Re: [450 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff
pool seems to be alright now
Pool luck (1 day, 7 days, 30 days): 147%, 100%, 103%
Pool luck (1 day, 7 days, 30 days): 147%, 100%, 103%
Just remember the pool will always go up and down, always. Slush is not stealing anything from anyone you can go see what block numbers have been mined and by who and check this against the Slush pool numbers and they will match exactly.
We have bad period and good ones, so do other pools. That's just the way it is. Don't try to over think any pool because you probably will loose trying to outguess what will or could happen.
And he is right the pool seems better now.
True, maybe, BUT... The pattern I see is we have maintenance issues and then a period of horrible luck. Sometimes I think the pool 'appears' to be working fine, but behind the scenes perhaps it is not, either way we usually don't get much feedback on what is happening. I'd love to see a time-series plot of our daily blocks found overlaid with the maintenance issues or tickets submitted. My hypothesis is during times of high issues reported that our blocks solved dips significantly. From what I see it's always during and after periods with technical issues that we have horrible "luck", which really makes the 'luck' value something other than pure.
Yes this pool is slow to openly address issues if at all I agree there but don't know about other things cause way over my head. I do like BTC Guild provides so much info but still seem to be making more here by small amount. That could all change again though. LOL
I noticed Slush did use FB to celebrate the recent good luck, if we can get similar messages during maintenance and bad luck that would be ideal. I'm fine waiting it out during some technical issues, but would rather know if there is more behind the scenes influencing that 'luck' number. In fact, last week about 50% of the hashing power got booted. Something like that certainly does and did affect luck.
Oh really, I didn't know that as I don't follow anything on FB. I wish he'd be more open here it's not hard to do but what you said makes sense.
And as for maintenance issues I did notice the site was down again today for awhile, or was it late yesterday, anyway, then luck changed instantly. Go figure.