Does someone know how Asicminer is mining at btc guild?
Here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools its said that Namecoins only are mined with getwork. Does this mean when using stratum Namecoins arent mined?
The transaction fees are only shared when using PPLNS. So is Asicminer using it?
And is the 3% the fee Asicminer has to pay or is there a special agreement maybe?
Here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools its said that Namecoins only are mined with getwork. Does this mean when using stratum Namecoins arent mined?
The transaction fees are only shared when using PPLNS. So is Asicminer using it?
And is the 3% the fee Asicminer has to pay or is there a special agreement maybe?
Asicminer on BTC guild probably uses stratum, so no Namecoins. Yes, it is set on PPLNS (https://www.btcguild.com//index.php?page=pplns&shift=4689 user 67117). I don't know about the fee, but it looks like it's automated, so 3%.
Ok, so the transaction fees are shared too. I took a look, they arent very high yet, up to 1 Percent of the 25BTC per block sometimes but often way smaller. So they are smaller than i thought but good that its shared anyway... over time something will be collected through this.
And mining namecoins... i wonder how rewarding this is. I checked the calculator and it seems that its not near the profitability of mining bitcoins. But i read that mining namecoins is an addition to mining bitcoins. It doesnt need extra power to do this. So it looks like extra money. So what does Asicminer lose if not mining namecoins? Or did i misread this?
Edit: I found this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1733270
It implies that mining bitcoins with namecoins can give 13% more earnings. I wonder if thats true but if yes, then it would be a not small loss. Too bad that its not possible with stratum.
ASICs CAN NOT mine namecoins because it is almost required that ASIC must mine with stratum, because they solve shares too fast. Namecoin can not be mined with stratum.
