I posted this on my local site only, so if you saw it, chances are we are in the same city, nice to meet you
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See? What would you do with the money if you had those "good months"? Absolutely nothing, all the extra should have been kept to pay the bills in the bad months.
Of course building a buffer takes time, and its harder for larger operations, but its not impossible. Also you should start investing in renewable energy.
Take into account that if you don't make this buffer yourself, you are trusting the pool operator to do it for you, in addition for taking higher fees (ie 4% vs 0.9%). AND, hopefully no one will ever "hack" those wallets the pool operator is keeping with everybody else's money. Of course i know most PPS users are willing to forfeit their earnings if such "rare" event occurs (that would probably close the pool), but then you are also risking to close your operation by depending on the external party.
You "could" slowly move from PPS to PPLNS, a few miner units at a time...
my miners on PPS payout every other day almost consistently - and the fee is 2% so double the fee of Kano but no where near 4% but I do know what you mean about wallets being hacked... over a year ago I lost half a bitcoin when NiceHash was hacked... sure they paid it back, eventually.... but by then BTC had lost quite a bit of value so I still lost out. I no longer use nicehash lol I will need to stay on PPS until reserves are built up enough to handle long spells of no payments - maybe if i stop buying equipment lol |
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and it appears that the whale is gone after a little over 2 days. pool is back down to 30 ph --- but alas, we got no blocks during the whales time here  It doesn't matter, every little push gets us closer. At 30PH a block should be found every 10 days on average. Even if we take a month or two without blocks, then another month or two will get us twice the usual number of blocks. It always averages in the long run. Those who can't manage themselves will go to PPS pools while losing more in fees and get less reliability (orphans) and less security (pool owned wallets). it is not necessarily about management - some have budgets and will need to have steady income - if the time between blocks is too long, they may not have enough in reserves to carry themselves. It also depends on when they got into it mining as well - as to how much they have built up reserves. I have my miners in 4 pools - 5 in each pool. I see where some months a PPS makes more, other months where it makes less. It all varies and in the longer I look at it, it all draws closer to the same amount, more or less. But I also need to pay the huge electric bill every month and that is where the PPS comes in handy - its more of a guaranteed income. I got back into mining when BTC was over 15k so that profitable time has helped me carry thru this extremely low profit time period. I have put zero cash into mining out of my pocket except for my initial investment of 13k USD - this bought a building, had it wired, had vents/ac/de-humidification system, etc etc and bought the first 3 miners. Since then, I have added 17 additional miners and I put in 36 solar panels (adding 3 more soon) as well. I am still holding some BTC. My goal is to let the mining increase the mining and to not put any $ in out of my pocket. So far, so good. In the end, we are all just wanting to turn a profit and make some $ right? The greatest thing about mining is the versatility and availability of many pools. If one was truly greater than all the others, there would be only one pool and everyone would be in it. that being said, I wish I had put 5 miners on kano.is a lot sooner than I had - the pool had some really good months that I missed out on.  |
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and it appears that the whale is gone after a little over 2 days. pool is back down to 30 ph --- but alas, we got no blocks during the whales time here |
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There are two models now.
50T - now $1990
53T - now $2190
Bitmain changes the prices weekly, which impacts the resellers’ prices.
bitmains price has not changed since second batch - what do you mean weekly? and it has only gotten cheaper not more expensive. At least that is based on the prices on the bitmain website. unless your guy buys them thru some other means. |
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so the price has changed on these? they are not $1940?
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ahh, found it. and setting changed. feel free to pm now.
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Interested in your units. Please allow PM
I am not blocking your pm's it might have to do with your forum status. "User 'Trinislacker' is a newbie, but your options are set such that you cannot receive PMs from newbies. Therefore, you cannot send PMs to newbies, either."so, you will have to post here until that status changes. and Let trinislacker take them.
If you need escrow I can do it.
Thank you if needed, I would prefer to use you for escrow. Also, if this does not go thru and you are interested and the firmware is an issue, I can put whatever firmware you want. I upgraded a few miners to the latest and found that the newest blocks SSH which then blocks my controlling them thru Awesome Miner. So, I did not do it to all of my S9's |
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Maybe I will take them.
What is shipping to 07731 howell nj
do they have Nov 2018 firmware?
do they have Dec 2018 firmware?
or do they have March 2018 firmware?
they have the Nov 2nd, 2018 Firmware on these 4.
where are you from? and How much does the shipping charge to Turkey?
I am in the US - not sure on shipping to Turkey. I have never shipped outside of the US except to Canada, , in the states and to Canada I have seen it be from $35 to $55 USD to ship. |
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Bump - price lowered to 150 each plus shipping if you buy you all 4
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i can dig that price on the T17 - still wish I could just get a bunch of T11's for cheap though - no tariff on those so quicker ROI for me. Now, if Kano pool could hit a few blocks before they go out of stock or if I could get someone to buy my S9's for 150-200 each I would be able to get some new mining gear. |
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I wonder what is behind this peculiar pattern in pool usage:  is that your shift graph? That's the pool's shift graph. how do you see that? NVM I found it lol never clicked that before. |
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I wonder what is behind this peculiar pattern in pool usage: is that your shift graph? |
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we all know this but still we like to see blocks - dont you?
I 'expect' to see blocks every 100%!  This one's taking 2x as long, so I wouldn't be surprised to have a few quickies in the near future; I'm not 'expecting' it, though.  the increased hash rate the pool currently has had since last night might help as well. |
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I hate to say it, but: you just get a bigger piece of the pie in smaller pools with 'slower' blocks, and you'd get a proportionally smaller piece of the pie in bigger pools with 'faster' blocks... 10 x 1000 = 100 x 100... :shrug:
we all know this but still we like to see blocks - dont you? |
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That's when it's nice to remember those low % blocks. Those are the thoughts that get me through these expected luls.
Let's crack this block and get to the next.
I second that! |
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that is also why i put switches on each circuit - I like to turn them on one at time, instead of all at once.
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Yeah, 504 hours no block. That’s the record breaker for Kano since the beginning I think!
Well, considering it's still just under 200% it's not like it's unexpected or does it matter. See Help->Luck, all pools expect 1 in 7.2 blocks to be over 200% As for time, no, it's not the longest. The first pool block was. that might be but it does tend to matter to those who are paying daily and not getting any return - people can get anxious at times. And if it is expected that 1 in 7.2 blocks be over 200% let this be ours and can we get the other 6 before the end of the month? lol |
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I would be curious on prices for T15, S15, and any of the S17 models. and would prefer it to remain here not in email - that just typically leads to more spam. I dont mind the wait for you to check here |
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Bump
the 2 S9's and 2 S9i's are still for sale.
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