Quote from: thisisausername on December 26, 2013, 02:47:13 AM

Quote from: Nullu on December 26, 2013, 02:39:57 AM

Quote from: atcx on December 26, 2013, 02:38:22 AM

Quote from: Nullu on December 26, 2013, 02:34:28 AM

Does anyone understand PPLNS?

Is it more or less profitable to join a PPLNS with more or less hash power, or is it meaningless?

It's meaningless as long as you don't hop between pools, and try to only stop mining right when a block's been found.

Yeah, that much I understood. Wanted to try my luck at a pool with 0% fees. At this difficulty level I don't even know if it's worth trying on 250khash/sec.

With less hashpower you want PPLNS over prop. Proportional allows pool hoppers to 'steal' from non-hopping miners and thus honest people get less. The more relative hashpower others have over you corresponds to how much you can possibly lose from hoppers with a prop payout system.

PPLNS will introduce more variance (especially for low hash power miners) but will always be fair.

That makes sense. Thanks.