I currently have several miners running totaling about 416 Gh/s. I am splitting my mining among 50btc.com, slush's pool, and eligius for now. However, it is hard to compare even among these three pools because different miners mine at different rates (so I have 240 Gh/s Butterfly Labs miners on eligius, 106 Gh/s on slush's pool consisting of 1/2 of a KnC miner and a 38Gh/s ASIC cube, and the remaining 76 Gh/s consisting of the other half of my KnC miner on 50btc). To make matters a little worse, it seems some miners do better on some pools - e.g, my KnC miner did about 25% less on Slush's pool even with the updated port specially for KnC miners.
I have read the wiki on different payment mechanisms, and there are tons of posts about whose pool is best. I have not found a more scientific comparison among the various pools. Does one exist? Ideally, someone who could run identical equipment on a variety of pools at the same time for an extended period. The payout comparisons are interesting, but hard to figure how the different payment mechanisms work in the real world.
Also, is there any disadvantage to dividing up my processing power among the several pools as I have done?
Thanks!
I have read the wiki on different payment mechanisms, and there are tons of posts about whose pool is best. I have not found a more scientific comparison among the various pools. Does one exist? Ideally, someone who could run identical equipment on a variety of pools at the same time for an extended period. The payout comparisons are interesting, but hard to figure how the different payment mechanisms work in the real world.
Also, is there any disadvantage to dividing up my processing power among the several pools as I have done?
Thanks!
thought there were big probs with 50btc, dunno, not my field. check it?
splitting power amongst pools is very good to avoid variance
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/analysis-of-bitcoin-pooled-mining-reward-systems-32814