Quote from: Kimdom on October 22, 2017, 05:23:06 AM

Quote from: os2sam on October 22, 2017, 05:04:09 AM

Quote from: Kimdom on October 22, 2017, 01:42:14 AM

Quote from: os2sam on October 22, 2017, 01:18:07 AM

...PPS, Pay Per Share, pays you for each share you submit regardless of whether a block is found.

I appreciate your insights, os2sam.

You might be calming my concerns, but let me ask further. What are "shares" in this context? Do different miners submit different amounts of shares?

A share is what we submit and hope is a block solution. It's a hash and if it meets or exceeds current difficulty it will find a block, most don't. A USB Block Erupter submits approximately 333 Million shares per second and an S9 submits about 14 Trillion shares per second.

Cheers!

So we are generally paid according to the performance of our machines, after all, regardless of what pools we choose?

Yep, smaller pools have more variance and larger pools have less variance. But it averages out to about the same over time. So you want a reliable pool with a low-ish fee and that includes transaction fees along with the block reward. There are some pools that don't include transaction fees and that is a significant amount now, so I would avoid those.