Quote from: gnu123 on February 27, 2016, 11:57:52 PM

My hashrate on the pool is : Hash Rate:5.59/5.74THs , have been like that for months.
But the last day the rewards page says :
Mining Rewards
The rewards you've earned for each block the pool has found.
See the Payments page for the payments you've been sent.
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About 1 THs is gone ? My BTC reward would ofcourse go down when the difficulty goes up, but my N AVG ?
Something wrong? ~~with the pool~~ ?

Fixed that for you gnu123

Suggestion is a powerful tool, and in my opinion in bitcoin pool mining suggesting something even might be wrong here is not ever a good thing. You or others may think I am over reacting, but please do not take the tone of my message in that manner. Consider the fact there could be someone just starting out trying to figure out where to point their first miner, maybe an S3 they picked up from a friend and they know absolutely nothing about the pool landscape. Even the mental suggestion sitting in someone's mind can put someone off.

I am confident you meant nothing of the sort by the comment, but I have a minute to discuss this and wanted to do so. The thing that really over-torques my nips is when I see someone complain about luck, the length of time they wait for a payout, or the amount of the payout without making sure they comprehend how PPLNS functions.
As I said gnu, I am sure you meant none of these things, but it is a good time to get it off my chest for the ones who have done these things over the past couple of months.

Some people here, and I hope it is most of us, realize how smooth things are run, and how fortunate we are to have been given the opportunity to mine with a couple of the most meticulous coders. I'm not blowing smoke here, and I have said this before, even though I may not agree with every political or moral judgement Kano and CK support, I respect their abilities to not only vocalize their opinions, but cite facts where appropriate, and participate in a mature debate. It only disintegrates to immature levels when the opposing party has either presented an argument without any basis in reality, or spouts something without a shred of factual information when it is needed to backup their statement.

Yeah, they have been around long enough and been through enough of those that their patience runs very thin at times. For example, I don't know how CK can still explain difficulty settings, e.g. vardiff / userdiff, or how PPLNS works in such detail without having a brain hemorrhage and one of my first days mining here CK told me to just "leave it alone." The best thing is to "leave it alone," and I pushed more, and again he told me to "leave it alone" when I was seeking an explanation which had already been provided to me by him, and spending way too much time discussing it. I didn't get butthurt that day, but I did think for a minute that CK may have a bit of an issue. Man was I wrong. Even though I had researched and still didn't quite get it, I hadn't done enough, and should have kept looking, but, the simple fact is, I should have simply left it alone, and now the only time I have ever touched my difficulty setting is with rentals, and that isn't because of the pool vardiff, that is because of the rental site's inadequate code.

In my opinion if anyone feels a need to question anything regarding kano.is or cksolo it should be addressed via PM with the correct person. There is never a reason to mention or even question the pool publicly. I am a very passionate person regarding bitcoin and I spend many hours per week contemplating things most would say are trivial, I post regarding things I feel are having a huge impact on our scene and I take it extremely personal if I think someone is being taken advantage of, especially a new miner. To me, someone doesn't have to be a scammer to be a lowlife, they can make mistakes which cost a new miner coin and I do not have a great opinion of them, especially if they are experienced, but, sometimes I have to make myself take a step back and think about the fact that I may be a little spoiled regarding where we are mining and cksolo.

Take a gander at what is going on in our community. Almost every single pool other than these two have significant issues. Most of the people mining here today came from a few of those pools where they were not appreciated, where they received zip for communication, and the pool software being used is a hodgepodge of hacks and many things taken from people who put just enough into it to get something up a couple or more years ago and have only patched something in if there is a serious issue. Or, they started bringing merge mining in and don't realize how crucial that time can be, especially today! I am not mentioning this to even consider having a debate regarding merge mining, I mention it because how easy would it be for these guys to MM a couple of coins and keep that for themselves, or kick back and not work to improve where we are now, not put as much effort towards shaving off milliseconds to help propagation times, or the potential to perform other more nefarious things? It is obviously not something that exists here, for one obviously these guys simply are not built that way.

gnu123 I hope it is obvious I did not mean to pick at you regarding these items, it was simply an opportunity of my time, and a small example of one thing which speaks to volumes of others regarding how we as poolmates need to treat this thread, this pool, each other, and the pool creators like what they have become for many of us which is a kind of family, and our home. Be proud to be here, and never approach any situation publicly where someone can take a statement to mean the family may have done something, but all of us should look at our own situation first and ask for an evaluation to help figure out or have something explained to us.

