Quote from: snake13 on December 08, 2017, 07:18:20 PM

Quote from: oztusk on December 08, 2017, 06:17:21 PM

Quote from: snake13 on December 08, 2017, 05:47:18 PM

Quote from: oztusk on December 08, 2017, 04:37:09 PM

well, on my account they are slowly catching up with themselves and paying shares 27 blocks late as of now.
they may have had major server probles/overhaul, been hacked[i doubt that], or been robbing peter to pay paul.. their hashnest enterprise.

in any case.. i am pulling much better [10-20%] at slush. would have been there two years ago but i had some eqipment problems or something[ i forget what].

luck all

[their strat at 3333 keeps showing dead over here, so i assumed the server prob]

Then you mean Slush is better.

--by the math it should be-- by 18 hrs mining it looks so--- but i should get a few days in to make any accurate reckoning..

Ok, let us know the report.

In short.. Antpool sux! - - Slush rules!

Slush is a smaller pool so their success varies nore over and under the 100% ideal statistical expectation.
Antpool, being larger at present, varies less on the average, but still converges towards the 100% ideal.

Over a 2016 block period (one difficulty period- ~14 days). there is little likelyhood that Slushes expected harvest of blocks will deviate far enough from the ideal to represent a risk to the miner. A very small pool (3-4% network hashrate) might suffer this problem.

so when checking specific blocks found, ie: my scoring hashrate/slush scoring hashrate * (12.5 reward+tx fees[typically 2-4])* 98%
[slush takes 2% ATM]...
compared to antpool .. my hashrate/their hashrate * (12.5+ZERO ) * 100% ...

i found that im getting paid accurately for the found blocks, dead on the numbers in fact. about half as much twice as often at Antpool minus the 30% tx fees which they just keep.

This was a good enough deal for antpoolers when bitcoin was less of a thing and tx fees were insignificant, with Eligius pool drying up a lot of us went to Ant for the zero pool fee.

Antpool has not addressed the point, now that tx fees are running 25-33% and up (of the block reward), They are simply relying on consumer ignorance (a faithful old freind of the merchant throughout history) to dodge/skirt the issue.

Mathematically Slush is paying better than Ant by the tx fee factor, about 25-33%.

In real life, after a few days at Slush, well, same thing.
I'm definitely pulling better there by whatever the tx fees are per the block found.. usually 20-35%.
The pool variance over the difficulty period is not great enough to be concerned.

I dont know what the issue is with late earnings credits at Ant or how often it happens, but they have always paid, even if a day late.

Im staying with Slush for the moment.
Can anyone tell me how small of a pool would be statistically safe? somebody good with stat distribution, kelly factor and the like?