Its simple. Because on those short blocks, the block was solved before you submit even one share. Check the amount of shares they were submitted, its less than 300 shares. 1641 people were mining at that time, the block was solved before everyone submitted their shares!
ok, this may be the reason
however this pool should be PPLNS and I understand PPLNS means that when block is found you will look at last N (don't know the exact number) shares and distribute payouts among miners contributed to them proportionally to their contribution.
So also during short round like 10000 shares if N is e.g. 500000 you should recieve your payout even if you didn't have shares in this last 10000
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http://ltc.kattare.com/about.php)
Therefore this means that this pool is rather RBPPS based???
I heard the pool has been RBPPS for the last couple weeks or so.
From
https://www.wemineltc.com/gettingstarted , down bottom :
Our Pool uses RBPPS or Round Based Pay Per Share. What this means is simple, you get paid for the amount of work you did to find the block!
EDIT i just noticed it wasnt changed on forum topic, i changed it just now
I guess this explains a lot. It still says PPLNS in your signature as well the litecoin pools comparison wiki page.
Doesn't this effectively penalize people who are mining with shares at high difficulties because of vardiff? For example, my rigs of 3x 7950s get shares of 512 difficulty that take slightly less than a minute to finish. If the round ends before that minute is up, it effectively means I submitted no shares. On the other hand, if I could manually select a share difficulty of 128 or less, it means that I would have shares submitted every few seconds and get credit for that block.
I'm just wondering how this works because after mining for close to 24 hours, I ended up with 2/3 of what I normally get on other pools.
This would be a very rare situation, its extremely uncommon for you to not get 1 share in at 512 difficulty before a block. The issue with the 1 block earlier was more of an issue where the shares were queued to be put in the database and the change came before they were, it wasnt because you didnt get any shares in. We realized the issue after we saw the payout reportt and are working on correcting it so it won't happen again, we already made some changes to prevent it and once we get another short block we can confirm that won't happen again. So just to be clear, it was not because you didnt get any shares in, in time, you did but they just went towards the next block because of queuing on our end.
We are experimenting with a hybrid PPLNS / RBPPS so its not quite as punishing to casual miners, miners who disconnect and new miners, but also still rewards regular miners. We are in the process of tweaking it still and right now its more running RBPPS while we experiment. We were having a lot of complaints as a new pool with many new miners that their payouts werent right because of the PPLNS and we wanted to adjust it so it would be good for all miners. Please bear with us will we work out the best possible solution.
As far as getting 2/3 we had very bad luck today, we are usally very lucky but today was just a bad luck day. We did hit 5 blocks in 50 minutes early this morning, late last night but since t hen weve had crappy luck. It sounds like your not new to the mining game so I am sure you understand it happens
We are glad you are giving feedback though as this is what helps us to improve the pool. We don't just want to throw another cookie cutter LTC mining pool out there, we want to give you guys the best pool that is constantly improving, working from feedback, etc. Thanks for helping us with the process
