Quote from: BTfd2e93 on February 21, 2018, 06:18:03 AM

Quote from: kano on February 20, 2018, 11:47:51 PM

Quote from: fjtropepe on February 20, 2018, 11:45:18 PM

Quote from: kano on February 20, 2018, 11:35:49 PM

Quote from: fjtropepe on February 20, 2018, 11:15:08 PM

What I was referring to with Biffa is getting more miners here on this pool and getting more of the network hashrate. Not going out and adding to the hashrate. He (Biffa) is stating that we should go out and "add" to the hasrate and thus add to the increased difficulty. I would rather take from the current total network and transfer a larger percentage over to us. That is why I am asking after he (Kano) said he agreed with Biffa.

The reason why Biffa is correct is that if no one was increasing their hash rate, then the pool falls behind the "Diff Curve"

Yes of course adding to the "Diff Curve" ourselves pushes the "Diff Curve" up, but in reality that isn't the case,
since if we don't, then someone else will buy those miners and push the "Diff Curve" up.

There's been no lack of available buyers for available new miners for a long time.
i.e. you haven't been able to slow down the "Diff Curve", by abstaining from buying miners, for a long time.

Indeed getting large miners to move over from somewhere else is the best solution, but once we have some over here, we can't say:
'OK that's it, we don't need to keep up with the "Diff Curve"'

Well, hopefully, it will slow down here. There have been new S9s available from Bitmain for over a week now. We need to tackle this issue and stay on top of it. Glad to have you in charge and we all really appreciate your support here.

I'd expect (without much doubt about being correct) that Bitmain mines with their miners before they send them out ...

yes .. they call it "QA testing" ... lol

not to mention all the "dust" they get. .. cos all their miners are configured to point to their pool by default out of the box. so when a newbie miner plugs it in .. while trying to figure out which pool to point to .. and setting up the accounts ... those couple of hours all add up ...

Just do what I did, create own VLAN, do not give it internet access, then configure S9's then enable internet access. But i knew that it was "preconfigured" before I got them. They never got one hash out of me.