Re: Mining pools list

[Graet]

Why not include merged mining support on the list? 

It took me a minute to find out which pools support both stratum and merged mining (only Eclipse and BitMinter AFAIK).

Namecoins currently add about 3% to my daily rewards.   

+1

If anyone wants to collect the data and post it here, I'll add it to the OP.

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I think re-calculations are in order. Is it really 3%?

[iCEBREAKER]

I think re-calculations are in order. Is it really 3%?

~3% was the average for last week.  It's now fallen to 2.7% according to allchains.

1GH currently gives you $2.20 in BTC and $0.06 in NMC per day.

Even if it was 0.01%, I'd still prefer to support the oldest (and only Satoshi endorsed) altcoin.

Hopefully it will be used in the future for resolving human readable bitcoin address and .onion pages, p2p stock trading, etc.

Corti, here are the pools on your list supporting merged mining:

• BitMinter (GBT/Stratum)
• Eclipse (GBT/Stratum)
• Eligius (GBT)
• BTC Guild (PPS LP only)
• OzCoin (DGM LP only)
• MaxBTC (DGM LP only)
• Bitparking (LP only)
• Slush (LP only)
• Ecki.net (LP only)
• BitClockers (LP only)
• p2Pool (LP only)

[os2sam]

Even if it was 0.01%, I'd still prefer to support the oldest (and only Satoshi endorsed) altcoin.

Why? By most accounts that I have heard it is a dead project.

Initially I thought NMC's were going to be used for something cool like to "buy" DNS entries but then found that they are just a useless by product.  So I just don't understand the craze.  Seems to me it wasn't thought out very well.

I do agree that a distributed DNS system would be good and even necessary in the near future.
Sam

[iCEBREAKER]

Even if it was 0.01%, I'd still prefer to support the oldest (and only Satoshi endorsed) altcoin.

Why? By most accounts that I have heard it is a dead project.

Initially I thought NMC's were going to be used for something cool like to "buy" DNS entries but then found that they are just a useless by product.  So I just don't understand the craze.  Seems to me it wasn't thought out very well.

I do agree that a distributed DNS system would be good and even necessary in the near future.

Dead?  Maybe, but it hasn't stopped moving yet!  11 of the pools on Corti's list offer merged mining.  And there are two requests to note this feature in the OP.

Why?  Because some day Bitcoin might need NameCoin to survive.  IOW, "a distributed DNS system would be good and even necessary in the near future."  And yes, Dotbit squatting was fun too!

"Wasn't thought out very well?"  Do not question Satoshi when he seeks to generalize Bitcoin!  
    

BitDNS in the words of satoshi
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6197.0

The market says mining Namecoins has value equivalent to ~3% of mining Bitcoin.  That covers stales and lessens pool fees.

Sounds like a great idea to me!

[os2sam]

Dead?  Maybe, but it hasn't stopped moving yet!  11 of the pools on Corti's list offer merged mining.  And there are two requests to note this feature in the OP.

I have a couple other questions/thoughts about NMC/MM.  Is there a more appropriate thread, already started, to post those?
Thanks for the thoughts.
Sam

[iCEBREAKER]

I have a couple other questions/thoughts about NMC/MM.  Is there a more appropriate thread, already started, to post those?

[announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6017.0

[Balthazar]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg1353173#msg1353173

[BitcoinOxygen]

Why not include merged mining support on the list? 

It took me a minute to find out which pools support both stratum and merged mining (only Eclipse and BitMinter AFAIK).

Namecoins currently add about 3% to my daily rewards.   

Quote from Eclipse OP(Inaba) :

NMC is going away though.

[organofcorti]

Updated. Please report any errors or post to request changes.

[organofcorti]

Updated with new graphics. Please report any errors or post to request changes.

[philips]

MTRed added Stratum yesterday. Probably still in testing phase but is working pretty good..
No vardiff yet (?)

[organofcorti]

MTRed added Stratum yesterday. Probably still in testing phase but is working pretty good..
No vardiff yet (?)

Added, and thank you.

[organofcorti]

Updated. Please report any errors or post to request changes.

[eleuthria]

Hi organofcorti,
  2 small changes for BTC Guild.  As of last night all the servers are now running at 20 SPM target variable difficulty.  I also added user-definable minimum difficulty to the Stratum interface.

[organofcorti]

Hi organofcorti,
  2 small changes for BTC Guild.  As of last night all the servers are now running at 20 SPM target variable difficulty.  I also added user-definable minimum difficulty to the Stratum interface.

Hi eleuthria,

I changed your "Variable difficulty" field to " 20 SPM / User Defined  " - that ok?

[eleuthria]

Hi organofcorti,
  2 small changes for BTC Guild.  As of last night all the servers are now running at 20 SPM target variable difficulty.  I also added user-definable minimum difficulty to the Stratum interface.

Hi eleuthria,

I changed your "Variable difficulty" field to " 20 SPM / User Defined  " - that ok?

Perfect .

[Graet]

Hi organofcorti,
  2 small changes for BTC Guild.  As of last night all the servers are now running at 20 SPM target variable difficulty.  I also added user-definable minimum difficulty to the Stratum interface.

Does this mean your version will still be variable above the set minimum?
If so it is different to Ozcoins user-definable difficulty which stays at what the user sets.
Just curious for clarification
cheers

[organofcorti]

Hi organofcorti,
  2 small changes for BTC Guild.  As of last night all the servers are now running at 20 SPM target variable difficulty.  I also added user-definable minimum difficulty to the Stratum interface.

Does this mean your version will still be variable above the set minimum?
If so it is different to Ozcoins user-definable difficulty which stays at what the user sets.
Just curious for clarification
cheers

I should probably change that to "User defined minimum" in that case, to reduce confusion.

[organofcorti]

Oops, forgot to post "updated" on the 17th.

So. Updated.

[organofcorti]

Updated. Please let me know if anything needs to be changed.