Did you check the reward page to see that your reward is greater than 10,000 satoshi?  Anything less does not get paid out by the pool, yet.  At some point Kano will develop a way to issue all the dust payments that have accrued in our accounts.

Right now you can win an Avalon6, see first post.  Generally the only incentive is the praise and gratitude of the rest of the pool miners.

That would be amazing, replace my S3 with something using 1/10 the power.  It would almost be profitable for me to mine substantially with my sky high rates at that point.

No.*


*technically you have "a chance", but there's a better chance a comet will hit the Earth and wipe out civilization before you solve a block.

For future reference in this thread, that is because there was an undocumented bug in 4.9.1 where it would not recognize the Antminer U3 (which is what the Compac stick is recognized as if not using cgminer-gekko).  4.9.2 fixed this bug and has some other changes that were specific to the U3.

Yes, you can solo mine against your own node, but you are better off solo mining in the ck solo "pool".  It's not really a pool, but it has much better network connections than any of our home nodes could have, so if you do solve a block you have a much better chance of it being accepted first from ck solo than if you mined against your own node.  See the ck solo pool thread for more information in this regard, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.

Each of these choices increases your chances because you are mining with more machines.  More machines means more hash means you have a better chance of solving a block.  The address part doesn't matter, but the more machines [adding more hash rate] part does.

*Edit - missed the part about same hash rate, added [] above. 

My old S1 is boxed up and ready to ship to you for trade in parts, sounds like we might be getting closer!  I'm looking forward to this pod since my last U3 died a couple weeks ago.

It also sends out a block found notice when the pool gets reset and stuff, you have to look at the date/time on the app of the last block found to be sure it's really a block.

Well it looks like I have found the threshold where my tiny ~47GH vs. pool size will stop generating payments above the dust threshold:
Time to figure out how to get more hash pointed here in a way that continues to be profitable for me.  Difficult to do with $0.30/kWh rates...

I have had a couple crashes with 0.11.2, twice now I have had to rebuild the entire block chain.  I wish there was some way it could isolate just "the bad part" of the chain when a crash happens rather than taking a week to resync the whole thing.

Yes, they are still not free.  You state right in that sentence that they have an initial cost, that means they are not free.  They require maintenance which has a cost.  If something breaks there is cost involved.  Nothing is free in this world.  But it's all just semantics.  For those that get upset over this replace "free" with "low cost" and let the discussion continue.

I could not locate any sort of dns reset in the S3 interface so I tried changing addresses and the pool was ALIVE again.  I changed back to the old address thinking maybe I had cleared up the issue, but the old address reports the pool as DEAD.  A new solo address for the US node it is then!  Problem solved, thanks.

There are some very odd guesses this adjustment period.  I wonder if these people guessed way early or just don't look at the current trends before guessing?  I'm still amazed that the network continues steady growth period after period.

I have restarted the whole device 3 times (one of those was power off for 20+ minutes) and it still is in failover, I'll see if I can't flush its dns cache or something, thanks.

I came back from a few days away from my machines and noticed that my S3+ was on the German pool, my first fail-over.  None of my other solo miners where failed over and I thought that was odd so I restarted the S3+ and it still pointed to the German pool.  I logged into the miner and it is reporting ck.solo as DEAD.  I know it's not dead because all my stick miners are there just fine.  Nothing has changed in my S3+ setup and everything is set up correctly, just as it has been for the last months I've been solo mining.  Any idea why this machine reports ck.solo as DEAD?

Kano is working on a once-a-day payment systems, he has mentioned it several times since the pool has grown.  He will post here when it is ready and implemented I'm sure.

Increasing or decreasing the diff has no effect on your payouts or anything else for that matter.

One more week has passed and never heard back from jlauzon or any other user so the offer is withdrawn and the unit is off to e-waste.

I've been away from a terminal where I could monitor diff growth but I have been able to watch the price and I'm glad to see it back over $400 again.

+3.6 = Mikestang

please and thank you

As an aside, is there a reason you are using such an outdated version of cgminer?  4.9.2 is the current release.

Been away from mining for a few days but came home to what is a record share for me from 1 stick, woo! 
(commas added by me)

It makes sense to use the waste heat from mining to heat up the house a bit, my home office is nice and warm during the winter, but using them in a non-mining fashion as a heater does not make any sense to me, financial or otherwise.