out of curiosity what is the longest the pool has gone between blocks?

and here i am just trying to get the power company to give me the transformer i need but with looking at the upcoming difficulty levels - unless miners get more efficient, I might be upside down when I am ready to offer co-location services...

I  am trying to use solar presently - I have 31 panels each are 290 watts so this is a about a 10 kw system - mine is tied to electric so if solar is not sufficient the electricity kicks in and i have no battery - however, I find it barely produces enough to power one miner for the month... I am told it should average between 61 and 71 kw/h in generation per day, but its only producing on average of 46 kw/h per day. I have zero tree cover - the panels face east to west and I get sunlight from as early as 7am and generally past 8pm each day.  what am I doing wrong?

I hope the S9 stays profitable for at least that long lol just starting to making ROI now lol

but in all seriousness it seems that with so many people jumping in on mining that the difficulty is raising faster than manufacturers can produce equipment that would prove profitable.

at least that is my opinion.

that is my hope as well - lately the ASIC's prices almost ensure that ROI is never met unless you have almost zero electric cost.

what were you at before? since I have joined I have dropped from 148 to 161 (yesterday) and now down to 172 as of this morning.

who pays $.8 per kw/h?? mine is $.056 with fuel surcharge it is $.086 - still no where near what you stated.  That might be why your results are all negative.

I have been here just around 8 days and we have found 5 blocks - finding this next one has been a challenge though. The only thing that sucks for me is ramping up. If I ever leave, I hope we find as many blocks in my last week instead of none lol

 I see you at #19 on stats page!

awesome! though this is going to push me down another slot on the stats page and now I will need to get some more miners over here to compensate lol

agreed. only time will tell.

and yes, I have read over there. I only commented it here because if I can get one I will be pointing it to Kano's pool

I have a call with Gaku next week - I will see if I can get any additional information to add here.

Triple-1 is listing 2 miners,

first:

Hashrate : 14.5 TH / s ± 5% (* at the normal state)
Power Consumption : 750 W ± 5%
Power Efficiency : 0.052 W / GH ± 5%

second:

Hashrate : 33.0 TH / s ± 5% (* at the normal state)
Power Consumption : 2,000 W ± 5%
Power Efficiency : 0.061 W / GH ± 5%

And Bitmains (for comparison):

Hashrate : 14.5 TH / s ± 10%
Power Consumption :1,350 W ± 10%
Power Efficiency :0.093 W / GH ± 7%

so not half but close. Again - if their claims are right and as always - until proven, it will not be believed.

And that is a Cannan miner right? they have been around for a bit. what are the specs? are they any more efficient than say Bitmain? I am still curious to see what Bitmain will claim as their 7nm specs.

oh for sure - my hope is to test one and provide a review. If they do work - then to purchase. It is not that their miners are twice as good because they use the same tech - they are claiming twice as efficient due to using 7nm vs 16nm chips. But as you stated and to which I agree, that will need to be seen before it is believed.

I have a Skype call with the new ASIC company Triple-1 next week to discuss their new miners. If the units are really as efficient as they claim, their "eco" model produces the same hashrate as the Antminer S9J but with barely half the power consumption @ 750 watts. Their "hyper" model is 33 TH/s with 2,000 watts - hashrate close to 3 S9J's but with just a little over half the power consumption.

I am hoping the discussion goes well and that I can get in on early purchasing. I just hope their prices are not so ridiculous that it makes it more economical to stay with slower/less efficient machines due to increased ROI time frame of their miners.

And if/when I do get one of their miners, it will be coming here

would you share what you did with your S9's?

EDIT: I see above where you answered someone else with same question. thanks!

I did read it, there is a lot of info there and I missed it when someone quoted it again above, I was happy to see it as I read the post originally months ago.

This ^^^ thank you! I did not know there was an app - I had created an "app" by adding the webpage to my iPhone screen - this requires me to log in each time though if enough time passes.

The only thing I notice about it is that it states last payout was 9/27 when the last one was actually today. It references the block from 9/27 correctly it is just missing the three block payments after that.

I also use awesome miner but I have yet to be able to get that to work off my network, so this is nice to verify that my miners are still working.

thank you!