Compare pools: MiddleCoin/CleverMining/HashCows/WafflePool/Hashbros

[pauldulong]

Hi everybody,

Im running a GPU farm with 50Mh here in the Netherlands and use exclusively MiddleCoin as my pool. In general I'm satisfied with their payments and stability. But over the last days/weeks everything became more and more unstable and new pools are hitting ground. Thats why I want to do a good comparison between all the big pools.

My plan is to point one miner 2.4Mh to each pool for 48 hours. Let them pay out to a new BTC address and after the 48 wait for another 48 hours to let all the coin mature. All miners will have a fail-over to another MiddleCoin pool address, just in case. I will measure the results in BTC/MH. So pools I'm looking at right now are:

• MiddleCoin
• CleverMining
• HashCows
• WafflePool
• Hashbros

Do you guys have other suggestions for pools that you want to test, or variables I need to keep in mind?
Let me know.

[Kapz786]

Can't add anything but would love to see your results

[haploid23]

I would extend your 48 hour test to more like 1 or 2 weeks so the variances average out. In the 2 days that you do your test, some pools will be more lucky than others.

I'm currently running a test between middlecoin and wafflepool for about a week now, pointing equal hash rates to both pools. Will post results soon.

[spartan82]

Reserved. Curious to see the results..

[evel]

Do you guys have other suggestions for pools that you want to test, or variables I need to keep in mind?

I would like to see the performance vs direct pool mining using Coinwarz.com + multiminer app ( https://github.com/nwoolls/MultiMiner ) trading.

[mirza92]

Would also like to see the results.

[Dabs]

1. clevermining
2. wafflepool
3. coinsolver
4. middlecoin
5. megamultipool
6. switchercoin
7. poolwarz
8. plain old just Litecoin
9. just Dogecoin
10. just Tagcoin
11. just Bitcoin (okay, maybe this might "waste" your miner, but wanted to see just how bad this is today.)

Make sure they all mine at about the exact same time, so we can see how they do.

[PummelHummel]

So what did you find out?

[igroock]

CleverMining is having serious connection issues. I had 4 times as many stale as I did accepted. Never have I seen such stats on my 20MH system.

MiddleCoin is what I have been using but as OP stated they are slowly turning into crap. Payouts are inconsistent. When the system works it works, but when it doesnt you might as well switch.
Used Miltipool for a while and not impressed. They dont mine the same number of coins, and having to deal with coin transfers is a PITA. Doge transfers take an avg of 12 hours at times, which is insane.

I switched to Waffle. Will see how that goes, but so far so good.

[NameTaken]

http://www.reddit.com/r/multimining/wiki/index/pool_list

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=455835.0

With "--balance" your miner will mine evenly to all your pools.

[jrrsparkles]

Do give us, altcoinplex, a tryout at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428955

Hi everybody,

Im running a GPU farm with 50Mh here in the Netherlands and use exclusively MiddleCoin as my pool. In general I'm satisfied with their payments and stability. But over the last days/weeks everything became more and more unstable and new pools are hitting ground. Thats why I want to do a good comparison between all the big pools.

My plan is to point one miner 2.4Mh to each pool for 48 hours. Let them pay out to a new BTC address and after the 48 wait for another 48 hours to let all the coin mature. All miners will have a fail-over to another MiddleCoin pool address, just in case. I will measure the results in BTC/MH. So pools I'm looking at right now are:

• MiddleCoin
• CleverMining
• HashCows
• WafflePool
• Hashbros

Do you guys have other suggestions for pools that you want to test, or variables I need to keep in mind?
Let me know.

[moehawk]

Long time lurker, you guys should try altcoinspool https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=469018.0 it just got out of closed beta And now public, compare it and see the excellent results, it is most likely one of the fairest pools available..yes I was a beta testa and I had excellent success.

~Hawk

[pauldulong]

I'm setting up the miners right now. I want to use --balance with around 8 pools, is that fair enough or each miner its own pool?

[pauldulong]

Ok, today at 21:30 CET I've started the experiment. I used 5 miners generating in total 12Mh/s. I'm testing the following pools:

• CleverMining
• MiddleCoin EU
• MiddleCoin Amsterdam
• WafflePool
• CoinSolver
• Hashbros
• Hashcows

All miners mine at all the pools at the same time and use the --balance variable to send equal shares to all of them.
I didn't do a pure Dogecoin pool because there is a fork at the moment.
There are two MiddleCoin pools in the list to find the difference between different MC servers.

I'll keep you guys posted!

[trdiablo]

Interesting, curious for the results

[ckoeber]

Great work. Your results can definitely change things.

The more details the better.

[oktay50000]

post result asap

[Hotsauce]

Ok, today at 21:30 CET I've started the experiment. I used 5 miners generating in total 12Mh/s. I'm testing the following pools:

• CleverMining
• MiddleCoin EU
• MiddleCoin Amsterdam
• WafflePool
• CoinSolver
• Hashbros
• Hashcows

All miners mine at all the pools at the same time and use the --balance variable to send equal shares to all of them.
I didn't do a pure Dogecoin pool because there is a fork at the moment.
There are two MiddleCoin pools in the list to find the difference between different MC servers.

I'll keep you guys posted!

Looking forward to seeing the results, thanks for doing this!

[gaalx]

if you can put on a different power pools simultaneously and find the average value for each 1 Mh. Thank you!

[lordshawk]

Did my own comparison of just Clever, Waffle and Coinsolver.

Clever came out on top.. thought Coinsolver was next but Waffle looks better. Im speaking to strictly profits though and not comparing rejects or any other criteria.

Interested in seeing your results.