Been going crazy why my eth share rate was down for the last 3days. Going nuts trying to find out what's wrong. Finally tried to force my miner to mine on ethermine which is my fail over. It turns out miner was fine. MPH just increased difficulty by a big margin and its causing very erratic share rates and very bad for smaller rigs like mine.
I would like to request that difficulty be lowered to its precious settings so smaller rigs like mine would not be forced off the pool. Mining in ethermine reminded me of how MPH was before difficulty was increase 2x. I like MPH and would like to stay but may need to leave if pool difficulty keeps rising.
yeah reported hashrate is a bummer - but - to compare use your 24 hours income and compare with whattomine - fees, or do your own calculation. difficulty does not move as much now so it should be close. then go to "blocks" and see luck for the last 24 hours, adjust for that % and you should get really close to what you should get if luck is 100%. tell us your results, I find repoted hashrate to be erratic but 24hour credit seems to be okay...at least compared to all other eth pools i've been on.
Yup always compare to whattomine.com. It is true that MPH used to perform better than most pool a month ago. But recently pool difficulty was raised 2x now before I jumped from another pool. Atm I do better in ethermine doing a little above what is listed in whattomine.com. In MPH I'm doing about 20-35% lower now than what is listed in whattomine.com since the pool difficulty change.
I tried to mine for about 2hrs in ethermine and it confirms its not my hardware that has problems but the change in MPH. If your using claymore see the stats. Difficulty had been raised to 5000 which used to be 4000. Ethermine uses 4000 difficulty as well. I also used o cpu mine in MPH but stopped a few months ago when MPH set it as high as nicehash.
I think due to the growth in users owner has increased difficulty to decrease the bandwidth usage per user. Its gonna affect small rigs and slower GPU more than big and faster GPU.
BTW I'm not talking about mining difficulty here. I'm talking about pool difficulty. They are different. Pool difficulty is set higher to reduce bandwidth and should not affect hash rate unless set too high. It is currently too high for my rig.
the same situation in FTC MPH I described several posts before. Stratum/worker diff is higher than it should be and it is not good for small miners (other pools set worker diff about 32-64 and sometimes up to 128, MPH gives about 200-300 and sometimes up to 500 for my 630+kH/s rate). MPH reports about 85% of my real workers submitted hashrate and the same with rewards. Switched to another FTC pool until the explanation and solution from MPH will be there.