Week 2
Still no blocks, so far I’ve missed out on about 2.5 LTC… starting to add up. The prospect of a full 25 LTC reward still seems worth it.
Still having issues with where my machine stops submitting shares. I helped someone else setup a pool with 8 L3+ Antminers and they’re not having this issue. I moved from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and I’m still having this problem. Since it’s only an issue for me using my rigs, I’m convinced its an issue with my rig, not with the Stratum Server setup. Still looking into it more, really a big issue I need to figure out because it’s causing a lot of downtime… Thinking maybe I need to up the difficulty since my machine hashes around 700MH/s.
Moving to AWS was a good idea because CloudWatch on AWS is way better than StackDriver on GCP.
Recently, I sold my A4 Dominator and given the recent surge in LTC, I thought it was a good time to invest in more machines so I’ve got 3 Innosilicon A4+ LTCMasters on the way which should bring my hashrate closer to 2.5GH/s. (Hopefully 2.8GH/s since the A4+ I have right now really hashes closer to 700MH/s.)
What I also find crazy is just how fast the difficulty has jumped. On a daily basis, my A4+ (620MH/s) would earn about 0.1 LTC (Mining Calculator | litecoinpool.org) which was how much my A4 (250MH/s) was earning in early November. On a USD basis though, earnings have pretty much stayed the same thanks to the recent LTC 
run up.
Thanks, everyone who has contacted me about my tutorial on Github, please star my repo if you found it helpful or informative.