Do faster pools typically result in a faster payout?
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I’m wondering if the pools with more mh/s result in faster payouts.
I’m mining with really slow hardware by comparison, so I obviously want to be in a pool with the fastest payout since my payout rate is tiny - right? Or do I want to be in a slower pool? How does that work, and what’s my best bet if I’m under 100 kh/s?
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Yes, faster pools result in a faster payout because they’re able to find more blocks.
Of course, since your shares are proportionally lower, you won’t actually make any more that way. The amount you’ll make is tied directly to your hashing power, not the speed of the pool, so you could get (for example) 1 FTC every 1 hour on a fast pool, or 4 FTC every 4 hours on a slow pool, but eventually it’ll all average out to the same
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Ah, so my own personal uptime is the most important factor then.
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Yes, it’s just a lot more likely you find a coin while in a pool then going to solo-mine :)
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There are also Pools around which pay after a certain time interval, so you dont have to wait until block is solved. This usually works only on plain PPS pools.
These kind of pools always deliver the same payouts no matter if they find a block or not.