When I look at the "Pool Blocks" tab on MoneroPool.org, I see that almost 40% of the blocks show as "orphaned".
What's with that?
Is this a result of the 60 second block time? Is it the result of some other flaw/factor in the CryptoNight algorithm? As far as I know, most other coins have much smaller orphan rates.
I assume if other pools were any different, someone would have reported it here.
This seems to me like a HUGE waste of everyone's hashes. Not so?
Smaller pools get more orphans than bigger pools, that's why moneropool.org and the other small pools have so many orphans. Moneropool.com has almost 60% of the network hashrate so its orphan rate is more like 15%. The 1 minute block time is the reason for all the orphans.