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Comparison of mining pools

2012-11-09T12:45:27Z

Gilgil: Update hashrate of BitMinter

Reward types & explanation:
* '''DGM''' - Double Geometric Method. A hybrid between PPLNS and Geometric reward types that enables to operator to absorb some of the variance risk. Operator receives portion of payout on short rounds and returns it on longer rounds to normalize payments. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0]
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.
* '''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.
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BC. 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.
* '''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]
* '''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]
* '''RSMPPS''' - Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but system aims to prioritize the most recent miners first. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]
* '''CPPSRB''' - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Capped_PPS_with_Recent_Backpay]
* '''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)
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Location !! GH/s<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> !! Merged Mining<ref name="merged">Merged mining allows miners to mine on multiple [[block chains]] at the same time with the same hashing.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! PPS Fee !! Reward Fee !! Protocol !! Launched !! Difficulty<ref name="diff">The share difficulty the pool uses</ref> !! Forum !! Website
|-
| [[50BTC]] || Germany || 4500 || No || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool ||3% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-11-11 || 1 || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54673.0 1] || [http://50btc.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Oxygen]] || EU || 1 || No || PPS || kept by pool || 0% || || [[getwork]] || 1-11-2012 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120976.0 1] || [http://www.btcoxygen.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BitArena]] || Romania || 1 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getblocktemplate]] || 2012-09-22 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112243.0 1] ||[https://www.bitarena.net/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcash.cz|Bitcash.cz]] || Czech Republic || 5 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-09-14 || 1 || [http://bitcash.cz/forum/ 1] ||
[http://bitcash.cz/pool/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA/EU || 250 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 8% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 1] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 70 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || [[getwork]] || Unknown || 1 || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ 1] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Slush's pool (mining.bitcoin.cz)]] || EU/France || 2000 || [[NMC]] || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || [[getwork]], [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining stratum] || 2010-11-27 || Dynamic || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 1] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 60 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 1] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitparking]] || USA || 130 || [[NMC]], I0C, IXC, [[Devcoin]] || PPS || kept by pool || 2.5% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-01-08 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57148.0 1] || [http://mmpool.bitparking.com/pool Link]
|-
| [[BitMinter]] || Germany || 2000 || [[NMC]] || PPLNS || shared || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-26 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 1] || [https://bitminter.com Link]
|-
| [[BitPenny]] || USA || 4 || No || CPPSRB || 97% shared || 3% || || BlkPrep<ref name="local">Miner-local getwork proxy available.</ref> || 2011-02-08 || 8 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36371.0 1] || [http://bitpenny.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Canada]] || Canada || 2 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 1.5% || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-08 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99741.0/ 1] || [https://btccan.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA/EU || 2300 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 5% || || [[getwork]], [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining stratum] || 2011-05-09 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 1] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 65 || No || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-03-11 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 1] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]
|-
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 60 || No || PPS || kept by pool || 4% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-28 || 1 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTCWarp]] || USA || 50 || No || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || ? || 1 || [http://www.bitcoinbalkan.com/forum 1] ||[http://www.btcwarp.com/ Link]
|-
| [[CoinLab Protected Pool]] || USA || ? || No || PPS || kept by pool || 2-5% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-09 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99643 1] ||[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99643 Link]
|-
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron]] || Poland || 70 || No || DGM || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-07-06 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 1] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]
|-
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4200 || No || PPS/Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || [[getwork]] || 2011-02-26 ||1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 1] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]
|-
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA/EU/AU/Asia || 1900 || [[NMC]] || DGM/PPS || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || [[getwork]], [[getblocktemplate]] || 2011-06-14 || 1/Choosable<ref name="changeable"/>/Dynamic || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 1] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]
|-
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 300 || [[NMC]] || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || [[getwork]], [[getblocktemplate]]<ref name="local"/> || 2011-04-27 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=23768.msg298069#msg298069 1] || [http://eligius.st Link]
|-
| [[Horrible Horrendous TT]] || USA || 15 || No || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool || 1% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-29 || Choosable<ref name="changeable">The difficulty of the shares can be changed by the user.</ref> || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95378.0 1] || [http://hhtt.1209k.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA/EU || 650 || [[NMC]] || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || shared || 0% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-25 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]
|-
| [[MaxBTC]] || USA || 220 || [[NMC]] || DGM || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-03-15 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68734.0 1] || [https://www.maxbtc.com/ Link]
|-
| [[NMCBit]] || USA || 20 || [[NMC]] || PPS/Prop. || kept by pool || 6.6% || 3% || [[getwork]] || 2011-08-01 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33612.0 1] [http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=268 2] || [http://www.nmcbit.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Ozco.in]] || USA/EU/AUS || 750 || [[NMC]] on DGM || DGM/PPS || shared on DGM || 4% || 2% || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-07 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14085.0 1] || [https://www.ozcoin.net Link]
|-
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 300 || Solo Mining<ref>P2Pool supports merged mining but payouts in the merged chain are not pooled.</ref> || PPLNS || shared || || 0%<ref>People are donating ''to'' P2Pool miners to encourage people to use it. The P2Pool author also accepts optional donations.</ref> || Proprietary<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-17 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 1] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]
|-
| [[pool.itzod.ru]] || Russia || 400 || Converted to BTC || RSMPPS || shared || 0% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-08-01 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25127.0 1] [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44024.0 2] || [https://pool.itzod.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[PolMine]] || Poland || 160 || No || SMPPS || shared || 1% || || [[getwork]], [[getblocktemplate]] || 2011-06-13 || 1 || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ 1] || [https://polmine.pl/?setlang=en Link]
|-
| [[Triplemining]] || EU || 90 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% <ref name="jackpot">Triplemining keeps 1% to redistribute using a weekly jackpot and affiliations</ref> || [[getwork]], getmemorypool<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-28 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 1] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]
|-
| [[pool.mkalinin.ru]] || Russia || 70 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-07-20 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30703.0 1] || [http://pool.mkalinin.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[alvarez.sfek.kz]] || Kazakhstan || 3 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-04-19 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80135.0 1] || [http://alvarez.sfek.kz/ Link]
|}
<references/>

