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.
