wouldn't worry too much about what you see on your S9s...that's been doctored by Biteme in BMminer. I would focus on the errors shown on the Kano Workers page and then only to verify that it is close or lower than the Invalids shown at the top of each Kano page.
I do notice that too cold is bad.
For reference what are we calling "Too cold". Less than 70? Less than 60? I still have no idea where everyone else's system runs. Lately my 4 s9's have been enjoying the cold snowy air in Arkansas and the spread ranges from 62c chip temp to 77c chip temp at the moment.
My best hash rate is right around 80-83 degrees. Anything less than 75 and they're losing 20% of the hashrate. They seem happy to chill around 80-82 degrees with fans around 4500 to 5400 rpm That's interesting....Mine are in the 59 to 61 range. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? I need to monitor carefully because during the day we have a window open and the high cfm fan sucks a lot of heat out. In the evening, we lock it down and the room runs warmer. I've noticed my hash seems to do better in the top right corner of Kano when I monitor it from home (windows shut). I will be doing a little recon into this now and collecting some data. Thanks for the info, I'll see if it holds true over here. gl man. Yeah I have mine in a shop, separate building than my home. Its small, only 120 sf with a 9' ceiling on a 4/12 pitch for a total volume of around 1000 cubic ft. I started leaving the window open a little but noticed that if it got too cold they lag.   let me know if you want any other infoz When you say shop, do you have central air out there or are you running a portable A/C or no A/C at all in the summer? I am building a shed to house my miners, currently only 4 S9's but plan to add on as profits allow. I am planning on running an exhaust fan to the shed and boxing in the hot side , while running a portable AC unit with 10000 BTU cooling. This should allow me to keep the shed cool even on the hottest summer days. Not sure what your setup is looking like but I am all about any input other users have on mistakes they may have made in the past or things they wish they had done differently. |
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Guys, is this even ok..? https://imgur.com/a/4d69DSo many HW errors within 36 hours. Never seen it at this much before. You can also see my miner is jumping between different stratums of Kano. Is my miner too cold..? Could a faaaaar location of Kano stratum create this..? Am I doing something wrong..? I double checked my connection fyi, it is all ok. I wouldn't worry too much about what you see on your S9s...that's been doctored by Biteme in BMminer. I would focus on the errors shown on the Kano Workers page and then only to verify that it is close or lower than the Invalids shown at the top of each Kano page. I do notice that too cold is bad. For reference what are we calling "Too cold". Less than 70? Less than 60? I still have no idea where everyone else's system runs. Lately my 4 s9's have been enjoying the cold snowy air in Arkansas and the spread ranges from 62c chip temp to 77c chip temp at the moment. |
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Question to anyone with an S9 on Kano Pool: how much reward do you normally get for a block? Looking back over the history of the pool, it has gone up to 8 days without finding a block. Is the reward on par with the other pools in that timeframe?
There are 100s of posts asking the same question. If you go back about 25 pages and start reading you will find many case studies. Additionally, if the rewards were not on par with other pools do you think that we would be mining here? There is a reason we do. Unless of course we are morons and that could very well be the case. You can't see the forest through the trees. This is about the average over time. One week to the next has a lot of variance. Over time the variance flattens out and you will see that you will make more here than on pools such as slush and antpoo. I'm not an expert but I did do some of my own analysis having mined on Kano and Slush. To me the numbers speak for themselves, it's Kano all the way. These are all based on past results but I put my money on Kano moving forward... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.msg28131605#msg28131605Maybe this will help and keep in mind I was calculating based on 3-13.5 Antminer S9's. Minergain.com is also a great source as well. I'm no expert either, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. PPLNS is the way to go! Mine ON! |
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There's no pay threshold. You get paid for each block we hit for now. There's been rumor that in the future there may be some changes to that model.
Yeah I've been spreading those rumours  Would you recomend someone with only a few TH/s mine at your pool? Or will it all be "dust" and never get payed like I was reading on another thread. Im not looking for a debate, or to complain. Just trying to figure out where my hash is best.. I would totally recommend you turn on Private Messages from Newbies so that people can reach out to you when they have questions for you or suggestions! Kano is a great pool and it has one of my S9's currently. As others have said, the community is great. I love having others to talk to about mining and miner related questions since there aren't a ton out here in the sticks where I am. Either way, welcome to the community and the pool if you decide to stick around! |
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I broke my pool account! I was stupid and set the Worker Management Minimum Diff to 156,000,000. Since I did that, the Pool shows my miner as offline for over two hours. So I set the Minimum Diff back to 0, and restarted my miner twice, waiting another hour but it still showed as offline for over three hours now.
So I created a new pool account and pointed my miner to the new account, and it shows as Active and online and is busy working and producing shares.
