Topic: Best pooled minning? (Read 2668 times)

Thanks for the info

50BTC all the way, great interface and website!! i Recommend it

BTC Guild is my hangout spot.

I have been mining on BTCGuild for several months. All good experience...

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I've been around the block.   rfcpool is the best i've found. 

It is definetly not a good idea to support the larger pools, they could use their power for example by not working on a certain block, hence holding the transaction back (just theory!)

Also most of the big pools have fees, you get constant fast payouts, but you lose money due to fees.

As a redditor I really wanted MTRed to be a good pool, but I haven't seen good results from it. Maybe it was just a bad time for the period that I tried it out.

Most recently I've been using deepbit and I find it to give me consistent and high payouts. On the other hand, it is the largest of the pools and it's probably not a good idea to grow it larger than 50% of the total pooled mining power out there.

I've tried deepbit, btcguild, and slush.  Each over an extended period of time.  From my experience slush offers the best and most reliable payouts over time.  Slush is definitely the best for someone who's gonna set it and forget it.  If your hopping, or only mine for a short time each day, then slush wouldn't be a good idea...

I have switched my main pool to arsbitcoin after trying it out. You can literally have no fees and get paid more than deepbit. One bad point is that it will take maybe a day or two to get paid.

BTC Guild is my hangout spot.

1.1 g/hps @ deepbit

Lol, can anyone help me with getting started on bitcoins? O.O

There are a couple things that need explaining perhaps. Firstly, past events do not influence future results in random systems so luck doesn't exist over the long term.  No one pool is generally or permanently luckier than another and choosing a pool based on past "luck" performance is stupid.

Also, a botnet would obviously use their own pool that they set up instead of placing the entire operation in the hands of another pool that they have no control over, which could easily and rightfully seize all their BTC when they realize that there's like 1000 workers all at low speeds and from different IPs.

And third, if they did mine there and then got banned, they have no reason to DDOS them.  It serves no purpose and accomplishes nothing but wasting computing resources.  What are they, hoping BTCGuild will give up and change their mind and un-ban them?  Hell no!  Also, nobody has reported DDOS capable functions found alongside the mining trojan.

I've been using slush for a few weeks, no complaints on this end. however, could someone explain how no-variance pools actually work? I had a look at the ars page and it reads to me like the owner is making a healthy profit on the excess...

Seriously, spend some time in their chat channel. Bitclockers was one of my starting pools when I was learning about BTC mining, and they were amazingly helpful and patient. Also, they've been hit with DDOS attacks as well, I experienced two of them. Oh and "ridiculously passionate push"?! Its a really laid back bunch of folks, not sure where you got all your vitriol and conjecture. I tried BTCGuild and Deepbit, and BTCGuild was fine but they had some really crap luck (the kind that bitclockers are having atm), and Deepbit just rubbed me the wrong way and for the little time I was there generated the least BTC of all the pools I tried. Currently I am split between Bitclockers and Eligious. Are you going to spew some hate about Eligious as well? heh heh

Regards,
CoinHammer

P.S. Just thought of one more thing, if you really want to speculate about who is behind DDOS attacks - I am guessing its the zombie herders running the botnets - in fact I think one of the DDOS attacks on Bitclockers occured shortly after they implemented a filter that essentially blocked high noise CPU miners most of which use zombified systems.

Sounds like the kind of reply I was expecting.  So it's a really technical pool that;s sort of just starting out and is only at about 200GH/s.  The only reason people would have to switch to it is image and that image is long time informal tech expert/overcolocker/gamers which are famous for their wonderful social skills and sense of morals and internet politeness of course.  I definitely got the impression that they were a bunch of angry, arrogant, antisocial people over there just based on posts here and tada, here you are proving it.  What's most incredible is the discrepancy between how good your pool is and how good you pretend it is.

Btw, no, I don't pool hop.  If BTCGuild is down (thanks to assholes) I mine at Deepbit but that's about it and I usually lose a few hours before noticing so that's practically the opposite.

There is absolutely no reason for someone to DDOS another perfectly legit pool unless they're trying to eliminate competition.  Who's the most competitive pool with the poorest GH/s numbers and is filled with arrogant, hyper-geeky folks with bad attitudes who constantly rip on BTCGuild on the forum?  That'd be the fine people over at bitclockers.  Hmmm high technical knowledge members and a ridiculously passionate push to get people to mine there and angry, petty reps from there posting here...kinda the DDOSer profile.

If you have a competing theory complete with motive and suspects on why BTCGuild is being DDOSed, I'd love to hear it otherwise the prime suspect is pretty clear atm.

As a hopper and supporter of BitClockers (a very great, strong and growing pool), I can attest that Desolator is not part of the community of hoppers. His statement here is straight bollocks and I will vouch that V2-V3, Backburn, et al from BitClockers are standup guys and are not engaging in any sort of DDOS activity.

Having spent weeks in the bitclockers chat channel, I think you are either kidding or trolling. Its a pretty laid back and extremely helpful crowd. Do you have anything tangible to back your conjecture?

LOL.

No other way to respond to that except a kind LOL.  Good luck with your pool hopping or whatever you like to do.