Re: Bitminter bitcoin mining pool - Pays TxFees, Merged Mining, Fair PPLNS rewards
cenicsoft, thanks a lot for that post. That gives me some food for thought.
The two parts of the website I am most unhappy with are the front page and the account details page which you get right after login.
What should be on the page after login?
Seeing how your own mining is gong makes a lot of sense. Perhaps instead of the pay per block some info on your hashrate could do the job? Maybe a small graph of your hashrate over recent shifts, as well as your current live hashrate? A lot of people like to watch the pool hashrate as well. It's already displayed at the top of every page, but it could be shown in the same graph as well.
The two parts of the website I am most unhappy with are the front page and the account details page which you get right after login.
What should be on the page after login?
Seeing how your own mining is gong makes a lot of sense. Perhaps instead of the pay per block some info on your hashrate could do the job? Maybe a small graph of your hashrate over recent shifts, as well as your current live hashrate? A lot of people like to watch the pool hashrate as well. It's already displayed at the top of every page, but it could be shown in the same graph as well.
I have always two page open at Btiminter, the main page for account balance and the live stats to monitor the pool and myself.
Keeping the account balance is probably good too.
How many blocks do we need to find before you get X coins which you want to spend on something? Ok, I can see that this is something many would want. It's difficult to do that without getting all the confusion I was trying to put an end to. Perhaps the optional display you mentioned is a solution. I also have to explain to people several times per day that they get paid when blocks are found, not when shifts are finished. Obviously the website is confusing in this regard. I would like the website to make this fact obvious: "when blocks come in, coins come in". I'm not sure how best to do that, and I want to avoid the focus on how much you get per block and all the confusion that ensues.
How many blocks do we need to find before you get X coins which you want to spend on something? Ok, I can see that this is something many would want. It's difficult to do that without getting all the confusion I was trying to put an end to. Perhaps the optional display you mentioned is a solution. I also have to explain to people several times per day that they get paid when blocks are found, not when shifts are finished. Obviously the website is confusing in this regard. I would like the website to make this fact obvious: "when blocks come in, coins come in". I'm not sure how best to do that, and I want to avoid the focus on how much you get per block and all the confusion that ensues.
A big yes from me
To anyone using Bitminter: after you log in what do you most often need? Not necessarily exact numbers or buttons, but what you'd use them for.
As I said previously, I check my balance, the live stats and if I finally found a ***** block
I would say that the live stats page is the one i'm looking like at 90% of the time.I also look the block page to see how many confirmation are left before getting pay or if a block would be Stale or Orphan.
I consult the shift page once in while pretty much in way of looking into the history of what happen recently or in the past.
Then come the the Luck and Reward page. (rarely)
I hope it gives you an idea of what you could add in the main page
Thanks Doc