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I joined BTC Guild pool and was using them but it has gotten too large now and so it's impractical to use them anymore,

does anyone know of any good small to medium sized Bitcoin mining pools?

Thanks

Have a look at http://blockchain.info/pools. There you can find the other bigger pools.

Deepbit (https://deepbit.net/) is quite a good pool - only has 4% of the total hashrate. Their website can be quite slow, and CGMiner throws errors at me when I try to use it.

Well if it's good, then why is it so slow and throws errors at you?

Honestly, I don't know. I haven't seen anyone else reporting errors, so it's probably just me. See for yourself.

Does anyone else know of any good medium sized BTC mining pools?

http://mmpool.bitparking.com/pool

I mine on Slush's pool

How's that working out for you?

I also jumped off of BTC Guild. For a PPS I recommend 50btc.com. There are larger, but not near the size of BTC Guild. 50 BTC also has a fair PPS fee of 3%

I would recommend Slush's pool, he's a very active operator and regularly updates his pool miners.

I been using it for a year without any major problems.

Just seen a post that ASICMINER which is most of BTC Guilds hash rate is going to start solo mining.  So BTC Guilds hash
rate will zoom down fast.

50BTC is good and stable.

Why wouldn't you want to mine on the biggest pool? More frequent payouts that way.

Slush is the best.

Pretty stable as of late, I mine around 3GH, getting ready to add a little more, payouts are good, just have to wait for confirms.

Thanks for all your responses.

Not had problems with BTCGuild, been thinking of switching to 50BTC though, or Deepbit.
But then I mine <1GH/s.....

I personal use https://hashrack.com/ its a new mining pool that you can even buy hardware to mine for you.

I also recommend you 50btc pool, minimal pps commission, clean and easy design and helpful support.

i am on Give-Me-LTC and I like it a lot but it has been going down every other day. ty i might try one of these ^.

50btc here too, very happy to pay the 3% fee for the automaticly updating dashboard and generally nice site layout with detailed FAQs and info

from Neighbourhood Pool Watch

https://i.imgur.com/hBeO9wn.png

I would recommend ozco.in

They have really nice and fast support via IRC

I think slush and ozcoin are both good.

slush is ok for me, not what it use to be but it works, also I'm trying hashrack because the hash packages.

I started mining 2-3 weeks ago and have been to btcguild 50btc and slush pool.
Finally i made up my mind and slush became nr1.
1.decent payments even for users with low hash rate
2.extreamly active operator
3.good IRC help
4.overall luck is 100%+

mining.bitcoin.cz/

Hope to see you there

yes it's good mining pool

I don't understand hashrack -- they're just ordering from BFL which you could do yourself.  But that's for another thread.

yeah, it's about purchasing some of the equipment power, but there's another thread for that.