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[Xircom]

Welcome to the right mining pool.

KANO- im the one with 35 miners still active at DK, before end of this week they will be shut down and all 200 miners will be pointing at NL.

They are already on NL.
You don't actually need to change anything
I won't get rid of the DK dns name dk.kano.is unless I added a new DK node later, so you can change it or leave it, whichever is easiest for you.

Champ 

[firetreeactual]

On my second coffee, and also munching on eggs & toast, so we're on the go for more blocks...the "orphan" chick is getting really big, and insists on hanging out around my front door...something Freudian about all that, methinks...but then, that's just the half-awake behavioral scientist blithering...

Welcome to the new folks. We all here think you've made a good choice, and we appreciate you...and your hash...   And...

[citronick]

As a noob, I was initially oh so concerned about the consistent blocks\payouts and 22-23 hour blocks scared me. I wish i would have found kano earlier, long term profitability means so much more to me than a bunch of tiny payouts. Tis the cost of education.

I'm still new to all this myself, but am very happy with the decision to mine at Kano. Why?
* transparency of operations
* low pool fees
* distribution of transaction fees to miners
* active and direct participation and dialogue with Kano and CK on pool operations and related issues in this forum
* helpful pool participants who participate in this forum
* active pool management by Kano that results in good luck over time
* my desire to foster network diversity and health (which seems also to be aligned with pool philosophy)

I also was initially put off by the lack of a slick interface and also by concerns about time between blocks, but no longer.

Thanks very much for the great service and community here - looking forward to a long and profitable relationship.

btw... this is the only pool in the world... that gives virtual chicken offerings to the BTC gods.... and gets blocks... lots of blocks... well.... most of the time!

Welcome to Kano!

[KyrosKrane]

Oh well, under one trillion

You almost sound sad!  

I couldn't find the sarcasm smiley
(with regards to the post above saying we were about to hit 1 trillion ... which we didn't)

Yeah, we need a better selection of smilies. 

[wmabern]

We've got some catching up to do!!

Come on BLOCKY! Baby needs new shoes! 

[thedreamer]

Anyone notice that the bad luck streaks across the net has started since the S9's started arriving?

[wmabern]

Anyone notice that the bad luck streaks across the net has started since the S9's started arriving?

Does that also correspond with an appreciable uptick in Antpoos daily block find? Just curious if anyone had taken a look at that.

[beltsniffer]

Anyone notice that the bad luck streaks across the net has started since the S9's started arriving?

Does that also correspond with an appreciable uptick in Antpoos daily block find? Just curious if anyone had taken a look at that.

The Antpoo web page reports they are at 99% overall luck. Their hashrate is at ~285 Ph/s. Which is way down from the almost 350 they were at pre-halving.
The network average is at 11 minutes for a block, so we should be seeing a decent (~7%) decrease in diff.

And our pool is up in hash. Kano is doing it right as usual!

[ComputerGenie]

Does that also correspond with an appreciable uptick in Antpoos daily block find? Just curious if anyone had taken a look at that.

They were averaging ~27-29 pre-halving and ~23-24 now, not what I'd call an "uptick".

[wolfen]

average network block time hit 11 minutes. Bitcoinwisdom.

[firetreeactual]

This is a stickup...hand over all your blockies, bunkies...  

EDIT: Someone asked about how to resize images on Imgur's new GUI...I figured it out. PM me if you need to know. It's NOT intuitive at all...

[kano]

Anyone notice that the bad luck streaks across the net has started since the S9's started arriving?

Fortunately I can now see that number for any S9 mining directly to the pool

Here's only the last 2 weeks:

Code:

a | bmminer/1.0.0 | 1,011.78G | 96,610,507.00 | 4.73978702 BDR | 1011 | 1.00G | 1,537.27G | 8.01G | 3 B

What that shows is that for a BDR of 4.74 (meaning expected number of blocks), so far the direct S9 miners have found 3 blocks.
So that's all statistically OK so far.

e.g. that BDR/Block ratio for the last 2 weeks for certain miners is:

Code:

 1.57992900 | a | bmminer/1.0.0  |  4.73978702 BDR | 3 B
 1.52032672 | a | cgminer/4.7.0  |  1.52032672 BDR | 1 B
 1.42273633 | a | NiceHash/1.0.0 |  8.53641799 BDR | 6 B
 1.20826987 | a | cgminer/4.8.0  | 22.95712756 BDR | 19 B
 0.78980554 | a | cgminer/4.9.0  | 11.05727767 BDR | 14 B
 0.68304492 | a | cgminer/4.9.2  |  2.73217969 BDR | 4 B

The lower the first number, the better the luck. 1.0 = expected luck.

