I just pointed my s7 at NastyPool - I noticed a comment on the stats plots page: "(donating to nastyfans as NastyMining-PoP)" - what does this mean? Also, what is the sharing disposition (across NastyPool) if a block is hit by a miner?
If you do not use a Bitcoin address for your username, your mined coins will be donated to the community owned NastyFans organization.
If a block is hit by anyone on the p2pool network, NastyPool's share of the earnings is split among all NastyPoP miners based on their hashrate.
Thanks - that seems pretty fair. But one of the reasons I came here was that I saw in some of the postings in this thread some talk about encouraging/supporting smaller miners, and it seemed to me that, since this seems to be is a smallish (read: user friendly) pool, bigger hashers here might want to automatically donate *part* of their minings to the smaller hashers (i.e., rather than all-or-none of it). So I was wondering if that's possible?
Thanks Again
Well, it is "possible" most definitely. The address used for the NastyPoP shared payouts is: 1NastyBTCcxbAQQ22kEijbXqgyBPRujftL. Any donations made to that address will be split equally by all the "PoP" miners on NastyPool. However, the smaller miners on NastyPool using the NastyPoP payout method do benefit greatly from joining together with the other "PoP" miners by having their variance massively reduced. Also, with the long payout rounds lately, a smaller miner is very likely to have their accepted p2pool shares vanish from the p2pool share chain before ever receiving any sort of payment. NastyPool helps to offset those concerns by not letting hashes go unpaid, regardless of when a block is found.