So does anyone know what profit-switching pool is supporting SBC currently? The hashrate keeps making mad jumps and dips and whichever switching pool it is has WAAAAAAAY more hash power than any SBC pool. I'd like to get in on the switching pool and keep the SBC if possible, since whenever they switch over they basically are taking all the coins...
EDIT: Nevermind, it seems it's hashco.ws that is hopping on SBC
But if you use one of those profit-switching pools, most of the day you'll be mining other coins that you probably don't want or don't think will increase in value much, when you could be mining SBC, so is it worth it just to ensure you get a cut of the blocks it finds on the occasions it does switch to mining SBC?
What do I know though, I seem to be looking at only mining 12 SBC/day at the moment, when I should be getting about 26!
I have my hashrate load balanced between a dedicated SBC pool and hashcows. I like the guaranteed steady income of auto converted BTC from hashcows, and since they let you choose which coins to convert and which to keep I can get BTC for the ones I don't want and keep the ones that I do, like SBC.
You might be right that your method works out well, although it does mean that you're not benefiting from the reduced variance by splitting your hashrate amongst several SBC pools all the time as described here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=215735.new#new and here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78031.20Having said that, I'm not sure that method totally works properly, as I've mentioned in that first thread. In addition, overnight I left it on --balance split amongst three Prop pools and on one of them (miningpool.co) I can see that there were several blocks where I haven't contributed any shares, so didn't receive any credit for those, whereas I guess if I was only using that pool I would have contributed some shares for every block.
Mind you the other pools I'm using (coin-base.org and stablecoin.miners-pool.eu) don't appear to list how many shares I've contributed to each block, so it's impossible to say if it's any better on those!
That seems to be one of the problems when choosing pools, that the information they provide varies quite a lot.
I asked some questions in my newbie thread
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3836730, which I don't want to crosspost here but if anyone could take a look and try and answer some of them for me, that'd be great.