But those stats are too small to decide anything from them, of course, and show nothing wrong since they are so small.
Just posted them for curiosity

Still working on getting longer term stats.

[wmabern]

A very red and unappealing end to the mining day!  

The only bright note is that I've finally gotten BTC Core installed on one of my laptops and ready to do a small test receive from Coinbase then vice versa. It took about 2 days to download all of the data! Even with a 60G down load speed. Of course, my whole house runs on my Internet connection.

Time for some learning and procedure setting before I commit more of my coins. My wallet is already encrypted.

Any tips on using this instead of an online wallet greatly appreciated!

*Also, @Kano, is there a "good" time to change my payout address versus some other time of the day? Would you like me to PM you when I get ready to make the move? Thanks!

Thanks for any and all tips!
~wp

[n200UG]

Anyone notice that the bad luck streaks across the net has started since the S9's started arriving?

Fortunately I can now see that number for any S9 mining directly to the pool

Here's only the last 2 weeks:

Code:

a | bmminer/1.0.0 | 1,011.78G | 96,610,507.00 | 4.73978702 BDR | 1011 | 1.00G | 1,537.27G | 8.01G | 3 B

What that shows is that for a BDR of 4.74 (meaning expected number of blocks), so far the direct S9 miners have found 3 blocks.
So that's all statistically OK so far.

e.g. that BDR/Block ratio for the last 2 weeks for certain miners is:

Code:

 1.57992900 | a | bmminer/1.0.0  |  4.73978702 BDR | 3 B
 1.52032672 | a | cgminer/4.7.0  |  1.52032672 BDR | 1 B
 1.42273633 | a | NiceHash/1.0.0 |  8.53641799 BDR | 6 B
 1.20826987 | a | cgminer/4.8.0  | 22.95712756 BDR | 19 B
 0.78980554 | a | cgminer/4.9.0  | 11.05727767 BDR | 14 B
 0.68304492 | a | cgminer/4.9.2  |  2.73217969 BDR | 4 B

The lower the first number, the better the luck. 1.0 = expected luck.

But those stats are too small to decide anything from them, of course, and show nothing wrong since they are so small.
Just posted them for curiosity

Still working on getting longer term stats.

While talking about S9,  parallelminer.com as a new PSU kit using HP PSU 1500watt Platinum efficiency at 94% for $99 with Free Fedex. Add word [ kano ] for coupon and get an extra 10%off. Ho and yeah they accept BTC   

[citronick]

Anyone notice that the bad luck streaks across the net has started since the S9's started arriving?

Fortunately I can now see that number for any S9 mining directly to the pool

Here's only the last 2 weeks:

Code:

a | bmminer/1.0.0 | 1,011.78G | 96,610,507.00 | 4.73978702 BDR | 1011 | 1.00G | 1,537.27G | 8.01G | 3 B

What that shows is that for a BDR of 4.74 (meaning expected number of blocks), so far the direct S9 miners have found 3 blocks.
So that's all statistically OK so far.

e.g. that BDR/Block ratio for the last 2 weeks for certain miners is:

Code:

 1.57992900 | a | bmminer/1.0.0  |  4.73978702 BDR | 3 B
 1.52032672 | a | cgminer/4.7.0  |  1.52032672 BDR | 1 B
 1.42273633 | a | NiceHash/1.0.0 |  8.53641799 BDR | 6 B
 1.20826987 | a | cgminer/4.8.0  | 22.95712756 BDR | 19 B
 0.78980554 | a | cgminer/4.9.0  | 11.05727767 BDR | 14 B
 0.68304492 | a | cgminer/4.9.2  |  2.73217969 BDR | 4 B

The lower the first number, the better the luck. 1.0 = expected luck.

But those stats are too small to decide anything from them, of course, and show nothing wrong since they are so small.
Just posted them for curiosity

Still working on getting longer term stats.

I am curious if the S9s are really bringing "bad luck" to the pool...

[kano]

...
*Also, @Kano, is there a "good" time to change my payout address versus some other time of the day? Would you like me to PM you when I get ready to make the move? Thanks!
...

When you change it, it only affects blocks found after you change it.
The payout goes to the address you have when the block is found.

