Please illuminate us. I know that this is important to mine on pool which has as much percentage of global hashrate as possible, to maximize blocks count found - in opposite if I mine on not popular pool probability to find the block on this pool is reduced and not fulfill bigger allotment from found block.
Situation with those chosing jobs on zpool is for us just incomprehensible, help us to understand why it is better
read yaamp topic, code was written to be protective towards small coins, what you preffer put all that Gh/Th on one coin, so other would die till 0 difficulty then whale that Gh/Th on those coins and produce mass fork and kill them one by one or keep them alive with marginal % of your total hashpower and hope for better day, just check % of total hashrate put on those small coins.
This is a good short summary of one aspect.... but there are hundreds of things like this little detail that all add up to one big mess of a complicated system.
I suggest that if you think the way this stratum works may be an erroneous way to mine, that you find a solo pool that functions the way you want it to or think it should. Its always an option.
I myself have gone over the code, somewhat understand what I am looking at... and am still confused on how it makes these important decisions overall.
But for what its worth, I have done both profit switching scripts (multi-algo) and solo-algo mining, and I have had good results with both.... but in my opinion, I have found better consistency in profit (during times of serious market flux) staying with one algo that is profitable for me to mine rather than doing profit switching.
I also tend to mine algos with few coins compared to others.... but I don't really think that detail plays as much of a part as how big the pools' hashrates are compared to the network hashrates are on a per-coin basis.
Is VEGA coin (Tribus algo) really totally ZERO value now ? If so perhaps should be removed =)
Sometimes coins will be shown as zero value because they are offline at the exchange (wallet needs updated? exchange on fork? etc), or a few other reasons.... Usually if they aren't planned on being a dropped coin, the pool will sit and nibble on a block or two here and there to get shares in the middle times of larger diff coins.... [crackfoo's nuts at the bar analogy comes in here], and when they finally get fixed/online/whatever, you get the big bump in credit when the funds are sold/sent to the exchange. I remember this happening before.