Got two of those in a row and was all excited... good to see the pool at 144PHs! Looks like Canaan just added/testing an additional 2PH, and bluelagoon has either returned/failed over.

Good point... of course they would have the same chance (1/1304) at solo mining, so then we're just gambling with an electricity bill  

I'd say he should probably try solo mining for a few days, but luck doesn't work that way so I'll just say I'm glad we can share in the luck

Chance of you finding a block in one day:    1 in 1,304.0 (132TH)
Chance of two blocks in one day: 1/(1304^2) = 1 in 1,700,416
So you're saying there's a chance......

In theory, yes. On the other hand, the pool sends you new "lottery numbers" (approximately) 3 times per minute... and there's the peculiar situation that there's an extremely small but finite chance ("So you're saying there's a chance?") that the next block could have been hiding a few trillion numbers away in the nonce that was being used before you rebooted. 

Rebooting would probably be more beneficial if you were worried there was some sort of hardware issue where chips or memory weren't rolling properly.

Yep - cgminer's already connected to a pool server will continue operating normally until the connection drops because it already knows the IP of the server and has no need for DNS lookup
Mine on!

Even if you get one in your cart (and it says you have 10 mins to complete check out), when you go to check out, it gives you an out of stock error.

This is the first time I've tried to order from Blokforge, so was hoping their site would work better than some of the other distributors  

A suggestion for your cart code... use fair queuing:
Set global table lock on product counts
Check available qtys
Reserve items (or update qty table)
Unlock access
Repeat and handle next customer request
Not perfect but simple.
EDIT: making it sound less like a rant

They are Delta 12038 with PWM: https://www.moddiy.com/products/Delta-12038-120mm-x-38mm-Fan-%28PFC1212DE%29.html

Ha, that's right, you cracked the 22.67 BTC "Christmas Eve Eve block" :-)

This one was technically a 40 minute block since any network transactions were confirmed, because the previous block was an empty AntPoo one...

Speaking of big transaction fee rewards.... thanks again, dance!

Indeed, I can confirm that Minergain is probably being accurate... down here in Ohio, several years ago, Spectrum (then Time Warner) installed fiber to my home datacenter for a hell of a deal, partly because I was just a short walk off of the closest node with existing dark fiber. They used a 12-fiber bundle which I believe is single-mode with WDM because the down/up channels are on the same optical fiber. Cost has dropped since then but is about $1200/mo for 100Mb symmetrical. Of course, the cost is partly due to the carrier-grade level of service, my SLA covers free router, four-nines uptime (99.99%) and a 4-hour tech response.

Anyway... getting way OT... nice to see that Kano is in 2nd place on the network for highest transaction fees in the block reward, which are also paid out. New miners who are unsure about sticking around for the long haul with Kano should take note! Mine On.
https://i.imgur.com/Gy0MFs7.png

I think I see the confusion... the UI in your left screenshot is showing the time into their pool round, not the time into a network block. If you look at the table to the right of the 12 minutes in your screenshot, it shows Slush found a block 11 minutes before, which triggered a new round. Back when it was a much smaller pool, that round timer would show 2, 4, even 12 hours until a pool block was found (I use them as backup). So the timer doesn't have anything to do with the current network block listed below it. I can confirm that the last network block time on kano's website almost always matches up when I'm logged in there and happen to check against another site like btc or tradeblock... or my bitcoin node :-)

Looks like lightsword is back, and canaan has booted up some additional miners. Let's bring on a December opposite of the last one!

The title of this forum contains all server prefixes (xx.kano.is) that you can use to connect to the pool. I would ping each one to find the best one for you (likely to be SG but could end up being JP or just stratum)
Admittedly, this forum is so large a lot of the details about the servers are buried here. Maybe Kano could explicitly add the regional servers to the first forum post?

