Summary of Pools

[cuz0882]

Pool	PPS Fee	Features
MtRed	0%	Free instant payouts. Has email alerts. Also has a limited sms alert option.
CoinSauce	1.4%	Free instant payouts, although payouts may be paid at random. CLOSED
ABC	1.5%	Free instant payouts over 0.2BTC, below that, 0.01BTC.
50BTC	3%	(800GH) Free instant payouts.
BTC Guild	5%	(pps only pool) Free instant payouts. Email alert on miner failure. Namecoin merged mining.
Eclipse	5%	(DGM 0% fee) Email and SMS alerts, on miners fails and payouts. Paypal payouts for 4% fee. Free instant payouts, 10% if you want unconfirmed coins cashed out. Namecoin merged mining only on DGM.
Ozcoin	5%	(DGM 0% fee) Namecoin merged mining only on DGM.
Deepbit	10%	(pays for invalid blocks on prop only, 0.5%-1.2% extra) (prop fee is 3%) Free instant payouts and email alerts for miner failure.
Slush	N/A	(1200GH) (2% fee) Score Based System. Namecoin merged Mining
Eligius	N/A	(600GH) SMPPS
BitMinter	N/A	(400GH) 0% fee PPLNS with shifts. Namecoin merged mining.

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[cuz0882]

I only listed pools which have no waiting lists. Let me know if something is not posted correctly. If you want a pool added post the information for it.

[eleuthria]

Correction on Deepbit:  They pay for invalid blocks which affects Proportional.  It has no affect on PPS rates.  All PPS pools pay for invalid blocks (since an invalid block doesn't mean you submitted invalid shares).


Everything else seems accurate though!

[cuz0882]

Correction on Deepbit:  They pay for invalid blocks which affects Proportional.  It has no affect on PPS rates.  All PPS pools pay for invalid blocks (since an invalid block doesn't mean you submitted invalid shares).


Everything else seems accurate though!

Fixed, Thanks.

[[Tycho]]

Well, if you mention "Free instant payouts" for other pools, add this for Deepbit too. Also we have e-mail notifications on worker failure.

[organofcorti]

Very handy, cuz0882.

An idea you might consider which it might make reading a bit easier (and updating at change in Difficulty less of a pain) is if you just have B/D (the 100% PPS rate) listed above and then simply include the total percentage of B/D paid by each pool. That way, rounding errors won't make think that for example, Mt. Red have a 0.01% charge.

Edit: Coinsauce is a proxy, not a pool. They don't generate the reward themselves, but pass shares on to other pools who then generate the bitcoin reward, and then distribute it.

[anddy78]

You forget this... 

ABC

0.0000281195

Free instant payouts over 0.2BTC, below that, 0.01BTC fee. 1.5% fee

[rjk]

ABC is also a proxy.

[cuz0882]

ABC is also a proxy.

I could list proxy under those pools. I'm not sure how that should really effect someones decision when choosing a pool..

[BasementMiner!]

This might be of interest but there shouldn't be any more issues with payouts on CoinSauce anymore. I've increased the balance buffer to make sure there will always be ~50 Bitcoins available for payout, an increase from ~5.

Also, as a side note I'm not sure if ABCPool is still a pool proxy anymore, I've seen somewhere stating they're powered by a modified version of pushpool/poolserverj, which I guess is the preferred route once you have a considerable hash rate (and want low stales). http://www.abcpool.co/about.php

Thanks.

[rav3n_pl]

And where is p2pool?

[DrHaribo]

I'd just like to add that BitMinter pays out namecoins and transaction fees. Namecoins are about 0.5% extra income at the moment, judging by today's exchange rate. Transaction fees are about 0.1% to 0.4% extra income right now, from the looks of the blockchain.info graph. Transaction fees are on the rise and coin generation will soon be halved. Soon you could be looking at "zero fee PPS" actually meaning 2% or higher fees, assuming you don't get namecoins.

100% PPS listed above is not in fact 100%. "Zero fee" isn't always zero fee.

[h00ters]

You missed the first no fee pool, www.bitcoinpool.com. No waiting, no fee's, no bullshit. Secure.

[rav3n_pl]

You missed the first no fee pool, www.bitcoinpool.com. No waiting, no fee's, no bullshit. Secure.

Round Duration:      05d 12h 29m 28s    Pool Speed:      83.96 Gh/s
ouch.

[Graet]

You missed the first no fee pool, www.bitcoinpool.com. No waiting, no fee's, no bullshit. Secure.

Round Duration:      05d 12h 29m 28s    Pool Speed:      83.96 Gh/s
ouch.

that's really good for a proportional pool these days
Ozcoin got down to 17Ghash from 130ish before we changed to DGM

[stoppots]

Well, if you mention "Free instant payouts" for other pools, add this for Deepbit too. Also we have e-mail notifications on worker failure.

Well if you mention notifications on worker failure, then SMS txt messages offered by https://eclipsemc.com/ is the pool to mine. Free to its miners EclipseMC.com offers both SMS txt and E-mail notifications which will send you a txt message when your miner inactivity time is reached. You can set the amount of inactivity time to watever best suits your mining needs. These notifications are also offered to let you know when new blocks are solved, account changes occur, and also when a cashout is made.

[eleuthria]

BTC Guild also has email notifications for failed miners.

[cuz0882]

I've added most of the changes.

[organofcorti]

Looking good. If you want updated pool hashrates, I publish weekly averages here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77000.0

[kinlo]

You forgot triplemining!

Please find an overview of the pools and their ranking on http://blockorigin.pfoe.be that should give you an idea which pools exists