I have noticed that my mining pool (50btc) are now offering the option of selecting share difficulty. A higher difficulty share pays more, but takes longer to generate, so what is the advantages if any of selecting a higher share difficulty? I am mining in pps.
thanks
Dunno how it works on 50BTC, but on HHTT increasing the difficulty to certain points lowers the fee. Over a long period of time, you'd get the exact same number of difficulty 1 shares regardless of your set difficulty level. Umm, if the fees are the same regardless, I think the only benefit might be that it uses less of your upstream bandwidth?
i occasionally mess around on HHTT and set difficulty to 10000, 20000, sometimes the max (65536) and just see if I get lucky... 65536 hit pays about .34 bitcoins or so...