I used it for a while but returns were too low for my liking.
Stats reporting are probably the best though. Live stats of your miner's GH/s rate.
It's not bad, not great, was not profitable for me.
I'm new to the environment, what do you mean by low returns? GHash is the biggest pool.
Where do you mine? Eligius?
Like in real life, I keep my mining claims secret
GHash is a good fallback pool for when the main line goes offline.
It's not profitable because there's too much hashing power for smaller players, under 1TH to make a a comparable ROI as with other pools. Where I make
BTC0.022 with BTC Guild, I make
BTC0.0200 which is a 0.002 difference. After 10 days, you give a whole days hashing for free to GHash comapred to BTC Guild, which I don't mine there anymore either, their stats are boring but probably have the most robust website. You do get more venues to make money with GHash's merged mining but no one uses anything other than namecoin from merged mining it seems. The stats at GHash are mostly live but so is BitMinter, who's interface makes Ghash look like it came out of the 70's.
I keep GHash as fallback because I know it will take a lot for them to fail, I can promote as an affiliate and make money trading hashing power. Although all I want to do is hash with my own equipment, I like the fact of multiple income venues that are available to me. However, it doesn't warrant the 0.002 daily loss vs. other pools with much lesser hash rate. I don't mind waiting and get my electricity's worth. I did this test 3 days on 3 random days within 1 week. They were all the same results so luck has no effect on this test because each has the same chance to get the same (mal)chance as the other.
I also won't promote GHash nor CEX.io, they're too big, I also won't promote anything that doesn't pay me, so.... hint hint other pool owners, offer miners an incentive to gain and keep them. Don't wait for me to release a pool because I will have one in time and will blow everyone's mind, that's how CEX.io became huge, get affiliates to do all the heavy lifting for you and offer state of the art interface.
