Pools review: Best cryptocurrency mining pools

In this article, we will review and consider the best pools for cryptocurrency mining .

List of monitored mining pools:

Dwarfpool
XLMpool
BSOD.PW
F2pool
Zoin.netabuse
Unimining
Flypool
ZPOOL
Zergpool
Suprnova.cc
AngryPool
nanopool

The mining pool – is a special cryptocurrency mining server where the capacities of all participants are summarized and the tasks of computing cryptocurrency blocks are distributed in such a way that it is proportional to the capacities of each participant. Each member of the pool receives a reward for decrypting the block in proportion to the sent power of its equipment.

Dwarfpool

Site: dwarfpool.com

Commission – 1%

Established: 07/01/2014

Registration: Not needed

Cons: Payouts and Delay Stats Hang

Pros: Many servers (there are also for Russia) Stable connection, no disconnects

Minimum payout:

Monero XMR – 0,1
Ethereum ETH – 0,01
Expanse EXP – 1,01
Zcash ZEC – 0,01

Dwarfpool – This is one of the largest sites. Date of creation – July 2014. The site is monolingual (English only), but the site has technical support in Russian, German and English.

Pool commission. When mining all the coins – 1%, the exception is Monero – its commission is 1.5%.

Withdrawals can be configured automatically (up to 6 times a day).

The advantage of Dwarfpool is that the withdrawal of funds can occur up to 6 times a day. It also provides slightly more coins for mining than FlyPool, but it is still less than what Nanopool offers.

Otherwise, Dwarfpool is almost no different from similar Nanopool or FlyPool: almost the same commission, easy and simple interface. The minimum conclusions are also almost the same:

Dwarfpool – 0.01 zec
Flypool – 0.01 zec
Nanopool – 0,02 Zec

In fact, choosing between these pools, you choose the interface that is convenient for you.

XLMpool

Site: xlmpool.com

Established: 09/01/2015

Pros: Passive Coin Mining Stellar lumen (XLM)

XLMpool does not quite fit the definition of a classic pool. Firstly, coins working on POW technology (proof of work) are mined on pools. Secondly, on pools, miners combine the capacities of their equipment to cope with the ever-increasing complexity of coin mining, and receive a reward in proportion to the capacities involved.

XLMPOOL combines with the concept of “pool” only the last point: the reward (1% of annual inflation) is distributed among all users, in proportion to the number of XLM coins on their wallets.

In essence, XLMPOOL is the same wallet as a regular Stellar user.

The essence of XLMPOOL is as follows:

Stellar network users (those who have a wallet with a certain amount of lumens – XLM coins) vote for XLMPOOL account
The system defines XLMPOOL as the user who collected the required number of votes (0.05%) and credits him with coins that appeared during the information (1% per annum). Charges occur every month
XLMPOOL distributes the amount received among all users who voted for it

XLMpool is a passive way to earn coins from the Stellar network – XLM.

However, it is worth considering that you will not earn a lot of money from this: approximately 1% per year of the total amount of coins of the Stellar network that you already have in your wallet.

BSOD.PW

Site: https://bsod.pw

Commission: 1% Established: 08/01/2017 Cons: Brakes and site glitches; Delay in payments; Support for a long time; Little information about the pool itself Pros: A large number of coins; Easy setup Convenient additional services (calculators); Neutral design

bsod.pw – is one of the most popular and largest mining pools.

Registration on the pool is not required.

Payouts and minimum withdrawal

Payments are as follows:

For all coins every 2 hours, with a balance above 0.1.
Every Sunday for all coins whose balance is above 0.01

The pool uses a payout system – Prop

It is worth noting that at the initial start of the extraction of certain coins, the first payment may be delayed: not after 2 hours, but after 6 hours – then as usual (payments every 2 hours).

The mining pool Bsod is very simple and convenient to use. Here you do not need registration, you do not need to manually display coins, and most importantly, setting up Bat files is not difficult.

Also note that some foreign citizens do not perceive this pool and consider it a scam. They are dissatisfied with the support, some have much fewer coins than on the calculator, payments hang.

It is difficult to talk about the reliability of a particular pool, since at any moment even the most reliable pool can close and disappear with all the coins.

In this regard, Bsod is slightly different, since coins are not stored on it, but are sent almost immediately to your wallet.

