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Comparison of mining pools
2011-09-02T17:34:00Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''CPPSRB''' - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Shut down !!Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-20 || || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BtcPool.ru|BtcPool.ru]] || Russia || 0 || Lottery || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-08-31 || || || [http://btcpool.ru/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ABCPool.co|ABCPool.co]] || USA || 133 || PPS<ref name="stales">ABCPool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-08-02 || || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0 Link] || [http://www.ABCPool.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 700 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 5.9 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-07 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitarama|Bitarama.com]] || USA || 0.021 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-08-02 || || || [http://www.bitarama.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 193 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 63.6 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || Unknown || || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1640 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 0.45 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-12 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 500 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 0.4 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 15.6 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP || 2011-06-18 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 47.5 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitPenny]] || || || CPPSRB || || 3% || || || Proprietary || || || ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 1980 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 383 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-03-11 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 70.8 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 10 || PPS / Prop || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 1.5 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-18 || || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-30 || || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron (BTC,NMC,IXC,I0C,SC)]] || Poland || 160 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-06 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 0 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-17 || 2011-07-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 5330 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-02-26 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 85 || Score (Meni) || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 600 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP, Binary || 2011-04-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mainframe Mining Cooperative]] || Int'l/Holland || 170 || PPLNS || kept by pool || 0% || 0.5% || Yes || RPC+LP, Binary || 2011-07-15 || || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24650.0 Link] || [http://mining.mainframe.nl Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 111 || PPLNS || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 172 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-25 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || RSMPPS || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://nofeemining.appspot.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 69 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 8 || PPLNS || shared || || 0.5% || Yes || RPC+LP<ref name="p2pool">Against a local p2pool node</ref> || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 130 || Prop. || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC || 2011-06-13 || || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 0 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-24 || 2011-09-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 50 || PPLNS || shared || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-05 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 28.3 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-02 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 20.6 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 30 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://www.unitedminers.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-14 || 2011-07-18 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=15489
Comparison of mining pools
2011-08-24T06:51:15Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''CPPSRB''' - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Shut down !!Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-20 || || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ABCPool.co|ABCPool.co]] || USA || 133 || PPS<ref name="stales">ABCPool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-08-02 || || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0 Link] || [http://www.ABCPool.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 500 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 5.9 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-07 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitarama|Bitarama.com]] || USA || 0.021 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-08-02 || || || [http://www.bitarama.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 193 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 63.6 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || Unknown || || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1830 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 0.45 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-12 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 500 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 0.4 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 15.6 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP || 2011-06-18 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 47.5 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitPenny]] || || || CPPSRB || || 3% || || || Proprietary || || || ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2050 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 383 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-03-11 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 70.8 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 3.6 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 1.5 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-18 || || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-30 || || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron (BTC,NMC,IXC,I0C)]] || Poland || 55 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-06 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 0 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-17 || 2011-07-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 5479 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-02-26 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 85 || Score (Meni) || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 600 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP, Binary || 2011-04-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mainframe Mining Cooperative]] || Int'l/Holland || 101 || PPLNS || kept by pool || 0% || 0.5% || Yes || RPC+LP, Binary || 2011-07-15 || || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24650.0 Link] || [http://mining.mainframe.nl Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 111 || PPLNS || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 172 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-25 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 69 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 8 || PPLNS || shared || || 0.5% || Yes || RPC+LP<ref name="p2pool">Against a local p2pool node</ref> || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 215.8 || Prop. || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC || 2011-06-13 || || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-24 || 2011-09-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 25 || PPLNS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-05 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 28.3 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-02 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 20.6 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 30 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://www.unitedminers.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-14 || 2011-07-18 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=15301
Comparison of mining pools
