Topic: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining USA/DE 255 blocks solved! - page 190. (Read 1514767 times)

isn't the network currently 1.2 Eh? And in response to the guy wanting to run his own pool if you are knowledgably that is a good thing, I also suggest if you do set up any sort of pool, to use the relay network: http://bitcoinrelaynetwork.org/

The amount of overhead in regards to bandwith though. That must be crazy.

Not intending to overload the pool, but a good shot at a block My S3 currently is hunting for  that, letting that little squirrel find the nut =) Ive worked out with my KNC scrypt units I can easily have more than half a 25 BTC block in a year, plus the BTC I already bought, so it doesn't make sense to gamble it away on the chance that I 'might' but I still want this block to manifest and my bitcoin rigs are for fun, so I might as well solo with them Now and again I threw the odd rental, but over a year lost 2 BTC worth so decided best not to try it again for a while. Add insult to that my best share came from my S3. My solo S3 comes on during the cheap electricity night hours.

My KNC scrypt units total are making me 1.4 BTC a month at the current scrypt difficulty directly in BTC on nicehash, for 0.2 BTC electricity cost. It makes sense to keep going with this and be patient. I plan after  the S7 prices have crashed to put a couple of them in my friends student dorm for the best shot at solo on this pool possible as the power will be free at that point, or see what the 14nm equipment has to offer.

Any BITCOIN mining direct that I do will be solo here, unless there is a really good hardware deal from a reputable source that will make real money, the problem is the difficulty jumps that bitcoin has, scrypt difficulty jumps are not anywhere near as extreme and levels out, and my payouts are in BTC.

But even to long term soloers solo mining here, I would always have your own node (if you have one) as the FINAL failover. If all major pools ended up DDoSed it would enable  transactions to get propagated, this pool makes a great second failover if you like pool mining or primary solo node as I trust this not to orphan my block more than my own bitcoind. But having your own node even if you pool and solo as  the final backup is something I hope most miners do.

It is possible to overload a pool that is improperly set up or has poor network infrastructure or has a bad daemon, my S3 overloaded and crashed the SHT coin daemon on that pool, the difficulty hasn't even reached 1 and I threw 500GH at it for shits and giggles.

Personally I think not only can this pool handle a high hashrate, it makes a good home for the older, low powered miners that otherwise are worthless now. Gotta be in it to win it...

I'm going to do some google searches, but if Kano, CK or anyone can give some info as to what it takes to set up a mining pool like this, I would be very interested.
(I work in IT and really wish I got into bitcoin a long time ago its a really interesting subject)
Servers, load balancing, security devices like firewalls for port filtering, etc... I'm sure it takes a lot to run a good reliable pool.
Not to mention you guys wrote all the code custom?
I'm also reading all 290+ pages of this thread now to see if any of this has been mentioned before.
And I understand if there are some things you cant talk about for security reasons, obviously.

Well, if proxied correctly, 1EH isn't really that much load on a well designed pool server ... which is what we run on both pools ... ... ...

If you have a spare EH to throw at the pool I'd be happy to let you try.

1000+ PH? Doubt that.

Probably quadruple. 

I'm sure the limit of the pool is well into the double ph digits, so nobody should worry. Lol

I'm quite aware, but it was an opportunity to remind people nonetheless.

It's a term used when adding a large rental that is many times more than normal rates. Nothing to do with the pool's ability to handle it or not.

No amount of hashrate would shock this pool.

Short big rentals, aka shocking the pool, rarely works imo. Also MRR seems 'safer' to rent from. I think something (either some bad rigs/bwithholding or latency issues)on the other rental service has much more reduced chances to get a solve.

I might switch MRR, i just dont have capital to throw at this and i don't want to gamble away what I am mining, i will put my faith in an S3 and the odd rental.

I think the most i threw at solo was a 1 hour 8pH rental... XD

I usually message the MRR rentor that I am doing solo mining at ckpool, and they will make sure that their rigs will fire all cylinders.
I do solo mining like once a month and I am kind of regular customer, so they know me and usually give me some extra hash.
I ask them for advise too via the MRR messaging system, in BTC and ETH topics, and most of very helpful.
You can never have this kind of "relationship" in NH. The MRR helpdesk is also quite responsive esp if rentor's rig gets stalled and they cancel rental contracts if rigs are having issues that results in prolonged downtime. I like that feature.

I have never used them, maybe though it could just be varying levels of luck?

I like to use MRR for rentals too.

To be honest I think the majority of blocks found have been from MRR while solo mining compared to NiceHash.

Interesting, what is a rental service suddenly decided to say, discard any share over the current difficulty to keep you renting? What's to stop them doing that... Probably a risk you run though... Although I have done rentals of like 3.5p for an hour and never got over 4 billion.

I like to rent with MiningRigRentals (MRR) as well since they give me a lot more freedom.

Sometimes you can get good deals instantly, sometimes you have to wait.

It all cuts into your soloing time though

For pure hash, I use NH and point to Kano.
However, for solo.CKPool..... I also use MRR where I can control my rental better. My 1st solo block was via MRR and came very very close a few more times. My Solo experience in NH has always fell short.....