i didnt mean use your own diff (may be i havent described it well ) i meant as you said , higher diff, because of with normal i am getting to much stales.. but ltcash is not pps
Despite what many people seem to think, there is no such thing as a "normal" or "standard" or "base" difficulty for Litecoin pools.
In the first months after the launch of Litecoin, most pools used a share difficulty of 2
-16 or 2
-15. They could have used even lower difficulties, but there was no point in doing that.
Now that GPU mining has become widespread, most pools have moved to higher difficulties, such as 2
-12. The reason behind this is to decrease bandwidth usage, since fewer shares are submitted. There is of course a minor downside to doing this, and that's that the precision of speed estimates gets drastically reduced.
Here is a list of pools by their current share difficulty.
- Adaptive: P2Pool, litecoinpool.org
- 2-15: Pool-X
- 2-14: Ecki, NuKing's
- 2-13: Coinotron
- 2-12: Ozcoin, LitecoinCash, burnside's, notroll.in, Xurious's
- 2-8: ltcmine.ru (shutting down)
As I said, the only downside to higher share difficulties is that speed estimates are less precise. This is why, for instance, all speeds reported by ltcmine.ru are multiples of 27 khash/s.