2011-08-20T04:26:39Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''CPPSRB''' - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Shut down !!Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-20 || || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ABCPool.co|ABCPool.co]] || USA || 133 || PPS<ref name="stales">ABCPool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-08-02 || || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0 Link] || [http://www.ABCPool.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 468 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 5.9 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-07 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitarama|Bitarama.com]] || USA || 0.021 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-08-02 || || || [http://www.bitarama.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 193 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 63.6 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || Unknown || || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1830 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 0.45 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-12 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 500 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 0.4 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 15.6 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP || 2011-06-18 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 47.5 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitPenny]] || || || CPPSRB || || 3% || || || Proprietary || || || ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2050 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 383 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-03-11 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 70.8 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 3.6 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 1.5 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-18 || || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-30 || || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron (BTC,NMC,IXC,I0C)]] || Poland || 55 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-06 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 0 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-17 || 2011-07-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 5479 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-02-26 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 85 || Score (Meni) || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 600 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP, Binary || 2011-04-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 111 || PPLNS || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 172 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-25 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 69 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 8 || PPLNS || shared || || 0.5% || Yes || RPC+LP<ref name="p2pool">Against a local p2pool node</ref> || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 215.8 || Prop. || shared || || 0% || ? || RPC || 2011-06-13 || || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-24 || 2011-09-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 0 || Prop & PPS || kept by pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-07-05 || 2011-08-13 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || Offline [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 28.3 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-02 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-05-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 20.6 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 30 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://www.unitedminers.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-08 || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC+LP || 2011-06-14 || 2011-07-18 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=14815
Comparison of mining pools
2011-08-12T21:47:48Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Shut down !!Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ABCPool.co|ABCPool.co]] || USA || 60 || PPS<ref name="stales">ABCPool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-08-02 || || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0 Link] || [http://www.ABCPool.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 464 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 10 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitarama|Bitarama.com]] || USA || 0.08 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-08-02 || || || [http://www.bitarama.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-12 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 624 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 15 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 100 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 1944 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 27 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 28 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron (BTC,NMC,IXC)]] || Poland || 20 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-06 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 90 || Score (Meni) || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 570 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 170 || PPLNS || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 85 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 8 || PPLNS || shared || || 0.5% || Yes || RPC (+LP)<ref name="p2pool">Against a local p2pool node</ref> || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 143 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC || 2011-06-13 || || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 8 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-24 || 2011-09-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 29 || Prop & PPS || kept by pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 30 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=14748
Comparison of mining pools
2011-08-12T07:13:31Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Shut down !!Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0] || [http://www.ABCPool.co Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ABCPool.co|ABCPool.co]] || USA || 50 || PPS<ref name="stales">ABCPool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-08-02 || || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33586.0 Link] || [http://www.ABCPool.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 410 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 10 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitarama|Bitarama.com]] || USA || 0.08 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-08-02 || || || [http://www.bitarama.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-12 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 624 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 15 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 100 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 1944 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 27 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-09 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 28 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron (BTC,NMC)]] || Poland || 20 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-06 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 90 || Score (Meni) || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 570 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 170 || PPLNS || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 85 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 8 || PPLNS || shared || || 0.5% || Yes || RPC (+LP)<ref name="p2pool">Against a local p2pool node</ref> || 2011-06-17 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 143 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC || 2011-06-13 || || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 8 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-24 || 2011-09-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 29 || Prop & PPS || kept by pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 30 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 0 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=14008
Comparison of mining pools
2011-08-01T13:24:40Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 370 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[bestbitcoinminingpool|bestbitcoinminingpool]] || Australia || 3 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25001.0] || [http://www.bestbitcoinminingpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 10 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-12 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 624 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 100 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2800 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 27 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 28 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron]] || Poland || 2 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-06 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 90 || Score (Meni) || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 525 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 170 || PPLNS || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 85 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[P2Pool]] || n/a (P2P) || 5 || Prop || shared || || 0.5% || ? || RPC (+LP)<ref name="p2pool">Against a local p2pool node</ref> || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 150 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-13 || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 8 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 29 || Prop & PPS || kept by pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 30 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 95 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=13827
