Guys why do I see below 100% vs LTC??? Hows is that possible, why should it get below 100% isnt the point to be equal or more than LTC whats happening with this pool the last week its been bad profitability and right now im looking at 0.00289 wow wtf is that... I dont like having to point my miners at another pool but waffle is looking better at this point atleast its over 100% or equal
What happens is we mine a lot of LTC recently because not many coins are more profitable in recent days. Yesterday we put on average 6009 MH/s of our total 13670 MH/s into LTC, which is 44% of our total hashpower. 6009 MH/s should find 16.5 LTC blocks per day at 7338 LTC difficulty, but this is only an estimate and actual number of blocks found depends on luck/variance. We actually found only 11 LTC blocks yesterday, so 66.7% of the expected number. This dragged our profitability ratio down to 86% LTC profitability yesterday.
Finding less or more blocks than expected is normal and it's how variance works - you sometimes find more blocks than expected, sometimes find less blocks than expected. The bigger your hashrate and the bigger number of blocks per day you expect to find, the less variance you will have. We can be pretty good at switching coins to mine the most profitable ones, but when there are times when we mine a lot of LTC, then we're vulnerable to variance.
But keep in mind that despite ups and downs with daily results, CleverMining remains very good pool when it comes to profit from coins other than LTC. You can compare pools results during the recent WhiteCoin bubble. Only CleverMining and WafflePool seemed to handle it right and both provided 30-50% better profits than all other coin-switching pools. But when we have to mine a lot of LTC, then we will have a variance just like any straight-LTC pool has. We then have days like yesterday when we had 88% LTC profitability compared to Waffle's 100%, but there also are days like three days ago when we had 124% LTC profitability compared to Waffle's 99%.
We could really use some more hashpower to reduce variance and provide more stable results with decreased luck factor. But even with our current hashrate you don't need to worry about our profitability in the longer term. We will have bigger daily ups and downs during times of LTC mining, but the long term average will still be good. And when there will be some new coins rising then you can be sure that CM is the pool to be on.