I have tried Eligius and your pool and I feel I have better results with you. A question about setting difficulty, mine is currently set at the default of 2. Should I increase the setting or is it automatically optomized? Running BFG and hashing at 220gh.
The pool uses variable difficulty with the same target rate as pretty much every pool. Setting a minimum difficulty is useful for high speed miners (I'd consider anything above 100 GH/s to be "high speed" these days). Some miners don't smoothly accept work restart messages, so when the difficulty is being ramped up by vardiff you might lose a little speed for the first 30 seconds to a minute or so. It should be negligible, but I know some ASICs used to have issues when using default difficulty settings on pools because of how fast they were having to communicate share submissions.
If your worker is specifically for the 200+ GH/s miner, I'd recommend you put your minimum to 128.
Thanks for the reply. Is there any advantage to increasing the difficulty ie. more shares possible?
And one last question I am trying to understand how the Mined coin is distributed. I am using shift 13614 as an example. It shows 3 blocks total coin awarded 73, Paid to shift 7.26 where did the other 65.74 coins go? do they go to users on PPS or does the pool keep them? Thanks in advance
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