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A couple of questions if I may...

One, I have apx 110TH/s that I can point to ckpool.org. I was looking at the BTC.com link on ckpool showing the number of blocks found by ckpool. I have to pay my power bill with the BTC I'm generating - but am wondering with so few blocks found in the last 2 months by ckpool - can I count on payouts enough to cover power? I mean, with BTC at the current rate - if I need 4 blocks of payout and only 3 get found - I'm leery. Would like to try - but I HAVE to be making enough to pay the power. I'm paying apx $0.07/kWh. Just installed the LPM firmware on my S9's a few weeks ago - so not sure what my power bill will be, but prior to that I have been in the $700-$750 pre month range (I also have a few L3 variants running as well).

Two, does this pool allow the S9 variants to use the ASICBoost(LPM) firmware to be utilized? It has dropped my power consumption noticeably - I'd hate to have my power use ramp back up if not supported.

Three, I assume from looking at the other miners on the pool that this would put me in the top 50 for being on the payout schedule each time - am I reading this correctly?

Thanks!

yeah 110 th means every block you get paid .

variance can be hard. you could do 35 th + 35 th + 35 th nicehash, viabtc and ck.

I have been getting paid at 35 th almost every block think 1 carry over in the last 20 blocks.

I am not sure if asicboost antminer works here ck can answer that.

Philipma1957, do you have any experience with KanoPool? They are smaller too - but maybe splitting between ckpool and kanopool - would have a better chance at 8 to 10 blocks per month which would probably give enough variance to cover bills better. And just out of curiosity - why ViaBTC? Looking at WhereToMine, it seems they are a little ways down on the lists for best payouts. Is it because they are not in China and to help spread the processing power - or other?

first off I used to mine kano I stopped. My reasons are long and complex which I will not go into it on this thread.

I mine mostly with ck I have 90th here and 55th on viabtc.

I rather have all my hash here but I can only handle some variance with the tight margins with low btc price.

so the 55th at viabtc has zero variance I get my share the pools payout on every block 98 percent of every block is paid out. I get my payout when I reach 0.01 btc say every 3 or 4 days.

but it is only 98 percent of the block with 0 for the fees.

on ckpool we get 99 percent of the blocks plus the fees .

so if luck is normal ck wins.
if luck is great ck wins.
if luck sucks viabtc just pays the same.

this is the only true way to flatten variance
some hash on a pool like ck
some hash on a pool like viabtc

if margins get loose and price of coin goes up I will move more hash to ckpool and less to viabtc.

Isnt the payout on ckpool 100% not 99% unless your solo mining?

I forgot if he was still fee free

then it is 100% plus the fees-- but variance can kill you
while viabtc is 98% ------------ but no variance

so I blend them

90th with ck
55th with via

and those change mostly to more ck not more viabtc

I was on a pool once it had back to back 99% cdf blocks
roughly 500% +500% or 2 blocks instead of 10 blocks
I no longer take that chance.

By blending with the 2 pools and supporting the most likely to earn more in the long run ck more then the other I am happy with that.

here are my addresses here

http://ckpool.org/#/miners

17 1KEKZNuNwXzsWnxFjwZDc5s9w8x5cqgJQx .... 52.4th

26 16yLHLoeyuCLPMXkVpC3gyrRYvwRGwjKJr ... 32.1th

you can see they have been here a long time.