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the key here is that these are essentially conveniences and you are taxed for using them. my question / assertion would be that the fun part is having lots of different coins and ways to maximize profitability, why omit yourself from that? Multipool tries its best to get you the most for your rate.
if the % return you're getting in some timeframe or with some method is clearly lower than if you had just stuck with one coin, or if you aren't around to micromanage a great conversion opportunity (swap coin x for coin y and move it from exchange z to exchange a, get the most profit that way). these are all factors that dampen the utility of instantly selling from a pool.
So, for someone who is unable to monitor coin values throughout the day most days, what becomes the most profitable strategy? 1) Hold alt coins until I can check their values and decide whether to sell, or 2) sell automatically?
What are others doing?
Atm, I'm only mining SHA-256 on multipool, but soon I'll probably move my scypt miners over as well.
Are there some coins included in the rotation that I should probably unload as fast as possible but others I should hang on to?
ETA: Also, is multipool doing merged mining of any kind? My other pool merge mines NMC, DVC, and IXC, I think... and I really like the extra income from that.