Thanks, it went down to about 16.85G and I was pushing over 100Th/s then it started moving forwards again slowly about 24 hours later, so I`m doing about 4Th/S now and just about staying still, I pulled the rest of the power because it just isn`t worth it at the moment.
I did wonder if it was something I was doing wrong but I looked at other accounts, and those above the min payout threshold were also going down.
It`s very unsettling to watch if you`ve never seen it before.
While TIDEs and PPLNS payout are somehow just the same, I do agree that looking at your share dropping in a graph or a table is probably not something anyone would want to see,
, realistically, on a large pool this wouldn't even matter, because these things would reset every time the pool hit a block and you won't even notice it, but with a small pool, you may go on for weeks, you hit a peak of 20G thinking that if the pool hits a block now you would get x BTC, but then the pool doesn't hit shit, and some random miner with 100x your hashrate points their gears to the same pool and you see your 20G drop to 2G, obviously, the pool chances have increased thanks to the new guy, but ya I understand how it would be physically damaging to see your "loyalty" for the pool doesn't matter lol.
But honestly, that's just how mining works, I think a huge part of the fact why the vast majority of miners (probably 80% or more) use PPS, they don't want to be bothered with all that variance and luck, just pay me per share as if the pool was hitting 100% of the network blocks, charge me some 4% for it, and handle the variance yourself.
If I had 100TH/s I'd be pushing it to a good solo pool.
If he is making more BTC than he pays for bills, it would be better for him to collect sats and save them for the future, at least he is guaranteed to have some BTC for when BTC hits a million dollars or so, if he makes $100 worth of
BTC a month now, when BTC hits 1 million that would be $1,500 a month, so if he does this for 10 months, make 1000 in BTC while BTC below 70k, in 10 years that would be $15,000, you might say well, it's not guaranteed that
BTC would hit 1 million in 10 years, that's a valid point, but that has a few orders of magnitude more odds of happening than hitting a solo block with 100TH.
