Great job on the block Overcon !!!   

On a completely unrelated note:

I have a mildly interesting data point for the other newbies out there.   When I set up my miner in October, I just blindly pointed it to Stratum.kano.is because, well, that what the examples in the instructions said (-:  After reading and watching and doing some ping tests I realized - being on the east coast of the US and all -  I should switch it to nya.kano.is   Ping response of nya was half of stratum.  So I switched.  I did a quick hash rate average and in the 33 shifts since the switch I averaged 7.20 with my Avalon 741.  The 33 shifts before the switch averaged 7.17.

Now we know - The response time matters very little but hey - its a few pennies that will add up to a lunch at MacDonalds.   Who said there's no such thing as a free lunch?

Or maybe to purchase a chicken for the next difficult block??

Mine on

Thanks - missed the question mark on the "last N" blocks table.  I guess I look at the monthly block table more closely.

On the shift page there is a metric called "PPS%"   What does that stand for?   I know there is a payment scheme with the same name but since we use PPLNS I figure it must mean something else in this particular context.

Also, on the blocks page there is a percentage called PAPPS.   What does that stand for?   Google is surprisingly silent on this acronym.

Thanks!

Thanks!!!

PS:   This may be a newbie question but:   Are there large "hired gun" mining farms that can help small pools struggling with a big bad block?    Just was wondering.  Seems like a nice niche for a big farm.  You know - some pre-agreed arrangement for share calculation and/or a premium?   If you had a couple dozen peta-hashes and some good management software to make the redirects easy then you could be a white knight and make a few dollars more than you would ordinarily and minimize the effect of bad luck for resident miners:  Seems like a win-win for everyone.  But then again this may just be my newbie-ness talking.

Me and my single 741 are for hire  (-:

"Hey sis.  Just hold those bunny ears right there...  na wait. I got some tin foil...".

 

4.5 days?

https://youtu.be/ZAAKPJEq1Ew

 

In various posts, articles, etc I am led to believe(but can't find anything definitive)  that plugging your power supplies into 208/240 circuit results in a more efficient power supply and better hash rate(albeit marginal as best I can infer).   The efficiency I can believe, but I am not sold on better hash rate.

Is this true?   Should I invest in the 240V surge protector and cable(s)?  Just curious...

Setup:  I have two EVGA Super Nova G2 gold PSUs running an Avalon miner - both support 240 - and I have a 240 outlet right beside it. 

The problem is I scanned a QR code and assumed I would get a choice as to miner fee level after confirming but I didn't unless I missed it (I am a neophyte, but I am experienced enough to look for it).

Thanks - I'll try the wallet to wallet thing.   Thats actually a cool idea.

By the way - in response to the "accumulate more coin" post above:  I thought of that, but I think in this particular case that won't help.   The fee is based on the size of the inputs, which is basically constant as I mine(everyone of my payments is roughly the same).  So in my circumstance a $500USD transaction will require 10 times the input as a $50USD transaction, and therefore have the same relative fee (ie $400USD) fee.

Or am I wrong about this?   Like I said, i am doing this to learn and I am a newbie so maybe I'm wrong???

Thanks again!

I also just now finally found some documentation that said basically that a small miner like me that gets lots of little transasctions are in for a real shock when you go to spend.   You don't get charged on the bytes of output - you get charged on the bytes of inputs used to make up that transaction.   This little mining experiment of mine(Avalon 741)  was being done to learn all about cryptocurrency - and boy I just learned the hard way  

Proper fees for bitcoin transactions is based on a bitcoin per bytes rate. 0.00000001 bitcoin is called 1 satoshi. https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ This site says the current cheapest fee for next block is 80 satoshis per byte... however, super economy would probably be around 20 satoshis per byte. Now to figure out the size of your transaction in bytes. If I receive 1 BTC once, and try to send any amount of money. my transaction will be around 259 bytes. If I receive 0.5 BTC twice (1 BTC total) and try to send anything over 0.5 BTC, I will need to "use" both 0.5 bitcoin pieces I have received, so my transaction will be a little over 400 bytes. If I send less than 0.5 then I only need to use one, so I still am around 259 bytes. If I receive 0.1 BTC ten times (1 BTC total) and try to send anything over 0.9 BTC, I will need to use all 10 pieces, so my transaction will be over 1500 bytes. So if we take 0.0005, which is 50000 satoshis, and divide by 20 satoshis/byte, we get 2500 bytes (ish) which is probably around 18-20 bitcoin "pieces" being used. When you receive a small amount of bitcoin, you will eventually have to pay for that transaction through byte size later on, so "faucet" websites say they are sending you $0.05 at a time, but in actuality, those tiny payments also add on to your future fees... so it is not economically viable to use unless you have them sent to you in larger batches.

