Topic: joining pool small vs large? (Read 149 times)
thanks for inputs. Pretty much aligned with my expectation.
I believe this comes down to whether one wants smaller, frequent payments (large pool) or larger, infrequent payments (small pool).
It depends on the payment system PPS etc. but in general luck is more an important factor in the smaller pools for profits sometimes you can get a really good run or a really bad run and you just to wear it.
The bigger pools will usually find a block very consistently but because of the short time frame (particularly if you are a hobby miner with a home setup etc.) then you won't be submitting a lot of valid shares in that short time compared to commercial miners and so your payouts can be smaller however you would be receiving them more regularly.
The bigger pools will usually find a block very consistently but because of the short time frame (particularly if you are a hobby miner with a home setup etc.) then you won't be submitting a lot of valid shares in that short time compared to commercial miners and so your payouts can be smaller however you would be receiving them more regularly.
I used to have the same question. As I see, once a pool is fair and performs well in the sense that all your shares are rewarded,... then they are the same in the long run (on average). However, the feeling of receiving rewards every hour is good so people (including me) prefer big pools.
I have setup several miners as of now some of the pools have a huge percentage for particular crypto and some of them are small. It is too broad topic but it seems large pool give more guaranteed reward at a regular interval with very small amount vs. smaller pool seems erratic and sometimes no hit and thus no reward. However for smaller pool once it hits the jackpot, reward seems much bigger quantity. Just using both observation and common sense. 
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