I did notice that I am getting about half as many shares as before. However, I don't think they are quite as near twice the value
Sure they are, since the share difficulty doubled everyone on the pool is getting about half the number of shares as before.
Strictly speaking I guess each share has no value. It's not like PPS where you get paid by the share. Instead you get a % of the block value by counting how many of the lastNshares were from you.
So, you see it doesn't matter what the share difficulty is really. The lastNshares value doubles when the share difficulty doubles.
Sort of like this:
200 Shares (yours) / 2000 (lastNshares) = 10 % of the block value is yours
vs
100 Shares (yours) / 1000 (lastNshares) = 10 % of the block value is yours
Either way you get the same percentage.
There is more to it than that of course, but it gives you some idea of how it works.
I dont think you should have to specially create or make any concessions for people like me that have really slow equipment. Its a nice thought but you may just be too generous
I think slower miners should want to get or create a better rig and not be catered to. If they are, they are going to expect that with all pools and it removes the incentive to either get new equipment or even tweak (or learn to tweak) what they currently have access to.
Well, if I did implement a lower difficulty share port for slower miners, you wouldn't earn any more coins. As I would have to change the way the scoring works. I would set the slow port to a fraction of the difficulty of the fast port and shares submitted to the slow port would only count for that fraction of the big ones.
For example if the fast port is Diff 60 and the slow port is Diff 15 than it would take 4 shares submitted to the slower port to equal 1 share submitted to the faster one.
That's the only way to do it right. It would only make a difference if the miner in question was too slow (or nearly too slow) to get shares at all, other than that payouts would be the same.
As long as you are getting shares fairly regularly it wouldn't make much difference, the variance might be slightly lower.
The only reason to do something like that would be to allow for even higher difficulty shares on the faster port (Doubling the share difficulty almost cuts the server load in half, because it's now processing half as many shares as before) while still allowing for slower miners to use the pool and get something. I would imagine that most miners would be on the fast port.
I may or may not implement something like it, I would rather have a full-on Vardiff implementation but the stratum server I am using doesn't support it.
Believe me, I would benefit immensely if you made any concessions for slower miners but I dont believe you should just based on the principle of the matter
If the share difficulty were to be set so high that you couldn't get any shares at all, or got shares very sporadically it would be a great help, other than that it just wouldn't do much.
