If you care to take notice, here's some basic math that guided me on to this: 18% of 88 = 15.84 , whilst 1,5% of 10x88 = 13,2
Here is some basic math for you:
100% of 10 = 10
10% of 100 = 10
1% of 1000 = 10
There are a number of factors that can skew those numbers slightly - technical issues such as connectivity, hardware, lost shares, etc. Also, those issues are historically more likely to occur at smaller pools. However, ignoring historical statistics (as they aren't always relevant anyway) and all things being equal, you will typically get a better return at a larger pool. The reason is that the larger a pool is, the more blocks they find. The second a pool finds a block, it can instantly calculate the work and distribute it to the miners for the next block giving them an edge over miners at other pools still crunching away on stale shares. For the most part, this edge is reduced to milliseconds with stratum servers but those milliseconds begin to add up. Sorry if I was being rude - I'm easily rattled these days I guess. Just so much false information out there and it's frustrating to cut through the noise.
It's ok
and you weren't rude, just intense
I think the best part of this is what we learn from the experience, even if we don't make a profit we're proud of. And yes, there's sooo much noise in these parts, sometimes it's unbearable.
I much rather ear from you and everyone else that has an insight, even if it means that I'm wrong or being noobed down a bit, eheh. No harm done, quite the opposite.
In fact, it made me realize that I was probably to far away from edric's pool (I have since tried to check with traceroute, but there are a couple firewalls and whatnot in between, so no luck on the hop count
), so I have a new question, maybe you can help with it:
If I configure additional pools in cgminer, will the miner use the "new block found" from other strata to more effectively dump the stale shares on the one he's actually working?
I do/did this when solo mining and it clearly helps, but I'm unsure when all pools configured are strata. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks
