So my understanding is that the pool uses a share system, to divvy up the pool rewards, shares are based on how much hash each person contributes
Example:
Miner 1 - 50 shares
Miner 2 - 30 shares
Miner 3 - 20 shares
So if its just them 3, They will get 50%, 30%, 20%
Rob I believe is changing how many shares everyone gets, so for example it may now be:
Miner 1 - 5 shares
Miner 2 - 3 shares
Miner 3 - 2 shares
So they each still get the same amounts 50%, 30%, 20%
So I believe that is why Rob is saying the shares are relative
Why change the share values? I am not sure LOL
I raised the minimum pool difficulty because the lowest reference machine was solving 30 shares in 15 minutes.
I made it 3 per 15 minutes, then some of Lukes miners dropped out, then I raised it again to the midpoint, and now I think its a good happy medium.
It allows the pool to scale a little further into the future (performance-wise) before we need to double its size. The other concern I had is I had the suspicion that some people are creating VM's to make more money and thats really not we're about. At least I dont want the pool to subsidize that behavior.
The pool is for the average everyday miner.
So which numbers count on pool? HPS, HPS2, or Shares which are the numbers that result in blocks being solved?
If I take CPU that gets 800 HPS on 1 worker I get HPS2 40000 - 60000 and 20 - 40 shares
If I take same CPU and put on 10 workers I get 80 HPS each and HPS2 200000 - 400000 (total) and 80 - 140 shares (total)
These numbers are not exact but just to show if you split your worker you get same HPS but MORE HPS2 and MORE shares.
So which is better for solving blocks? and why is situation 2 possible if that is not helping solve blocks but produce a bigger share of block?
Just FYI I am not in this project to "make more money". I am trying to help solve blocks for the pool. I didn't get involved or buy into biblepay to get rich.