Quote from: kgb2mining on August 30, 2014, 01:18:24 PM

Quote from: EErik on August 30, 2014, 08:49:07 AM

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

E

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.

The pool was just a week old, I waited to have at least 3 incoming connection and then I moved my miner from another p2p where I had parked for 2 days. Only yesterday I moved to another pool for 12 hours. You can see what happened this week here http://2.234.55.84:9332/static/graphs.html?Week

And amazingly after 24 hours of mining without seeing a share I have taken 3, one behind the other. :-)

The thing that scares me a bit is in the last two month the "share diff" is rising a lot, and we are cutting out all the little miner. today share diff have touched 14200000.

If it takes me four hours to share with 3th/s for those who has 1 th/s in over 3 days they should wait 6 shares only, and in this condition you are at the mercy of the variance. At the same time for those who have a farm of 20th/s or more they will have near-constant reward and they can even allowed to hop to other pool for some times.

it would be great if the shares diff go 1000 times lower (and the reward to find a share 1000 times lower too), in this way could also mine those who have much less hashrate, how can they do for now only in the other pool. P2pool would be much more distributed and more people participate, which is for the benefit of all I think.

E