Here are opinions from another novice, so take 'em with a grain of salt.
(1)
If you have N computers mining, then you want:
N accounts in the miners section on all computers -and-
N accounts in the witnesses section on one (and only one) computer; preferably the most stable.
(2)
I don't know the best places, but I use steemd.com/@[userid] and steemstats.com
(3)
Yes, I believe so, although I haven't powered down yet, so I could be misunderstanding something.
(4)
Yes. Speed of your processor, number of threads, sufficient memory, network latency, and numbers of competing miners are the factors I'm aware of.
(5)
With about 27k hash power on 3 computers, my son and I have been getting about 11-14 blocks per day until the last few days. Starting last Thursday, it has been tailing off, and one miner seems to be basically dominating the queue again today. It remains to be seen how/if this will be addressed.
(6)
Lots of blocks and the absence of mining pools. Also, the two year withdrawal period makes it unattractive to people with enough hash power to get significant returns from other coins.
(7)
Not yet. I believe it's set up to make mining pools difficult because it requires private keys.
Cool, thanks for your response!
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Hi there,
Thank you for your reply and although the answer is pretty clear ... your answer to point 1 still confuses me..
If you have N computers mining, then you want:
N accounts in the miners section on all computers (I want all the proceeding to go to my one account @anarcharos, having other accounts in the miners section would it not spread the proceedings to the different miners/accounts? even if those accounts are mine?
-and-
N accounts in the witnesses section on one (and only one) computer; preferably the most stable.
The witness section only has space for a name not a computer ....
Would you mind posting a copy of your config file to actually see what you mean?
Many thanks bro!!
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Can't do that. It's got private keys in it. But see the examples in this link by @orly, from the top-level post. Near the bottom of the article.
Yes, it does. If there's a way to avoid that, I'm not aware of it. It also distributes the work alphabetically, so it's not even a balanced split. The first account in alphabetic sort order gets most of the blocks.
Update: Because of that sort order work distribution, I also should have noted that in practical terms, there may not be much benefit from having more than 3 or 4 accounts, no matter how many computers you are running. I'm running three computers, but only two accounts, and I've been seeing some missed opportunities, but not enough to justify the hassle of managing another account.
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Hi,
thank you for your reply and link.
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Hi,
I have read the article that you linked in, and is a pretty good explanation. It still puzzles me that (as in the example given in the article) you would only have a list of witnesses on just one of the mining machines, while the other two machines have no witness defined ....
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Yeah, I was confused about that at first, too. Short version is, try it and you'll see that it works. That's what I did. If you watch the log messages and various web sites, you'll start to intuit what's going on.
I don't know exactly what happens "under the hood", but at a high level it seems to go something like this:
Not sure how the signaling between machines is handled. I guess it might be purely network communication or it might be storing and referencing some sort of flags in the blockchain.
The bad news is that right now, one miner is mostly dominating the queue, so it won't be easy to be looking at the screen at just the right time to see the log messages if/when you hit. You have to be lucky or patient to be watching the miner output when you happen to find proof of work.
Hope that helps.
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Hi Remlaps..
I tried to reply to your latest reply but there is no reply button ??!!?? .. anyhow...thank you so much for your time and explanation, it has helped me lots to understand what am doing.
Happy mining :)
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