Pool estimates always exaggerated?

[grimboj]

Hey,

I have been attempting to mine scrypt coins for a week, on miningpool.co the estimates always seem to be double what I actually receive, same on dedicatedpools.com.

The estimates line up with cryptwarz.com estimates so am I right in thinking that I'm being under rewarded?

Is this normal or are these just bad pools?

Regards,

grimboj

[LeBarton]

Hi there,

I got the same with most of the pools. The reward from one of them was even 10 times lower than what expected (and what I could mine on other pools). Guy said it was due to a server problem but it let me the flavour of a scam. Geez even the fees were really high. I usually choose a pool in the last ones of the list. They are the last ones to be created so they need miners and they apply no fees and often are more rewarding.

[nortingon]

Most of the pools fee won't let you earn much unless the difficulty is very less. As the difficulty goes up, your contribution isnt effective.

[mprep]

Pools try to reel you in by showing "tweaked" stats. This way they get more miners.

[Vertius]

Well, 120% of real hash rate is a standard However, summary hash rate of pool is not major factor - efficiency is far more significant. People do what they can to attract people