Comparison of mining pools

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Reward types & explanation:

  • CPPSRB - Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay.

Visual examples of the various payout methods

Name Location GH/s[1] Merged Mining[2] Reward Type Transaction fees Fee PPS Fee Prop / Score Protocol Launched Difficulty Forum Website
50BTC Germany 2500  ? PPS[3] kept by pool 3% getwork 2011-11-11 1 Link Link Czech Republic 6  ? Prop. kept by pool 0% getwork 2011-07-21 1 Link


BitClockers USA, EU 235 NMC PPS kept by pool 8% getwork 2011-05-27 1 Link Link
Bitcoin Mining Pool USA 58  ? Prop. kept by pool 0%[4] getwork Unknown 1 Link Link
Bitcoin Pooled Mining (Slush) EU/London 1430 NMC Score kept by pool 2% getwork 2010-11-27 1 Link Link EU 70  ? Prop. kept by pool 0% getwork 2011-05-27 1 Link Link
Bitparking San Diego 170 NMC, I0C, IXC, Devcoin PPS kept by pool 2.5% getwork 2012-01-08 1 Link Link
BitMinter Germany 700 NMC PPLNS shared 0% getwork 2011-06-26 1 Link Link
BitPenny USA 3 No CPPSRB 97% shared 3% BlkPrep[5] 2011-02-08 8 Link Link
BTC Canada Canada 110  ? PPLNS kept by pool 1.5% 1.5% getwork 2012-08-08 1 Link Link
BTC Guild USA, EU 2000 NMC PPS kept by pool 5% getwork 2011-05-09 1 Link Link
BTCMine UK 50  ? Score kept by pool 2% getwork 2011-03-11 1 Link Link Germany 160  ? PPS kept by pool 4% 0% getwork 2011-06-28 1 Link
Coinotron Poland 7  ? DGM kept by pool 0% getwork 2011-07-06 1 Link Link
DeepBit Germany 3350 No PPS / Prop. kept by pool 10% 3% getwork 2011-02-26 1 Link Link
Eclipse Mining Consortium USA / Europe / AU / Asia 1400 NMC DGM / PPS kept by pool 5% 0% getwork 2011-06-14 1 Link Link
Eligius Germany 400 NMC SMPPS kept by pool 0%[4] getwork, getmemorypool[5] 2011-04-27 1 Link Link
Horrible Horrendous Terrible Tremendous  ? 6 No PPS kept by pool 2% getwork 2012-08-29 Miner-controlled Link] Link
Mining Team Reddit (MtRed) USA, EU 629 NMC PPS shared 0% getwork 2011-05-25 1 1 2 Link USA/EU/AUS 800 NMC on DGM DGM / PPS shared on DGM 5% 3%DGM getwork 2011-06-07 1 Link Link
P2Pool Earth (P2P) 500 Yes/Solo[6] PPLNS shared 0%[7] Proprietary[5] 2011-06-17 1 Link Link Russia 200 Converted to BC RSMPPS shared 0% getwork 2011-08-01 1 Link Link Link
PolMine Poland 110 No SMPPS shared 1% getwork 2011-06-13 1 Link Link
Triplemining Europe 90 On hold PPLNS kept by pool 0% [8] getwork, getmemorypool[5] 2011-06-28 1 Link Link Russia 40 No PPLNS kept by pool 0% getwork 2011-07-20 1 Link Link Kazakhstan 3 No PPLNS kept by pool 0% getwork 2012-04-19 1 Link Link
  3. Pool also rewards stale shares
  4. 4.0 4.1 Donations are possible
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Miner-local getwork proxy available.
  6. P2Pool supports merged mining but payouts in the merged chain are not pooled.
  7. People are donating to P2Pool miners to encourage people to use it. The P2Pool author also accepts optional donations.
  8. Triplemining keeps 1% to redistribute using a weekly jackpot and affiliations

See also