Quote from: kano on November 01, 2017, 06:32:06 AM

Quote from: shine_ on September 26, 2017, 03:34:42 PM

Hi, I wanted to clarify a couple of things regarding PPLNS pool system. As far as I understand, your shares are evenly distributed to average shares needed for a round. What I'm trying to say - if the round is shorter than average, some part of your shares go to the next round. And if the round is longer, it'e being cut. Is it correct ? Also I'm curious about a couple of things :

Is it possible to get shares for multiple rounds ahead ? Let's say we're super lucky for 5 rounds in a row and hit them 10 times faster than usual
How exactly nanopool system works ? They have PPLNS over time. So if the time is 20 minutes, I'm getting my shares averaged out for next 20 minutes or what ?
Is there some possibility to get advantage/disadvantage mining at specific time ? Like pool hopping or something

Point 1:
Anyone who makes any comment about loyalty and not hopping does not understand PPLNS.
PPLNS is hop-proof for all but diff changes - but even then it's next to pointless trying to hop diff changes since your gain will be next to nothing.
Thus it doesn't matter if you hop or don't hop - if you are loyal or not loyal - makes no difference.
The main point of this is that no one can predict when a pool will find a block.
Some people are delusional and think they can, but they cannot.
So hopping PPLNS is pointless Tongue

Point 2:
Your shares will be rewarded 0, 1 or multiple times.
The expected number of times is based on the pool's N value used.
e.g. like my pool we use 5 times the network difficulty, so you expect, if luck is 100%, to get 5 rewards of 1/5 of the share's value, thus total = the shares value.

Thus to answer what would appear to be your main question: If the pool luck is above 100% then shares will be rewarded better than expected, on low fee PPLNS.

using more than 1 network difficulty in calculating pplns makes it impossible for the pool hoppers to get a real deal out of their maneuvers.