Topic: [ASK] RECOMMENDED POOL FOR AntMiner S7 (Read 5313 times)

... and you should make quite clear that it's a [BETA] pool which means if they lose yet another block due to bad pool code,
like they did here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.20118127
you lose again.

Nowhere does it clearly say they "lost a block" because the pool didn't submit to the network, a valid block, that was found by a miner ... shadowing the simple clear truth of the matter.
Pools don't find blocks, miners find them based on the data provided by the pool, and miners even know when they find them.
Pools are supposed to submit them to the network, since miners don't have all the information necessary to do that.
(it's too much information to process and transmit without causing major processing delays in a miner ... and also would require every miner to have a full, reliable, fast bitcoin network connection ... which is what you pay the pool to do for you ...)

Please give a try to http://ckpool.org/
0% fee, 100% tx fee to miners.

Hello everyone, I am new to this pool and also to Asic Mining, I have a small GPU farm and have been mining Ethereum for a year now, since there are no GPU's at a reasonable price right now I have decided to go for ten S9's, I would like to ask you if paying around about 2500$ for each is a smart decision  since this model have been on the market for a while and maybe we are close to see a new generation, also I see that Antminers are becoming a standard but there are other options... should I get antminers? in my farm I have standardized all hardware and now I have 48 rigs that are exactly the same, this have made my life easier, I would like to do the same on this new ASIC's and basically standardize everything. assuming I could pull 135 Th, wich pool would suit better my operation? and also I would like to ask other miners that if the Bitcoin price increase keeps up with the increasing difficulty on the network, I mean... do you usually make the same money on your machines month after month? any other tip will be appreciated, thanks

Thanks for your answer, it's already working on bitminter, but i ment jonny bravo's pool, i couln't manage to make it work.

Pretty much all ASICs work on all pools. As long as you are using a bitcoin miner on a bitcoin pool, which you are.

For Bitminter the settings are:

pool: mint.bitminter.com:3333
worker: user_worker
password: 123

user_worker is your user name followed by an underscore and a worker name. Your user name is displayed in the upper right corner of the website when logged in. Your workers and their names are listed under "my account" -> "workers" in the website menu. As a new user you automatically get a worker named 1. So if your user name is John you could mine as John_1

Hi all, ive got Antminer S3, is it possible to configure it to work with this pool? i have tryed and i cant get it working

Thanks for mentioning my pool jonnybravo0311 and GigaBit

I'd recommend for new miners to read a bit about 51% attacks.

Centralization is the Achilles' heel of Bitcoin. Certainly you don't want to make the biggest pools too big. But you also don't want one government to control all the hashpower. The situation with China today is not a good one.

I know many beginners are thinking they want to earn some bitcoins, they want their mining operation to be profitable and that's it. Truth is, you can do that with most pools, and doing things that are dangerous for bitcoin is not in your best interest.

I don't recommend pools that pay you daily, for just one miner.
Reason being, you're stuck paying a ~20,000 sat fee every time they pay you and when minimum payment is around BTC0.003 then you end up paying way too much in fees alone for your 1 miner.
If you have a sizeable farm, then being paid daily becomes more of a necessity because of bills but not for 1 miner... if it is, then you shouldn't be mining.

You should also avoid all Chinese pools unless you're a uni-lingual Chinese, they already have over 75% of all the network's hashrate, they have enough.

F2Pool - Worst earnings in the circuit, even with merge mining
AntPool - Good pool but avoid because they SPV mine and dilute the already over-saturated mining market - They don't need your support
BTCC - BTC China, never mined there
BW.com - Another outfit like Bitmain, sells hardware but not as significant as bitmain, watch out for them though
1Hash - A new player in the circuit

I estimate that well over 75% of the market is powered with Bitmain AntMiners - My entire mine run them now.

I'd recommend BitMinter, since you do get paid more due to it being a small pool and it's possible to have orphans paid out but for a fee.
This feature, I like to use, when you're a small hasher and losing a whole block after 2-3 days of work, it's maddening.
Bigger hashers can better handle this loss because then it becomes the same as not finding a block.
Yeah it's heavy and doesn't find that many blocks, even below my standards but Doc Haribo's a swell fella and there is no other interface like it.

Slush also lets you select when you get paid but it's plagued with bad hardware; hence often delays block finds.
Usually where most miners start their mining career due to #EasyMiner and where most ancient hardware end their lives; Slush was the first ever mining pool.
#MultiPool - Did the same at BitMinter, once they move to a pool I mine, I move to a pool they don't, this seems to work very well.

haha wew, you make thread for this pool, nice mate.
see u there, thanks a lot

My pleasure.  Please check out my pool's thread here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/150th-pplns-05-jonnys-mining-emporium-bravo-miningcom-1330452.  Plenty of people there willing to help you with any issues, or to simply chat.

I look forward to seeing you there.

ok ill check them first, thanks btw for your time have a nice day. thanks too you spiker777

Thanks for the recommendation spiker777

Wintermeasures, while I certainly echo spiker's recommendation (it is after all my pool ), there are plenty of good options for you out there.  Besides my pool (http://bravo-mining.com), here is a list in no particular order:

bcmonster.com
kano.is
bitminter.com
mmpool.org

You'll notice I didn't include a single one of the big pools.  Why?  For a few reasons.  First, they all use a process called SPV mining.  This is a blight and should be eradicated.  It can, and has in the past, cause hard forks.  It can, and does, produce empty blocks.  Second, they are simply too big.  Too much control of too much hash is not a good thing.

Best of luck, and I hope to see you as a new miner on my pool.

http://www.bravo-mining.com   

Hi everyone,
i have ANTMINER S7, still confused where the good pools for my hardware. any advice?
thanks for your time