Quote from: Nuttycoins on January 25, 2016, 01:34:38 PM

Quote from: kano on January 23, 2016, 09:54:09 PM

It causes orphans. So no.

(solo pays to only 2 addresses, so it's the same as here at kano.is)

Well surely don't want that. Again thanks for always having the 30000 ft view of things.

Congrats on the growth... You are at the point now where it will be self perpetualing... And the true "luck" reality will slap everyone in the face.

I do have a question for you as I trust your insight. With this ever increasing difficulty.... I have trouble believing it can be as lineal as made out to be. Is the variance between block finds going to grow and grow? (or more 35 second finds and more 45 minute finds between blocks for the whole network)? Because if this is true .... Two other things become true.... Either the pool needs to be huge... Or have very efficient software and network or you won't be able to survive.

Making things like p2pool dead.... And further encouraging empty block mining by the greedy.
Halving is so going to change the rules even more and will be here very quickly now.

There's no special change in "Bitcoin" variance since bitcoin adjusts the difficulty based on the (previous) 2015 blocks every 2016 blocks.