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Bitcoin => Mining support => Topic started by: PaZer on June 16, 2011, 11:31:07 AM



Title: 4 workers, how many different pools?
Post by: PaZer on June 16, 2011, 11:31:07 AM
Hi,

I'm asking you what you think is the better strategy having several workers mining at the same time. Is it better to point them to one pool (e.g. BTC Guild or slush) or to share the mining power across different pools?

Thanks


Title: Re: 4 workers, how many different pools?
Post by: Reckman on June 16, 2011, 05:26:52 PM
One pool, with one as backup imo


Title: Re: 4 workers, how many different pools?
Post by: Jack of Diamonds on June 17, 2011, 10:20:03 AM
Probably not worth it to diversify with 4 workers, unless they're all 6990's.

When you have 10 to 100 workers or more then it pays off, because concentrating them all on 1 pool & that pool going down will mean you lose a lot of BTC every hour.


Title: Re: 4 workers, how many different pools?
Post by: PaZer on June 18, 2011, 07:02:47 AM
tnx. I'm pointing to one pool. Having one backup set up.


Title: Re: 4 workers, how many different pools?
Post by: shamathana on June 20, 2011, 06:32:02 PM
tnx. I'm pointing to one pool. Having one backup set up.
how do you set up backups?


Title: Re: 4 workers, how many different pools?
Post by: PaZer on June 27, 2011, 02:21:01 PM
backups are manual step. I got mails send by my mining pool. When I see there is no activity, I login in to the rig and execute some scripts. That's it.