What is the best pool for mining Bitcoins?

[WalterM]

Hi,

I'm new to world of mining Bitcoins and I'd like to have some advice from experienced miners.
What is the best pool to join?

Thanx,

Walter

[aurel57]

If you like a steady payout try BAN
https://mining.bitcoinaffiliatenetwork.com/admin.php

[DrHaribo]

If you want the best you can't go wrong with Bitminter

[lowbander80]

i ALWAYS mine with the first one
want less but stable payouts
hate when I see mining a block for 3 hours and the ORHAN....

so first pool is F2pool
second Ghash that I was mining since March 2014
and have a miner at
http://solo.ckpool.org/

for the just in case!!!

[kano]

Well, to reply with a comment on the word "Best".

If you also mean "Best" for "Bitcoin" then that is clearly any of the CKPool/CKDB pools.

CKPool never generates empty, transaction-less blocks, unless there are no transactions returned by bitcoind, which is just about never on our pools.
Many pools send you empty blocks because they decided that the shortcomings of the pool software cannot be overcome.
We disagree

CKPool's default block template update time is 30s
This means that CKPool tries to confirm bitcoin transactions on average faster than or as fast as other pools.

If you prefer solo mining at a pool for TRUE decentralisation then of course that means solo.ckpool.org forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.0

If you don't want the huge variance of solo mining then that means www.kano.is forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.0