Best Pool For Beginners

[scrybe]

BTCGuild.com has a nice predictable PPS system, and is more stable than Mt. Red. I tried Bitparking merged mining, but I was only making 90% as much there even with the lower fees because of stales.

Right now BTCGuild has a Stratum (new protocol) Beta server up that is 0% fee, so I'm giving that a try next.

not sure where I will land when the Jally gets here, but I think I'll have tried all of them by then

[BTCMiners.net]

As promised, once the server was setup I was to let some people in this thread know along with anyone else who wants to join.

www.PeerMining.us is the website the main page has everything you'll need for information.  I will have the forums powered by Xenforo in a bit.  Taking a small break from the computer to burn some bitcoin calories haha.

[IgpayAtinLay]

me because i spoke too soon. triplemining has been pn the same DAMN BLOCK FOR 79 HOURS!

[laSeek]

I've tried a few pools - ozcoin is nice with a pretty fair payout, otherwise I'm using bitcoin.cz (with their separate stratum proxy) and deepbit.net.
Bitcoin.cz & Ozcoin both support merged mining have have pretty trackers & stats for your account & workers.  Deepbit is reliable with, so far, low stales but the web interface is pretty basic.  With all 3 the operators are friendly & reliable.

[luqius]

for what reason is this pool better then others?

[BTCMiners.net]

for what reason is this pool better then others?

Easy to get a hold of me and its never a bad thing to diversify yourself.  Try out the pool, if you don't like it; you don't like it.. It pretty much tells you how we run on the website.  We take enough to keep servers up and that's it.

[IgpayAtinLay]

I am new to the whole P2P mining thing. How often are payouts, and how do lower XXhash/s miners benefit?

[Shadow383]

I am new to the whole P2P mining thing. How often are payouts, and how do lower XXhash/s miners benefit?

If you mine p2pool on your own, you'll get paid every time p2pool finds a block (usually once or twice a day) - I'd argue that it's not a great place to be as a low mh/s miner, as each share there has quite high difficulty...

[Gabi]

P2pool is the best pool. This said, it's a bit hard to setup for new ppl and if you have low hash then variance will be a bit high but since usually ppl mine for long time, it's not a real problem. If today you are unlucky then tomorrow you will be lucky and so on.

[Shadow383]

P2pool is the best pool.

That's highly subjective, it's far from being the highest paying...

[IgpayAtinLay]

i seem to be finding shares fine. I'm just curious as to a payout calculator or something because his site is hard to read

[Gabi]

P2pool is the best pool.

That's highly subjective, it's far from being the highest paying...

No, it is not subjective

And yes, it's the highest paying. No fees+you get the transaction fees. It is a fact.
And you cannot be scammed with it.

[Shadow383]

P2pool is the best pool.

That's highly subjective, it's far from being the highest paying...

No, it is not subjective

And yes, it's the highest paying. No fees+you get the transaction fees. It is a fact.
And you cannot be scammed with it.

Except for all the bonus pools that pay significantly more 

[Gabi]

Yes, pirate too was paying 7% week...  It's SUSPECT if a pool pay you more than the btc it get from the blocks mined.

[Shadow383]

Yes, pirate too was paying 7% week...  It's SUSPECT if a pool pay you more than the btc it get from the blocks mined.

Well I pay 105% and have been since early August 
It's really not difficult to make more than a regular pool would 

[Gabi]

Pirate too ran his scam for months.

[Shadow383]

Pirate too ran his scam for months.

I'd love to know how exactly you think I'm scamming anyone - I pay all my miners daily, have been doing so for more than a month, and have made a profit.
If it was a scam it wouldn't be a very good one 

[BTCMiners.net]

Pirate too ran his scam for months.

I'd love to know how exactly you think I'm scamming anyone - I pay all my miners daily, have been doing so for more than a month, and have made a profit.
If it was a scam it wouldn't be a very good one 

Actually Shadow and I have already talked in PM and it is quite feasible to payout 105+% to your p2pool.  There are ways of making money on anything.  I just personally haven't tried it out. 

As far as payouts it's all proportional to the work you have on the blocks that were worked on. Since it started last night, we may not have a payout quite yet, but we could.  I'm mobile at the moment and when I get a chance I will check the balance.

[BTCMiners.net]

Our mining forums are now up as well.

Link in sig.