I buy it directly from farmers (as in actual livestock farmer) that have their own hydro power, not a hosting company.

They include hosting and internet connection, they usually get considerably less selling their power to the grid (about 1-2 cents ). I provide them with an reasonable alternative by buying power at a higher rate than the power companies pay them. I move in the gear, they get a better price and have to give me some space which is usually abundant on livestock farms.

More importantly, I pay little for transmission since we don't buy much from the grid (or at all). Provided the mining gear is behind the metering station of the hydro generator you will only pay for power use that is in excess of the generator capacity.

Right now both my locations have limited capacities available, around 55 kW.

If you are interested in such arrangements you have to meet some of the livestock farmers, see if they have the capacity you need and negotiate with them individually. This is usually requires patience since farmers have very long time scales in their operations, they center their work around the seasons and you can expect to wait a few months before it's possible to move in gear.

There are locations that have power available in the 100-150 kW range but they are fairly remote, you can even find upwards of 1 MW sites that sell to the grid but would rather want to sell locally.



 

You have the same time stamps as me and Philip.  Although I do not have the final "Your package was released by the clearing agency." yet.  My guess is that the clearing agency stuff happened yesterday and wasn't entered into the computer and they are all on the same flight to Alaska which left Shenzhen at 7:26 or so last night (Shenzhen time).  I checked my last S9 tracking and it was about 7 or 8 hours between the time it took off from Shenzhen and landed in Alaska so according to my calculations it should probably show up in Alaska in the next 2 to 3 hours.

Yes but minus the clearing agency part:


Looks like we both have the same time on almost all of our scans too.  There is usually another clearing agency notification in Alaska.  That one usually just goes by quickly without any issues, now I wonder if that one is to catch packages that didn't get it done at the point of origin.  Or like I said, maybe they just didn't update it in the tracking but it still happened as usual.

Since I keep being asked in PM and IRC ...

The first of the run of 4 blocks 418424, 418425, 418429 & 418432 only matured about 1 hour before our last block we found.
That happened to be around 18:30pm to 19:30pm ... UTC ... when I was asleep ...

However, I did actually queue them during that time

However:
Our block (418534) was 1.445 seconds after the previous block (418533) so we had a very small block with no free txns in it.
i.e. it didn't confirm the free txn payouts.

The next matured block, 418485, matured after our last block.

Unless that happens again , those 5 will be confirmed in the next block we find.

I used ups and I am stuck on this:

06/29/2016   2:57 P.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.


MY guess is I will be reading a f u very soon.

That's a different issue.
That's regarding supporting a fork, or not.
No I don't support the fork, as I've made clear, but no I also don't throw blocks away
If bitcoin moves to requiring support of segwit, then yes we would have to support it then.

However,
the bitcoin devs, in their little centralised master control of BTC ivory tower, want to change bitcoin so they centralise and control transaction fees.
Aside: they also only work on bitcoin if they are paid enough - this fact was made clear to me, directly by "Wladimir J. van der Laan" who effectively runs the bitcoin git.

They like their little god structure where they can ignore the miners who confirm the transactions, as they showed with BIP100 where support of it was very high, but the devs canned it coz it didn't go with their Lightning network plan to move the transaction fees from miners to them.

The bitcoin design is quite clearly stated by Satoshi.
Mining reward will shift to transaction reward so that bitcoin will continue on it's solid foundations.
That isn't where the devs are trying to move it to now with their greed with the Lightning network to take away the growing transactions rewards, which will grow as expected with the original bitcoin design.

Their design is flawed, however, and hopefully will not get enough support, so I guess it's just a question of how easily people are conned into it.

Well, I guess you aren't really sure of my feelings then

We mine what the bitcoin network deems we must mine.
No one can mine segwit until a fork.

to be honest i doubt that there will be any big problems for miners, when the halving will happen there would be less bitcoins released every block but the price of bitcoin increased a lot, also the difficulty will drop a lot

i think that halving wil be profitable for many of the investors that are holding their bitcoins at the moment, to be honest in my opinion halving is one of the things that moves the price the most

Sure it's profitable for common users, but for miners who working without any side help it's so bad, many people lost their work cause of halving.

got it. thanks. Now under "N range", is it recording our Th/s the last 35 hours? or is that the Average of our N Avg the last 35 hours?

Welcome to Kano Pool    You will see it's a great community and i am sure you will enjoy it!

PS : new block  

I missed B4 as I have been traveling quite a bit lately, did the price drop below $1975 USD or hold firm?