Just forget the Antpoo,
and make a more wise choice for your mining pool.
Do you realise that mining here is bad for your profit and bad for Bitcoin?
yes , I have already changed my pool to the slush pool , i dont know much about it ,bcz i have started mining recently so not much info about who i should trust and which factors really matter , if there is any useful topic i will be happy if u introduce
how much gear do you have?
there are many good pools and the amount of hash you have can influence where to mine.
For instance I mine 600th at viabtc I use pps+ and get paid 102 percent ie 12.5 coins a block x 1.02 = 12.75 coins each block the pool keeps the tx fees.
I need to eliminate variance due to a large power bill for the 600th of gear.
If power bill means nothing to you due to small gear.
ckpool.org = small pool slow to hit a block but you get a good payout
kano.is = small pool slow to hit a block but you get a good payout so they are decent
slush has issues if you shut off the gear due to power outage or any other reason you get no credit if they hit a block.
if you have more gear at least 3 s9's or 40th
you can try pool.viabtc.com use pps+ payout
Ckpool pays the most (0% fee), but its currently taking months to pay due to low hashrate. Remember on this pool you won't necessarily get paid when a block is found, and at the current hash rate its expected to find 1 block every two months on average, so for many this means at least a 4 month wait before seeing the first payment (or longer, depending on queue).
Kano pays on every block found, but takes 0.9% fee, should be finding 5~7 blocks per month. 5nd means slow ramp up/down times which are about a month long (currently).
Viabtc and the other Bitmain related pools have both pps and pplns modes, one taking much higher fees than the other 4% fee vs 2% fee. Given their 3 exa hashrate i fail to see how people bother to use their pps mode, but i guess some can't just manage themselves to save when lucky to pay from that when unlucky, which in such a high hashrate pool takes hours to average itself back into 100%, as opposed to days, months or years in small pools.
But of course everyone is free to choose and pick their favorite pool. Do remember that favoring the larger pools not only make you earn less, you also weaken the Bitcoin network itself.
If all pools magically had the same hash rate, say, 100PH, i would pick CK's. Kano is next best currently, but the lower its hashrate the less attractive it becomes.
