I've tried to find out what the minimum difficulty setting is under management but havent really found out what it does and what to put in there to get the most out of my miner. Therefor I tried a few different settings there without really knowing what it does.
The best thing to do is leave the minimum difficult set to default and let the pool adjust your miner automatically. The pool will adjust difficulty until your miner submits 18 shares per minute, I believe.
The reason for difficulty adjustment is, modern miners create shares far too fast for a pool to accept all of them. So a miner will find a diff 9000 share approximately once per 9000 shares found. So instead of submitting 9000 diff1 shares just one diff9000 share is sent and you get credit for the full 9000. This consumes allot less pool resources and network bandwidth.
Hi os2sam and thank you for your replies.
I still can't log on to kano.is from my computer, but it seems to be my IP that's banned so I managed to reset settings to default by turning off my wifi network on my phone and by logging in via the mobile network. So I guess I'm all right now except for IP beeing banned.
When looking at the shifts before I did the settings they look like this:
Length Your diff Inv Diff Avg Hs Shares Avg Share Rewards aso.
48-52 min ~8-10.5M ~0-24k ~12.5-14.5 THS ~700-850 ~10,000-12,000 Since last block obviously nothing until next block
With the "9000" setting I got the following:
Length Your diff Inv Diff Avg Hs Shares Avg Share
48m38s 9.171M 18.000k 13.50THs 1.019k 9,000
So with the "9000" setting i got more shares than ever before during the same length in time. Isn't this better than default setting if it gives more shares and also consumes less pool resources? Everything pretty much seems to be in line with earlier, but Shares are higher and Avg Share lower.
As me as a noob understands it the optimal minimum diff setting would be as high as possible (giving as much Shares as possible which in this case was 1019) that the S9, Pool or something can handle.
*Lightbulb* Or is the equation something like Shares*Avg Share=Reward?
The educational video discussed earlier would be a hit. Probably would get oscar nominated.
Obviously the best thing to do for now is leave the default setting of "0" until I understand all this, but maybe this discussion still enlightens me.
Edit: Thank you for your answers Kano. PM is sent.