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I am currently using notroll, can anyone recommend their favorite pool and why?

Thanks!

https://coinotron.com/

Used to be over at http://ltc.kattare.com/ but the got a lot of rejects all of a sudden. Their stats page also showed pool efficiency of about 70%. Could be better now but I moved to https://coinotron.com/ because their servers support statum. It seems to help and I now only get about 3% rejects.

I don't suppose you would be so kind as to explain the Reject Shares?

I'm using http://ltc.kattare.com/ (http://ltc.kattare.com/) and it seems as though I got 2 out of 10 Rejected Shares.

What do they mean?

I'm using coinotron.com with no complaints so far.

Also, you can check out this:
https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Comparison-of-mining-pools

The way I understand it.

The network gives the whole pool 1 block to mine. Imagine that like being a piece of land. The pool then divides that land and tell everyone in the pool "You, mine that piece of land", "You, mine that other piece of land"

As we all frantically dig, one of us finds the piece of gold (the answer to the very difficult cryptographic puzzle). The pool then tries to tell everyone as fast as possible "Guys, we found it, stop mining!".

Problem is if pools get a bit slow or there are connection problems you never get the "Stop Mining" message. Your PC happily keeps mining the piece of land that the whole pool by now know does not contain gold. You PC then runs back to the pool, the good little puppy it is, and then says "I dug here and I found nothing. We can skip that land and you can give me a new piece to mine". The pool then says "Dude... we found gold ages ago, the rest of us are already mining on a new piece of land, WhereTF have you been!?".

And that... is a reject.

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I'm using fresh WeMineLTC pool. Zero fees. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=169249.0;topicseen

Wow, nice analogy! I understand that perfectly now!

Thank you!

Litecoinpool.org

No real reason as to why its my favourite, was the first pool I signed up to and I just prefer it over coinotron/notroll

@nightminer

That is a really nice explanation. Is that similar to a pool working on a block that is already mined into the blockchain, due to lag? And when the nonce is found by said pool, the block is considered stale?

I like the wemineltc pool.
But donate at least 1%, please.
Dont kill that pool :)

Ive heard alot about mining P2P can anyone explain that and its advantages?

i use give-me-ltc.com

I am having difficulty connecting to any pool other then notroll with reaper.  Any suggestions?  keep getting incorrect server

I'm really enjoying the new wemineltc.com

After the bugs were ironed out, I'm getting awesome numbers and less than 1% rejects after 24 hours straight.

Notroll was my favorite until the pool op went nuts and started pilfering funds from miners. My alternate pool has always been litecoinpool.org. Lots of good stats, trustworthy staff, and the only other PPS pool that I am aware of. P2pool is your best bet if you have some time to get it set up correctly.

That happens about every ten minutes, correct?  Every ten minutes there is a new cryptographic puzzle and solving the old one is no longer of any value.

coinotron is best even has a profitability calculator between the current crytpocurrencies

I have been using burnsides pool with decent results.  However, when i use the stratum proxy and connect to wemineltc.com i get radically higher hashrtes, yet radically lower ltc coming in.  Whats up with that?

My total hashrate for all my workers is only 300 to 400 right now.  Cnnected to burnside i get 2/3 or so ltc per day.  Sometimes a whole ltc if i or my wife dont use the computers for anything else.  Connected to wemineltc i have never seen the production go more than 0.0003 of an ltc.   Two orders of magnitude seems a bit much to just be an error?

burnside´s

Iv'e always had connection problems with burnside

I'm using ltcmine.ru , the website is down right now, but should be fixed this evening.
What I like there is that I can see stats of how much did I mine each hour.

If you haven't tried since yesterday morning, try again.  I was getting the same results and tried again and now it's going awesome.  Plus I reconfigured my client after realizing that while my has rate was awesome, 600ish, I was only getting around .2 shares a minute and that is what they pay off of.  Now I'm getting 10 shares a minute and 2.5 ltc a day.

I've had success with ltcmine.ru along with notroll just like you.

I find the recent situation with the hot wallet drying up is odd but at least I'm able to withdraw my coins regularly.

Are there any pools that allow browser mining?

I'm trying to mine with coinotron.com but I dont' understand one thing: I still have 0 shares so it seems I haven't done anything. If I mine, then stop, then start again after a few hours do I still get work done or I just lose everything if I don't run 24/7?

Regarding the changing hash rates, are you going by the values from their website, or values your PC is printing? The wemineltc hashrate calculator appears to be just wrong, for whatever reason. For me, the website reports anything from 1x-3x the actual rate that my PC reports from the miner program.

(I don't know what the reason for your reduced income might be. I'm getting income from wemineltcl that's basically in line with the hash rate my PC reports.)

