[4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool

[Steamtyme]

Hey guys, posted this in the AntPool thread, but wanted to share with you guys as well. I have decided to switch pools to SlushPool three days ago, throughout my time on AntPool I kept all of the stats for my income:

Date	Hashrate	BTC difficulty	BTC
14.12.2017	-	1590896927258	0.00458683
15.12.2017	~42 TH/s	-	0.00765807
16.12.2017	~42 TH/s	-	0.00783433
17.12.2017	~42 TH/s	-	0.0080511
18.12.2017	40.74 TH/s	1873105475222	0.007267
19.12.2017	41.89 TH/s	-	0.010563606
20.12.2017	40.93 TH/s	-	0.00801721
21.12.2017	41.7 TH/s	-	0.00783261
22.12.2017	42.27 TH/s	-	0.00749809
23.12.2017	41.62 TH/s	-	0.00867202
24.12.2017	42.35 TH/s	-	0.00851488
25.12.2017	42.02 TH/s	-	0.00669819
26.12.2017	41.98 TH/s	-	0.007558254
27.12.2017	41.85 TH/s	-	0.007531699
28.12.2017	41.43 TH/s	-	0.007961783
29.12.2017	41.7 TH/s	-	0.008477448
30.12.2017	41.68 TH/s	-	0.007881523
31.12.2017	38.05 TH/s	1931136454488	0.00651293
01.01.2018	41.23 TH/s	-	0.00658068
02.01.2018	41.53 TH/s	-	0.00743069
03.01.2018	41.93 TH/s	-	0.00752624
04.01.2018	37.03 TH/s	-	0.0072694
05.01.2018	40.47 TH/s	-	0.0063245
06.01.2018	37.99 TH/s	-	0.00664168
07.01.2018	41.49 TH/s	-	0.00589908
08.01.2018	41.63 TH/s	-	0.00732839
09.01.2018	39.93 TH/s	-	0.0071378
10.01.2018	41.52 TH/s	-	0.00690108
11.01.2018	41.72 TH/s	-	0.0064799
12.01.2018	45.12 TH/s	-	0.00710947
13.01.2018	51.39 TH/s	2227847638504	0.00741469
14.01.2018	49.93 TH/s	-	0.006221
15.01.2018	18.29 TH/s	-	0.002851

30day	Average Hashrate	Average Daily Yield
	41.9	0.007445011

Average TH/s per day isn't available for the first 4 days of mining, but assume it was around 42TH/s.

Green is when I was mining BTC, purple was me mining BCH and converting it to BTC on the exchange, usually I did this as soon as I got the BCH transferred to my exchange(linked AntPool to pay it out directly to the exchange I use). My goal, as is of any miner, was to maximize BTC per day.

I was mining on AntPool with 3 S9's most of the time, on the evening of the 12th I hooked up another E9+ (9.5 TH/s), which just about compensated for the difficulty increase the next day.

I switched to SlushPool after reading these forums, and people giving a figure of AntPool paying about 20% less than Slush and Kano. Unfortunately the first full day mining on Slush (16.01) I got 0.00597, which is the second worst payout I've ever had, the worst came on the (07.01) due to dead ports on AntPool, and me averaging 38 TH/s. But as I've come to understand Slush has a lot more variability, so it was just probably unlucky to hit one of the worst days at the beginning.

Wanted to ask if anyone could give their figure on Average Daily Yield per Terahash for the previous month on SlushPool, just to compare. I will make a new chart, for SlushPool this time, and post it in a month, also accounting for difficulty change. That should be enough to account for variability and provide a good comparison between the two pools.

It would have been a lot better if you had done it the other way around; my reasoning there is that during December the miner fees in blocks was huge. That is where the real payout difference is noticed. I don't have the exact details but if you check the blocks from 12/20/2017 to 12/25/2017, the size of blocks I think averaged 17.5 or better. that extra 5 BTC per block was a huge bonus, and was a huge help in offsetting difficulty increases.

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[bitbybitby]

It would have been a lot better if you had done it the other way around; my reasoning there is that during December the miner fees in blocks was huge. That is where the real payout difference is noticed. I don't have the exact details but if you check the blocks from 12/20/2017 to 12/25/2017, the size of blocks I think averaged 17.5 or better. that extra 5 BTC per block was a huge bonus, and was a huge help in offsetting difficulty increases.

I was mining BCH during that period anyway, was giving more BTC on a daily basis.
But on the times I was mining Bitcoin I had PPS+ selected, so that pays out transaction fees as well. Regular PPS doesn't make sense on AntPool anymore, it pays out more only when transaction fees are under 1.1 BTC in a block, not sure why people still consider it as an option...

[kobo_eth]

Fellas, I am really sorry for the question, but I am new to Slushpool and have been browsing to find an option for hash rate alert (email or phone notification). I know it is possible as it is written in the Help article. I also read that you must switch on reporting first in Slush, but  I can't seem to find how to. Any hint will be appreciated, in the mean time I continue googling.

