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Hi, I am about to buy 11 antminers s'5 and ,being new in the mining stuff,just need some help to find the most profitable pool . I readed about slush,and antpool...but just dont know. I am from spain and I got a page that sell for 40 € a  Tacens Radix VII AG 600W 80 Plus Silver,do you see them good for the s5? thank you.

Pool wise, normally antpool can be good, however, we are experiencing the DDOS in the last few days.

PSU wise, if you can, please try at least 750W or 850W for the S5 x 1 use.  If you use the higher wattage PSU, such as 1300W, you can connect 2 x S5 on 1 PSU.  Example be EVGA 1300W

It depends on if you are the type of miner that wants to take a chance doesn't mind variance or wants a steady payout. For steady use one of the PPS pools like BAN which has a 0% fee or DFish which charges a 4% fee. The trade off is DFish makes payments on time daily and BAN is always late on payments a lot but has always paid.

If you want to take more of a chance don't mind variance  then use kano's pool which pays PPLNS and you will only get paid if and when the pool finds a block and charges a  Pool fee of .9% . Another pool you can try is Slush but if you pull your miners before a block is found you may lose all your shares you mined. You can also try a p2pool node near you.

If you can buy a smaller amount than 11 at the same price per unit, try that to test them.

I have been doing really good over at Kano's pool. Since the start we are 185 blocks and at 105% luck so far.

+1 for kano & p2pool

Buy quality power supplies, not 40$ junk.

I have to disagree on p2pool it is horribly neglected. I tried mining it for a month and made less returns. I think p2pool needs a major rework or it will remain barely used compared to owned pools.

Yes buy good PSU or they will fry. Corsair, EVGA, or modded server PSU.

A month on p2pool isn't really enough to compare, but I know what you're saying. It needs some loving. If p2pool has 1% of the total network hashrate, I think it would still work in it's current form, though.

Well I think that the dev has left it and many are moving from it now. I wish it was well maintained and worked better, but it is probably too late now. I think over the next few years the big setups will be the only ones left mining on their own private pools.  :-[

Id say none unless you are mining some alt coin. Hard to get any profit from mining now days due to ever growing diff. If you got free energy then best bet would be some p2p pool or multi pool that pays good with a low ratio on fees. Hamster pool is good https://hamsterpool.com I would use them normally but due to nergy being used and output of coin no logner profitable.

it's because, as a noob member, p2pool pay more ... after 2-3 months of mining.  ;D

Eclipse Mining Consortium (aka Eclipse or EMC) at 5% PPS pays best for me and that's where I mine.
Many won't mine here because of the association with Butterfly Labs. Me, I don't care.
Always paid within an hour of request. No question in my mind that payouts are bigger here than anywhere else.

Care to explain how a PPS pool charging 5% has bigger payouts than anywhere else?  Let me answer that for you, so as you're not confused: it doesn't.

I would agree that they are the best pps pool I have found. As far as best paying pool, I would disagree. Steady yes. Most profitable? No. But I plan on pointing a couple of s3s there when I get my s5. Regardless of who there associated with, they have been consistent. I fell for BAN's higher payout, only to find out that they don't actually pay out. When I put all my miners on slush and kano, I had over .007 (negligible, I know) When it finally went to payout  it was reduced to 0.00000000. Lesson learned? Stay away from BAN! Eclipse is much safer. The only problem with eclipsemc is they don't have an updated thread on here. Also, their DGM payments aren't bad until you hit an 11 day block!

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ON a  good run Ive found mining.bitcoin.cz to be the best one yet . I use all of the above at one time or the other thu out the month but all ways  have one or two miners on Eligius Pool Statistics rented or my own rigs at home.


I also mine some alt coins with a S3 I bought after i sold them all off for S5s , i wish i had kept at least one S3.



cya

i dont have much hash power and didnt get chance to run miners 24/7 as well but i get good payouts compare to my hashing power from BAN and also advantage to stay with them are the freebies in shape of NMC, Doge and 10% BTC bonus on our hashing earnings.

Um, are you some sort of BAN sock puppet?
They don't payout the NMC or Doge and they don't pay 10% bonus.

Have a look at this: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/36725/btc-hashes-second-rates-for-various-pools/36747#36747

Besides of this fact as well...

"We are currently not accepting new user registrations."

kano u r legendry member and i respect your position and work which u had done and will be doing for this community, i would also appreciate if you give your honest opinion and use some polite words towards others, if you have some personal grudge or concerns with BAN operators than i would request u to deal with them. Sobr is not giving me anything extra for my 200 Ghs mining power. i shared here only what i saw on the website.

http://pasteboard.co/2lklwgDo.jpg

yes i do agree that they dont have 10% its just 1% and apology for the typo.

Sorry if above post annoy u but i get also annoyed when some offended words pass towards me.

First BAN is not accepting new miners. Also if you have been mining there any amount of time you would know the payouts are a mess. The pool is 139 BTC short of making any payments. How can you even recommend this pool. You shared bad and incorrect information. My honest opinion is the pool sucks now.

thanks chief that is good to know, i also did research on the recent downtime and their alt payouts. but i am not affiliated with either of them, sorry if my words hurt some one here

Well posting false information to suggest people use a pool either means you don't mine there and have been taken in by the lies in the pool thread first post, or you are for some unknown reason promoting (with false information) a pool that you can't even join

So this seems quite a valid question:
Um, are you some sort of BAN sock puppet?

People have posted in their thread about not receiving the alt-coins so again I state:
They don't payout the NMC or Doge and they don't pay 10% bonus.

But I can add, they don't pay PPS, they pay PPS restricted to block finds - which isn't PPS.

They also lie about the pool funds.

Sobr stated that he has to fork out $20,000 extra (about 80 BTC) per month ... but where does that extra 80 BTC go?
Most of it back into his own wallet since apparently he now is most of the pool hash rate ...

My research is from mining on the pool since August up until a couple of weeks ago. You didn't hurt me at all, but it is just bad when someone spreads bad information to a person that may not know any better. BAN has been a high risk pool for the last few months whether it will pay or not.

thanks for your info and advise.



as i stated earlier u r right and i ll respect your advise but wont agree with the term SOCK PUPPET :)

i went with

westhash with p=0.00976406
f2pool as my 2nd i used the coins per day to get the P value currently saying Coins Per Day   0.00976406 BTC / Thash/s
then antpool for my 3rd pool.. you never know.. you can probably use any pool here.. i just picked the largest.