Quote from: HanopkaH on February 14, 2018, 01:55:51 PM

Quote from: crackfoo on February 14, 2018, 01:33:25 PM

Quote from: MagicSmoker on February 14, 2018, 01:22:19 PM

Quote from: jkminkov on February 14, 2018, 01:06:36 PM

Quote from: MagicSmoker on February 14, 2018, 11:04:33 AM

You probably won't lose all of your earnings by switching before a block is found, but you'll likely lose some if the time to find the next block takes a lot longer than average and the pool use the uses "PPLNS" scheme. I wrote a fairly long post about the potential downsides to PPLNS in another thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2898687.msg30133809#msg30133809 which hasn't been commented on so beware of any potential errors on my part.

don't spread missinformation, check 1st merit @ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=209640

Where is the misinformation in my reply? No where on the Zpool website does it state what payment scheme is used and other multi-algo, auto-switching pools do use PPLNS so it was reasonable for me to assume that Zpool did to. Nevertheless, I did write "if...the pool uses the 'PPLNS' payment scheme." which indicates I was not sure what payment scheme is used.

BTW - you could have been a bit more diplomatic - not to say courteous - by merely writing, "Zpool uses the proportional scheme, not PPLNS."

the scheme is PROP not PPLNS

edit... as I see was already corrected

thanks

So i was right ? If my miner switch from bitcore to another algo that it thinks is more profitable before finding the block ( eg. mining 1 or 2 hours bitcore without finding it ) i mined that time for thin air ?

I better remove those algos then i guess

In my experience, if you mine for a certain amount of time, your work is counted until the next block is found, even if you've already moved on to another algo. However, if you mined for a few minutes, and it took several hours to find a block, your % of work done is going to be much lower than those who were mining the entire time.