Comparison of mining pools
2011-07-29T18:12:33Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 330 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[bestbitcoinminingpool|bestbitcoinminingpool]] || Australia || 3 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25001.0] || [http://www.bestbitcoinminingpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 10 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-12 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 624 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 100 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2800 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 27 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 28 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron]] || Poland || 2 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-06 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 50 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 505 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 170 || PPLNS || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[P2Pool]] || n/a (P2P) || 2 || Prop || ? || || 0.5% || ? || RPC (+LP)<ref name="p2pool">Against a local p2pool node</ref> || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 150 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-13 || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 45 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 29 || Prop & PPS || kept by pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 3% || No || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 95 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=13775
Comparison of mining pools
2011-07-29T00:34:00Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 300 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[bestbitcoinminingpool|bestbitcoinminingpool]] || Australia || 3 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25001.0] || [http://www.bestbitcoinminingpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 10 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-12 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 624 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 100 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2800 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 27 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 28 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron]] || Poland || 2 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-06 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 50 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 495 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 170 || PPLNS || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[P2Pool]] || n/a (P2P) || 2 || Prop || ? || || 0.5% || ? || RPC (+LP)<ref name="p2pool">Against a local p2pool node</ref> || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 150 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-13 || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 45 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 29 || Prop & PPS || kept by pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 3% || No || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 95 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=13722
Comparison of mining pools
2011-07-27T17:07:54Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''ESMPPS''' - Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.msg378851#msg378851]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''PPLNS''' - Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 250 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [https://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[bestbitcoinminingpool|bestbitcoinminingpool]] || Australia || 3 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25001.0] || [http://www.bestbitcoinminingpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 10 || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 624 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMinter]] || USA || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 100 || ESMPPS || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2800 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 27 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcserv.net|BTCSERV.net]] || Germany || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27101.0 Link] || [http://btcserv.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 5 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinotron]] || Poland || 2 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-06 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 150 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC || 2011-06-13 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/ Link] || [http://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 50 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 495 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000001%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 170 || PPLNS || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 29 || Prop & PPS || kept by pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[UnitedMiners]] || US || 3 || Prop || kept by pool || || 3% || No || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 95 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoinitalia]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-12 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26634.0 Link] || [http://www.btcfarm.us/ Link]<br />
|- <br />
| [[PoolMunity]] || France|| 45 || Score || kept by pool || || 1.5% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-24 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22036.0 Link] || [https://poolmunity.com/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=12743
Comparison of mining pools
2011-07-09T14:09:44Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 111 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%|| || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[bestbitcoinminingpool|bestbitcoinminingpool]] || Australia || 3 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25001.0] || [http://www.bestbitcoinminingpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 4 (new) || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 460 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 55 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2800 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 17 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 5 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 60 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-13 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/ Link] || [http://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 50 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 230 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000004%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 130 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 48 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || Kept in Pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 7 || Prop & PPS || Kept in Pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [https://www.triplemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[HydraCoin]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22343.0 Link] || [http://www.hydracoin.com/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=12641
Comparison of mining pools
2011-07-07T18:12:18Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[bestbitcoinminingpool|bestbitcoinminingpool]] || Australia || 3 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25001.0] || [http://www.bestbitcoinminingpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 100 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%|| || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 4 (new) || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 460 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 28 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2800 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 17 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 5 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 60 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-13 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/ Link] || [http://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 28 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 126 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000004%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 130 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 30 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || Kept in Pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 4 || Prop & PPS || Kept in Pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [https://www.triplemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[HydraCoin]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22343.0 Link] || [http://www.hydracoin.com/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=12598
