Did you have some worthwhile information to add, or are you simply back to take another shot at me?
Can't help but notice the whole "Slush is untrustworthy" tangent seems to have finally disappeared and instead you seem determined to make this about me, despite the fact I have only offered information from outside sources coupled with my own opinions.
Are you insinuating there is some controllable factor for a pool or miner to squeeze out >100% lifetime luck? I really hope not as this is *by my understanding* the whole reasoning behind the difficulty system (to ensure the odds of a block being found by entity A are the same as entity B, all other factors being equal).
No human generated system can be absolutely random, as pointed out earlier in the thread, bandwidth/latency, relative location of nodes, etc. all have an impact.
However, from the point of view of the network, those factors vary from miner to miner, pool to pool, and can change constantly.
I'm pretty confident Organofcorti would agree any gain from having a better connection (and claiming the 1/10,000 blocks [Just a number for illustrative purposes, don't get all worked up] that end up being submitted *just* faster than another) would be impossible to prove either way due to variance.
Pretty sure I had it right thanks, anyone who has actual information PLEASE correct me as you even quoted me on:
I'm just trying to educate while I continue to learn myself.
I don't know what kano is saying, but here is the truth about bitcoin mining luck.
The only part that is even for all pools is the 256 algorithm or in other words the difficulty level. Thats is even Steven across the board for all pools.
All the rest is not even.
What happened to your pool when the pool suffered from the withholding issue is a perfect example of something that crushed your luck.
BTW btc guild got hammered with a withholding issue that crushed their luck for a long time.
Tell you what why not make this list
Block Statistics
Description Time MeanTx% Diff% Mean% CDF[Erl] Luck%
Last 5 Blocks 1.1days 100.8% 102.84% 102.84% 0.5840 97.24%
Last 10 Blocks 2.7days 101.1% 114.19% 114.19% 0.7032 87.57%
Last 25 Blocks 5.8days 101.5% 94.05% 94.05% 0.4066 106.32%
Last 50 Blocks 12.0days 101.5% 91.08% 90.90% 0.2686 110.02%
Last 100 Blocks 27.9days 101.5% 109.76% 110.40% 0.8507 90.58%
Last 250 Blocks 8.5wks 101.3% 94.05% 93.61% 0.1559 106.83%
Last 500 Blocks 18.9wks 101.2% 92.90% 91.92% 0.0327 108.79%
All - Last 929 Blocks 87.3wks 100.9% 93.70% 94.26% 0.0381 106.09%
take it back since you are older
put in
Last 750
Last 1000
Last 1500
Last 2000
Last 3000
Last 4000
Last 5000
We know you are at 98% lifetime which is good.
But the stats above would show if you really had a slump of 10% for months