== See also ==
*[[Pooled mining]]
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]
*[http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/chart.php Hashrate distribution pie chart]

[[Category:Mining]]

Comparison of mining pools

2012-10-31T13:50:36Z

Gilgil: Update hashrate of BitMinter

Reward types & explanation:
* '''DGM''' - Double Geometric Method. A hybrid between PPLNS and Geometric reward types that enables to operator to absorb some of the variance risk. Operator receives portion of payout on short rounds and returns it on longer rounds to normalize payments. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0]
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.
* '''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.
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BC. 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.
* '''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]
* '''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]
* '''RSMPPS''' - Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but system aims to prioritize the most recent miners first. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]
* '''CPPSRB''' - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Capped_PPS_with_Recent_Backpay]
* '''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)
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Location !! GH/s<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> !! Merged Mining<ref name="merged">Merged mining allows miners to mine on multiple [[block chains]] at the same time with the same hashing.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! PPS Fee !! Reward Fee !! Protocol !! Launched !! Difficulty<ref name="diff">The share difficulty the pool uses</ref> !! Forum !! Website
|-
| [[50BTC]] || Germany || 4500 || No || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool ||3% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-11-11 || 1 || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54673.0 1] || [http://50btc.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BitArena]] || Romania || 1 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getblocktemplate]] || 2012-09-22 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112243.0 1] ||[https://www.bitarena.net/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcash.cz|Bitcash.cz]] || Czech Republic || 5 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-09-14 || 1 || [http://bitcash.cz/forum/ 1] ||
[http://bitcash.cz/pool/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA/EU || 250 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 8% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 1] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 70 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || [[getwork]] || Unknown || 1 || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ 1] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Slush's pool (mining.bitcoin.cz)]] || EU/France || 2000 || [[NMC]] || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || [[getwork]], [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining stratum] || 2010-11-27 || Dynamic || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 1] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 60 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 1] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitparking]] || USA || 130 || [[NMC]], I0C, IXC, [[Devcoin]] || PPS || kept by pool || 2.5% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-01-08 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57148.0 1] || [http://mmpool.bitparking.com/pool Link]
|-
| [[BitMinter]] || Germany || 1700 || [[NMC]] || PPLNS || shared || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-26 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 1] || [https://bitminter.com Link]
|-
| [[BitPenny]] || USA || 4 || No || CPPSRB || 97% shared || 3% || || BlkPrep<ref name="local">Miner-local getwork proxy available.</ref> || 2011-02-08 || 8 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36371.0 1] || [http://bitpenny.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Canada]] || Canada || 2 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 1.5% || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-08 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99741.0/ 1] || [https://btccan.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA/EU || 2300 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 5% || || [[getwork]], [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining stratum] || 2011-05-09 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 1] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 65 || No || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-03-11 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 1] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]
|-
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 60 || No || PPS || kept by pool || 4% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-28 || 1 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTCWarp]] || USA || 50 || No || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || ? || 1 || [http://www.bitcoinbalkan.com/forum 1] ||[http://www.btcwarp.com/ Link]