F2pool

Site: https://www.f2pool.com

Commission: 2%

Established: 04/01/2013

Registration: Mandatory

Cons: Inconvenient interface; No support for the Russian language; Large capacities are concentrated on the pool – some coins may be threatened

Pros: Excellent security system; A lot of coins for mining; Automatic withdrawal of funds

F2Pool – This is one of the first world cryptocurrency mining pools that appeared in Beijing in 2013.

Pool commission: from 2.5% to 5% depending on the coin

Oh the F2pool bullets

F2Pool is the world leader and the very first Chinese mining Bitcoin mining pool. He is also the world’s largest integrated mining pool of digital currency.

The F2Pool team includes only the best and most talented specialists.

The founders of the pool, Discusfish and Wang Chun, were the first group to express the opinion of crypto enthusiasts of the blockchain industry in China. They led the team to create China’s first digital currency mining platform.

Now F2Pool works in the USA, Canada, Singapore, Russia and other countries. F2Pool has led to the rapid development of the blockchain industry.

Pool history

In 2011-2013 there was a predecessor to F2Pool – a private pool that laid the foundation for future operations.

In April 2013, F2Pool was created as the very first Bitcoin mining pool in China.

In 2015, the pool accounted for a third of the BTC network hashrate, and F2Pool became the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world.

In 2016, ETH was launched on F2Pool. Hashrate F2Pool is a quarter of the hash of the ether network, and the number of connections to the pool has reached millions.

In 2018, F2Pool continued to lead the digital currency mining industry and changed the world along with high-quality digital asset projects.

This mining pool has a good reputation, it is one of the very first mining pools and has been operating since 2013, which gives it weight in the crypto industry.

The advantage is that the names of the creators are indicated on the site, which means that they have nothing to fear, and they are responsible for their product.

Also good is that right on the site you can calculate your income using the online profitability calculator. But remember: all calculations will be approximate, since the complexity of the network and the exchange rate of coins are constantly changing.

However, despite all the advantages of F2Pool, it does not have a very good interface: it is quite problematic to find some necessary information if you do not know where to look for it exactly. The Help center has strangely arranged rubrics, and the search does not always find what you need.

Zoin.netabuse

Site: https://zoin.netabuse.net

Commission: 1% Established: 11/01/2016

Zoin.netabuse – is the official pool created for mining the Zoin coin. Mining of this coin occurs only using the CPU processor.

The Zoin mining pool is easy to use and intuitive. You can easily set up coin mining, even if you are new to the crypto world.

A feature of the pool is that the extraction of coins on it is possible only on processors, and not on the usual and more common video cards. But this will be a plus of this coin, since its complexity will not grow in the same progression as the complexity of other coins: here everything will be much slower.

The Zoin mining pool is easy to use and intuitive. You can easily set up coin mining, even if you are new to the crypto world.

A feature of the pool is that it is possible to mine coins on it. only on processors, not on familiar and more common video cards. But this will be a plus of this coin, since its complexity will not grow in the same progression as the complexity of other coins: everything will be much slower here.

Unimining

Site: https://unimining.net

Commission: 1%

Established: 09/01/2017

Cons: Site bugs (periodically freezes); A rather big commission (0.9% happens higher); Not a lot of coins for mining (only 40); Freezes statistics

Pros: User-friendly interface; Simple setup; Open information about network members

UniMining – is a set of mining pools based on YiiMP.

This pool was based on yaamp source code and is now an open source project.

Registration on the pool is not required.

List of coins for mining and commission:

On this resource you can get 15 algorithms and more than 40 coins. A complete list of coins can be found on the main page of the pool.

The commission for all is a single 0.9%.

Minimum output

Payments are made in the currency you mine and occur automatically every 2 hours for all balances above 0.01. If your balance is above 0.001, then payments will be made for you on Sundays.

For some coins, an initial delay before the first payout is possible. If payment does not occur after 6 hours, we recommend contacting Discord for support.

For some coins, there is a fixed minimum payout – it is visible on the wallet page (for example, 5 XVG on a regular payment schedule and 0.5 on Sundays).

At UniMining, the average number of coins and algorithms for mining, but the most popular ones are collected. A very simple configuration of the bat file + there is a sample on the site.

