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[Legacy2005]

Oooh due to daylight savings time.  We gain an extra hour of Game time compare to Kano's clock.  So 2hrs left of Game Time?  Let me fail everything back to here and kick in the Afterburner to see if we can squeeze in another block!

1:56 to go .. maybe Kano can add the UTC clock on Block page.

It is, at the bottom.   Waaaaaaaaaay at the bottom!

better yet just change it to eastern. the world runs of eastern time anyway right. LOL

[tntdgcr]

Oooh due to daylight savings time.  We gain an extra hour of Game time compare to Kano's clock.  So 2hrs left of Game Time?  Let me fail everything back to here and kick in the Afterburner to see if we can squeeze in another block!

1:56 to go .. maybe Kano can add the UTC clock on Block page.

It is, at the bottom.   Waaaaaaaaaay at the bottom!

omg wow , that tiny blue stuff. i even scrolled quick to the bottom and only focused on the center copy right lol.

[kano]

Oooh due to daylight savings time.  We gain an extra hour of Game time compare to Kano's clock.  So 2hrs left of Game Time?  Let me fail everything back to here and kick in the Afterburner to see if we can squeeze in another block!

1:56 to go .. maybe Kano can add the UTC clock on Block page.

It is, at the bottom.   Waaaaaaaaaay at the bottom!

omg wow , that tiny blue stuff. i even scrolled quick to the bottom and only focused on the center copy right lol.

Bottom left is accurate UTC when the page was generated, bottom right is what your browser thinks your local time was when it got the page.

[clgrissom3]

After a while your brain automatically associates your time zone time to midnight UTC...for me on the USA East Coast it's 8:00 PM...it's burned in like an old CRT!

[pikachuy]

What font size you use for the time... 1? lol

Should add a time left before days over, like a 24 hour count down

[VRobb]

BOOM!  Another block, damn this is the best Tuesday ever!!

-Alright Scotty!  Maximum warp!!

[clgrissom3]

Block by Scotty2u2 with 5.03THs!  Welcome to the Acclaim Board with your first kano block!

Edit:  Haha!  I was eating my chicken in the other room and VRobb beat me to the punch on this one!

[nhando]

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Heh, no, there is no pool strategy that will expect more than 100%
Doesn't matter what NDAs you have, there is none.

Block finding is random, so there's no magic pixies that will tell you when any pool will find it's next block or have a run of good (or bad) luck.

If you are selling access to your hardware for above 100% and the fee you are paying means it is still above 100%, and that is always true, then you shouldn't be mining here since that would be stupid to have a way to beat every pool and not always use it.
However, I highly doubt that is true, and again, if it is true, then you shouldn't be mining here.

If you are putting your hardware on rental sites to gain margins when there is a higher price demand, then you also have to note the obvious that e.g. ScamHash takes 3% of your profit already
(Aside: If you are renting hardware, then ScamHash is getting an enormous 6% of the BTC you are paying)
You may be able to get a higher return, short term, due to price spikes, renting your hardware out, but long term again it will be the high fees that will cut you back down.

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As for the other guy going on about his 1 week or 2 week comparison:
No, I'll delete any more posts on that subject.

I don't care if it ends up showing the pool is better than every other pool or worse.
It's not a comparison that's going to result in any statistically valid results, so it's pointless and, to be blunt, the results will only be misinformation.
Go learn about statistics and bitcoin mining and then consider doing it properly.

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P.S. nice to wake up and see another block within minutes of turning my screens on
Sent 403702, 403712 & 403721 payouts shortly after that, and all confirmed within 10 minutes.

Your argument is actually part of my statement.  You may have glanced over some portion of my post and missed the message.   I stated in my post it's not easily sustainable to achieve 100% in the long term with any pools as even PPS charges high fee so you're never able to get that 100% return.  Also I've mentioned quite a few times in previous posts, that pool hopping is a big risk, so that's definitely not the way to achieve 100% long term.  It's via combination of different things, high premium PPS, Mega Pool PPLNS with 0% fee, renting, contract renting, etc that you're able to achieve this.   That's what I mean by no 1 perfect 1 pool strategy and it may have been misread as as pool hopping.    There is definitely a short windows PPLNS farm that average out to or close to 100% easily with 0% fees, over the long term due to their high hash power, if we're lazy and just want to use 1 pool.  I won't put any names but any experience miner would know what I'm talking about.  100% is good but not great enough for us, as we want to beat that hence the combo mentioned above and often time me gambling here for the big hits like today BAMM! Another block.

You don't follow the rental market as much so you may not be aware of what people are paying for rental hash.  It's definitely not market rate all the time nor 103% which balance out to 100% after fees, you will always have higher and lower renters hence the market rate average price from those variance.  On some days, you're lucky if you can find 10% over market (last week). There's quite a lot of mega hash demands not just at NH but via contract selling, but let's just use NH as an example as most people are familiar with that.  When they need mega hashes they would typically have to pay larger premium, otherwise they will lose their hash rate steadily which is definitely not good for solo lotteries.  This is where we make good profits.  Many of the members here follow the rental cost closely as they supplement some action with renting.  Some have even master the art of using scripts to do price adjustment and automatic refills.   They can validate that there's plenty weeks of 500-3PH+ rental where people are paying stupidly high prices 10-50% over market rate.  Also it's not uncommon to  see spikes where 1 person would come in and rent out 5-10PH wiping out all the hash available for few hrs at ridiculous price.  Now there's other avenues where you can rent hash out via contracts (resource intensive), these people don't want to own the hardware but they need it for the short term use with fixed price.  The price they pay will always be way over 10% of market price with no fees as you set the contract.  Who would want to rent out their physical equipment to others with the overhead and get the same cost as PPS and deal with contract risks?  There are also other ways to gain higher premium but the volume is just not sufficient nor duration hence why we have to supplement with many different combos and pool is a good good chunk chunk of that.   Also it's not everyday you get premium prices.    

