What's the best mining pool?

[Mike9876]

Hello, I am new to mining and have a question. I am going to buy a used Antminer S3 and I need to know what's the best pool? Right now I'm set up for slush's pool. Any ideas?

[ranochigo]

The pool you should choose is one with low fees, trusted, have the most reliability and uptime. If two pools have the same fees and uptime with a different hashrate, in the long run, both of them will have the same earnings, hashrate only affects your frequency of payments. I would recommend eligus as it is reputable and have 0 fees and good uptime.

[silvestar]

You can find a list of bitcoin mining pools in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.0.

Slush is a good pool, but if I were you I would use it as a failover pool and use a 0% fee pool (eligius or Ghash for example) as the primary pool.

[Mike9876]

Thanks for the replies. I looked at Eligius and it flagged my Anti-Virus as a malicious website. Ghash came up fine, so I think i'll use it. Their website looks much better than Slush's pool. Thanks for the info, I'll close this thread.

[Ombamaq]

Thanks for the replies. I looked at Eligius and it flagged my Anti-Virus as a malicious website. Ghash came up fine, so I think i'll use it. Their website looks much better than Slush's pool. Thanks for the info, I'll close this thread.

try f2pool.com before you close this thread

[ranochigo]

Thanks for the replies. I looked at Eligius and it flagged my Anti-Virus as a malicious website. Ghash came up fine, so I think i'll use it. Their website looks much better than Slush's pool. Thanks for the info, I'll close this thread.

It is probably a false positive, eligus is operated by a trusted person of this community. Ghash.io actually had some issues last time I used it and had to switch to eligus. And antminer s3 are not easy to have ROI, think twice before buying.

[bitllionaire]

take a look at slush pool
it was the first one