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Re: [2220 GH/s] Slush's Bitcoin Mining Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz)
by
eleuthria
on 13/07/2011, 17:54:45 UTC
I can honestly say, after using slush for a couple of days while btcguild was down, that I feel sorry for the people who mine with slush full time.

Can you explain why?

Should be obvious - if you don't switch pools when one is DDoS'd then your rig is sitting idle not making money.

Slush - what's the word on service? Are you considering any kind of SiteBacker DNS load balancing to help with traffic distribution between colos - that's helped some of my environments with DDoS.

I'm sorry, but I think smackdady is all right.
After atack in sunday, I have about 0.011 BTC for any block with my 440 MHash - about 0.3 for day.
On Monday, I have only 0.008 for block. Now with ~210 MHash I have 0.003 - 0.005 for block.

I wait result today but supose, I will have only 0.11 BTC for 24h.
On btcguld, with 230 MHash I have 0.163 BTC in last 24 hours. This about 40% more.
Something its not good with this pool.

A swing that wide is not uncommon when comparing two pools over a 24 hour period.  The other day BTC Guild had -39% luck.  BTC Mine had an insane +90% luck.  You would have made significantly more at BTC Mine than BTC Guild, even with a 2% fee vs 0%.  Pools are NOT immune to short term variance.  They are simply more likely to provide stable variance over a reasonable time frame.  You can see at BTC Guild our variance over the last two difficulties was +0.2% and -0.4%.  But those numbers included swings from -30 to +30 if you were to look at any given 24 hour period.