--Tom

I use litecoinpool primary and coinotron as a backup. As you can see, reject ratio is much less in my case for litecoinpool, maybe because overall pool hash rate is lower so I get less stale submissions.

coinotron

Queued work requests: 4064
Share submissions: 7152
Accepted shares: 6927
Rejected shares: 225
Accepted difficulty shares: 886656
Rejected difficulty shares: 28800
Reject ratio: 3.1%
Efficiency (accepted / queued): 170%
Discarded work due to new blocks: 9612
Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 60
Unable to get work from server occasions: 31
Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0

litecoinpool

Queued work requests: 4901
Share submissions: 6334
Accepted shares: 6294
Rejected shares: 40
Accepted difficulty shares: 298802
Rejected difficulty shares: 1792
Reject ratio: 0.6%
Efficiency (accepted / queued): 128%
Discarded work due to new blocks: 2456
Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 0
Unable to get work from server occasions: 4
Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0

This is what I have read, but am new to mining and have yet to experiment with anyone except coinotron.

Does anyone actually still solo line LTC?

+1

There need to be more examples like this around cryptocurrency in general.  The concept is esoteric enough as it is, but the way terminology and raw numbers are thrown around casually by those in the know makes it become even more abstract to outsiders.  Breaking things down to real-world analogies helps laypeople understand what Bitcoin, et al are in a way that is meaningful to them and makes them more likely to 1) make that first plunge to experiment with the concept and 2) feel confident enough to participate in the long term.  This is vital to the sustainability and stability of the economy and ultimately benefits everyone.

I'm seeking a LTC mining pool who also has a java client (software) to mine litecoins. A software would be similar to bitminter's client. Is there any pool with this?

What did you change on your miner?  I have been using poolers cpu miner and cudaminer.  When i get my 7850 i will be running that with cgminer. 

wemineltc.com is the best LTC pool.  You cannot go wrong if you want to support operators who give backend support the number one priority.  They have a slick front-end website as well and the rules for reward are perfect for the loyal miner.  I'm very impressed with this new, but deserving, pool.  I've test mined on it for 24 hours now (after notroll.in decided to steal customer's coin) and it's great because I get very very few rejects.  They've earned a loyal miner for my 2x7950,2x7970.

I vote for litecoinpool.org aswell, they have great connection for me and payout regular.  No manual payment system tho.

Very few mentions of p2pool in here. It's what I've started with, so I've never joined a traditional pool.

Any apparent downsides to p2pool besides setting it up yourself?

that would be my question as well

downsite of litecoinpool is that 2nd time in few days, just when I need it the most  ;D  instant payouts are temporarily disabled for maintenance.

I've been a happy user of coinpool.net

Someone already mentioned http://wemineltc.com, at the moment I find this one most stable and with lowest number of rejects.

been using wemineltc also recently.  it reports hash rates that are ~20% higher than my client, but im earning basically what i earned mining at coinotron.  Not alot of hash power yet, but site looks nice .  hope they put some graphs up soon.

I'm still pretty new to mining only been mining for a month or so and I've tried quite a few pools. I finally settled on coinotron and burnsides pool. I distribute my workers/hashing equally among the two. Seems to me that distributing your hashing between at least two pools is a smart move since every pool I've tried so far has had issues of one sort or another. Its sucks waking up in the morning finding out your workers have been sitting idle for the past 7 hours because the pool is down. I'm sure there are ways to set your workers to switch to a backup pool if the primary pool goes down but I haven't figured out how yet.

I use a python script that closes and opens reaper after a certain time.  That prevents crash as well.  You can probably edit the script to ping the server and if it gets no response go to the next one.

Use cgminer, it has pool failover

More graph stats are on the way!! Today also we will bring alive the USA server! Thank you all for your kind words :)  We wait you at www.WeMineLTC.com 

P.S. read about our feedback here as well :)  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=169249.0

FWIW, I've been using Pool-x.eu, and it seems ok so far.

OzCoin. It's going all right I guess.

burnside's pool has very high stales % for me, at worst it goes to 90%. even with 1,200 Khash/s, barely able to mine 0.2 litecoin in 12hours.
I tried a few famous pools in the past few days, as much as i dont like notroll.in, it is still by far the most profitable mining pool (put aside the withdrawal issues, taking your litecoin without your consent )

son, you're in the wrong thread, this is about LTC mining pool. not BTC.

OzCoin

I was using Coinotron but getting anywhere from 4% to 6% stales.  I switched to WeMineLTC.com and now I'm seeing about 3%.  Plus, the fees are lower!  Hopefully this pool can keep up with growth

wemineltc really seems to take off through the roof, Im very happy with them 2

I hope their North America server comes online soon.  That may reduce stales even further for me. ;)

The USA server is UP AND WORKING!! :) Come check it out :)

notroll.in or coinotron.com, im juste mining on these two ;)

My friend tells me anything other than Deepbit is a waste of time but my computer is too slow to bother anyway..

