Topic: What is the best pool? - page 2. (Read 1763 times)

First, let me correct your understanding.  Your statement of:
Is absolutely incorrect.  No matter which pool you choose, your expected earnings will be pretty close.  Some pools might do marginally better than others, but simply stating that the size of the pool determines profits is wrong.  For example, assuming everything else is constant, a pool with 0% fees will be better than a pool with 3% fees.

If you're thinking that switching pools will somehow translate into a substantially larger profit margin for you, think again.  Unless the pool you're currently on is either stealing or charging outlandish fees or has some kind of bug, you're not going to move to another pool and suddenly think, "Eureka!  I'm making 100% more here!"

As for personal preference, I mine on p2pool.  I suggest you take a look at the p2pool thread to get some more info on how it works and see if it is a fit for you.  It is for me, and here's why:

1) I like to have control.  I don't want some other entity to hold my coins, or have to deal with payout thresholds, or withdrawal fees, or any of that.  When a block is found, I get newly minted coins.
2) Decentralization.  Unlike other pools where you've got everything controlled under one banner, with p2pool, anybody anywhere can fire up a node and be part of the network.
3) Payouts.  I mentioned this in my first point, and wanted to state it again.  I like the fact that as soon as a block is found, I get those nice, shiny, newly minted coins in my wallet.
4) No punishment for hopping around.  In p2pool, it doesn't matter if I mine on my node or anyone else's.  Every share I find goes onto the share chain, which every other node uses.

Hello, i began to mine like 2 months ago, i have already tested multipool, ghash pool, and a little of btcguild.

I have 860 gh/s with 2 antminers s1's and half oh antminer s2 and soon i will have 1.3 th/s with my antminer s3, so i really wanna know what is the best pool to mine with my hashrate and explain me why please.

Multipool isn't bad but many times breaks and i go to my second pool to mine.

Ghash i think is good but with so many people mining i can't get good profits.

And btcguild i have to test better.

I heard about p2pool but i dont know any and i don't know very well the concept of p2pool, so i would like to know if p2pool is a good choice and why aswell.

So just give me your opinion and why, thank you in advance.