Please tell me this guy who was submitting non valid shares did not get paid for this?  Ie as part of the pool finding blocks.

If he did, please let all the hackers know his IP address. :-P

I realized after I read your post...  Yeah, I have two instances of Awesome miner monitoring the S9's  So my Big Data on them is probably mostly from there! I also did do firmware upgrades on a couple.    Haha  Funny..  I should sniff the network and see if there is a bitmain hidden code!  Their firmware isn't the most up to date on their website..  so Might be something I'll check into.  Sniff Sniff....

You must love numbers...  That was alot of math :-P

I was curios to know the amount of data 1 S9 used.. So I looked on the stats on my switch.  This was for 1 full week of 24/7 mining ( I think there was a power cycle but nothing major)

This is on the Switch port for 1 S9

   Bytes Transmitted: 508 638 552   Downloaded
Packets Transmitted: 6328715

   Bytes Received: 1 278 968 648      Uploaded
Packets Received: 5944259

Was looking to see if I can use a cellular backup in case internet connection goes down. 

Those numbers above were for a full 7 days.

i'd really like to know why they jumped from 1415USD that I paid for them to 2320usd now.  I was reading on another thread they think these last batches that came out early was some older ones they re-conditioned.  Had the issues with the fan ramping up and down, and some other details that were very similar to the early s9's that had same issues.  I have not owned any before, but I do know that 2 of the 4 that I had received had different fans on them, and they were not the same as each other also.  I wondered about that.  but the other two had the same fan ( with yellow sticker) as the first s9 i got back in November.

Something is going on with it. _ I really wonder why the firmware of Nov 15 that is on a couple of the new S9's is not on their website. They still have Aug 15 there.  Strange......

I'd be interested if users on this pool had priority on the sales even if the supply is short?  Knudge knudge wink wink....  I'll find a way to power and cool them.  I'll even upgrade to a 200 amp service at my house if I have to. I'll even heat the neighbors houses for free in the winter! If they can stand the noise  haha

Oddly enough my order, actually 4 separate orders of  1x S9's that was supposed to be delivered Jan 21-30... I got early.  Dec 27.   The orders were put in in the last week of November and first week of December.  I wasn't going to complain.  I thought someone canceled a big order so more became available.  Even another guy I know locally here got his and he ordered his after me, and got it a few days after me.  His was supposed to be Jan 21-30 as well.  If I knew they were going to be that quick I would have ordered more.

They did ship all 4 of mine within 1 or 2 days of each other.. It was over Chritmas, so i ended up getting them all on the same day.  27th.

IF you were waiting for 2 months for a S9 to be delivered, you may want to contact the person.  Was it through bitmain directly?  I ordered 4 from end of Nov to about Dec 10, and they were supposed to be Jan 21 - 30 delivery, but I got them early.  Dec 27 Actually.

Yup, the ramp up process is still there when you add another one.  Its up hill.. then when you get to the top, its a little bumpy, depending what the block rewards are, but you will come out ahead of any other pool.  Here you get those transaction fees rewarded to miners.  Plus its the lowest fee of 0.9 percent ( 0.0 ) until 2018, which is a few hours, but hey, where else do you see that kind of stuff in the bitcoin world.....


I started with 1 S9 on Dec 10, and just a few days ago got another 4.  I thought it was a good way to heat my house and garage. :-)  What kind of heater PAYS you to use it?


FYI The easiest way it can be explained, that I can think of is, that red area on the Workers Shift graph is a moving window.  You get paid on the percentage of the shares you contributed to the total.  So just hover your mouse over the left side, and you will see the date at when the window starts.  if you were mining on that day and time, you are ramped up.  If you started somewhere between then and now, your average is less over that full period of time.  BUT never fear, if you stop mining at kano ( and you know you WON'T :-)  you get that ramp down the same way the ramp up was.  Except the percentage of the shares for the period was going down, so the payouts will decrease as that " window " passes.

Hope that made sense.

you know its a good block when the one before it didn't have the 100 Confirmations yet. Guess that means the payout for both will be on the next block.

But hey... I don't think anyone would complain if we get a block all the time before that 100 confirmations is done for the previous one  Right?  :-P

Don't give up, we still have time for one more before 2017 is done!  !!!!!!!!
 :-P

I have been having a shitty day.. UNTIL NOW.   -30 deg C and stuff breaking all the time..   THis will help the pain!

