[ANN] BlockGen - Mining Pool Reviews and Rankings

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Crypto-Currency Mining Pool Review, Rating and Ranking Website

www.BlockGen.net

About BlockGen

BlockGen began in March of 2015, it was formed out the idea that there is no central place to find and compare reputable crypto-currency mining pools and aims to fill that gap. It was designed to make life easy for crypto-currency miners. Say you are a miner looking to mine Bitcoin, all you would have to do is use the filter and select the crypto-currency Bitcoin and all the pools that will allow you to mine Bitcoin or payout in Bitcoin will appear in a ranking order from best to worst. No more searching through various forum threads, google searches, and everywhere else. Pools are consolidated and easy to filter, for whatever you are looking for.

While open source and/or free pool software is great for the crypto-currency community, sometimes it can also bring about bad people. There has been numerous pools in the past that have stolen miners' coins, or charged them more fees when they were stating, and many other bad things. BlockGen aims to alleviate this problem, by holding them accountable for their actions via reviews and ratings. If miners see that a pool has gotten horrible reviews/ratings over an extended period of time they will know to stay away from said pool.

How it Works

BlockGen Score

The BlockGen score is just a simple formula that assigns a score to a pool based on the number of reviews and average rating, this is what ranks the pools by default on our homepage. The BlockGen score updates every hour. The score does not take effect until there is at least 2 reviews.

For Miners

Simply register an account and activate it, once activated you can rate/review your favorite pools. You can rate/review multiple pools, however we have a hard limit set in place so you can only rate/review any given pool once per week. Comments are not limited.

For Pool Admins

Pool admins can register an account on BlockGen and add their mining pool, after their ownership/relation to said pool has been manually verified by the BlockGen admin team they will have complete access over their Pool Details page. They have the ability to edit all of their pool details, upload banners and logos, write their own description, and much more. The pool admin is allowed to reply to reviews on their pool, and they are highlighted and called "Official Replies".

BlockGen admins DO NOT post reviews, and heavily monitor all reviews to make sure they are spam free and that multiple reviews for one pool are not made from the same IP or pool admin.


Misc.

Facebook login is enabled on our site for quick and easy registration.

Join our IRC Channel: #BlockGen on Freenode

Follow us on twitter: @BlockGen

Check out our Blog for guides, updates and interesting articles.

If there is a currency, pool type, or reward type missing from BlockGen please let us know! We will gladly add it for you!



***BlockGen is currently in beta. Any and all things are subject to change at anytime. If you have any feedback let us know. Contact Us

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Ghash.IO, BTC Guild, CKPool (Kano) and Slush's Pool have been added by the BlockGen admins.

NeosCoin and HTMLCOIN have also been added to the currency list.

Ill be adding more crypto-currencies and pools throughout the weekend. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

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http://www.xpool.ca/

This one has a long history and apparent good payment record: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=650952.0

I have never used it but the updates seem regular, communication is good and there doesn't seem to be anyone complaining  

They added Nxt recently so that it the reason I have been following the past few weeks. So far, there is nothing to complain about.

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http://www.xpool.ca/

This one has a long history and apparent good payment record: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=650952.0

I have never used it but the updates seem regular, communication is good and there doesn't seem to be anyone complaining  

They added Nxt recently so that it the reason I have been following the past few weeks. So far, there is nothing to complain about.

Xpool has been on BlockGen since before launch, and there admin team has been really friendly with us. You can review them here: http://blockgen.net/miningPool/63

[Daedelus]

Great. I'm not a miner, I thought blockgen was brand new 

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Great. I'm not a miner, I thought blockgen was brand new  

It is, I just contacted a bunch of pools before launch and some of them setup their pool details and what not before launch.

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F2Pool (Discus Fish) has been added: http://blockgen.net/miningPool/86

AntPool has been added: http://blockgen.net/miningPool/87

I am manually adding these pools instead of the pool admin adding it themselves. Their pool admins have not replied back to me with permission to use things such as their logo etc... Hopefully in the future I can add those things.

NastyPool has also been added by it's pool admin: http://blockgen.net/miningPool/85

I am open to any other suggestions.

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Mining Pool Hub - http://blockgen.net/miningPool/88

ipoMiner - http://blockgen.net/miningPool/89

Have both been added to BlockGen.

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MinerGate has been added - http://blockgen.net/miningPool/90

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CoinMiners has been added: http://blockgen.net/miningPool/91

Also, check out our new blog: http://blockgen.net/blog/

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IRC Channel is live.

#BlockGen on Freenode.

Webchat

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Mintsy has been added: http://blockgen.net/miningPool/94

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New Article:

What is Pooled Mining? http://blockgen.net/blog/what-is-pooled-mining/

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OKCash Pool has been added: http://blockgen.net/miningPool/97

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New Article:

SHA256 vs Scrypt vs x11
http://blockgen.net/blog/sha256-vs-scrypt-vs-x11-algorithms/

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New Article:

Infinitecoin
http://blockgen.net/blog/infinitecoin/

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New pool added, Nexious: http://blockgen.net/miningPool/100

New currencies added, SJWcoin, Ivugeo Coin, ChipCoin, SPEC, FlutterCoin, and AnarchistsPrime.