Is there a way I can fix my old pool account or somehow consolidate pool accounts so I don't lose the shares I worked on so far? Like perhaps use the same BTC payment address?
Any advice is appreciated, and I apologize if this has been asked and answered - I did search for a couple of hours but couldn't find anything.
Just use the new user. Your old user will ramp down as your new user ramps up, so there's no loss. Thank you. Should I use the same BTC receiving address or does that not matter? It won't matter so long as you don't mind utilizing two separate BTC Addresses and as long as you have access to both. If you are using coinbase for example then it won't matter if you use a different BTC address issued by them for your account. |
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This makes me want to vomit just thinking of having to report to the IRS. I need to meet someone that is experienced in tax law and crypto so I can make sure I do things right, or at least as right as possible. I'm going to be saving all of my electric costs over the year. It just makes me have to nervous shit thinking about dealing with all of this.
Do you plan on reporting anything for 2017 tax filings? Just started the mining setup 1/5 so I won't have anything to file. |
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Thanks Nazzer. Just to clarify - minergain is a free work of love for the crypto community that still has a ways to go. I have the code to monitor workers for a few pools (slush and kano primarily) but have not put the email / text alert for workers going down, but I can add that next week (I 'play' with this on Mondays and Tuesdays). I finally got rewards with converted dollars at the time of the block working this week for anyone interested. Cool!! Thanks for the BTC to $ conversion! Does that use the price of BTC on the date of the reward in the calc? GREAT Work! Mine on! Yes it uses the average price for the day (worst case). If the reward is in the past few months, the BTC price is gathered every minute (it gets averaged out to 5 minutes after a couple days old). In most cases it will be the pretty much the price of BTC when the block is found. I may offer different ways to calculate this in the future (when it gets to your wallet, etc), but this is one of the ways that the IRS recommends you report this if you want to write off your power, equipment and other costs. So what minergain reports is your income and you already have your costs I suspect. Then when you convert your BTC to your bank, take the difference of your final bank dollars minus what you reported and that is your long term gain (or short if less than 6 months). Obviously this is still the wild west as far as "if" and "how" you report, but this will make it much easier if you decide to. Also, I have daily dollar to about a dozen other international currencies for the past year, so if anyone needs that, let me know and I will get that implemented sooner than later. You can see the list on this page: https://www.minergain.com/all_virtual_pricesThis makes me want to vomit just thinking of having to report to the IRS. I need to meet someone that is experienced in tax law and crypto so I can make sure I do things right, or at least as right as possible. I'm going to be saving all of my electric costs over the year. It just makes me have to nervous shit thinking about dealing with all of this. |
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Come on and pop!
67% here we go! I feel a pop coming!
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I am new to bitcoin mining, just bought my first miner and plugged it in to this pool! Thanks for putting a forum out there for newbies like myself to learn!
1st lesson...patience. Welcome aboard and you are definitely in the right place. Read up and make sure you are aware of how this pool works. Many frustrations arise from not knowing what to expect. MINE ON! |
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Anyone here using Awesome Miner to monitor their miners?
I'm having an issue with the notification settings. The software allows you to set up rules such as Temp rules for automatic shutoff, warnings for certain set temps (you can even select chip temps vs board temps). The issue I'm having is I am not being alerted when the set temps are met on any of the miners. I'm not sure if there is a step I'm missing in applying the rules to each miner, etc.
Just curious if anyone has experience with the software that could help a brother out. I have ensured that the rules are enabled, and I have verified that the temps are set correctly and that the miners are actually at or above the temps with no warning.
Also along the same note, at what point do you get nervous for your chip temps? I know each person probably has their own temp they begin worrying about, I'm really just looking for what should be worrisome, and what would be catastrophic.
Fellow newbie here, only a week in. I've heard the self shut off for the miners is 90-100. I don't use awesome miner, can't help you there. As far as when I get concerned: One of mine when it reaches 78 on the main board will kick fans up to 6k rpm which then cools it to 75 rapidly, the fans go back to 4k rpm, and a few minutes later it is a rinse and repeat cycle. So when that one reaches 77 I go open the doors and let some heat out. My coolest one runs almost 10 degrees cooler for some reason, so I can't complain there. And my middle one the exhaust fan always run 5.2k-5.6k rpm constantly. (my next project figuring out that). Hope this helps. Thanks for the response. That totally helps with figuring out where everyone's numbers are. Some people say they let their chip temps run up to almost 100C in the summer time and the miners are fine but I'm not comfortable with that at all. So far the highest I have seen is around 85C and I immediately cool them down at that point. I am currently using my garage until I have a shed built with an exhaust fan and an area to separate my cool and hot side. Currently the miners heat up the garage and i pop the door to let some heat out of the room until it heats up again. |
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Anyone here using Awesome Miner to monitor their miners?
