Yep, but note I asked if hash rate stayed the same..

So I suppose I'm asking, why leave in the first place..

If your 2% shrinks to 1%, the leaving 1% must've thought their bread buttered better elsewhere..

But if it's all luck, and your 1 larger payment at BM every 30 days is about on par with 30 way smaller payments elsewhere every day, then why leave?

Just psychological for one or two at first, but that's enough to start the snowball rolling?

Or, were they definitely better off elsewhere?

When YOU moved, if ONLY you had moved, would you have been better off longer term?

So out of interest, why have many folks moved on? Assuming hashrate about the same, all pools must pay out about the same, give or take?

Real shame re: closedown - at near 300 days since a payment, it's been such a turnaround from the 5 blocks in 5 days just before!
Might as well remain until the end though, who knows might get just one more and go out with a bang.
Best of luck in future endeavours DrHaribo.

Alright, gotcha, so in the 268 days, 38k-ish blocks have been found, but we've been pipped to the post by others finding them first?

Awh, 268 days :-(
Out of interest, is it possible to just "abort" and walk away from the block?!
Or do things not quite work like that :-D
Are other pools working on the same block at the same time?
Over time, is the chance of the block being "stale" increasing?

This block is killing the pool :-(
Wish the %age would just go up, so there was a vague idea how long we might wait.
255 days is crazy :-(

::kick::  ::kick::  is this thing broke??

For sport.. Power in UK on average around £0.155/kWh..
My lickle S17 eats around 2.6kWh.. So an hour of mining = £0.403..
1 day of mining = £9.672..
154 days of mining = £1,489.49..
Just need a 0.23BTC share of this next block to break even..! :-D
COME ON BLOCK YOU'RE BECOMING A PAIN IN THE BUTT.

GO ON CHET.. COME ON BLOCK, HE HASN'T GOT ALL DAY.

1 - chetjstojanovich - 90449
2 - cmcclients - 22055

10 blocks in 60 days, to 0 blocks in 100 days! :-(

Chet must've got fed up watching weeks of pain. Hopefully this 89-90% block is about to get its ass kicked.

Awh man, this block is a knacker :-(

Ditto to what gt_addict wrote above, and above that, COME ON CHET!!!! 

Huh? So what's all that about then?

Hi Chet, not sure how much my wee vote will count - a relative newbie at only 3yrs mining, and a mere 4x S9/T9's to contribute.
I've not minded you being around at all though.
Great to see blocks being splattered all over the place - personally I'd rather have a smaller proportion of reward, but get it a lot more often.
Can't believe the pool saw four blocks off today, must be a record of some sort - we'll have to get Norris McWhirter in to confirm.

What about that third?

Then the fourth...?

Four in a little over 24hrs - madness! :-D

Two in a day! :-D

Guys, I'm obviously not explaining myself as well as I should so I'll stop there before I annoy.

I understand luck/prediction etc.. And that in my example it could've happened the other way around. The example was just to point out PPLNS does have a flaw - I wondered were there other quirks?

I understand as well if there's no reason he comes and goes.. He may be bored, his other pool may be down, etc.

I suppose in it's most simple form my question was just:

    "Is there any little quirk of PPLNS he could be taking advantage of, reason he comes/goes?"

In it's most simple form the answer would've been:

    "Nah.. Probably has the pool as a failover or he's trying out some different ones, etc."

His coming/going doesn't bother me at all, I'd rather have lower payments more regularly. There's no ill feeling anywhere, just idle curiousity.

No probs re: the luck side. What I meant, but could've done a better job of explaining (and which I think the OP meant!) is...

The 10 shifts/PPLNS isn't perfect. An example - the 2018-09-08 to 2019-01-21 dry spell where nothing came in... That was a 136 day run, but the first 96 days were wiped out.

So if a single person had provided 100% of the computational power for those first 96 days only, they wouldn't have seen a payment despite having done the vast majority of the work.

Assumption is that it all about balances out.. Say, A does 10%, B does 40%, and C does 50%, so long as those ratios are maintained for the 136 days, they get the payments they deserve. Otherwise, it'll wiggle around a little though, as people come and go etc, obviously.

On that 136 day block, I seem to remember some bigger players landing towards the end.. Perhaps thinking "It's gotta go soon!"..

Now C from above, might've provided 50% of the power for the first 96 days, but when the big fellas roll up, that percentage reduces and continues to with every shift.


So I think what myself and the OP meant was, are there any loopholes/weaknesses/cheats (whatever you'd want to call them), that may not be obvious to the layman, but which he could be using to give himself an (entirely legal!) little advantage?

It just seems peculiar he points his flamethrower over, but not all the time!

Hi Doc, sure appreciate that, didn't mean hopping as such.
There's no other stat anywhere they're keeping an eye on/evaluating, or even gambling on?
(At either Bitminter end, or whichever pool(s) they're bouncing between?)