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I live in Oregon. Will my miners jump to another Oregon node or to the LA node?
stratum.kano.is is 3 nodes, 2 in Oregon and 1 in LA.
It's random which one you end up on when you connect.
While the LA one is 30ms further (for anyone closer to oregon), so far it also happens to be better at holding connections.
As I said in the post the other day,
This is to see how well it performs and if all goes as planned I'll probably do some more changing around of stratum.kano.is in a few weeks.