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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Does a high pool difficulty lower anyone's profits?
by
Liquidfire
on 23/08/2013, 02:01:55 UTC
In the time the slow miner was working, getting nothing (yet), the fast miner already got work in, and got it accepted.

How is that a problem? The slow miner hasn't found a share yet. Whenever he does find one, he'll report it to the pool and get credited.

Because the block changed. We he finds one, its a whole new block by then. All his work on that last block will never be given credit.

Meanwhile, fast miner got 9 on the last block (or 8, or 10, whatever you like). Even if slow miner finds a block this time, fast miner probably got 8-12 shares again.

Over time, the block changing hurts the slow miner more.