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Title: Any increased profitability from merged mining? Post by: wingding on May 25, 2016, 12:52:38 PM I know that Namecoin can be merged mined with Bitcoin, and that Namecoins can be sold at some price. So I have a few questions:
1. Do bitcoin mining pools merge mine Namecoin or other cc to increase profitability? 2. If so, how much does this increase profit? 2. Can you be a pool member and merge mine another cc individually - or does it have to be done centrally by the pool? Title: Re: Any increased profitability from merged mining? Post by: QuintLeo on May 26, 2016, 08:00:39 AM To do merge mining, you either have to do it yourself (you CAN run P2Pool but you can't be a member OF a pool), *OR* the pool itself has to do merge mining (I get a large number of DOGE from the Litecoin pool I work with, small bonus not a big help though).
Title: Re: Any increased profitability from merged mining? Post by: VictorGT on May 26, 2016, 04:40:38 PM At Slushpool you can see the payments for merge mining namecoin.
I run an U3 about 55 GHs/s, and slushpool gives me 2100 satohis per BTC block... And also 2 satoshis per NMC block... And not many MNC blocks per day. ¿10, 20? Near to 0 for small miners. Title: Re: Any increased profitability from merged mining? Post by: mtx_demon on June 03, 2016, 04:53:20 AM To do merge mining, you either have to do it yourself (you CAN run P2Pool but you can't be a member OF a pool), *OR* the pool itself has to do merge mining (I get a large number of DOGE from the Litecoin pool I work with, small bonus not a big help though). Where do you mine LTC? I was mining on coinotron.com but I felt just losing time and money only. Title: Re: Any increased profitability from merged mining? Post by: QuintLeo on June 03, 2016, 06:14:29 AM LiteGuardian.
The only issue I have with them is they never updated their "estimated payout" figure to account for the block halfing last summer - but it's easy enough to just "divide by 2" on that estimale. I find that the Dodge merge-mined rewards more or less evens out to the pool fee. They're also one of the VERY few pools that never had a reported issue with Alcheminers (not that I have any of those, but I was looking - they sold out on the final batch too fast). |