With the variable difficulty server, I'm seeing a huge improvement over deepbit.
Could just be a really lucky TWO days.
I collected some statistics from the 11 days before coming to try Eclipse MC.
11 Day combined Earnings 8.9945 BTC (0.8177 BTC day)
- Deepbit (primary pool, 2 workers PROP) - Avg 0.7718 BTC day
Eclipse Var-Diff 48 hour earnings DGM. (may include name coin income)
22:47 09/05/2012
1.14604199 BTC
+32.66% (DB) ----
+28.65% (Overall)
22:16 09/06/2012
1.0352091 BTC
+25.45% (DB) ----
+21.01% (Overall)
Difficulty increaseJust for the record: You can't even compare pool earnings over a 30 day comparison. Luck introduces significantly more variance than you think. For example:
BTC Guild has 12.08% negative luck during the 1733207 difficulty. We had positive 10.54% luck during 2440642. While most 2 week periods aren't quite as extreme, BTC Guild was the 2nd/3rd largest pool for those two periods, and still had variance in the double digits for a ~14 day window [although as PPS, nobody but me saw the effect of that variance].
Pick the pool that has the features you want, the reliability you want, and weight that against the fee it charges. Unless the pool is cheating you (or their payment system allows for hopping), the Fee vs Features/Stability tradeoff is all that matters for your payout in the long run.
