Been a while since I chimed in here--Discord is sooo much cooler --but, ya know, I figured since we just went thru the halving that I'd see what's up.

Short answer: I think we'll see the diff drop if the price doesn't quickly adjust for the new supply & demand curve caused by the halving.

This really makes me look forward to WHALE WEEKENDS!!!

*** The reason it's so profitable for the hundreds of us that mine here 24/7 is exactly because of the PPLNS (5Nd)--which we're all fully ramped up on--and when a whale joins for just long enough to get a block or two over the weekend, they've only ramped up 1/5th of the way, for example, so we still get decent percentages of the rewards, but in real-time we get a few more rewards faster than usual.

A real-world example from our last Whale Weekend was the equivalent of me running ~90TH/s instead of ~30TH/s!

MINE ON WITH KANO-SAN!!!

Apparently, the test worked... Now, MINE ON WITH KANO-SAN!!!

Yay! I love big block weekends. One more for good measure, please!

I sincerely feel sorry for you having socialist leaders that hyper-inflated your currency into oblivion.

The only hope it seems for you is to invest anything you can spare into deflationary currencies like BTC, silver, and gold...

Hey, imagine that! BSG could be the acronym for BTC, silver, and gold.

But when it's done, it'll be more trustworthy than my fiat currency, debt note bank.

Join Discord via the kano.is website link. It's where most of the chatter happens these days.

That side-effect is a good reason not to worry about trying to 'monthatize' the block reporting.

For example, let's just say we hashed 365% at the end of April with no block, but 15% into May we found a block. Falsely, somebody would interpret the beginning of May as really good luck, but nay, nay. It took us 380% to get that block, which isn't horrible, but it's not lucky.

I think of it like the gambler that keeps choosing a different number and color on the roulette wheel and thinking that they're better off than choosing the same number and color each time. All they're doing is introducing more variance! Lol

P.S. - I don't gamble, so if that was a bad analogy, well... Deal with it!

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Anybody not currently mining here is missing a great opportunity for an 8 day ramp up to full rewards thanks to the recent boost to ~200PH

@16vV8, thanks for droppin' by! Why don't ya swim in our pool for a while and grab some of Kano's BTC giveaway???

I 'expect' to see blocks every 100%! This one's taking 2x as long, so I wouldn't be surprised to have a few quickies in the near future; I'm not 'expecting' it, though.

The best thing that could happen right now is a whale joining/failing over here--gotta live up to that 400PH thread title--and blast us through a few blocks. We'll all get YYYUUUGGGEEE rewards and forget all about mid-April!

MINE ON WITH WHALES AND KANO!

I hate to say it, but: you just get a bigger piece of the pie in smaller pools with 'slower' blocks, and you'd get a proportionally smaller piece of the pie in bigger pools with 'faster' blocks... 10 x 1000 = 100 x 100... :shrug:

Good thing Kano uses PPLNS!

Another angle to try--since my 921 still seems impervious to volt/freq changes :shrug:--is to set the default temp higher than default (e.g. 741 @ 95 instead of 90 = 75% fan, 921 @ 98 instead of 95 = 50% fan).

This helped in my case so the fan wouldn't try to fight as much at keeping the temps down. Maybe if Canaan comes out with a 921 firmware that actually responds to volt/freq changes, the above method may be used in conjunction with volt/freq changes too.

Edit: Oh, and the reason I'm hesitant to limit the fan directly is just in case some unforeseen heat wave causes it overheat since I didn't allow it to go up to 100% fan. That's just my personal preference, though.

Regardless, what I've noticed is that it seems easier to get one or two lucky blocks with a small-medium sized pool to make it a really profitable month rather than a bunch of lucky blocks with a semi-large pool.

Well, 100 more 100TH miners would only be 10PH... I don't even know if I'd consider that a 'whale' in today's hashpower race.

Whoo-wee! Sure could use a block right about now...

Sad to see the tension build around here. Been over a year since I've read this much in-fighting.

Let's keep it together, folks! We're not even over 100% yet!!!

FYI I think someone mentioned the newest S9 firmware disables SSH, which renders Awesome Miner useless, but this may need confirmed by someone else since I'm Canaan-only.