Resutls of 12 weeks are online, here is also the graph:



f2pool is slowly lagging behind in terms of payouts (china location with rejects and high fees), antpool and nicehash are more or less on pair with around 100% payouts, while kano is still riding good luck with >100% of theoretical payouts.

Nobody? Are there really no decent altcoin / crypto trading web portals?

Hi,

I would like to compile a list of altcoin / crypto trading web portals. That is, not just forums (i.e. bitcointalk, litecointalk, forum.gethashing, etc.) or general news portals (i.e. coindesk, newsbtc, ccn, etc.), but rather web portals that are specifically dedicated to altocins and/or crypto coins trading. Anybody knows of any such portal?

Thanks!

Huh, hopefully they will implement driver into cgminer and bfgminer as soon as possible since the original minerd is a rather ancient piece of software ...

No, only Bitcoin payout ... it would be additional work to exchange merge-mined altcoins to Bitcoins and the value would be most probably negligible.

Sfards, you said that miners will be available for purchase in July ... we're almost there ... any new exact date? And what quantities will be available?

Also, I'm curious, since you'll be using dual mode, which software will you use, cgminer or bfgminer?

Here are results at the diff change on June 28th with combined total payouts after 2 moths (minus 2 days):




And resutls of 8 weeks (two months of uninterrupted mining) are online, here is also the graph:



What we learned so far is that antpool and kano are doing well with PPLNS. f2pool suffers with high 4% fees and distance to china (rejects), while nicehash is doing well regardless of 3% fee since it provides above 100% payments in particular periods.

Results after 7 weeks of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:



Antpool and NiceHash are more or less on pair, kano is still having good luck and all top three are paying around 100% compared to theoretical payouts.

WARNING!!! This is the last time that BTC Guild is included, since it is shutting down on July 30th 2015 I'll no longer include BTC Guild in my future experiment.

I'm running a small scale Bitcoin Pool Payouts experiment ... see here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059040.0 ... antpool, nicehash and kano are doing very very well, NiceHash.com service is interesting as it gives above direct Bitcoin mining payouts in particular intervals.

+3.76 to 4.00 for me, thanks!

Results after 6 weeks of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:



Antpool, NiceHash and kano have cumulative top payouts and are more or less on pair, with almost 100% payouts compared to theoretical payouts.

BTC Guild is still very low, also, they announced that BTC Guild is shutting down (maybe the recent bad luck is also one of the reasons). I'll keep hashing on this pool until June 30th, then I'll collect the final results of this pool and remove BTC Guild from experiment. I feel a bit sorry that I haven't included p2pool instead BTC Guild, but now I can't change this anymore. Maybe I'll start another parallel experiment with p2pool and some other pools with additional miners in the future.

I'm running some small scale pools payouts experiment (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059040.0), is anyone else observing very bad luck on BTC Guild lately?

Today we've seen another diff adjustment. I've gathered and summarized payments so far and compared them to theoretical ideal earnings considering diff in previous periods:

first period up to May 17 2015: (0.0105558 diff*1.33 Th/s*12 days=0.168470568 BTC)
second period from May 17 2015 up to May 31 2015: (0.01030404diff*1.33 Th/s*14 days=0.191861225 BTC)
third period: (0.01056774diff*1.33 Th/s*14 days=0.196771319 BTC)



Woha, kano and  AntPool are above 100% luck (must have been some very good luck at those two pools recently) and NiceHash is almost at 100% of theoretical ideal payouts.

BTCGuild is paying extremely low. Is anyone else observing such low payouts from BTCGuild lately?

Results after 5 weeks of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:



Antpool, NiceHash and kano have cumulative top payouts, obviously kano had some very good luck in the last week. btcguild is surprisingly low, I wonder if it can recover in payouts since it has quite big hashrate (aprox 12 ph).

It will be interesting to see the stability of this 16nm 3D chip ... chips, based on this technology have failed on several experimental products in other IT areas ...  would really love to see some independent review once these miners are actually supposed to be hashing (not just on photo).

Results after 4 weeks (1 month) of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:



So far NiceHash has the highest payouts, Antpool just slightly lower, following f2pool, kano and btc guild. Also, NiceHash, Antpool, f2pool and btc guild are providing constant daily payouts.

Today we've seen another diff adjustment (this time a negative one, -2.50% ). I've gathered and summarized payments so far and compared them to theoretical ideal earnings considering diff in previous periods:

first period up to May 17 2015: (0.0105558 diff*1.33 Th/s*12 days=0.168470568 BTC)
from May 17 2015 up to May 31 2015: (0.01030404diff*1.33 Th/s*14 days=0.191861225 BTC)



It's cool to see that AntPool and NiceHash are almost at 100% of theoretical ideal payouts

I'm not using any p= parameter for nicehash, I'm using "x" for password.

And as far as backup pools - I'm using backup pools for the same pool if it is available (for example, usa and eu stratum servers for the same pool).

If pool would go completely down (all it's stratum servers goes down), then an additional backup pool is set to nicehash stratum since it pays on PPS and it looks like best paying PPS so far -> but this is set on a different payout address (not the one used for experiment). This would also mean that if one pool would go completely down, miners would still be hashing away (I don't want to waste them ). However I'm also monitoring miners with miner's dashboard (https://github.com/selaux/miner-dashboard) and I'm barely seeing any switches to this last-resort pool, therefore I can say that all pools, chosen for this experiment are very very stable, near to 100% stable.

And yes, I'm happy to see that 100% payouts can be achieved, we'll see how will this go on long term, I'll do another comparison to theoretical payout after the next diff adjustment.

Results after 3 weeks of uninterrupted mining are online, here is also the graph:



While Antpool is still having good luck, NiceHash is now on par with Antpool, suggesting it was paying above 100% luck mining for the past period.

This will be cool

http://www.coindesk.com/21-inc-confirms-plans-bitcoin-distribution/

When each TV, smartphone, dishwasher, etc. will have it's own Bitcoin miner integrated, difficulty will truly skyrocket