So that would mean you were one of the miners who were taking up to 10% more of your fair share of profits from the pool, however unknowingly.
Oh, I knew what I was doing by cranking my miners the way I did - but as I said, I have discovered many blocks for WafflePool, and a rare few were orphans.
For the others who had their equipment tuned correctly for mining almost anywhere else than wafflepool, they were receiving up to 10% less of profits directly due to their efforts, depending upon the ratio of efficient to inefficient miners in the pool. The actual percentages depend upon whether wafflepool was actually a pool of fools, and only poolwaffle knows that as he is the only one with access to the relevant statistics.
Ya... I still think that was one of the best parts about wafflepool - haha.
I too would be very curious about sfire's 20GH/s mining efficiency prior to the server changeover, which I consider to be a very welcome one. Ironically, depending upon that statistic, it might not have been the largest miner that was keeping us from efficiently mining the lowest difficult coins, but the smaller miners instead!
Indeed.
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I am getting around 2.5% average reject rate now after re-tuning for the new reject profile.
Looks like the new stratum server is costing me overall about 2% in decreased hashrate, and 2% additional rejects (very short sample period so far, mind you)
Guess this was the point of these changes. Not overly pleased myself.
So your seriously bummed out getting 2.5% rejects? Even though the server changes help your profitability overall?
Dishes, you're missing the point entirely. Phzi has admitted to having his equipment [over]tuned to submit the maximum number of shares possible, regardless of whether they were valid (not stale). He was diluting the value of all valid shares which is the basis upon which we are all paid out, as only valid shares can be used to solve a block, thereby taking a greater portion of the total pool earnings than was actually generated by him, as he was being paid on the basis of his total shares, however worthless to the pool. So for all those miners who had tuned their equipment to produce the greatest number of
valid shares, phzi was knowingly taking profits out of your pockets. (In fact, had someone created a modified miner to take advantage of this pool vulnerability, they could possibly have sapped many more profits away from other pool members, depending upon the server code. And there are many smart people mining these days, so I would not be surprised if there were a good chance this was actually happening. poolwaffle, did anyone's reject rates shoot up significantly higher than 10% immediately following the changeover?)
So this stale share handling change on the pool servers does not increase phzi's profitability at all, it increases the profitability of the more productive members of the pool. He will see a decrease in profitability, as he can no longer leech profits from other members of the pool.
Phzi, I will not speculate upon whether your actions were ethical, as my own personal opinion of most human beings is rather low (poolwaffle excepted by my impressions of him thus far). I think that most of us will do such things if there are no real consequences when found out. But openly admitting it and being proud about having taken advantage of others is a rather strange twist.
Poolwaffle, as many as complaints that might come in for making this change, it was the proper thing to do so as to encourage those underperforming members of the pool to learn to tune their equipment, and properly place the fiscal burden upon them for failing to. The old system even hurt you too, as the pool has been showing lower returns per hashpower than it could have been, and ranked below other multipools as a result.