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Topic: Whattomine - profitability website with basic json. - page 15. (Read 94973 times)

sr. member
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Insane In The Blockchain ⚠
Will continue with straks after I will process the last batch of requests and emails.
https://api.straks.info/v2/charts/difficulty?days=1
All blocks for the last 24h, easy Smiley
legendary
Activity: 1537
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So, how that STRAKS test went?) I'm running nodes for new coins and then switch to WTM when they appear there, generally WTM avg diff is 0.5-5% higher than the real one.
The only exception is STRAKS where it's always 20-25%. Considering 5-10% or even more can be wasted on some random things during mining, it can be closer to reality, but still it's not right.
I prefer correct values and then you can apply -10% if you want it to be more realistic and not theoretical.

Nothing new since last time.
Feeling the same way as you do, would be better to have closer average diff and then manual fee if needed.
Will continue with straks after I will process the last batch of requests and emails.
sr. member
Activity: 798
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Insane In The Blockchain ⚠
So, how that STRAKS test went?) I'm running nodes for new coins and then switch to WTM when they appear there, generally WTM avg diff is 0.5-5% higher than the real one.
The only exception is STRAKS where it's always 20-25%. Considering 5-10% or even more can be wasted on some random things during mining, it can be closer to reality, but still it's not right.
I prefer correct values and then you can apply -10% if you want it to be more realistic and not theoretical.
legendary
Activity: 1537
Merit: 1005
Lyra2z added to the GPU list.
Luxcoin delisted due to algo switch to new PHI2 - hardfork still not finished.

@oubee1
Not sure what you mean honestly, posted in the wrong thread? Wink
newbie
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I am not really looking for advertisers, they usually come to me if they need an ad placed.
I think all baikal stock is bought instantly,but it seems there is support.. so maybe I just couldn't find it before.
legendary
Activity: 1537
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Hi! Do you have some pools list on the Whattomine web page? We'll be glad to be added.
We are uCrypto.net multipool with low fees and cryptocoin variety - 18 coins based on the Ethash and Equihash algorithms.

Hey, thanks for reaching out.
No list like that yet, but it might be coming. There will be channels open to sign on the list once ready.
newbie
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Hi! Do you have some pools list on the Whattomine web page? We'll be glad to be added.
We are uCrypto.net multipool with low fees and cryptocoin variety - 18 coins based on the Ethash and Equihash algorithms.
legendary
Activity: 1537
Merit: 1005
Mpos pools let you query for current difficulty, same as explorers.
Agreed that calcs need to originate from difficulty - all coins are calculated this way.
sr. member
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Insane In The Blockchain ⚠
How do you use pools? YIIMP does not give any data to calculate profit.
Maybe if you take average from all points on estimate chart you can get something close to reality, but it will be discrete values of current diff and current price taken on large intervals, so the same as getting diff regularly and an average price for a day. I was doing this before, but realized that pool owners can just write whatever they want for these estimates, even manual values that they update once a week Cheesy
And also data that pool provides has luck of that particular pool applied to it, comparing random stuff is not productive. At least avg diff based values are not affected by luck, it applies after and cannot be predicted.
legendary
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Because they are down randomly Smiley
Explorer API provides all the required commands though.
Code:
for (i = last_block_in_db; i <= getblockcount; i++) { getblock(getblockhash(i)) }

Hehe true, some of them go down quite often.
In more than half of the cases the data is fetched from pools or other custom apis, so there is no way to pull all the blocks.

Soon I will reach 24h on the test mining and looks like the calc is ok.
I know it uses the average diff around 20% higher than what would be calculated from simple average of all blocks.
We could ofc pull the entire chain for straks, the values for diff would be smaller but then again estimated_rewards would be 20% higher and not correct.

Now the reason for this is not yet clear to me, though I have a feeling this might be caused by using a simple average vs for example weighted one.
sr. member
Activity: 798
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Insane In The Blockchain ⚠
Because they are down randomly Smiley
Explorer API provides all the required commands though.
Code:
for (i = last_block_in_db; i <= getblockcount; i++) { getblock(getblockhash(i)) }
legendary
Activity: 1537
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Why do you grab current diff instead of diff for every block since last poll?
And explorers are unreliable. I'll have to run more nodes Cheesy

Cause I am not running nodes for most of the coins.
Not sure why do you think explorers are unreliable though.

Running a test on straks now, will compare with calc when done.
sr. member
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Insane In The Blockchain ⚠
Why do you grab current diff instead of diff for every block since last poll?
And explorers are unreliable. I'll have to run more nodes Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1537
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So there won't be a fix for diff calculation? I guess it's safe to assume WTM is totally inaccurate then.

