It really only affects users who left with all or part of their hashrate in the last few months. If you weren't paying attention that this was coming and were so inclined to move all or some of your hashrate back before the switch you lost shares, if a block is found in the timeframe that you would have still received a payout
Moving forward you can re-evaluate and decide if you want to come back - 3 days and you are fully ramped up. This is beneficial to any small miner who couldn't fathom waiting 60 days or whatever it was for the full 5ND ramp up.
It does suck for people who ramped up fully under the steady reminder that you would receive a 5ND rampdown period. Like any service though it's at the discretion of the service provider.

So all us long term miners just lost MONTHS of shares?? I recall you said you'd never do this. 

In theory the luck should be the same for all over time. The difference comes down to % of the total reward shared - fees. One thing I have noticed if I'm not wrong is that we are on the cusp of becoming a pool that doesn't expect a block every retarget period. I think right now we expect 1 every ~16 days. Given we have some transient hashrate we seem to swing above and below that right now, hopefully we can attract some more permanent hash.

What an honor! Literally just switched to this pool to test out a new proxy... guess we'll be staying for a while!!

So, I have been mining on Kano with a T9+ and learning this 5Nd thing for a month now and was not even close to getting to the 10.5TH ramp up; I went ahead and "helped it" with a 2nd T9+ and a Bitfily B1+ (Total of 34TH), now my Shift Graph shows roughly the same as the single miner.

Does this mean at next payout I can expect the "full" share of the single 10.5TH miner?
Is this way of ramping up quickly ok?

Who is Frodo?

16v got very lucky this time...

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

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

KanoPool support goes something like this: If an user loses a password, he/she has to make a new account (with a different login name), the end.

Kano used to respond very quickly on IRC, not sure about this newfangled Discord thing...

Seeing 1.5% in several places, for instance:  https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/pools/btccom/

Unfortunately, can't seem to find it on their website.

is that your shift graph?

I wonder what is behind this peculiar pattern in pool usage:

no but time factors into our average which does affect our rewards, right? I lost half a TH on my average within 5 hours - after being back online for 14.5 hours, my average is still not where it was before the 5 hours of outage.

I think the pool hash rate was in the 40 PH during the time I was offline vs the 28-32 PH range it has been since I came back online.

could that be why I am ramping up slower?


and can we please find a block soon? lol over 20 days now I want to buy new equipment lol

Pool size could be measured as a percentage of the network maybe, anyway this is sort of how I see it.

Super Pools are over 5EH in size > 10% of the network each
Large pools are over 1EH in size > 2.5% of the network each
Medium pools are over 100PH in size > 0.25% of the network each
Small pools are over 20PH in size < 0.1%
Tiny pools are over 1PH in size < negligible


None of this is an exact science, but I would think this pool would be more comfortable at or above the 250-300PH mark

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!!!

sure - better late then never right? only 15 months and NMC has only dropped by like 1000% in value.