Bitcoin vs bitcoin (low difficulty)

[FlutterPie]

So on the mining pool I use there is an option to mine in the regular pool or the low difficulty pool. How do these differ? It would seem the low difficulty would be the one to go with, but I have no idea.

[KyrosKrane]

That's not a particularly common option.  Which pool do you use?

[FlutterPie]

That's not a particularly common option.  Which pool do you use?

Multipool.us

[-ck]

Why not get support from the pool directly instead then? They have their own forum thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=604291.0

[FlutterPie]

Why not get support from the pool directly instead then? They have their own forum thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=604291.0

Because I was wondering what the difference was in my initial question. I didn't think that was the only pool that offered this option.

[zitters]

That's not a particularly common option.  Which pool do you use?

ghash.io

[FlutterPie]

I still dont know what one I should be using and what the difference is.

[os2sam]

I still dont know what one I should be using and what the difference is.

Hopefully the pool operator will know what the option means.

[sconklin321]

I used to mine on multipool and the difference is in the shares received.  What happens is that when they mine BTC, they don't have enough hash rate to solve blocks.  As a result, they act as a proxy between you and another pool.  Originally they mined BTC on P2Pool, but due to variance they have changed.  I know they have mined at both eligius and ghash.io too.  Now because they are a proxy, they submit your shares as their own.  So as a result, the pool they mine BTC on gives them higher difficulty shares, because they submit each server as one worker I believe, than you'd receive if you mined with the pool your being proxied to directly.  The low difficulty pool is for those that have a lower hash rate so that they aren't trying to solve high difficulty shares.  I hope this helps answer your question.

BTW, I know this information is available at least in their thread, if not their website too. You might just have to look for it.

[flound1129]

So on the mining pool I use there is an option to mine in the regular pool or the low difficulty pool. How do these differ? It would seem the low difficulty would be the one to go with, but I have no idea.

You get a lower starting share diff on the low difficulty port.  It has nothing to do with the Bitcoin difficulty.

[loewen.brad]

I used to mine on multipool and the difference is in the shares received.  What happens is that when they mine BTC, they don't have enough hash rate to solve blocks.  As a result, they act as a proxy between you and another pool.  Originally they mined BTC on P2Pool, but due to variance they have changed.  I know they have mined at both eligius and ghash.io too.  Now because they are a proxy, they submit your shares as their own.  So as a result, the pool they mine BTC on gives them higher difficulty shares, because they submit each server as one worker I believe, than you'd receive if you mined with the pool your being proxied to directly.  The low difficulty pool is for those that have a lower hash rate so that they aren't trying to solve high difficulty shares.  I hope this helps answer your question.

BTW, I know this information is available at least in their thread, if not their website too. You might just have to look for it.

I actually noticed about a week ago that they were mining on Bitminter.

[flound1129]

I used to mine on multipool and the difference is in the shares received.  What happens is that when they mine BTC, they don't have enough hash rate to solve blocks.  As a result, they act as a proxy between you and another pool.  Originally they mined BTC on P2Pool, but due to variance they have changed.  I know they have mined at both eligius and ghash.io too.  Now because they are a proxy, they submit your shares as their own.  So as a result, the pool they mine BTC on gives them higher difficulty shares, because they submit each server as one worker I believe, than you'd receive if you mined with the pool your being proxied to directly.  The low difficulty pool is for those that have a lower hash rate so that they aren't trying to solve high difficulty shares.  I hope this helps answer your question.

BTW, I know this information is available at least in their thread, if not their website too. You might just have to look for it.

I actually noticed about a week ago that they were mining on Bitminter.

Actually, we didn't change from P2pool because of variance.  We were fine with the variance.  We changed from p2pool because despite using the fastest processors available, eventually as our hashrate grew, our modified version of p2pool that allowed custom difficulty setting could not keep up with our share volume and our efficiency was suffering.