Current results of our live mining pool profitability comparison

Best & most profitable mining pools for Ethereum, Monero, Zcash, Grin & Beam. All results are based on data gathered by actively mining on each pool during the last 14 days.

Currency	Most profitable pool	Weekly income
Beam	Sparkpool	0.304 BEAM ( ) / 1 Sols/s
Ethereum Classic	Ethermine	20.864 ETC ( ) / 1 GH/s
Ethereum	Ethermine	0.560 ETH ( ) / 1 GH/s
Grin (C29)	Sparkpool	0.317 GRIN ( ) / 1 GPS
Grin (C31)	Sparkpool	2.880 GRIN ( ) / 1 GPS
Ravencoin	Antpool	5672 RVN ( ) / 1 GH/s
Monero	MineXMR	0.0425 XMR ( ) / 1 kH/s
Zcash	F2Pool	8.76 ZEC ( ) / 1 MSols/s

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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

More Information

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.

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