Hiveon pool uses variable difficulty.
Mining Pools set a Share Difficulty for every miner. Based on your hashrate, Mining Pools set how hard it is to submit a share to them. The higher the hashrate, the higher the Share Difficulty. When miners are grinding through hashes, they will eventually find a hash that meets the target Share Difficulty, then they send it to their Mining Pool.
In a PPS payment method, miners get rewarded by a mining pool for shares they submit. The shares they submit have different values based on how difficult it was to find the share. Miners get credited based on the set Share Difficulty from the Mining Pool not the actual share difficulty.
Currently, Hiveon initial difficulty is 5000MH. After receiving a certain amount of shares during handshake period , the pool determines what difficulty will be most optimal for a given worker. This ensures an even rate of transfer of the shares, less load for the server and less stale shares for the client.
Example
- Let’s say you are mining at 50 MH/s and the Mining Pool sets your Share Difficulty at 1,250. You get credited by the pool for all shares that are above 1,250
- If you then increase your hashrate to 100 MH/s, the pool will change your Share Difficulty so that you aren’t submitting shares too quickly. If your pool increases your Share Difficulty to 2,500, then you will submit shares at the same speed you previously were, but you will receive two times as much revenue from the pool for the shares you do submit.