https://www.multipool.us/index.php - my favorite pool for 2013 by far.
For:
CGB
WDC
DGC
MEC
LTC
FTC
LKY
PXC
TAG - must have just added that one, nice!
I mine all of those OFF the multipool by themselves there.
Any others not listed I don't care to mine there at that particular set of pools, at all, with the sole exception below:
But yes I do hold about 2 dozen types of coins. With those most favored being heavily weighted. Interestingly the biggest gains % wise came from the "penny" coins. (the lower valued). Of course now their not lower valued anymore. But that could swiftly change, possibly.
For:
NVC
I mine on another larger pool elsewhere since those other pools are far larger, with less luck factor.
https://nvc.khore.org/ For any others listed there I am not interested in those. But hey I could be 100% wrong.
Whatever you do try to stay only on https (secure) pools for your own safety.
And run a 24/7 reliable VPN service to secure (hide) your IP from those that may want to do you or your wallets at the same un-secure IP any harm. Behind a NAT / SPI Firewall enabled Router.
I wont support the mult-pools that also auto dump (sell) coins, and charge way too much to sell at such low dump prices, not to mention adding wild swings to coins. For a number of other reasons. See below.
So miners think that getting btc in exchange for multipooling automatically is best way but their out a ton the last several months letting those pools auto sell them cause the alt coins are up way more percent wise than btc. Oops. Greed and blinders got'em again.
Not to mention one has no idea if their being treated fairly when it's so non-transparent as to what's being mined and what's sold for what. Too shady for my tastes. Way too much. I audited one like that for a week, they flunked the audit, badly. 100% positive. Check the data yourselves. You may not like what you calculate! Beware.
Merely mining the most profitable coin(s) and doing it the wrong way isn't smart.
Nor blindly trusting without verifying.
Sometimes even just mining certain ones that are suddenly the most profitable are not the best choices either, unless your selling them right away, and that hasn't been wise for 2013 either, but could change. Doubtful though for those costing less than 0.01cent to $5. But coin hopping is at least superior to the above concept just mentioned. Still, not every day. Select those coins you believe in, mine them. Save them. Cross your fingers. Hedge your choices with others. Don't panic sell. Remain firm. Hold Bitcoin too.
I use
https://www.multipool.us/index.php but I rarely use the multipool there simply because about 1/4 the time it's mining coins I don't think will pan out well longer term. Of course I don't mine to dump either. And that has been very wise to date. They don't sell your coins either. I have come to trust them, they earned that trust!
Lately though I am not getting the correct results at many pools for many coins. So that is another new issue and is still a mystery. Maybe all being caused by all the multipools whose hash is wreaking havoc with expectations for others, and mid term luck factors kicking in too. Maybe? Difficult to say so far?
But with one coin not yet multi-pooled that I know of it is resulting in the same, consistent, and expected coin output elsewhere. Thus building the case that all these multipools are not a independents friend per say if their not on their multipool too, or at least mining the same coins on the multibandwagons multipool port. So...whatever.
Find the larger pools to reduce the luck factor.
And the most reliable pools.
Not to mention honest ones. A few simply haven't been honest. Some vanish, with coin!
Cash out fast at first just to make sure it's all working as advertized. Don't leave much anywhere idle.
Send coin home regularly.
And go from there!
Caveat emptor - let the buyer beware!