Comparison of mining pools
2011-07-06T23:18:46Z
<p>BurningToad: fixing SMPPS link</p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''SMPPS''' - Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner's score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[bestbitcoinminingpool|bestbitcoinminingpool]] || Australia || 3 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-01 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25001.0] || [http://www.bestbitcoinminingpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 76.5 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%|| 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Betcoin.co_Pool|Betcoin.co Pool]] || USA || 4 (new) || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-07 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26439.0 Link] || [http://pool.betcoin.co/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 80 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 272 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 460 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || || || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
<br />
| [[Bitp.it]] || USA || 28 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12181.0 Link] || [https://pool.bitp.it Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2800 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 17 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 5 || Prop || kept by pool || || ? || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ CHWpool] || Chile || 10 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-30 || || [http://chwpool.kr105.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 16 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4180 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[PolMine]] || Poland|| 60 || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-13 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/ Link] || [http://polmine.pl/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 28 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 126 || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0.000004%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 70 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 212 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 30 || Prop || Shared || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || Kept in Pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[rfcpool]] || UK || 4 || Prop & PPS || Kept in Pool || 7% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-07-05 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26164.0/ Link] || [https://www.rfcpool.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 1.4 || Prop|| kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="simplecoin">While in testing.</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 45 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || Yes<ref name="auditnote2">Access to proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-28 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [https://www.triplemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[HydraCoin]] || Italy|| 4.5 || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22343.0 Link] || [http://www.hydracoin.com/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=ArsBitcoin&diff=12594
ArsBitcoin
2011-07-06T21:23:29Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>A [[Pooled mining|mining pool]] originally created for the [http://arstechnica.com Ars Technica] community. The pool is open to the public.<br />
<br />
This pool pays out using a Shared Maximum Pay-Per-Share system. This means that it credits miners with a constant BTC per share based on the current difficulty. It then attempts to pay out miners as much as possible when new blocks are found. This method prevents pool-hoppers from getting a higher than average value for their shares. More details about payment system on the homepage or bitcoin forums.<br />
<br />
The service was first available on June 15, 2011<ref>[http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=21758236#p21758236 Ars Technica forum thread</ref>.<br />
It was announced on the Bitcoin forums on June 17th, 2011<ref>[http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 ArsBitcoin on bitcoin forum</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Reward distribution==<br />
<br />
* Proportional: 0% fee.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Comparison of mining pools]]<br />
* [[Pooled Mining]]<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://arsbitcoin.com ArsBitcoin] web site<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Pool Operators]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=11475
Comparison of mining pools
2011-06-24T08:01:27Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found. This method is vulnerable to ''pool swapping'' cheat, where a worker would swap to another pool, if this one didn't find a block quickly. Then he would have extra profit on fast rounds, and normal profit on long rounds (because he would be mining on another pool by then). To mitigate this problem pools must introduce extra fees, and hide statistics, so that it is unknown when a block is found.<br />
* '''MaxPPS''' - Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Proportional, but with a protection against ''pool swapping'', which gives it some PPS-like characteristics. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system, the most advanced one. It is a proportional reward, but it is impossible to cheat as described above. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth more than earlier shares, thus swapping away to another pool on longer rounds makes the cheater's score to quickly diminish. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). Statistics can be shown "live" without fear. The score based method is perfect for 24/7 miners. (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 56 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 115 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 338 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 337 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2330 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 7 || Score || kept by pool || 5% || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 2661 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 25 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || USA / Europe || 353 || MaxPPS / Prop. || kept by pool || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 35 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit]] || USA, EU || 200 || Prop || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 Link] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 14 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || Kept in Pool || 0% || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 0 || Prop|| kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 2 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=11427
Comparison of mining pools
2011-06-23T20:47:42Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found. This method is vulnerable to ''pool swapping'' cheat, where a worker would swap to another pool, if this one didn't find a block quickly. Then he would have extra profit on fast rounds, and normal profit on long rounds (because he would be mining on another pool by then). To mitigate this problem pools must introduce extra fees, and hide statistics, so that it is unknown when a block is found.<br />
* '''MaxPPS''' - Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Proportional, but with a protection against ''pool swapping'', which gives it some PPS-like characteristics. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system, the most advanced one. It is a proportional reward, but it is impossible to cheat as described above. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth more than earlier shares, thus swapping away to another pool on longer rounds makes the cheater's score to quickly diminish. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). Statistics can be shown "live" without fear. The score based method is perfect for 24/7 miners. (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 41 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 115 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 338 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 337 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2330 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 7 || Score || kept by pool || 5% || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 2661 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 25 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || USA / Europe || 353 || MaxPPS / Prop. || kept by pool || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 35 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit]] || USA, EU || 200 || Prop || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 Link] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 14 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || Kept in Pool || 0% || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 0 || Prop|| kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 2 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=11346
