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i have been testing out a few pools, and the best paying one i have found so far is TripleMining

and so I unashamedly leave my signup link here: https://www.triplemining.com/ref/chromeguy
my payouts have been around 2x higher than the other pools (although i mine fairly slow at the moment)

the best bit is: people signing up via my link, join my minipool. You can also have a minipool!
i would appreciate if you used my link (as you don't get any less payout &) it helps increase our pool rank :)

if anybody knows of a better one, feel free to jump in & tell me ^_^

There is, almost by definition, no universally best pool. Here's a couple of reasons why:
   1. User requirements differ wildly: pool hoppers are interested with proportional pools (which non-hoppers should best avoid unless they know what they're doing), some users are
      merged-mining hostile and might avoid merged-mining enabled pools. Some users prefer low variance in their earnings while others don't mind the variance at all.
   2. The network round trip times to the pools vary on location and ISP basis. Greater round trip times result in more stale shares.
       A pool which works for me in Europe might suck for an American user.

The pools I've had good experience with include Eligius, BitMinter, Eclipse and BTC Guild. A few great pools have fallen (MMC, Minecoin), others have declined (ArsBitcoin).
Take a good look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=41.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=41.0)

Blowing your own horn there, Goat? :)
BTW, I say that's a pretty oversized "Goat" in your avatar ^^

i understand the variance thing, but being slow i get so much better pay from triplemining

thanks for the link, i will certainly take a look :) still pretty new at this & every piece of info is great
i do love the minipool idea however, even if it's not technically the best of the best - there is nothing like watching the bonus of your own minipool growing ontop of the work you do also :)

i will design a proper frontend for you, for BTC of course ;)

this week has been awesome at Ozcoin (https://ozco.in)
as shown byLuck (http://ozco.in/content/luck-bitcoin)
and Payout-Comparison (http://ozco.in/content/share-payout-comparison-bitcoin)
after a long unlucky run on proportional
moving to DGM 8 days ago has also been a winner :D

Way to go ozcoin! I love that pool for abandoning proportional system already :)

Bitminter has also had tremendous luck lately but for the non-techie users I must point out that such information is of purely historic and statistical value.
The same goes for a pool which is hit with a lot of bad luck - the bad luck has already happened and basing the pool choice on luck makes absolutely no sense at all.

which is why i am choosing triplemining as one of my primary pools - the bigger your minipool, the bigger the reward no matter how bad the luck is ;)

Goat's pool is the best so far ;)

Thats the same reason I joined Amway and also got rich my mailing $5 to the 5 names on a sheet of paper.  Within weeks I had millions of checks coming.  

Yup pyramid schemes always work. Pro tip: they work best when you are at the top.

I am interested in Goat's project.. But I can not PM yet :(

i'm listening..

i just did, dad.
the only results are this thread.

how about a link instead of a smart reply & u might even get a new pool member

If you are in a thread and search the search is limited to THAT thread.
If you are in a forum and search the search is limited to THAT forum.
If you are in the main forum index page and search the search is for entire forum.

Not clearly explained but that might help your searching.

so i see.
what a weird forum software

P2Pool is the best because it supports what satoshi believed in regards to decentralization.

If everybody used that we would never get to see evil deepbit take 50% or more of the network and kill it off etc.

Mine away at the decentralized pool!

if everybody solo'd then the difficulty would be such that solo mining would be profitable, right?
 isn't that what satoshi *really* intended?

Pools don't change difficulty or the total network hashing power.

9TH is 9TH.

Another way to look at it is the block susbidy is 50 BTC (until they cut).  The network tries to keep block time at ~10 minutes so there will be about 6 * 24 * 365 = 52,560 blocks per year.

52,560 * 50 = 2,628,000

The network attempts to payout 2.6 million BTC per year in block rewards.

If you have 100% (~9TH) of the hashing power you get 2628000 * 100%  = ~2,628,000 BTC per year.
If you have 10% (~900GH) of the hashing power you get 2628000 * 10%  = ~262,800 BTC per year.
If you have 1% (~90GH) of the hashing power you get 2628000 * 1%  = ~26,280 BTC per year.
If you have 0.1% (~9GH) of the hashing power you get 2628000 * 0.1% = ~2,628 BTC per year.

How you get it (p2pool, solo mining, paid per share, traditional shared pool PPLNS, etc) doesn't matter.  

you are a veritable font of knowledge good sir, i respect your wisdom & wish that you would write an ebook about it so noobs such as myself could read it - i would certainly be willing to donate (after using your tricks for earning++ of course ;) )

You're wording it like it's a fact. It aims to generate 2.6 million per year, but in reality, it is never exactly 2.6.

so are you, can anyone prove either story?

Correct.  Through difficulty adjustment the network aims for ~2.6 million per year.  How close it reaches that goal depends on how close avg block time is equal to 10 minutes.  I will update the post to avoid confusion.

this info is gold, thanks heaps guys :)