P.S. What's up with ORE, lagging for more than a day?

I have reduced polling time for straks, but it didnt help much.
At the end of the day calcs are correct for me on other coins - still need to check straks to make sure.

ORE official explorer is down.
sr. member
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Insane In The Blockchain ⚠
So there won't be a fix for diff calculation? I guess it's safe to assume WTM is totally inaccurate then.

P.S. What's up with ORE, lagging for more than a day?
jr. member
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How is "profitability" calculated? it doesn't make any sense to me.  Some examples from the ASIC tab today using 0.075 $ power:

Bitcoin: Revenue is showing as $6.46, profit is showing $3.74 and the profitability is showing as 100%.  There isn't any math I can figure where profitability is 100%.
Siacoin: Revenue showing 3.93 and profit is 1.59 and profitability is 60%.  

The way I would normally look at profit margin or profit ratio would be profit over power so in the case of bitcoin it would be $3.74/($6.46-3.74)= 1.37 so a 1.37 or 137% profit ratio of net revenue over power.  I have no clue where the 100% comes from.

Can someone help explain or point to a formula that explains the profitability calculation on the site?

The naming is not accurate - its based on revenue in BTC.
100% is a base to compare other coins to either BTC or ETH.

aha! okay, well the numbers make sense then!  Thanks!

I still wish it was what I was looking for but at least I understand what it is Smiley
legendary
Activity: 1537
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How is "profitability" calculated? it doesn't make any sense to me.  Some examples from the ASIC tab today using 0.075 $ power:

Bitcoin: Revenue is showing as $6.46, profit is showing $3.74 and the profitability is showing as 100%.  There isn't any math I can figure where profitability is 100%.
Siacoin: Revenue showing 3.93 and profit is 1.59 and profitability is 60%.  

The way I would normally look at profit margin or profit ratio would be profit over power so in the case of bitcoin it would be $3.74/($6.46-3.74)= 1.37 so a 1.37 or 137% profit ratio of net revenue over power.  I have no clue where the 100% comes from.

Can someone help explain or point to a formula that explains the profitability calculation on the site?

The naming is not accurate - its based on revenue in BTC.
100% is a base to compare other coins to either BTC or ETH.
jr. member
Activity: 33
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How is "profitability" calculated? it doesn't make any sense to me.  Some examples from the ASIC tab today using 0.075 $ power:

Bitcoin: Revenue is showing as $6.46, profit is showing $3.74 and the profitability is showing as 100%.  There isn't any math I can figure where profitability is 100%.
Siacoin: Revenue showing 3.93 and profit is 1.59 and profitability is 60%. 

The way I would normally look at profit margin or profit ratio would be profit over power so in the case of bitcoin it would be $3.74/($6.46-3.74)= 1.37 so a 1.37 or 137% profit ratio of net revenue over power.  I have no clue where the 100% comes from.

Can someone help explain or point to a formula that explains the profitability calculation on the site?
sr. member
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Insane In The Blockchain ⚠
Indeed my average is higher than the real average.
From what I can see its caused by lowered diff periods of around 300-500, where many blocks are mined in short time and not all of them are cached into the db.

Now the question remains which average is able to produce closer estimated_rewards.
How do you miss blocks? They all have unique numbers Grin
STRAKS can change difficulty very sharply (check chart on BlockStats), I don't think that getting diff every 5-10 min is accurate.
Difficulty already takes block time and hashrate into account, so IMHO it's the only way to calculate theoretical rewards.
Real rewards can differ greatly because of unstable hashrate, suboptimal pool and network efficiencies, low pool luck, fees, big hashrate attacks, etc.
But all of those are unpredictable (even fees Grin) and cannot be used to compare rewards.
legendary
Activity: 1537
Merit: 1005
It is an average diff, not sure why it would be wrong though. Can you explain what are you comparing it with?
Sum up diffs of every single block for the last 86400 seconds, divide by their count.
I get 1254: https://blockstats.pw/straks/
WTM shows almost 1600, so I'm also not sure how that is possbile Smiley

I'm running a node and use blocknotify to get data for each block and put it in DB.
Code:
SELECT COUNT(`diff`), SUM(`diff`) DIV COUNT(`diff`) FROM `straks_pow` WHERE `time` >= (UNIX_TIMESTAMP() - 86400)
Returns block count = 1290 (~67 sec per block, matches WTM) and 1254 avg diff.


Indeed my average is higher than the real average.
From what I can see its caused by lowered diff periods of around 300-500, where many blocks are mined in short time and not all of them are cached into the db.

Now the question remains which average is able to produce closer estimated_rewards.
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