What difficulty to mine at?

[CrimsonGT]

I have setup my own pool recently to use for my solo miners. It is working fine but I am getting nowhere near the estimated coins per day for my hashing power.

The coin is Emerald and is only around 0.25 difficulty and 20 second block times.

- Initially I was mining at a fixed 128 DIFF and was getting nearly nothing.
- I decreased this to a fix DIFF of 16 and have done better, but I don't get even close to the amount of blocks/coins estimated per day for my hashing power.
- I setup VARDIFF and it put me back at around 128 DIFF which seems much to high for such a low difficulty coin.

Can anyone make any recommendations on what the Difficulty should be set to? I really need to figure out a good maximum for low difficulty coins.

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[kb9nate]

I'm not sure what you mean by "a pool for solo miners", I'f you're using a pool then you're not solo mining. Typically for solo mining you just setup the wallet to run as a server and your miners connect to the server and mine on the chain that way.

If your miners are the only ones connected to the pool its the same as if they were each just solo mining by themselves.

The "diff" your referring to between the miners and pool isn't the difficulty of the coin being mined, its basically the amount of work that the pool gives to the miner to solve each time. Think of it as more of a "packet size" A higher diff between pool and miners just represents more shares being solved in each "packet"

That being said it depends on your cards speed.

For example:

500kHs = diff of 128 or 256

900kHs = diff of 256 or 512

Those are some numbers I have found to work well.

[CrimsonGT]

Sorry for the confusion. I have mining machines in different locations, so I setup a pool and pointed all of my miners to it. Not technically solo mining I suppose.

The pools I have setup are for low difficulty/fast block time coins such as Emerald (0.4 diff/20 sec blocks) and Fastcoin(1.0 diff/12 sec blocks). As that is the case, wouldn't using such large difficulty for my miners not work as well as lower ones? I would assume that 16-64 diff for my miners would be better for these types of coins, but I am not positive.

Thanks!