Bitmain==BM

Each block will have x number of confirmations out of 120.  So 4/120 has had four confirmations out of 120, and Bitmain will pay miners from the block once it's reached six confirmations.

Not sure what you are talking about.  As far as Antpool it pay's once a day automatically to the BTC address in account setting.

The number of confirmations per block.  BM pays out after six confirmations.

If you don't have stable internet or electricity yes that will effect your mining.  You will have not near as effective mining if you lose one or both of those items.

So if you started mining on non reliable utilities your mining income could be severely effected depending on how often it happens, and how long of duration it happens.

Good 24 hours should get a better payout.   And yes I mine aswell I do enjoy it.

My anwser to how many is not enough .  I never can have enough.

I feel I'm losing something in translation.  It is the pool that has luck.  Your 1 S3 will not effect the pools overall luck. 

It just will lose you money as you are not mining.   So long story short try to keep it mining, and don't look for problems or turn off 8 hours a day.

No a temporary downtime will not effect your mining much.  It's when you go to the 8 hour downtime you talked about it will really effect the mining amount you get paid.

Did you happen to read about pools as I suggested?  I think you would benefit from it.  And I might not be losing things in translation that way.

I go by notlist3d.  I enjoy helping people.  I won't go off to far off topic but yes I enjoy Bit-x, but no I'm not macro.  He is much higher up in signature campaign then me, he runs it.

Anyways I hope leaving it on 24 hours a day helped on your amount you mined.

You don't 'indertand'?! Me neither!


I'm sorry, but I had to

I'll tell you what I tell every other new miner who asks this same thing...

Here's a guide for any new and clueless miners who ask this same type of lame, repetitive questions....

If you need to ask those easy simple questions, then gosh, please don't get into mining!!! lol
Enough miners who have no idea what they're doing and end up going bust... then whining about it later.
Blaming everything but their own dumb selves.
You often see miners who need hand holding at every step of their mining, they're too lazy to do their own research.
Then when it comes time to get serious, on their own, they fail because everyone else did their work.
If you can't do you own homework, mining will eat you whole and spit you out like a old dirty sock.
Mining is attractive to liberals because you can make a lot of money without much work... considering you know what you're doing.
Research is not a liberal's strong suit, whining and rhetoric is... don't be a dumbass liberal.

If I can give any advice, go for a holiday.
Unless you got free power, an existing infrastructure and serious knowledge of the REAL LIFE mining industry, leave it to the experts.
Buy coin and hold, mining will ruin you like it's done to so many other clueless bozos on this forum.
I see miners come and go, in both crypto and gold mining... 99% who leave is because they didn't have a mining plan.
The other 1% thought it was going to be easy.
It's that or become too stubborn or pot committed and lose everything.

Crypto mining is an impulse buyer's market, if you can game it, there's lots of money to be made yet.
It's attractive to plug in a miner and start earning but when it comes to running the business, no one wants to do it.
If you do decide to start mining, only burn money you can afford to never see again or at least, not for a very long time.
Don't become another casualty because then I will tell you... I told you so, you were well warned stop crying now.
If you sell all your loot to make ends meet for mining, you shouldn't mine.

Just asking that very question I know you'll fail because mining is all about taking nothing and making something.
Some things aren't so obvious but mining's an un-regulated occupation, caveat emptor, you're on your own.
I am a successful miner because I have free power and an extensive knowledge of the mining industry.
When miners make 0.01 / TH.s I make about 3x that... because I constantly do homework.
Not saying you're a liberal but usually, it's the kind of un-researched questions they ask, hoping everyone else will do their work.

You'll never make a profit in mining if you won't do a profitable miner's job... Been mining for 3 years and I spend my days researching how I can make my mine for efficient, buy more efficient miners and equipment...

Want to be a mine boss?  Act like one... I just gave you the pre-beginner's (decision making) guide to mining.
I've made a lot of sacrifices and if you want to mine, you will have to do sacrifices too.

Hope this helps...
-Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

It's a mining pool on the miner config screen.  It's only needed if you plan to mine to that pool.  Unsure exactly what you're asking.