I think HTC can be a really awesome pool to mine on because you can select your coins to be in the mix yourself. See some other benefits as well but I really don't understand the pool just yet. Also, asked a question here as well as submitted a support request but *zero* response. Does not give me a lot of confidence to switch over my miners again.
Maybe the community here knows,
1. How does the autoswitch feature work? When does a switch occur?
2. When I've mined a certain coin for 16 hours, where can I see my submitted hash rate (or anything for that matter). Wallets remain empty? Does a balance only occur when a block is found?
3. If balance only occurs when a block is found, how does that impact the auto-switching feature? If I'm only auto-hopping coin to coin without blocks being found I'm wasting my hash rate.
4. If I do not have a wallet address for a coin, does the balance still accumulate?
For now sticking with other pools.
Thanks
1. Autoswitch:
Every 15 minutes pool backend compare what coin is more profitable, and if current coin not on the top, it checks new candidate.
Candidate must meet several conditions:
- Estimate block time < 30 minutes (determined based on switched miners aggregate power)
- Switched pool hashing power < 50% of target coin network to avoid coin fork and be sure that hashing power utilized efficiently
- When pool switch workers to the next coins and this coin mark you as excluded, then pool just ignore your worker and it continues to mine current coin
2. This pool uses proportional payout system, you get your coins after pool solves a block. Currently, you can't see how many hashes you solve.
3. As I wrote before pool select coins with round time less than 30 minutes therefore usually there are no problems with the hashrate waste.
4. Yes, you can start mining without any address.