I'm having an issue with the notification settings. The software allows you to set up rules such as Temp rules for automatic shutoff, warnings for certain set temps (you can even select chip temps vs board temps). The issue I'm having is I am not being alerted when the set temps are met on any of the miners. I'm not sure if there is a step I'm missing in applying the rules to each miner, etc.
Just curious if anyone has experience with the software that could help a brother out. I have ensured that the rules are enabled, and I have verified that the temps are set correctly and that the miners are actually at or above the temps with no warning.
Also along the same note, at what point do you get nervous for your chip temps? I know each person probably has their own temp they begin worrying about, I'm really just looking for what should be worrisome, and what would be catastrophic.
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Holy SMOKES I got quoted and mentioned in a DrHaribo post!
Have we ever figured out the issue with the amounts changing once a shift has fallen off? I know I spoke with someone about it with BitMinter and they were going to look into it. Since that time I have sold my old gear and purchased all my new equipment. Just a recap essentially what I'm seeing is even though the shift is no longer eligible for pay, and an amount is assigned to it in the "Pay per hour per Th" column, once another shift completes, that amount will be adjusted. I'm just not sure why it would adjust or which amount is correct, the first one or the final amount. Sometimes it will adjust as far as 4 shifts later.
Thanks in advance for any insight!
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Hi,
I am new to mining and new to Bitminter. I am mining with my S7 in Bitminter pool for weeks but didnt received any BTC yet. I read that it pays when it finds block, but when?!
Is Bitminter good for me with an old S7 should find another pool which pays faster? (I have to pay the electricitiy bill soon)
Thanks,
uristn
First of all, welcome to the pool. Secondly, many users struggle with the same question on a long block such as the one that we are currently mining. You can track under Statistics - Shifts (work effort) which shifts are currently available for pay. You'll also notice the most recent two shifts that fell off the pay availability did so with a zero payout. Unfortunately, this sometimes happens, but it's less common than I feared when I arrived. As far as your S7, you will be very happy when a block is found and you are paid, and then another block is found quickly and you are payed twice for the same work. Sometimes even more. As I stated earlier, many users struggled with the same question...until their first block. Then they were hooked. PPLNSG pools are the best, and BitMinter is one of if not THE best pool to be a part of. I personally have 4 miners, two of which are at other pools until I earn enough BTC for the electric and then they will be here and at other PPLNSG pools. Hopefully you can stick with it here as once a user leaves, the amount of their reward begin to fall off the current shifts available for payment. Then you have to mine again to get rid of all those zeroes and it's just not worth it! 1 S7's electric cost shouldn't be too much, and I would encourage you to just cover it in USD this month and continue with BitMinter. Best of luck! |
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I deleted the altcoin post ... this is about Bitcoin.
Noted |
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Bitmain's newest miner. This is going to make some people very happy if they get it early enough. Antminer A3, to mine Blake 2b. Early calculations are: Time Frame BLC Coins BTC (BLC/BTC at 0.00000368) USD (BTC at $12,056.83) Power Cost (in USD) Pool Fees (in USD) Profit (in USD) Hourly 335.91325106 0.00123616 $14.90 $0.13 $0.00 $14.78 Daily 8061.91802553 0.02966786 $357.70 $3.06 $0.00 $354.64 Weekly 56433.42617870 0.20767501 $2,503.90 $21.42 $0.00 $2,482.48 Monthly 241857.54076585 0.89003575 $10,731.01 $91.80 $0.00 $10,639.21 Annually 2942600.07931778 10.82876829 $130,560.62 $1,116.90 $0.00 $129,443.72 Yes, I'm sure someone will notice "But you didn't even include the pool fees". You're right...I didn't. I'm sorry if I wasn't accurate enough. This is a good rough picture. Yes I know the difficulty will go up, yes I know you can't expect to get any of these returns unless Bitmain doesn't test them before they ship. Anyway, it's out there...and if you didn't get an S9, you can get this right now. I'm literally in the hole in my bank account or I would be purchasing one. Just because I can't have one doesn't mean you guys can't. Best of luck with ordering. There is a buy limit of one per account at the moment, so they might last a tad longer than the others. If someone is feeling a little loan-y, let me know. https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020180116164357365a2ljX8gx06D3EDIT: Currently sold out. Sorry if you guys missed it. Blake2B difficulty is about to explode! |
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Aaaaaaand they're gone.
That's all folks.
They didnt last at all.
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Guess they weren't feeling the Twitter today. Either way, we got the info out in time. I know people were sad they missed out on the last batch!
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New batch again. Just got the email...keep your eyes peeled for those new miners at bitmain fellas!
11 AM 17 January, GMT+8 China Time!
Just to clarify they are in stock and live at BitMain
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New batch again. Just got the email...keep your eyes peeled for those new miners at bitmain fellas!
11 AM 17 January, GMT+8 China Time!
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