Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 118. (Read 4382653 times)

In general, PPLNS doesn't "underpay" or "overpay" you, what it does is pay you based on the pool luck less the pool fee ... i.e. when a miner does something effective to help the bitcoin network.
(the same luck for EVERY pool that actually mines blocks)
Thus the PPLNS pool has no requirement to keep (literally) many 100's of BTC in storage to pay people who want payment for completely ineffective work.
... that's what PPS does

PPS pays you based on the shares you submit so it does (literally) need many 100's of BTC in storage to ensure it can always pay the miners due to the same luck risk as the PPLNS luck payout i.e. a PPS pool gets BTC based on the same block finding as all other pools - which is what PPLNS uses to be able to always pay the miners for when a miner produces effective work (and distributes that to all the ineffective miners also)

What does that mean in terms of actual payout?
Well PPS thus requires either a pool OP who is happy to give away LOTS of BTC to the miners every time the luck is bad enough (i.e. all the miners have done nothing to help the bitcoin network - that's what a "bad luck" streak is), or a pool fee high enough to cover that block luck risk.
Thus the PPS fee should normally be higher than a PPLNS fee (or you are swimming in unsafe waters)

Thus over time a PPS pool is statistically expected to pay you less.
With PPLNS that expected payout is of course not your exact, today, payout.
That's an expected average over a long time.
Over the short term (days, weeks, even months is short term for all but the largest pools) pool luck will be what you will see in the payout.
It can be higher or lower ... but is expected to average out based on the pool fee.

Pool luck is different every single time a block is found ... on every single pool.
That's the nature of bitcoin mining.

I'd like to know as well.

I currently have 4.6T total split between 3 miners using Slush, BTC Guild, and Discus Fish.  If I point everything to Discus Fish, I would get .047538 BTC / day and not worry about the pool luck factor of PPLNS.  Any reason why I shouldn't just do that?  I will say that over the past few days, I get about that much anyways...

Which pool has paid more since you started this method?

I have 4 s3s on slush's and 4 s3s  on kano's. Seems to be working out so far.

And the winner is  
10 Blocks in the last 12 hours...not bad!
I have splitted my four S3 miner few weeks ago 2 at Eligius and 2 at Slush

If by splitting on one device? No.
I just set backup pools incase one or two have problems...

Nice streak again!

Out of curiosity, do you guys split your hashes over different pools?  I have about half on Slush and half on BTC Guild for now.  I did like the consistently of Antpool (in terms of blocks being found), but with all of the DDoS issues they have been having recently, I've been staying way.

Nevermind.  Slow to post.

I see the reward for the block also, but I don't see the pay for it in confirmed reward.



This is the block in question(above).  Only way I saw this, is due to the payment that happened.



Here is the deposit from the block(above) from the 2 blocks(below)





And here is the unconfirmed reward for blocks ID 23697 and 23698


Am I missing something?  Should I make a ticket?

Mines showing a reward for the block.

Was Block ID 23696 not a real block?  It shows confirmed, but it didn't pay out?  Can anyone else confirm this? 

You might want to look into "BTC Miner" iOS app from Daniel Banasik. I'm using it and it works fine with Slush's pool.

There are others, but that's the one I'm using now.

I also use the "slush-block-notification" python script to send me an email when the pool finds a block. I had to modify the script to get it to work on the Mac. It would be nice if that was a pool option instead.

ok tnx a lot

I love the way people try and keep worker details secret.  PROMOTE THEM!!!  Everyone use worker bigbitmine.dontate for a while.

What will happen?  Will my miners get hacked?  Will my BTC be stolen?  NO

Will someone be mining on my behalf and earn me BTC for nothing?  YES

Remember, bigbitmine.donate for your chance to mine for absolutely NO reward.

What about the pay/earnings? Has it changed? I stopped using it as it seems quite less than other pools like eligius and kano. Heck even westhash earned me more for the same TH.

Mining password is actually a misnormer, so what if somone mines using your worker .... not that you'd be defrauded in any way!
So the answer(s) to your question(s), YES, x is the password for all workers and NO you do not need a password.

Today I was standing up some new miners, and went in to create a unique worker for it so I could monitor it separately, but the workers are all only showing "x" as the password and I was never given the option to create a password for this worker. Do all the workers use the same password? or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for humoring a noob...

Yeah, I like the new look.  Now if we can get an iPhone app....

Great job slush

I love the new site updates! It's a very crisp and clean look.

Took me a few minutes to figure out how to increase the detail level on the dashboard, but once done I'm happy with it.

I was serious.