Quote from: cassini on August 23, 2014, 04:03:14 PM

Quote from: Cockeyed on August 23, 2014, 07:51:43 AM

it is also true that it is just "gamblers law"

Well spotted! I was hoping nobody notices. Grin

However, we have DGM payouts at this pool, and this a non-linear thing. When you start mining, your DGM value takes some 100 hours to "fill up". After this your DGM for this round hardly increases anymore.
Imagine this round is going to finish in 100 hours, i.e. a 1100 hours round. If you started mining at the beginning of this round you'll have "wasted" 1000 hours. If you start now then you'll reach your maximum DGM value right on time. (I haven't done the maths, though. Could be this is still gambler's fallacy.)

A while back a proposed a system to payout devout & dedciated miners to avoid this issue on long blocks. However, seeing as though this is very one-track and single-minded, I may want to restate the idea with a modification. You can't reward people to avoid the problem you stated as we have seen that after a long block there can be a series of continuous short lived rounds. However, if there a dedicated time + dgm system it would have to kick in after a 5-round payout average: 5-Rounds post the long round if the miner's average to earning was not met, there could be a compensation in some way, shape or form. The compensation would still equal out to being much lower than 40% so as not to bankrupt the pool. However, as a very smart BTC member stated, my previous system left open the risk for a Block-Withholding attack.

I wish there was something we could do. However, I feel @mmpool is doing the right thing right now with managing this pool

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