[Evaluation] Packet capture data tells you whether the fish pool is stealing computing power

Packet capture tool principle

Without using the packet capture tool, the miner will submit tasks directly to the mining pool. The packet capture tool will establish a proxy between the miner and the mining pool. The miner will submit Shares through the proxy and then submit Shares to the mining pool from the proxy. At the same time, the mining pool will also send tasks through the proxy.

In this way, the proxy can obtain the tasks issued by the mining pool and the share data submitted by the mining pool. Then, the actual computing power and actual income of the actual mining machine can be calculated by comparing with the on-chain data (number of blocks, mining fees, etc.). The data will eventually be displayed in the form of icons.

Packet capture tools collect data

1. Difficulty of tasks issued by mining pools

The difficulty of tasks issued by the mining pool is related to the interval time for the mining machine to submit shares. The higher the difficulty, the more time it takes to calculate a share.

If the difficulty is set too high, a block may be created but the share of the block has not been submitted, and the share will be rejected.

2. Number of mining pool tasks

The number of tasks issued by the mining pool to the mining machine changes. Generally speaking, the higher the difficulty of the submitted tasks and the more tasks submitted, the higher the profit obtained.

3. Mining pool hashrate (including rejection)

This only includes the total number of submitted shares that were rejected and the actual computing power of the mining machine deduced from the corresponding difficulty, which is consistent with the calculation method of the mining pool's total computing power data.

4. Mining pool computing power (excluding rejections)

After removing the rejected shares, the actual computing power of the mining pool is calculated, that is, the actual computing power excluding the rejection rate. When the mining pool calculates the revenue, it usually calculates the revenue according to the number of valid shares submitted.

5. Mining pool income

According to the actual price increase share and block data, the revenue that each block should get is calculated, and finally the entire data is accumulated to obtain the final revenue that should be earned. Since each mining pool removes the handling fee when distributing revenue, the revenue here refers to the actual revenue of the mining pool before deducting the handling fee.

Fishpond actual test results

Because everyone pays more attention to F2Pool, and F2Pool can see the daily average computing power and daily average income, which is convenient for data collation. Most mining pools only have income records for the past 24 hours. If the daily average income does not reach the minimum payment amount, the daily average income data cannot be obtained.

In order to enrich the testing of more mining pools, the packet capture tool function has been enriched, and the final revenue of the mining pool can be obtained at the first time through the packet capture tool.

The computing power calculated by the fish pool packet capture and the computing power given by the mining pool:

F2Pool gives computing power data

From the calculation data, it can be seen that the average daily computing power given by F2Pool includes the rejection rate computing power, and there is no situation of stealing computing power.

Fishpond income and actual rates:

Fishpond Revenue Record

Note: The revenue from packet capture statistics only includes PPS revenue, and does not include PPS+ and miner fee revenue, so the actual rate will be lower than the rate given by the mining pool.

1. It can be seen from the packet capture data that the computing power given by the fish pool is consistent with the packet capture computing power data, and there is no stealing of computing power.

3. Miners who need share log can contact Sir to provide the complete share log data of the fish pool.