Recently I've been searching for ways to improve my mining efficiency, with
stale shares as the main concern since they are a bit on the higher end (~3%). The second one being
system stability, Windows 10 feels a little too wonky sometimes.
Mining setup:OS: | Pool: | Software: |
Windows 10 | Ethermine | T-Rex 0.19.11 |
________________ | ________________ | ________________ |
For
stale shares, with a quick Google search I figured I should focus primarily on pool latency, with that in mind I found this really cool software called "
Sonar" which helps you find the closest pool to you. According to Sonar, the
nearest pool to me (Brazil) should be Binance pool (~35ms) instead of Ethermine (~210ms). Every other pool besides Binance pool starts from at least 190ms, which makes sense since apparently Binance is the only pool with servers in South America.
My main concern about switching to Binance pool is that they only own
0.91% of the network hashrate as of right now, althought not sure if that matters considering they pay on a FPPS basis. That aside, looks like a sweet deal to mine directly onto the exchange I use to cash out — according to u/OldWillingness7 over Reddit:
If you mine in ethermine or flexpool to your own wallet, and then you want to cash out, you pay tx twice.
Mine to pool > payout to your wallet (tx1) > move to exchange (tx2) > sell it, or trade, or whatever.
You can mine directly to your account on an exchange, like binance or others. Downside is they control your private key.
Pool > exchange (tx1) > sell.
No tx fee if you mine and trade on Binance.
As for
system stability, I'm considering switching my farm to
HiveOS which looks like the best one out there. Hopefully the mining rigs stops freezing as often as they do on Windows 10. Since I'm doing that, might as well try mining on the Hiveon pool for a few days and see if their non-existent fees could outweight its higher latency (about ~200ms) compared to Binance pool.
What are your thoughts about this? Is there anything different I should try instead? Any help will be greatly appreciated!