I guess this question also suggests a possible misunderstanding of the term 'manual' that I use
It simply means that the payouts don't go from 'generation' by ckdb to 'sent' automatically.
I run a process every so often (usually twice a day at some random time) that checks all sorts of things all over the place and generates the transactions and then does all sorts of checks on them also and reports problems if they exist.
Then once that's all done, I add the txn to the queue to send them to be queued.

All pools I know of have lost BTC in large amounts at certain times.
I aim to preclude the possibility of that here, if possible.

[wmabern]

...
*Also, @Kano, is there a "good" time to change my payout address versus some other time of the day? Would you like me to PM you when I get ready to make the move? Thanks!
...

When you change it, it only affects blocks found after you change it.
The payout goes to the address you have when the block is found.

I guess this question also suggests a possible misunderstanding of the term 'manual' that I use
It simply means that the payouts don't go from 'generation' by ckdb to 'sent' automatically.
I run a process every so often (usually twice a day at some random time) that checks all sorts of things all over the place and generates the transactions and then does all sorts of checks on them also and reports problems if they exist.
Then once that's all done, I add the txn to the queue to send them to be queued.

All pools I know of have lost BTC in large amounts at certain times.
I aim to preclude the possibility of that here, if possible.

Thanks for the reply. No, I do believe I understand how the payouts work - after reading the questions being answered on here a few dozen times a month. LOL
Upon reflection, I think where I got the "PM / email you" part mixed in was where there were some issues with a payout address and you told the individual they needed to email you from their primary account email address.

No problems! And thanks so much for the patience you extend to us "older" folks who sometimes type/speak before we think.  

I know you work your butt off keeping things running as smoothly as possible here on CKPool. I can probably speak for most of us when I say your efforts are GREATLY appreciated! (Anyone who doesn't have that appreciation is most likely a "dim bulb".  

Now, if you'll only start dropping some GREEN BLOCKS down on us at a pretty steady clip, all will be well!

[firetreeactual]

A very red and unappealing end to the mining day!  

The only bright note is that I've finally gotten BTC Core installed on one of my laptops and ready to do a small test receive from Coinbase then vice versa. It took about 2 days to download all of the data! Even with a 60G down load speed. Of course, my whole house runs on my Internet connection.

Time for some learning and procedure setting before I commit more of my coins. My wallet is already encrypted.

Any tips on using this instead of an online wallet greatly appreciated!

*Also, @Kano, is there a "good" time to change my payout address versus some other time of the day? Would you like me to PM you when I get ready to make the move? Thanks!

Thanks for any and all tips!
~wp

You're starting out well by using Core, methinks. Anyway...yeah, it takes a couple of days even on a fast connection to "catch up" to the block index, but after that you should be (preferably) running it 24/7. If not, leaving it down for a day or two won't give you fits resyncing, but you won't be helping the network as much, either. It's all personal pref/priority. It's a pretty straightforward GUI. Remember to backup the wallet to some external device often. I do mine daily when I finish booking the mining business. 

[wmabern]

You're starting out well by using Core, methinks. Anyway...yeah, it takes a couple of days even on a fast connection to "catch up" to the block index, but after that you should be (preferably) running it 24/7. If not, leaving it down for a day or two won't give you fits resyncing, but you won't be helping the network as much, either. It's all personal pref/priority. It's a pretty straightforward GUI. Remember to backup the wallet to some external device often. I do mine daily when I finish booking the mining business.  8)the

I've been meaning to do it for a couple of months and I finally felt confident enough to take the leap. I Know there are MANY, MANY PROS but also some CONS that I need to fully address.

There are too many good (read: bad) hackers out there who would just love to drain an exchange of a few thousand coins. That could easily start a chain reaction and a run on the exchanges. I don't want to risk my small amount of coins to the risk of vanishing into thin air.
If the account were insured like they are with banks in the USA (and I'm sure with other countries) I wouldn't be so paranoid.

Anyhow, I also hope to save a little bit of money on fees (And what the hell, the tx fees I will pay out will end up back in my wallet in smaller form eventually from blocks found!  

It will probably take another week or two until I'm fully switched over. I will still use Coinbase to get $ in and out of BTC. And always, new thoughts about "what-ifs", etc. still cross my mind.

Like this one.... wonder how much it would cost to have a fire-proof safe built into the floor of my house?? LOL

Let's get this block in under-12 hours! Oh well....
Mine on!  

[ComputerGenie]

If you control the Bitcoin keys, it's your bitcoin. If you don't control the Bitcoin keys, it's not your bitcoin.