Quote from: CoinBuzz on August 20, 2013, 11:49:21 AM

Quote from: metamine on August 20, 2013, 06:29:31 AM

Enough about the difficulty-issue already...

Difficulty influence on reject shares, and reject shares is waste of computing power that can results in more block!

That's what really matter.

Rejects is waste of your GPU and electricity for nothing, you should minimize it.

Ok, I have been away for a bit, and it seems like there has been continued debate about the difficulty. It seems like the pool owner is getting frustrated with it, based on the new message on the FAQ. He deserves nothing but praise for his efforts on this pool. Seriously. However, I don't think this debate is going away.

*The way I see it is the more the pool moves on to the next block or switches coins, the more small miners are effected. The amounts are fake for the sake of illustrating the point.

If it takes me 1 minute to get a share, when a new block/switch happens I am going to lose a random amount of hashing power equivalent to between 0 seconds and 60 seconds.

If it takes someone else 10 seconds to get a share, when a new block/switch happens they will lose an amount of hashing power equivalent to between 0 seconds and 10 seconds.

Therefore, over time, the small miner is hurt. Somebody that is a math ninja could probably chart this out and graph it, but there is the principle.

Assume for the sake of argument all the coins have the same difficulty. Say we have a new block or switch coins 100 times per day. (in reality its probably thousands). Smaller miner will lose, statistically, 30 seconds per switch of hashing power. That's 50 minutes. Big miner will statistically lose 5 seconds per change. That's a little over 8 minutes.... forget about the minutes, since my numbers are fictitious, yet the principle still applies.

Again, I read the pool owners message on the FAQ, not trying to ruffle feathers and I certainly commend him for the improvements to this pool so far. However, I can't ignore this and pretend it doesn't have some effect.

*Edited for clarity