I want almost every miner to ask themselves why they are not mining with us. It is a good question for anyone who isn't, and the only logical answers are they are not educated enough to have previously made such a choice, they are so ignorant they have not understood what has been explained to them, they are so hard-headed and stubborn they choose to mine somewhere else out of spite (which only hurts them), or they are not wanted here.

I do not have a doubt we will be 10% of the network whether it happens next month or next year and unless something changes where it makes logical sense to be more than 10% Kano has said that will be the maximum size, and I can guarantee it would never be about money to him or CK by "logical sense" I mean if the act of limiting the size would harm the ecosystem, the alternative would be worse for bitcoin and miners in general. I look forward to that day because I know there will be even more great people enjoying and supporting what bitcoin mining is about.

I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE censorship, and I want people to always know I will fight for you to speak your mind even if I do not agree with you. I have seen too much censorship on this forum, abuse is rampant in the ways people manipulate so many aspects of this place, but it is still the bitcointalk forum where the good far outweighs the bad because of people like you. People like CK, Kano, Phil, sidehack, and so many others, people mining here today! What I am trying to say is I think everyone should think a bit more about saying anything regarding the time spent waiting on a block, bad luck, insinuating the pool has a problem, or posting anything negative because of the possible ramifications it could have on every gigahash it takes to get to 10% and the fact it is through our own upgrades we grow, but even more it is going to be through new people mining here that we hit that magic number and hold it consistently. We have a collective voice much larger than our individual comments to the point it begins to appear petty unless you can see how one small comment can impact someone who hasn't understood how things work.

I still see several of the miners who were here when I came on board as this pool size of a little over 1 PH, dropping under that even, and some days being 1.5 PH taught me a tremendous amount about the needed patience in certain aspects and understanding pool scale and payouts. I have absolutely zero concerns regarding my payout amounts because I know these guys are looking hard to find an issue, and they are doing it constantly. I know this is money and everyone likes to count it, and make sure it is right on the nose, and some people as OCD as me like to do it for fun. There is nothing wrong with that at all, as a matter of fact that is a good thing and people should do it, we learn immense amounts understanding why our payout is the amount it is. Asking questions is fantastic and the absolutely best thing to do if you have looked for your answer and cannot quite put your finger on what you want to know. Keep in mind there are so many aspects in this scene to learn that sometimes you need to kick back on an area you have gotten a great handle on and look at areas you may not know yet. Learning how to manually send a transaction, having a backup internet source, making sure you know what to do if a government or entity did attack bitcoin what you can do to help and keep things going, or browsing the nub forum and help someone who just got that first stickminer from ebay who may or may not turn out to be the next miner with a 167 miners in his garage haha. (Speaking of an immense amount of home mining has anyone heard from DMWardJR lately? PM me please.)

But seriously I hope my comments are taken positively, no one thinks I am being a condescending asshole, kissing up to kano or ck, picking at gnu123, or preaching over nothing. I simply wanted to take a few moments to say I don't think most of us realize what we are doing right now is much bigger than us. We are involved in a better situation than anyone mining anywhere other than these two pools, and we are growing at a reasonable rate, bringing more good people into the fold, and having a fucking-fantastic time doing it! That is where we are, and where we are going will be even better. Sure there will be bumps in the road for us, but less than most others, if not all. I want to see all of us reach a level where we have a real voice with our collective hashpower in the ecosystem while we are making more $/GH in comparable situations than anyone mining anywhere, I want us doing that at 10% of the network, and most importantly I plan to do those things with you good people.