|-
| [[CoinLab Protected Pool]] || USA || ? || No || PPS || kept by pool || 2-5% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-09 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99643 1] ||[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99643 Link]
|-
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron]] || Poland || 70 || No || DGM || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-07-06 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 1] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]
|-
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4200 || No || PPS/Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || [[getwork]] || 2011-02-26 ||1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 1] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]
|-
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA/EU/AU/Asia || 1900 || [[NMC]] || DGM/PPS || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || [[getwork]], [[getblocktemplate]] || 2011-06-14 || 1/Choosable<ref name="changeable"/>/Dynamic || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 1] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]
|-
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 300 || [[NMC]] || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || [[getwork]], [[getblocktemplate]]<ref name="local"/> || 2011-04-27 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=23768.msg298069#msg298069 1] || [http://eligius.st Link]
|-
| [[Horrible Horrendous TT]] || USA || 15 || No || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool || 1% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-29 || Choosable<ref name="changeable">The difficulty of the shares can be changed by the user.</ref> || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95378.0 1] || [http://hhtt.1209k.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA/EU || 650 || [[NMC]] || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || shared || 0% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-25 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]
|-
| [[MaxBTC]] || USA || 220 || [[NMC]] || DGM || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-03-15 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68734.0 1] || [https://www.maxbtc.com/ Link]
|-
| [[NMCBit]] || USA || 20 || [[NMC]] || PPS/Prop. || kept by pool || 6.6% || 3% || [[getwork]] || 2011-08-01 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33612.0 1] [http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=268 2] || [http://www.nmcbit.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Ozco.in]] || USA/EU/AUS || 750 || [[NMC]] on DGM || DGM/PPS || shared on DGM || 4% || 2% || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-07 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14085.0 1] || [https://www.ozcoin.net Link]
|-
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 300 || Solo Mining<ref>P2Pool supports merged mining but payouts in the merged chain are not pooled.</ref> || PPLNS || shared || || 0%<ref>People are donating ''to'' P2Pool miners to encourage people to use it. The P2Pool author also accepts optional donations.</ref> || Proprietary<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-17 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 1] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]
|-
| [[pool.itzod.ru]] || Russia || 360 || Converted to BTC || RSMPPS || shared || 0% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-08-01 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25127.0 1] [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44024.0 2] || [https://pool.itzod.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[PolMine]] || Poland || 160 || No || SMPPS || shared || 1% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-13 || 1 || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ 1] || [https://polmine.pl/?setlang=en Link]
|-
| [[Triplemining]] || EU || 90 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% <ref name="jackpot">Triplemining keeps 1% to redistribute using a weekly jackpot and affiliations</ref> || [[getwork]], getmemorypool<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-28 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 1] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]
|-
| [[pool.mkalinin.ru]] || Russia || 70 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-07-20 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30703.0 1] || [http://pool.mkalinin.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[alvarez.sfek.kz]] || Kazakhstan || 3 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-04-19 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80135.0 1] || [http://alvarez.sfek.kz/ Link]
|}
<references/>

== See also ==
*[[Pooled mining]]
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]
*[http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/chart.php Hashrate distribution pie chart]

[[Category:Mining]]

Comparison of mining pools

2012-10-10T15:41:32Z

Gilgil:

