Yeah, now I understand. If a pool that is finding just a few blocks a year went to PPS, they would bankrupt in a week.

viabtc is the best pool. Checked them all. Very nice pool.

Oddly their 4% fee is probably a huge money maker for them as they know a block is always right around the corner.

Outside of that, awesome pool features. Thanks to the people that pointed me at it. Using PPLNS. Will try pps+ one day this week and compare.

This s9 is just a toy. Will see how the next weeks go, and then will get something better. I trade stocks, but not coins. I just buy them on nasty dumps and hold, but also only into a small amount of alts. BTC is 80% of my coin holdings. We'll see how the next weeks go. Couple alts catching my attention.