[traxor]

Fellas, I am really sorry for the question, but I am new to Slushpool and have been browsing to find an option for hash rate alert (email or phone notification). I know it is possible as it is written in the Help article. I also read that you must switch on reporting first in Slush, but  I can't seem to find how to. Any hint will be appreciated, in the mean time I continue googling.

Go to "settings" -- in the upper left quadrant, click on "Bitcoin" -- then click on "Monitoring".

You can also edit each worker to set your monitoring limits.

[Brony89]

Hi!
Does anybody have problems with workers' hashrate and  scoring hashrate at SlushPool? Problem has occurred tommorow morning and today, hashrate range increased. Some workers sometimes change their status to "low".
Ping is normal, about 50-60ms. I use this pool first week, and first several days all were excellent.
I just need to know, could it be problems with a pool, or i have to look for them at my side. (Miners' statuses on web interface are normal and usual)

[usercom]

usually a block is solved under 1 hour but the last one  8h40min and still going... is this broken or what ?
(sorry if i sound like a noob i`m new in mining)

[Steamtyme]

No you are just dealing with the variance in Mining.

If you notice the CDF blue bar it only hit 100% about 45 minutes ago or something. That is the expected time between blocks. 

before this "drought" we'll call it we hit 10 in under 12 hours, it's just about the evening out.

[kano]

No you are just dealing with the variance in Mining.

If you notice the CDF blue bar it only hit 100% about 45 minutes ago or something. That is the expected time between blocks.  

before this "drought" we'll call it we hit 10 in under 12 hours, it's just about the evening out.

The CDF of a single block is basically meaningless unless it gets over 1000% diff ...

The number that miners should be looking at, is the CDF[Erlang] of a range of blocks.
Though I expect that is beyond the level of analysis of this pool
(since they were clearly doing no useful analysis at all from 2010 to Dec 2015 when that major problem occurred that cost all the miners on this pool a very large amount of BTC)

Luck isn't expected to correct itself, or even itself out, it's simply expected to approach 100%

[Steamtyme]

No you are just dealing with the variance in Mining.

If you notice the CDF blue bar it only hit 100% about 45 minutes ago or something. That is the expected time between blocks. 

before this "drought" we'll call it we hit 10 in under 12 hours, it's just about the evening out.

The CDF of a single block is basically meaningless unless it gets over 1000% diff ...

The number that miners should be looking at, is the CDF[Erlang] of a range of blocks.
Though I expect that is beyond the level of analysis of this pool
(since they were clearly doing no analysis at all from 2010 to Dec 2015 when that major problem occurred that cost all the miners on this pool a very large amount of BTC)

Luck isn't expected to correct itself, or even itself out, it's simply expected to approach 100%

Thank you for the corrections. I know enough to know you are right, lol.

I was only speaking to the very basic theory of probability.

Congrats on recouping some of your pools hashrate over the past month, if I ever get everything stable again I'll gladly return

[kobo_eth]

Fellas, I am really sorry for the question, but I am new to Slushpool and have been browsing to find an option for hash rate alert (email or phone notification). I know it is possible as it is written in the Help article. I also read that you must switch on reporting first in Slush, but  I can't seem to find how to. Any hint will be appreciated, in the mean time I continue googling.

Go to "settings" -- in the upper left quadrant, click on "Bitcoin" -- then click on "Monitoring".

You can also edit each worker to set your monitoring limits.

Thank you! Worked like a charm, appreciated.

[CryptonikaTrade]

Hello! Could I mine etherium on your pool?

[allinvain]

Hello! Could I mine etherium on your pool?

Here on Slush? No. Only BTC and ZCash.

[CrypotoCreanis]

Hey all. Just joined Slush with my 2 new miners yesterday. Question - the 2 workers I made and named show "Off" even though I am mining with them and used them setting up my pool config.
There is a 3rd miner that it looks like Slush made for me, that shows OK and has mining stats next to it but I never used it in setting up my miners. What did I do wrong? I appear to be hashing fine and with both miners, so maybe nothing to worry about?

[MinerSRQ]

Hey all. Just joined Slush with my 2 new miners yesterday. Question - the 2 workers I made and named show "Off" even though I am mining with them and used them setting up my pool config.
There is a 3rd miner that it looks like Slush made for me, that shows OK and has mining stats next to it but I never used it in setting up my miners. What did I do wrong? I appear to be hashing fine and with both miners, so maybe nothing to worry about?

Slush (and most other pools) will auto create your workers based on what you enter into the "Worker" field on the Miner Config of your hardware.   (e.g., AcccountName.Worker)

Does your hash rate of the 3rd miner equal the combined rate of your miners?   Sounds like you might not have entered the .WorkerName differently on each miner?

