not very impressed with the mining pools. Only manicminer.in with tons of rejects and no stats or f2pool.com which I still havent quite figured out how to get PTC.
Working in the new official pool, will be back with merged mining, powerful server and DDoS protection.
This merged mining...is it really worth it? I mean if you are the official pool for a coin, why mine other coins on the side?
I dont really understand it too much yet but so far I dont like it. I want to mine a currency either because its profitable or because its for a worthy cause. If its profitable then I want to focus all my hash power on that coin, not waste it on rejects, work restarts and throwing hashing power on some other coin. I know its meant to be simultaneous, but I have SEVERE doubts you generate the same amount of coins multi-hashing as when you are focusing on a single coin.
For example, I mined for an hour on manicminer.in, got no stats, not PTC, tons of rejects, no idea what was going on and found all I had was some bloody DOGE in my wallet, not quite what I had in mind...
Getting up to date stats on your miners, income, blocks, shares, etc. is important to me. So far with this merged mining you get no stats and have to have faith that the site operator is being honest, or work twice as hard to figure out your own stats.
Sorry if I´m ranting, I set out to mine some more PTC today and since seeing the official pool closed and trying multi mining on 2 diff sites I now have DOGE and LTC but no Pesetacoin. Waste of time so far and time is Bitcoin!