From another thread:
I wondered why miningpoolhub was so abysmally slow, then found out they ratcheted their difficulty down to the minimum to cost users money and power and time but make it so their inadequate servers could keep up.
Sad to think that a business that is there, ostensibly, to be a facilitator of mining would attack their users in this manner rather than upgrade. I was getting 1/6th the usual rate on Lyra2REv2. After I found that tidbit, I realized why miningpoolhub sucked so very, very badly. Oh, and they never answered any tech support questions. Bad pool. Bad software. Just bad, all around.
Ah, yes, not many were ready for the outflux of users from Nicehash. But, they will be back to business as usual after the people flee their pools and software to go with far more trustworthy nicehash. Nicehash has answered every question I have ever thrown at them.
LOL, the hash from NiceHash went to MiningPoolHub anyway. All MiningPoolHub has ended up with is the hash split up amongst loads of users.
The Equihash difficulty is variable over time, not fixed.
The problem with Lyra2REv2 has always been the miners, not the pool.
MiningPoolHub is 10x bigger than even Zpool. Scaling is more than just pure resources; the software has to be continually improved from the original open source project.
NiceHash is not a pool and they take huge percentages from both sellers and buyers. If pools charged the same fees then they could employ people like NiceHash has.