Too many other good pools have fallen by the wayside because they dropped common sense business practices and tried to bend to the consumers whims. That doesn't work when most of those consumers of a service couldn't care less about anything but themselves.
My two Satoshi's worth,
Sam
My two Satoshi's worth,
Sam
Thanks Sam. What kinds of things specifically do you believe the pools have done to suit the consumer that has effected them negatively?
*edit The person who pointed out Stratum was you, just realized after I dug up the link to edit my prior post =)
No fee or too low of a fee PPS.
Interesting, because I actually feel as if I get more shares on Deepbit PPS than BTC Guild running block erupter - which is how I tried rationalizing the 10% fee. I am going to run on each one for 24 hours to compare, although I know difficulty is always going up -- I think I'll give deepbit the advantage and run them first.
2 Hour Test (336MH/s ASIC)
Deepbit: 555 shares Hardware Errors: 14
BTC Guild: 560 shares Hardware Errors: 4
That's 2.5 % for Deepbit and .7% on BTC Guild. I get about 2% HW Errors on Deepbit and about 1% on BTC Guild. So I would say your in line with what you should be getting. Over a large period of time the lost shares due to the old getwork protocol will add up.
