Quote from: ironson on December 04, 2018, 05:49:09 PM

how do you know it's 7%? any way to check this? 1.5~7% is a huge difference.

you can simply monitor the hasrate on the pool side, a graph is usually presented. something like this

those ugly green arrows point to time periods that the dev fees were taking place. while this is not 100% accurate because a few other things aside form dev fees can show the same results ,but overall this is a highly accurate method to determine dev fees with little to no efforts.

take 24 hours of mining , sum the total "flat" time periods and get the percentage by doing a simple calculation.

do this for the first 24 hours if fees are higher than what you willing to pay > ditch it
if fees are fine , make a longer duration based test. maybe 72 hours. some devs are ~~smart~~ liars, they don't take the fees straight away,so you monitor the firmware for a few hours, and you say waw , this is it , only then they start to screw you , you just need to dig a bit deeper to be 100%.

the kernel log can also show you the results, but using the graph of your pool is usually the easiest way.

paying 7% for dev fees can be very stupid. simply because

assuming you went from 14 to 17th , then that's about 20% more hashrate, impressive right? but take a look at the power cost , it has increased, and you are paying 7% of your net-profit before paying for power. so at the end you might end up making just the same profit but risking your miner to failure by pushing it to it's limits.