Quote from: Cryptshaman on September 18, 2017, 10:58:37 AM

Quote from: fonyo on September 17, 2017, 10:55:01 AM

Quote from: Cryptshaman on September 17, 2017, 08:51:03 AM

Quote from: miningpoolhub on February 27, 2015, 07:04:12 AM

Now you can set starting difficulty value by typing like "d=0.01" at worker's password.

This would help big hash miners to catch up to its own hardware limit faster than ever.

1. Run your miner program and check your difficulty value.
   Keep in mind that difficulty value must be stabilized.
   We recommend you to get difficulty value at least after 10 minutes of mining.

2. Set this difficulty value to worker's password as "d=XXXX"
   ex) d=0.0312
   Do not write this value to miningpoolhub's worker page, just write it at miner configuration file.

3. Now run your miner program again.
   You will see your miner running at the difficulty value you typed.

4. Difficulty value can go up and down again. It's not a bug.
   d=XXX just gives us hint at start and it doesn't enforce diff value to be fixed.

Far wrong diff value may corrected automatically, but you'd better write optimized value.

Big hash miners who are using rentals, multi-algo, ASIC would get better result with difficulty hint.

Hi, when I try set the difficulty on any hashimoto based coin it changes nothing. I am using ethminer and have tried doing it with sp 0 1 and 2 and none of them work with setting a difficulty. This means that my small rigs never find a share.....and it doesn't seem to ever reduce the difficulty (it remains the same on all rigs). Does anyone know how to get this working?

I am not 100% sure but I don't think that is working on the ethash ports.

Ah thanks, hoping this isn't true but I think you are right.

We have asked this before here and I was looking for the post to show you but couldn't find it. Still, I am not 100% sure.
@miningpoolhub, can you confirm whether setting diff in password field also works on the ethash ports?