so i am mining with high hashrate for 5 days now.. but obviously all my hashpower is being destroyed by "bad luck"..
we are at 16% luck now..
( luck has nothing to do with other pools by the way, just with the difficulty.. orphaned blocks would indicate too much pool-competition )
16% is really bad.. so i am always frightened that something is wrong and we are not noticing it..
and my biggest fear is that i made it broken..
i am merge mining some forgotten coins nobody else is mining ( obviously - i own 90% of the network hash power there, diff quite low. )
so everytime i find a share, i also find 2-4 blocks simultaneously ( each on a different network )
so please tell me that this is no problem for p2pool and i did not break the network.
( it might be confused that one share = 4 blocks on different networks? could that lead to a broken sharechain in p2pool? )
and no i will not tell in public you which networks i use..
( they bring me a 2% bonus on my income.. or with 0% luck... i only loose 98% instead of 100%.. )
concering the merge "bonus": every node operator should definitely set the fee to zero and use the merged coins as his income.. so everybody wins.. ( a negative fee would also be interesting.. but would be quite complicated, as you would have to integrate transactions ("old coins") in the new block )
First, I like your optimism... "I only lose 98% instead of 100%".
Second, no, you didn't break the network. I have, in the past, merge mined every coin that could be. there were plenty of times that I would find blocks of multiple coins with a single share. Think about it like this: every time you find a block of BTC, you have by default also found a block of every coin you are merge mining.
so i am mining with high hashrate for 5 days now.. but obviously all my hashpower is being destroyed by "bad luck"..
we are at 16% luck now..
( luck has nothing to do with other pools by the way, just with the difficulty.. orphaned blocks would indicate too much pool-competition )
16% is really bad.. so i am always frightened that something is wrong and we are not noticing it..
and my biggest fear is that i made it broken..
That's been my paranoia for a few days...
7 day luck is 0%. 30 day luck is 78.77%. In any case, our current round is painfully long, but certainly not out of the realm of statistical possibility. Let's assume we've had 1.5PH/s average every day. With that hash rate, we'd expect to find a block every 2.06 days. It's almost 10 days. If we round things off a bit, we can see this is a 500% block. Painful... but they happen.
In other words, there is nothing wrong here.
