No, it just reduces variance.

kano is more right.

Well - since it's a zero fee pool - no one gains anything from it except a decrease in variance.

Yes the pool will expect to find more blocks due to the higher hash rate, but no one gains from that.

My point was to say that the only affect it will have on each person is: It will decrease variance.

Anything else is - well - pretty much irrelevant

And if we didn't care about that we would all be solo mining.

I apologize if I'm just beating a dead horse at this point.  What if the HashPower purchase ended up being super lucky and generated 5 blocks in the first few shifts of the massive increase of hash power and then we hit an unlucky streak of zero blocks until the shares from the increased hash rate had passed out of the last 10 shifts?  In that case, wouldn't the increased shares have benefited the pool more than they benefited the person who purchased shares from HashPower?

Ive tried a few small leases so far (never had a GPUMax account) and dont understand how anyone can come out ahead. I understand its a type of gamble but I dont understand the idea I guess.

Gotta love HashPower's terms and conditions.

1. We do not accept responsibility for anything.
2. WARNING: Use at your own risk.
3. You must agree to 1 and 2.

Waiting for BTCmon update

Bitcoinium (for Android devices) now supports BitMinter for pool stats.

Free version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.veken0m.cavirtex&hl=en

Donation version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.veken0m.bitcoinium

I kinda wish I could just donate ~50% of my NMC and get Btc perks.