it really depends on the miner and the market condition, sometimes paying even 5%/10% of your profit  MAY still benefits you. for example the D3 by bitmain has a terrible firmware , therefore usually a custom firmware was needed , and the known custom firmware by then had less than 2% fees which was very reasonable and overall profit increased even after paying the fees. however in most cases the stock firmware does just fine, also one thing that many people seem to be missing is that when dev fees are stated at say 10% , it does not mean miner will mine for 2.4 hrs straight for the dev pool and then you get the all of the remaining 21.6 hrs to your pool, it doesn't work this way simply because

1- The dev fees are time-based, they start the count from the time the miner switches to their pool till the time it swihces back to yours, there is gap in between as it's never instant when cgminer switch pools , you are looking at a quite a bigger loss as you are the only who bears those switching periods, they are small but when summed up, the became reasonably questionable.

2- The dev ensures he get's his fees asap, so assuming it's 10% , they will try to get 10% of each hour, and not straight 2.4hrs. therefore assuming you start your miner, 2 mins on your pool , then 6 mins (10%) to dev pool , then cgminer restarts for whatever reason , 2 mins on your pool 6% to his pool again !

total time for you = 4 mins , for dev = 12 mins.

of course this case will not apply 100% of the time, but the possibility is always there, dev has the right to do it this way to prevent people from cheating,but they usually don't tell you the full story.
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I tried a few custom firmware, i usually divide my miners , split them into 50% stock fw, 50% custom, let them run for a few days and them make my calculation.

i used the method mentioned above as well as Wireshark and other network tools to monitor exactly the time my miners were mining on dev pool vs mine.

there is almost 0 chance you are going to lose only what the dev states , there is always a bit to a lot extra .

so i advice everybody to do the math before trusting and settling down on a custom firmware.

4 merit left.

the 6 users who i gave merit too must NOT post anymore links here.

good luck for the rest.

just ensure you are not running the cable close to any electricity wires or else it could be worse than using wireless, if you must run them close to any cables, then use shielded Ethernet cable instead of regular cables.

edit : if cat6 is expensive where you live, cat5 will the job just fine.

there should be away around this, but it really isn't worth the hustle, you either use what the  other guys suggested or better yet run an Ethernet cable.

since your usb wifi can catch the signal from the router then the distance is not that much, depending on what there is on the way from the miner to the router i highly suggest using a CAT6 cable to run your miner, wifi is not a robust connection that you can depend on for 24/7 , imagine you solo mine and once your miner finds a block , some signal interference happens and it fails to broadcast it. it is really not worth it to run a miner on wifi even if it works for everybody that you know, all you need a little bit of bad luck to be screwed.

should you insist on using wifi,  use something like vistumbler to identify the best wifi channel to use according to your environment, this minimizes the interference possibilities , most wifi's run on channel 1/6  but it depends, just scan and see.

also make sure you using 2.4 GHz if you have more obstacles to go through.  5 GHz  routers provide faster transmission but they don't do well in long range.

i made a complete guide on how to troubleshoot/fix miners that run but do not show on the network.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5094311.msg49120910#msg49120910

it's 3 phase , i have roughly 75amps on each phase so more or less 225amps in total

why not apply to be a merit source ? highly doubtful you will get it due the way you use your merit at least in my own opinion, as i  do not believe being nice should get you a merit , i am an  asshole and i get plenty of merit for a reason.

but then according to merit "rules" you are not doing anything wrong, you may spend your merit as you you see fit, but asking for merit just to re-send them is not very smart, only half those merit will be in your sMerit.

yes this will do.

It is appreciated, i appreciate the positive enegery that comes from Love, but honestly and sadly these kind of posts IMO do not deserve merit at all. I for example do not benefit or find anything useful of your love towards me   sadly.

please feel free to post another one.

Good luck

 I have not gone into much details of your problem, i don't know if you got scammed or trying to scam but I skimmed real fast though the comments and here is a thing you should know

- You still reserve the right to file a lawsuit even after accepting compensation as long as you have not signed a legal agreement that forbids you from suing them for the exact same case , if you signed on something like that, then it's game over, if not ! then you can still demand your 20btc + compensation.

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depending on the proof / judge and what law-zone the website is obligated to follow your chances of winning the case can vary from guaranteed to nothing.
20BTC is a lot of money, call a lawyer and seek advice, but keep in mind if you are attempting to b.s and they can prove anything against you, you can be in deep shit too.

however there are two things i find "funny" from both of you

This goes to you .

1- why did you wait all this long to post on scam accusation, and if you were 100% sure you are right, why did you accept a compensation of 0.2btc only?

