TL;DR Coinshift is a new kind of scrypt multipool that isn't so damaging to the ecosystem. Come mine with us!
cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://mine.coinshift.com:3333 -u btcaddress -p x
A typical profit-switching mining pool diverts all of its hashing power to whichever coin is most profitable at the moment. When that profitability calculation changes, even if another coin is only slightly more profitable, the pool will abruptly switch its hashing power to the next coin.
This is bad for the alt coin community for a few reasons. It causes huge spikes in the network hash rate for the top coins, causing waves of blocks being generated too quickly with few meaningful transactions in each. The large sums of coins getting dumped onto the exchanges all at once causes huge drops and overall volatility in the coin price. Finally, once the dump occurs and the pool has moved on to pillage a new coin, the previous coin is left stranded with an artificially high difficulty and slower than average block time, which delays transactions until enough blocks generated to readjust the difficulty.
The problem is one of misaligned incentives -- the incentive to mine on destructive profit-switching pools is too great. Coinshift's mission is simple: find a more sustainable way to mine altcoins profitably.
The SolutionCoinshift’s algorithm ranks all the alt coins who are more profitable to mine than Litecoin, and distributes its hash rate across them with a strong bias towards the more profitable coins. As the coins profitability changes, the algorithm shifts some of its hashrate over to the more profitable coins.
This is great for the ecosystem because it helps miners follow changes in profitability without causing them. At the beginning, our allocations will look spiky like switching pools. Over time and as more miners choose Coinshift, our hash allocations will settle closer to equilibrium and help to smooth out hashrate spikes.
Basic Pool Info* Pool fee will be 2%.
* We pay out every day if your balance is >0.001, so you don't need to trust us with holding your coins.
* Stratum servers in us-west, us-east, and eu-west, and asia-pacific (Tokyo)
TransparencyOur goal is to be as transparent as possible without undermining the security or profitability of the pool. To that end, we're sharing quite a bit on our
stats page, including BTC/Mh/day. We're collecting a lot of interesting data, so we'll continue to share as much as we can.
APIWe've got APIs for pool performance, performance history, and account history here:
http://coinshift.com/api/Questions?We'd be happy to answer them here, or on
TwitterWhat are you waiting forCome mine with us!UpdatesJuly 6 - Custom difficulty implemented! Use "d=<diff>" as your password for custom difficulty.
June 13 - New charting system! Hovering on a chart shows values, and each of your workers gets its own chart now.
June 10 - Added USDe and SC, both performing great!
Apr. 19 - Added two coins: WC and FLT
Mar. 14 - Added two coins: FTC and SMC
Mar. 13 - Added APIs for account stats:
http://coinshift.com/api/Mar. 12 - Listed on
http://poolpicker.euMar. 12 - Added two coins: FLAP and HBN
Mar. 10 - Fixed issue with VARDIFF being too high
Mar. 8 - Bonus .25BTC block added to pool to thank early adopters
Mar. 8 - Added BTC/Mh stats & graph, added APIs for pool performance and history (
http://coinshift.com/api/)
Mar. 7 - Fixed issues with high reject and orphan rates. Rejects are now <2.5%.
