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Intrested in best merged mining pool with stratum in your opinion.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

I have good experience with BitMinter, which merge mines namecoins with Stratum. Fees are low, site has great stats available, operator is responsive.

Best is subjective. BitMinter (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.0) is good. Bitparking (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57148.0) also mines DVC and IXC, but it has a lower hash rate.


Implementing merged mining for stratum is a design choice of the pool operator.

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I've started mining on bitparking - very nice pool.

I've just checked this link:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

I'm wondering if it is somewhat out of date? Looking at BTC Guild, the link says the pool is running at 220000 GH/s while it's currently in excess of 350000 GH/s according to the pool webpage at www.btcguild.com and the BTCG official thread here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49417.0

The point I'm raising isn't about hashing rates of pools, although I do tend to worry about the efficiency of smaller pools, it was more that I was hoping that the link data was inaccurate and that, in fact, there were more merged mining pools out there than the link page suggests?

The link page suggests that there are only eight that offer merged mining and that all eight offer Namecoin alongside BTC, with only Bitparking providing the opportunity to mine more than two coins and something other than BTC and NMC. Is my understanding of this correct please? I was rather hoping to have a greater selection of merged mining pools to choose from, or failing a wide selection, at least a range of different coins from different pools to mine.

Perhaps anyone has any alternative pools that they can highlight which might offer different coins to mine. Any ideas? Or maybe it seems that Bitparking is indeed the way to go?

Thanks :)

Last I looked Ixcoin + Devcoin put together was 0.12% extra income. You may want to also consider other aspects when comparing pools.

Lol +1

Stability (low downtime), low fees, a pool op your can trust, idle worker alerts, and multiple backup servers are all more important than Merged Mining.

If you consider low fees important, then merged mining of namecoins should be important to you as well. They can make as much difference as the difference in fees, if not more. Ixcoins and Devcoins could matter too if someone was willing to buy them. But I sure wouldn't. ;)

I split my merge mining between my own p2pool node & bitparking, it makes life easy as I mine the same coins on both pools so no reconfigure needed - I just switch over to bitparking when times are a bit lean on p2pool......which is quite often  :D :D

So yeah, bitparking mostly I suppose  ;)

Eligius and BTCGuild both do merged mining of NMC.  I use both, and have had zero issues with either.  Eligius is my primary pool.

I meant that mining on a 1% DGM will net you a bit more than an 8% PPS, no? It doesn't matter if that 8% pool earns you an extra 0.12% in merged mining if that extra 7% burns ur wallet dry.

Bitminter and BTCGuild, my preferred Stratum/merged-mining pools.