I have 2 male S9s, 1 female S9

Hope this helps!

dont listen to anyone saying Antpool has better earnings.

I have 3 S9s and pointed 1 at antpool, btc.com and viabtc.

antpool earned least out of the 3. This is because THEY KEEP TX FEES.

See last 5 blocks for example:

Height   Relayed By   Reward
500,406   BTC.TOP      23.06844858 BTC      
500,405   BTC.TOP           21.57133835 BTC         
500,404   BitClub           21.15969094 BTC      
500,403   AntPool           22.43700609 BTC         
500,402   BTC.TOP           22.84704763 BTC         

If you do that math, you can see that tx fees are almost the same as the 12.5 BTC payout per block.

Why do you want to perform work for them and have them keep almost 50% of the BTC rewards just to themselves? Leaving you with the rest to split among miners?

The antminer S9 is out right now for $2725 USD - holy shit!

I hope the A8 will be under $2000 - seems worth it at that price.

I am wondering if you can shed light onto the S9 vs 821.

Per the specs, the S9 comes out on top in terms of efficiency so I assume the first choice would be to go with the S9 that is currently available.

I have read that people have been anti-bitmain but what are the exact reasons for this?

What would be the benefits of getting say a 761 instead of an S9.

Essentially, what would be the reasons why someone would forego an S9, which has better efficiency and power for a 761 / 741

What do you mean by this?

Yes longer term profits.  Last block (and I'm not fully ramped up yet) was just over 1.5% of a bitcoin.      If you want the daily profits, slush's isn't bad either..I flip flop between both.  It does look like over time kano's pays more though, you just have to live with the one block per day or more vs the 7-10 blocks a day with slush, the payout isn't even close per block though (kano's by a landslide).
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Thanks for all your help on this.

A few more questions. Hopefully the answers here will help move some beginners over to Kano.

1. How long till you are fully ramped up if I were to point all miners to his pool today?

2. Which stratum should I connect to? I looked on the website and it is not helpful in finding the best ping for someone in eastern US

3. I understand that payment happens after 101 confirmations do not sure if it is only paid out when the next block needs to be found as well.
    I can't find any information on this on kano.is. Can I get some elaboration on this?

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Join Kano's pool, I have the same setup you do with three S9's.
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What are your profits like per day?

I know that Kano is a smaller pool so it may take days to find blocks. Would joining the pool mean you are looking at long term profits instead of daily profits?

I've been mining for over 1 week now and have three s9 which makes about .0027 - .0034 BTC per 24H / S9.

Total daily hashrate of 40,000 GH/S

Can anyone tell me if above is any good?

To be honest, I've only used Antpool and btc.com Pool and so far Antpool has been earning me more, even with zero tx fees paid out. After reading all the posts slamming Antpool and centralization of BTC, I would like to join another pool as I do not want to support them.


I am located in eastern US so if someone can point me to pool with better results, I'd be willing to jump over.

Looking forward to any help for a new miner!