@kano is there a way to verify if my current rented shares are trash shares or actually helpful? Currently have around 4-5hrs left on my 1.2ph order. Would be more than willing to redirect to a test pool for research if needed.
The October problem was 100PH for an extended period of time, but was not enough to point fingers, only to vaguely wave hands.
So no, you can't use that small a sample to determine it's validity.
MRR I ban randomly, when I find them, but I don't look too hard for them, and I'd expect it to be rare for anyone to use MRR, coz the cost there is even higher than craphash, so it makes it a bad idea for anyone actually working out the cost/return.
Using my calculator page
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http://tradebtc.net/bitcalc.php ... at the moment your 'expected' 100% PPS return per TH/s is (there at the top)
0.000002984061 BTC per hour
So whatever you pay, when you add on fees and transaction fees at MRR, you will be paying higher than that, so you are expecting to lose.
craphash likes to hide the fees by having the market show pre-fee values, and then adding fees on top for buyers and charging sellers fees on those numbers also.
Both those fees are based on the market value, so they are indeed obscuring the fees ... then you have the fees for moving BTC in and out of craphash also ...
... then of course there was the magical cold wallet hack ...
Bottom line is, since there's a financial advantage, to withhold blocks, for people selling hash rate using PPS, then since October, whenever I find rentals, I straight out block them.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pps-block-withholding-and-rentals-1002086To top it off, when you rent a miner, where is that miner?
Is it running through some other proxy adding latency on top of the latency from wherever that miner is, on it's path to the pool?
No idea
