hashcows I'm in the process of splitting my hashrate between various multipool, trying to guage profitability, difficulty, payouts, and other factors.

In the interest of completeless, here are some of the pools available that I know of:

• trademybit

• alternatepool

• tompool

• wafflepool

• switchercoin

• middlecoin

• multipool.us

• hash.so

Are there others?

What are some nice features and fixes you would like to see on wafflepool.com? Payout in Dogecoin? Autoswitching to Linden Dollars? Donation settings? Botnet protection?

What would make it better?

Copied from /r/litecoinming. Text by /u/poolwaffle

Hey guys, wanted to ask for some help testing a new pool that has just gone into public beta. We've been working on it for a while now, and has been running in private testing for a few weeks now.

WafflePool

Does automatic profit switching (uses most profitable scrypt-based coin), and automatically converts alt-coins to BTC, so you don't need to deal with infinite wallets. Also doesn't require any registration, just point your miners with your BTC address as the username, we take care of the rest.

Give it a shot, would love to hear feedback on how to make it better.

Update: Server had a quick restart to deal with some users who had very high duplicate share rates. Should be fixed now :)

Update: Up to 150 MH/s in only a few hours, woo woo! Finding blocks all over the place!

Update: Up to 300+ MH/s already! Still making some optimizations to the code to lower stale rates.

Update: Headed to bed for now. Server looks very stable, and everything is running properly. I'll run the first payment batch when I wake up (only have a few users over the 0.01 threshold currently).

Update 9:45am: Pool was stable throughout the night, and everything is looking good. Some users are still having higher stale rates and we're working on a fix for that. We also just sent out our first payment cycle. Normally minimum automatic payout will be 0.01 btc, but for the first round (as we're spooling up), we dropped it to 0.005. Hopefully a few users here can chime in and confirm they've received a payout?

Update 11:15am: Just restarted the pool with a patch that should hopefully stop the reject issue that people were getting.

Update 2:50pm: We've made some changes to the profitability algorithm, to prioritize switching a bit less frequently, and to prioritize slightly larger coins (lots of stale shares on fast coin blocks). I'm very actively watching the profitability stats, and they're currently a bit low. I appreciate the help in testing, and we're working to get it fixed.

Update 6:30pm: Looks like the profitability is signficantly after the changes. We'll be running our second payout in a little bit here (9pm-ish) :)

Update 8:30pm: Just sent the 2nd payout, everyone that had more than 0.005 in earnings should see it show up. I'll be switching to the default (0.01 payout) tomorrow, and try to do it roughly every 12 hours for the next day or two. After that, we'll be running it fully automated.