Didn't we used to sacrifice anime characters when blocks got long?  Maybe we need to go back to that...

Perhaps a better question is (aside from when the pool was brand new) has variability ever been this high?  By my reckoning, a 100% block would take 2.8 days right now - not sure if that's the best way to measure variability, but it seems to work.

The trouble with high variability is that when we starting mining this block, network difficulty was at 2,227B - it has now gone up past 2,603B and is now at 2,874B and we still haven't found a block - I don't know how the math works on that, but it's got to mess with your profitability - intuition tells me that for everything to work out properly, we have to at least be finding some blocks at every difficulty level...

Is there any indication that variability will improve?  Are we doing anything to attract miners?

So we missed an entire difficulty level... The entire time network difficulty was 2603B (from Jan 22 to Feb 6) we did not find a block... Has that ever happened before?

I hate to say it, but we might be getting too small...  I can accept variance, but at what point is it too high?

Yep - all 104 of the miners I manage went offline (that's a fun alert to get) but only for a few minutes - Kano's got it sorted - best pool on the network

That *is* awesome - it's weird - I had this feeling that as soon as I talked about it on the forum...  I'm not superstitious at all, but that's a bit uncanny - glad to see it is in good company with a lot of other blocks - let's keep 'em coming!

Alright, well I started mining on Kano in late April with 150 TH and have ramped up to almost 300 TH.

Couldn't be happier - the pool is awesome - but I want to do my part and find a block!!  According to my math, I'm more than overdue...

What do I need to sacrifice in order to get on the acclaim board?

+1

Bitmain only seems to be providing tracking numbers for the first shipment (generally the PSU) then when the miner itself gets shipped there is nothing.  UPS provides a pretty slick way of seeing anything that is shipping to your address - maybe try to find out if DHL can do that - otherwise it will probably just show up in the next couple days (or you'll get the customs call)

My order was placed on 8/31 in USD - payment was not confirmed until 9/10 - power supplies shipped shortly after that and the order showed as shipped.  I just searched my address on UPS and have discovered that the S7's appear to be coming by end of day 10/14.  No additional shipping notice from bitmain.  I did receive a shipping notice when the PSUs shipped - it seems as though their system doesn't really support backorders - I wonder if there is no subsequent shipping notice because their system thinks it is already shipped?

At any rate, they will be a bit late according to their promise, and quite a bit later than I hoped they would be, but I'll be glad to get them up and running.