I was at Slush previously until, I stumbled into kano ckpool late last year.

Then I suddenly saw the light.... I was attracted to the nice charts, fancy webpages but what I really wanted was the pure simplicity no nonsense pool with the highest payment system - I found that in this pool.

After learning about 5ND and experiencing it in action, I never turned back.

Plus the kano forum thread is never a dull moment - met many friends here and got useful advice and business contacts too.

And the occasional slap on the wrists by the two legendary moderators for going off topic and the frequent odd-balls discussion adds some spice and amusement to our BTC mining journey.

I do want to add one thing though.... that pool members exercise more courtesy, respect, take note of time-zones and.... simply being nice.... I have seen the dark-side of other threads where everything there has gone haywire, very rude and not professional at all.

Out of the 1179 users in the pool, a significant number I believe spread across 5 nodes outside of USA, are non-US and perhaps even non-English speaking countries, so at times when posting in this thread, please do take note of country, culture etc. ie. not everyone know who is Zinedine Zidane? or "Is Singapore part of China?" 

Enough of the rambling -- where is that block.... the last big massive RED block 392% diff was only 4 days ago... who would have known... another one is around the corner... Keep Calm and Mine On!