in near 0.01 BTC payout? So in a month where the pool finds 8 blocks I could be looking at 0.08 and 0.35 on a month when we find 35 blocks? I know this also depends on the block value and the total hashing power of the pool at the time but this is extremely appealing. Am I reading into your reply wrong?
I guess the hard part for any of us is knowing the miner is running 24x7 and the tendency is to want to see steady/reasonable money coming in. It's challenging for someone like me doing this for only a month now and bought 4 S9s to make the right call while balancing it all out. I have 1 S9 now, one coming tomorrow, one end of January and the fourth in late February. The first 3 weren't supposed to be delivered until late January but they've been shipping them early. Guess there is hope I won't have to wait until February to have all 4 running.
Side note... Complete newbie issue here but at one point I kind of dreamed I could run these at home. As it turns out I am renting and my landlord won't let me upgrade the power. I was going to upgrade the box and run 3-220V 30 amp outlets to the room where I'm running one now. I also live in Phoenix, AZ so I guess it's for the best since summer time would make it difficult to run them, vent them outside and keep the room cool. I'm actually going to be putting them into a data center I found for a reasonable price (for a data center). So finding a pool that pays good is the difference between me loosing most of the profits from one machine just to pay the monthly to a better ROI. Quarter rack ($125), 2-208V circuits ($449 each), miscellaneous fees for IP/bandwidth and then the cost of PDUs/cords/Firewall/Ethernet cords/etc.
Thanks again.