Quote from: -ck on October 22, 2017, 02:47:45 AM

Quote from: ComputerGenie on October 22, 2017, 02:44:04 AM

Quote from: mallardchandler on October 22, 2017, 02:04:08 AM

I'm trying to understand the best share and how it relates to luck. What qualifies as a good best share?

A "best share" is nothing more than the largest share your miners have contributed. It doesn't have any actual correlation to anything (other than "bragging rights"). A "good" best share is relative to hashrate and time. At the current difficulty, a truly good best share is one that's greater than 1,196,792,694,098. Wink

It's as CG says here, it is only for bragging rights, but if you wish to know what a good best share is then the following explanation will help you understand better.

After 100 shares, on average your best share should be 100.
After 1,000,000 shares, on average your best share should be 1,000,000.
After 1,200,000,000,000 shares, on average your best share should be that too, meaning you should have found one block with it. That's why on average it takes current diff number of shares to find one block.

If your best share is less than the total number of shares you've contributed, then your luck is a little low, and vice versa. It has absolutely zero bearing on your chance of finding an ultra lucky best share in the very next share, but it's interesting to watch nonetheless.

Sorry folks - newbie question:

I've got a few block erupters pointed here, so pretty much the minimum hashpower one is allowed to participate with while I figure out the intricacies of mining before I point some more hash power at it. I love the idea of solo mining and using a pool like this is great for those of us who can't figure out how to run our own full node and do it independently. My total shares are over 100K at this point, but my best ever is only 30K - which seems a bit of a difference from expected based on the explanation above, and I'm not sure I can attribute this to pure luck.

My difficulty is being assigned by the pool as a 1/1, and I only occasionally break through with a higher number. I've seen multiple times on this thread that this is merely for confirmation that one is mining and doesn't actually change your chances of finding a block. Its still based on overall hashpower. My question is if difficulty is the TARGET (ie, the correct mining solution must be a number above the target difficulty), how can difficulty be assigned to a miner from the pool? Is it merely a representation of my successful hash's difficulty level (ie, most of my successful hashes are difficulty 1)? Is my difference between total shares and best ever share a reflection of my low hash power and random variance, or my allocation of work by the pool?