JB - you have the patience of a saint
Perhaps he is! What do you think made him found the first ever block on this pool?
LOL. Believe me... if I'm ever up for canonization, the world is in a REALLY bad place
. I enjoy far too many things that aren't exactly qualifiers (two of which I mentioned above).
I can only offer an anime harem to Mr Bravo - just as real and useful as a saint 'hood' though, but nicer to look at
Now for the down side
Firstly, indeed luck is fickle.
The reason for my post was that "Pool Luck" is not "just luck" - it includes things that a pool can manage and reduce
Over the month of October we had the worst luck the pool has had since it started.
12 blocks found, 6 of them over 200% Difficulty, 3 around 100% and the other 3 good luck ... no orphans.
Yep a shocker ... for 12 blocks (Avg 197.85% Diff)
Though for any pool 10x the size as kano.is, that's only 3 days of similar bad luck
Over the past year we've had ... 1 orphan.
The pool has been running for 1 year and 2 months, in those first 2 months we had ... 1 orphan.
363 blocks ... 14 months ... 2 orphans.
Now, looking at luck over time actually isn't comparing oranges with oranges.
Pool luck is specifically based on the amount of shares submitted and the amount of blocks found.
If you compare luck over time of a pool with 10 times the hash rate of another pool, you are misunderstanding how to compare the statistics.
So if one pool has bad luck for a year with 4 times the hash rate as a another pool, that's just as statistically likely as that smaller pool having the same bad luck for 4 years.
Yeah a year worth or bad luck is very unexpected ... and if the expectation of that happening is less than 0.1% ... like at
that pool ... that's like saying less than one chance in 1000 years of it happening, and for a pool 1/4 of the size, there'd be less than one chance in 4000 years of that happening ...
But back to luck ...
Orphans and stale blocks (be they shown by the pool or hidden by the pool) are the element of so called 'pool luck' that can have a level of control.
End of story, ignore the deception of pisskid.