Nice streak again!
Out of curiosity, do you guys split your hashes over different pools? I have about half on Slush and half on BTC Guild for now. I did like the consistently of Antpool (in terms of blocks being found), but with all of the DDoS issues they have been having recently, I've been staying way.
If by splitting on one device? No.
I just set backup pools incase one or two have problems...
I have 4 s3s on slush's and 4 s3s on kano's. Seems to be working out so far.
Which pool has paid more since you started this method?
I'd like to know as well.
I currently have 4.6T total split between 3 miners using Slush, BTC Guild, and Discus Fish. If I point everything to Discus Fish, I would get .047538 BTC / day and not worry about the pool luck factor of PPLNS. Any reason why I shouldn't just do that? I will say that over the past few days, I get about that much anyways...
In general, PPLNS doesn't "underpay" or "overpay" you, what it does is pay you based on the pool luck less the pool fee ... i.e. when a miner does something effective to help the bitcoin network.
(the same luck for EVERY pool that actually mines blocks)
Thus the PPLNS pool has no requirement to keep (literally) many 100's of BTC in storage to pay people who want payment for completely ineffective work.
... that's what PPS does
PPS pays you based on the shares you submit so it does (literally) need many 100's of BTC in storage to ensure it can always pay the miners due to the same luck risk as the PPLNS luck payout i.e. a PPS pool gets BTC based on the same block finding as all other pools - which is what PPLNS uses to be able to always pay the miners for when a miner produces effective work (and distributes that to all the ineffective miners also)
What does that mean in terms of actual payout?
Well PPS thus requires either a pool OP who is happy to give away LOTS of BTC to the miners every time the luck is bad enough (i.e. all the miners have done nothing to help the bitcoin network - that's what a "bad luck" streak is), or a pool fee high enough to cover that block luck risk.
Thus the PPS fee should normally be higher than a PPLNS fee (or you are swimming in unsafe waters)
Thus over time a PPS pool is statistically expected to pay you less.
With PPLNS that expected payout is of course not your exact, today, payout.
That's an expected average over a long time.
Over the short term (days, weeks, even months is short term for all but the largest pools) pool luck will be what you will see in the payout.
It can be higher or lower ... but is expected to average out based on the pool fee.
Pool luck is different every single time a block is found ... on every single pool.
That's the nature of bitcoin mining.
