No one denies that's the largest pool, but largest doesn't mean best. On smaller pools your payments will be less frequent, but bigger. On the long run you should be getting more or less the same amount of XMR from each pool (it's also been said that you would be getting a little more from smaller pools, but I don't have the theory to back it up). But most importantly, if you avoid largest pools you will be helping to the decentralization by spreading the network's hash power.

You should look for a good pool with low latency in your location. Just make sure to ping the mining server address and not the web server, as they may not be in the same location. Also, if your mining software supports it, you should add a backup pool just in case your main pool becomes unavailable.

Well... Right now MingerGate is pulling around 800 Kh/s, so that would leave the "unknown" at around 9.52 Mh/s (from the 10.32 Mh/s), which would be 51.74% from the total 18.4 Mh/s currently reported by that graph.

The "unknown" part would be the total hash not reported by any of the pools that minexmr.com is checking. I don't know if they are checking all the known pools. But, for example, Dwarfpool is not appearing on that graph, and they are currently pulling 2.5 Mh/s, so I would say that they are being accounted as part of the "unknown", which would give a more realistic unknown at around 38%.

Good to know that

I want to say that I never meant anything in a negative way about MyMonero. I was just stating the things as I saw them. I believe MyMonero is very well done and provides a great service, and I never doubted that the seed/keys implementation would eventually come out . It's just that if I were to use MyMonero I would like to be sure that I can always access my funds, regardless of the availability of the service.

It's been down for at least a couple of days.

Yes, but right now only through MyMonero implementation, or am I wrong?

They can't touch your funds. But if for any reason MyMonero becomes unavailable and you created your account over there, then you wouldn't be able to access your funds until someone implements a way to import your keys from MyMonero into simplewallet, or until MyMonero comes back online. That wouldn't be the case if you login with a seed from simplewallet into MyMonero.

Yes, correct. As of today, If you created your account there, then you can only access your funds using MyMonero. At some point you may be able to import your keys from MyMonero in simplewallet, but that's not possible today.

On the other hand, what you can do right now is create a new wallet with simplewallet, login to MyMonero with your seed from simplewallet. Tell MyMonero to NOT import your previous transactions. Login to your original MyMonero account and transfer your funds to your new account created with simplewallet seed. That way you'll be able to use that new wallet with either MyMonero or simplewallet or any of the available GUI wallets (that rely on simplewallet).

Also, as Arux said, you can create a wallet with simplewallet and use your 25 words seed to login to MyMonero. I though that for this you would have to pay 10 XMR, but that's only needed if you want to import your previous transactions, but since you would be using a newly created account there's no need to do that. So, this way you can use MyMonero but still access your funds with simplewallet if MyMonero is not available.

For this you would need to download the binaries and run simplewallet like:

That will create your wallet and give you a 25 words seed. No need to run or sync the daemon.

Also, not possible right now, but I believe that at some point you will be able to use your mnemonic seed (or your keys, not sure which) from MyMonero on simplewallet. So in the case that MyMonero ceased to exist, you could still have access to your funds.

Quoted from Monero ANN thread:

Ok, that makes sense, I was just curious

Congrats on the new service!

Couldn't you consider only the orders made after the user entered the API key at BuyMonero to calculate the fees on an existing account?

The view key does work at the protocol level, although there is no implementation available to the user right now.

AFAIK (and please correct me if I'm wrong) the only known implementation is in MyMonero, which uses the view key to, I think, identify your transactions, thus giving MyMonero the ability to know your balance and the value of your transactions, but they still can't know where the coins come from or where they are going to, nor can spend them. That's the price you pay for the ease of use of MyMonero.

Nice to see it finally implemented, hopefully this will bring more people into Monero.

You still get a better deal from https://xmr.to for your moneroj.

Something is wrong with the list of pools in the OP.

moneropool.com has been added at the end of the list, but the info displaying there is from monerohash.com, for which the info is empty now.

Well, If you talk about buying, I believe anyone would buy a coin hoping to make a profit . On the other hand if you talk about using and supporting, well... clearly we, Monero supporters, believe that privacy is important, and AFAIK no ther coin beats Monero on that matter right now.

EDIT to add: Also because of the quality of the dev team and the community.

Yam also has builds for Mac: https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g

Are you using a version compatible with your CPU?

Yam miner has a different binary for each CPU microarchitecture it supports (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Brige, Haswell, etc...). Make sure you are using the one built for your CPU, or try using the different binaries and see which one works (if any) and which performs faster.

You can download the latest version from https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g , although some users have reported better performance/stability with previous versions. Here you have a previous one: ttps://mega.co.nz/#F!UlkU0RyR!E8n4CFkqVu0WoOnsJnQkSg

If none of them works, you can try using Wolf's miner from: https://github.com/wolf9466/cpuminer-multi

If you really meant KH/s (kilohashes/second), then you would be better off mining solo. To do that you would have to set up your own pool, which can be done by following the instructions on the README.md file from any of the open source pool forks which fluffypony already mentioned:

https://github.com/fancoder/cryptonote-universal-pool
https://github.com/sammy007/node-cryptonote-pool
https://github.com/perl5577/node-cryptonote-pool

If you meant H/s (hashes/second) and you want receive frequent payouts, then you should mine at a pool. You could still set up your own pool, but it could take several weeks to find a block depending on your luck.

And finally, if its KH/s and you still opt to mine at a pool, then it would be better for the network (and some would say that for you too) to mine at some of the smaller pools, and not one of the top.

Here's the doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MI-ic0Os25hgGUImW54sUIjZY_pUNQNa_W8Se5pRGBs/edit#gid=1726706747
According to that you could be getting between 257 and 388 H/s on each card, depending on your configuration.

Feel free to point them to https://monerohash.com 

Run the command "print_cn" on the daemon, that should give you a list of connected peers. If you don't see anything and you are on Windows, then it's likely to be a problem with bitmonerod being blocked by Windows' firewall.