I saw on a screen-shot posted recently, that someone with a bunch of block erupters
was still running with lowest "Minimum Difficulty", sending found shares each second.
I think that is quite a waste of network ressources and might even reduce your asics'
performance.
As I think many people don't know that feature yet, I suggest you try the following:
- On BTCGuild webpage (after logging in, of course), click to the "Workers" tab.
- look at the column titled "Minimum Difficulty"
- for each "worker" (or just for the one) select for example "4 (4-8GH/s ASIC)" or
an even larger number instead of the standard "1 (CPU/GPU Miner)"
Now, your mining software will no longer report each dust particle it mined, but only about
nuggets of less ridiculous size. It will then seem in cgminer's output as if you got fewer shares,
but if you watch your dashboard, you'll see that each of those fewer shares counts the respective
multiple. (Note also, that these "dust particles" aren't technically productive at all. They are like
finding three-leaf clovers while searching for four-leaf ones - merely a proof that one is spending
effort on examining clovers.)
Btw., not every pool offers this adjustment. Fortunately, BTCGuild does
PS: If you try it, and if you really get a noticeable performance win from it,
then I'd be happy about a small tip
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