Topic: what is the best pool for antminer s9? (Read 791 times)

Profitablility has gone down so much over the years, and a new miner costs 2-3k usd. Who can even pay this and stay profitable?
Im looking on ebay the s9 and s9j from 200-300$ but who knows how much it will produce against electricity cost and maybe even broken machines...

All the S9 Machines are -2.2 $ per day. Still its possible to get luck.

Once bitcoin value goes up anything you mine and hodl will be worth many times more depending on how long you hold for what price you Sell .
It may not be profitable below 20k but when we hit the next bull run boom

With your asics you can only make a profit if the electricity price is below 4 cents.

A good side to check is https://www.asicminervalue.com/

Mining is still a thing yes! But you will need state of the art hardware, like an S19Pro and always one thing that is: Cheap power!

If you can have cheap power it may even be possible to mine with old hardware and not make a loss. The reward will still be very small, so it should be your focus to calculate if it makes sense for you to get state of the art mining hardware. If yes, then minig is still possible.

Above emphasis mine.
Where you mine has NOTHING to do with how much power a miner uses.
For any given miner, only 3 things affect power usage:
Chip speed
Vcore
Temperature

    - Do you have any idea Op that if you use a mining pool antminer your electricity consumption may increase?
maybe later you will be surprised that your electricity bill will suddenly increase.

But if your electricity bills are high every month so that you can somehow save on its consumption, maybe the first thing I can recommend is to use solo mining, first estimate the cost, and then add it when you see or know about it first.

I think it would be wiser to advise him not to mine with an S9 in the first place, going solo with an old gear as opposed to mining to a pool doesn't change the power bill, it just makes things even worse, you would be faced with a power bill and all you have on the other hand is "hope", I also think the phrase "very slim" doesn't fully describe the chances of a single S9 hitting a block, he has 1 in 143,679 chance per day, one single change in nearly quarter a million at a cost of nearly 30kWh which is a huge bill, he would have a lot more chances winning the lottery while spending a lot less.

So I agree with NFW here, solo mining is only 'ok' if you use a small USB stick that needs a few dollars worth of power a day, anything aside from that is just irrational.

OP, it's good that hzti brought the power cost in this topic, I hope you understand what you are doing and are well aware of the cost you are going to pay vs the rewards, if you already ran the numbers and decided to go for it, you must focus mainly on the minimum payout of the pool, try to stick to a PPS pool which has a very low payout threshold so you don't have to wait for months to get paid.

Binance, Viabtc, F2pool, and the list goes on and on, you can do a google search on all PPS pools and then read their terms to find out which one has the lowest payout threshold, even at a bit higher fees it would still make sense to use that pool as opposed to saving 1% on fees only to get paid out in 4 months.

I was just referring to electricity costs that would be higher than the mining reward. With an S9 that can easily happen, if you are not living in the right location (like me). In any case everyone should decide themselves I was just giving this option, as OP didnt seem to be very well informed. The chance of hitting a block with an S9 is indeed very slim.

With pools that have regular payouts at least you get something, now whether or not it even comes close to paying the electric bill just depends on what your electricity costs. For most people they would be running at a loss.

Just remember that in the case of the very large pools, yes they find a lot of blocks BUT the rewards are split among gazillions of other users with your (tiny) reward being based on how many THs you run vs total pool hash rate.

With solo, unless you are talking about only a few THs of stick or pod miners you would be facing a large electric bill each month with the hope of a payout within a few years all the while paying that large bill each month.

If you don't have very cheap electricity you may consider to use an solo pool, because the payouts of a regular pool will probably not be enough to cover even your electricity bill. If you would however mine solo, you have the chance to find a complete block for yourself and basically earn 100K USD equivalent in bitcoin. The chance is slim, but its better to waste money on electricity.

Slush pool or know as now Braiins Pool is very suitable for S9 antminers However, I think S9j is much more higher in TH rather than S9 if I am not mistaken. Like in S9 there is 13.5TH while in S9j was 14.5 TH, and in terms of price S9j is much cheaper than the S9 miner.

But of course, you can do your own research about this matter anyway, this is just a suggestion and comparing in between
the two miners, here's the MINING POOL

bro you can't really control the performance of the miner while actually mining in a pool tho. but I can recommend you the Luxor pool, Fpps payout method, second largest U.S. mining pool. feel free to ask any questions If you are interested. thanks

best performance is a hard question to answer.

viabtc.com. set to pps+ pays 17 cent a th or 0.00000436 btc x 28th = 0.00012208 btc a day / $4.76 set auto withdrawal to 0.0001 and you will get payment every 9 or 10 days


https://www.viabtc.com/signup?refer=257609

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or got to

https://www.viabtc.com

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do I think it is your best choice

if you want a regular payout yes it is.



if you want to get rich mine at ck solo pool

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/yh-solockpoolorg-2-fee-solo-mining-256-blocks-solved-5237323

or try kano solo pool


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/kanopool-kanois-lowest-09-fee-since-2014-worldwide-2432-blocks-789369


solo mining is all or nothing and would take you decades to catch a pool so $0.   for 30 years is the likely income .  But if you get lucky and hit a block for 6 coins = over $229,000 in under a day . very very very unlikely

There are many factors to think about.

1) PPLNS vs FPPS/PPS+
With PPLNS fees will be lower then PPS and it's variations BUT you will not receive a regular income. If the pool has a good day or week you can earn more. If it has a bad day or week you could earn less.

2) Are there GOOD stratum nodes close to where you are? I could offer a 0% PPS pool but only have a node near me. If you are on the other side of the world the amount of stale shares and other issues would probably cost you a few %

3) Payout minimum. 2 S9 units will get you about 30TH which will get you BTC0.0001387 a day give or take. If a pool pays you when you hit BTC0.001 you will get paid once a week or so. If it pays out when you get 0.01 it's going to be 10x as long till you get paid.

-Dave

If you only have one miner, I recommend the Binance pool.

There is no pool that you can control the performance of your miner if you are looking for the best pool I don't know which one but I suggest you try Viabtc.net

If you are looking for more list of pools check this https://miningpoolstats.stream/bitcoin

I have an antminer s9 and an antminer s9j, I would like to know which is the best pool I can put them in to have the best performance