Re: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order

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Anyone out there using S9s successfully with zpool?

I just attempted to with one of my S9's it didn't work for me.

you probably have to use a proxy.

this is what i use
https://github.com/Stratehm/stratum-proxy

Shortened as so long but I just tried zpool and am having no issues mining direct to it. Will test for 30 minutess or so and post a screenshot but right now it seems to work just a tad slower my batch one is getting: 13,797.82 but have only ran for 3 minutes.

So looking promising as far as running it. Is zpool really paying that well?

With stratehm it is noticeably more stable for S7 and S9, the S9 is significantly better than the S7 and I have never had my batch 3 lock up. The servers are not tremendously stable so expect to get 0.0002-0.0003 lower payout than what is listed by way of failovers, but you'll still get some good profitability.

Seems to be same results after 30 minute's. No issues mining direct from a batch 1 S9. Site is possibly slow though as in 30 minutes it show's hashrate much slower on zpool site. Guess will see in a while if it catches up hopefully.:

I did lose a little hash compared to a normal pool (I've tested many on it). Has anyone used this pool much is it really paying out so good consistently?

You'll find my miners there when profitability is doing well (>.0018), no complaints all around. You'll sometimes find profitability will get mis-reported a bit due to the exchanges they use, but it's never too bad.

For those of you who have gotten your S9s to work with stratehm and/or zpool, did you update your firmware?

I'm running a stock batch 3 without any firmware update. I tried deploying the stratehm proxy, but the S9 doesn't submit any shares to it. I posted about it in the stratehm thread here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=611338.msg15925543#msg15925543

I'm trying to decide if it's worth updating the firmware and trying again. I tend to avoid firmware updates unless I really have to.

I have 10 S9s (B1, B3 and B5s). I only updated the firmware on the 2 that were underperforming with the firmware for "low voltage." The other ones