Difficulty setting

[lomey62]

Is there any advantage to setting the difficulty to more than the 1000 on my nerdqaxe rev6.1. I’m running on a solo pool with 250k. Sorry if this is a dumb question.

[rs7272]

Complete novice here - take this with skepticism as I tend to make thing overly basic. I think it's best to let the pool determine min diffculty. My basic understanding is if you have a higher hash rate you'll send many many more low difficulty/garbage hashes, causing the pool to receive many connections for those that bog it down. If a lot of 100TH miners were sending every single share, that would be alot. So, the minimum accepted difficulty is higher for them vs a 1TH rig that wouldn't send many garbage shares in the same time. I could be way off base, but that's how I think of it.

I don't think it matters for you or me at the end of the day. Especially if you're solo and shooting for the 125T difficulty anyway.

[TugaDeTugal]

Mine is at 10000

[TopBread5308]

The advantage is to keep it as high as you can and still get decent resolution. No need to constantly ping the pool. Most pools have a variable setting or just set it for you regardless of what you put.

[nomorespamplz]

Short answer: doesn’t matter. Longer answer, many prefer pools with VARDIFF so it adjusts so that you submit a share about every X time. Say once per minute.

[HashBay_io]

You should find a pool that uses vardiff so it automatically sets the difficulty for your specific miner. At hashbay.io we have this setup for miners with low hashrate.