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Board Pools
Re: Whatever happened to Bitcoin Affiliate Network?
by
kano
on 16/11/2014, 12:35:42 UTC
11 days is an incredibly short test.

It gets worst the numbers if I had looked at the whole 16 days the rig been parked there (close to 3 weeks) as the test rig hit the p2pool from the 30th of oct on the above btc address ...   it would be about 45 percent down at a guess with out adding the numbers up <<<<   I was kind to them and allow the 1 st 5 days as days to build up the PPLNS side
No, you actually didn't compare them correctly.
You have to take into consideration way more than just how much BTC you made.

Again, if it was compared to my pool over the last 10 days, no other pool could beat it.
Does that mean anything?
Yes, it means the luck on a non PPS pool has to be taken into account correctly - completely ignoring it is ignorance of what you are doing and means your results are meaningless.
The results are effectively a lie because they imply something that is false.
They imply that someone should expect a result that doesn't match the true expected result.
It's actually a complete failure of understanding the statistics that determine the true expected payout that you expect to average.

Did you also take into consideration that the payout received on a PPLNS pool may continue after you stop mining?
On PPS it stops. On PPLNS it depends on the N and the luck.
On DGM it also continues after you stop mining.