Best LTC pool?

[Kinetic915]

I am currently using notroll, can anyone recommend their favorite pool and why?

Thanks!

[nightminer]

https://coinotron.com/

Used to be over at http://ltc.kattare.com/ but the got a lot of rejects all of a sudden. Their stats page also showed pool efficiency of about 70%. Could be better now but I moved to https://coinotron.com/ because their servers support statum. It seems to help and I now only get about 3% rejects.

[CodyCot]

https://coinotron.com/

Used to be over at http://ltc.kattare.com/ but the got a lot of rejects all of a sudden. Their stats page also showed pool efficiency of about 70%. Could be better now but I moved to https://coinotron.com/ because their servers support statum. It seems to help and I now only get about 3% rejects.

I don't suppose you would be so kind as to explain the Reject Shares?

I'm using http://ltc.kattare.com/ and it seems as though I got 2 out of 10 Rejected Shares.

What do they mean?

[lixoaqui]

I'm using coinotron.com with no complaints so far.

[lixoaqui]

Also, you can check out this:
https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Comparison-of-mining-pools

[nightminer]

The way I understand it.

The network gives the whole pool 1 block to mine. Imagine that like being a piece of land. The pool then divides that land and tell everyone in the pool "You, mine that piece of land", "You, mine that other piece of land"

As we all frantically dig, one of us finds the piece of gold (the answer to the very difficult cryptographic puzzle). The pool then tries to tell everyone as fast as possible "Guys, we found it, stop mining!".

Problem is if pools get a bit slow or there are connection problems you never get the "Stop Mining" message. Your PC happily keeps mining the piece of land that the whole pool by now know does not contain gold. You PC then runs back to the pool, the good little puppy it is, and then says "I dug here and I found nothing. We can skip that land and you can give me a new piece to mine". The pool then says "Dude... we found gold ages ago, the rest of us are already mining on a new piece of land, WhereTF have you been!?".

And that... is a reject.

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[zulzedd]

I am currently using notroll, can anyone recommend their favorite pool and why?

Thanks!

I'm using fresh WeMineLTC pool. Zero fees. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=169249.0;topicseen

[CodyCot]

The way I understand it.

The network gives the whole pool 1 block to mine. Imagine that like being a piece of land. The pool then divides that land and tell everyone in the pool "You, mine that piece of land", "You, mine that other piece of land"

As we all frantically dig, one of us finds the piece of gold (the answer to the very difficult cryptographic puzzle). The pool then tries to tell everyone as fast as possible "Guys, we found it, stop mining!".

Problem is if pools get a bit slow or there are connection problems you never get the "Stop Mining" message. Your PC happily keeps mining the piece of land that the whole pool by now know does not contain gold. You PC then runs back to the pool, the good little puppy it is, and then says "I dug here and I found nothing. We can skip that land and you can give me a new piece to mine". The pool then says "Dude... we found gold ages ago, the rest of us are already mining on a new piece of land, WhereTF have you been!?".

And that... is a reject.

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Wow, nice analogy! I understand that perfectly now!

Thank you!

[ihavenousername]

Litecoinpool.org

No real reason as to why its my favourite, was the first pool I signed up to and I just prefer it over coinotron/notroll

[Mogwai]

@nightminer

That is a really nice explanation. Is that similar to a pool working on a block that is already mined into the blockchain, due to lag? And when the nonce is found by said pool, the block is considered stale?

[Marv21]

I like the wemineltc pool.
But donate at least 1%, please.
Dont kill that pool

[Kinetic915]

Ive heard alot about mining P2P can anyone explain that and its advantages?

[arctos]

i use give-me-ltc.com

[Kinetic915]

I am having difficulty connecting to any pool other then notroll with reaper.  Any suggestions?  keep getting incorrect server

[txmasut]

I'm really enjoying the new wemineltc.com

After the bugs were ironed out, I'm getting awesome numbers and less than 1% rejects after 24 hours straight.

[ElBurro]

Notroll was my favorite until the pool op went nuts and started pilfering funds from miners. My alternate pool has always been litecoinpool.org. Lots of good stats, trustworthy staff, and the only other PPS pool that I am aware of. P2pool is your best bet if you have some time to get it set up correctly.

[Undercover]

The way I understand it.


As we all frantically dig, one of us finds the piece of gold (the answer to the very difficult cryptographic puzzle). The pool then tries to tell everyone as fast as possible "Guys, we found it, stop mining!".

That happens about every ten minutes, correct?  Every ten minutes there is a new cryptographic puzzle and solving the old one is no longer of any value.

[andrewattheu]

coinotron is best even has a profitability calculator between the current crytpocurrencies

[JKaechler]

I have been using burnsides pool with decent results.  However, when i use the stratum proxy and connect to wemineltc.com i get radically higher hashrtes, yet radically lower ltc coming in.  Whats up with that?

My total hashrate for all my workers is only 300 to 400 right now.  Cnnected to burnside i get 2/3 or so ltc per day.  Sometimes a whole ltc if i or my wife dont use the computers for anything else.  Connected to wemineltc i have never seen the production go more than 0.0003 of an ltc.   Two orders of magnitude seems a bit much to just be an error?

[serioussam]

burnside´s