>>> This pool also operates regional servers, try pinging each of the following to find the best for your location (recommended: may reduce block submission time and stale rate)
stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 (Western US)
stratum+tcp://nya.kano.is:3333 (Eastern US)
stratum+tcp://de.kano.is:3333 (Germany)
stratum+tcp://sg.kano.is:3333 (Singapore)
stratum+tcp://jp.kano.is:3333 (Japan)
stratum+tcp://nl.kano.is:3333 (Netherlands)

I think you'll really like them! Their (the company) responsiveness has not been all that great, but adding independent suppliers seems to be helping push things along. The Avalons themselves are bulletproof... currently have 9 of them. I'm running 3 in Canada along with 2 AntMiners. The AntMiner S9 already has one partially burnt-out board, and my lucky S7 (found 2 blocks over the last year, and I bought it used!) unfortunately likes to randomly drop out for no reason on occasion. The three Avalons there run 24/7 at 7.6-7.7 TH stable. The other six I have here in-house. Of those, three have been running for the last 9 months almost flawlessly. Just make sure your controller and miners are running the latest firmware.

Side note... I also run the in-house ones at a slightly lower power setting to reduce fan noise and keep things stable with a slightly bizarre 10" duct heat removal system:

And they still push 7.7 TH reliably, at about 1200W at the wall, 240V circuit. I don't necessarily recommend that second setting as Canaan targets the chips to 90C, but it works well for me...

I'm calculating around 0.000483 BTC/TH/day for the last 4 days... but that is still close to double the daily average for the last 3 or so months which is ~0.000251 BTC/TH/day. With the smaller pool hash rate in the last few days, my payouts are just smoking anything I've received in awhile 

As I'm sure Kano would point out, we're also still 4 blocks ahead of expected through April, and both the long-term pool luck and payouts are over 100% expected.

I am curious of the results of the share re-processing, though, as it does seem on the last 2-3 occasions of pool hash rate spikes, we end up with horrible luck during that time.

In any case - have three 741s coming from MinerWarez at the end of the week so I'm very excited to see how reliable their distribution network is, and grow our hash rate a little bit!

Good to know!

Looks like that IP (and DNS) is hosted by RivalHost. They look legit, based out of Oklahoma, but who knows - could also be a spam/crime-friendly host given the DDOS protection services. Here's their contact info:
abuse@rivalhost.com
support@rivalhost.com
+1 877-575-4678

inetnum:     181.215.236/23
status:      reallocated
owner:       Digital Energy Technologies Chile SpA
ownerid:     US-DETC5-LACNIC
responsible: RivalHost, LLC.
address:     Waterwood Parkway, 1015, Suite G, C-1
address:     73034 - Edmond - OK

I have some chicken that's been marinating almost since the last block was found, guess it's time to throw it on the grill! 

BOOM - just checked while I was typing this and BLOCK! WOOOOO

Last time I bought from Canaan, they replied back with two payment options: bank transfer and Bitcoin. Bitcoin probably your best bet for obvious reasons and low fees. If you do a bank transfer, make sure you get a street address and phone number for the company (not their bank) as I ran into an issue with that at my bank when I sent them USD.

Also, hello from Columbus!

Cheers! Indeed... it's not easy being green, but we're pretty good at that here 

Also nice to see that the A741s are doing just fine cracking 20T difficulty targets...
20.08 T / 678.76 G
https://btc.com/0000000000000000000e04462a335889325cb0b30e41ca5edc310be721a99c29

Welcome! Just some unsolicited suggestions on the dryer ducting... I'm currently testing a setup in that way with (3) Avalon 741 miners, each with a 3d-printed 120mm fan to 4" dryer duct adapter and semi-rigid ducting. After lots of reconfiguration, I have them at stable temps in a 4" => 6" (6x8 wye) => 8" (8x10 wye) => 10" (trunk) running directly to a 10" wall cap to send the hot air right outside. Also helps to reduce some of the fan noise in my "semi-commercial" datacenter room. The most critical tips I can give are (1) put the miners as close to your exit wall as possible to reduce/eliminate any angles, especially 90deg ones, in the ducts. If at all possible, just give them their own exit vent. (2) it's critical (for the Avalon or the S9's) to keep room/inlet temps below about 28-30C and make sure you have fresh air coming in somehow (inlet vent/AC/etc.) because of the negative air pressure (3) give these things plenty of airflow. 10" duct is already pushing the limits of my three miners in terms of restricting airflow.... my HVAC guy was blown away (pun intended) when I told him these "computer fans" can move 250CFM per fan at top speed. A better solution if you have the space would be a hot/cold channel... you could host a lot more miners in that configuration and just have a big fan at the end of the hot channel sending it outside or feeding back into an AC unit. Good luck! Curious to hear what you come up with in the Vegas summer as I'm in the midwest.