[CrypotoCreanis]

Hey all. Just joined Slush with my 2 new miners yesterday. Question - the 2 workers I made and named show "Off" even though I am mining with them and used them setting up my pool config.
There is a 3rd miner that it looks like Slush made for me, that shows OK and has mining stats next to it but I never used it in setting up my miners. What did I do wrong? I appear to be hashing fine and with both miners, so maybe nothing to worry about?

Slush (and most other pools) will auto create your workers based on what you enter into the "Worker" field on the Miner Config of your hardware.   (e.g., AcccountName.Worker)

Does your hash rate of the 3rd miner equal the combined rate of your miners?   Sounds like you might not have entered the .WorkerName differently on each miner?

It does equal my total hash rate yes. I used a 1 and 2 after my worker names when setting up the miners. Actually even copy and pasted the worker names from the add worker screen in slush right over to the antminer miner config page.

badaspsvt1.creanis1
badaspsvt1.creanis2

are the 2 workers I used

but Miner1 is what slush self added

[kobo_eth]

Guys, a question, me and some associates of mine just joined slush pool with a bunch of S9's.

We noticed that the min threshold for fee-less payout is 0.01 btc so we are thinking of how to optimize cash outs.
I came up to the following scenario, has anyone else done it, I assume all should work like a charm.

1. Set the automatic payout limit to a very high value like 2-3 btc (below is explained why)

2. When we have accumulated enough (for us) rewards (but less than 2-3 btc), each of us will point the payout address to his own wallet i.e. guy A will point to Coinbase - cash out his part, then guy B to Bitfinex and cash out his part, then guy C to Nano S etc.

So basically a few times we'll change the payout address, I guess Slush will allow that.

[rifleman74]

Guys, a question, me and some associates of mine just joined slush pool with a bunch of S9's.

We noticed that the min threshold for fee-less payout is 0.01 btc so we are thinking of how to optimize cash outs.
I came up to the following scenario, has anyone else done it, I assume all should work like a charm.

1. Set the automatic payout limit to a very high value like 2-3 btc (below is explained why)

2. When we have accumulated enough (for us) rewards (but less than 2-3 btc), each of us will point the payout address to his own wallet i.e. guy A will point to Coinbase - cash out his part, then guy B to Bitfinex and cash out his part, then guy C to Nano S etc.

So basically a few times we'll change the payout address, I guess Slush will allow that.

From the same account?  You have to confirm each payout address change before slush will allow the address change.   Sounds like more hassle then it's worth.

[kobo_eth]

Guys, a question, me and some associates of mine just joined slush pool with a bunch of S9's.

We noticed that the min threshold for fee-less payout is 0.01 btc so we are thinking of how to optimize cash outs.
I came up to the following scenario, has anyone else done it, I assume all should work like a charm.

1. Set the automatic payout limit to a very high value like 2-3 btc (below is explained why)

2. When we have accumulated enough (for us) rewards (but less than 2-3 btc), each of us will point the payout address to his own wallet i.e. guy A will point to Coinbase - cash out his part, then guy B to Bitfinex and cash out his part, then guy C to Nano S etc.

So basically a few times we'll change the payout address, I guess Slush will allow that.

From the same account?  You have to confirm each payout address change before slush will allow the address change.   Sounds like more hassle then it's worth.

You have to confirm each payout address change before slush will allow the address change.
This was exactly my question - is this an email confirmation or? Is there a risk that Slush deny it etc. I just can't think of a more optimal way. If we cash out to 1 address  (no hassle) and then from this address we transfer to our personal ones, we'll have to pay fees too many times.

Thanks,

[rifleman74]

Guys, a question, me and some associates of mine just joined slush pool with a bunch of S9's.

We noticed that the min threshold for fee-less payout is 0.01 btc so we are thinking of how to optimize cash outs.
I came up to the following scenario, has anyone else done it, I assume all should work like a charm.

1. Set the automatic payout limit to a very high value like 2-3 btc (below is explained why)

2. When we have accumulated enough (for us) rewards (but less than 2-3 btc), each of us will point the payout address to his own wallet i.e. guy A will point to Coinbase - cash out his part, then guy B to Bitfinex and cash out his part, then guy C to Nano S etc.

So basically a few times we'll change the payout address, I guess Slush will allow that.

From the same account?  You have to confirm each payout address change before slush will allow the address change.   Sounds like more hassle then it's worth.

You have to confirm each payout address change before slush will allow the address change.
This was exactly my question - is this an email confirmation or? Is there a risk that Slush deny it etc. I just can't think of a more optimal way. If we cash out to 1 address  (no hassle) and then from this address we transfer to our personal ones, we'll have to pay fees too many times.

Thanks,

It is an email confirmation, but I'm betting if you change it too many times within an hour/day, it may get locked.  You could just change it every time you hit a threshold (say .04 or .05), then move it to the next wallet address. 

[KNK]

If we cash out to 1 address  (no hassle) and then from this address we transfer to our personal ones

That's the only way.
Once you set your limit lower than the amount you have, slush will transfer all the funds at once