500907   25/Dec 00:25   16.01272351   9.379T   408hr 46m 16s   27.37PHs   0.05%   4.645G   13.56THs   0.00793087
500622   23/Dec 01:54   22.67465393   9.370T   409hr 52m 47s   27.27PHs   0.05%   4.662G   13.57THs   0.01128094
500096   19/Dec 08:02   16.86483522   9.379T   431hr 40m 3s   25.92PHs   0.05%   4.909G   13.57THs   0.00882707
498508   10/Dec 03:39   17.43860143   7.958T   413hr 27m 45s   22.96PHs   0.06%   4.713G   13.60THs   0.01032803
498476   9/Dec 23:27   14.22993506   7.956T   414hr 20m 6s   22.91PHs   0.06%   4.724G   13.60THs   0.00844936
497605   4/Dec 20:12   13.93544048   6.747T   378hr 45m 43s   21.25PHs   0.06%   4.316G   13.60THs   0.00891564
497299   3/Dec 03:56   13.95289004   6.742T   375hr 51m 3s   21.40PHs   0.06%   4.290G   13.62THs   0.00887919
497081   1/Dec 20:00   13.51217263   6.739T   372hr 37m 11s   21.58PHs   0.06%   4.252G   13.61THs   0.00852612

You read it right...  somewhere near .01BTC per block with an S9 and pool hash rate around 20 to 25PH.  Many of them were closer to .009 with the 13 to 14BTC block reward.

Yes, home mining is really an issue if you rent - or have a spouse that likes quiet!  Also, if I have my math right, a three phase 30A 208V can easily run 5 and likely 6 S9's on that one circuit.

Kano, have you ever thought about the possibility of "reverse" mining?  Where you randomly pick a final hash (probably the wrong terminology) with enough zeros in front, lock the time in, pick a group of transactions that are a little lower on the list so they stay for a while and then do a validation with each nonce - perhaps randomly selected but never duplicated.  I guess the previous block hash is included, so once a block is found, then everything would have to start over.  It is still luck, but seems that beating up a single answer may offer an answer quicker than totally "heads or tails" with this difficulty level.  In any case, I have no clue if the network even allows the time to be locked in for multiple seconds or even minutes, but it would seem plausible since computer dates/times can vary.

If the banning is happening in your apache script, perhaps you could just ban for a day.  If the blocks are happening in your firewall, that also can be done but not as easily since you would have to allow the apache server to have access to the ban list and manually parse through the logs to get the time.  Ok, I just read all the previous and see it is in your code and it sounds like you are doing a day.  
Personally in my code, I allow 3 attempts, then lock for 5 minutes then 15 on the next, then 60 on the next and a day one the next.  I have detection for all kinds of hacker things (injection, arrays, etc) and if the server detects those, then the ip is blocked for a day.  As with yours, I do most in my code although my servers also have a firewall that blocks on ssh attempts, etc.  It seems that it would be good if you had something in place all the time rather than manually turning on and off your systems when threats are detected.  I suspect that even you need to sleep once in a while.

I am in the same position as you with 1 S9.  I was with another pool and if you are discussing block 500861, then it is the one you are at.  I have details of every block that one has found since it began. 

So for block 500861 - there have been 4 more since this one so far.  Someday soon I hope to get real time BTC per Day Per Th/s over the past 30 days.  Dont have that coded up yet.  Obviously with the smaller pool, luck can get unlucky and you'll  see a bigger hit on your monthly proceeds.  But it also can go the other way and you'll get one or two extra blocks in a month.  In any case, in our pool, the 19.35 BTC block would have been somewhere near .01 BTC payout.  We just hit one that was 22.67465393 BTC and my take was .01128094.  So as you can tell, it is almost 100 times the payout so that does help for the slow times.

It  is best to consolidate your blocks by sending your full btc wallet amount to yourself once a month or quarter and put a small fee on it (I usually do 0.00005 BTC per kB).  It may never go through and usually takes weeks, but if it does, then you have only spent a few bucks to bring it down to a single block.  You must review how your wallet works though to make sure that you have the option of setting your own transaction fees.  If you go through an exchange, then you do not have much (if any) control of it.  If you have no control, then you have to watch for when the mempool is getting emptier (under 50meg) and then send it then.  You can use minergain to monitor this and get an optional alert.

Ahhh, and I was careful to be respectful lol

You will see it with the next block we find as long as it has 101 confirmations.

heck, let's get 4 of them.

Btc is on sale. With people talking about it over Christmas and New years, it's going back soon I expect. Lots of buzz yet.

