I had proposed that Doc make per user CDF available on the Bitminer site. I don't think this is the whole answer, but I think it would be a start to building a systematic approach to the block withholding threat. The good doctor can explain why he didn't like the idea if he's so inclined.
So, anyone who experiences negative variance will be accused of being
witches block withholders? I see that working well. Given recent history, about 8% of the pool would be so accused. If you keep kicking off the lowest performing 8% of the pool it wont be long until you have just one miner left.
Look I am hashing here with 420gh so we are talking a long time for a block not even weeks or months more like a decade.
Only a few 100 or so have more then 1th. 1th takes almost 2 years with average luck to make a block.
So good cdf testing only works for those with 97 th
normal luck is 1 block a week for 97 th. 8 weeks of no blocks makes one suspect if they are hashing at 97th.
for my 420gh 16 years . So cdf does not work. Since most miners here too small to measure well.
So right now if we did post cdf results the number 2 miner should make a block every 17 days since he is at 39th.
A fair trial for him is 8x that or 136 days.
Like it or not auto-switching to a solo section of a mining pool is going to be the only way to sift out the weeds.
We could be in the solo section of bitminter 10% of the time and in the merged part of bitminter 90% of the time.
yeah my 420gh will most likely never hit while I am in the solo part but that would discourage someone directing his defective gear/software here.
I can't figure any other fair leveling method that would only attack bad gear/bad software.
I really would like to see a dozen top pools doing this. I know the fear is it chases away people
big miners may say fuck it if I want to solo mine I don't need a pool forcing me to do it I can do it myself.
WELL if big miners think a pool is filled with bad gear/ bad software they will end up doing solo mining anyway.
OTHER SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME.
Say 15% solo 85 % solo instead of 10/90 or maybe 20/80.
Remember when you are in the solo section If your gear is 2 watts or better per hash it is like getting more then 1100 to one one a 3 digit number bet. when in fact the normal odds are 1000 to one.
A better idea is welcome , but I don't really see one that could be applied across most of the network.