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Mine On!

Time to crack this block, we're over 100% now.   Time to start dancing.   


DANCE DANCE DANCE AND MINE ON WITH KANO-SAN!

It's time for another block!

And for those working through the 5nd you can always go to the website and go to rewards and see what you will get on the last block. Then you can copy that BTC amount, go into Coinbase or on the internet and go to where it says Buy/Sell paste the amount of BTC you copied from your Rewards page into the BTC column and it will tell you how much that BTC is worth at current market value. That is about how much you will get once the block has been verified, or close to it unless BTC price changes a lot. It gives you an idea anyway.

There are probably easier ways, it's what I do.

I just started using the ckpool android app about a week ago. Is it possible the app is being used as part of a DDos attack?
I like the ability to check my hash rate and to get an alert when the pool finds a block. It does check it every 10 minutes or so.
Just wondering. I realize the "distributed" part of the attack means it comes from a lot of different sources, but there is the possibility of over 900 users hitting your pool info at whatever interval the app is set for.

$1310 sounds like a pretty fair price.

How do I get on the pre-order list?

Well yeah the qrcode (barcode) is just the long API key on it's own.

The URL to the API is what's shown below without the https://kano.is on the front of it.
The reason the code is there like that is coz if any web page or app needs just the API key, without the full URL, that's what it gives you.
It's not difficult to add the rest of the text (though it is slow) but the API key itself is necessary to be 100% correct but more difficult to enter correctly due to it's length and the fact it's random, so you can scan that part with a qrcode reader on your phone/tablet.

If the full URL doesn't work, then I guess their program requires something different.
Tell them to change it

However, be wary of 'random' programs accessing the API.
It would seem that some coders think that the more often you get the API the better ... but in fact it's pointless accessing the API over and over.
Probably about once every 5 or 10 minutes is more than enough if you are looking for a miner that's gone offline.
If you do access it too often, your IP will get auto-banned for a while ... come back the next day

I'm doing a possible update to KanoDB today if I get the changes I'm doing finished.
I'll add another qrcode of the full URL below the one already there also, if I get time.

in US (at least in some places) even va-cation is pronounced vey-cation, LOL and jaguar is pronounced either as jag-u-ar or jag-wire.
Another one is Addy-das vs A-dee-das.

Block! by gmb with ~30Ths

That one was also pretty awse coz it's not completely full (63 second network block) but I watched the payout for 479844 go out about 1 minute 41 seconds before the block was found and bang, a block with the payout in it, and it didn't even waste any block space at all (not even free space)

Unfortunately the update failed dismally
I switched back to the old code again and all is OK again.

Total outage was 2 minutes.
I terminated the pool at 21:59:56, but then had to switch back to the old code, all nodes had reconnected by 22:01:51 so miners would have failed back from then.

More work to do.

I currently only have 2 R4's for 17.2 TH. I will be adding my 1st S9 later today (on IPS truck for delivery) to increase my TH to 30.7.

Then in a few more weeks, I will be adding another S9 for a total of around 44.2 TH.

Love this pool !

Mine on!!

FIVE BLOCKS Today (So Far) on this FINE BLOCK TUESDAY!!

About another hour to get the big #SIX!!!!!!   

COMEONBLOCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

Let's also breach that "Expected" Number of Blocks!!

Let 'em ROLL! 

Yes, two reasons.
Kano shares the transaction fees received when a block is mined as well as the 12.5 bitcoins . This results in blocks with values between 12.5 to 16.5 bitcoins.
Secondly Kano charges a smaller fee, .9%, on the miners earnings.
All of the large pools keep the transaction fees. Slush and Kano, both medium sized pools, share the transaction fees with their miners. Some smaller pools share transaction fees, some don't.

The only pseudo drawback to Kano is that it sometimes goes a day or almost two without hitting a block. That can be discouraging if you are a newbie. Kano also splits the payouts so they are about 20% of value earned divvied up over 5 payments. This is done to smooth out payments even if the input of blocks is very irregular. It means you will receive smaller more numerous payouts untill you have been mining for about 4 or 5 days. After that ramp up time you will receive numerous full payouts. My current payout with two S9s is a bit over .005 per payout. What varies is the number of these payouts I see per day. If averages hold that would mean I will receive .013 bitcoin or better per day for 2 S9s.
I added the second S9 less than a month ago so I can not give you hard figures yet.

Kano pool requires a bit more patience due to the 20% payout system and its some what irregular block find timing. I would strongly recommend committing to Kano pool for no less than 2 weeks and then you will see for yourself how much more you are receiving compared to other pools.

edited to correct error in transaction fee value. dzimmerm