Reward types & explanation:
* '''DGM''' - Double Geometric Method. A hybrid between PPLNS and Geometric reward types that enables to operator to absorb some of the variance risk. Operator receives portion of payout on short rounds and returns it on longer rounds to normalize payments. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0]
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.
* '''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.
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BC. 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.
* '''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]
* '''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]
* '''RSMPPS''' - Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but system aims to prioritize the most recent miners first. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]
* '''CPPSRB''' - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay.
* '''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)
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Location !! GH/s<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> !! Merged Mining<ref name="merged">Merged mining allows miners to mine on multiple [[block chains]] at the same time with the same hashing.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! PPS Fee !! Reward Fee !! Protocol !! Launched !! Difficulty<ref name="diff">The share difficulty the pool uses</ref> !! Forum !! Website
|-
| [[50BTC]] || Germany || 4000 || No || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool ||3% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-11-11 || 1 || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54673.0 1] || [http://50btc.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BitArena]] || Romania || 1 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getblocktemplate]] || 2012-09-22 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112243.0 1] ||[https://www.bitarena.net/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcash.cz|Bitcash.cz]] || Czech Republic || 5 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-09-14 || 1 || [http://bitcash.cz/forum/ 1] ||
[http://bitcash.cz/pool/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA/EU || 250 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 8% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 1] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 70 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || [[getwork]] || Unknown || 1 || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ 1] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Slush's pool (mining.bitcoin.cz)]] || EU/France || 1600 || [[NMC]] || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || [[getwork]], [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining stratum] || 2010-11-27 || Dynamic || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 1] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 60 || No || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 1] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitparking]] || USA || 130 || [[NMC]], I0C, IXC, [[Devcoin]] || PPS || kept by pool || 2.5% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-01-08 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57148.0 1] || [http://mmpool.bitparking.com/pool Link]
|-
| [[BitMinter]] || Germany || 1500 || [[NMC]] || PPLNS || shared || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-26 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 1] || [https://bitminter.com Link]
|-
| [[BitPenny]] || USA || 4 || No || CPPSRB || 97% shared || 3% || || BlkPrep<ref name="local">Miner-local getwork proxy available.</ref> || 2011-02-08 || 8 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36371.0 1] || [http://bitpenny.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Canada]] || Canada || 2 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 1.5% || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-08 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99741.0/ 1] || [https://btccan.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA/EU || 2300 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 5% || || [[getwork]], [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining stratum] || 2011-05-09 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 1] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 65 || No || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-03-11 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 1] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]
|-
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 60 || No || PPS || kept by pool || 4% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-28 || 1 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTCWarp]] || USA || 50 || No || Score || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || ? || 1 || [http://www.bitcoinbalkan.com/forum 1] ||[http://www.btcwarp.com/ Link]
|-
| [[CoinLab Protected Pool]] || USA || ? || No || PPS || kept by pool || 2-5% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-09 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99643 1] ||[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99643 Link]
|-
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron]] || Poland || 70 || No || DGM || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-07-06 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 1] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]
|-
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 4200 || No || PPS/Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || [[getwork]] || 2011-02-26 ||1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 1] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]
|-
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA/EU/AU/Asia || 1900 || [[NMC]] || DGM/PPS || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || [[getwork]], [[getblocktemplate]] || 2011-06-14 || 1/Choosable<ref name="changeable"/>/Dynamic || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 1] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]
|-
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 300 || [[NMC]] || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || [[getwork]], [[getblocktemplate]]<ref name="local"/> || 2011-04-27 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=23768.msg298069#msg298069 1] || [http://eligius.st Link]
|-
| [[Horrible Horrendous TT]] || USA || 15 || No || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool || 1% || || [[getwork]] || 2012-08-29 || Choosable<ref name="changeable">The difficulty of the shares can be changed by the user.</ref> || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95378.0 1] || [http://hhtt.1209k.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA/EU || 650 || [[NMC]] || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || shared || 0% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-05-25 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]
|-
| [[MaxBTC]] || USA || 220 || [[NMC]] || DGM || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-03-15 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68734.0 1] || [https://www.maxbtc.com/ Link]
|-
| [[NMCBit]] || USA || 20 || [[NMC]] || PPS/Prop. || kept by pool || 6.6% || 3% || [[getwork]] || 2011-08-01 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33612.0 1] [http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=268 2] || [http://www.nmcbit.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Ozco.in]] || USA/EU/AUS || 750 || [[NMC]] on DGM || DGM/PPS || shared on DGM || 4% || 2% || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-07 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14085.0 1] || [https://www.ozcoin.net Link]
|-
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 300 || Solo Mining<ref>P2Pool supports merged mining but payouts in the merged chain are not pooled.</ref> || PPLNS || shared || || 0%<ref>People are donating ''to'' P2Pool miners to encourage people to use it. The P2Pool author also accepts optional donations.</ref> || Proprietary<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-17 || Choosable<ref name="changeable"/> || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 1] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]
|-
| [[pool.itzod.ru]] || Russia || 360 || Converted to BTC || RSMPPS || shared || 0% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-08-01 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25127.0 1] [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44024.0 2] || [https://pool.itzod.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[PolMine]] || Poland || 160 || No || SMPPS || shared || 1% || || [[getwork]] || 2011-06-13 || 1 || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ 1] || [https://polmine.pl/?setlang=en Link]
|-
| [[Triplemining]] || EU || 90 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% <ref name="jackpot">Triplemining keeps 1% to redistribute using a weekly jackpot and affiliations</ref> || [[getwork]], getmemorypool<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-28 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 1] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]
|-
| [[pool.mkalinin.ru]] || Russia || 70 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2011-07-20 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30703.0 1] || [http://pool.mkalinin.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[alvarez.sfek.kz]] || Kazakhstan || 3 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || [[getwork]] || 2012-04-19 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80135.0 1] || [http://alvarez.sfek.kz/ Link]
|}
<references/>

