Not mining shitcoin. Sorry if I wasn't clear: I was connected and mining successfully to the pool. Then, I wasn't. I never restarted my computer or my miner, it simply stopped processing shares. The pool is still active, when I say I'm still getting confirmation of each new block, it's the detection on the network every ten minutes saying a block is found, not that I'm mining them. It's like my miners simply stopped for some reason: https://imgur.com/a/bL3oN You could try to restart your miner and see if that helps. Your pool diff shows 4k - which is the starting difficulty. Makes me think your difficulty isn't adjusting downwards for your low hashrate. |
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Always nice to wake up to a block! (Shows on my rewards page now, too.)
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You can setup something like PiVPN pretty easily: http://www.pivpn.io/Most of the VPN routers just have an implementation of OpenVPN, which works just fine. |
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My best share is still sitting at 18 billion on one of my S9s. I let it know that won't cut it, and it better submit some higher shares!
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May the nonces be in our favor!
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Time has no effect on you finding a block.
Each hash you do has the same chance of finding a block - be it 1 second after the last network block or 1 hour.
Kano, have you ever thought about the possibility of "reverse" mining? Where you randomly pick a final hash (probably the wrong terminology) with enough zeros in front, lock the time in, pick a group of transactions that are a little lower on the list so they stay for a while and then do a validation with each nonce - perhaps randomly selected but never duplicated. I guess the previous block hash is included, so once a block is found, then everything would have to start over. It is still luck, but seems that beating up a single answer may offer an answer quicker than totally "heads or tails" with this difficulty level. In any case, I have no clue if the network even allows the time to be locked in for multiple seconds or even minutes, but it would seem plausible since computer dates/times can vary. With modern ASICs, incrementing the nonce only would run out of possible solutions in seconds. Modern mining adjusts things in the coinbase transaction and merkle root to have basically unlimited space. (although kano can probably explain this better than I could, since he likely wrote that code.) |
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Cool, mine is still in the post, so how many moonlanders are you going to try?
If you take off the fans, you can run an extra row to the sipolar - just be sure to have some active cooling on them. |
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So, after the ramp up, how often are the payouts? Tks
You get payouts when: 1) We find a block 2) 101 confirmations pass (the block matures) 3) The payout block is mined (usually when we find the next one.) Even during the ramp up, you get a payout, it just won't be for your full hash rate until you're fully ramped. |
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Interesting. I am seeing the reward from the 24th in my wallet but it is still in the memory pool. I usually do not see the reward until the next block hits or Kano submits a small transaction fee to get payments out. My understanding was as long as we were running fee free till 2018 no paid transaction fees would be forthcoming. Is this just a fluke in that the reward is showing but not confirmed? I know that running a full node usually gets my payments transmitted right away, even if no confirmations. I was not sure if running a full node effects receiving in a similar way.
Any bitcoin core wallet gurus out there that have some insight?
A node relayed the transaction, and it got to your wallet, so it'll show there, even if its not confirmed. You wont be able to spend it until it is confirmed, of course. |
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Thanks a bunch wavelengthsf. I'll give it a try for about a week or two and see how it goes. Hopefully great!!  Sure - my advice is to give it 2 months. You need some time for the ramp up and the longer you mine, the less variance. |
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In your experience, does the reward make up for the long wait before a block is found? I currently average 0.002918071 per day with Slushpool with only one S9.
Yes, absolutely. I switched from Slush to Kano and I definitely see the difference. Slush is a fine pool, nothing wrong with it, but the fee is higher than Kano (2% vs .9% when he has it). The pool is much smaller, so the variance is higher, but the payouts are great when they come. |
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Thanks for the prompt response wavelengthsf. I moved the miner yesterday over 12 hours ago. I guess I need some guidance as to how to track my contribution to the pool. Need to know that I am getting compensated for the contributions to the pool. Slushpool shows my hashrate on a particular block. Not sure how to find such info on kano since the rewards page is still blank.
Do you know how soon block information would show up on my rewards page?
Until we find a block, you won't get any reward. You only get paid when that happens. You can look at your Workers Shift Graph to see what your average hash rate is (the red line.) That average increases as you ramp up to speed. For example, I just put some new S9s online a couple days ago. My pool hashrate is ~85 th/s, but my average is only 61. Yesterday it was 59. It'll continue to rise until it hits 85 or so. If we found a block right now, i'd get paid for that average (61) vs. my actual (85.) In around a week and a half, my average will be up to 85 and i'll get a full reward for every block. But only when we find them - so that's why you see people in this thread doing block dances, praying to anime goddesses, and sacrificing things. |
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Hello Kano Gurus,
I recently just switched from Slushpool to kano.is since I heard really good things about this pool. I have read about the ramp up period but also read that some people would see block rewards even before the ramp up period is completed. I also installed the Android app and got a "block found" notification once.
