Best LTC pool?

[VARGA]

Coinotron

[markj113]

not an expert by a long shot but been trying out coinotron and p2pool

[K5Doom]

I've switched to give-me-ltc since notroll incident. Works fine until now

[hamiltino]

p2pool, DOES NOT GET AFFECTED BY DDOS END OF STORY.

[berryzat]

give-me-ltc.com

[pekv2]

litecoinpool then notroll, imo.

Edit:
I scratched out notroll, I guess they are ripping people off.

[weareken]

can btc and ltc be mined simultaneously?

You can mine BTC and Namecoins simultaneously, but Litecoins are very different in that it uses the Scrypt algorithm instead of SHA256.  So, no you can't mine both at the same time.  You could, however, switch your software from one to the other when one is more profitable for your mining equipment.

[mantler]

I like Coinotron because of it's ease of use, and the ability to mine 3 other altcoins as well.  Currently, it is more profitable to mine PPC and exchange on BTC-E for bitcoin, but that changes all the time.  Coinotron helps you keep track of everything and quickly switch where your miner is pointed to mine LTC, TRC, PPC, FRC, and BTC.

[BBN]

This thread is turning into an advertisement campaign  Only "newbie" users recommending 

[compota334]

coinotron.com i think is the best

[PeeJWeeJ]

I like give-me-ltc. Low fees and high share acceptance rate.

[Kinetic915]

whats your favorite ppc?  is ppc recommended over PPLNS?

[peewee]

I hope their North America server comes online soon.  That may reduce stales even further for me.

Gotta know my friend.... your hashpower is insane for a gpu net.  Let us in on the basics?  156,000 k is....obscene.

[geewiz]

Thanks for clearing that up!

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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[kingramo]

I've been using wemineltc.com, seems good so far. Curious if people have tried it, how it compares to other pools.

[Jothand]

Use cgminer, it has pool failover

I appreciate the tip. I switched one of my workers to BMAT and I use cgminer. It was a little difficult to get it up and running since BAMT was designed for mining BTC but I worked out the kinks. I have a backup pool set in cgminer. My primary pool hasn't gone down yet, at least not that I'm aware of, but if it does go down cgminer should fail over to my secondary pool.

[ManBearPig]

Coinotron here, no complaints so far.

[Kinetic915]

I'm still mining with notroll no other pool seems to make me more....

[Vexual]

https://lc.ozcoin.net/
However, I'm Australian, so I am biased.

[d0zx]

I mine @ pool-x.eu ... good uptime and never evil experiences like "all coins are lost" or something... it's a simple pool and a great start for newbies