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I understand that we should not be mining at BTC Guild.  Where do you currently, or plan to, mine?

Why not BTC Guild?

p2pool or eligius

because they're dangerously close to 50% network power?

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/1bsspo/waiting_for_my_avalon_batch_2_to_ship_suggested/

With two or three units, mining solo is an option.

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but on  a serious note, ozcoin =) best pool ever! and very honest staff.

fees
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why bother?

eligius

no fees

Hoping to use p2pool to be honest.. once you understand how p2pool works it just makes more sense.

Hopefully soon they will nail down avalon with p2pool

as of which amount of gh/s would it make sense to solo?
this must always be a function of difficulty, amirite?

is there some way to figure this out?

This will always depend on one's own tolerance for variance.

I'm going to do solo mining with eloipool or p2pool

Solomining or Oz Coin.

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

Use this I plan on going for a pool that is local and support the US pools even if some of the fee might be higher or smaller! Just stop adding onto the 25000 ghash BTC guild go for another pool! They are good looking at the table on the link!

I'll be mining on testnet.

Pro. Sounds very profitable. I believe everyone else should do the same. ;D

I of course cannot mine on testnet because...umm...it violates my religious beliefs.

You kids today!  In my day, if you actually had your own Avalon, you could solo mine with just one of them!  And it would pay for itself in a matter of days!

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I used to mine BTC on Eligius, and it worked OK, but anymore I mine BTC on bitparking 'cuz it lets me pick up merged-mining rewards for 3 different altcoins (vs Eligius' 1 altcoin).

When I mine TRC or PPC, I do it solo.

I have 2 Avalons running on Ozcoin right now.  I ran them against an eloipool private pool for a little while.  Right now I'm experimenting with eloipool for a public pool.  If I set up a new public pool would I be able to attract enough people to keep the site and service running?

I wasn't sure if 2 avalons (1 from batch 2 and 1 from batch 3) would be worth solo mining.  So far I've been GPU mining so naturally I went to a pool.  I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't know how to solo mine.  I'd very much like to try to solo mine if it seems like that would yield a higher payout. 

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started w solo mining? 

When that unit from batch 3 will be delivered difficulty could be really high, right now with a single Avalon it should take around one week or a little more for a block.

But given variance, it could take even longer, so maybe with a single Avalon it is better to be mining in a pool.

Anyway, here they are two recipes to solo mining:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158105.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0

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thanks braj

Anyone have experience with the two different private/solo pool software (eloipool, generalfault/slushpool)?

It seems like eloipool is preferred as that was given by jgarzik first as a walkthrough.

I went ahead and installed both on my bitcoind node, and to be honest I like that slush's pool software has a webpage with the current total hashrate/etc.  I didn't look very hard, but it doesn't look like there is much in the way of reporting for eloipool out of the box.

Anyone with an Avalon actually using one of these?  Are most folks just hitting up the major pools?

I'm launching my own pool soon, I'm not sure if it will be private (small group) or public.

Mining on BTC Guild is against my religion. I like pool.itzod.ru No fees, only donations. But sometimes high variance. sometimes I mine on ozcoin as well. LTC I mine on ozcoin exclusively