I think it'd be best to pool with people with different patterns, not the same patterns. Perhaps it would be best to pool with people in different timezones, and/or with different work/sleep schedules.
If everyone in a pool uses it during the ~same periods and sleeps during the ~same periods, then the node would oscillate between contention and idle -- every day. This seems largely avoidable.
(Or, darker: Maybe the contention/idle dichotomy is a feature, not a bug. After all, when one has control of $14k/month of hardware that is sitting idle reliably-enough for significant periods every day, then one becomes incentivized to devise a way to sell that idle time for other purposes.)
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I think it'd be best to pool with people with different patterns, not the same patterns. Perhaps it would be best to pool with people in different timezones, and/or with different work/sleep schedules.
If everyone in a pool uses it during the ~same periods and sleeps during the ~same periods, then the node would oscillate between contention and idle -- every day. This seems largely avoidable.
(Or, darker: Maybe the contention/idle dichotomy is a feature, not a bug. After all, when one has control of $14k/month of hardware that is sitting idle reliably-enough for significant periods every day, then one becomes incentivized to devise a way to sell that idle time for other purposes.)