Ok, so I spent the time and added a settings area where you can enter your phone's texting information and I have it where you can setup so that the system emails (and optionally texts you if you setup the number) when a block is found.  The other options are not alive yet but will be.  To set it up, sign in, click on the monitor tab, click on pools on the left side.  Select the BTC (bitcoin) coin then the Kano pool.  Enter your username and api token and at the bottom set the pool alerts as you would like them.  Again, all that is working now is none or "each block found".  This was a rush job so I will add more info about the block that was found when I get some time.  Hope you all have many wonderful year end holiday celebrations and mine on!

The site I am writing is monitoring and logging the kano home page every minute (some stats are on the minergain dot com home page).  I have it coded to send me an alert when it changes and it does so within the minute.  Since this is a free forever site, I have to be careful how I spend my time.  That said, I could easily hard-code to send an email to everyone who has signed up and set the Kano pool monitoring up until I get my settings page done.  Eventually you will be able to specify a text address and select which gets notices for every block, the first profitable block, every profitable block for the day or a count of the day's blocks when greater than 0.  Eventually you will be able to put your power voltage / wattage for each miner in the system with different power rates per month to help calculate profitability.  If there is interest, I will hard code an email to everyone signed up tonight.  I also have every daily BTC price to US dollar and plan to get the dollar value at the time each block was found by mid January.

So true.  I recently had a security audit and my auditor saw my mining operation and told me that he was super smart.  He bought 50 BTC at $3 each and doubled his money!  So yes, in any other environment doubling your money in a month or so is amazing.  I guess this "wild west" just makes everyone nervous and excited at the same time and not sure what to do - except whine I guess!

sorry - Dec 1 to now...

So this block officially puts me at .05392541 for the month with one S9 (.00399447 per Th) which is .0002104 BTC / day / Th.  That pushes Kano ahead of slush for the month by 7.31% and gives us around 4.5 days breathing room - meaning that if we find another block before 5 days we push the gain even further.  Mine on and congrats koelby.

Yes, that is with all fees included at the  Pool hash rate for every block, so if slush does not fudge their fees, it is accurate.

So my site has been grabbing 5 minute detailed info for a few pools in my upcoming minergain site but dont have the info live yet.   Eventually this data can use your real miner data to do "what if scenarios - even though luck is luck".  So all this got me wondering so I thought I would share some real comparison info...  So if you were with slush for December, here would be your btc per Th that your miners submitted....  After the date is the number of blocks found and the next column is the BTC / TH for that day.  It fully takes into account the hash rate for every block and the 2% that they take.

Dec 1   17   0.00020415
Dec 2   21   0.000246807
Dec 3   21   0.000235327
Dec 4   12   0.000137415
Dec 5   21   0.000230983
Dec 6   15   0.00016493
Dec 7   23   0.000274498
Dec 8   18   0.000217576
Dec 9   12   0.000141403
Dec 10   26   0.000282076
Dec 11   23   0.000254072
Dec 12   13   0.000146673
Dec 13   16   0.000173655
Dec 14   20   0.000201528
Dec 15   18   0.000200334
Dec 16   13   0.000139204
Dec 17   23   0.000244415
Dec 18   20   0.000207583
      
Total: 0.003702629 per Th/s.  

So if you have an S9 like me with 13.5Th/s, that is .0499854915 BTC for the month (assuming fully "vested" in the PPNLS).  As I have mentioned before, the 5 blocks found on Kano (even with the current 8 day delay) is .04509834.  If we got another block today, it would be roughly .054 BTC for the month.  And if we picked off another one tomorrow, it would be roughly .063 BTC.  So yes, there is a little more gambling here, but the potential upside is way more than the sites that give lots of blocks per day...  And isn't that really why we are all in this "business" - gambling?  That is exactly why I moved to Kano from Slush after just one month with them...  I can afford a little electricity if needed, but with that said, my full power bill was paid by the 3rd of this month...  I also purchase coins on the exchanges, and this is a much smaller investment per BTC - just slower.  Anyway, just to give a little perspective for the newbies (me included).

I have an S9 with 13.5Th/s (been running for months) and the last block was .02032803 BTC and the one before that was .00844936.  at $15,000 per BTC, that is $126.74 and $154.92.  For the month I have received .04509834 BTC ($676.48) with 5 found blocks and an average of .00019651 BTC per Day per TH. I'll let you extrapolate that to your own hash rate, but I suspect this is better once you are fully "vested"....  Happy Holidays to you all and mine on!

*** EDIT the first was .01032803...   sorry about that.

I have heard of this Hoth Ice Planet a few times but when I search for it, I cannot find a physical mining farm - just Star Wars and StartGate...  I am assuming that you do not really have miners beyond earth's atmosphere, right?  Of course cooling it would be a piece of cake!  I suspect this is just a newbie not getting a time honored bitcoin reference...  If you have a definition (or the web site if it really is a physical location), I would love to be enlightened!  Thanks much and mine on!

That seems great to me since it is pretty much what I am getting from Wisconsin to New York.  If you end up going across the ocean, it can be 125ms and more so those are the one you like to prevent if you can.