Best pool for smaller mining rigs?

[pd7]

I searched on the forums, but all I found was kinda dated, basic information on pools. I'm just wondering if anyone has personal experience with similar hashing power at a pool that would make more than slush's pool is right now. I'm making roughly .00032 per round right now on slush, and when I first started almost a year ago, I was making just about .01 per round. Obviously its gonna go down, but I'm barely making anything right now :/ I was using p2pool.org occasionally, but lately that doesn't even seem to work at all.

Any thoughts? Looking for someone close to my situation who's fairing a little better than me with their pool. Thanks!

[ranochigo]

I searched on the forums, but all I found was kinda dated, basic information on pools. I'm just wondering if anyone has personal experience with similar hashing power at a pool that would make more than slush's pool is right now. I'm making roughly .00032 per round right now on slush, and when I first started almost a year ago, I was making just about .01 per round. Obviously its gonna go down, but I'm barely making anything right now :/ I was using p2pool.org occasionally, but lately that doesn't even seem to work at all.

Any thoughts? Looking for someone close to my situation who's fairing a little better than me with their pool. Thanks!

There is no best pool. Your payouts will be the same in a few pools ( Assuming there are no fees) within 6 months. Mining certainly isn't the best money earning method right now as the difficulty is going up quite fast. You might want to try to mine at Eligius, I had good experiences with them.

[jbrnt]

You can try f2pool.com (discus fish) or btcguild. F2pool is the second largest pool and is in China. I would go for btcguild, but it's pool luck is running low. You should get a fair bit more from either of those pools because I read that slush is only worthwhile for faster miners.

[ranochigo]

You can try f2pool.com (discus fish) or btcguild. F2pool is the second largest pool and is in China. I would go for btcguild, but it's pool luck is running low. You should get a fair bit more from either of those pools because I read that slush is only worthwhile for faster miners.

Actually in the long run, the payout should be more or less the same. Except if the fees are different. I wouldn't recommend OP going for those who charge fee since it takes a portion of the earnings.

[jonnybravo0311]

You aren't going to mine at pool X and earn 0.00032BTC then jump to pool Y and earn 0.01BTC with the same hash rate.

[lowbander80]

You can try f2pool.com (discus fish) or btcguild. F2pool is the second largest pool and is in China. I would go for btcguild, but it's pool luck is running low. You should get a fair bit more from either of those pools because I read that slush is only worthwhile for faster miners.

Discus fish is good if you know chinese BTCguild unlucky!!! how pitty is this again !!!! tstststs

[jbrnt]

Actually in the long run, the payout should be more or less the same. Except if the fees are different. I wouldn't recommend OP going for those who charge fee since it takes a portion of the earnings.

I forgot which thread I read it from, could be the official slush pool topic... they were saying slush pool uses a special score based system which penalises slower miners, and miners could receive nothing if their internet disconnects for a few minutes.

Will post link if I find the topic...

[ranochigo]

Actually in the long run, the payout should be more or less the same. Except if the fees are different. I wouldn't recommend OP going for those who charge fee since it takes a portion of the earnings.

I forgot which thread I read it from, could be the official slush pool topic... they were saying slush pool uses a special score based system which penalises slower miners, and miners could receive nothing if their internet disconnects for a few minutes.

Will post link if I find the topic...

If you compare it with 2 pools with the same payment system and fees, payouts would eventually be the same. Would be interested to read about that.

[os2sam]

I searched on the forums, but all I found was kinda dated, basic information on pools.

This is kept up to date

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.0