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Bitcoin => Pools => Topic started by: WalterM on November 01, 2014, 11:22:58 PM



Title: What is the best pool for mining Bitcoins?
Post by: WalterM on November 01, 2014, 11:22:58 PM
Hi,

I'm new to world of mining Bitcoins and I'd like to have some advice from experienced miners.
What is the best pool to join?

Thanx,

Walter


Title: Re: What is the best pool for mining Bitcoins?
Post by: aurel57 on November 02, 2014, 12:08:22 AM
If you like a steady payout try BAN
https://mining.bitcoinaffiliatenetwork.com/admin.php  (https://mining.bitcoinaffiliatenetwork.com/admin.php)


Title: Re: What is the best pool for mining Bitcoins?
Post by: DrHaribo on November 02, 2014, 10:00:38 PM
If you want the best you can't go wrong with Bitminter


Title: Re: What is the best pool for mining Bitcoins?
Post by: lowbander80 on November 03, 2014, 10:23:06 AM
i ALWAYS mine with the first one
want less but stable payouts
hate when I see mining a block for 3 hours and the ORHAN....

so first pool is F2pool
second Ghash that I was mining since March 2014
and have a miner at
http://solo.ckpool.org/

for the just in case!!!


Title: Re: What is the best pool for mining Bitcoins?
Post by: kano on November 03, 2014, 09:00:28 PM
Well, to reply with a comment on the word "Best".

If you also mean "Best" for "Bitcoin" then that is clearly any of the CKPool/CKDB pools.

CKPool never generates empty, transaction-less blocks, unless there are no transactions returned by bitcoind, which is just about never on our pools.
Many pools send you empty blocks because they decided that the shortcomings of the pool software cannot be overcome.
We disagree :)

CKPool's default block template update time is 30s
This means that CKPool tries to confirm bitcoin transactions on average faster than or as fast as other pools.

If you prefer solo mining at a pool for TRUE decentralisation then of course that means solo.ckpool.org (http://solo.ckpool.org) forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.0

If you don't want the huge variance of solo mining then that means www.kano.is forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.0