Looking for a technical opinion or fact for that matter:
When pool mining is it better to specify a static difficulty within a range of your known capabilities, or to let the pool adjust difficulty.
I have been under the impression that , for the sake of share submission, a rate of 1 (yay!) every 15-30 secs is good, to keep low diff share submissions to a minimum (pool flooding) while contending for a good number of shares for your portion of the reward when a block is found by a member of that pool.
However, if you have no need to compete for share quantity, like a private pool, would it be better to allow auto adjustment of difficulty by the pool software in the interest of solving higher difficulties with a higher probability of finding a block?
What effect does the difficulty adjustment time and pool timeouts have on time between submissions (guesses at block answer)?
I suppose, to summarize the question what I'm asking would be: Does setting a static difficulty reduce the possibility or "power" to solve blocks?
Is this how it works? Opinions, facts, or comments welcomed
