This post is designed as a handy short cut to help you find your favourite pool's forum thread, or shop for a new pool. The hashrate is an average based on a pool's published statistics for the week, unless that pool does not publish round history on API or html, in which case it's the hashrate when the list was updated. I'll endeavour to add more pools as I can.
If you are interested in alt-coins, try the Alt-coins Mining Pools List:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=374454.0If any miners need more information than appears in the list, post here. If there are any mistakes, pool ops please reply in the thread.
NOTE FOR BITCOIN POOL OPERATORS: If your pool doesn't appear here please post the pool's statistics in the following format:
Pool:
Website:
Proxy: Are you a proxy pool? Options: Yes / No
Generation address: If you are not a proxy pool, what is the address to which block rewards are paid?
Coinbase signature: If you sign the coinbase, what string do you use to identify your blocks?
Payout method: eg DGM, PPLNS, PPS
Fee: Percentage of reward taken as fee
Pay Tx Reward: Do you pay the tx fees to the miners?
Vardiff: options: "User defined" or if automatic quote the shares per minute you're aiming at, eg "20 SPM"
Local Work: options: stratum / gbt / p2pool
Pay Orphans: Do you reward miners even if a block is orphaned? Options: Yes / no.
Min Withdrawal: What is the minimum amount a miner can withdraw?
Merge Mining: Options: Yes / No