Community/devs/pool operators:
With suprnova having SUCH a high % of the overall shares, doesn't it make sense to either a) use suprnova or b) all find one other pool to use, rather than distribute our hashrate across numerous tiny pools that can't compete with suprnova?
My results over the weekend led to $100 in a Nicehash contract and $25 in missed mining on other pools trying to get PCMiNing's hashrate up. In over 24 hours we found only one block.
Seems to me that all the small pool operators are trying to attract more miners and while competing with each other, it ends up being to the detriment of all non-suprnova pools. There's not much we can do about taking hash rate away from suprnova unless we build up ONE strong, community-backed pool that has low (or no) fees plus a small fee for the devs/marketing of BTCZ.
The first I saw to do this was PCMiNing so I'd suggest everyone use that, and other pool promoters try understand the reason for this. No one is going to want to use a pool that has less than 1% of suprnova's hash rate. Also people are buying huge Nicehash contracts because suprnova supports them, and that's where most of the hash rate is coming from. PCMiNing also supports Nicehash (I am not sure what the max hash rate/difficulty it can support is, maybe the pool operator can comment?).
Anyway, keen to hear your thoughts, or be told why my thinking about this is wrong.
hear you loud and clear and this makes sense. I've been brainstorming a plan and I spoke to a pool owner about it and I'm going to approach others....
The idea involves something written into z-nomp that sets a certain pay scheme to 'enabled' if the pool reaches a certain criteria - based on # of miners, hours they've been mining on that pool, and blocks found threshold. Triggering a full-block payout to a random miner on the pool.
Or something that monitors the pools and between a certain timeframe chooses an address that has met the criteria in example above and pays out full-block. The payouts will be on a random pool and random address on that pool. Something like this would not require being written into z-nomp - it would be a service operating independently but that leads to the issue of it needing to be funded with some coins. I would fund it to an extent.
Certainly still at ideation stage.
-cryptorex
