Hi Everyone, I just got my KNC Neptune rig, what is the best pool to mine?
Here are some good links including a multiple pool comparison over the last 8 months(3rd link down) along with some other good info.
Slushs Pool is like a roller coaster, high highs and low lows, but over a long period I make more
BTC here. Other pools can pay out small amounts somewhat steady every day but the block rewards are much greater here.
http://support.bitcoin.cz/Knowledgebase/Listhttps://mining.bitcoin.cz/stats/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=416933.0https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.0http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_ahttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=486121https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.0http://btctrading.wordpress.com/It now takes 2.5th to get 0.01 payout per BLOCK on slushes pool. Slushs Pool has 0-12 blocks a day, but averages 4-5blocks over time. I was running 4.5th(2.25th per rig) here to get 0.02 per BLOCK, now I've bumped it up to 5th to keep my total payout per BLOCK the same.
The other pool I mine on has pplns payout so I keep my DAILY payout at 0.02. Ive had to add about the same ratio in ghs to keep a 0.02 payout per DAY at BTCguild. It now takes 1.25th there to get the 0.02 per DAY payout. It was only taking 1.1th before.
Keeping my payouts at a certain amount by adding ghs(most of the time small, sometimes large) has worked very well for me. I also have some hosted miners, but I use a slightly different strategy with those.
Dividing your has rate between two or more pools is called varience and helps on days when our luck is down here. (Don't leave all your eggs in one basket type of thing)
Note: Pool hopping doesn't work. Everyone tries it at first only to realize that pool software is designed to make you loose profits while switching between pools. If pool hopping actually worked we would all be doing it. This is a score based pool but most are pplns and have even greater stops built in for cheating.