Re: Antminer D3 Blissz firmware (10/12 v1.12 update)

@Blissz

I really like what you have done modifiying the firmware but i have one suggestions, which i am pretty sure will ease the issue some ppl have when configuring theire miners regarding the dev fee.
I am all for it and i am pretty sure that others dont mind either that you get a fair share for your work.

I have 5 D3's myself and configuring those machines aint that easy, because each of them has different settings to be applied that the HW errors disappear.
The issue i have is, that after each reboot / configuration change (voltage, adresses, ....) you start mining on your dev pools (after some seconds), this makes it intense to check if my OWN settings are valid.

My suggestion is, please start mining your 1.5% fair share not at each and every reboot / configuration change, but once the miner has run for its 2 hours. So i am only asking you to change the first time you mine for yourself, after 2h you start with your rotation.

Thanks again.

He can't set it to 2 hrs before mining to his pool or people would just reboot their miners every 1 hr 59 min and only lose 13 min per day of mining (based on a 30 sec restart), versus him mining for 22 min a day (1 min 30 sec every 2 hrs like he stated). The breakeven point is about 33 minutes, so he could set it to 20 min and people could configure miners for some time without paying any excess fees.

22 min dev mining per day / 30 sec reboot = 44 restarts/day

24 hr/day / 44 restarts/day = 0.5454 hr/restart = approx 33 min/restart

If the reboot takes 90 sec, then he could set it to 1 hr 39 min, but ppl still might restart often just to spite the dev. So he sets a short amount of time before it mines to his pool.

Wouldn't it be easier to just edit the hosts file of the miner to trick it into thinking the devpool address is the same as the primary pool address?

My intention was not to circumvent anything, but just to explain why it's a short period of time before dev mines his pool. I fully support everything being done here, my miners are waaaay cooler and quieter, I'm very happy with the updates and responsiveness.

I'm leaving the dev fee enabled as well as I also want to support the efforts. Just simply pointing out that people timing reboots to stop the dev fee is silly when there are easier methods. I do hope that eventually blissz will give the option to either pay a 1 time fee upfront rather than a lifetime of dev fee mining. I also hope that this work will soon start to focus on isolating individual algos contained within X11 with the option to pick which of the 11 we would like to mine with so the profitability of these can be recovered. I know new algos won't happen but I don't see any reason we can't isolate and use only one of the 11 that these ASIC chips are already capable of.