So what is the information that i need to keep paying attention? the blue bar?
Can anyone reply on this matter?
I guess no one has replied yet because your questions were already answered fully. Read the answers again :-)
You want to learn more how to understand and compare profitability, right?Perhaps it helps you if I share what I did because I needed to know exactly ... and for my first weeks of mining, I have had a very close look at sometimes less-than-one-day phases, because I was switching pools fast, was disappointed by some pools, left because of chaos, tweaked GPU cards, switched off computers, forgot to put --scrypt :-) etc.
Now I am in calmer waters, and know more what I do, and essentially just observe what drops into my wallet - but that is the result of active learning, and most of it all, book keeping.
I created an Excel file with the following columns:
datetime | datetime diff | khash av
the datetime diff is e.g. b7 = a7-a6 and gives the exact length of the timespan
more columns:
Immature Unexchanged Balance | Unexchanged Balance | Balance | Paid Out | total sum middlecoin
the total sum mc is e.g. g7 = sum(d7:g7)
Similiar for a doge-pool which is my failover when middlecoin is ill
confirmed | unconfirmed | total sum dogecoins
Then I have two more columns
doge/eur | btc/eur
with current exchange rates which I look up at
http://preev.com/ and
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/#jump-doge-btcand then of course, and very very important, measured with a 8 euro powermeter:
kWh | kWh in Euros | kWh-euro-diff
From all that I can then calculate
total doges in euros | total earnings in euro | earnings since last time
subtract the electricity and get:
profit since last time
and as I want to see how it scales:
average profit estimated per day per megahash
done.
I see how much it is fluctuating. Not so much actually.
Around Xmas it was gruesome, but fortunately I kept my coins in BTC, and now ... the past looks better :-)
With each new pool/coin I try out I need to insert new columns, yeah bad, but not too bad
And all that goes into ONE LINE in Excel, because then the next line is just filling in the values, pulling a few calculation cells down - and the result is there.
Does this help?
Overanswered, I guess :-)