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Topic: Difficulty and shares (Read 1096 times)

hero member
Activity: 490
Merit: 501
June 24, 2013, 05:00:57 PM
#6
can anyone explain me something about difficulty..
for example. i have 10 GHps miner, will i have profit of increasing shares difficulty(from 1 to 2 or 4)?


if you increase your difficulty you will cut down on the amount of traffic you send over the Internet and the amount of time the pool has to spend interacting with your miner. The pool will compensate you for the increased difficulty by giving you more shares for each found hash that you return.
newbie
Activity: 2
Merit: 0
June 24, 2013, 04:53:10 PM
#5
can anyone explain me something about difficulty..
for example. i have 10 GHps miner, will i have profit of increasing shares difficulty(from 1 to 2 or 4)?
legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1007
June 24, 2013, 01:23:05 AM
#4
What is the benefit for the miner, of increasing the dificulty in a pool? I am part of a pool that allows me to set my own difficulty.

Increasing your personal difficulty doesn't benefit you much, with the exception of lowered bandwidth.  Going from Difficulty 1 to Difficulty 2 will cut your upstream usage in half.  From 2 to 4 will cut it in half again, etc., etc.  Downstream bandwidth has a minimum amount due to work notices from the pool, but depending on your rate of share submissions, higher difficulties can also reduce that bandwidth utilization significantly as well.

There's probably some *extremely* minor benefits of higher difficulty due to miner overhead, and some earlier ASICs/firmware versions had problems when mining at lower difficulties due to the rate of share submissions.
newbie
Activity: 19
Merit: 0
June 24, 2013, 12:48:43 AM
#3
What is the benefit for the miner, of increasing the dificulty in a pool? I am part of a pool that allows me to set my own difficulty.
sr. member
Activity: 263
Merit: 250
Pool operator of Triplemining.com
June 23, 2013, 10:19:43 AM
#2
The pool needs more shares, a share is usually defined as difficulty=1
full member
Activity: 281
Merit: 100
June 23, 2013, 12:18:58 AM
#1
When the difficulty goes up, and you're mining in a pool (I work with Bitminter), are the shares harder to get, or do you need more shares to uncover a block?
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