On to my reception and overview of 1024 pool difficulty.
For those of us with sub 2mh/s rigs, I feel we suffer. It takes my r9 290x at 962 kh/s anywhere from 45 seconds to over 2 minutes to complete one packet of work. It frequently takes my nVidia rig at 230kh/s over 10 minutes.
It appears that when a coin switches, that whole packet of work is rendered useless as cgminer starts to work on the new coin. If the coins switch enough, this adds up BIG TIME.
Below is an image of my hashing at MC.
Orange stars = Before diff 1024
Green Star = After
http://i42.tinypic.com/2u74orb.pngAfter having done absolutely nothing to my rigs, why else could this be happening?
We are not doing work. We're rolling dices. Previous trys aren't usefull.
What is raising difficulty ?
It's like having a 512 sides dice, giving you 512 bucks each time you make a 512.
Now you have a 1024 sides dice, giving you 1024 bucks each time you make a 1024.
Same average win, but bigger standard deviation. This means that the long term , when your winnigs are close to the average, is farther with 1024.
You see it negatively because sometimes, a fast round doesn't let you submit a share. But sometimes a fast round let you submit more shares than you should have !
