but hey guys what's going on? in the last 20 days p2p lost about 70 out of 250 active users / addesses (although the hashrate scores 1ph more), share diff of the pool is very high for those who do not have a farm, I personally with 3 th / s i have not done a good share in the last 20 hours ... there is no way of remodulating the share diff of p2p so that it is not so difficult for small-scale miners have a decent payout and a little more stable? ok accept the variance I can tolerate, but it seems clear that many users they are leaving the pool
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My opinion is that a lot of the smaller miners are getting out of the game completely with difficulty rising and bitcoin prices falling or stagnant. Also a lot of older hardware is dropping out, sometimes being replaced by smaller numbers of better equipment (remember miners means addresses, not people - I've got 5 different mining addresses running for just myself). P2pool is seeing more of that because of the low usage rate to begin with. I think the barrier to entry these days is at minimum an S1, more likely an S3, 400GH/s to get anything worth of a payout.
However, with 3TH/s you should be seeing more shares than that, at least one every 3-4 hours on average I would think. Could be just variance - how long have you been up and running? Typically when you first start with p2pool you should let it settle in for at least 3 days, more likely about a week before things start evening out and get more consistent. I remember when I first switched over to p2pool it was very slow in the first few days even on 7TH/s, then by the next week we were doing well.