It’s the more convenient one too. The reason they don’t have more ppl mining with them is because they reward long-term (and most miners are short-term oriented need to pay the bills this month), right?
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Idk why more people don't mine with them
To me it looks like you make more money with Ocean than with any other pool, with one exception: a miner with a significantly-above-average amount of hashrate could do better with SBI Crypto
Ocean also finds blocks regularly enough nowadays that I don't see why their variance would make a significant difference, but I've spoken to at least one person who says it makes a big difference because with non-Ocean pools you get a single daily payout that's almost always the same size as yesterday, whereas with Ocean, payouts are sporadic and have different sizes each time. Apparently, even though Ocean's payouts end up being slightly larger when averaged out over time, some miners find the accounting annoying enough to just use a regular pool where you earn slightly less but it's more consistent
Ok so it seems most miners are looking for short-term consistency both in "amount" and "payout-time". I guess this applies mostly to bigger miners which have to handle much paperwork and need to be sure to cover this month bills? For the little guy these things should not matter as much I think