Quote from: suchmoon on July 16, 2014, 08:26:05 PM

Quote from: ebliever on July 16, 2014, 08:13:49 PM

What? You can use filters to compare all the rigs on an algorithm for whatever timeframe you want. I checked out Betarigs yesterday and it looks like they have to list price rates in quantized steps (i.e., you could price your rig at .0005 BTC/Mh/hr or .0006, but apparently not .00055 which is ridiculous).

Likewise I've been paying attention to rental rates; they come in surges, on each algorithm, but when I check other rig rental sites they appear no better.

What's so great about FORCING flat pricing on customer and providers alike? Why not let people make a free decision themselves whether to adopt flat pricing, or rent from a provider accordingly? Right now we have flexibility. You want to take that away and imagine that is somehow a plus?

Miaviator has been very quick to add algorithms as providers have requested them.

Betarigs allows to enter pricing at smaller fractions and sorts the rigs correctly, it's just rounded when displayed. Makes it a bit trickier to undercut everyone by a satoshi, but still can be done

I can't speak for Accordus, but I'd like to see a combination of tiered pricing AND the ability for the renter to choose an arbitrary number of hours. E.g. I would like to specify that I rent for min 1 hours at price X, max 720 hours at price Y (where Y would be lower than X, i.e. a discount) and LeaseRig could figure out the rest. MRR allows any number of hours but no discounts, Betarigs doesn't have either, so this could be LeaseRig advantage.

Possibility is a must at the same time.
Manual transmission makes it possible to change the gears according to your wish when driving. But it is also a must to do so.
Automatic transmission spares you from all the bloody calculation of speed/desired acceleration/fuel economy thing.

Similarly if you let providers to set tiered pricing (as a habit) it becomes a must for customers to cut through all the jungle of data with the help of filters and clicking trough Hire buttons because of the lack of "Open link in new tab" option.

I guess most of the customers (renters) have some very simple number in their head when coming for renting a rig. This number is derived from whatever calculation regarding the given shitcoin (thanks suchmoon to say this before me...) and they try to compare that number to available prices on LR. Try this as a test:
You want to hire a rig for a coin that is producing 0.02 BTC when a 27.5 MHs rig is mining it (this is what you've heard on a lovely forum thread). You know your budget and you also want to make profit.
Chose your best option on LR, MRR and BR. Clear winner is MRR. (BR has this extra fun with the stupid rounding).
On MRR you can actually find out how long you have to be waiting for a cheap rig to finish with its last customer and to become available for you to rent. This is again something LR can not do because you can not see pricing of rented rigs.

tl;dr>
I think mining is pretty much about profit calculation and MRR helps people to super-quickly react on market. BR is OK with some issues. LR has a sense of oldish understanding of mining where miners rent rigs to help some coin community by burning up their pocket money to hodl some shitcoin.
My feeling is that those times are gone. But profit mining and super-quick reaction times are in. (See on-the-fly algo switching sgminer developed by NiceHash.)