Resolved profitability issues

[Steve Sokolowski]

Would you be willing to try mining with c=litecoin and seeing what your profits are?

Theoretically, the pools should be very similar if you mine with c=litecoin.

[CritterDog]

Would you be willing to try mining with c=litecoin and seeing what your profits are?

Theoretically, the pools should be very similar if you mine with c=litecoin.

Could the fees be part of the problem? I do not know but I was just reading on litecoinpool in the FAQ section and it states this:

Is there a pool fee?
No, even the nominal PPS fee was removed when merged mining was introduced. In fact, the “fee” is now negative: the PPS ratio is currently 103%, meaning that miners earn 3% more than with a 0-fee PPS system.

But yes I can do another test using the c=litecoin but I will use only the A2 Miner as I need to shut some down anyway because it is getting to hot where I live and its time for the AC and my electric bill is going to break my wallet!! LOL

[CritterDog]

Going to start the Pt-1 test tonight on Prohash 11pm tonight-11pm tomorrow 24hours using just the A2 using c=litecoin and d=8192

[Steve Sokolowski]

Great, thanks. Meanwhile, we found an issue with coin weighting, but it doesn't explain the entire difference. I'll explain more once a fix is determined.

[Steve Sokolowski]

Would you be willing to try mining with c=litecoin and seeing what your profits are?

Theoretically, the pools should be very similar if you mine with c=litecoin.

Could the fees be part of the problem? I do not know but I was just reading on litecoinpool in the FAQ section and it states this:

Is there a pool fee?
No, even the nominal PPS fee was removed when merged mining was introduced. In fact, the “fee” is now negative: the PPS ratio is currently 103%, meaning that miners earn 3% more than with a 0-fee PPS system.

But yes I can do another test using the c=litecoin but I will use only the A2 Miner as I need to shut some down anyway because it is getting to hot where I live and its time for the AC and my electric bill is going to break my wallet!! LOL

I don't understand this one. How do they make money to keep their servers online if they don't charge a fee?

Merge mining should account for 5-10% of total earnings. If they are paying 103%, that probably means that they are earning 110% and taking a fee from that. But it doesn't make sense that they would completely "remove" their fee.

[gaanthony]

I mined at litecoinpool for the past few days while I was on vacation and for each of four days I received a steady 9 LTC each day. I've just changed back to mining here to see what a day will bring.

[gaanthony]

First half hour showing 0.49 cents and both miner rejects rates are over 20%. Wasn't seeing that much percentage reject before. Will check in the morning and see how things settle out.

[gaanthony]

A little over two hours mining and reject % still over 20% and Hardware errors > 2% with dynamic settings showing 131072 as dynamic diff. Just changed to manual d=262144 and rejects 6% and HW errors normal at around 0.57%. Plus only $2 earned when on the other pool would have been about $3.
This is what my config looks like

{
"pools": [
{
"url": "stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333/#skipcbcheck#xnsub",
"user": "-----------",
"pass": "n=t22 d=262144"
}
],
"scrypt-n": 10,
"queue": "0",
"scan-time": "1",
"expiry": "1",
"no-longpoll": false,
"skip-security-checks": "0",
"no-unicode": true,
"retries": -1,
"no-show-processors": true,
"no-submit-stale": false,
"failover-only": true,
"quiet": true,
"compact": true,
"net-delay": false
}

[CritterDog]

Going to start the Pt-1 test tonight on Prohash 11pm tonight-11pm tomorrow 24hours using just the A2 using c=litecoin and d=8192

Results
A2 Mega 110 only made .825
Litecoinpool Calc showed on there pool I would have made 1.07 and tonight after the test i turned off c=litecoin and restarted and noticed a HW errors right off that is very unusual. Right now I switched to my Gblacks 2 of them and also getting unusual high HW errors.. Something is different

[gaanthony]

I changed back to dynamic difficulty to see how the change with computing block time affects things. Error rate is normal 0.4 to 0.8 percent. Anything less than 1% is good. Reject rate is 2.0% on one Titan and and 5.9% on the other in the miner interface. Too early to tell if earnings are on track.