Help me pick a mining pool

[adamh87]

ping them all


whichever has lowest ping is the best

assuming they have the same fees. obvously lower fee is better

[adamh87]

Try Slush.
If you have any concerns or doubts, you may also try Slush

slush is not based in the USA so it could have worse pings and lower results

[ArmoredDragon]

bitparking I get 44ms and slush I get 143ms. Does that really make a big difference?

[adamh87]

bitparking I get 44ms and slush I get 143ms. Does that really make a big difference?

everytime a new block is found the pool has to tell you to work on this new block

if it takes slush 100ms more to tell you... you are wasting 100ms on an old one

that adds up... at least 7 minutes a month of wasted time   (may not sound like a lot)


best thing you can do is set up failover pools in CGminer, so if one pool goes down, you mine
on a different one automatically.... many times ive woken up and seen my miner has been
idle for 4 hours beause the pool went down and i didnt have a backup

[ArmoredDragon]

bitparking I get 44ms and slush I get 143ms. Does that really make a big difference?

everytime a new block is found the pool has to tell you to work on this new block

if it takes slush 100ms more to tell you... you are wasting 100ms on an old one

that adds up... at least 7 minutes a month of wasted time   (may not sound like a lot)


best thing you can do is set up failover pools in CGminer, so if one pool goes down, you mine
on a different one automatically.... many times ive woken up and seen my miner has been
idle for 4 hours beause the pool went down and i didnt have a backup

Don't most pools treat that like pool hopping, and if you only contributed at the beginning of a block, you don't get anything at all?

Also, does it switch back to your main pool once it is back up? Or does it stay on the failover pool until you tell it otherwise?

[adamh87]

Don't most pools treat that like pool hopping, and if you only contributed at the beginning of a block, you don't get anything at all?

Also, does it switch back to your main pool once it is back up? Or does it stay on the failover pool until you tell it otherwise?

I've just tested it, and yes while one pool went down, it temporarilly swtiched two pool #2, then went back when pool #1 came back up

maybe the 2nd pool would give a lesser reward but pool #1 is down