Burnside's pool all the way for me, just really simple and informative.

Just blew my mind with the simplicity.

Just to add I am finding coinotron good.

I'm using my own node of P2Pool. It took a while to setup, but no required fee is nice. It takes a few days to start getting a decent payout due to the Pay Per Share format but it's working out pretty well now. I like the peer to peer aspect of it so it's a bit more resilient to DDOS. Seems like almost every centralized pool has had an issue with DDOS attacks lately. The trick with getting it working well with LTC is to triple check your port configs both for your miner and your litecoind/wallet. Most instructions list the BTC ports which are different than the LTC ports.

can btc and ltc be mined simultaneously?

Coinotron

not an expert by a long shot but been trying out coinotron and p2pool

I've switched to give-me-ltc since notroll incident. Works fine until now

p2pool, DOES NOT GET AFFECTED BY DDOS END OF STORY.

give-me-ltc.com

litecoinpool then notroll, imo.

Edit:
I scratched out notroll, I guess they are ripping people off.

You can mine BTC and Namecoins simultaneously, but Litecoins are very different in that it uses the Scrypt algorithm instead of SHA256.  So, no you can't mine both at the same time.  You could, however, switch your software from one to the other when one is more profitable for your mining equipment.

I like Coinotron because of it's ease of use, and the ability to mine 3 other altcoins as well.  Currently, it is more profitable to mine PPC and exchange on BTC-E for bitcoin, but that changes all the time.  Coinotron helps you keep track of everything and quickly switch where your miner is pointed to mine LTC, TRC, PPC, FRC, and BTC.

This thread is turning into an advertisement campaign  >:( Only "newbie" users recommending  :-\

coinotron.com i think is the best

I like give-me-ltc. Low fees and high share acceptance rate.

whats your favorite ppc?  is ppc recommended over PPLNS?

Gotta know my friend.... your hashpower is insane for a gpu net.  Let us in on the basics?  156,000 k is....obscene.

Thanks for clearing that up!

I've been using wemineltc.com, seems good so far. Curious if people have tried it, how it compares to other pools.

I appreciate the tip. I switched one of my workers to BMAT and I use cgminer. It was a little difficult to get it up and running since BAMT was designed for mining BTC but I worked out the kinks. I have a backup pool set in cgminer. My primary pool hasn't gone down yet, at least not that I'm aware of, but if it does go down cgminer should fail over to my secondary pool.

Coinotron here, no complaints so far.

I'm still mining with notroll :( no other pool seems to make me more....

https://lc.ozcoin.net/
However, I'm Australian, so I am biased.

I mine @ pool-x.eu ... good uptime and never evil experiences like "all coins are lost" or something... it's a simple pool and a great start for newbies ;)

i am using ghash.io from 3 months ago until now and it works fine for me. before i use ghash.io, i use f2pool and i don't have luck than i use ghash, so i move my pointer into ghash.io. i think the luck factor for every people in mining is different. someone said that he get luck in pool A, but the other person said he get luck in pool B. so in my opinion, better you make a list on notepad and try one by one. for pool A, you can try in 2 days, if finish in 2 days, then you can move into pool B and so on. don't forget to write how much you get from every pool and then you can compare, how much you can get from every pool you mining. i hope you understand what i mean.

I can recommend my MM SOLO pool.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290219.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290219.0)
http://ltc.tbdice.org (http://ltc.tbdice.org)

It is best and unique. You get 99.5% of LTC or/and 95.0% of DOGE block reward if you find one. If not you get nothing. You do not worry for your coins they get generated directly at your address. No databases, no fancy reward calculations, no hacks and such bullshit. For the recurred according to my stats the strongest pool suporter mining in my pool since beginning with 12G constant hash rate  is earning about 3-7% more than he could earn in ANY pool i repeat ANY pool out there

http://77.55.192.230/ (http://77.55.192.230/)

Coinfoundry's Litecoin Pool (https://coinfoundry.org/pool/ltc) would be another good alternative.

Summary

• Global presence with Servers in Europe, US-Eastcoast, US-Westcoast and Asia, ensuring optimal latency regardless of your location
• Run by experienced staff with years of experience managing complex systems
• Pool Fee: 0.75%
• Payout System: PPLNS
• Payouts: Hourly
• Newbie friendly support on UserEcho (http://feedback.coinfoundry.org/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/coinfoundryorg)

If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to drop me a line here or on Twitter (https://twitter.com/coinfoundryorg) or join the pool's Support-Channel (http://feedback.coinfoundry.org/).

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