Comparison of mining pools
2011-06-22T14:44:58Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found. This method is vulnerable to ''pool swapping'' cheat, where a worker would swap to another pool, if this one didn't find a block quickly. Then he would have extra profit on fast rounds, and normal profit on long rounds (because he would be mining on another pool by then). To mitigate this problem pools must introduce extra fees, and hide statistics, so that it is unknown when a block is found.<br />
* '''MaxPPS''' - Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Proportional, but with a protection against ''pool swapping'', which gives it some PPS-like characteristics. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system, the most advanced one. It is a proportional reward, but it is impossible to cheat as described above. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth more than earlier shares, thus swapping away to another pool on longer rounds makes the cheater's score to quickly diminish. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). Statistics can be shown "live" without fear. The score based method is perfect for 24/7 miners. (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 35 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 115 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 160 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 337 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2330 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 7 || PPS / Score || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 2661 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 25 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || USA / Europe || 353 || MaxPPS / Prop. || kept by pool || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 35 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit]] || USA, EU || 200 || Prop || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 Link] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 14 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || Kept in Pool || 0% || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 0 || Prop|| kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Btcworld.de]] || Germany || 2 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-18 || || [http://btcworld.de/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=11320
Comparison of mining pools
2011-06-22T08:36:13Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found. This method is vulnerable to ''pool swapping'' cheat, where a worker would swap to another pool, if this one didn't find a block quickly. Then he would have extra profit on fast rounds, and normal profit on long rounds (because he would be mining on another pool by then). To mitigate this problem pools must introduce extra fees, and hide statistics, so that it is unknown when a block is found.<br />
* '''MaxPPS''' - Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Proportional, but with a protection against ''pool swapping'', which gives it some PPS-like characteristics. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system, the most advanced one. It is a proportional reward, but it is impossible to cheat as described above. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth more than earlier shares, thus swapping away to another pool on longer rounds makes the cheater's score to quickly diminish. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). Statistics can be shown "live" without fear. The score based method is perfect for 24/7 miners. (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 27 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 115 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 160 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 337 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2330 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 7 || PPS / Score || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 2661 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 25 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || USA / Europe || 353 || MaxPPS / Prop. || kept by pool || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 35 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit]] || USA, EU || 200 || Prop || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 Link] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 14 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || Kept in Pool || 0% || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 0 || Prop|| kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=11314
Comparison of mining pools
2011-06-22T07:19:03Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found. This method is vulnerable to ''pool swapping'' cheat, where a worker would swap to another pool, if this one didn't find a block quickly. Then he would have extra profit on fast rounds, and normal profit on long rounds (because he would be mining on another pool by then). To mitigate this problem pools must introduce extra fees, and hide statistics, so that it is unknown when a block is found.<br />
* '''MaxPPS''' - Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Proportional, but with a protection against ''pool swapping'', which gives it some PPS-like characteristics. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system, the most advanced one. It is a proportional reward, but it is impossible to cheat as described above. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth more than earlier shares, thus swapping away to another pool on longer rounds makes the cheater's score to quickly diminish. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). Statistics can be shown "live" without fear. The score based method is perfect for 24/7 miners. (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 23 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 115 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 160 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 337 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2330 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 480 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 7 || PPS / Score || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 2661 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 25 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || USA / Europe || 353 || MaxPPS / Prop. || kept by pool || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 35 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit]] || USA, EU || 200 || Prop || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 Link] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 14 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 41 || Prop || Kept in Pool || 0% || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 0 || Prop|| kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 13 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=11282
Comparison of mining pools
2011-06-21T16:48:28Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found. This method is vulnerable to ''pool swapping'' cheat, where a worker would swap to another pool, if this one didn't find a block quickly. Then he would have extra profit on fast rounds, and normal profit on long rounds (because he would be mining on another pool by then). To mitigate this problem pools must introduce extra fees, and hide statistics, so that it is unknown when a block is found.<br />
* '''MaxPPS''' - Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Proportional, but with a protection against ''pool swapping'', which gives it some PPS-like characteristics. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Maximum_PPS]<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system, the most advanced one. It is a proportional reward, but it is impossible to cheat as described above. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth more than earlier shares, thus swapping away to another pool on longer rounds makes the cheater's score to quickly diminish. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). Statistics can be shown "live" without fear. The score based method is perfect for 24/7 miners. (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 15 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 115 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 255 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 300 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 1950|| Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 605 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 7 || PPS / Score || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 2661 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 25 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || USA / Europe || 357 || MaxPPS / Prop. || kept by pool || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 35 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit]] || USA, EU || 180 || Prop || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 Link] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 2 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 25 || Prop || Kept in Pool || 0% || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 0 || Prop|| kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 51 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_mining_pools&diff=11260
