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Title: What pool should i use? Post by: HUSTLER on April 13, 2013, 01:25:35 PM I have been using deepbit forever. Wondering if there is a better pool nowadays? What makes a good pool? Only thing I can think of is fee's.
Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: os2sam on April 13, 2013, 02:25:23 PM I have been using deepbit forever. Wondering if there is a better pool nowadays? What makes a good pool? Only thing I can think of is fee's. What makes a good pool? Well that is something different for each of us. If you want to compare pools here is a good starting point https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg1146108#msg1146108 I would just suggest having more than one pool and use CGMiner and set up a failover list so that you keep mining during a DDoS or other outage. Sam Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: HUSTLER on April 14, 2013, 01:50:41 AM BTCguild seems to have the most people. BTCguild PPS is 5% vs deepbit 10%. Im guessing BTCguild is the place to be right now?
PPLNS or PPS? I did read the post you linked but I don't quite get it yet. Can somebody break it down for a nub? Which should I go with? Thanks for info. Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: os2sam on April 14, 2013, 02:05:53 AM Deepbit seems to be losing people and BTCguild seems to have the most people. BTCguild PPS is 5% vs deepbit 10%. Im guessing BTCguild is the place to be right now? I can't believe anyone would be mining PPS at Deepbit. That just makes no sense. Over time you would do much better using a Proportional, PPLNS or DGM payout than 5 or 10% PPS. Also I would not mine on a pool that has 0% PPS as that will cause the pool to go out of business or the pools is doing something nefarious with the hash rate. Again review the Mining Pools list and pick two or three you like and setup failover. BTC Guild and Deepbit are both good and reliable pools and I'm sure some of the others are too. Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: HUSTLER on April 14, 2013, 02:11:23 AM I just switched to BTCguild with PPS 4-8gh minimum difficulty. When I started mining there was only PPS and proportional. Now there is PPLNS and DGM. I never had to pick a minimum difficulty either. Have no clue what that's about. I want to understand but im struggling. Don't wanna make a nub decision.
Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: os2sam on April 14, 2013, 02:17:11 AM I just switched to BTCguild. When I started mining there was only PPS and proportional. Now there is PPLNS and DGM. I want to understand but im struggling. If you switch pools allot PPS would be better. But if you stick with a pool for a long period of time, weeks/months/years then DGM or PPLNS would be better. DGM and PPLNS type of payouts are an attempt to discourage Pool hopping. It sounds like your a long term miner so I would use PPLNS at BTCGuild which will require a stratum based miner like CGMiner. Also setup multiple pools in case BTC Guild goes down like it did recently. Deepbit would be a good backup pool. Sam Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: HUSTLER on April 14, 2013, 02:21:48 AM I don't pool hop so I switched to PPLNS. Thanks for the tips bro.
Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: os2sam on April 14, 2013, 02:29:25 AM I don't pool hop so I switched to PPLNS. Thanks for the tips bro. Hope it pays off for you. Take Care, Sam Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: HUSTLER on April 14, 2013, 02:31:35 AM Take Care You too homie. ;DTitle: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: jaminunit on April 14, 2013, 08:43:56 PM You should use p2pool https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0
because its decentralised and stops pools gaining 51% of the network. Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: btcminer021 on April 15, 2013, 08:02:55 PM I just started mining with BTC Guild and Deepbit.
Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: digicoin on April 17, 2013, 04:18:51 PM BTCguild offers lowest PPS rate compared to itzod and 50BTC. In normal circumstances, itzod would be most profitable PPS pool. Then 50BTC. Then BTCguild the least profitable pool.
Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: digicoin on April 17, 2013, 05:54:48 PM 50BTC lowers PPS rate again: 1 share == 0.00000270 BTC Now it becomes least profitable PPS pool
Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: digicoin on April 17, 2013, 05:56:30 PM Oh wait. itzod does the same. 1 share == 0.00000278 BTC (the former: 0.00000325 BTC)
What happens? Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: Balthazar on April 17, 2013, 06:00:31 PM Difficulty adjustment happened.
Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: digicoin on April 17, 2013, 06:53:43 PM Difficulty adjustment happened. Thanks. New difficulty level: 8974296 :'( Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: Oktoberfest on April 17, 2013, 06:56:52 PM And the moral of the thread is use p2pool? What about slush's?
Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: VirtualWorld on April 17, 2013, 09:55:13 PM Slush's is nice, if it would work..
Last couple of days have been a little shaky for Slush. The pool has been offline all day due to a DDoS attack, same goes for yesterday.. Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: os2sam on April 18, 2013, 01:31:19 AM And the moral of the thread is use p2pool? What about slush's? The moral of this thread should be to use the link below and other tools and research to pick several pools that suit your needs/wants the best. Those wants and needs are different for each of us. You should always have more than one pool in your failover list. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg1146108#msg1146108 And remember, there ain't nuthin free! Sam Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: Xenotron on April 18, 2013, 07:11:45 AM And remember, there ain't nuthin free! P2Pool is actually free. There is 0.5% fee to donate to developer, but you may disable it if you wish.Sam Title: Re: What pool should i use? Post by: Subo1977 on April 18, 2013, 07:44:17 AM And remember, there ain't nuthin free! P2Pool is actually free. There is 0.5% fee to donate to developer, but you may disable it if you wish.Sam p2pool Rules You can also use public p2pool-node from this List: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66182.0 or just mine: http://p2pool-cologne.dyndns.org:9332/ |