Hey all, newer member to the pool, have a quick question for you.
Most of my mining experience was with GPU rigs. I have some S9's now, presently 3 plugged in, more getting settled in.
I have been mining on Kano since March 7, (I like the vibe, the reward structure and the size) and now that I've let them mine for several weeks to sample some numbers, I have a couple of questions.
General question regarding pool & mining:
Are all shares equal?
Is the # of shares the most important statistic in terms of rewards?I've attempted to do some research on this but there is a lot of dated information as well as varying pool reward structures so please bare with me.
I am using 13.5 S9's.
Is it better to leave it on variable difficulty and let it find it's own nirvana or is there a specific number that will work better?Below is the present snapshot of my Workers page. Ironically although I'd let them run for a few weeks without tinkering to test them, I just noticed today that worker #1 had 1 PCI-E connector loose and I'm not sure how long it had been that way... it's now been fixed as of maybe 1 hour ago, whether that impacts the numbers, you tell me. (Just refresh'd my workers page and we hit a block,
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Worker Name: Work Diff :Last Share Shares :Diff :Share Rate «Elapsed :Invalid Block % :Hash Rate
BMCA_1 12.238k 1s 41 501,758 14.37THs 2m 30s 2.381% 0.016% 13.69THs
BMCA_2 11.543k 1s 34 392,462 11.24THs 2m 30s 0.000% 0.013% 13.82THs
BMCA_3 12.339k 1s 39 481,221 13.78THs 2m 30s 0.000% 0.016% 13.46THs
Total: 3 111 375,441 39.38THs 0.882% 0.045% 40.98THs
Apologies for the shitty formatting. I am aware that all Antminer's will vary on Hashrate given the luck of the draw, but would a manually configured difficulty produce a higher hashrate? This brings us back full circle to my initial question,
are all shares equal and is maximizing amount of shares the objective? Thanks in advance for your help Kano friends.
I guess I picked the right time to get here because December 10, January 8, February 5, but March already 14 blocks! Keep it up guys.
Edit: Once again a snapshot of worker page, since we hit the last block.
Worker Name: Work Diff :Last Share Shares :Diff :Share Rate «Elapsed :Invalid Block % :Hash Rate
BMCA_1 12.238k 0s 271 3,316,498 15.47THs 9m 24s 0.368% 0.017% 13.90THs
BMCA_2 11.543k 2s 256 2,955,008 11.78THs 9m 24s 0.000% 0.015% 13.66THs
BMCA_3 12.339k 3s 258 3,183,462 13.72THs 9m 24s 0.000% 0.016% 13.57THs
Total: 3 (3 active workers) 785 9,454,968 40.97THs 0.129% 0.047% 41.12THs
#1 was the one with loose PCI connectors which have since been fixed but still throwing up invalids... can't imagine its due to networking as they are all hardwired into a 20 port switch on a short run next to each other...
