Let me know when hashco.ws gets above .003BTC per MH a day. Hashco.ws doesn't do anything more right now. All the features are currently vaporware. Their stats are even MORE unstable.
Can't say I am happy with Hashcows after the hack, but they were hacked nonetheless. They are also rebuilding the site from scratch, yet taking longer than I wish to do so. Not that I fully trust them, but they sure have done a hell of a lot more to justify their fees of just 2.5%. I was getting around the same profits from them before their stratum issue lately. The RPC rounds have been throwing off people's apparent profits lately, too.
Honestly, I was on the edge of leaving them for middlecoin, but it's up in the air again the more I see. Might just mine individual coins at this rate.
And by the way, I don't give a fuck about "features". I want BTC. I don't need the bells and whistles at the expense of payouts. If I can get them WITHOUT sacrificing BTC, great. Until then, hashco.ws and hashbros are not worth it. I'll keep watching them, but until they straighten out, I'm not giving away cycles. I'd rather give 3% for pretty consistent payouts.
3.5%. Twas my initial thought, too, but after doing the math and equating services, it seems they all blow atm. It's like trying to pick an ISP that won't dick you...good luck with it.
I just don't think people realize just how much 3% adds up. If they think it's worth the sacrifice, they certainly never have any reason other than "I am lazy." Seriously, what is this guy doing to deserve SO MUCH from all of us, even the lazy ones? Certainly not anything major. Hashcows does more, for less...and they are two or three guys splitting the money.
I highly recommend not allowing yourself to be extorted by h2o "sorting things out" for you.
Quite clearly a troll, but I'm bored, so what the hell.
I know exactly how much the 3% adds up to. It's still worth it to me and many others as long as mining here is relatively maintenance-free and more profitable than other pools. The fact that H20 is still able to keep profits the same and some days even better than other profit-switching pools while having a monstrous pool says something. I've tried all of the profit-switching pools short of CoinEx's and Switcherpool. What I've found:
1) MultiPool: You handle exchanging your own coins. You setup several payment addresses and deal with the hassles of the exchanges. While you can certainly make more money on these pools if you babysit your coins and watch the markets, I find it to be a huge hassle. Some people prefer this, and that's fine by me. Good for them. I do not.
2) Hashcows: Hybrid of having an either/or option (exchange your own or auto-exchange). Used to go toe-to-toe with Middlecoin before they got hacked. Since then, profits have been abysmal. I have no doubt they'll get back to their usual level of profit, but for now, it's terrible. Having seen many pools get hacked, the possibility of them getting hacked and losing all of their stored bitcoins (again) is still there, even with a revamped site. This is something that pools that are similar to Middlecoin (worker is your wallet address) don't have to fuss with.
3) All of the others: Some are Middlecoin-style of hooking up your payment address, most are similar to MultiPool or Hashcows (generally the former). These sites are generally still new and don't have optimized engines, databases, stratum servers, or what have you. Due to this, profits are hurt when they'd otherwise probably be a little higher than Middlecoin. It'll get fixed I'm sure, but for now this isn't the case.
All in all, does this make me lazy? Probably. However, I run several rigs, with many, many more on the way. Simplicity is key for me. If someone is willing to do the dirty work for me, while still giving me profits the same as or better than competitors, then they will have my business.
Well put.
EDIT: Damn quote problems, pardon all the editing.
