Yep - 0 blocks in the last 20 hours now. Running 1.2 Mh/s for me…. Together the pool is only 3.x Mh/s
When we strike - with 800 Mh/s you stand to get a big chunk of the coins from the round - but will be further between blocks…. and with the difficulty heading up - it may be much longer to block of we don't get more miners…. it would be longer solo of course.
Options really are - jump in with a larger pool - reestablished - get less coins - but GET them constant - because the combined pool of people finding blocks there is work to be done that is credited with reward = or =
jump into a smaller pool and build the pool UP - and while people are coming into the pool with a GPU miner get a larger share of the coins as it blocks. less blocks with a larger share when it happens… for CPU miner this may not make sense… why not get a trickle of coins constant? Well normally there isn't a reason at all…. but if say someone is giving a 500 block finders fee? or giving away 20% of their own GPU coins? Maybe for a CPU this makes MORE sense than a GPU?
finally - solo mine… however, I would guess if 3.x Mh/s cannot find a block with 20+ miners avg… then solo mining would only be better if its LUCKY?
I think all solo mining and smaller pools right now would be getting less a chance to survive here. The larger pools are imbalanced combined… and if there are TONS of solo miners piling in - everyone is just fighting for the blocks now.
All logs on the server say its chugging away and trying.
Pick your best option though of course. I am sticking in the pool…. and keeping the same award system for now at least.
-d
http://lotto.coinpool.coMy pool has a 500 coin reward for whomever finds any block (this comes OUT of the pool coins [my coins that I mined personally] (GPU or CPU)
My pool has 0 FEE for mining there through Jan 1, 2014.
There is a simple [.1 coin] fee for any payout transactions ( for transparency thetotal net earnings for pool in 7 days = 42 coins for transaction fees - which makes ME think I will just turn this off ;>)
I am also paying already 20% to any CPU miner that finds a block that doesn't receive at least 20% of my round earnings…. Sorry GPU miners… you only get the 500 coin reward that is autopayed.
Example: You find block of 1,000,000 with CPU…. You earn 10,000 mining with CPU, I earn 300,000 mining with GPU… I will pay you 20% of 300k I earned - the 10k you earned yourself - 500 block reward… This equals 45,000 additional coins you would not receive otherwise… That is of course in the case I mine all 1 Mil… then its much more (but that won't happen).
This type of thing CAN be programmed automatically as well…. but I haven't had the chance to hack it together yet…. so anyone finding the block needs to use the contact form at the site. You can review the block history to see if we hit the lotto!
-d
Pool operators might want to consider giving a bounty to whoever in their pool scores the Superblocks.. such as 150k-200k for the 1M block and 50k-100k for the rest.
That way it becomes more interesting for the miners.
Is it possible to allot 20% of superblock winnings towards the one who found it?
800+ "yay!!!", 0 coins