There are two major kinds of miners (heh major miners) that mine on public pools - the first is those that have full control over their hashrate - even if they have only one piece of hardware or an entire farm of their own. These people make choices on their own based on whatever information they can get their hands on and how they interpret it regarding what pools are out there. These are the miners you often see posting here on the forum and while relatively anonymous do have a public face. They're the ones that determine how much hashrate goes to each pool and can drastically change the balance of hashrate between the pools... but it's only a SMALL proportion of the network hashrate in reality. These are the only ones we can possibly attract to this pool. The other type of miner are the large entities that set up farms and have set up deals with the pools they run on and are often even a subsidiary company or the same company as that running the pool - we can't possibly attract them to this pool. Unfortunately I estimate the "public swaying miners" are less than 5% of the network hashrate. Of those, swaying miners are often driven to the bone for making profits and for whatever reason run so tight that they want a "regular income" and as little risk as possible - a small pool cannot provide either of those; it comes with much more risk (and potentially much more gain) but no regular income. These miners probably constitute 95% of the swaying miner hashrate, leaving only a tiny proportion of the network that can "afford" to mine on a smaller pool. This means that a big pool is always guaranteed to attract some miners from the swaying miners, but a small pool has only a minuscule proportion of the network hashrate it can attract.

Until a smaller pool becomes a bigger pool, it cannot become a bigger pool. That's not a typo; it's a cyclical problem. I'm saying it's impossible for a small pool in the current climate to ever get big again unless it has deals with big miners. If this pool was 1EH now, all the new swaying miners will likely make it their first choice since it meets the criteria of regular income and low risk and has the lowest fee anywhere, but even then would never be more than 5% of the network. Slush is unique at meeting this criteria because it's been around as the first pool and still manages to get a big hashrate from the swaying miners, but it's still only 3% of the network hashrate. The rest of the pools aren't really there for you public miners; they have a public face but they have motherfucking huge miners that will only ever mine there, keeping their hashrate high and centralising hashrate.

You're welcome, and thanks for joining us

Please be advised there is a twitter account impersonating me linking sales for this hardware. This is NOT me and is a scam site. My account is ckpooldev, the scammer is using ckpooIdev. Note the uppercase i they're using instead of a lowercase L. Do not go to their linked site.

A couple of pages back you'll see our biggest hasher had to take his hardware down temporarily for some kind of infrastructure updates. He'll be back in a few weeks.

They will refuse to connect to a pool unless they support AB. If the miner code is modified to allow them to point to a non-AB pool, only 1/4 of the hashes are valid. I've explained before but people seem to not believe me - they do NOT run without asicboost active; they do not have the switching hardware required to enable/disable it in the T1. It is mandatory.

Additionally shitcoin cash has nothing to do with this - there isn't a single shitcoin cash pool that supports overt asicboost as far as I'm aware. You're mixing up covert hidden asicboost which only works now on shitcoin cash from overt asicboost which works everywhere, provided the pool supports it.

It's fair to say that the code to tune for optimal hashrate at minimum power draw is still in development, and these are the first public runs of silicon so I expect hashrates and/or efficiency to improve successively with later ones, and firmware updates to improve things slightly for existing ones. Small nm ASICs are extraordinarily fussy and tricky to tune.

Indeed the rental services are terrible at keeping miners connecting, constantly connecting and disconnecting miners to get the right amount of hashrate. A lot of those worker connections may all be stale ones that have yet to expire.

That's pointless. As I pointed out they do NOT run without AB.

Fine, but I think it's likely a scam. The steps in technology and likely improvements are well known in advance and getting 28TH out of a single machine just because it's 7nm is virtually impossible without industrial current levels of power.

Please don't post unnecessarily just to increase your post count or your posts will start getting deleted and you'll be banned if you keep making insubstantial posts. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

Community service announcement: You would be crazy to join a pool from a newcomer that has absolutely zero reputation on this forum, is completely unknown on any level outside the forum, and only just created an account to start a pool like this.


At least he's honest with this statement - it's possible that he means 100% fee and will take the first block the pool solves and disappears forever. This wouldn't be the first time this has happened.

Join at your own risk.

That sounds like bullshit btw.

Thanks for the heads up. Your hashrate will be sorely missed but glad you're not going away which would have scared a lot of our smaller miners. Hopefully by the time you come back there'll be a lot more hashrate from others to supplement yours.

5 x network difficulty is the full ramp up time but it's non-linear unlike PPLNS so it takes less than that to get to meaningful share count (though still a long time.) Forget trying to think of herp and derp, just assume it's shares and reward called something else and there's nothing to really get your head around. Block reward is small and only applies to the following payout, not the block solved - the size of the reward is only potentially substantial to smaller miners.

Censorship policy, that's a good one. We call it following the forum rules, and I'm not the only moderator here and don't recall doing any moderation of this particular thread either. Buuuut if you don't want to believe someone who has a public profile that can be tracked down to their home address that's been on btctalk for almost 7 years and a decade before that in linux kernel development in the public eye and ... all the rest, that's your call.

Great, it will be nice to have you on board. Not sure where the 40PH is coming from but they'd sure be welcome.

Because the btc.com estimate of hashrate is bullshit based on how many blocks we've found, and we found 2 in short succession.

How do you figure that? It is the most dust friendly payout of any pool as far as I can see. Nothing has a lower dust payout limit nor any way to handle accumulated dust.

That's correct. If you're not in the top 100 miners, you get a larger payout less frequently.

I wouldn't recommend any to be honest, but others here can chime in with their experiences. I know that most rentals come from either nicehash or mining rig rentals.

Nah, I appreciate your trust in me and my pool, but I have no doubt it was found on Slush's pool from a T1. It would take far too much effort to orchestrate a fake version rolled block and the mask matches what Slush pool is advertising at the moment. Regular pools move very conservatively. There isn't that much burn in hashrate yet so it was fairly lucky to find a block this early on but you overestimate them