Service allowing Monero miners to pool resources in order to reduce the variance between discovering blocks. Reward are generally divided largely based on the contributed hashrate of each member of the pool, with some small percentage often being collected by the pool operator as a fee.
Questions tagged [mining-pools]
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Why is there no P2Pool for miners?
Is there no interest in having a p2pool? I think it would be pretty cool to have something like this.
thavu
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Is there a way to record my stats from pool sites?
I have been mining a few different pools over the past few weeks and I would like to collect my stats that are updated on the pools' pages. Is there an API or something else I can use to collect this information?
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What is a mining pool, and why should I join one?
I see that Monero's software allows me to mine on my home computer. What is a mining pool and how is it different from just mining on my own?
user4
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What are factors to consider to choose the best mining pool?
I have seen a lot of parameters regarding each mining pool, but my question is how to consider them when choosing a mining pool:
Difficulty
Payout threshold
Number of miners
Geographical location
In particular:
Difficulty: how must this be taken…
linello
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What is the status of web mining?
Now that I have my pool up and running, how long before we get a production web Miner? I'm trying to get non-techies start mining and a great start would be a web Miner.
Thanks,
Andrew Admire
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Can miners know when their pool mines a block?
In other words, is it possible to pool mine in a transparent way?
leo
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Differences between Bitcoin and Monero mining pool software
How different are Monero mining pool software from the equivalent for Bitcoin?
In particular, would forking p2pool to adapt it to Monero be more efficient than starting from scratch or is there too much specificities due to Monero not being derived…
Clement J.
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Is moneropool safe to use?
Moneropool is currently the second result when googling, "monero mining", however its suggested miner crytonote-easy-miner gets flagged as a trojan by firefox and windows defender. I've read that legitimate cryptocoin miners sometimes trigger false…
Ceribia
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What does the mining-proxy do?
Do I understand everything correctly?
The pool gives the task to the worker (proxy in our case), like this:
{"id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "error": null, "result": {"id": "42d954ef-ceee-446c-b2ea-f95c421df573", "job": {"blob" :…
qpi
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A pool didn't find a block since 4 days, is it normal?
I've been mining on a pool for more than 24h and my balance didn't increase. It is supposed to increase when the pool find a block.
I also remarked that the pool didn't find any block since 4 days, is it bad? Is there a way to estimate the required…
Psddp
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From "Pending balance" to "Total paid"
Under which conditions the accumulated amount of XMR in a mining pool, goes from "Pending balance" to "Total paid", then definitely in my wallet?
I have exceeded the payout threshold of 0.5 XMR in my pending balance, which is now around 0.53,but I…
linello
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Why is there only a single implementation of mining pool software?
Every pool in Monero looks the same and uses the same software. Why is this?
Ginger Ale
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Does the block effort matter when mining in a pool? How does it impact earnings?
I've been using two or three pools so far. One of them always seems to need higher effort to find a block. Does that impact me personally in any way.
I've seen one go 600% and it took ages to get it. Did I lose time on it?
How does a 10% effort…
Nick Constantine
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monero-stratum private pool error
I'm trying to run monero-stratum from https://github.com/sammy007/monero-stratum but monero-wallet-cli don't connect (in the same host):Use "help" command to see the list of available commands.
Error: wallet failed to connect to daemon:…
user5112
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Small pool concerns
If my miner is connected to a small pool and my hash rate is 2k, when will I see a balance? The pool hasn't found a block in a few months and I have been mining for a few weeks. The pay out is .3 and I should have reached that last week.
Thanks,
Andrew Admire
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