== See also ==
*[[Pooled mining]]
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]
*[http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/chart.php Hashrate distribution pie chart]

[[Category:Mining]]

Comparison of mining pools

2012-09-05T20:39:22Z

Gilgil: 5 days in a row more than 1100 :-)

Reward types & explanation:
* '''DGM''' - Double Geometric Method. A hybrid between PPLNS and Geometric reward types that enables to operator to absorb some of the variance risk. Operator receives portion of payout on short rounds and returns it on longer rounds to normalize payments. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0]
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.
* '''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.
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BC. 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.
* '''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]
* '''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]
* '''RSMPPS''' - Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but system aims to prioritize the most recent miners first. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]
* '''CPPSRB''' - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay.
* '''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)
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Location !! GH/s<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> !! Merged Mining<ref name="merged">Merged mining allows miners to mine on multiple [[block chains]] at the same time with the same hashing.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! PPS Fee !! Reward Fee !! Protocol !! Launched !! Difficulty<ref name="diff">The share difficulty the pool uses</ref> !! Forum !! Website
|-
| [[50BTC]] || Germany || 3000 || ? || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool ||3% || || getwork || 2011-11-11 || 1 || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54673.0 1] || [http://50btc.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcash.cz|Bitcash.cz]] || Czech Republic || 6 || ? || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2011-07-21 || 1 || [http://bitcash.cz/forum/ 1] ||
[http://bitcash.cz/pool/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 235 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 8% || || getwork || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 1] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 58 || ? || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || getwork || Unknown || 1 || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ 1] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || EU/London || 1430 || [[NMC]] || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || getwork || 2010-11-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 1] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 70 || ? || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 1] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitparking]] || San Diego || 170 || [[NMC]], I0C, IXC, [[Devcoin]] || PPS || kept by pool || 2.5% || || getwork || 2012-01-08 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57148.0 1] || [http://mmpool.bitparking.com/pool Link]
|-
| [[BitMinter]] || Germany || 1100 || [[NMC]] || PPLNS || shared || || 0% || getwork || 2011-06-26 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 1] || [https://bitminter.com Link]
|-
| [[BitPenny]] || USA || 3 || No || CPPSRB || 97% shared || 3% || || BlkPrep<ref name="local">Miner-local getwork proxy available.</ref> || 2011-02-08 || 8 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36371.0 1] || [http://bitpenny.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Canada]] || Canada || 110 || ? || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 1.5% || getwork || 2012-08-08 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99741.0/ 1] || [https://btccan.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2000 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 5% || || getwork || 2011-05-09 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 1] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 50 || ? || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || getwork || 2011-03-11 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 1] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]
|-
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 160 || ? || PPS || kept by pool || 4% || 0% || getwork || 2011-06-28 || 1 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron]] || Poland || 7 || ? || DGM || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2011-07-06 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 1] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]
|-
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 3350 || No || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || getwork || 2011-02-26 ||1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 1] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]
|-
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA/EU/AU/Asia || 1400 || [[NMC]] || DGM / PPS || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || getwork || 2011-06-14 || 1/10/Dynamic || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 1] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]
|-
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 400 || [[NMC]] || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || getwork, getmemorypool<ref name="local"/> || 2011-04-27 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=23768.msg298069#msg298069 1] || [http://eligius.st Link]
|-
| [[Horrible Horrendous TT]] || USA || 10 || No || PPS || kept by pool || 2% || || getwork || 2012-08-29 || Changeable || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95378.0 1] || [http://hhtt.1209k.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 629 || [[NMC]] || PPS || shared || 0% || || getwork || 2011-05-25 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Ozco.in]] || USA/EU/AUS || 800 || [[NMC]] on DGM || DGM / PPS || shared on DGM || 5% || 3% || getwork || 2011-06-07 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14085.0 1] || [https://www.ozcoin.net Link]
|-
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 500 || Yes/Solo<ref>P2Pool supports merged mining but payouts in the merged chain are not pooled.</ref> || PPLNS || shared || || 0%<ref>People are donating ''to'' P2Pool miners to encourage people to use it. The P2Pool author also accepts optional donations.</ref> || Proprietary<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-17 || Changeable || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 1] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]
|-
| [[pool.itzod.ru]] || Russia || 250 || Converted to BC || RSMPPS || shared || 0% || || getwork || 2011-08-01 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25127.0 1] [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44024.0 2] || [https://pool.itzod.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[PolMine]] || Poland || 110 || No || SMPPS || shared || 1% || || getwork || 2011-06-13 || 1 || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ 1] || [https://polmine.pl/?setlang=en Link]
|-
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 90 || On hold || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% <ref name="jackpot">Triplemining keeps 1% to redistribute using a weekly jackpot and affiliations</ref> || getwork, getmemorypool<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-28 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 1] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]
|-
| [[pool.mkalinin.ru]] || Russia || 40 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2011-07-20 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30703.0 1] || [http://pool.mkalinin.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[alvarez.sfek.kz]] || Kazakhstan || 3 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2012-04-19 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80135.0 1] || [http://alvarez.sfek.kz/ Link]
|}
<references/>