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Thanks

Just as a sanity check - does anyone think I just screwed up  and should have known $40 is a reasonable miner fee right now?

Last night I transacted business with a merchant that uses BitPay.   I was charged roughly $3.08USD and $40.18USD in processing/miner fees respectively.  Considering the item I purchased was $50USD, I was livid.  Should have been about $60USD total.  The QR code and subsequent dialog did not give me a choice as to miner fee level nor did it inform me of the exact amount.

I have never spent my coins before, but the historical average for fee is around $6 and a few friends that use bitcoins more regularly says I got screwed big time.  But I realize that amount is not set in stone and I guess could spike and move around???

Am I out of luck?    I filed a ticket with bitpay and got an email that said that have a several day backlog and to basically go take a long nap.

Thanks ahead of time for any guidance ,

I love my Avalon 741 so far, with one minor exception.   About every 10 days everything locks up.   A power reset fixes it.   Is there a way to automatically reboot the miner?   I imagine I could craft a shell script on my linux server to reach out reboot the controller, but that would not reboot the miner.   I don't see anything in the controller web interface to reboot the miner.  Is that possible?   Has anyone done it?

Thanks!

So far I haven't lost much mining time because I have been around but the time will come when I lose days of mining because I am traveling.  I would love to just reboot everything once a week.

Thanks in advance!!

PS:  Setup is a surge protector powering one controller and one Avalon Miner (and associated AUC3) on a hard wire ethernet connection.
PSS:  I have only had the unit 3 weeks so I am not very experienced with the interface and may have missed something in the controller interface that can do this.

OK - it happened again.   To recap:   The symptoms are: No work being sent to the pool, the controller unresponsive, no fans, but all lights are fine.

Miners:   Lights were perfect.  All green on all power supply inputs and green on main light
AUC3:  Lights perfect.   A green and a blue like normal.
Controller:  The controller has no loghts at all so nothing to see here but web interface was not responding.  Lan port flashed with activity like normal so not a power issue.

Rebooted the controller only, and system came back.   Ran fine for 40-ish minutes.   Left for work.  Then did the same thing.    Unfortunately this time I was not there and I just had my wife hit the power reset button on the power strip.  That was 3.5 hours ago and all is still well.


So my thought is there is something - something odd that only occurs with lots of work and uptime - that the controller is seeing from the miner or AUC3 that sends the controller into oblivion.


But how to check?  Logs are gone when the controller is non-responsive and you have power reset.    Any idea???

Thanks.  I did have to buy a new surge protector since none of my spares would handle it.   So I bought one specifically for this outfit.  Don't remember the joules rating but I had plenty of headroom.   The air is deflected away from the power supplies, so I have that covered.  The power strip's lights were normal - I did notice that.   The controller definitely did not respond.   It is almost like it locked up, and the miner shut itself down based on the lack of communication.  I am supposing that because it was a software issue;  the lights on the miner (the two I could see casually without climbing) that indicate PSU power would remain on.

6 days after I start mining difficulty is increased 21%  My timing always stinks   

This recent increase in difficulty will affect my payments over time because of my pool's payout method (PPLNS) so I haven't seen it yet but will clearly hurt.   Without the difficulty increase my calculations were 10-12 month ROI.  But I have solar adjunct to my power and basically pay right at .05799KWH for electricity.  Most folks need to use 5000-1000KWH and be on a general or industrial rate card before they get that kind of rate.  So factor that in. 

One thing I have noticed watching my energy meter.   At 7.1THS reward average for the last 9 days the Avalon 741 has only been using 1000 watts(ie average 24KWH per day).  So power consumption is about 13% less than advertised; which is a nice surprise.

<head-slap>  I should have checked the lights closer.  I did have lights on the miner and did not notice anything unusual - just went straight for the power reset button on the power strip.  Did not check the AUC/controller.  It's all on a high shelf and while I can see the lights on the miner I can't on anything else without climbing and I just did not bother.

Thanks for the kind words!   Had a bonfire/chicken stew at the farm over the weekend and links came in handy after my wife brought up mining and a field trip to the shop (where the equipment is) ensued.

Went with Kano pool - haven't decided on an exchange.   With such small dollars I think we are just going to buy Christmas present gift cards at egifter.com with half the coins and not bother with an exchange.   Will hang on to the other half and see where the ride takes us 

 I do mean the paperclip trick, but the EGVA power supplies come with a connector, that basically does the same thing so you can test the power supplies to ensure they will power up. You can simply leave it in place and use the power supply.