Which is why I refuse to specify what most of my NVidia cards have been working on the last couple months - I'm a little over 1% of the TOTAL there, and don't want everyone and their kid brother jumping in and destroying profitability.
The "natural" growth has been bad enough - there was a time last winter, with HALF the cards, that I was pulling in over 2% of the mined coins - though the value per coin is still up quite a bit from then.
What do you mean by "little over 1% of the total here" ?
Do you mean you manage to earn 1% more than expected ?
he means the pool has 100 hash rate and he has 1.1 hash rate = a little over 1%
if you find a coin on nice hash or zpool or whattomine and the hash rate is low enough that you are mining 1-3% of all the hash and the coin has decent profits . staying in that 1-3% of all the hash tends to make better returns then having 25% or .3%
of all the hash rate.
So any coin with low hash rate with good returns means you need to be disciplined and not over mine it. you also need to hope that 1000 other gpus jump on it.
If you have 12 1080ti's and that is 1.2% of the entire hash rate on the pool it means there are only 100 1080 ti's on the pool
you need to not tout the coin as a winner since some big farm will put 100 or 200 gpu's on it and you lose
you need to realize if you go from 12 to 24 gpus there is a risk some fucker will find that coin and put 100 or 200 gpus on it and kill you
all small hash rate winner coins are like this a few hundred 1080 ti's moved to a coin can kill your earnings.
I used to mine a lot on this pool a btc pool mmpool.org I was the top hasher but was in the 15 to 20% range of the hash. then a guy came along saw that the pool had an exploit due to high rewards and he put in 80 to 90 % of the hash rate killed me maybe a 2 btc loss for me.
Estimated Payout
Rank....Id........ DGM Estimate.....PPS................ Shares................Rate (MHash/s)
1 a5d78fff 10.76633216 0.00000000 453,994,488,446 0
2 71602a00 0.82439480 0.00000000 23,363,422,432 52,484 I used to be able to keep this in the 2-3 btc area
3 dad84f7a 0.06368607 0.00000000 3,613,182,652 10,804,670
4 433aa491 0.04149172 0.00000000 1,427,325,593 2,693,299
5 2d0ba29d 0.01718831 0.00000000 1,019,838,905 1,270,89
Now no matter how much I would rent he just rents way more he has hit 5 of the last six blocks with 10 btc in bonus rewards
I hit 0 of the last six blocks with 0 in extra bonus rewards.
variance kills in my case 2 coins = 6400 usd under luck and he is +10 btc or 3200 with good luck
since this happened and now blocks won't be big with 1-3 coin rewards that is just a loss for me.
my choice to go higher variance and it hurt due to a much bigger fish jumping into the pool
So in the case of a good coin in a little pool I no longer give the coin out to people.