I heard, do not know if correct, that you need to put a password in your miner config, can be any password, passwords do not get checked, but it needs "something" in there.  Again, I simply read about that in some troubleshooting stuff half a year ago...so might not be correct, but wouldn't hurt to try it.

yeah, we are up to 4 unprocessed rounds now...but one was 13.5, yeah, hopefully the reward will be better.  lol

Our luck has been great the past 2 days, although the block value has been lower than a week ago where we were constantly getting the 16, 17, and a few 18 valued blocks.  It does seem to average out in the long run.  I have only been mining for a week and a half now with 2 antminer s9's and I have 2 more on the way.  Right now, my daily average keeps going down, but is hovering around .0029 bitcoins a day.  Does that sound about right with you all with my 27 th's hashing power?

Also, a couple of config questions.  I changed my minimum difficulty from the default of 128 to 4096.  Should I go lower or higher or does it not really even matter?  Would this affect my pay rewards?

Also,  does the preferred blockchain voting affect anything...right now I have "current rules, bitcoin core" because honestly I am not sure what it means as far as, well, anything.  What should I have this set to maximize rewards?

Thanks,
Rick