# Not achieving what I thought, even with correct hashrate
**URL:** https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832
**Category:** Mining
**Created:** [June 23, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832 "2017-06-23T10:09:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@mrrodge](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/mrrodge)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832/1 "2017-06-23T10:09:44Z")
Hi all,
New to cryptocurrencies and just taken up mining ZEC. I’m using Nanopool and its calculator (as well as other calculators) are predicting that I’ll earn around 0.005 ZEC/day, based on a 6 hour average of 200sol/s.
Thing is though, it’s been running with that hash rate for a solid 2 days and has only earned 0.0017 ZEC. What’s wrong?!
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@lubu](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/lubu)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832/2 "2017-06-23T11:28:58Z")
difficulty fly up over 4.5million yesterday… from 3 million something…
that’s the reason why…
you should aware of electricity cost and mining pool and dev fee cost…
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### Author:  [@blackwidow](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/blackwidow)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832/3 "2017-06-23T11:38:40Z")
Also remember if no blocks are found you do not get any ZEC it’s all a luck game that’s why I left supernova and went to flypool more consistent blocks are being found so likelihood is better to get ZEC
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### Author:  [@mrrodge](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/mrrodge)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832/4 "2017-06-23T12:43:52Z")
Care to explain that a bit more? Lost me there, didn’t realise luck came into it.
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### Author:  [@blackwidow](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/blackwidow)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832/5 "2017-06-23T13:06:09Z")
Lets say a pool is lucky by that it might mean that every few minutes a block is found by that pool. But the opposite is also true a pool might be unlucky and might only find a block every 2 or 3 hours meaning you might only het a share every few hours on blocks found. Just because you are in a pool does not mean you will get a block every 2-3 minutes it all depends whether or not they actually solve a block and the pools with higher hashing power is more likely to solve the blocks first
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### Author:  [@mrrodge](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/mrrodge)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832/6 "2017-06-23T13:10:27Z")
Ah right, that makes more sense. Flypool definitely better then, I’m tempted to write off what I’ve done so far on the nanopool as I’m about a week off the minimum payout the way it’s going. Nanopool got about 1/8 the blocks flypool got in the last hour.
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### Author:  [@mrrodge](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/mrrodge)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/not-achieving-what-i-thought-even-with-correct-hashrate/17832/7 "2017-06-23T13:36:24Z")
One more thing… I’ve just had a crack at mining on flypool; the site reports a slower hash than Claymore - any reason why?