Promoting Prohashing on Pool Listing Sites?

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Promoting Prohashing on Pool Listing Sites?

by ltc2084 · · Post #2631

I've used www.poolpicker.eu for a while checking out supposed rankings of multipools. Prohashing is listed and compares well there.

Today I saw this pool review site: http://blockgen.net/site/aboutUs

If the admins want to register there, if it makes sense and all, I can add a short positive review reflecting my experience.

With the challenge of fewer miners, it seems prudent to that more become aware the great features of prohashing.
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Re: Promoting Prohashing on Pool Listing Sites?

by Steve Sokolowski · · Post #2649

ltc2084 wrote:I've used http://www.poolpicker.eu for a while checking out supposed rankings of multipools. Prohashing is listed and compares well there.

Today I saw this pool review site: http://blockgen.net/site/aboutUs

If the admins want to register there, if it makes sense and all, I can add a short positive review reflecting my experience.

With the challenge of fewer miners, it seems prudent to that more become aware the great features of prohashing.
I too am interested in some more reliable sites than Poolpicker.

Poolpicker trusts its pools to accurately report statistics. As you can see, the Infernopool is reporting huge numbers, but what Poolpicker doesn't report is that Infernopool is a fractional reserve by their own admission. If we used Cryptsy, we could also get huge numbers but wouldn't be able to withdraw any payouts.

It would be great if someone would start a verified site where they actually connect miners to pools and report accurate numbers.
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Re: Promoting Prohashing on Pool Listing Sites?

by Chris Sokolowski · · Post #2666

If the pool isn't paying every user at 2AM, only a subset of its users, then it can be fractional because it might not have enough money to pay all users at once. That said, it's unlikely that a pool that forces payouts every day is running fractionally. It's much easier to run a fractional reserve when you require users to manually request payouts. In that case you know that some users will forget about their balances and the other payouts will be relatively evenly spaced throughout the day removing the requirement to have a full wallet at any given time.