Hello,

Generally most people recommend around 128,000 as the difficulty for a standard L3+ (assuming you are on the 504 MH/s model and not overclocking to a higher frequency). If you do any overclocking I've seen people around 268,000 or so when pulling 720 MH/s on some models.

So basically I'd recommend by default d=128000 and maybe adjust around that to see if your personal machines/connection respond better.

Thanks

(Side Note: I did notice someone last night try around 1,280,000 difficulty, which could cause issues for the machine/connection to achieve 504MH/s on that job share size)

Hello,

Currently we only ensure payouts in Bitcoin and Litecoin, but there are plans to add more options in the future. We have gotten a handful of requests for DASH, so its higher on the list than others.

We'll be sure to announce if/when that changes. Thanks

Hello,

Sure, I can try to help you figure out if there is an issue. We have this connection example on the homepage:

Antminer S9 Connection Example
URL: stratum+tcp://mine.gigarho.com:4444#xnsub
Username: 18X4BMUhhuew1wuANiYQdJfTPt4MZzvrdc
Password: c=BTC

Can you verify that in the URL you have the proper port 4444? Also maybe try the password field as: c=BTC, d=128000

Beyond that, there shouldn't be issues...maybe try to restart the S9 after you have the correct connection details in?

If you still have issues feel free to let us know on here, by PM, support ticket, whatever works for you. Hope this helps.

Hello,

For new accounts, the first day's worth of pending confirmations can take around 24hrs depending on the blocks that were found. For example some coins have many confirmations on their individual networks and drawn out time in between blocks. The exchange/confirmation process should start converting those earnings from pending into balance soon.

You can always send us your wallet address by PM if you would like us to take a look to make sure everything is correct with the connection settings. Most likely though the balance should start exactly 24hrs after the first block earning is confirmed.

Sent you a PM on here to verify your account details. Once we hear back, we'll take care of this for you.

Thanks

Out of the 149 coins that we currently mine, there are a couple that we have noticed to be slow. Sometimes their individual networks take a bit longer to confirm as they don't mine as often for profitability reasons.

As far as the exchanges, everything seems fine or at least close to normal. A few coins had updates this week which may have caused a pause while they were down, but its necessary to ensure we stay on the right chain at all times. No other changes were made that should effect timing. We'll be monitoring and improving where we can as the markets fluctuate.

On the exchanges that service NewYorkCoin, there are currently no buy orders, hence the coin temporarily has a value of 0 when exchanging other coins. Until buy orders start appearing for NYC, the system leaves the earnings in a pending state while waiting for orders to open up. This happens to ensure that when mining, we look for the coins that are achieving decent exchange rates through the transition into our guaranteed payout options of Bitcoin and Litecoin.

Everything is logged and should resume upon the value returning NYC to earlier rates. In the meantime, we strongly suggest only using Bitcoin or Litecoin as payout options on our pool, they don't have the type of issues that these other coins have.

Verge had an attack on its network today for a period of around 3 hours, created issues for Verge and pools receiving improper difficulty values. We updated to their recent fix almost immediately, however we are monitoring to ensure everything is as stable as their dev team is indicating.

Fixed it for you, should now work properly. Most likely it appeared as LBTC before if you had the c=PINK password field missing when you initially connected.

Yes, this should be possible. If you would like to post your wallet address here or open up a support ticket on the site, then we should be able to take care of that change for you.

Hey again,

All found blocks usually take around 24 hours after they are found to mature/confirm/exchange, so in regards to your account...it seems around 4am EDT today you ramped up sha256 and around 6:30am EDT on scrypt (at least on the wallet address you linked). From what I can see, you are above the 0.005 BTC minimum for today's payout, so it should happen normally. The pending on these new miners should be confirmed about 24 hours after the two times I listed above for each of those machines respectively.

If I remember correctly, is this a second/different wallet address than you had used previously? I only see one miner on scrypt, where you said you had two or three running prior to yesterday. If that is the case, then each wallet address is handled separately for purposes of confirmation, payout, accounting, etc. I apologize if I misunderstood or am thinking of another person.

