Hey all. I've been on this pool a long time, haven't compared numbers in quite a while.
However the recent "let's talk about payout" caught my interest, as people reporting .01/mh or even .015/mh are way outperforming me. Like, up to 2x, that is considerable and a little worrying. I'm averaging something like 0.0075/mh.
So I poked around a little.
Here's two different users, for example:
This guy, let's call him Bob, has a steady 19 mh/s or so, and has been around since Dec 16th-
http://www.middlecoin.com/reports/1ACruk5rrJmGTkP7UyyoqGDLNZTHzkqviY.htmlAnd this dude, Let's call him Frank, has slightly less, maybe 18 average, and just started mining on the 7th-
http://www.middlecoin.com/reports/1FxziX77LiZLZxhdXMWREMQVMyjbDmCubw.htmlSo these are roughly comparable hashrates, with comparable reject ratios, but Frank (the newer, slower miner) is absolutely trouncing Bob on the payouts.
WTF is going on here?
(And yes, I know all the usual explanations, but I don't think any of them actually apply to this specific example)
Bob has a lot more rejected shares
Yes, however, the rejected shares shouldn't matter that much, as "Bob" still had a consistently higher accepted hashrate, yet was making less.
My payout tonight was very very close to 0.01 BTC per MH/s, which puts me in line with "bob"
I've also been around a while, and I'm on the main server, not one of the newer "beta" ones
I think the best explanation is the one already proposed - the smaller servers can more effectively "coin hop" for increased profitability while the older "main" server can pretty much only do LTC, DOGE, and a few others
Of course, others will say that H2O starts siphoning payout for himself after you've been around a while :-P
In order to test the server theory, you should switch all miners to a different address for a day (on same server), then add up the total made in 24 hrs (exchanged + unexchanged + immature) and compare it to what another person (who has been on the server for a while) with a very similar hashrate / rejects made during that same 24 hr period (remember to check the difference in the unexchanged balance as well as the payout)
As long as there's no "leeching" going on, the payouts should be identical...
Now take your miners and point them at one of the beta servers for 24 hours and again record what you made... compare this to the payout of the equal hashpower address and see if they still match.
It doesn't matter what server he's on. H2o already said that all servers are mining the same coins, running the same algorithm.
Also, I STILL haven't gotten an answer to my question. I keep getting higher rejects + lower hash rates, going on 4 days now. I've tried switching servers and that doesn't help. I've been mining here for a month now, and my settings never changed. I tried PMing H2o, but no answer there, and no answer here.