Thanks for the info! That will help a lot.travelinmusic wrote:Litecoinpool.org appears to make about $2. more per 600MH/s And Zpool.ca is the mystery pool that I didn't want to disclose. ...Due to the last few days of disasterously low solo earnings, I have moved most solo miners to litecoinpool with zpool as 2nd. I have some zpool as 1st. If anyone wants to donate 10% of their INCREASED earnings to me in BTC at 1PLwP78wXU8zX5gcQaebL9nEyCKJePvf4a then that would certainly be much appreciated.
As I mentioned in the chat, we were removed from poolpicker.eu and decided not to request relisting because we believe the site is flawed. First, they rely on self-reported data instead of mining at the pools themselves, and some pools were not being honest; I don't know whether that's still true or not. The problem that definitely still persists is that they do not standardize the timeframe for earnings. One pool's day might run on UTC time, and another on Chinese time, and here we run on Eastern time. Even if all the self-reporting is accurate, they still don't enforce a standard timeframe. I would be careful about assuming that zpool is more profitable without mining there first. But if they are, then it is possible that they might have a better algorithm or different coins - we can solve that problem.
What I'm interested in is with litecoinpool. Thanks a lot for that information. A miner with 600MH/s would have expected to earn $12.60 here yesterday. If you earned $2 more at litecoinpool, then that implies that the profitability rate there was 18% higher, so that helps us with the numbers. Since we are earning about 3% more than LTC, the math indicates that they are paying 15% above LTC. I still don't understand how that is possible - merge mining doesn't add 15% to earnings. Perhaps someone can comment with a theory. Are they purposely losing money to pay customers above LTC?
