- Steve Sokolowski

- Archived posts: 4559
- Joined: Aug 27, 2014
Re: Advanced Internet Blocks/Blockchains
CSZiggy wrote:I could be wrong, but I thought I remember reading some time back about a policy change the pool put in.In general, the reason these coins aren't mined automatically is because their blocks are so fast that the work restarts and stale blocks cancel out any possible gains.
Something about coins in error, going into error modes, having to delist them and them not wanting to ever bring back the coins that caused issues for the pool. It was a very profitable coin...at least for the miners who could swap and mine it before it floored down to 0 each time, and I doubt the pool ever sold them for what they were paying us to mine them, so with the losses they took over AIB, I couldn't see them bringing it back without a LOT of testing to make sure they don't take another bath on it.
Anytime you find a coin worth 20X what the top scrypt coin is paying, that isn't being automined by the pool, and you can static pick it, if even for 30 mins...that's equal to half the day's mining in all of 30 mins.
There seem to be some miners who throw lots of hashrate onto these coins, so I looked into how much they were actually earning. I found that these miners have so many stale shares that they earn far less, often 10%, of what they could have earned by dynamic mining.