This goes to  FortuneJack

2- if you were so sure this player was abusing a bug on your system, why did you have to compensate him + give him his deposit back?

 mining is a game of luck and calculation. you need both to be profitable and since you can't control your luck , at least do your calculations right.

First of all you need to need to know these inputs in order to make a proper calculation.

1- The miner cost   ( depends greatly on where you source it from and the quantity )

2- profitability of the miner based on your power cost  , use this website > www.whattomine.com or if you are lazy enough use this > https://www.apanel.com

once you have those numbers , you need to calculate your ROI ( return of investment)

ROI = miner cost / daily profitability  / 30 = ROI in months.

miner cost ( constant ) while  daily probability is (variable)

depending on the mining difficulty ( how many other people are mining beside you) and the (coin price ) so your ROI can extend and can shrink widely.

most people use current statistics to determine ROI, and then people have different ROI target, to me  , anything that can't ROI in 12 months going to be a loss

simply put 12 months is usually enough time for ASIC manufacturers to come up with next GEN miners that put your miner in obsolete mode.

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however this is personal , some people just mine for the sake of it, and i am sure most miners will never ROI , mining last year was everyone's dream, it was so easy to ROI in 1-2 months , prices where high, difficulty was low, you buy anything , put it online and you make decent profit, however now things changed, big players came in, many things changed.

mining now is nothing different from any other business, competition and risk are at all time high. and in most cases you can' be creative to save your investments as there are some factors that are beyond your control.

I do not want to sound harsh but really if you do not have cheaper power than the Chinese miners or at least something similar (3.5 cent / 4.5 cents per kwh) then you are getting yourself in a losing war and the only thing that can save you is spike in prices, and should that happen , you are probably better of holding crypto than miners.

The rules were clear, only 1 post per user, i do not ignore any post . i read every post here as promised , if i don't give it a merit then i simply don't think it deserves one, now you have 2 posts , you need to cancel one of them and i will read the one left.

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there is no good or bad for this particular thing, your bestshare could be 1 number far from solving a block and you may never solve any, it could also be very low for months and then you could solve 3 blocks in a row, this is complete randomness-luck based, don't pay much attention to it.

according to > http://solochance.com/

based on current diff , your chances of fiding a block with 1ph  as follows .


so imagine you shooting in the dark, along side with other 304 people , there is only one rabbit to be shot a day , those represent your chances of having grilled rabbit for dinner.


but also every "almost 10 mins" there are 43,873 people shooting at a single bird , same story above applies.


if your luck is flat 100/100 " not lucky not unlucky" you should get 1 block / bird in 305 days  " provided the number of shooters (difficulty) stays the same.

but those are just in theory, you may never ever solve a block with 1ph, and you may solve a few blocks in a row.

i pesonlally don't care much about all this, i just check the hashrate is showing on the pool from time to time, and that's all about it.

I do not see a problem here, this only occurs every time a new block is found, i think it only means that the client failed to idenfity the bitcoin core version of 32 blocks from the 100 last blocks mined, aside form that your bitcoind seems to be running just fine. don't bother about it

Most members don't fit in that, and it is not an an indication of quality posts by any means. your idea will help fight shitposting but it will also stop good posts when everyone is paranoid of not getting merit,therefore running out of posts. the knowledge sharing on the forum will drop along side with the shitposting.

there are also many off-topic posts and market place that supposedly go un-merited for a simple reason.

dude what ip address are you typing to get Luci page loaded ?  i think LUA  it's the programming language used in S3 firmware , i am pretty sure a reset will resolve the issue for you without having to go into much details, you can confirm that ip belongs to the miner by trying to access it while your miner is powered-off, and after you have cleared your browser cache, if the page doesnt show, then that was your miner, if it does, then you might have unknowingly installed LUA and whatever that shows is the a local-web-server running on your pc/network, but that is pretty unlikely.

TL;DR, make a hard-reset , look for the new miner ip ,log in , mine away.

 Transparent polls might stop people from voting against the "gang" don't you think so?

you can't protect everybody everywhere, this could bring more harm. Welsh gave a better explanation of what i had in mind


the main "issue" with the "trust" system is that it's not regulated by any means, people get positive/negative feedback for every kind of reason one can think of, most newbies or guests will probably not even bother read the reason for the tag. the moment they see those red warnings they will think whatever information there is bullshit and as Welsh said it will be dismissed.

rather than showing the trust score on that board, Mods should do their job by not allowing any selling/shilling there, and members should report those posts right away, the only board that members are allowed to trade is the Market place, and that's where you need to worry about trust, aside from that , i think everything should remain as it is.

if you mean "Forks" which i think you do based on the example you gave.

here is the list > https://unhashed.com/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-forks-list/

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