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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Sixth alt coin thread I forgot to mod last thread.
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vapourminer
on 16/12/2017, 16:23:24 UTC
it is chasing the hot coin = bad.

and if  you are mining on pools that  kill you when you jump  you lose the work .

Say  you have 500 shares of coin x work on pool 1.  say 10 minutes  worth.

hot coin comes up  you jump.  many pools   kill your work  when you jump  so those 500 shares or 10 minutes of work are lost.

NOW make a jump  every hour  chasing the hot coin  you may lose  your last 5 or 10 minutes of work on every jump  even worse if the pool is making 1 block an hour

and you jump 24 times in a day.  you could lose 50% of your work.  Since  each coin you jump to makes 1 coin an hour  chances are a large loss of time can happen.

this is true for many pools but i would think that mininghubpool (for example) would choose pools that straight up pay per share and allow one to come and go at will without affecting payouts. even still i have limited my various workers on mhp to one algo (based on the gpus, amd RXs on one 1070/1070ti on another, 1080ti on a third) and let mhp switch pools which use that algo. as a strategy that might turn out ok, or it may suck.

ill let it go a week or so and see what happens.