AHHAAHHA  THEY CANNOT actually by law do that.  They are disguising it as a safety check, but in reality it is to check for a grow op.  I would tell them to  -------->  O  I know you are doing nothing wrong, but then they know what value is in there, I just say, nope, the gas pipes are fine, no leaks, I am safe.


Just say you have a bunch of servers that create heat, that's why the gas usage went down.  I am sure the laws are the same or similar.   Here if a public utility person sees a grow op, they have to report it, on the flip side they are not allowed to enter a property to look for that, OR to mislead a person to let them into a property to look for something, like safety issue, and then find a grow op.  So the question arises -  HOW and WHY now did the safety check issue ever come up, since there was never one before.  If they had a history of doing real safety checks every 2 - 5 years, then maybe, but in this case I would give them the run around just because of my privacy.

Funny, I think there is more interest in Seattle server than ever!

Hey Kano,

I do currently use a single IP, however it is dynamic.  It vary rarely changes, like every two years.  I can either set up the new server as pool 0, and NYA as pool 1 as the backup incase my ip changes on me.  The other option I have is to make a VLAN for the miners and route the traffic out my static IP. ( this is different than the IP my miners are connecting from now)

Up to you, I know milliseconds matter, but as to how much for the bitcoin network, I have no knowledge how much it affects it.

I could ping it and see the differences, maybe PM me the IP address or host name if you want me to test it?

Thanks

I did a tracert and found that it seems to be California.  I am actually closer to that than new York. I am in Southern Alberta.  Guess the fiber is faster to the east.

Seattle and Vancouver servers ( Other voip servers) i get 30 ms ping times.  Not sure why from there to California its that much slower.  Could be a data center specific issue.

  7    31 ms    31 ms    32 ms  be4476.ccr21.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com [38.88.252.161]
  8    38 ms    33 ms    32 ms  be2083.ccr21.sea01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.0.249]
  9    51 ms    52 ms    59 ms  be2075.ccr21.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.0.233]
 10    51 ms    50 ms    52 ms  be3178.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.43.70]
 11    57 ms    53 ms    51 ms  be2063.rcr21.b001848-1.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.1.162]

Yup after seattle its slow, 30ms then to 52 to San francisco and San jose.

Glad I fixed it.

I too am switching from stratum.kano.is to nya.kano.is   12-15 ms faster ping times. on NYA.
Might get a block because of this!

Where are the two physically located? Just wondering why its so much faster.

Bashful or   -----   Hashful? :-)

I am trying.. got up to about 70TH/s just yesterday.

DID YOU KNOW - That 4 S9 antminers heat up a 25x25 foot garage from 5 deg to 21 in about 6 hours?  I have 4 in there, and one in my house.  I think i will move a couple more in the house.  I should note that it was -25 deg C outside as well.  Still devising a plan to deal with the heat from them in the summer!

At the time of writing this, there is 99 hours on the wall - since the last block.

99 hours on the wall, add one more.... 100 hours onthe wall.....

OH, I am not the only one watching who wins blocks?
You picked one block prior to the long block...

It was BTC.com and 23.26222679 BTC as reward..  I Cried.  I should of been solo-ing...  With that long I actually stood a chance.. well, maybe just a bit. :-)

So Interesting fun fact.  My new S9's some have firmware from July, while others have firmware from Nov 17, and a version like S9_V2.54   But on their website, they only have the newest from Aug 15..  Now Why would they not have the newest one on there?  I had an issue with the first S9 I got like a month ago, with fan speed ramping constantly, the firmware fixed that so it stayed on more consistent.  So Now I am baffled if I should overwrite the Nov 17 with the Aug 15 that had better fan control.

Any opinions?

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

Gopher is up to 70 TH/s   4x 13.5TH and 1 x 14 TH And they do just a wee bit more, making it 70 TH ish  :-)    Jan 21-30 Delivery came EARLY!!! YEAH!

I decided to wait...  Not worth getting locked up :-)
I put a hold for pickup, so I don't have to wait all day, ill just go in and pick it up myself.  Less stress than..... When is it going to come.....