Buddy, Slush's has the BEST dashboard, but CKPool has the BEST profits.
Can we have a non-emotional, fact based, discussion about that? I am open to switching.
Slush is running around 62PH, it has a 2% fee and using a scoring system that seems fair (rewards consistent participation). Transaction fees are shared.
CKPool is running around 36PH, has a 0.9% fee and uses PPLNSG payouts. Transaction fees are also shared.
Seems to me, for someone that is running for months, PPLNSG and Slushes scoring system are similar in effect, both avoid block hoppers (are those still a problem?).
Variance based on pool size is not a big deal for either: both are large enough that a daily payout is reasonable (my personal threshold).
Seems Slush wouldn't make for a very good backup pool, since short term access results in a lower score. Seems to me that CKPool may be ok for that, although the payouts would be delayed by a day or so.
Bottom line, the fees are the major difference?
BTW - I have CKPool as one of my backup pools as of last night, but all three of my miners are showing the pool as dead. I'm using a named account. The doc indicates the worker name will be auto-generated upon first contact, yet I'll never have a first contact if the pool doesn't show up as alive...
Slush is bad if you have a blackout you lose your work. I would not use them for this one reason. Forget any other reason then this one.
also along the same lines if you do a big rental on nicehash and the rental drops off you lose your work.
I don't mine anywhere that loses my work in under 12 hours. To me the 5n feature of kano is a big reason I mine with them.
I can understand wanting credit for every second participating in the pool, however, the Slush method isn't necessarily unfair.
It's true that you lose all your work on power down for the next block found. But on the flip side of that coin you get full credit for the next block found on power up. Granted, you lose work faster than you gain it, but not so much so that these two attributes of the scoring system don't nearly cancel each other out.
To boot, if you get back online before the next block is solved (in the pool) there is 0 impact to the credit towards that block. So Slush favors power ons as well as intermittent power downs between blocks to balance out for losing credit on power downs where a block is solved.
I see nothing *bad* about that. It's just different.
Thank you I see something in your info that I can use.
There is a site that measures pool statistics: http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/?view=flipcard
Goto the third Card that says Pools.
Of course there is a method that I also use is put a 1 miner there and compare with 1 miner in another pool to see the profitability. That Dashoboard of Slush's is cool, but the bottom line is what counts!
