transaction count is the # of transactions in that block, it's fixed and fluctuating from block to block, it has nothing to do with the height or confirmations.
i'm using coinplorer if i have to check something atm.

- xolokram

sorry beatfried, i totally missed that

mining --- e.g. bitcoin, litecoins, protoshares, etc.pp. --- means that you're searching values in a pre-defined calculation that meet certain characteristics (often it just means that the solution of a specific calculation needs to be less than a specified value, which is the current/fluctuating "difficulty").

these characteristics often contain a random property (e.g. using a hash function that needs to be calculated).

thus all the miners are doing is "just" a (VERY LARGE) trial-and-error on all possible values to find a value that meets the current target difficult of the network.

thus sometimes a block needs 1.000 shares, sometimes 1.000.000 shares.

- xolokram

ps. i hope that was helpful
pps. i'll redirect the old pts page (ptsweb.beeeeer.org) to the beta pages (beta.beeeeer.org) soon®

@mining:
your stats on beeeeer's beta page are clearly updated, just like i told you via PM
but i understand, that those stats are ugly, as these are not 100% implemented yet (i didnt really wanted to see them in the public, but the old webserver with the old stats is fu--ed and i would like tp concentrate on the new stats than on the old stats, but that's another story)

anyway

sy's stats seem to have some problem atm, i'll try to talk to him on irc about this

- xolokram

hi,
thx for the information, i'm working on it. sry for the late reply.

pool should be fine again. i'm sorry for the inconvencience.

- xolokram

Quote from: xolokram on February 04, 2014, 06:39:34 pm

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in theory, more cpm for the entire pool, means more blocks will be found, however they will each be a lower payout as its now spread out among more cpm... but averaging out, more blocks despite being lower pay, would ultimately equate the same level of pay as before... in theory...

this would be true, when the overall power of the network wouldn't increase, but just the pool

but

that's not the case. with the new implementations for GPUs the overall network power has increased.
thus the difficulty was increasing to let the network stay at the desired block rate (there are not more blocks found!!)
thus the number of shares needed to find a block has increased too
thus you proportion of the overall network, which is the most important indicator for your payout, is decreasing (if you're still using the same miner/hardware)

i hope that was helpful.

- xolokram

?

your payout won't be affected by the shares-target-changes i've made recently! and the pool hasn't found a block since, so you can't judge this by now anyway.

the cause for changes in payouts over last days/weeks is the effect of competition regarding the efficiency of the miner software out there. i don't know what hardware you're using, but there's opencl & cuda optimized gpu mining software for pts out there.

- xolokram

server under maintenance atm
sorry for the inconvenvience

done, i changed the share target to reduce the server workload.

shares/min will decrease, col/min & payout/day won't! just fyi.

- xolokram

yep, spm = shares per minute
but i don't know how comparable this is, as this is depending on the share target of every pool