P.S  If you're renting hash to NH, you only pay 3% not 6%.  They get the other 3% from the renter.  Most people set their automatic price for their worker at 13% above market premium to account for that fee and shoot for a 10% minimum baseline.    

[clgrissom3]

I want to know just one thing, why exactly are you giving them away ? What do you get out of this ? And if you win how is shipping costs worked out, i mean will you use insurance or what ? Thanks.

It's a promotion deal kano worked out with Avalon...Avalon will be supplying and shipping a miner to each winner.  Actually this is the 2nd contest kano has done like this.

[tntdgcr]

BOOM!  Another block, damn this is the best Tuesday ever!!

-Alright Scotty!  Maximum warp!!

40 more min , who knows what can happen

[scotty2u2]

BOOM!  Another block, damn this is the best Tuesday ever!!

-Alright Scotty!  Maximum warp!!

Aye, Captain! I'll see how many drum sticks, wings and thighs I can shovel into the warp core!  

Seriously though, it's nice to finally make it on the board. I've got one S4 and 4 S5s running underclocked (because of power rates), and a brand new S7 that was DOA from the factory. I'll have it up and running with a new bbb long before Bitmain will be able to do anything at all to actually help me.

MINE ON!  

Edit: Really wishing I would have bought an Avalon!

[philipma1957]

BOOM!  Another block, damn this is the best Tuesday ever!!

-Alright Scotty!  Maximum warp!!

40 more min , who knows what can happen

We need some more !
J
I just had leg of lamb steaks with the wife along with halo tangerines for dessert.

I am hoping for a second go to meat!

[clgrissom3]

BOOM!  Another block, damn this is the best Tuesday ever!!

-Alright Scotty!  Maximum warp!!

Aye, Captain! I'll see how many drum sticks, wings and thighs I can shovel into the warp core!  

Seriously though, it's nice to finally make it on the board. I've got one S4 and 4 S5s running underclocked (because of power rates), and a brand new S7 that was DOA from the factory. I'll have it up and running with a new bbb long before Bitmain will be able to do anything at all to actually help me.

MINE ON!  

Edit: Really wishing I would have bought an Avalon!

It's a sweet feeling to have one of your own hit a block...congrats and thanks!

[Legacy2005]

8 blocks for the day. Not bad. Lets start the new day with some more green blocks.

[TTravis]

8 blocks for the day. Not bad. Lets start the new day with some more green blocks.

I could use a few more days like this.  Whatever it is that makes this pool work so well, I hope we keep it up.

I've read a lot about luck, but I don't think this is pure luck.  Sure, luck is a factor, but I think Kano is highly dedicated to making this pool work and he seems to be on the top of his game.  That is not luck at all, that is hard work on his part.  Thanks Kano.

[kano]

I want to know just one thing, why exactly are you giving them away ? What do you get out of this ? And if you win how is shipping costs worked out, i mean will you use insurance or what ? Thanks.

It's a promotion deal kano worked out with Avalon...Avalon will be supplying and shipping a miner to each winner.  Actually this is the 2nd contest kano has done like this.

Oh, lol, that post was a "WTF is he talking about?" so I forgot to reply

Yeah Avalon are giving them away.

Little secret
-ck (and I) wrote most of the code in cgminer.
Avalon writes the code in their cgminer drivers and keeps it all in sync with master cgminer.
Works well for them and they of course are happy to support us.
They also seemed to have got some good awareness as a result of it this time also.

[kano]

8 blocks for the day. Not bad. Lets start the new day with some more green blocks.

I could use a few more days like this.  Whatever it is that makes this pool work so well, I hope we keep it up.

I've read a lot about luck, but I don't think this is pure luck.  Sure, luck is a factor, but I think Kano is highly dedicated to making this pool work and he seems to be on the top of his game.  That is not luck at all, that is hard work on his part.  Thanks Kano.

Don't know about luck, but yep I certainly do spend the majority of my life running, monitoring and enhancing the pool.

[clgrissom3]

8 blocks for the day. Not bad. Lets start the new day with some more green blocks.

I could use a few more days like this.  Whatever it is that makes this pool work so well, I hope we keep it up.

I've read a lot about luck, but I don't think this is pure luck.  Sure, luck is a factor, but I think Kano is highly dedicated to making this pool work and he seems to be on the top of his game.  That is not luck at all, that is hard work on his part.  Thanks Kano.

Don't know about luck, but yep I certainly do spend the majority of my life running, monitoring and enhancing the pool.

Yep, you provide the "it" factor for this pool...when all things are equal, the "it" in this pool will always come out on top and we all win.  Thanks for all you do!

[clgrissom3]

...and a Block by jmashore with 3.9THs!  That would be his first kano block!  Welcome to the Acclaim Board!

Edit:  Looks like we had a cool down period overnight after the smoking hot day we had yesterday.  Our addy guy 12TMh did hit his 10th kano block a couple of hours ago.  Maybe that will get us primed and ready to go for another round today!  Way to get it started 12TMh and jmashore!

[Legacy2005]

Wow 10 blocks in what less then a month. Glad he is here and not solo..lol