Quote from: Markdade on February 27, 2019, 01:08:28 PM

Thank you! I'll try this pool 2 months, then i'll decide.. In the meanwhile i would point one s5 to solo.ck, just to have a try with the lottery!

Quote from: m4acker on February 28, 2019, 10:10:49 AM

Hey, new here and testing out ckpool

So how is it you actually make it into the top 100 ?

Say you run around 25TH for a week, is that sufficient?

Quote from: DordOfLarkness on February 28, 2019, 03:50:35 PM

Greetings. I'm Dord, but you can just call me noob. I am in a situation where I don't pay for the electricity in my office. I can probably get away with having one little ASIC and stay under the radar. So, I picked up an 841 for very little just to check it out for kicks. (I'm obviously not going to buy my first home with this... but maybe some paper towels on occasion)

If I were to join CKPool, would I be such a piddly little player in this pool of pros that it wouldn't be worth the while?thx

This is the best paying pool (0 fees + bech32), but is also the slowest to pay. Of course in a perfect world the whale miners would move a couple of Exa hashes here and then nobody would need the other pools anymore...

Anyway at the current hashrate every 6 weeks or so (on average) a block should be found, but not everyone is paid; only the top 100 plus 50, chosen from those who have waited the longest. At least that is how i understand it. Therefore variance is extreme. Once you do get paid, you will reap the benefits of your hashrate no matter how many months you waited, but at current rates expect at least three months or so to see any payment.

Oh yes there is also ramp up and ramp down, i think the ramp up is a bit faster than the ramp down. Current ramp up takes 209 days at 7.2PH/s according to computergenie's page.

You cannot "test" the pool for a couple of months, instead, you'll need to wait two years for the results to be meaningful... Or bring a couple of Exahashes per second here, then the design should shine.

Quote from: DordOfLarkness on February 28, 2019, 05:34:52 PM

Re: your recommended schedule: These are the two pools that I was looking at. I was wondering if there was a way to utilize both, and it's like you read me mind! I'll definitely do the 6/1 split as my original point of departure. Thanks again. I really appreciate it.

This probably involves scheduling using crontab to relaunch cgminer after changing its config, unless the Avalons expose such feature in their UI.