We haven't done anything which should differentiate the naming convention of the algorithms that I am aware of, regardless I'll look into it for you.

Out of the different numbers to choose from, 24hr actual is the previous 24hrs so it is a decent idea of reality but does not anticipate the next 24hrs which is what you tend to want to look for with potential earnings. The current estimate is decent, but is an "in the moment" type of calculation, such as when the difficulty of finding a highly profitable coin exceeds normal standards.

As for the 24hr Estimate, it takes a lot into account and is usually a good determining factor to use (we normally exceed it for Scrypt in actual values), but today there was an issue with a particular coin's network that ramped up values beyond realistic, hence the .02 number you mentioned. Its a very rare occurrence that can happen, but disappears 24hrs after the instance took place and the 24hr estimate should stabilize back to normal at that point forward.

Thought I'd break it down a bit like above, but TLDR: Current Estimate >= 24hr estimate(on normal day) > 24hr actual

That is just my personal opinion, others may disagree in priority. There are a lot of factors that play into it and its hard to guess how luck is going to effect it.

Hello,

Would you mind elaborating more on what you are suggesting? (i.e. number format, API format, etc).

Thanks

Ok, thanks for letting me know about that. From my trials, auto doesn't have the same effect, maybe its a difference in firmware version of the machine or something similar? At least that seems to work for you and your feedback gives me some info when referring AM to others.

The site API information can be found at https://pool.gigarho.com/site/api . The actual url is a bit different depending on which function you are trying to get at.

For the API, it seems x11 has the estimate pegged at BTC whereas the actual has it in mBTC. I'll see about getting that properly set soon.

When you say for the PF setting..."it doesn't change anything", what do you mean by that? There are a couple things I could tweak that may be of help.

Thanks

Just made a change that should help. Depending on Awesome miner, the change may not be lenient enough, in which case let me know and I'll see about tuning it further to get it working properly.

Thank you for letting us know about this.

Your assessment is pretty spot on, nearly every cryptocurrency has had below average market performance this week as a result of the Mt. Gox / FUD situations. There has been a bit of rebound today, and from an upcoming economics standpoint things look decent. From our end, we see that roughly 30% of the sha coins that we offer mine at a more profitable rate than BTC currently (as of this moment).

A lot of the exchange rates on alts depend on how many people are buying to sustain price levels of equivalency. In the current situation where BTC has dropped so much, buyers seem to be waiting for the waters to calm before getting on board again. The weekend is usually a historical time for that, so I'm hopeful personally. On top of that, we are still looking for more options to swap in and help out profitability when/where it makes sense.

On a side note, we have something in mind that might be a decent fix for the 2Pacs you had connected before, but we want to apply that on our next full maintenance. Once we have tested our next version and have a decent amount of confidence in its integrity, we'll announce that date.

Any coin that isn't BTC and LTC pays out when the balance that is pending for all balances across all accounts reaches the amount necessary to payout. That is based on how many blocks of that specific coin we find as well unless its something we provide manually. Depending on a few factors, that may be in the next couple of days, otherwise I'll manually see to it if luck doesn't play out ideally.

I'm honestly a bit surprised Bitmain hasn't introduced an S10 or L4 yet, but maybe slowed production and price on the S9/L3 are indicators of that happening? Also I'm sure their BitcoinCash holdout isn't performing as nice as they hoped with everything going on with China and their proposed mining regulations. Time will tell I guess...

Right now everything seems stable on our end and hearing feedback about how your machines are performing after enough time passes gives us a clearer picture to base our changes on. While we gather data from the current state of connected devices, we can see if adjusting it further is necessary, but only when we are required to do our next full restart/maintenance. If it were to make a stark difference we will do it sooner, but want to maintain consistency if possible.

In addition, we are continuing to look at our expanding list of possible coins and if they seem to provide benefit a few may be added soon. Its almost a nonstop effort to ensure we have a decent offering when we have to adapt to how the networks/markets are changing