Something I’ve noticed over the past couple of months - when the NetSpace goes up, my TimeToWin goes down (as shown in Chia GUI or via CLI). This seems counter intuitive, with the reverse being what you might expect.
Anyone else noticed this, or know why this is so ?
Specifically, no, but I can make a couple of guesses. With other coins I’ve toyed with, the difficulty and hashrate (netspace in our case) aren’t completely married - there is a window that averages out and rolls along with time. I’m not sure what the window is for Chia but basically I assume the time to win is actually based on “old news.”
Another possibility is that difficulty itself is calculated by a lagging window - although I’m not sure how far back it would go (hours, minutes, etc).
Absolutely! And that’s why pool hopping and algo switching were popular - one could game the system and always mine the most profitable way. Chia has less of an issue with that of course (plotting time and switching pool NFTs).
Seems just wrong, i cant really comment though, as i rarely look at gui and track it with farmr, my days have been constant for ages, my expected daily income always rises as netspace drops and vice versa.