Traditional pool has its advantages and disadvantages over p2pools:
Advantages:
- lesser amount of dead/stale/orphan shares. With p2pools, these usually take between 5% and 15% based on current network state, luck, etc (If I look at stats on the biggest pool node right now, I see: P2Pool Total: 176MH/s (Stale: 12%) from 51 users). In traditional mpos pool, these are usually around 0.2% - 0.5%. This means less hash rate wasted.
- better statistics than p2pools
Singula that is
not correct:
The Stale rate you see is also including nodes that are running not the right p2pool software. These nodes will still connect to the network but not provide proper shares. Yet the Stale rate is still accounted to the total rate of p2pool.
I've been observing this the past week, that all of a sudden a hashrate of 12mh appears with Stale/Dead on Arrival shares. Yet scanning over all the public pools revealed, that all nodes were running fine and local stale rate was below 1%.
So you can not generalize this - if in doubt - talk to me, vertoe or sy in irc - I can show you log files for these occurences.
In general though, if your hashrate is below a certain fraction of the general p2pool hashrate your stale rate might go up, since you can not provide shares fast enough compared to pool shares. (This should only happen to hashrates below 50kh/s at current nFactor)
To sum it up - if you want coins fast (in both cases you won't have the coins sooner than before 520 confirmations though ...) and can cope with only 90% effectivity - go for p2pools.
If you want more coins, but if you are willing to wait perhaps extra day for them - join a traditional mpos pool:
http://pool.cachecoin.net,
http://cach.catcoin.czThat is also
not correct - the amount of coins found depends on the amount of blocks found by the pool. In the past week users on your pools were observing a higher return since the pool rate was most of the networks rate and thus was finding more blocks than the average block time of 15minutes... since the hashrate of 1/3 to 2/3 favoring your pool during this low difficulty high hashrate period were in favor for your pool. (But leading to possible security threads on the coin)
The payout right now on p2pool and a traditional pool will be averageing over 24hours.
Since your pools run on prop, there might even be the chance that some miners would not get a payout for a block found. For exmaple in this scenario:
I have a hashrate of 300kh/s - someone has a hashrate of 10 mh/s. A new round starts, the person with 10mh/s submits quite a lot of shares very fast in the beginning - the pool finds a block before the guy with 300kh/s can submit any share => No payout for the 300kh/s miner
P2pool runs on pplns - this would still pay the 300kh/s miner but would decrease the pplns share until the 300kh/s guy finds another share that will be counted towards the rounds.
That is why the payouts in p2pool fluctuate ... but over 24hours average out to a normal payout
