Yeah, miningpool.co is my favorite as well. But I can't reach the website and I see no coins coming out from there as well unfortunately. Tried coin-pool, but the same: hashing happily but balance remains 0.
@Mike --
miningpool.co is back up! At least for now. I'm wondering if they've been subjected to DDOS attacks from time to time. When they're up, they work great!
coin-pool, uhh, I don't know. Always seems like a work-in-progress. Plus, the damnedest thing is their "dashboard" always crashes my browser (Chrome) if I leave it open for more than an hour or so. Longer than that, it crashes my whole computer!!! They were the first pool I used, got tired of that nonsense, tried some UK one that seemed OK for a week or so then they disappeared off the planet. So for "local" mining, miningpool.co is it for me.
The mining return from Genesis Mining is just great. If I paid a fee for the electricity usage of my home miner every day I would not see better results, or perhaps even worse with the silly power prices here in the Netherlands, who knows. And forgive me for plugging my Genesis Mining discount code MMD, but it's for everybody's benefit in the form of a 3% discount.
I *believe* I used your code for one of my TH/s, somebody else's (can't remember) for my one other TH/s -- and I don't remember which came first.
I just read in the GM thread that someone had just purchased 10 TH/s as a "small investment". Lordy! :-)
Anyway, I'm kinda tired of hardware. I've got USB ASICs out the wazoo and 2 Antminer S3s. The Antminers are actually pretty awesome. But you've got to worry about your local internet connection and when you go out of town and something happens, you're out of luck.
I *am* going out of town from Saturday until about January 10th. When I get back, I think I'm going to seriously try to sell my USB rigs and even the Antminers and maybe move exclusively over to GM. I'll probably take a big loss on the gear (the Antminer S3s are currently going for almost half what I paid for them just a few months ago, and let's don't even talk about the USB ASICs), but at least I'll be free of the headaches.
Also, the big question is always -- is the payoff better when you *buy* the coin at this point when it's this cheap, or better when you *mine* it? Or both?