Current results of our live mining pool profitability comparison
| Currency | Most profitable pool | Weekly income |
|---|---|---|
Beam
|
Leafpool
|
0.175 BEAM
(
)
/ 1 Sols/s |
Ethereum Classic
|
2Miners
|
14.857 ETC
(
)
/ 1 GH/s |
Ethereum
|
Ethermine
|
0.541 ETH
(
)
/ 1 GH/s |
Grin (C29)
|
Btc.com
|
2.415 GRIN
(
)
/ 1 GPS |
|
Grin (C31)
|
Btc.com
|
4.668 GRIN
(
)
/ 1 GPS |
Ravencoin
|
MinerMore
|
1880 RVN
(
)
/ 1 GH/s |
Zcash
|
Flypool
|
7.24 ZEC
(
)
/ 1 MSols/s |
Creating a fair and representative mining pool comparison is difficult
The naive method to compare pools by mining for a fixed period on one pool and then switch for the same period to another pool and compare income is flawed as this method does not take into account pool luck, network difficulty and mining rig luck.
Another common method is to point two identical rigs to two pools at the same time. While this method will give much better results, our experience shows, that even if two rigs are made from the same kind of hardware their hashrate might still differ by a factor as large as 10%.
Our unique approach to comparing mining pools
- We mine with identical hardware on each pool
- We measure the exact amount of hashrate submitted to each pool
- We only count accepted shares to calculate the confirmed hashrate
- We continuously monitor the balance evolution on each pool (unconfirmed + confirmed + paid out)
- We use a long comparison period of 7 days to minimize the effect of pool luck
- Our comparison result is the total income weighted by the amount of confirmed hashrate submitted to each pool over the last 7 days
Initially this method of comparing mining pools came up as we wanted to evaluate the performance of our own mining pools (we operate ethermine.org & flypool). After realizing how important such information is for the mining community we decided to expand our comparison to other coins & pools and made it public.
Our current benchmarking setup
| Coin | Setup | Benchmarked Pools | |
|---|---|---|---|
 Ethereum
|
5 GPU mining rigs with 8 GTX1070 running ethminer (total hashrate of ~900MH/s, provided by Atlantic Crypto) |
Ethermine Nanopool Miningpoolhub F2Pool Sparkpool |
View |
 Grin-C29
|
4 GPU mining rigs with 8 GTX1070 running bminer (total hashrate of ~110G/s, provided by Atlantic Crypto) |
Btc.com Sparkpool F2Pool Grinmint |
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|
Grin-C31
|
4 GPU mining rigs with 8 GTX1070 running bminer (total hashrate of ~19G/s, provided by Atlantic Crypto) |
Btc.com Sparkpool F2Pool Grinmint |
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 Zcash
|
1 GPU mining rig with 6 GTX1060 running bminer (total hashrate of ~1.3kSol/s) |
Poolin F2Pool Flypool Slushpool |
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 Monero
|
1 GPU mining rig with 5 GTX1060 running xmrig (total hashrate of ~2kH/s) |
Nanopool Supportxmr Minexmr F2Pool Poolin |
View |
 Beam
|
1 GPU mining rig with 6 GTX1060 running gminer (total hashrate of ~75 Sols/s) |
Btc.com F2Pool Leafpool Beepool Sparkpool |
View |
 Ethereum Classic
|
1 GPU mining rig with 6 GTX1060 running ethminer (total hashrate of ~120MH/s) |
Ethermine Nanopool F2Pool 2Miners |
View |
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