Payments occur automatically in the coin that you mined. There are no troubles with converting coins to BTC, as on some other pools.

Flypool

Site: flypool.org

Commission: 1%

Established: 03/01/2014

Registration: Not needed

Cons: Not a lot of coins Periodic statistics hanging

Pros: Easy setup The minimum amount to withdraw

Flypool – is a quickly configurable and very easy to use pool.

Flypool was created on March 11, 2014. This pool allows you to mine a limited number of coins: Zcash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic. Pool commission 1%.

Payouts on Flypool:

Zcash 0.001 – 10 Zec
Ethereum 0.01 – 10 ETH
Ethereum Classic – 0.1 – 10 ETC

Pros

Easy setup
The minimum amount to withdraw
Auto output
User friendly design

Minuses

Not a lot of coins
Periodic statistics hanging

Compared to other well-known pools (Nanopool, Dwarfpool), Flypool loses in the number of coins offered for mining, and the main page can confuse an inexperienced miner. However, its great advantage is a well-developed section of statistics.

ZPOOL

Site: https://zpool.ca

Commission: 1%

Established: 07/01/2015

Registration: not needed

Cons: Delay with payments; The only guaranteed currency for withdrawal is BTC; The site periodically freezes; Little information about the pool; Large commissions;

Pros: No registration required; Simple interface Lots of mining algorithms and coins; Automatic withdrawal of funds; Easy mining setup;

Pool commission: 1% -1.75% (FlexFee system works for some coins: the higher your hashrate, the lower the commission)

Oh bullets

Zpool offers 36 algorithms and 290+ currencies for mining. Its distinctive feature is that you receive payments automatically, and you can receive payments in BTC.

This is both a plus and minus pool, since Bitcoin is the only guaranteed currency. You can receive payments in the currency that you get on the pool, but not the fact that this coin will be credited to you.

Also, the conversion of the coins you extracted into bitcoin occurs on the exchange. We will list the list of exchanges when we talk about the Zpool interface.

Another feature of this pool is that you can configure automatic mining switching between the algorithms you choose. Zpool will automatically switch between most profitable algorithms.

Payouts

BTC is the only guaranteed payment currency, but you can set up payments in the currency you get (however, it is not a fact that it will be transferred to your account).

BTC payments are processed once a day for balances above 0.01, for balances over 0.0025 payments occur several times a week.

Payments in all other currencies are made automatically every 2 hours for all balances above 0.05, for balances over 0.0125 payments occur once every day.

There is an initial delay before the first payout, since the coins you have obtained must be converted through the exchange and come back to the pool. Usually the first payout comes no later than 24 hours after the start of mining on Zpool. If this does not happen, contact support.

In general, the pool does not stand out among competitors

The only thing that the pool presents as a difference from others is the possibility of three types of mining. This is also not new, but convenient enough. True, in this case, you have to configure bat files for each mining option.

Zergpool

Site: https://zergpool.com

Commission: 0.5%

Established: 12/01/2017

Cons: Guaranteed payments only in the equivalent of BTC, LTC or DASH; Delays in Payments; Bugs of the site itself (page freezing, statistics come late)

Pros: Small commissions; Clear and convenient interface; No registration required; Auto output

Benefits

Auto-exchange of coins you have received for BTC, LTC or DASH: already exchanged coins come to your wallet

Many algorithms (40) and coins (over 170)
Profit redistribution or targeted coin mining
Profit redistribution or targeted coin mining

Profit redistribution or targeted coin mining

Option 1: Mining a specific algorithm – pool automatically switches production to the most profitable at the moment coin within a given algorithm

Option 2: Mining a certain coin and paying in the same coin

Option 3: Mining a specific coin and payments with auto exchange to BTC, LTC or DASH

Minimum output

BTC payments for all participants whose balance is higher than 0.005 BTC, made automatically every 12 hours. For participants whose balance above 0.0025BTC, payments are made on Sunday.

LTC payments are made automatically every 12 hours for everyone whose balance is higher than 0.25. For members of the network whose balance is above 0.05, payments occur on Sunday.

All other currencies are paid out automatically every 12 hours for everyone whose balance is above 0.001 in the equivalent of BTC. For those whose balance is more than 0,0002 – on Sunday.

