Re: Mining pools list

[Graet]

here it is:  (please correct me if anything is wrong )

      Coinotron            No   
      EclipseDGM            Yes
      Maxbtc                    Yes
      OzcoinDGM            No

      Bitminter               Yes   
      BTCGuildPPLNS     No     
      BTCWarp.com      No
      Ecki.net               Yes
      Hashrack             No
      HHTT Pool           No
      p2Pool                No
      Triplemining          No
         
      50BTC.com          No 
      Bitclockers          Yes
      Bitparking          Namecoin, ixcoin and devcoin
      BTCGuildPPS          getwork only
      BTCMP.com          No 
      DeepbitPPS          No
      EclipsePPS          Yes
      [CLOSED] MTRED
      OzcoinPPS          No

      Eligius               No
      Itzod                  No
      OzcoinPOT          No  
      Polmine                  No

      BitcoinPool          No
      DeepbitProp          No

      BTCMine          No
      Slush          getwork only, devided to all miners
                 
ABCPool.co                   No
BTCOxygen.com           No
Project X Mining Club    No

[SebastianJu]

here it is:  (please correct me if anything is wrong )

      Coinotron            No   
      EclipseDGM            Yes
      Maxbtc                    Yes
      OzcoinDGM            getwork only   

      Bitminter               Yes   
      BTCGuildPPLNS     No     
      BTCWarp.com      No
      Ecki.net               Yes
      Hashrack             No
      HHTT Pool           No
      p2Pool                No
      Triplemining          No
         
      50BTC.com          No 
      Bitclockers          Yes
      Bitparking          Namecoin, ixcoin and devcoin
      BTCGuildPPS          getwork only
      BTCMP.com          No 
      DeepbitPPS          No
      EclipsePPS          Yes
      [CLOSED] MTRED
      OzcoinPPS          No

      Eligius               No
      Itzod                  No
      OzcoinPOT          getwork only   
      Polmine                  No

      BitcoinPool          No
      DeepbitProp          No

      BTCMine          No
      Slush          getwork only, devided to all miners
                 
ABCPool.co                   No
BTCOxygen.com           No
Project X Mining Club    No

Thanks for the list. So there are more merged mining pools than i thought. And Yes means they do merged mining with stratum too? And means yes only Namecoin-Mining? That would mean bitparking would be the only pool where one can mine all merge-mining-capable coins.

[os2sam]

here it is:  (please correct me if anything is wrong )

      Coinotron            No   
      EclipseDGM            Yes
      Maxbtc                    Yes
      OzcoinDGM            No

      Bitminter               Yes   
      BTCGuildPPLNS     No     
      BTCWarp.com      No
      Ecki.net               Yes
      Hashrack             No
      HHTT Pool           No
      p2Pool                No
      Triplemining          No
         
      50BTC.com          No 
      Bitclockers          Yes
      Bitparking          Namecoin, ixcoin and devcoin
      BTCGuildPPS          getwork only
      BTCMP.com          No 
      DeepbitPPS          No
      EclipsePPS          Yes
      [CLOSED] MTRED
      OzcoinPPS          No

      Eligius               No
      Itzod                  No
      OzcoinPOT          No  
      Polmine                  No

      BitcoinPool          No
      DeepbitProp          No

      BTCMine          No
      Slush          getwork only, devided to all miners
                 
ABCPool.co                   No
BTCOxygen.com           No
Project X Mining Club    No

Lookey there, all three of my pools don't do merged mining.  What a happy coincidence.

[eleuthria]

Does Eclipse really still do MM on all protocols?  I could've sworn they stopped as well.

[luffy]

thanks Graet! Could you please also erase below line from your thread  
"Merged Mining of Bitcoin and Namecoin on getwork servers"
i hope all the pool operators have reliable and updated information in their threads otherwise my list is faulty

"yes" means BTC+NMC (no exception between stratum or getwork is stated)
"No" means only BTC

p.s. i wonder if all SHA-256 or scrypt coins can be merged together and how  

[organofcorti]

here it is:  (please correct me if anything is wrong )

[......]

Thanks for putting in the time to compile the list, luffy!

Sorry I had to leave out some of the information you obtained, but even with just Yes/No I had to make a few changes in some of the other columns (eg HHTT's now reads "Variable" instead of actually quoting the fee range).

Eagle eyed observers might notice btcwarp's hashrate is 0 Ghps. Well, that's what they have on their website. Anyone know if they're undergoing a DoS, or if the pool is failing or if the website is just plain wrong?

[os2sam]

organofcorti,
Thanks for your work on this Pool List. It really does help.
Sam

[SebastianJu]

"yes" means BTC+NMC (no exception between stratum or getwork is stated)
"No" means only BTC

p.s. i wonder if all SHA-256 or scrypt coins can be merged together and how  

Judging from this cool site there are only 3 coins that can be merged mined with bitcoins. http://dustcoin.com/mining Bringing exactly 7.5% more earnings exchanged into bitcoins. Today. It fluctuates. Some days ago it was 9% and over a week ago only NMC gave 13% more.

These coins can be merged mined only because the coinbase is changed. So that the amount of calculations remains the same like only mining bitcoins. But not all alternate coins allow this.

Edit: Link added...

[zvs]

"yes" means BTC+NMC (no exception between stratum or getwork is stated)
"No" means only BTC

p.s. i wonder if all SHA-256 or scrypt coins can be merged together and how  

Judging from this cool site there are only 3 coins that can be merged mined with bitcoins. http://dustcoin.com/mining Bringing exactly 7.5% more earnings exchanged into bitcoins. Today. It fluctuates. Some days ago it was 9% and over a week ago only NMC gave 13% more.

