Best pools to mine with Antminer S4

[Jeremias]

Can someone please provide a list of pools that work with Antminer S4?

[maomao]

F2POOL.COM

[Prelude]

P2Pool is working great for me, with both latest stock firmware and CK's custom CGminer build.

[jonnybravo0311]

P2Pool is working great for me, with both latest stock firmware and CK's custom CGminer build.

Really?  They finally got their p2pool issues solved?  That's great.  It's one of the reasons I sold my S2 back in July and never purchased the S4 when it came out.  Now, with the $400 coupon I've got, I might reconsider... $800 for a 2TH/s machine... of course the SP20 is $695 for 1.7TH/s until Monday and I've got plenty of PSUs around because of my S3s.  Hmmm...

Sorry for the off topic response to your question, OP.  Here's something relevant for you: S4s seemed to do considerably better mining on pools where a higher starting vardiff was provided.  Pools like BTCGuild and GHash.io, F2Pool and AntPool all seemed to work well with it.  Now, based on Prelude's comment, perhaps the S4 will work well with all pools.

[kano]

My pool https://www.kano.is/ and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.0
starts at 1024 by default - and was used for doing the S4 fixes with bitmain
If you have a bitmain driver version in it, then mine at 2048
If you have an updated ck driver, then the pool will default ok.
So if you are unsure which version you have, use 2048 at my pool.

[MrGreenHat]

My pool https://www.kano.is/ and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.0
starts at 1024 by default - and was used for doing the S4 fixes with bitmain
If you have a bitmain driver version in it, then mine at 2048
If you have an updated ck driver, then the pool will default ok.
So if you are unsure which version you have, use 2048 at my pool.

I mine with S4's and I just want to say that kano's pool works EXCELLENTLY with my S4's and that it is the ONLY pool that I will ever mine in as long as it exists, and you should mine there, too. Very few people have a better grasp on the technical details of bitcoin mining than the creators of cgminer themselves. So if you are going to mine in a pool, I would mine in a pool that is run by people who are trusted and know what the hell they are doing (kano + CK).

[ATCkit]

I pointed my S3s to Bitmain's AntPool (https://www.antpool.com) yesterday. I'm using their solo pool (solo.antpool.com:3333) and getting excellent results.

[MrGreenHat]

I pointed my S3s to Bitmain's AntPool (https://www.antpool.com) yesterday. I'm using their solo pool (solo.antpool.com:3333) and getting excellent results.

That's great and all, but did you not read the subject title? You are mining with an S3. The OP was asking for best pools to mine in with their S4, I assume because of the original firmware that the S4 uses, which will not work well at ALL on some VARDIFF pools where you can't set minimum difficulties, specifically eligius. You can fix this in a few ways: A) Use CK's updated S4 firmware (that he provided everyone on this forum free of charge, per usual). Check out Antminer S4 discussion thread to find that firmware. B) Use a pool that allows you to set a minimum difficulty. C) The easiest way: just use kano.is, because it will solve your problem for you either way

[GigaBit]

With stock settings, you can pretty much mine any pool that allows you to manually input the difficulty settings.

Pools which I know have that feature are:

• GHash.io
• BTC Guild
• BitMinter

I believe you can also do a hard input as adding your minimum difficulty at the end of your username in eligius and other pools but cannot confirm, I like sticking to easy-peasy; why complicate anything?  Right now, I am running on BitMinter.  The N clip is lengthy to load so I wouldn't recommend it if you have erratic internet or electricity.  However, my registered speed is higher at BitMinter than any other pool.

[Prelude]

P2Pool is working great for me, with both latest stock firmware and CK's custom CGminer build.

Really?  They finally got their p2pool issues solved?  That's great.  It's one of the reasons I sold my S2 back in July and never purchased the S4 when it came out.  Now, with the $400 coupon I've got, I might reconsider... $800 for a 2TH/s machine... of course the SP20 is $695 for 1.7TH/s until Monday and I've got plenty of PSUs around because of my S3s.  Hmmm...

Sorry for the off topic response to your question, OP.  Here's something relevant for you: S4s seemed to do considerably better mining on pools where a higher starting vardiff was provided.  Pools like BTCGuild and GHash.io, F2Pool and AntPool all seemed to work well with it.  Now, based on Prelude's comment, perhaps the S4 will work well with all pools.

Yep, with the latest S4 firmware all is well with p2pool. I don't have an S2, but it apparently works properly with p2pool as well with the latest firmware.

The S4 is also easily overclocked to 2.25~2.3TH/s, making the $800 price even sweeter.

[arturati]

Hi, guys,
can u tell pls how long does it take to mine 1BTC with S4 on these pools?
Thanks a lot!

[scotty2u2]

Hello folks, I'm a noob and I'm looking for a link to Kano's custom Antminer s4 firmware, or instructions on how to set my miner's minimum difficulty at CKPool. Thanks for the patience you have with noobs like me and for all the help.   

[Bananana]

Can someone please provide a list of pools that work with Antminer S4?

There are a lot of pools that work with antminer, actually any bitcoin pool is able to work with it.

What you need to look for a good one which is stable and cool As for me, I prefer ghash the most, so far they are the most reliable in term of lantecy speed and stability.

[loshia]

I pointed my S3s to Bitmain's AntPool (https://www.antpool.com) yesterday. I'm using their solo pool (solo.antpool.com:3333) and getting excellent results.

Excellent results?
Is it a solo pool? If yes how many blocks have you found speaking of excellent results?

Thanks
Ps or you mean that pool is stable, no minig interruptions and so on by excellent results?

[kano]

Hmm - so how about S5?
ckolivas and I have an S5 each and they are mining on https://www.kano.is/ without any problems.
Default setting a bit over 1.1THs (600W on a Seasonic 1200 Platinum)

[muhrohmat]

weçç cprrect me if im wrong but a 1TB on mining btc sha 256 in any pool gives max 1.200.000 satoshis per day and that is like 3 dollars per day soo in one month its like 90 dollars and to get the return of investment in a ant miner of 1TB may be like slow no?

[Marcoser123321]

weçç cprrect me if im wrong but a 1TB on mining btc sha 256 in any pool gives max 1.200.000 satoshis per day and that is like 3 dollars per day soo in one month its like 90 dollars and to get the return of investment in a ant miner of 1TB may be like slow no?

Yeah I'm not entirely sure why you would do that, unless you were just squirreling BTC away. That's basically what I do - mine while I go about my life and collect BTC.

It does seem a little strange though - spending ~800 dollars to buy something that will pay for itself... never?

Maybe certain pools payout more?