Let say a pool only have two miners.

The first has many high-end GPUs and can push 1 GH/s.

The other only has an old ARM based cell phone and can push 10 H/s.

After many days of mining the pool finally found a blocks!
But what if [since it is always luck] it was the lower miner who found the block...

From my understanding, with the current payment scheme, he will have next-to-nothing has reward.

Giving the importance of finding blocks... could we add to the payment scheme a guaranty minimum % of the reward to the miner who found a block ?

:)

@Gabby

yes, your balance increase when a block is found (by your contribution for that block) until it reach the minimum payout.. then you get paid the total balance (which reset to zero).

Your shares are used to calculate your contribution using the PPLNS scheme.

When a block is found:

 - you get pay the balance + your contribution for that block (if the total >= min payout)

 - and the balance reset to zero

In other words, the balance is the reward amount you earned/cumulated until it reach the minimum amount for payout.

The most important is to check that your 'Paid out' increase.
If you been manually paid, your dashboard 'Paid out' will not increase and there will be no mention of that payment but balance will reset to zero.

In any cases, you must check and confirm with your wallet software (monero-wallet-cli / monero-wallet-gui) that you received something in the amount of the balance + last reward.

Last, you can filled a ticket...

@cosimo

It is Ok.

- number of shares increase while mining

- balance increase when a block is found ( or leftover of minimum payout )

yes, using the wallet address you provided (to your mining software configuration file or command line parameter) which must match the pool coin.

It would allow to coordinate everyone in a pool to increase its hashrate ...

While having the option to pay in alternative coins (not from the targeted pool).

Hi 19jgj93,

My guess is that we, miners, are trying to manage our limited computational resources into different coins in order to not put all our eggs in the same basket. And PPLNS make it hard to jump in and out without the risk that the shares we produce will be dropped ( 'for nothing' ).

I'm on XMR for now but will be back on vertcoin in a day or two to help the pool rate.

Hi jsnj208,

I do dual mining on linux, using ccminer for the GPUs in one shell and xmrig for the CPU in another.

see what you did ?    the XMR pool is on fire !   3 blocks within 24h...

best day ever

@Oliver

Not for nothing... We got 2 blocks today!!!  :)))

EDIT:  should display the workers that found the blocks (and total found so far like with the Top Miners list)