BTC, LTC and DASH guarantee coin payouts.

For some coins, an initial delay before the first payout is possible. If the delay is more than 24 hours, we recommend contacting support.

In general, the pool does not stand out among competitors

Suprnova.cc

Site: https://www.suprnova.cc

Commission: 1%

Established: 03/01/2013

Registration: Mandatory

Cons: Mandatory registration; The interface is sometimes buggy

Pros: Stable connection; A large number of coins

Mining pool Suprnova

Suprnova.cc – is one of the most popular pools, so how today you can get 46 coins of different algorithms here, from the most famous (ZCash, Bitcoin Gold, Ethereum, etc.) to recently appeared.

The pool was first launched in 2015 and has been operating stably ever since. Initially, only one coin was added – Ether, but the pool is constantly expanding, making it possible to get all new coins.

For payments, the PPLNS payment system is used. In PPLNS, payments are based on blocks found, and in pools of this type, payments may seem low. However, if you do not withdraw funds for a long time, then your rewards will be greater compared to PPS pools.

Another advantage of Suprnova is its support for a wide range of algorithms. For example, YiiMP software does not support Ethash, Equihash, or CryptoNight algorithms. But all this is supported by Suprnova, and you can see all the supported coins on the home pool page.

Even though it is difficult for users who are new to mining to configure and use the pool, the guides explain step by step how to get cryptocurrency on Suprnova. The guide describes how to create an account, configure a data mining pool and get started – the mining process itself.

Supernova has some useful tools and features compared to other YiiMP pools, while Supernova is a pretty flexible pool. All pool support issues are processed via Twitter, and sometimes you are offered to pay a 0% commission on some coins.

In general, this is a pretty decent mining pool for altcoins. The Supernova pool uses a large number of miners, so it must be reliable.

AngryPool

Site: http://angrypool.com

Commission: 0.5%

Established: 02/01/2018

Cons: Few coins for mining; Periodic hangs

Pros: Automatic withdrawal of coins; Links to online profitability calculators; Easy setup

AngryPool is a fairly young cryptocurrency mining resource that allows you to mine 9 algorithms (39 coins).

Benefits

Small commissions
No need to register
Payments are automatic.
Easy bat file setup
There are links to online profitability calculators

List of algorithms for mining and commission

AngryPool allows you to mine the following algorithms:

x16s (0.5%)
quark (0.5%)
x16r (0.5%)
xevan (0.7%)
x11 (0.5%)
scrypt (0.9%)
c11 (0.5%)
neoscrypt (0.6%)
lyra2z (0.5%)

Minimum output

Payments are made automatically every hour for all balances above 0.001, or on Sunday for balances above 0.0001.

For some coins there is a delay before the first payment, wait at least 6 hours before contacting support.

Blocks are distributed proportionally between the actual represented balls.

This pool is no different from hundreds of similar ones: the commission is kept at an average level, there are not very many coins for mining, but not few, the interface is standard.

If you liked the look and interface of AngryPool – you can use it to mine the selected coins.

nanopool

Site: nanopool.org

Commission: 1%

Established: 08/01/2015

Registration: Not needed

Cons: Periodic drawdown of ping; statistics freezes and displays incorrectly

Pros: lack of registration; pool setup takes several minutes; high power

Minimum output:

Ethereum – 0.05-20 ETH
Ethereum Classic – 0.1-100 ETC
SiaCoin – 500-50.000 SIA
ZCash – 0.01-10 ZEC
Monero – 0.3-10 XMR
Pascal – 0.5-100 PASC
Electroneum – 100-100.000 ETN

Nanopool – was created on August 21, 2015. The pool makes it possible to mine the presented coins both in solo (one coin) and in dual (2 coins simultaneously with a proportional distribution of power between them). For mining on Nano Pool, your farm must have at least 4 Gb of RAM and x64 bit operating system.

Nanopool is a very convenient pool with a clear interface. The advantages of the pool include:

lack of registration (to view statistics, just enter the wallet number)
pool setup takes several minutes
at the bottom of the pool page there is an automatic online calculator on which you can calculate how much you get in rubles / usd or Btc for: minute, hour, day, week, month.

The minus is the periodic drawdown of the ping, which characterizes the suspension of the pool.