Quote from: MDKing on February 13, 2011, 04:35:50 PM

I just have a question regarding solved blocks. If a person's miner is active are they ensured to at least receive some sort of reward? My miner is currently GPU mining all night with your service and I noticed the odd reward where it says "None" even though my miner is active. i.e solved block #1003 to #1012 I'm reward, #1013 no reward, #1014 to 1017 reward, #1018 no reward. I did noticed in the case of #1018 the number of shares is very low, does that just mean I didn't receive a getwork for that block and therefore didn't participate? Is this intended behaviour?

Didn't participate, or the block was found before you successfully generated a proof of work.

I'd need to sit down and do the math, but there is still a nontrivial amount of "luck" involved, and that the slush pool seems to constitute a substantial fraction of the global mining pool has, I suspect, led to smaller miners having trouble keeping up enough to reliably get shares.

I've wondered if splitting it into coarsely-balanced sub-pools might lead to less jaggedness in the profile.