But it's been over 12 hours since I switched my S9 to kano.is and still don't see any information on the rewards page. How do I track activities related to how my miner is doing as it relates to rewards. Slushpool has an indication bar and rewards page which is very helpful.
Am I being too hasty for results? Just a bit worried though.
When did you move your miner over? The last block we hit was on the 24th - so unless it was before then, you wouldn't have any rewards. Are you mining with your username, or just your BTC address? If you are using just your BTC address, you don't see any stats - you have to mine with your username for that. |
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Sorry folks - newbie question:
I've got a few block erupters pointed here, so pretty much the minimum hashpower one is allowed to participate with while I figure out the intricacies of mining before I point some more hash power at it. I love the idea of solo mining and using a pool like this is great for those of us who can't figure out how to run our own full node and do it independently. My total shares are over 100K at this point, but my best ever is only 30K - which seems a bit of a difference from expected based on the explanation above, and I'm not sure I can attribute this to pure luck.
My difficulty is being assigned by the pool as a 1/1, and I only occasionally break through with a higher number. I've seen multiple times on this thread that this is merely for confirmation that one is mining and doesn't actually change your chances of finding a block. Its still based on overall hashpower. My question is if difficulty is the TARGET (ie, the correct mining solution must be a number above the target difficulty), how can difficulty be assigned to a miner from the pool? Is it merely a representation of my successful hash's difficulty level (ie, most of my successful hashes are difficulty 1)? Is my difference between total shares and best ever share a reflection of my low hash power and random variance, or my allocation of work by the pool?
There are two targets - the one that the pool accepts and the one the network accepts as a valid block. Your 1 if the difficulty that the pool will accept. It recognizes you have a lowered powered machine, and it'll let you submit at that minimum level. As long as your erupters submit a share with difficulty of 1 or higher, the pool will accept it. Now, the network difficulty is much, much, much higher. Your miners are essentially trying random numbers, mixing them with some other data, and hashing that. It is possible (but unlikely) and of your shares will actually be high enough for the network difficulty. It'd be over 1, so it'd be accepted, and it'd be over the difficulty target, so it'd solve for a block. Thing of it like rolling dice. Imagine you get a block if you roll 2 trillion dice and they all land on 6. For every dice that lands on 6, you get a point. Your 1 share is proof that you're rolling the dice. If three of those land on 6, you get 3 points. (your share would be 3/1 in this example). If all of them land on six, you get 2 trillion points, and you find a block. Now there's a lot more nuance than that in mining, but hopefully it explains the concept. |
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Hey I'm using Coinminery for windows 10 and my Log says "Block found"... does that mean I found the block or just someone in the pool found the block?
Likely it means someone found a block on the network, not even in the pool. If the pool found a block, you'd see a lot of posts here congratulating the finder. It's highly unlikely you'll find a block with your PC, and you shouldn't even be using GPU or CPUs on the pool |
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Hi guys,
a n00b question sorry
I have bought my first miner (avalon 741) and started mining on kano pool on 22. December.
However - after 5 days of mining at constant 7.5 Th/s I only received 2 small awards:
23/Dec amount 0.00019134 BTC
25/Dec amount 0.00064641 BTC
according to profitability calculator my miner should generate around 19 USD/day and after 5 days I'm nowhere close to this amount?
what am I doing wrong? my reported hashing rate and internet connection are both stable
thanks for any help!
A few different things: Most importantly, you're not fully ramped up. In order to prevent pool hopping, Kano's payout mechanism takes some time before it'll pay out the full awards. In this case, its shares based on the network difficulty. It takes some time for your miner to "ramp up" so that your shares are consistently counting for their full reward. This also works to your advantage if you lose power, internet, or leave the pool. If it takes 2 weeks, for example, for you to be fully ramped up, it'll also take 2 weeks for you to ramp down - do you get a reward even if your miners are offline, based on their past work. Secondly, the profitability calculators use averages. Those are your expected earnings over a period of time at the current difficulty. If a pool doesn't find a block, you don't get anything. If a big pool is finding blocks all the time, you get less because there's more users. Like all things that are probability based, it'll all equal out in the long run - but you gotta keep it up for that long run in order to see the expected rewards. |
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I have a question to you guys, can someone who already owns that little bad boy tell me is a fun much louder when miner is pushed to 5Mh comparing to stock settings?
The fan on just one, which is all I have on the board till the batch 2 shipment is received, barely makes any noise whatsoever. My computer make much more noise when idle. I will let you know what 28 of them sounds like - probably more noticeable with that many. 28 is a little louder, but still lower than an L3+ |
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Seeing as how the price is back to around $16k, doubtful
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One of my new S9s also has a whirling fan. Aside from the noise, I dont see any other issues with it. RPM is normal.
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