These coins can be merged mined only because the coinbase is changed. So that the amount of calculations remains the same like only mining bitcoins. But not all alternate coins allow this.

Edit: Link added...

about a month or two ago it was 2 or 3% total

[organofcorti]

organofcorti,
Thanks for your work on this Pool List. It really does help.
Sam

Cheers os2sam. Nice to hear that every now and then

[organofcorti]

Updated. Please post any errors, comments or suggestions.

[Graet]

Updated. Please post any errors, comments or suggestions.

Hi ooc
Ozcoin no longer offers PPS, just DGM and POT now
cheers
Graet

[organofcorti]

Updated. Please post any errors, comments or suggestions.

Hi ooc
Ozcoin no longer offers PPS, just DGM and POT now
cheers
Graet

Totally forgot to update that. I remember thinking at the time, "don't forget to update the mining pools list...". And I did.

Edit: Fixed.

[doublec]

Some Bitparking changes.

We've added DGM:

• Fee: 1.5%
• Pay Tx Reward: No
• Variable difficulty: user defined
• Local work: stratum
• Pay Orphans: yes
• ASIC Ready: yes
• Merged Mining: yes

The PPS side of things has changed the fee to 3.5% for bitcoin and kept it at 2.5% for altcoins. The bitcoin fee is gradually increasing to 5% however so you might as well just put that. PPS bad luck streaks have been a killer.

[organofcorti]

Some Bitparking changes.

We've added DGM:

• Fee: 1.5%
• Pay Tx Reward: No
• Variable difficulty: user defined
• Local work: stratum
• Pay Orphans: yes
• ASIC Ready: yes
• Merged Mining: yes

The PPS side of things has changed the fee to 3.5% for bitcoin and kept it at 2.5% for altcoins. The bitcoin fee is gradually increasing to 5% however so you might as well just put that. PPS bad luck streaks have been a killer.

Added, thanks for the nice formatting, doublec.

[Newar]

BitMinter pays orphans, if donation/perk is set to 1.5%. Same for NMC.

Prepay BTC   Immediate pay for bitcoin blocks. No waiting for 120 confirmations. No lost coins if the block is later orphaned. Note: does not apply to stale blocks.   
1.50% BTC

[eckmar]

...      
PPLNS mining pools

		Pay Tx			Pay
Pool	Fee	reward?	Variable difficulty?	Local work?	orphans?	ASIC ready?	Merged mining?

...

Ecki.net

1%

No

Unknown

Unknown

No

No

Yes

...

Ecki.net supports Stratum Protocol since 2012-11-25 (like written in the headline news on the home page).
Variable diff. so it is ASIC ready (about 12 Avalons are mining here already).
We are currently working on our own stratum proxy to support merged mining (BTC, NMC & SMO) not only for getwork (port 8332), instead for stratum (port 3333) too.
We schedule to have this proxy software working sometime next week at both locations
Paris/France = eu-miner.ecki.net and Samui/Thailand = miner.ecki.net.

Sunny regards from the holiday island Koh Samui (Thailand),
 Ecki

[organofcorti]

...      
PPLNS mining pools

		Pay Tx			Pay
Pool	Fee	reward?	Variable difficulty?	Local work?	orphans?	ASIC ready?	Merged mining?

...

Ecki.net

1%

No

Unknown

Unknown

No

No

Yes

...

Ecki.net supports Stratum Protocol since 2012-11-25 (like written in the headline news on the home page).
Variable diff. so it is ASIC ready (about 12 Avalons are mining here already).
We are currently working on our own stratum proxy to support merged mining (BTC, NMC & SMO) not only for getwork (port 8332), instead for stratum (port 3333) too.
We schedule to have this proxy software working sometime next week at both locations
Paris/France = eu-miner.ecki.net and Samui/Thailand = miner.ecki.net.

Sunny regards from the holiday island Koh Samui (Thailand),
 Ecki

Hi Eckmar,
I'll update your entry - do you mind formatting your data like doublec did? EG:

• Fee: 1.5%
• Pay Tx Reward: No
• Variable difficulty: user defined
• Local work: stratum
• Pay Orphans: yes
• ASIC Ready: yes
• Merged Mining: yes

It makes it easier for me to edit the file. Can you also let me know what type of variable difficulty you use? I've wanted to include your pool since mid last year but I haven't found your block history API. Do you have one or am I just not seeing it?

Cheers,

ooc.


Edit: Scratch that. Just post what sort of variable difficulty you use - "User defined", or x shares per minute?

[eckmar]

Hello ooc,

...
Edit: Scratch that. Just post what sort of variable difficulty you use - "User defined", or x shares per minute?

Right now we are still using "x shares per minute" which gives Avalon miners something between 180 and 400 as difficulty.
But as written before, we are just writing our own Stratum Proxy Server, which will limit the diff to something the user or the pool operator can set (e.g. 64 by worker).
So at the end of next week we will change this.

Sunny regards,
 Ecki

[organofcorti]

Hello ooc,

...
Edit: Scratch that. Just post what sort of variable difficulty you use - "User defined", or x shares per minute?

Right now we are still using "x shares per minute" which gives Avalon miners something between 180 and 400 as difficulty.
But as written before, we are just writing our own Stratum Proxy Server, which will limit the diff to something the user or the pool operator can set (e.g. 64 by worker).
So at the end of next week we will change this.

Sunny regards,
 Ecki

Thanks, Eckmar. What I meant though, was do you want me to quote what 'x' is, or just leave it until you change to "user defined" and use than instead?

BTW, your "Sunny regards" only ever make me cranky by reminding me that it's been more than year since I was last at Koh Samui