== See also ==
*[[Pooled mining]]
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]
*[http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/chart.php Hashrate distribution pie chart]

[[Category:Mining]]

Comparison of mining pools

2012-08-31T22:31:40Z

Gilgil:

Reward types & explanation:
* '''DGM''' - Double Geometric Method. A hybrid between PPLNS and Geometric reward types that enables to operator to absorb some of the variance risk. Operator receives portion of payout on short rounds and returns it on longer rounds to normalize payments. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39497.0]
* '''Prop.''' - Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.
* '''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.
* '''PPS''' - Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BC. 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.
* '''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]
* '''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]
* '''RSMPPS''' - Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but system aims to prioritize the most recent miners first. [http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/Shared_Maximum_PPS]
* '''CPPSRB''' - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay.
* '''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)
[http://eligius.st/~luke-jr/samples/800MH-3/ Visual examples of the various payout methods]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Location !! GH/s<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> !! Merged Mining<ref name="merged">Merged mining allows miners to mine on multiple [[block chains]] at the same time with the same hashing.</ref> !! Reward Type !! Transaction fees !! Fee PPS !! Fee Prop / Score !! Protocol !! Launched !! Difficulty !! Forum !! Website
|-
| [[50BTC]] || Germany || 2500 || ? || PPS<ref name="stales">Pool also rewards stale shares</ref> || kept by pool ||3% || || getwork || 2011-11-11 || 1 || [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54673.0 Link] || [http://50btc.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcash.cz|Bitcash.cz]] || Czech Republic || 6 || ? || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2011-07-21 || 1 || [http://bitcash.cz/forum/ Link] ||
[http://bitcash.cz/pool/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitclockers|BitClockers]] || USA, EU || 235 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 8% || || getwork || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10127.0 Link] || [http://bitclockers.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pool|Bitcoin Mining Pool]] || USA || 58 || ? || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || getwork || Unknown || 1 || [http://bitcoinpool.com/forum/ Link] || [http://www.bitcoinpool.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining|Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush)]] || EU/London || 1430 || [[NMC]] || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || getwork || 2010-11-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1976.0 Link] || [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitcoins.lc]] || EU || 70 || ? || Prop. || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2011-05-27 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10121.0 Link] || [http://www.bitcoins.lc/ Link]
|-
| [[Bitparking]] || San Diego || 170 || [[NMC]], I0C, IXC, [[Devcoin]] || PPS || kept by pool || 2.5% || || getwork || 2012-01-08 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57148.0 Link] || [http://mmpool.bitparking.com/pool Link]
|-
| [[BitMinter]] || Germany || 1000 || [[NMC]] || PPLNS || shared || || 0% || getwork || 2011-06-26 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.0 Link] || [https://bitminter.com Link]
|-
| [[BitPenny]] || USA || 3 || No || CPPSRB || 97% shared || 3% || || BlkPrep<ref name="local">Miner-local getwork proxy available.</ref> || 2011-02-08 || 8 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36371.0 Link] || [http://bitpenny.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Canada]] || Canada || 110 || ? || PPLNS || kept by pool || 1.5% || 1.5% || getwork || 2012-08-08 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99741.0/ Link] || [https://btccan.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTC Guild]] || USA, EU || 2000 || [[NMC]] || PPS || kept by pool || 5% || || getwork || 2011-05-09 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7760.0 Link] || [http://www.btcguild.com/ Link]
