I rented WAYYYYYY to0 much hash power by accident to put on maxminers. What happens to the extra hash? it it divided among the pool?
Short answer: No
Long answer: No way
No offense but was hoping for an answer from someone who actually knows what they are talking about.
Actually, I think it kinda DOES work that way... You do not get credit for the extra hash or its rewards, but I think the pool does... See the conversation with OCMiner from a couple of pages back:
About the Nethash problem.
Could it be possible that the pool shows the
poolhash as the sum of all the hashrates
< 10 And the pool shows the
nethash as the
actual hash being thrown at the pool, so also people (as OCminer mentioned .. retards) that mine with 1 GH and only get 10MH
Cause the nethash was 10GH a few times when Maximiner was finding twice as much blocks.
Or am I just being stupid?
Damn you're absolutely right.. Why did I not think of this ! Yes sure ! There you see which "overhead" we have !
Are you being sarcastic? Cause I'm a total nono how pools work lol.
Nope you're right, I was just not thinking of it at the first place.
This also explains the rising diff.. As the guys are pumping more and more MH/s into the network, blocks are found much more early (on the pool where those guys pump in the extra hash) and so is the diff rising.
Its a part of what started the FUD the first night. We thought that the source code had leaked because the net hash rate was sometimes double the hash rates of the three pools. That and we didn't know that the PoS blocks were being mined at the same time as the PoW blocks causing them not to be listed in the pool block logs. ("the secret miner")
Turns out, that while you do not get the credit for any extra hash that you send over the 10k speed limit, and will be temporarily banned if you are consistently above the limit for too long, the pool does accept the extra hashes and applies them to the work. That is the overhead he mentions above. The pool hash rates are the sum of all the miners for that pool within the 10K limit, and the net hash rate was the sum of all the miners from all of the pools within the 10k limit, but also including any hashes over and above that limit.
That is also why the diff was higher than it should have been in relation to the pool hash rates, and also the reason why one or the other of the pools, having generally equal miner participation but experiencing more hash overhead from those miners, has been arguably more successful at finding blocks than the other pool with a comparable number of miners but less hash overhead from above their 10k limit.
Least that's my understanding of it all from the conversations over the last several pages!