Quote from: userghost on March 28, 2018, 11:46:10 PM

Quote from: Ron83 on March 28, 2018, 11:21:01 PM

Quote from: userghost on March 28, 2018, 11:01:00 PM

How do I know when I'm fully ramped up and have reached 5x difficulty? Only earned .005btc with 9 s9's in 3 days. Obviously I know this isn't accurate due to ramp time, hence the question.
Also on pool info page what's the diff? It's at 25, is that the odds of solving a block or something?

Believe it took my 2 -741 about 5 days. but what you see as earned is only what you will get if block found right now. you also get btc over course of next 4 blocks if you keep mining or quit mining. Kinda hard to figure, but this is the best payout of any pool, just comes a little slower.

The 25 means we have submitted 25% of the shares of the mythical 100% shares needed for 100% luck to solve a block.

we could solve a block at 26 or 126 or 226 or any number between 0 and a couple thousand.. but we normal get one around 100 give or take. except that last real lucky block that was 1.5

How does the submitting shares work? Each new block requires a new number and new shares correct? Shares generated by trying to solve block x can't be used to solve block y right? If somebody wants to point me in the right direction I don't mind doing my own research, albeit it might confuse me more.

Here is a fairly thorough explanation:

http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html?m=1