|-
| [[BTCMine]] || UK || 50 || ? || Score || kept by pool || || 2% || getwork || 2011-03-11 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4251.0 Link] || [http://www.btcmine.com/ Link]
|-
| [[btcmp.com]] || Germany || 160 || ? || PPS || kept by pool || 4% || 0% || getwork || 2011-06-28 || 1 || || [http://www.btcmp.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Coinotron|Coinotron]] || Poland || 7 || ? || DGM || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2011-07-06 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26727.0 Link] || [http://www.coinotron.com Link]
|-
| [[DeepBit]] || Germany || 3350 || No || PPS / Prop. || kept by pool || 10% || 3% || getwork || 2011-02-26 ||1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3889.0 Link] || [http://deepbit.net/ Link]
|-
| [[Eclipse Mining Consortium]] || USA / Europe / AU / Asia || 1400 || [[NMC]] || DGM / PPS || kept by pool || 5% || 0% || getwork || 2011-06-14 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16385.0 Link] || [https://eclipsemc.com Link]
|-
| [[Eligius]] || Germany || 400  || [[NMC]] || SMPPS || kept by pool || 0%<ref name="donations">Donations are possible</ref> || || getwork, getmemorypool<ref name="local"/> || 2011-04-27 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=23768.msg298069#msg298069 Link] || [http://eligius.st Link]
|-
| [[Horrible Horrendous Terrible Tremendous]] || ? || 6 || No || PPS || kept by pool || || 2% || getwork || 2012-08-29 || Miner-controlled || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95378.0 Link]] || [http://hhtt.1209k.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Mining Team Reddit (MtRed)]] || USA, EU || 629 || [[NMC]] || PPS || shared || 0% || || getwork || 2011-05-25 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15929.0 1] [http://reddit.com/r/mtred/ 2] || [http://www.mtred.com/ Link]
|-
| [[Ozco.in]] || USA/EU/AUS || 800 || [[NMC]] on DGM || DGM / PPS || shared on DGM || 5% || 3%DGM || getwork || 2011-06-07 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14085.0 Link] || [https://www.ozcoin.net Link]
|-
| [[P2Pool]] || Earth (P2P) || 500 || Yes/Solo<ref>P2Pool supports merged mining but payouts in the merged chain are not pooled.</ref> || PPLNS || shared || || 0%<ref>People are donating ''to'' P2Pool miners to encourage people to use it. The P2Pool author also accepts optional donations.</ref> || Proprietary<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-17 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=18313.0 Link] || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool Link]
|-
| [[pool.itzod.ru]] || Russia || 200 || Converted to BC || RSMPPS || shared || 0% || || getwork || 2011-08-01 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25127.0 Link] [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44024.0 Link] || [https://pool.itzod.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[PolMine]] || Poland || 110 || No || SMPPS || shared || 1% || || getwork || 2011-06-13 || 1 || [http://forum.polmine.pl/ Link] || [https://polmine.pl/?setlang=en Link]
|-
| [[Triplemining]] || Europe || 90 || On hold || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% <ref name="jackpot">Triplemining keeps 1% to redistribute using a weekly jackpot and affiliations</ref> || getwork, getmemorypool<ref name="local"/> || 2011-06-28 || 1 || [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23664.0 Link] || [http://tinyurl.com/triplemining Link]
|-
| [[pool.mkalinin.ru]] || Russia || 40 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2011-07-20 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30703.0 Link] || [http://pool.mkalinin.ru/ Link]
|-
| [[alvarez.sfek.kz]] || Kazakhstan || 3 || No || PPLNS || kept by pool || || 0% || getwork || 2012-04-19 || 1 || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80135.0 Link] || [http://alvarez.sfek.kz/ Link]
|}
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== See also ==
*[[Pooled mining]]
*[http://bcx.me/ Bitcoin Mining Pool Tracker]
*[http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/chart.php Hashrate distribution pie chart]

[[Category:Mining]]