So its been a bit more than a day, with a disconnection in between, but I feel, I am earning less. I may be totally wrong though as I have not put things on a timer.

I have a question though. I understand the 20 people one car and 10 people one car example given earlier in this thread or somewhere else about smaller pools working in the same way as larger pools in terms of payout as there are fewer workers for the same reward.

But does the number of blocks found make a difference as well? For eg on the larger pool I see a block found every few minutes from various pool members, but on 1GH, I see a block once every few hours or so, maybe sometimes 2 in the same hour, but these are few and far between.

Does this make a difference to payout?

The pool luck is lower than what is statistically justified: at current difficulty and total hashrate it should be finding around 10 blocks per day. But the same goes to beeeeer.org, so it looks like the *cough* bigger pool is employing some dirty techniques after all.

Quote from: reorder on January 16, 2014, 09:15:23 pm

Quote from: bytemaster on January 16, 2014, 08:03:18 pm

There is no problem with ypool having 70% of the hash power because they are very limited in what they can do with that hash power.  They can do a Denial of Service or they can attempt a double spend... however, they cannot get away with a double spend because they would have to steal their customers hash power which could not be done in secret. 

This reality is why we can eliminate mining.  If ypool simply signed every block the situation would be the same as it is today.  They could do no more harm nor could they perform a double spend attack.   

Consider this a case study in the reality that the 51% attack is not really a concern.

Or they can get hacked and someone else will double-spend all our money.

No one can double spend *YOUR* money except you.

Well, this is true, I rather meant mined blocks not distributed yet. Which is not possible too if the pool pays out matured blocks immediately, if it does.

There is no problem with ypool having 70% of the hash power because they are very limited in what they can do with that hash power.  They can do a Denial of Service or they can attempt a double spend... however, they cannot get away with a double spend because they would have to steal their customers hash power which could not be done in secret. 

This reality is why we can eliminate mining.  If ypool simply signed every block the situation would be the same as it is today.  They could do no more harm nor could they perform a double spend attack.   

Consider this a case study in the reality that the 51% attack is not really a concern.

Or they can get hacked and someone else will double-spend all our money.

And coins disappear: 26    2014-01-16 02:55:51 (15 hours ago)    0.10909446    685c25cb614ef564c52cbf362b4f85bd5e0e02ac67bde4759a3b1fd512d99a4b
 went to the bter and nothing came.

Can you find your address here? https://coinplorer.com/PTS/Transactions/685c25cb614ef564c52cbf362b4f85bd5e0e02ac67bde4759a3b1fd512d99a4b

Why would anyone try to sell that much at once

To press down the price so he could rebuy cheap. This is what they do on MtGox every day.

And the bounty was a hefty 1BTC..

I have been mining on this pool for a few hours now and payouts seem to be very low as compared to where I was mining earlier. I am at around 1000 cpm but I just dont see any returns. Am I reading too much into the numbers?

It only pays out in the long run: the pool is finding blocks rarely due to 95% hashrate being on *cough* another pool. But when it does, you get more.

For example GTX 780 he writes a maximum of 24 warp, but in fact their for her 48
App for check it: http://a0.sderni.ru/d/558165/deviceQuery.exe

Probably he has done it to avoid register spilling: his kernel could not run 48 threads in a warp on 780 without overusing the register file. Of course it could be in mistake too.

The 1gh miner uses workgroup size that the driver tells it it can use.