New Miner with question about merged mining pools

[Yinero]

So I'm about to have an asic mining rig set up. My question lies in the fact that its asic and the few merged mining pools that I have found all mention using CPU or GPU miners. They don't mention asic however. Is there any merged mining pools that allow asic miners, or do all of them and I'm just confused.

And is merged mining in general worth it? Or do you get less btc for getting the little bit of nmc with it?

[HellDiverUK]

The only decent pool that does merged mining is BTCGuild.  Slush's pool doesn't do it any more, and any others that do it are too small IMHO.

ASICs will merge mine no problems, I'm mining on BTCGuild with my ASICs, and I'm getting NMC.

Is it worth it?  It really is money for nothing.  It's a tiny amount, but it's still a bit extra.  You don't lose any BTC because of NMC.

[Yinero]

The only decent pool that does merged mining is BTCGuild.  Slush's pool doesn't do it any more, and any others that do it are too small IMHO.

ASICs will merge mine no problems, I'm mining on BTCGuild with my ASICs, and I'm getting NMC.

Is it worth it?  It really is money for nothing.  It's a tiny amount, but it's still a bit extra.  You don't lose any BTC because of NMC.

Cool, I was looking at BTC Guild as my main pool anyhow, and I didn't even know they did this. So... do you just mine the BTC and then NCM gets added to your balance as well?

Since were talking about BTCguild and the first part of my setup Ill be pulling about 2.5gh. Should I go PPS or PPLNS?

[eleuthria]

The only decent pool that does merged mining is BTCGuild.  Slush's pool doesn't do it any more, and any others that do it are too small IMHO.

ASICs will merge mine no problems, I'm mining on BTCGuild with my ASICs, and I'm getting NMC.

Is it worth it?  It really is money for nothing.  It's a tiny amount, but it's still a bit extra.  You don't lose any BTC because of NMC.

Cool, I was looking at BTC Guild as my main pool anyhow, and I didn't even know they did this. So... do you just mine the BTC and then NCM gets added to your balance as well?

Since were talking about BTCguild and the first part of my setup Ill be pulling about 2.5gh. Should I go PPS or PPLNS?

PPLNS is always the recommended method at BTC Guild, it will earn you more in the long run.  Additionally, BTC Guild pays NMC *only* on the PPLNS system.  NMC is automatically awarded, you just have to enable the display of it on your Settings page to see it on the Dashboard.

[jarhed]

Wow. I just noticed my NMC for the first time. The summary page is hidden by default.

[DrHaribo]

BitMinter does merged mining with stratum, getblocktemplate and getwork. It's a significant extra income with your mining, so it would be highly recommended for good return on investment for your ASICs.

BitMinter also has only 1% mining fee.

[doublec]

So I'm about to have an asic mining rig set up. My question lies in the fact that its asic and the few merged mining pools that I have found all mention using CPU or GPU miners. They don't mention asic however. Is there any merged mining pools that allow asic miners, or do all of them and I'm just confused.

And is merged mining in general worth it? Or do you get less btc for getting the little bit of nmc with it?

bitparking does merge mining of namecoin, ixcoin, devcoin as well as bitcoin with stratum. The pool has no fee (it's currently funded out of transaction fees). Additional income from the merged coins is currently:

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< mmbot> NMC is 0.00595 BTC per NMC at btc-e, we earn 126.181203093 NMC per bitcoin block = 0.750778158403 BTC or 3.0% additional BTC per block
< mmbot> IXC is 3.652e-05 BTC per IXC at Vircurex, we earn 1622.7536957 IXC per bitcoin block = 0.059262964967 BTC or 0.24% additional BTC per block
< mmbot> DVC is 6e-07 BTC per DVC at Vircurex, we earn 84518.4216511 DVC per bitcoin block = 0.0507110529907 BTC or 0.2% additional BTC per block
< mmbot> Total extra BTC per block is 0.860752176361 or 3.44% extra income

Not huge but not bad either.