So, I've had my single Antminer L3+ since Oct. 18. You can bet your ass I had it hooked up and hashing within 30 minutes of signing for the parcel, lol.
With a BTC price of $6,500 - 7,000, NiceHash is avg. $20 USD a day. I've only JUST switched over to ProHashing this past Sat. morning, Nov. 11. It's not looking so great...
The math I'm doing, after 5% (FIVE ??) fees is closer to $14.00 USD a day. Not very happy. I have been hearing good things about their rewards (payouts), but the downtime IS as everyone says, regular.
It's a good pool to use as long as you set your failovers, and have TONS of ASIC power, and are willing to justify a $6 day loss for the convenience of payouts in almost ANY coin you want.
Honestly, with as expensive as BTC transactions are (right now anyway) I think NiceHash is still the better choice. I can handle, I guess, a $15 fee to cash in my $125 worth of BitCoin, considering at $14 a day on ProHashing is only $98 a week PLUS NETWORK FEES. My math isn't into detail for this post, just want to let prospective miners know, ProHashing isn't doing me very well so far. And if they are in the top 5 best paying profit changing pools or whatever, then WOW... Just wow.
On the other hand, this first ASIC experience is actually pretty impressive. I'm still waiting on a second unit, and any further upgrades will be newer, future models. I can't see getting anymore Antminer L3+s, or even the S9 with as many trillions of these things Bitmain is selling. I watched the LTC network go from 7TH to the now 35TH just from June. One L3+ in June could mine almost an entire LTC per day, now it's 0.22!!! Holy shit!
I'm pretty happy overall tho. Will I buy more ASICs? Most definitely... A lot of people say just spend the money on coins, but honestly, my blockfolio doesn't mature at the rate of $140 a week. And if it did, selling would only slow down growth because AHH COINS ARE GONE NOW, duhhh... :)
And just because, at $0.13 per kWh, this single L3+ should cost me a whopping $78 a month in power, versus the $125 per WEEK its generating, after network fees, RIGHT NOW. Does anyone here like free money? 'Cause this it literally like FREE MONEY!
I'm liking it so far... :)