I made some test with ETHPOOL as pool for ether mining and still not happy.
Expected reward according to Ethpool is lower than all mining calculator (too much lower, not acceptable) , and their average hashrate is ALWAYS lower than the reported one.
In the end, less profit.
I know many of you have come back to Eth mining.
Did you find better options than Ethpool / Ethermine ?
I went back to renting my Cryptonight hash to Nicehash and let market supply and demand in NH marketplace takes its course.
There's always someone crazy out there who will pay premium above market price for my hash.... and I see that everyday.
NH pays me BTC upfront and cryptonight algo lower my power bill by whopping 25-30% and reduced temps at same time.
The main pools that I have used heavily in the past ethpool, ethermine, flypool, dwarfpool, nanopool all are getting more and more inconsistent in they way they calculate payouts timing and amount; and poolside hash reporting. Even pools with big hash power struggles to find blocks whenever diff level increases - I find this strange because pools like ethpool and dwarfpool are like more than half of the total global hash power (for ETH) -- something is not right (is they such thing as "blocks withoholding" in the alt-mining world?)