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"engineers are not good at dealing with customers..."
....typically.

kano needs a hand holding rep...at some point or even better, ask someone to design it into his front page-i am sure that there are tons of freelancers who could do it. With a good front page, this pool can triple (at least) in size.

I took a stab at adding some more language for the homepage below.
Kano: is this helpful?
If so, does anyone want to collaborate in a Google Doc? Maybe write a good front page, a good FAQ page, and a page explaining how to read the stats pages?
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Welcome to KanoPool!

KanoPool is a bitcoin mining pool that uses the PPLNS payout method.

Key Aspects of KanoPool

Transaction fees included in pot Many pool administrators will keep the transaction fees for themselves, only distributing the 12.5 Bitcoin miner reward. KanoPool distributes both the 12.5 Bitcoin miner reward, as well as the transaction fees collected during that block which are ~2 Bitcoins in general. In our opinion, it is better to split ~14.5 Bitcoins per block, rather than 12.5

PPLNS KanoPool is Pay Per Last N Shares (PPLNS). This results in lumpier / less frequent payments, however, in theory, PPLNS will also yield greater payouts in the long run (a month or more).
   In Pay Per Share (PPS), the mining pool will pay each miner a standard payout based upon the number of shares completed. The mining pool is taking on the risk of luck, and takes a premium for bearing this risk/luck.
   In Pay Per Last N Shares (PPLNS) the miner is taking on the luck. Sometimes the pool will find blocks quickly, and sometimes the pool will find blocks slowly. In the long run, the math will even out, but compared to PPS, the miner is better off in PPLNS as they are not paying the pool for the convenience of standardly paced payouts.

N = 5 times the Network Difficulty A key part of PPLNS is what exactly the N value is. In KanoPool, N = 5 times the Network Difficulty when the block was found.

Bitcoin has a difficulty for finding blocks called the Network Difficulty. For an example, lets assume the network difficulty is 500 Billion. Thus, the N, for KanoPools PPLNS is 2.5 Trillion (5 times 500 Billion)

For payout calculations in our example, the pool adds up all the shares you contributed for the past 2.5 Trillion Network Difficulty. If you contributed 2.5 Billion Shares, youd get ~1,000th of the miner reward.

[The relationship between Network Difficulty and Shares isnt very clear to me]

This methodology reduces variance. Your rewards will be lower than normal for the first 5x Network Difficulty (~4 days) that you are mining. Once you have mined for a full 5x Network Difficulty, you will receive your full payouts. Also, if you ever leave the pool, your payouts will continue for a slight while after you have left due to the above

Pool fee KanoPool charges an extremely competitive 0.9% of reward for participation in the pool.

Payments Blocks must be confirmed 101 times before being paid out (will be flagged as Matured on the Blocks page).

The payout uses a zero fee transaction to ensure you get maximum Bitcoin, and so will be sent out the next time KanoPool mines a block after reaching 101 confirmations.

Joining KanoPool

The pool doesn't require registration for basic use but includes indepth stats for registered miners.
See below for more information on miner configuration.
You can get pool support on FreeNode IRC: irc.freenode.net channel #kano.is
or on the Bitcoin talk forum here: BitcoinTalk

Our kano.is mining servers, web site and email, are all also available at kano.space
It's a 'backup domain' in case you ever have any problems using the kano.is domain

Mining configuration:
Click on the Login/Register link to register a username to mine with,
or mine directly to the pool without registering, using a bitcoin payment address as your username.
No password is required, so just use X for your password in your miner.

e.g. if your miner has a web page, you would fill it in similar to this with your username instead of Kano:
Pool 1:   stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333
Pool1 worker:   Kano.worker
Pool1 password:   x

If you have network issues using port 3333, you can also try:
stratum+tcp://stratum80.kano.is:80

You can also try any of:
stratum+tcp://stratum81.kano.is:81
stratum+tcp://stratum443.kano.is:443
stratum+tcp://stratum8080.kano.is:8080

Your worker name can be whatever you choose and will be created when your miner connects to the pool.
Registered username or Bitcoin address, followed by a dot '.' or an underscore '_', followed by a worker name.
If you supply an invalid Bitcoin address, you will be unable to authenticate and mine on the pool.

If you have an Asicminer Tube, you will need to mine to:
stratum+tcp://nonce.kano.is:27181
It won't work properly on any other mining port. Don't point normal miners here.
Your Tube miner stats will show up in your account without their worker name.

If you mine only with a bitcoin address you can view user and worker stats:
e.g.
http://www.kano.is/address.php?a=1KanoiBupPiZfkwqB7rfLXAzPnoTshAVmb
http://www.kano.is/worker.php?a=1KanoiBupPiZfkwqB7rfLXAzPnoTshAVmb_worker

Pool settings
The pool is configured to start you mining at 2052 difficulty.
The pool adjusts the per instance difficulty to maintain a share rate of approximately 18 shares per minute.
However, there is a lower limit set on the difficulty of 242.

Nice write-up. Thanks for the effort!