Quote from: kjj on January 19, 2014, 02:57:23 PM

Quote from: clown on January 19, 2014, 02:16:46 PM

I was under the impression that pseudo shares are not included in the share chain, only shares with diff above the p2pool diff are included.

Another question. Let's pretend for a moment the p2pool share difficulty is at 10. A miner submits a share with difficulty 20 and the share goes into the share chain. During payout, is the value of the share capped to the share difficulty at the time of submission (10)?

I'm trying to build a proxy pool that'd would be able to payout to miners on a pseudo share basis (much less variance for miners at higher risk to pool operator). And perhaps have a vardiff system based on the pseudo shares. Has anything like this been attempted before?

Miners can intentionally pick a higher difficulty for themselves. These higher difficulty shares give a higher payout and free up space in the share window.

This was discussed to death a few pages back.

It would be best if the higher hashrate miners were to all set their min difficulties higher and thereby helping the rest of us, but having it as a voluntary action doesn't seem to be having much effect.

Anyway this could be enforced as part of VARDIFF for minimum diff shares for the big guns? Or if this is done already, can they be more aggressively applied?