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Re: [850 TH] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + VarDiff
by
markneill
on 17/04/2014, 13:24:05 UTC
any comment about slush pool??? is it a good pool?

Wouldn't know, everyone on this slush pool forum mines elsewhere.  Roll Eyes

I mine on Slush it has been very stable, it is just people cannot handle the score system. Because when bad luck hits you do not get any reward but when you hit a very good luck then you earn lots. 

So, Slush is on PPLNS??

No, Slush is score based.  Shares contributed later in a given block are scored higher than shares contributed in the early portions;  this is meant to discourage miners who join for the first, lesser difficulty portion of a block, then jump out to somewhere else when the CDF crosses whatever threshhold they've determined is "too hard too long" for them (See also:  Raulo's attack, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3165.msg44357#msg44357 ).  The block is then scored as a whole, and rewards are based on the portion of the score of the block that you accumulated.