Issue with your luck average stats that aren't accurateHey FastPool Op...firstly..love the pool..and want to say that
your average luck for the day/week and so on IS MUCH better then what your site/stats post and I know why and its fixable and its something I'd fix if I were you because youvare losing out on MANY workers and more hashrate/donations due to this..
Basically the standard server software and its "zero variant" stats base the "expected shares" on the current difficulty and the pool hashrate vs network hashrate at the EXACT MOMENT of difficulty change...and stays there until next change and pools that fluctuate a lot or get good upswings like yours throw those stats off..because your expected shares will NOT change at all but the actual shares WILL as the rate goes up..making it (often but not always of course) that its taking much more then "expected" to find the blocks...
Your luck is NOT 135% average...I'm POSITIVE of this but it posts that regularly for 1 day and 1 week stats..in 130's%+ sometimes...over 1day to 1 week..this scares newcomers..
Some pools rework the code and make own algorithm or equation to basically take a roaming "average" of the pools hashrate over "x" time and over "x" difficulty to more accurately represent this..
I've done a lot of math and testing here and at other Doge pools at same times with 10-80mh worth of mining power...and not just for one or a few hours because that can be wildly inaccurate but over few day periods..where coin rewards average out to 480k-520k per block...and THIS POOL will net MORE coins 8 times out if 10!
Initially I thought Dogehouse had to be the likely winner for best payoffs with there 30% of the network...but they ARE NOT!..this pool SMOKES EM almost every time..their pplns system does something that lowers payouts typically below average..even when luck is 95%-105% over there with 500k avg per block..I typically (and many others who tested with me) will see 65-88% of expected payout based on specific or roaming estimates with current difficulty, stales n rejects etc...and this is with my personal mining at less then 1.6% rejects...but at yours 80%-110% payouts on expected all the time!
Now of course there are times at this and other pools where one can get much less or more then expected due to brief bad or good luck on block finds and rewards...but gotta go with the long term averages ..
Anyways just my two cents..wanted to pass this along as I have unfortunately communicated with several who opt to "stay away from fast pool" because they "believe" the pools luck is consistently too poor based on the stats they find on your block page on a regular basis when compared to others..sure your 1 hour is green and good from time to time but your 1 day/1week is practically always RED 110%-154%! When in reality its not that far off at all..
Anyways keep up the good work.
Cheers
PS..hope that newer splash page has helped you lately because I can only imagine that you must have been getting inundated with emails from people freaking out thinking there are issues cuz they can't get to the main site at that exact moment...I feel for ya...
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