4. Nanopool with very few mined SIA blocks

Nanopool with very few mined SIA blocks

  • D

    So I've been dual mining ETH and SIA with Nanopool for about a day now. In this period of time, Nanopool as a mining pool has only mined 2 blocks of SIA... which yielded me 19 Siacoins. Is it normal for the pool as a whole to mine so few blocks? I go over to Siamining and in the same period of time they have mined 10 blocks. 10 is far from a lot, but still 5x of Nanopool. Just curious to find out from some of you veterans to see if that is normal. Thanks!

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  • M

    I have got same issue.All shares are accepted every hour.Average 150 shares every hour.Sia coins balance not changing for 7-8hours .I have same problem 5 days ago. After come time Sia balance start changing again,I am just wondering what happens with all shares .WIll they count them .I think that Nanopool has problems with SIA coin mining.

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  • Z

    Up until yesterday I was mining SIA on nanopool no problem as well, and yesterday their site said I had 1 more day until payout (500 sia). Today, it has not mined a single coin, and it's now telling me it'll take 4 days. I'm sitting at 483 coins mined, and all i need is 17 more to get my payout. This is really frustrating.

    EDIT: this is actually probably the reason why. I started mining just after this happened so I guess I've been getting some unrealistic mining numbers without even knowing.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7ie2yc/what_happened_why_the_difficulty_of_mining/

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  • S

    Here is reply of nanopool support about problem:
    "Best regards,
    Nanopool team

    Hello,
    Thanks for contacting us.

    Please note that, there has been a bug in the recent SIA hardfork, which has made SIA difficulty inconstant.
    It is currently quite high, therefore there are much less blocks found than usual.

    According to the calculations the bug will be fixed in the middle of January.
    For more info go directly to: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/releases

    Quick reminder:

    Since we are using the PPLNS system reward, your balance updates only after the pool solves a block.
    Please, check our block distribution in the Stats menu.
    "

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  • I

    I got the same reply from Nanopool support. I am not fully convinced...

    I have been dual mining with Claymore so I wrote a Bash script that monitors my 6 hour hash rate and switches the pool to SiaMining when it gets high enough, then switches back to Nanopool when it gets too low. This keeps my 6 hour hash rate alive and makes me eligible for Block Rewards but also gives me an opportunity to mine into a PPS pool without missing the rewards from Nanopool. This means that every 3 hours or so, I jump over to a different pool and mine there for about 2 hours. Its working well and I got typical rewards from all the blocks mined in the last 24 hours plus a few bonus coins from SiaMining.

    I am a few days away from a payout on Nanopool so after I reach it, I think I will go over to SiaMining until things improve at Nanopool.

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  • C

    good morning,

    i started mining on nanopool few hours ago (10 hours).
    I'm also dual mining and i earn ETH but for SIA i'm still at 0 wich is not normal as i have worked on few block

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    do you have any idea on what's going on?

    Thank you

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  • V

    Yes, nanopool has a problem and appears to be in denial about it. They are supposedly running their pool rate at 30 TH/s. siamining.com is running a pool with only 7 TH/s. I am finding shares at a rate of about 30x that of nanopool siamining.com is finding new blocks practically every day.

    Nanopool was finding blocks every day as well...until they hit February and it suddenly went from every day to maybe once per week. Now even finding new blocks did not yield any coins even though I had quite a few shares mining at a rate of over 10GH/s

    I sent an email to their support asking about this and they blamed it on ASIC miners. I say BS. The bitmain siacoin miner isn't even generally available yet. Yeah, they sold out on pre-orders. Some people have them, but it wouldn't have had that kind of impact.

    I think they are afraid that ASIC miners are about ready to hose everything and instead of giving miners their coins, they are hoarding them all thinking the value of sia will skyrocket. I'm now extremely suspicious of nanopool. On siamining.com I've mined 13 sia in a day and a half. It is literally insane how different the two pools are. ASICs supposedly would have ruined it for everyone but siamining.com still seems to be finding new blocks every single day still.

    If you are still on nanopool, I'd suggest you get out while you still can.

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  • C

    I got same problem with nanopool after few days - 6000 shares, none confirmed - imgur.com/a/19TRG
    I think they sale all SIA mined by the pool and they will put all back in a few days when the price can go very low because of this new ASIC mining system.... (just a theory)
    nanopool print screen

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  • C

    Nanopool on Twitter: "SIA pool commission changed to 0%!"

    and a reply from their staf:
    "The thing is:
    Due to SIA ASIC launching - SIA difficulty is quite high now, therefore many less blocks could be found.
    Please check this link out: https://siastats.info/mining.html "

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  • T

    Looks like Nanopool now finds a block every 15 days or so... just not worth the effort

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