which is the best pooled mining sevice ? - page 2.

commlinx

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The best pool is one that I run for my clients. It has zero variance. Wink

Mind enumerating? I'm pretty new here but saw in another thread you had some pretty serious gear.

As for original question I've used both slush and deepbit, both have differences but are both reputable so why not give them a try also and just see what you like best? It's hardly a lifelong commitment and the fact it's quick and easy to change yet they have a pretty even share each should probably tell you it's largely personal preference. Just don't make the mistake of trying to compare one day of earnings on one pool with another, it will vary far too much on the luck of the day for that to be meaningful.

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Quote from: Raulo on April 23, 2011, 03:48:32 AM

Quote from: nster on April 23, 2011, 03:36:07 AM

the 1 hour delay in stats help against pool hoping though

Helps but it is far from solving the problem. At worst, you need to hop after any block on the Bitcoin network is found. Based on current speed, you have 25% probability it was deepbit (and 33% if you simultaneously check it was not slush's pool). Such imperfect hopping is enough to gain a few percent. And you can analyze Bitcoin traffic and increase your chance of correctly deciphering deepbit's blocks.

thats a lot of time and energy.... if that time were spent doing useful however Roll Eyes

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Quote from: nster on April 23, 2011, 03:36:07 AM

the 1 hour delay in stats help against pool hoping though

Helps but it is far from solving the problem. At worst, you need to hop after any block on the Bitcoin network is found. Based on current speed, you have 25% probability it was deepbit (and 33% if you simultaneously check it was not slush's pool). Such imperfect hopping is enough to gain a few percent. And you can analyze Bitcoin traffic and increase your chance of correctly deciphering deepbit's blocks.

nster

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the 1 hour delay in stats help against pool hoping though

[Tycho]

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Quote from: Raulo on April 23, 2011, 02:52:52 AM

Deepbit is prone to pool hopping abuse strategy:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/optimal-pool-abuse-strategy-proofs-and-countermeasures-3165
which depending on your approach is an advantage or disadvantage :)

Your attack is possible, but the effect is negligible and can be ignored at this moment :)
I'm monitoring this and if i'll notice some considerable hashing power jumping, i'll fix it.

Raulo

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Deepbit is prone to pool hopping abuse strategy:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/optimal-pool-abuse-strategy-proofs-and-countermeasures-3165
which depending on your approach is an advantage or disadvantage

slush

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Is better Mac or Linux?

Somebody prefer instant payouts, somebody prefer score system, somebody prefer anything else.

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Quote from: nster on April 23, 2011, 01:48:43 AM

Deepbit is very easy to set-up with, and has the most features and most info. Bitcoinpool has almost no features and have been victim of a few attacks, and they stored the passwords IN PLAIN TEXT, they also forgot to pay someone already, which is a little suspicious.

Oh god, plain text? oO

luffy

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i vote for deepbit. the pool with more features and less problems so far

nster

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Deepbit is very easy to set-up with, and has the most features and most info. Bitcoinpool has almost no features and have been victim of a few attacks, and they stored the passwords IN PLAIN TEXT, they also forgot to pay someone already, which is a little suspicious.

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Eadem mutata resurgo

The best one is the one that is having the best luck .... pool hopping is discouraged with the "devaluing shares" scoring systems though.

[Tycho]

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Quote from: spndr7 on April 23, 2011, 01:00:12 AM

I have recently joined btcmine, but was wondering out of all these pooled mining services which is the best one ?
btcmine,deepbit or mining.bitcoin.cz ?

DeepBit is the best, of course, and the most efficient.
DeepBit supports long polling, instant payments, hot spare server, no need to wait for confirmation, no invalid blocks.

zhalox

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XMR = BTC in 2010. Rise chikun.

Actually the best pooled mining is not one of those - it's http://BitcoinPool.com

They have no fees, they're the only mining service that provides efficiency ratio calculations, and their modded version of the poclbm miner is the most efficient. They are currently in beta, but are doing an awesome job.

spndr7

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There are currently 3 services in public domain or more ?

spndr7

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I have recently joined btcmine, but was wondering out of all these pooled mining services which is the best one ?
btcmine,deepbit or mining.bitcoin.cz ?

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