Comparison of mining pools
2011-06-21T03:30:24Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Reward types & explanation:<br />
* '''MaxPPS''' - Maximum Pay Per Share. (summary needed)<br />
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BTC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares ''on average'', a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.<br />
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found. This method is vulnerable to ''pool swapping'' cheat, where a worker would swap to another pool, if this one didn't find a block quickly. Then he would have extra profit on fast rounds, and normal profit on long rounds (because he would be mining on another pool by then). To mitigate this problem pools must introduce extra fees, and hide statistics, so that it is unknown when a block is found.<br />
* '''Score''' - Score based system, the most advanced one. It is a proportional reward, but it is impossible to cheat as described above. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time ''t'' since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth more than earlier shares, thus swapping away to another pool on longer rounds makes the cheater's score to quickly diminish. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). Statistics can be shown "live" without fear. The score based method is perfect for 24/7 miners. (at slush's pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Name !! Location !! Hashrate (GHash/sec)<ref name="hashrate">Hashrate is given in gigahash/second.</ref><ref name="hashrate2">Note that pool hashrate is largely irrelevant but can be seen as a popularity measurement. Note however that it is a theoretical security issue if one pool gains above 50% of the total computational power of the network, thus consider joining a pool based on other metrics.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Audits<ref name="auditing">Auditing can be accomplished by third-parties if the pool publishes proofs-of-work for every share.</ref> !! Protocol !! Launched !! Forum Thread !! Homepage<br />
|-<br />
| [[21bitcoin|21bitcoin]] || CN, HK || 2 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-20 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20056.0] || [http://21bitcoin.com/pool/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ArsBitcoin|ArsBitcoin]] || USA || 13 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 Link] || [http://arsbitcoin.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 115 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 255 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || Unknown || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || London || 1491 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC || 2010-11-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 300 || Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitLotto Pool]] || Los Angeles || 1 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13794.0 Link] || [http://www.bitlottopool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 1950|| Prop. || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donationsf">Donations are possible to unlock features</ref>|| ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-09 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 605 || Score || kept by pool || - || 2% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-03-11 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Continuum]] || Canada || 7 || PPS / Score || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8660.0 Link] || [http://www.continuumpool.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 2661 || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-02-26 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 25 || Prop / Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Eligius]] || USA / Europe || 357 || MaxPPS / Prop. || kept by pool || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ~0.0003%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || Yes<ref name="auditnote">Access to Eligius proofs-of-work is available on request.</ref> || RPC (+LP) || 2011-04-27 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.0 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mineco.in]] || UK || 35 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-15 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17310.0 Link] || [https://mineco.in/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mining Team Reddit]] || USA, EU || 180 || Prop || kept by pool || - || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-25 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 Link] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[NoFeeMining]] || USA || 2 || Prop || Shared || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-17 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18301.0 Link] || [http://www.nofeemining.com/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ozco.in]] || AUS || 25 || Prop || Kept in Pool || 0% || 1% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14085.0/ Link] || [http://www.ozco.in Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Simplecoin]] || Unknown || 0 || Prop|| kept by pool || - || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-02 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11186.0 Link] || [http://simplecoin.us/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Swepool]] || Sweden || 51 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-05-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8288.0 Link] || [http://swepool.net/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[x8s]] || Germany || 4 || Prop || kept by pool || - || - || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-08 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13275 Link] || [http://btc.x8s.de/ Link]<br />
|-<br />
| [[ZA Bitcoin]] || South Africa|| 0.4 || Score || kept by pool || 0% || 0% || ? || RPC (+LP) || 2011-06-14 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17830.0 Link] || [http://www.zabitcoin.co.za/ Link]<br />
|}<br />
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<references/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[Pooled mining]]<br />
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]<br />
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[[Category:Mining]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=ArsBitcoin&diff=11259
ArsBitcoin
2011-06-21T03:28:39Z
<p>BurningToad: </p>
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<div>A [[Pooled mining|mining pool]] originally created for the [http://arstechnica.com Ars Technica] community. The pool is open to the public.<br />
<br />
This pool pays out using a proportional share reward system (your shares / total shares for the round) = % share of the rewards.<br />
<br />
The service was first available on June 15, 2011<ref>[http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=21758236#p21758236 Ars Technica forum thread</ref>.<br />
It was announced on the Bitcoin forums on June 17th, 2011<ref>[http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 ArsBitcoin on bitcoin forum</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Reward distribution==<br />
<br />
* Proportional: 0% fee.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Comparison of mining pools]]<br />
* [[Pooled Mining]]<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://arsbitcoin.com ArsBitcoin] web site<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Pool Operators]]</div>
BurningToad
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=ArsBitcoin&diff=11258
ArsBitcoin
2011-06-21T03:27:41Z
<p>BurningToad: Created page with "A mining pool. This pool pays out using a proportional share reward system (your shares / total shares for the round) = % share of the rewards. The service wa..."</p>
<hr />
<div>A [[Pooled mining|mining pool]].<br />
<br />
This pool pays out using a proportional share reward system (your shares / total shares for the round) = % share of the rewards.<br />
<br />
The service was first available on June 15, 2011<ref>[http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=21758236#p21758236 Ars Technica forum thread</ref>.<br />
It was announced on the Bitcoin forums on June 17th, 2011<ref>[http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18567.0 ArsBitcoin on bitcoin forum</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Reward distribution==<br />
<br />
* Proportional: 0% fee.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Comparison of mining pools]]<br />
* [[Pooled Mining]]<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://arsbitcoin.com ArsBitcoin] web site<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Pool Operators]]</div>
BurningToad